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Pony? Pony! I heard someone say pony.

Here's mine... As great as it feels to be unique, most tracking is done via scripting so I'm not concerned one bit. My browser is upgraded every other week or I'm running nightlies. Does anybody care about this?

For example, look at the following image in both PNG and JPEG (100% quality setting):

PNG
JPEG

Would the results have been better if both pictures had been based off of the same source picture, rather than the second being made from the first? I was always taught that creating a lossy image out of a lossy image yielded poor results..

For example, look at the following image in both PNG and JPEG (100% quality setting):

PNG
JPEG

Would the results have been better if both pictures had been based off of the same source picture, rather than the second being made from the first? I was always taught that creating a lossy image out of a lossy image yielded poor results..

This reminds me of the classic 'second life sucks' dialogue:

Chaotic Hermit: This avatar does not meet the requirements to be here
Chaotic Hermit: Change it or leave please
Chaotic Hermit: 1 minute to eject
Hunter Pearse: OK, I'm back. What exactly didn't meet the requirement?
Chaotic Hermit: Height
Hunter Pearse: ?!
Chaotic Hermit: 4 foot 9 minimum
Hunter Pearse: Are you kidding?
Chaotic Hermit: nope
Hunter Pearse: Why is that?
Chaotic Hermit: children are short
Chaotic Hermit: look it's a beach rule
Chaotic Hermit: comply or not
Hunter Pearse: My friend that is just weird
Hunter Pearse: Do I look like a child?
Chaotic Hermit: you need to follow the rules to stay
Chaotic Hermit: all of them
Hunter Pearse: I'll stay out of your beach
Chaotic Hermit: no you look stupid
Chaotic Hermit: But that's not the point
Hunter Pearse: Yes, I look stupid. I'm a fucking alien
Hunter Pearse: later
Chaotic Hermit: you can look how you want as long as your 4 foot 9
Hunter Pearse: "you're"

.radiotimes.com LOG_ID 05/28/21

Google only goes up to 2013
 
.google.com PREF 05/27/13 ID= ******

See also, Radio Times recommends Internet Explorer 8

PNG vs JPEG is a lot different than FLAC vs MP3. With sufficient VBR settings, an MP3 can be made to sound indistinguishable from FLAC, while even at the highest quality setting JPEG still produces very visible artifacts and banding.

For example, look at the following image in both PNG and JPEG (100% quality setting):

PNG
JPEG

Note the smooth gradient of the sky in the PNG and the horrible banding present in the JPEG. Also note how the silhouettes look sharper in the PNG.

File sizes are 231KB for the PNG and 221KB for the JPEG.

PNG vs JPEG is a lot different than FLAC vs MP3. With sufficient VBR settings, an MP3 can be made to sound indistinguishable from FLAC, while even at the highest quality setting JPEG still produces very visible artifacts and banding.

For example, look at the following image in both PNG and JPEG (100% quality setting):

PNG
JPEG

Note the smooth gradient of the sky in the PNG and the horrible banding present in the JPEG. Also note how the silhouettes look sharper in the PNG.

File sizes are 231KB for the PNG and 221KB for the JPEG.

Choose your own adventure.

So now when a novice user, who doesn't know any better, has to choose between the more expense Mac vs a cheaper PC, will the remaining key selling points be enough to entice them to pay the higher premium? Many people switch solely on the reason of not dealing with virii/malware, but now that they will have to deal with that (whether or not it's true is irrelevant as in many novices minds Macs are now vulnerable) they might just stick with their PC.

Bottom line - this is going to really hurt Apple a lot more than most people realize, as they will no longer have the novice users switching just to avoid virii and malware. Apple's "cloak of invulnerability" has been removed...and whether the remaining key selling points will sustain them remains to be seen.

Anyone with a basic understanding of computers has long known that "no Mac viruses" has simply meant "nobody gives a shit about Macs"

There are already emulators for the few consoles and arcade games that used actual vector monitors (e.g. Vectrex).
This filter looks quite similar to the existing HQnX series of filters, but with even more aggressive smoothing (from the paper, they appear to use a similar quantisation matrix approach then vector-smooth the result). As the paper shows, the results are fine for a few cases of a single isolated sprite, but for a whole display it looks really nasty, even worse than HQ4X.

