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  1. This has technical merit on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Compression of RAW to JPEG and the alteration of JPEG images leaves a distinct signature in it's Error Level Analysis results. Using a simple utility like http://www.impulseadventure.co... to automatically prescreen images would relieve a huge burden from their shoulders. For authenticity, requesting the RAW after the JPEG to see if the compression gradients are uniform would work as a nice level of security as well.

  2. Re:Makes sense on Early Childhood Neglect Associated With Altered Brain Structure, ADHD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Forcing both parents to work likely isn't causal. The breakup of the family working all together at the same/related jobs is likely more specific. One can work and nurture at the same time, they rightfully go hand in hand. Teach your progeny what you know the way you learned it. It promotes learning and confidence in learning.

  3. Lost Backups or Outside Email Services? on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    Can anyone speak to the emails they are discussing here? It's obvious that any competent IRS email server would have been backing these emails up, but if they were using Outlook, there is a well known issue regarding the size of PST files, corruption, and subsequent purging of the files. Often administrators will purge the user's inbox after their local PST file has been backed up. Then, that file is remounted in Outlook, or kept on the local machine for use at a later time. If these (or the old Exchange data) weren't being backed up, this is not only poor administration but likely a breach of law.

    The second possibility is that other email services outside the IRS were being used. If they are trying to get to this email, I'd like to know.

    I'm not defending what they're saying, it all sounds like bullshit. I'd just like someone with some understanding of the technicalities of what's going on to chime in.

  4. Re:Routine unregistered securities case on Man Who Issued Securities For Bitcoins Settles With SEC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly. Title is misleading. Crime was for unregistered securities.

  5. Re:The Lavabit case... on EFF: Amazon, AT&T, and Snapchat Most Likely To Rat On You To the Gov't · · Score: 1

    People wonder why USPS is failing. Do you realize that a fairly simple technical implementation marking data with digital postage would legally shield it all? USPS should be Lavabit, hell an ISP. Its simply because the PEOPLE OCCUPYING OUR GOVERNMENT UNDERSTAND DDOS. Clog all the pipes. Eventually our 'No's will be accepted as authoratative. Because.

  6. Re: Legality vs Enforceability on DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Juries.

  7. This is a confirmation, not new news. on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 2

    Anon reported back at the beginning of Operation Last Resort that they were already much more deeply entrenched in US government networks than anyone had found. This isn't a new revelation, it's an ongoing event.

  8. Re:not flaming on Artificial Blood Made In Romania · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell, yes. If it contains blood or any of it's 4 major parts, Witnesses won't accept it. This doesn't seem to contain those things. There is an understanding that once you break a thing down so far, it's no longer blood.

  9. Re:not flaming on Artificial Blood Made In Romania · · Score: 1

    The answer is: If it contains blood or any of it's 4 major parts, Witnesses won't accept it. This doesn't seem to contain those things. There is an understanding that once you break a thing down so far, it's no longer blood. Things beyond the 4 major parts are considered a "conscience decision", which means it up to you whether you take it or not.

  10. Jehovah's Witnesses Rejoice on Artificial Blood Made In Romania · · Score: 1

    I understand that many people who post here don't share my religious views, but as a person who doesn't believe in accepting blood: This is huge. There have been great strides in bloodless surgery, but an alternative it always great. Thank you to these folks for their continued work

  11. Re:Derivative work on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 1

    Ah, therein lies the issue. Language is not restricted to geographical area.

    I completely get the premis, and, as a developer, completely dismiss it. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

  12. Re:Derivative work on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 2

    This, this right here reveals a valid point. Region locks, limited releases, and so forth are supposed to be about geographical areas, not the language. If "Rocky 30" gets released in the US only, there is nothing restricting a Chinese speaking American from watching the film. Claiming that one is "making content available" to an audience who hasn't been permitted yet is a load of horse shit. However, since by some countries' laws content might be restricted, I assume the derivative works could potentially inherit those restrictions. I think it's obvious that distinction isn't clear. Seems a better practice to work with the site in helping them understand where the content is supposed to be available. There is nothing stopping the content provider from getting paid for a film. However, I do completely understand how this mindset doesn't hold up for books, and rightfully so. With books, making the translation of the book availble would make the core value of the product worthless. The core value of a DVD is not in the text.

  13. Re:Reference to Island of Stablility on First Observations of Short-lived Pear-shaped Atomic Nuclei · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those interested: Nuclei with shapes like this or barbells are significant in solving the problem of filling that range of elements on the Periodic table that were skipped. Ideas were proposed that nuclei would need to have these shapes in order to be stable if the nucleus followed a shell model similar to electron shells. You can read more by researching "Island of Stability"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

    Eh, fark. This is mine. Stupid login.

  14. Re:Next phase of career? on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 1

    "Very few acquire sufficient mastership of the physics to make a dent. And even if you do, you'll be in a rat race against other geniuses. New discoveries spur new ideas, but discoveries are published worldwide and ideas are also a dime a dozen as well. Even if you have the gift to derive a really good and worthwhile idea from a given recent discovery, you can be sure that at least two of your competitors around the world will have thought of it, and then it comes down to who is fastest and who can deliver the most generally useful implementation or variant of the idea." Sounds exactly like programming actually :-). Seriously, though, thank you for your insight.

