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Seeing-Eye Computer Guides Blind
sushant_bhatia writes "Wired News has a story about seeing-eye computer guides for the blind. This is an interesting piece on efforts at Arizona State University and Wright State University to provide features for individuals who are blind. A very interesting project is called the iCare Reader, which allows any individual who is blind to read a normal library book through this product, which 'uses optical character-recognition software along with other software that compensates for different lighting conditions and orientations of the text.' Further details on this can be found at The Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (Cubic)."
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Celebrate Joyously!!!
I am Graeme Devine!
I am most definitely whack!
And I would have to say:
You are on teh sp0ke!
I developed the software at Guildhall.
Please excuse my appearance. I try to look a bit, well, strange because I get taken more seriously at Linux / FOSS conferences if I do (Ive noticed FOSS people tend to take a negative attitude towards "normal" people).
Honestly though, open source is a bit overrated. Its advocated by a lot of academics who have little experience in industry, but those of us in the "real world" realise that quite often the commercial alternatives are superior.
Peace to all of you.
A 17 year-old high school student faces a year in prison by trying to get back at his ex by framing her in a plot to kill the US president.
John Fellows logged onto his ex's computer at Oswego High School using her password and then emailed the president threatening to kill him.
The email said: "I'm going to blow up the White House and Kill you and your family," admitted he wrote in an e-mail message. "You're a stupid peace [sic] of [excrement] and deserve to Die!!!"
When asked by police, Fellows admitted the whole plot and his brief said that the whole thing had been blown out of proportion.
Fellows' attorney Joseph Pagano told the Oswego Daily News. "There was a female involved here... He's an excellent student, [and] comes from a very good family."
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