Well, that's what I get for skimming this headline earlier!
I thought this woman had her larynx transplanted ten or so years ago, and wasn't able to use it to speak until now. Note to self: read full article more.
At an old job, some of my coworkers made a wikipedia page about one of themselves, only they changed his past to be an industrialist from the late 1800s, complete with photoshopped images from his facebook, and a few citations from websites that they made themselves. This was all just a prank to see if it would last a week or so. It did, and they had their laugh, and forgot about it.
Four months later...
"Hey, remember that time we made a fake wikipage about so-and-so? Yeah that was hilarious! I wonder if it's still there..."
Not only was it still there, but the article had been expanded on and fleshed out. They realized they should have ended it sooner, and deleted the article. The next day, the article was restored, which began a back and forth of deleting and restoring, until they finally got a warning from an editor, threatening a ban if they did it again. To this, they replied that the entire article was a fake, and sent them links to the originals of the photoshopped pictures.
"And that, Seth, is why we're banned from editing wikipedia from the office. Again."
This reminds me of the Great Webcomic quelling a few years back on wikipedia, where editors considered anything that wasn't in print form as "not notable" and thus deleted them almost without question, as such nearly all webcomics, except for perhaps Penny Arcade were deleted. As an experiment, Kris Straub made several fake accounts, and used all of them to lobby deletion requests on his own comics (Starslip, formerly Starsip Crisis) using entirely bogus information. The editors listened, and deleted his own article, after which he made the reveal at what he'd done. Needless to say, the editors were pretty... upset about that.
I think that this is a very [REDACTED] article. It is so telling of our [CENSORED] that {individuals of nonspecified cultural, racial, religous origin} would [CLASSIFIED] our literature. Really, before you know it, we'll all be facing [CENSORED] and then [REDACTED] [REDACTED] with [REMOVED] a duck.
Throwing this out there, what if I make a multiple FB accounts for myself across different emails? What about a FB account for a person who doesn't exist? What if I made one for my dog? What if I say it's for my dog, but it's only GIS pictures of dogs that I found, what then? If this "internet license" is of any practical importance at iall, it would be laughably trivial to just generate as many of these "licenses" as you want. I see this proposal and I just see massive security flaws.
FB as any sort of "license" can't be anything other than a colossally bad idea.
I thought that the "de-aged" CG faces were pretty great, and a wonderful touch for the movie. I don't think I would have noticed the effects right away if I didn't know they were going to be there.
That being said, I was thrown off by the mouth. it just felt the slightest bit off, like it wasn't wide enough, or large enough. It didn't quite match up perfectly. The lighting on the first time we see CG Bridges was kind of off, but it worked great for the darkness of The Grid. I got used to it as the movie went on, and noticed the differences less and less. I think it was ultimately a great decision to go forward with those effects, it could be said that having that juuuust slightly uncanny look that we get from CLU adds to his character as exactly what he's meant to be: a computer rendered clone of his creator.
Oh, and spoilers, I totally didn't realize that Tron was *also* a CG face until perhaps the next day when I read about it. So that just goes to show. If you weren't looking for it, you didn't see it.
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Well, that's what I get for skimming this headline earlier!
I thought this woman had her larynx transplanted ten or so years ago, and wasn't able to use it to speak until now. Note to self: read full article more.
Not gonna lie, Slashdot. This is pretty much my favorite article headline I've read yet. Congratulation.
On the one hand, everyone would be more willing to take care of their own machine that they bought and paid for.
On the other hand, security would be disastrous.
At an old job, some of my coworkers made a wikipedia page about one of themselves, only they changed his past to be an industrialist from the late 1800s, complete with photoshopped images from his facebook, and a few citations from websites that they made themselves. This was all just a prank to see if it would last a week or so. It did, and they had their laugh, and forgot about it.
Four months later...
"Hey, remember that time we made a fake wikipage about so-and-so? Yeah that was hilarious! I wonder if it's still there..."
Not only was it still there, but the article had been expanded on and fleshed out. They realized they should have ended it sooner, and deleted the article. The next day, the article was restored, which began a back and forth of deleting and restoring, until they finally got a warning from an editor, threatening a ban if they did it again. To this, they replied that the entire article was a fake, and sent them links to the originals of the photoshopped pictures.
"And that, Seth, is why we're banned from editing wikipedia from the office. Again."
This reminds me of the Great Webcomic quelling a few years back on wikipedia, where editors considered anything that wasn't in print form as "not notable" and thus deleted them almost without question, as such nearly all webcomics, except for perhaps Penny Arcade were deleted. As an experiment, Kris Straub made several fake accounts, and used all of them to lobby deletion requests on his own comics (Starslip, formerly Starsip Crisis) using entirely bogus information. The editors listened, and deleted his own article, after which he made the reveal at what he'd done. Needless to say, the editors were pretty... upset about that.
In this edition, obi wan shoots first.
I think that this is a very [REDACTED] article. It is so telling of our [CENSORED] that {individuals of nonspecified cultural, racial, religous origin} would [CLASSIFIED] our literature. Really, before you know it, we'll all be facing [CENSORED] and then [REDACTED] [REDACTED] with [REMOVED] a duck.
And now we go to our Final Jeopardy category: "Famous Motherboards".
"Because I'm suing you, Trebek! Awhahaha"
Throwing this out there, what if I make a multiple FB accounts for myself across different emails? What about a FB account for a person who doesn't exist? What if I made one for my dog? What if I say it's for my dog, but it's only GIS pictures of dogs that I found, what then? If this "internet license" is of any practical importance at iall, it would be laughably trivial to just generate as many of these "licenses" as you want. I see this proposal and I just see massive security flaws.
FB as any sort of "license" can't be anything other than a colossally bad idea.
I remember the incredibly confusing day where our teacher spent the entire class period explaining to us what "Foo" was.
I thought that the "de-aged" CG faces were pretty great, and a wonderful touch for the movie. I don't think I would have noticed the effects right away if I didn't know they were going to be there. That being said, I was thrown off by the mouth. it just felt the slightest bit off, like it wasn't wide enough, or large enough. It didn't quite match up perfectly. The lighting on the first time we see CG Bridges was kind of off, but it worked great for the darkness of The Grid. I got used to it as the movie went on, and noticed the differences less and less. I think it was ultimately a great decision to go forward with those effects, it could be said that having that juuuust slightly uncanny look that we get from CLU adds to his character as exactly what he's meant to be: a computer rendered clone of his creator. Oh, and spoilers, I totally didn't realize that Tron was *also* a CG face until perhaps the next day when I read about it. So that just goes to show. If you weren't looking for it, you didn't see it.
Don't forget! There was also an XKCD comic published about this. Or is that just common knowledge?
Instead of new server rack, package contained bobcats. Would not buy again.
"Famous Motherboards".
It's because satellites are WAY too big to carry around as a phone. That's what SatPhone means, right?
isn't this just a roundabout way to say that they don't support "The Cloud"?
"Google Bob will be rolling out to users worldwide next month!"