How absurd and inanely pretentious. It's astounding that the search engine the editors are using allows them to say "it's a dupe from six years ago" but not be able to recognize the dupe from yesterday. Sheesh.
I thought the first two episodes were superb. I think last week's episode which has Starbuck patching a Cylon ship with her jacket, breathing oxygen out of a tube (lucky she didn't hit a toxic hydraulic line), and flying the ship based on her "pitch, roll, yaw, power" mantra was plain silly.
I'll keep TiVo'ing, though. It's a good series with potential. After a while, the irresolvable saddness of the Adama family just wont keep my interest anymore.
Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.
Status: False.
Origins: No, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The derisive "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs are misleading distortions of something he said (taken out of context) during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
eBay always provides...
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The GCE/MB Vectrex (June, 1982) -- the only video game system I really wanted as a kid, and one of the seeming few I've never encountered used in thrift stores. Bright vector graphics, built-in screen and a quality joystick gave it the same kind of appeal that the arcade-console versions of Asteroids and Battlezone had for me.
At the risk of revealing my geekness (though hardly a Jedi Master Geek), that's not the "creature that attacks Luke". It's a Tauntaun. The "creature that attacks Luke" is a Wampa Ice Creature.
It goes without saying that the proliferating market of modern business technology such as copiers, fax machines and printers reduces a systematic forensic approach. However, a number of projects report progress in the following:
Image retrieval from used thermal transfer printer rolls
Defining substrate attributes for photo quality ink-jet imaging
Detection of laser printer defects for printer identification
Evidential value from ink-jet printers and inks
Identifying photocopying toners using FTIR, DRIFTS and Pyrolysis-GCMS
Classification of ink-jet printers and ink
Classification of and identification of Laser printers
Electronic database of computer printer data
Examination of faxed documents
Classification and identification of fax fonts Classification of full colour copiers
Counterfeit Protection System codes of laser copiers
Dot patterns of colour ink-jet printers
Doherty (31) gives an overview on state-of-the-art classification of ink-jet printers and inks. Interestingly, the findings indicate that the results of TLC analysis "before" and "after" show significant differences because the ink-components are modified by heat during the print process. For specialists in traditional typewriting examination, the overview of Frensel (41) on typewriters produced in the former East Germany is of interest when identifying products manufactured before and after World War II. Gervais & Lindblom (43) present a case illustrating detection of digital manipulation on a facsimile printout. Hammond (47) compares the collected technical data of facsimile machines. The demonstration of secondary typewriting and alterations by the use of grids is today easily carried out by using the appropriate computer software, as shown by Hicks (55). If there are actually different computer assisted typewriting data collections, the system DRUIDE, developed by Holzapfel & Marx (58) is comprehensive and designed for routine casework. The traditional typewriter - disappearing on the market - still has its forensic impact. Few references go back to the roots of typewriting examination and commercial production, e.g., in the former Eastern Block. Horton (60) compares the identifiability of the flatbed scanner and its products by comparing the marks on scanned images. Lauterbach (68) describes 30 fax machines and their characteristic printouts for identification purposes. A survey by Tweedy (129) on state-of-the-art colour Laser copier identification by bitmap coding includes an overview of counterfeit protection by the characteristics and class of the major copying machines on the market. Wagner (134) presents the "Australian Toner Library" and the discriminating power of FTIR as compared to ATR. In a similar direction, but looking more specifically at the dating and sourcing of the Transmitting Terminal Identifier on a fax document, is a study by Westwood & Novotny (138). White et al (139) show the benefits of Surface Enhanced Resonance RAMAN Scattering Spectroscopy (SERRS) for an almost non-destructive spectroscopic examination of inks. Winter (141) studied the evidential value of the dot pattern of colour ink-jet and bubble-jet printers for individual identification."
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The update to the article contains three of the dumbest links I've seen on Slashdot. Linking XP to Microsoft? Handheld links to the OSTG IT Manager's Journal (which, incidentally, has little useful content)... Sigh...
My questions have to do with the state of political/civic life in the United States: Where does your interest in American politics lie? If given the opportunity to make changes to the American systems of government, where would you begin? What are the most important civic problems the United States is facing? How are those problems best addressed?
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We first mentioned this six years ago...
How absurd and inanely pretentious. It's astounding that the search engine the editors are using allows them to say "it's a dupe from six years ago" but not be able to recognize the dupe from yesterday. Sheesh.
I thought the first two episodes were superb. I think last week's episode which has Starbuck patching a Cylon ship with her jacket, breathing oxygen out of a tube (lucky she didn't hit a toxic hydraulic line), and flying the ship based on her "pitch, roll, yaw, power" mantra was plain silly.
I'll keep TiVo'ing, though. It's a good series with potential. After a while, the irresolvable saddness of the Adama family just wont keep my interest anymore.
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137848&ci
Why wait?
