Seriously. These "enumeronyms" drive me batty.
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If they ever...
Boiling frogs.
In theory, if the picture is revealed on a display, upon which the full pixel raster can be distinguished for every frame (in real time or slower), an optical capture may be performed, which preserves the original fidelity of the image, and one need not recompress as lossy for peers who have the capacity to receive the full duplicate.
All images are eventually revealed optically somehow. Such images may be captured directly, and corrected and restored according to original quality, if you have good video equipment.
Only one good copy needs to make it into the open, and then the cat's out of the bag.
a typical cinema release is a
pretty big file - frame-by-frame
encoded as jpg2000 in 4k. Often
shipped on hard drives, or
downloaded via dedicated fiber
lines.
This all works due to proprietary
hardware - the modifications to the
4k cinema projectors that enable
decryption almost at the lens/imaging
chip can cost as much as the projector
itself, doubling the price of the
projector (last I heard from around
15k to 30k USD).
There'd be no real need to tamper with proprietary hardware or intrude on the chasis of the projector. With reasonable equipment, it's likely that a person could reproduce a re-recording of a movie that is very-nearly indistinguishable from the factory source, perhaps except for negligible artifacts that might irritate only the holiest of true believers.
Modern DRM schemes like AACS
employ methods to change keys
for new works. So when crackers
find a key that allows them to
circumvent the DRM scheme they
can't publish it or it would
soon get useless and they would
have to do the work to extract
a key again.
Who would EVER care about a cipher key, when YOU STILL NEED TO EXPOSE THE RAW PIXEL RASTER, AND AUDIO CHANNELS TO THE END USER, IN ORDER FOR ANYTHING TO BE VALUABLE AT ALL?
Users will always eventually get the whole thing in the clear, in straight-up plain text somehow, eventually anyway. And all anyone needs is a buffer big enough to capture it, and it's trivial to assemble one.
You need to be able to watch a movie with the naked eye, and hear the sound with your ears. That's how movies work.
It's trivial to capture the raw data, and people have been living with NTSC quality picture and sound for decades.
This is not about perfectly matching the SHA256 hashes of the original MPEG artifacts. People just want a copy, and it's easy to skim one, somehow, one way (cracking) or another (brute force direct copies of the image frames and pulse code samples, at the signal source).
When you want to stay clean, you have others do the dirty work.
The ones that volunteer for the dirty work are usually regarded as equally disposable as those getting "cleaned."
Those calling for volunteers view this as a transitional period, from which they will emerge, unscathed. Unscathed, why? Madness is not to be ruled out. Nor hubris.
It pushes the capacity for your adversary to operate into (slightly) slimmer confines, which is a marginal improvement.
Otherwise, your adversary can behave in an unrestrained manner. No?
Using more precise sensors, the same MIT
researchers went on to develop systems that
can distinguish between different people
standing behind walls, and remotely
monitor breathing and heart rates with 99
percent accuracy.
A system called “WiKey” presented at a
conference last year could tell what keys
a user was pressing on a keyboard by
monitoring minute finger movements.
And a group of researchers led by a Berkeley
Ph.D. student presented technology at a 2014
conference that could “hear” what people were
saying by analyzing the distortions and
reflections in wi-fi signals created by their
moving mouths.
I hope this whole panopticon thing doesn't get finished until after we can grow organs in vitro, rendering my donations moot.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
I suppose maybe this identifies the polarity of backchannel.com's political alignment.
Standard practice to poison the well of your enemies.
This is a phased approach by the way, and malware is a preliminary step. Next come reputation smearing forms of pornography, and hardware destroying payloads for the ones that have no reputation to smear.
The problem is, they only have ten or fifteen pre-sets, and all of them are useless.
All this information is serialized onto pretty much 5 channels (excluding things like one's sense of balance, or the awareness of how your body is posed), all streamed concurrently.
Sounds like a recipe for high bandwidth consumption. Many cycles per second.
Based on this, I'd wager we (and our perception of self) only exist in the ether between our body's neurons.
But, the worst part about the new subway cars is that the robotic johnny cab voice doesn't have a weird accent. I actually enjoy the strange unintelligible squawking in a Brooklyn accent, drenched in the electromagnetic feedback of unshielded motors. Mostly because the robotic voice never has anything to useful or relevant to say, and if someone's going to say something pointless, I'd rather not understand it, and hear some kind of funny accent.
THIS THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY SYSTEM WITH AN
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE MTA. KEEP YOUR
VALUABLE BELONGINGS OUT OF SIGHT. PROTECT
YOURSELF. STAY ALERT, BE COURTEOUS AND HAVE
A SAFE DAY.
Offer a group of people the opportunity to design a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and no one says boo, but ask them which color is prettiest for a shed to park their bikes in, and suddenly everybody puts in their two cents, ad-nauseum.
Machines that get up do things for us with minimal hand-holding really would be something unprecedented, new and different. And truly disruptive to the economy, moreso than the boiler room poker games of investment and High Finance, which are disruptive, if only beneficial to a self-serving few.
Whether the reality of such a thing mirrors our imaginations, if it ever happens, things might get really, really weird thereafter, and good luck at guessing how.
We'll be confronted by deceptive situations, while circumstances change around us. And within that mix of confusion, add to that the already comedic/tragic stupid human tricks that continue to beguile so many.
I got strep throat a few times as a kid. I don't have perfect recall about the details of what I had to take and when or why, though. But I do remember having to vary dosage.
So, at the 7 year mark (or maybe right now), just start questioning whether a simple, ordinary savings account would have been the better idea.
And, oh yeah, you don't get 24 weeks coverage until you've paid for coverage for 6 months. Otherwise, you just get back maybe $600 at best, and then The End. So you'd better have six months living expenses (or a solid job), AND $600 to pay into the policy, before even bothering, otherwise you're still screwed.
Stepping down off a high dosage in halves is the exact same strategy used to ease people out of addiction.
As a kid, I thought anti-biotics were this far-out medicine, so strong and hazardous that coming down off them was something you had to do carefully.
He didn't provide any empirical evidence with this article. He's just proselytizing about... whatever.
This article sucks. I guess he must be a has-been now. Does that count as empirical evidence? Studies with a sample size of N=1 don't really count.
Oh well, can't win 'em all.
Dead salmon, though they may be, light-sensitive organs the eyes still are.
And provided that the salmon were probably preserved on ice, much of the carcasses probably remained fairly chemically stable, so while the electron pumps in the electron transport chains of the multi-polar neurons were deactivated, I bet the whole pipeline from salmon's visual cortex to its eyeball probably was still slightly capable of transmitting photo-sensitivity.
Then, it probably came down to the fMRI imaging software being so fine-tuned as to notice that differentiation, and amplify it into statistical significance!