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Is This Rembrandt a Real One?

Posted by Zonk on from the i-wish-i-had-this-kind-of-problem dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "About a year ago, I told you about how computer scientists from Dartmouth college were investigating digital images. But they're also interested in old paintings authentication, as reports Wired Magazine in The Rembrandt Code. Mathematicians are using high-resolution digital cameras and computers to examine old paintings and evaluate their authenticity. Even the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is asking them to discover which of the 42 paintings it owns and that were once believed to be Rembrandts are really authentic. The Wired article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references about this authentication process."

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  1. Re:What gives? by quokkapox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not only that - complaining about this (and the related ** Beatles Beatles shenanigans) is a good way to keep yourself from getting mod points ever again.

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  2. Re:What gives? by quokkapox · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The only link to his blog is in his name - and all submitters do that.

    Some submitters link to their email address only, or do not link at all. PageRank == $$$$. Slashdot editors seem to be preferentially giving free PageRank to certain submitters (including Roland and BeatlesBeatles).

    Does anyone dispute these facts?

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  3. Re:What gives? by aussie_a · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Count yourself lucky. I don't even get meta-moderation powers anymore.

  4. A modest proposal by quokkapox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey Slashdot Editors -

    You have at your disposal, at your beck and call, a community of geeks with lots of expertise in every technical discipline, who can debunk false claims by industry pundits, help to educate their peers, and share valuable information with the larger community. This is an incredibly valuable and useful resource that can contribute to improvements on the Internet and the technological revolution in which we are all participating.

    If you're going to put us to use to make some money with ads, at least pay some fucking attention to us and our wishes.

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  5. Re:What gives? by 1u3hr · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Taco. He basically isn't interested in feedback, which seems very not in the spirit of open source to me. He also said that /. doesn't track who is submitting what and doesn't care about a submitter's positive or negative track recor

    Well, someone as Slashdot cares, given that three of my posts in this thread and many others were all simultaneously modded down to -1.