I'm a relative new-comer to digital photography (did lots of 35mm film in the 80s though) and I was able to spot the point-n-shoot image immediately (in the link you provided). I'm not saying it's $40,000 less nice of an image, but it definitely isn't "indistinguishable". Sounds like somebody just wants to gripe about a $40,000 camera costing $40,000.
It would be easy to investigate and discover I bought my Canon Rebel Xsi on Amazon.com...whether you can get a warrant for that sort of thing or not is another story. So, if (big if) I was suspected of a child porn ring and they say the pics were taken with a Canon Rebel Xsi, that's a start, but hardly worth anything on its own merit. I think they'd have a better case finding actual child porn pictures on my personal computers or interrogating people in my porn ring. If it got to that point, pinning a specific camera model to my ownership is sort of overkill. In short, if I were committing this sort of crime, disguising my photographic finger print would be the last worry on my mind because it is neither going to convict me nor implicate me (on its own merit).
It's clearly a technique for child porn investigations.
Maybe I'm naive, but it took this long into the discussion thread for somebody to explain why this is even a story. I hadn't thought of that (because I'm a decent human) and I guess everyone else *thought* it, but were a bit uncomfortable stating what is otherwise totally obvious to most folks.
I get enough grief with my (mostly) bad photography on Flickr--now the authorities are on to me as well. If they figure out I shot f4.0, 1/60, at 44mm instead of f5.6 I'm totally screwed! I mean, just think of the depth-of-field!
But if you have more talent, you don't have to work as hard. I always look for potential employees who are good at a lot of tasks. I don't really care how "hard" they tell me they'll work if they get the job. People who claim to be hard workers are usually (don't kill me, I said usually) not very talented, so they have to work harder to make up for lack of talent. Actually, come to think of it, I think it's pretty good to have a few "hard workers" mixed in with the uber-talented guys because more good stuff gets done that way.
Microsoft has a "good" product in Office only in the sense that "good" is a relative term. If there were something else/anything else worth 1kb of space on my hard drive, then maybe Office wouldn't be so "good".
Excellent point. I'm still trying to get in touch with college and military friends (impossible with just email). I've found some of them, but most of them are too busy yelling at kids to get off their lawns and don't have time for new fangled myfacespacebooking or whatever it's called.
I'm nearly 40. It is impossible to be in 42 geographically different locations to get some face-to-face time with all my friends I've accrued over the years. Facebook is a great tool in this regard.
It's worse than just trying to get ad dollars out of you...they actually are trying to get you to "upgrade" your service for a fee. Hmmm..sounds a lot like freecreditreport.com
1) Do you have any pets?
2) How much have you spent on them compared to people dying of starvation in 3rd world nations?
It's possible you don't have any pets, but you'll hopefully see my point - that many humans care more about animal welfare than they do about humans,
That's ridiculous. I care more about my hamster than I do some Dutch guy's son. I care about my son more than the Dutch guy's hamster. I care more about MY animals and/or kids, because they are mine, not because a human is more or less important than an animal.
I like what Kubrik says about noble savage: "any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure."
Actually, I don't care because I know my company policy isn't legally enforceable. You can't just write up some legal mumbo-jumbo and have your employees sign it and call it legally binding.
Why is it when we ask people to read through a 2-page user policy, they skip through and don't even bother reading to just sign it, yet those same people will sit down and pour through 3 inches of legal documents for 4 hours when buying a home?
The terms "paper drill" and "check-the-blocks" comes to mind. I don't really care about the implications of my company's VPN policy...at least not compared to the implications of the documentation associated with home-ownership.
So you really want to take this one on eh? You are positing that there are no statistical difference between voters of small, rural areas compared to urban ones? Most importantly, in rural areas, the standard deviation in beliefs is MUCH smaller than in urban areas. All I'm saying is that people from small towns tend to be small minded, mostly because they don't know any better, or because THEY DON'T MIND. I can't help it if you think it's a bad thing to be small minded, when all I said is people who are small minded often don't mind being so and living in a small town brings on a more homogenous culture
Yes, I enjoy my own irony. It was purposeful, and ridiculous, to make a point. Sarah Palin is my evidence. The only problem I have with your anecdote, is that although both populations have open and closed minded people, one tends to have a lot more of one and the other has a lot more of the other. I'm not sure if you've noticed election trends over the past 100 years, but the voting patterns of rural vs. urban areas have been very divergent.
The problem with Palin is she chose to stay in that environment, as do most small-minded, small-towned people, because they see nothing wrong with it. You have more foresight than most in that environment. You said it best, "there are people like me that are from small towns that are not small-minded".
What carriers don't charge you to listen to your voicemail?
Well I have no idea if mine charges, but then again, I have about a billion roll-over minutes, since I never come anywhere near my limit. Besides, how many "minutes" do you burn through listening to voice mail anyways? Probably only a fraction of the minutes you get with your plan.
Also when do you physically turn off your personal phone for more than 24 hours?
T mobile delivers my text messages as long as I'm in service range in 24 hours.
My voice mail delivers just like a text message. A little notice pops up saying "you have voicemail", or "you have a new text message". Is there really any difference?
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I'm a relative new-comer to digital photography (did lots of 35mm film in the 80s though) and I was able to spot the point-n-shoot image immediately (in the link you provided). I'm not saying it's $40,000 less nice of an image, but it definitely isn't "indistinguishable". Sounds like somebody just wants to gripe about a $40,000 camera costing $40,000.