My personal preference is CRT-emulated scaling. Yes, an LCD can display pixel-perfect data, but most consoles prior to the latest generation were designed with CRT displays in mind. 8-bit and 16-bit especially used some of the quirks of the way a beam scanned over discrete phosphors (bleeding, blooming, variable beam width, etc) as a way of blending edges and colours together to create additional effects.

Obviously: http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2038/ethernkillervo5.jpg

Sorry about that. Here they are.

I can recognize a goatse-like link when I see one. This one is, however, very far to deserve the credit. This image is moderately disturbing, but nothing like the real thing really.

Sorry about that. Here they are.

What would be real bad would be NASA would wait 21 years and get this video or this picture.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2848/dilberttourofaccounting.png

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/2518/imageinf.jpg

Oh dear! Before I'd really thought about why, I'd found myself compelled to spend all of 20 seconds assembling this terrifying image.

Ah ok, got it with the server, sorry for my confusion. I don't have any experience with that.

I am sure that I did a new install, yes. I had upgraded this machine through several Ubuntu releases and wanted to evaluate Unity without possible gconf cruft and whatnot. Screenshot.

Your voicemails/transcriptions have a button you can check to mark whether or not it was accurate.

And once you click that button, you have the option to donate your message so they can use it to improve their software. Example: http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/242/unled90.png

And if you want even more evidence check out this graph from Nielsen. Notice how Blu-Ray surpasses HD DVD more than a year before Warner switched.

It's just way odd...

http://img228.imageshack.us/i/85258364.png/

It lists Florida Power and Light.. which if you look at the next picture lists NextEra Energies.. which has NO locations/operations/etc in Florida...

Plus the 'anonymous' login works on the ftp server in the picture.. so again.. I think he, at most, just grabbed some example pictures or something provided with the application

If you look at the screenshots he posted (example) you'll see that some of the screens were in the German language or a derivative thereof. Why would a New Mexican power plant have its systems in German!?

Yeah; I might have believed it if the screens were in Mexican

If you look at the screenshots he posted (example) you'll see that some of the screens were in the German language or a derivative thereof. Why would a New Mexican power plant have its systems in German!?

Because if the hacker got into anything, it was the honeypot that he/she was meant to get into.

If you look at the screenshots he posted (example) you'll see that some of the screens were in the German language or a derivative thereof.

English?

Yes.

If you look at the screenshots he posted (example) you'll see that some of the screens were in the German language or a derivative thereof.

English?

If you look at the screenshots he posted (example) you'll see that some of the screens were in the German language or a derivative thereof. Why would a New Mexican power plant have its systems in German!?

http://img191.imageshack.us/i/vlcsnap2011041713h15m12.png/

Image someone posted at Guru3D over a year ago: http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2577/bild1yk.jpg [imageshack.us] Saying that Windows has no potential for customization is hardly accurate.

rofl. Wow, that was so customized I couldn't even tell it was windows!



That was sarcasm btw.

http://rainmeter.net/

Image someone posted at Guru3D over a year ago: http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2577/bild1yk.jpg

Saying that Windows has no potential for customization is hardly accurate.

I haven't tried out any of the many Windows skin/shell replacements, but then I hardly care about desktop customization.

Yeah, well what would it recognise *this* as?!

I would pay so much if someone would make a game like Time Crisis with this tech. I've been waiting for a game to be made like this ever since I first saw that Johnny Lee demo years ago but no luck yet. That kind of responsiveness plus a wall-size projection would be so awesome.

If you _really_ want to find a memory leak, open firefox, do your stuff, open the task manager, leave it open, stop browing and wait. You'll see memory go slowly down.

I am interested in getting to the bottom of this, so I tried your suggestion.

I closed all tabs except just one on this thread and went away for over an hour, with no activity and just one tab open.

On the upside memory usage did not increase.

