Once a very wise CS prof of mine asked us to examine the phrase "We have no undiscovered bugs in our software". Which, as it's written, is true. Truly, a piece of software has no undiscovered bugs. Take that in mind when you read this article. To say that a piece of software has "less bugs" than some other is a very tricky and bold statement to make, as a bug isn't a bug until it's DISCOVERED.
While this is certainly a great way of handling the issue, it really doesn't help the other 98% of the world that simply gets their email through their ISP and have no control of the firewall.
Plus, I'm sure that there would be some type of 'Free Speech' issue brought up if a ISP did indeed block email from an entire country, calls claiming censorship, and certainly a mention on Slashdot as well.
Isn't this a wonderful circular problem, children?
When I saw this, I immediately thought back to my old webcam that I had pointed out the front of the house. Unfortunately, the webcam was pointed into the sun, and it produced sun-struck streaks on the CCD. In this case, the angle and width of the streak in the "mystery image" looks close to mine. Also note that the streak was not visible in low light conditions on my webcam, only when the light level was above a certain limit did the streaks show up. So, here's my hypothosis:
1. Camera has been in use for a while watching clouds.
2. Camera is pointing to the SSW, enough to catch the sun as it travels through the sky.
3. Trail in mystery picture, if you look closely, actually ends at the horizon, not at the post, thus capturing the setting sun.
4. The camera just happened to catch the bulb on the dock going out, producing a large flash.
5. The flash caused the camera to reduce the light level, thus illuminating the streak.
Note I haven't looked into the EXIF data at all from the images, but it would be interesting to see what the apeture of the camera is in the mystery picture as compared to the other two.
That's exactly what I was thinking as well. The artifact is called a Vertical Smear and from what I can tell is usually a problem with video cameras, not still cameras. But, they never said what type of camera took this, so it very well could be what this is.
Quite a while ago I was going to start a scanning project of scanning all my family's photos, slides and negatives in so they could be preserved. I ended up buying the HP PhotoSmart S20 and it's been great. The nice thing is that it adjusts to different negative sizes, slides, and even 5X7 prints. Scanning speed is reasonable, and the results are very good. After about 6 months my brother and I have scanned in almost all the old photos and now they're easily indexed and found on a Gallery Photo Server.
I'm not sure that HP makes this model any more, but maybe something out there will be as useful as it has been. Over 10,000 scans and more to go!
A few years ago I bought up some of those Virgin WebPlayers and I-Openers from eBay and other places, and proceeded to hack into them with the instructions provided.
The WebPlayer I'm using in the living room has Windows 95 on it reduced down using LitePC, and has Opera running as a web client. Also installed is Identafone, a piece of software that will display caller-id information on the screen. Add a cheap USB network adapter, plug in the phone line to the modem, and fire up the web browser to bring up a variant of the Block-random script provided by the Gallery distro, and you have a Photo Frame/Caller-ID box that has a small footprint and has no moving parts (no fan or hard drive).
I've also done the same thing with the I-Openers, installing a small 10-Gig laptop drive or so using a custom IMOD2 Kit. They both run very well and you end up with a much more configurable picture frame than a store-bought one for around a third of the cost.
Now, I wish I could do something with some type of Linux distro on these guys, and I'm sure that it's possible, but I just haven't had the time after doing these. Ideas anyone? Would a Linux distro run on these boxes and still have enough memory to run a GUI to display photos?
I've also been using Gallery for quite a while now. (4 years? Really?). I agree it rocks! I've also set up a Gallery site for my brother on his server at home, and have random photo digital picture frames running around the house feeding from the server. Very, very cool stuff!
Dude! That's awesome! Just another reason why I love The Weather Underground! I looked high and low for a simple weather page with a radar image that I could display on my Treo 600, and I found it.
Because, even though it's a pain for everyone and landfills everywhere, the junk snail-mail advertisers actually PAY for their ads to be sent out. Thus, making a profit for the USPS.
...what was the criteria as to what counties got electronic voting and those that didn't? And, did people know before going to the polls that electronic voting was in use where they were going? It could be that more people showed up to vote based on the ease of voting (i.e. no more hangin' chads), or there could be some other type of demographic they're missing on the account of the voting machines - what counties got them? The rich ones? The ones with the most population?
All these statistical methods aside, the much simpler and more reasonable explanation for an anomaly like this simply must exist.
To claim that Diebold and the GOP are in cahoots to steal the election away in Florida is ludicrous. There are too many factors at stake for ANY party, the Republicans or the Democrats to take that risk.
My 21,000 digital photos (yes, really) are backed up onto CDR media every year for pictures taken during the year, and placed into a bank safe deposit box. This year I plan to bring the entire collection back for a few days and restore it ALL to disk, and then back up again to fresh CDR's.
Along with those backups, my main photo server is backed up weekly, and my Gallery Server holds all the photos I publish to the world as well, and it's backed up weekly too.