  15. Next phase of career? on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 2

    I've been considering taking up study in this field. As a software developer I can see benefits for both sides. I'm curious if we could develop a suitable runtime environment to express the code rather than just "build and lets see".

  16. Truly a worthy ruling on Canadian Court Rules You Have the Right To Google a Lawyer · · Score: 1

    For those of us who have had the unfortunate pleasure of being arrested, think about it. You had to call a relative, or look in a phone book for some advertisement of a lawyer. While I doubt they'll be getting many of these machines, one usually has at least 24 hours of free time in jail. Why not give that time to do at least /some/ due diligence in picking one's council. Bravo Canada.

  17. 5 Browser Compatibility Projects in 3 years on IE Standardization Fading Fast · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All of them specifically to convert IE only sites to support at least Firefox, Chrome, & IE. A few of them even specifically listed Safari. We may not have seen the cusp of the wave, but companies have definitely heard the message loud and clear, and are responding appropriately.

  18. Interesting timing with gun laws coming up on Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens · · Score: 1

    I'm no conspiracy theorist, nor do I typically give a damn about politics. For the most part, I like Mr. Obama. However, combining this with the changing gun laws just sounds down right marshal law-like.

  19. Re: How are they validating ID? on New Phishing Toolkit Uses Whitelisting To 'Bounce' Non-Victims · · Score: 1

    Interesting parts as well state infected servers can redirect to one another. Seeing this is partly a WordPress exploit, I wonder if an email link is even necessary. Visit 1 exploited in-net box and it might be able to get you where it needs.

  20. Re: How are they validating ID? on New Phishing Toolkit Uses Whitelisting To 'Bounce' Non-Victims · · Score: 2

    Whether key or ip are used here is missing the kind of whitelisting this malware is using. When the package exploits a server, it alters pages/links to redirect each unique visitor to a dynamically generated temp folder on itself which contains the phishing code, and afterwards is deleted. The phishing code could obviously get more selective, and will contain a destination either via redirect or transmission, but returning to the same url gets you nowhere. Have the link/page exploited float around as well and you have a "dynamic" whitelist which filters favoring the browsing public, not link-minded researchers.

  21. Consider human advancement just as likely on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 1

    This guy could have studied his opponents, he could suddenly understand the game in a new way, or the competitors in the tournament could share some fundamental link to a decision tree he's found. I'll admit this is unlikely, but one can attribute such vast differences to not only cheating or genius, but also competitive stagnation.

  22. Correlation does not infer causation on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    I read nothing of problems presented which require both types of thinking. Common problems involving both like seating arrangements for a wedding or which family member to ask to borrow money could be used for this. In the test discussed in the article the participant is going to catch on to the pattern after a few questions and instinctively switch their thinking to an optimal mode. In my opinion the resulting brain activity they're reading isn't empathy/analytics, it's bound and unbound thought. Empathy isn't imagination. It's the experiences, memories, and emotions of oneself and everyone they've known recalled abstractly. Asking someone to answer "social question" without personal context not only unbounds the process, but simultaneously removes analysis. This is caused by a) the need for one to imagine the contextual characters necessary to fill in the gaps and b) the inherent throw-away nature of those virtual characters. It all sits in short-term memory.

    Real empathy requires actual people to empathize with because it involves more than words. It includes body language and so many other factors. All that's been invoked here is structured imagination, and these questions would inherently exclude analytic thought in that test characters must be taken as-is. On the other side, analytic thought requires mental sandboxes. Analyzing a hypothetical question presents it's own sandbox which excludes imagination, and relies solely on ones training & short term memory. The fact that the subjects know they are being tested at all seems to be the originating flaw.

  23. Re:Quantum cryptography? on Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive · · Score: 1

    No information is gathered, rather the lifetime / distance of the qubit is extended. Since this caused the frequency of detection to change, I'm going to make an educated guess that the correction signal causes interference and/or destruction of a third channel which could be monitored for manipulation.

  24. I don't think most know what blasphemy actually is on Man Arrested In Greece For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Blasphemy (as defined by the God of Moses, Jehovah) is defined as speaking against Him (i.e: Actively working against his active force / holy spirit.) Committing blasphemy requires belief in the God one blasphemes against. Calling one's God a liar is probably the best example of blasphemy I can give. In most Biblically based religions it is the only unforgivable sin. Note this is not because the blasphemer doesn't want to follow God, nor is it because he mistakenly believes in a false god. It is instead that he is actively attempting to dissuade others from or misinform them about God while knowing the truth. It can't be done on accident, and it can't be committed by a non-believer.

  25. Re:What's the difference? on Possible Proof of ABC Conjecture · · Score: 2

    The best way I can describe this is to say this:
    When you see a cube, you define it's boundaries in this universe by it's sides and edges,

    In this theory primes, q 1 make up the "dimensions" if you will.

    Want an easier explanation? The abc conjecture is a universal equation through which (seemingly) all other equations can be refactored to make them comparable and translatable. Great for number theorists and programmers, not sure who else will use it. Maybe physicists.