But unfortunately it did not decrease either, so this appears to be a leak.

Here is what it looked like after an hour idle with ONLY ONE tab open.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1238/ff14.png

Others are reporting the same thing with just (what I consider) the essentials of Addblock, noscript. Also if it is an extension, all the caching makes it very hard to tell which one[s].

If the cache is per/tab Firefox needs to flush it shortly after it is closed, if the leak is in extensions, Firefox needs more sandboxing and cleanup, IDentification etc.

Fixing this needs a much higher priority than fluff.

crypto.jpg

What do you mean by a ball chair? I need a new office chair and I'm assuming you don't mean this?

I'm hoping he does NOT mean this or this or this.

I use tree style tab to get my tabs to the right, that are invisible until I move my mouse to the left of the browser, or hold ctrl.

Which looks like this: http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/2443/firefox4.png

Larger FOV is better for all game types because it allows you to see more area. With 16:10 aspect, it's like having a perpetual zoom right in the centre of the screen.

For films, well, I hope you enjoy black bars that take up that precious 120 pixels. You may as well argue that 4:3 aspect is better because you can get more vertical resolution out of it.

There is a very good reason that multi-display setups are almost always oriented horizontally. That same reason is what makes 16:9 better than 16:10.

a girl who hangs out on 4chan and watches anime is not capable of seducing anybody.

Really? Meet Allison Harvard

Granted, she's better known as creepy-chan (and she's a wee bit less seductive in that persona, but that doesn't negate the other image. It just makes the morning after a lot scarier.

No. 4chan takes $85,000 in ads per year just to break even. Canv.as' $650,000 of investors' money can hardly be counted to his personal wealth either. If he has other money, he hasn't let 4chan know.

I did some non-scientific testing and concluded that

Chrome 10.0: 69fps
Konqueror 4.6.1: 28fps
Firefox 3.6.15: 44fps
Rekonq 0.6.85: 55fps

I would have tested opera too but ran out of screen space.

Fun fact: Konqueror was slowly leaking memory during the test, might have to check that out.

Oooo. Wire tapping. Waste as many CPU cycles as you want intercepting my calls about grocery shopping, how your day went and what time we're meeting at the bar.

If I *really* wanted to kill the president, start thermonuclear war, blow up dirty bomb in New York City, funnel money to Al Qaeda, etc. I'd find much better means of communication.

There are dozens of 'free image sharing' websites. Pair that up with craigslist, steganography and some pgp and best of luck tracking all of that. If for nothing else the noise ratio is way too high.

So I plan on blowing something up. I take a stock photograph of a car and dump a pgp message into it. I post it to craigslist under something that doesn't exist. Like "Rare 1963 Ford Mustang" My friends know what to look for and maybe an area.

For example this image: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5563/steghide.jpg
Download, then run it through:
steghide --extract -sf steghide.jpg -xf message.txt -p bomb

Or there's python-stepic. http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4907/stepic.png
stepic -d -i stepic.png -o jnk

And you can embed more than just short messages. I tested out a 20 paragraph ipsum.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4911/ipsum.jpg
steghide, password 'slashdot'.

It's only the dumb criminals/terrorists that get caught. If people WANT to hide messages, it's not that hard.

Oooo. Wire tapping. Waste as many CPU cycles as you want intercepting my calls about grocery shopping, how your day went and what time we're meeting at the bar.

If I *really* wanted to kill the president, start thermonuclear war, blow up dirty bomb in New York City, funnel money to Al Qaeda, etc. I'd find much better means of communication.

There are dozens of 'free image sharing' websites. Pair that up with craigslist, steganography and some pgp and best of luck tracking all of that. If for nothing else the noise ratio is way too high.

So I plan on blowing something up. I take a stock photograph of a car and dump a pgp message into it. I post it to craigslist under something that doesn't exist. Like "Rare 1963 Ford Mustang" My friends know what to look for and maybe an area.

