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  1. Old old issue... by braindrainbahrain · · Score: 1 · on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold
    ...of the IEEE Professional Communications Society reported on this controversy... in 2001!

    Choice quote: "Lena became for the engineers something like what Rita Hayworth was for U.S. soldiers in the trenches of World War II."

    More historical background available here and here.

  2. Re:Drat! by kybred · · Score: 1 · on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG

    As requested: The Complete Lenna Story

  3. Hilarious coincidence by Weaselmancer · · Score: 2 · on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture?

    The story right behind this one is this: Color Printing Reaches Its Ultimate Resolution.

    How did they test it? By printing the "Lena" image.

    As a proof of principle, researchers printed a 50×50-micrometre version of the 'Lena' test image, a richly coloured portrait of a woman that is commonly used as a printing standard

    So who's Lena? She's a playboy pinup girl. (NSFW).

  4. Re:If she was 22 when she posed... by j-beda · · Score: 2 · on Playmate Photo From Apollo 12 Up For Auction

    http://www.lenna.org/ (linked from the hilarious http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html LenPEG image compression page) has a photo presumably from her 1997 attendance at the 50th Anniversary IS&T conference in Boston.

  5. Re:Does anybody buy this Bullshit? by Alsee · · Score: 1 · on Pornified

    Lena linky linky.

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  6. Apple zealot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card

    The slashdot effect + a nudie photo. Say goodbye to that server.

    Given that the photograph of this nude model "Lenna", is the most used photograph used to test image compression algorithms, I think you intended the Photoshop audience to glaze over your post with no suspicsion. But to correctly raise the verry stenographical element, I believe you meant to type iNude and not nudie. Did you just make up that word? Is "nudie" even a word, or is it more hidden words to conceal your thoughts of "GNU DIE"? I think you are one of those Apple zealots...am I, for seeing it?

    Here is the photo in dispute. Bring here down, bots errm I mean boys.

  7. this is all you need to see... by bob_greatguy · · Score: 1 · on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card

    unless you like "reading the articles" :)
    http://www.lenna.org/full/len_full.html/ (nudity)

  8. Aw, c'mon guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card

    Stop hogging the bandwidth with the full size Lenna image! All I want to do is read the text (honest) and it's taking ages...

  9. Re:Kill those Utah lawmakers! by garcia · · Score: 1 · on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card

    This coming right after the story about Utah? Slashdot, are you trying to cause the Utah law to fail?

    Sorry for the bad link in the original. I should have previewed first, I know :(

  10. Kill those Utah lawmakers! by garcia · · Score: 1, Funny · on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card

    coming right after the story about Utah? Slashdot, are you trying to cause the Utah law to fail?

  11. Re:It's just too hard for them by RealAlaskan · · Score: 1 · on Women Leaving I.T.
    Honestly, the answer to the question of precisely why there are so few women in computer science, physics, math completely eludes me.

    Why are women staying away from computer science, physics and math? It's probably because they're different than men

    I was going to link ``men'' to the goatse guy, but good taste intervened: the ``men'' link is workplace safe. The ``women'' link isn't quite workplace safe if you scroll down.

    Those pictures I linked to show some obvious, structural differences. Is it reasonable to think that those are the only differences (hint: No!)?

  12. Re:JPEG 2000 looks like the right thing at last. by plastik55 · · Score: 2 · on JPEG2000 Coming Soon
    Of course the images selected for the demo could have been optimized for the compression scheme. B-)


    One of the images was the Lenna centerold, which has long been a de facto test for image compression algorithms.