I've lost the main photo hard drive before, and I was lucky enough to have a recent enough backup that I didn't lose all but some trivial photos.
I was lucky enough to come across a spiffy Compaq ML370 surplus from my work, so I'm planning on setting up a raided drives to provide better protection as well.
Princess Vespa: I am Princess Vespa, daughter of Roland, King of the Druids. Lone Starr: Oh great. That's all we needed. A Druish princess. Barf: Funny, she doesn't look Druish.
After having just spent an afternoon cleaning up puppy poop from the living room, and cleaning puppy vomit from the back seat of the car, I immediately thought of Nature's Miracle as a possible clean up. It says it contains enzymes to help eat up odors, etc.
I'm not sure if it's necessarily approved to work on electronic equipment, but I think wiping the cabinets (inside and out) with it couldn't hurt. And trust me, if it can take the stink out of puppy poop, it will probably do the trick in your situation.
Note to potential puppy parents: BUY STOCK IN NATURE'S MIRACLE! THIS STUFF ROCKS!
...the public education system was very good to me. I'm a distinct individual who can operate independently and think for myself. The thought that I've been "bred" to be a "working stiff" in this U.S. economy is just a fabrica...
We had one of these letters once delivered to Postmaster and Webmaster accounts for the company I work for. After a half hour of scurrying around trying to find the offending files on the system and failing, we double-checked the IP address that they said was the server with the offending files, and sure enough, they had made a typo between the time their script found the files, and they did a lookup on the ip address. The offending subnet, completely not owned by our company, was transposed a few digits.
So, we replied back to them, told them of their idiocy, and got a somewhat reasonable apology back - but nothing like what it SHOULD have been based on the language and severe tone of their warning.
This questions what really is automated and what has at least some human intervention. Of course, they should have realized that the entire X-Files series doesn't fit in a 113k file.
They're definately not listening for US, as our man-made signals started going into space literally a microsecond of universe time ago. Remember, the light we see from stars today started a loooong time ago...
Oh great. I clicked on it before I read what the URL was.
You owe me a new job since the 'net police here are probably going to visit me today...
The business model is confusing....
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The Spyware Inferno
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I mean, really. Load up a PC so full of Adware and Pop-Ups that it's useless, thereby hindering the advertising that they've been paid to deliver.
Talk about killing the messenger.
A few weeks ago I was very busy at night and couldn't get a chance to clean all the spyware off my wife's PC, which had become useless due to all the popups. Know what happened? The PC got TURNED OFF for a few days, thereby NO ads got delivered. I'd like to see what THAT does to their business model....
Disney has already ventured into projecting videos on uncommon surfaces, such as the water spray screen in Fantasmic and the Grim Grinning Ghosts effect in the Haunted Mansion attraction.
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Once a very wise CS prof of mine asked us to examine the phrase "We have no undiscovered bugs in our software". Which, as it's written, is true. Truly, a piece of software has no undiscovered bugs. Take that in mind when you read this article. To say that a piece of software has "less bugs" than some other is a very tricky and bold statement to make, as a bug isn't a bug until it's DISCOVERED.
While this is certainly a great way of handling the issue, it really doesn't help the other 98% of the world that simply gets their email through their ISP and have no control of the firewall.
Plus, I'm sure that there would be some type of 'Free Speech' issue brought up if a ISP did indeed block email from an entire country, calls claiming censorship, and certainly a mention on Slashdot as well.
Isn't this a wonderful circular problem, children?
Note I haven't looked into the EXIF data at all from the images, but it would be interesting to see what the apeture of the camera is in the mystery picture as compared to the other two.
Anyhow. There's my theory. Maybe that's it?
That's exactly what I was thinking as well. The artifact is called a Vertical Smear and from what I can tell is usually a problem with video cameras, not still cameras. But, they never said what type of camera took this, so it very well could be what this is.
Quite a while ago I was going to start a scanning project of scanning all my family's photos, slides and negatives in so they could be preserved. I ended up buying the HP PhotoSmart S20 and it's been great. The nice thing is that it adjusts to different negative sizes, slides, and even 5X7 prints. Scanning speed is reasonable, and the results are very good. After about 6 months my brother and I have scanned in almost all the old photos and now they're easily indexed and found on a Gallery Photo Server.
I'm not sure that HP makes this model any more, but maybe something out there will be as useful as it has been. Over 10,000 scans and more to go!
Yeah, I've thought about it. I did it so long ago though I'd have to remember it all...
A few years ago I bought up some of those Virgin WebPlayers and I-Openers from eBay and other places, and proceeded to hack into them with the instructions provided.
The WebPlayer I'm using in the living room has Windows 95 on it reduced down using LitePC, and has Opera running as a web client. Also installed is Identafone, a piece of software that will display caller-id information on the screen. Add a cheap USB network adapter, plug in the phone line to the modem, and fire up the web browser to bring up a variant of the Block-random script provided by the Gallery distro, and you have a Photo Frame/Caller-ID box that has a small footprint and has no moving parts (no fan or hard drive).
