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Depends where you are. They don't grow worth a damn this far north.

"This far north" being where? Farmers can get over 2.5 tons of wheat per hectare in the northern half of Alberta - that's about the same as the U.S. average yield. Barley and oats are sown on thousands of acres in Alaska. Seems you have to be pretty far north to not be able to grow grain.

Here a link to a paper on the subject [PDF] and google's HTML version. I don't know if it's the same group.

Note: the first is marginally safe for work, because they've been rather, er, "discrete" about the presentation of their sample images. The second is laundered of all images, of course.

As other people have surmised based on previous work, converting the images to HSV space instead of RGB helps in the detection process, but I really wonder about the other premises in the paper. For example:

"The software calculates the percentage of human skin colour in an image and produces an assessment that indicates if it is predominantly skin (pornography) or has an acceptable level of skin colour content."

How is that supposed to work? Skin percentage might correlate with whether or not something is pornography, but there are plenty of non-pornographic images (in most people's definition) that could be >80 or 90% skin (say, a portrait with the face and shoulders filling most of the image, or someone wearing a skimpy bathing suit). Likewise, there would be pictures that most people would probably regard as pornography that would be largely non-skin (let's just say it doesn't take much exposure to constitute pornography, if the exposure is in key places). Finally, a nice, pink hog/pig might qualify as mostly skin, but isn't human. Yes, I realize that doesn't preclude it being pornographic :-)

Anyway, the algorithm this paper describes doesn't look very reliable, and I doubt the one in the article is any better.

That reminds me of the DirecTV attack story from a few years back.

http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:http://www.sekurity.org/directv.html

Yeah like no US newspaper ever announced the wrong winner in a presidential election before.

It's known by names such as The Arrogance of Ignorance or consider reading a research article on being Unskilled and Unaware (Google HTML translation of a good PDF to download)

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All I want for Christmas is a website that /. can't bring to it's knees.

The KKK is a pretty darn nasty group, but they're overshadowed by the Skinheads. Much worse as they follow the "teachings" of Hitler and their ilk. The KKK has these rallies of dunce caps and beadsheets down the main street, but the Skinheads use rather nastier methods.

The skinheads found out if they openly pronounce racism, nobody listens. Instead, they are seen as "ambassadors of law and pride". You see these guys at sporting events handing out Immigration documents for a call to action to kick 'illegals' out. They're also found at Mixed Martial Arts groups as a way to become "manly". They also will send out a sole guy to start a sort of a "fight club" (yes, similar to the show) to stir up the young white guys in a neighborhood to start a new chapter of Skinheads. They're also known to open up groups of "Scottish Clubs", "Olde-English Clubs" or other euphemisms of the Whites Only idea.

A&E did a documentary on Skinheads, which a commentary of the film can be found here (google cache of stormfront.org). Warning: Stormfront.org is a big gathering place of Neo-nazis, Skins, KKK, and other racial-hating groups.

As to where? The homeless shelter?

And those who live where there are no shelters, or where shelters are out of space?

Estimates of the homeless population in Baltimore range from 3,000 to 30,000. Emergency and short-term shelters have about 2,260 beds.

As a practical matter liberal enclaves are attracting them with gold plated homeless services so basically no problem for me (beyond telling the occasional panhandler to 'get a job you parasite').

That's certainly helpful. Do you also go around the cancer wards telling people, "get up, walk it off, you wimp"?

No results found for "american infant dialysis machine" -Google

I fail to see how the above flamebait is in any way "insightful". We don't have them here, according to Google. From the HTML version in the Google cache of the PDF (also available) the official US Food and Drug Administration website:

For hemodialysis, a specialized central venous dialysis catheter is necessary to deliver adequate blood flow to the dialyzer. Sizes must be available that can be inserted in infants as small as 1 .O kg, up to small adolescents of 50-60 kg. Since the development of the long term indwelling central venous catheter by Robert Hickman and his colleagues, significant strides have been made in the types and sizes of these catheters, but the selection is still limited. Several manufacturers have made commitments to the pediatric nephrology community to develop new catheters and continue to provide them to our patients. However, the number of vendors is quite limited, especially for smaller children and infants. To date the smallest long-term cuffed catheter is 8 Fr, yet this may be too large for some infants with renal failure, in whom long-term hemodialysis is life-sustaining therapy, or for some critically ill newborns with inborn errors of metabolism in whom hemodialysis or CRRT may be life-saving

Mod parent troll.