The weather report for the descent called for "Cloudy". I can't wait to see the pictures of those clouds!
Amazing. You actually answered the question. Unlike most of the answers above.
I'd still like to be able to take my old Latitude CP and be able to have video-in and use the keyboard/touchpad-out.
The most important blog this year, bar none, was http://www.kevinsites.net/. You can't top it.
The Mozilla Foundation press release ( http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-12-15.ht ml) has links to a high resolution PDF http://www.mozilla.org/press/nytimes-firefox-final .pdf. Names are quite legible at 150%.
Wow! I can't wait to read that riveting piece of journalism!
Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.
Status: False.
Origins: No, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The derisive "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs are misleading distortions of something he said (taken out of context) during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htmIt's a duplicate: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/14/174 2224&tid=172
i d=10527143). Interpol had a paper about document forensics years ago: http://www.interpol.int/Public/Forensic/IFSS/meeti ng13/Reviews/QDnoHw.pdf
And it's also not terribly new (http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125675&c
Really big floods aren't an outrageous mythical proposition. Neither is an anti-religion bias.
The GCE/MB Vectrex (June, 1982) -- the only video game system I really wanted as a kid, and one of the seeming few I've never encountered used in thrift stores. Bright vector graphics, built-in screen and a quality joystick gave it the same kind of appeal that the arcade-console versions of Asteroids and Battlezone had for me.
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How do you figure the divisiveness of '04 will be any different in '08?
The answer to question 4 is exactly why I love Neal Stephenson's fiction. Just love it. And in 100 pages I'll be done with The System of the World.
Stop the presses.
At the risk of revealing my geekness (though hardly a Jedi Master Geek), that's not the "creature that attacks Luke". It's a Tauntaun. The "creature that attacks Luke" is a Wampa Ice Creature.
And, quote The Critic, "It Stinks".
"DOCUMENTS PRODUCED BY BUSINESS MACHINES
It goes without saying that the proliferating market of modern business technology
such as copiers, fax machines and printers reduces a systematic forensic approach.
However, a number of projects report progress in the following:
Classification of full colour copiers
Doherty (31) gives an overview on state-of-the-art classification of ink-jet printers
and inks. Interestingly, the findings indicate that the results of TLC analysis
"before" and "after" show significant differences because the ink-components are
modified by heat during the print process. For specialists in traditional typewriting
examination, the overview of Frensel (41) on typewriters produced in the former
East Germany is of interest when identifying products manufactured before and
after World War II. Gervais & Lindblom (43) present a case illustrating detection of
digital manipulation on a facsimile printout. Hammond (47) compares the collected
technical data of facsimile machines. The demonstration of secondary typewriting
and alterations by the use of grids is today easily carried out by using the
appropriate computer software, as shown by Hicks (55). If there are actually
different computer assisted typewriting data collections, the system DRUIDE,
developed by Holzapfel & Marx (58) is comprehensive and designed for routine
casework. The traditional typewriter - disappearing on the market - still has its
forensic impact. Few references go back to the roots of typewriting examination and
commercial production, e.g., in the former Eastern Block. Horton (60) compares the
identifiability of the flatbed scanner and its products by comparing the marks on
scanned images. Lauterbach (68) describes 30 fax machines and their characteristic
printouts for identification purposes. A survey by Tweedy (129) on state-of-the-art
colour Laser copier identification by bitmap coding includes an overview of
counterfeit protection by the characteristics and class of the major copying
machines on the market. Wagner (134) presents the "Australian Toner Library" and
the discriminating power of FTIR as compared to ATR. In a similar direction, but
looking more specifically at the dating and sourcing of the Transmitting Terminal
Identifier on a fax document, is a study by Westwood & Novotny (138). White et al
(139) show the benefits of Surface Enhanced Resonance RAMAN Scattering
Spectroscopy (SERRS) for an almost non-destructive spectroscopic examination of
inks. Winter (141) studied the evidential value of the dot pattern of colour ink-jet
and bubble-jet printers for individual identification."
http://www.interpol.int/Public/Forensic/IFSS/meet
The update to the article contains three of the dumbest links I've seen on Slashdot. Linking XP to Microsoft? Handheld links to the OSTG IT Manager's Journal (which, incidentally, has little useful content)... Sigh...
My questions have to do with the state of political/civic life in the United States: Where does your interest in American politics lie? If given the opportunity to make changes to the American systems of government, where would you begin? What are the most important civic problems the United States is facing? How are those problems best addressed?
Thanks for your body of work.
Four teraflops? I thought the Earth Simulator was capable of 35-45 Gigaflops. http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06/
Someone needs to start tracking how often boingboing and engadget.com links get picked up by Slashdot...
The problem is he was trying to pass...in a Renault.
Go to http://www.moneyfactory.gov/.
Oh, and don't get upset at http://www.usps.com/ and http://www.usmint.com/.