It would be easy to investigate and discover I bought my Canon Rebel Xsi on Amazon.com...whether you can get a warrant for that sort of thing or not is another story. So, if (big if) I was suspected of a child porn ring and they say the pics were taken with a Canon Rebel Xsi, that's a start, but hardly worth anything on its own merit. I think they'd have a better case finding actual child porn pictures on my personal computers or interrogating people in my porn ring. If it got to that point, pinning a specific camera model to my ownership is sort of overkill. In short, if I were committing this sort of crime, disguising my photographic finger print would be the last worry on my mind because it is neither going to convict me nor implicate me (on its own merit).
It's clearly a technique for child porn investigations.
Maybe I'm naive, but it took this long into the discussion thread for somebody to explain why this is even a story. I hadn't thought of that (because I'm a decent human) and I guess everyone else *thought* it, but were a bit uncomfortable stating what is otherwise totally obvious to most folks.
I get enough grief with my (mostly) bad photography on Flickr--now the authorities are on to me as well. If they figure out I shot f4.0, 1/60, at 44mm instead of f5.6 I'm totally screwed! I mean, just think of the depth-of-field!
Who on earth would need a 5GHz CPU on the desktop?
Who on earth would need 640k of memory! Or wait...did I just "whoooooosh" myself?
But if you have more talent, you don't have to work as hard. I always look for potential employees who are good at a lot of tasks. I don't really care how "hard" they tell me they'll work if they get the job. People who claim to be hard workers are usually (don't kill me, I said usually) not very talented, so they have to work harder to make up for lack of talent. Actually, come to think of it, I think it's pretty good to have a few "hard workers" mixed in with the uber-talented guys because more good stuff gets done that way.
Microsoft has a "good" product in Office only in the sense that "good" is a relative term. If there were something else/anything else worth 1kb of space on my hard drive, then maybe Office wouldn't be so "good".
Excellent point. I'm still trying to get in touch with college and military friends (impossible with just email). I've found some of them, but most of them are too busy yelling at kids to get off their lawns and don't have time for new fangled myfacespacebooking or whatever it's called.
I'm nearly 40. It is impossible to be in 42 geographically different locations to get some face-to-face time with all my friends I've accrued over the years. Facebook is a great tool in this regard.
Not saying classmates is right, but had you never given them your credit card number in the first place...
It's worse than just trying to get ad dollars out of you...they actually are trying to get you to "upgrade" your service for a fee. Hmmm..sounds a lot like freecreditreport.com
Seems like you don't understand the connotation of "Supreme" in this context.
1) Do you have any pets? 2) How much have you spent on them compared to people dying of starvation in 3rd world nations? It's possible you don't have any pets, but you'll hopefully see my point - that many humans care more about animal welfare than they do about humans,
That's ridiculous. I care more about my hamster than I do some Dutch guy's son. I care about my son more than the Dutch guy's hamster. I care more about MY animals and/or kids, because they are mine, not because a human is more or less important than an animal.
I like what Kubrik says about noble savage: "any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure."
More like "the Army can't practice shooting because they are in a shopping mall".
I admit, last time I went to the shopping mall, it WAS full of whales!
They can't. Therein lies the problem with aggressive environmentalism.
So demonstrating an utter lack of people skills and responding with snarky, baseless comments now qualifies as insightful. Hmm..
The fact you have been modded "troll" is the reason this might be the last slashdot thread I ever read...idiots.
Actually, I don't care because I know my company policy isn't legally enforceable. You can't just write up some legal mumbo-jumbo and have your employees sign it and call it legally binding.
Why is it when we ask people to read through a 2-page user policy, they skip through and don't even bother reading to just sign it, yet those same people will sit down and pour through 3 inches of legal documents for 4 hours when buying a home?
The terms "paper drill" and "check-the-blocks" comes to mind. I don't really care about the implications of my company's VPN policy...at least not compared to the implications of the documentation associated with home-ownership.
So you really want to take this one on eh? You are positing that there are no statistical difference between voters of small, rural areas compared to urban ones? Most importantly, in rural areas, the standard deviation in beliefs is MUCH smaller than in urban areas. All I'm saying is that people from small towns tend to be small minded, mostly because they don't know any better, or because THEY DON'T MIND. I can't help it if you think it's a bad thing to be small minded, when all I said is people who are small minded often don't mind being so and living in a small town brings on a more homogenous culture
Of course it's arrogant, and I've already stated as such. What good is a conversation if you don't hear all sides (including the arrogant one?)
Yes, I enjoy my own irony. It was purposeful, and ridiculous, to make a point. Sarah Palin is my evidence. The only problem I have with your anecdote, is that although both populations have open and closed minded people, one tends to have a lot more of one and the other has a lot more of the other. I'm not sure if you've noticed election trends over the past 100 years, but the voting patterns of rural vs. urban areas have been very divergent.
The problem with Palin is she chose to stay in that environment, as do most small-minded, small-towned people, because they see nothing wrong with it. You have more foresight than most in that environment. You said it best, "there are people like me that are from small towns that are not small-minded".
What carriers don't charge you to listen to your voicemail?
Well I have no idea if mine charges, but then again, I have about a billion roll-over minutes, since I never come anywhere near my limit. Besides, how many "minutes" do you burn through listening to voice mail anyways? Probably only a fraction of the minutes you get with your plan.
Also when do you physically turn off your personal phone for more than 24 hours? T mobile delivers my text messages as long as I'm in service range in 24 hours.
My voice mail delivers just like a text message. A little notice pops up saying "you have voicemail", or "you have a new text message". Is there really any difference?