For example this image: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5563/steghide.jpg
Download, then run it through:
steghide --extract -sf steghide.jpg -xf message.txt -p bomb

Or there's python-stepic. http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4907/stepic.png
stepic -d -i stepic.png -o jnk

And you can embed more than just short messages. I tested out a 20 paragraph ipsum.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4911/ipsum.jpg
steghide, password 'slashdot'.

It's only the dumb criminals/terrorists that get caught. If people WANT to hide messages, it's not that hard.

Oooo. Wire tapping. Waste as many CPU cycles as you want intercepting my calls about grocery shopping, how your day went and what time we're meeting at the bar.

If I *really* wanted to kill the president, start thermonuclear war, blow up dirty bomb in New York City, funnel money to Al Qaeda, etc. I'd find much better means of communication.

There are dozens of 'free image sharing' websites. Pair that up with craigslist, steganography and some pgp and best of luck tracking all of that. If for nothing else the noise ratio is way too high.

So I plan on blowing something up. I take a stock photograph of a car and dump a pgp message into it. I post it to craigslist under something that doesn't exist. Like "Rare 1963 Ford Mustang" My friends know what to look for and maybe an area.

For example this image: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5563/steghide.jpg
Download, then run it through:
steghide --extract -sf steghide.jpg -xf message.txt -p bomb

Or there's python-stepic. http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4907/stepic.png
stepic -d -i stepic.png -o jnk

And you can embed more than just short messages. I tested out a 20 paragraph ipsum.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4911/ipsum.jpg
steghide, password 'slashdot'.

It's only the dumb criminals/terrorists that get caught. If people WANT to hide messages, it's not that hard.

And here's a festive image I created for the occasion

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5665/28362805.jpg

The first was sent in January with the correct amount. The second is sent in March, with the earnings double the actual amount. There are stupid, stupid people working for MS.

Here's a picture of one, named Justin Bonsey. One look at his Google profile and it pretty much sums it all up.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6862/justinbonseygoogleprofi.png

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/77454.aspx

Apparently I can beat a computer, but can't beat HTML. Here's what that was supposed to look like:

Here's a way to do it. Feel free to send me a reasonable amount through paypal or USPS.

1. The first one is random, so use rock until you win it. If you lose, restart the game.
2. After the first rock, its logic kicks in, and the next 7 moves are: SSPPSRP
3. From here, it gets even easier. It gets into a loop of 6 moves: PSPSRR

Keep doing the sequence in 3, and rack up the wins. Once you do it once, then your next move is always the same as the second move from the bottom of your history. When it reaches 100, it has a glitch and rolls over to the next line. Here's a screenshot of 113 wins, to show the bug. The 3 gets bumped down to the next line: http://img217.imageshack.us/f/rpso.jpg/

Here's a way to do it. Feel free to send me a reasonable amount through paypal or USPS. 1. The first one is random, so use rock until you win it. If you lose, restart the game. 2. After the first rock, its logic kicks in, and the next 7 moves are: SSPPSRP 3. From here, it gets even easier. It gets into a loop of 6 moves: PSPSRR Keep doing the sequence in 3, and rack up the wins. Once you do it once, then your next move is always the same as the second move from the bottom of your history. When it reaches 100, it has a glitch and rolls over to the next line. Here's a screenshot of 113 wins, to show the bug. The 3 gets bumped down to the next line: http://img217.imageshack.us/f/rpso.jpg/

At least not in my opinion. My buddy did the same thing when we were in high school about 6 or 7 years ago. Booted up in Linux, copied the SAM file over, cracked it at home. Did it a few times until we found one that the administrator account had logged into. He was never caught until the end of the year because we decided to pull a prank and change the standard wallpaper for all the student accounts to this http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7629/gib.png. He was caught because as it turns out, the system was setup to capture screenshots of anyone logged in every 10 seconds, combined with the fact that he signed in to the library to use the computer, they were able to catch him. I don't think they ever found out about changing some grades, but I'm not sure about that.

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/4724/201103021949set.jpg
This was taken by Ralf Vandebergh, a contributor to the seesat-l sat observation list.

  More astronaut spacewalk and ISS pics: http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/