I've also done the same thing with the I-Openers, installing a small 10-Gig laptop drive or so using a custom IMOD2 Kit. They both run very well and you end up with a much more configurable picture frame than a store-bought one for around a third of the cost.
Now, I wish I could do something with some type of Linux distro on these guys, and I'm sure that it's possible, but I just haven't had the time after doing these. Ideas anyone? Would a Linux distro run on these boxes and still have enough memory to run a GUI to display photos?
I've also been using Gallery for quite a while now. (4 years? Really?). I agree it rocks! I've also set up a Gallery site for my brother on his server at home, and have random photo digital picture frames running around the house feeding from the server. Very, very cool stuff!
Dude! That's awesome! Just another reason why I love The Weather Underground! I looked high and low for a simple weather page with a radar image that I could display on my Treo 600, and I found it.
Because, even though it's a pain for everyone and landfills everywhere, the junk snail-mail advertisers actually PAY for their ads to be sent out. Thus, making a profit for the USPS.
The world revolves around money, baby....
Please, we all know it was due to Gary Seven....
...what was the criteria as to what counties got electronic voting and those that didn't? And, did people know before going to the polls that electronic voting was in use where they were going? It could be that more people showed up to vote based on the ease of voting (i.e. no more hangin' chads), or there could be some other type of demographic they're missing on the account of the voting machines - what counties got them? The rich ones? The ones with the most population?
All these statistical methods aside, the much simpler and more reasonable explanation for an anomaly like this simply must exist.
To claim that Diebold and the GOP are in cahoots to steal the election away in Florida is ludicrous. There are too many factors at stake for ANY party, the Republicans or the Democrats to take that risk.
My 21,000 digital photos (yes, really) are backed up onto CDR media every year for pictures taken during the year, and placed into a bank safe deposit box. This year I plan to bring the entire collection back for a few days and restore it ALL to disk, and then back up again to fresh CDR's.
:)
Along with those backups, my main photo server is backed up weekly, and my Gallery Server holds all the photos I publish to the world as well, and it's backed up weekly too.
I've lost the main photo hard drive before, and I was lucky enough to have a recent enough backup that I didn't lose all but some trivial photos.
I was lucky enough to come across a spiffy Compaq ML370 surplus from my work, so I'm planning on setting up a raided drives to provide better protection as well.
Yes, I'm a little paranoid about my pictures.
Ahem
...if the Druids will still be around...
: I am Princess Vespa, daughter of Roland, King of the Druids. : Oh great. That's all we needed. A Druish princess. : Funny, she doesn't look Druish.
/misses John Candy
Princess Vespa
Lone Starr
Barf
If my memory serves me right, my first piece of Spam was received around 1994 or so. The web was nowhere NEAR what it is today then.
So no, I don't want the web back before the spammers took over. Just get rid of the rats infesting the building please.
After having just spent an afternoon cleaning up puppy poop from the living room, and cleaning puppy vomit from the back seat of the car, I immediately thought of Nature's Miracle as a possible clean up. It says it contains enzymes to help eat up odors, etc.
I'm not sure if it's necessarily approved to work on electronic equipment, but I think wiping the cabinets (inside and out) with it couldn't hurt. And trust me, if it can take the stink out of puppy poop, it will probably do the trick in your situation.
Note to potential puppy parents: BUY STOCK IN NATURE'S MIRACLE! THIS STUFF ROCKS!
...the public education system was very good to me. I'm a distinct individual who can operate independently and think for myself. The thought that I've been "bred" to be a "working stiff" in this U.S. economy is just a fabrica...
...Ooops, here comes my Boss. Gotta run....
it has to be true...
We had one of these letters once delivered to Postmaster and Webmaster accounts for the company I work for. After a half hour of scurrying around trying to find the offending files on the system and failing, we double-checked the IP address that they said was the server with the offending files, and sure enough, they had made a typo between the time their script found the files, and they did a lookup on the ip address. The offending subnet, completely not owned by our company, was transposed a few digits.
So, we replied back to them, told them of their idiocy, and got a somewhat reasonable apology back - but nothing like what it SHOULD have been based on the language and severe tone of their warning.
This questions what really is automated and what has at least some human intervention. Of course, they should have realized that the entire X-Files series doesn't fit in a 113k file.
They're definately not listening for US, as our man-made signals started going into space literally a microsecond of universe time ago. Remember, the light we see from stars today started a loooong time ago...
..for ME, anyhow...
While playing Zork I, in the caves, I said:
# get leaflet
Picked up leaflet
# get tube of glue
Picked up tube of glue
# glue leaflet to wall
And you must put spinach in your gas tank, too.
Not a nice thing to do to a sleepy 17 year old at 3:30 in the morning.
Oh great. I clicked on it before I read what the URL was.
You owe me a new job since the 'net police here are probably going to visit me today...
I mean, really. Load up a PC so full of Adware and Pop-Ups that it's useless, thereby hindering the advertising that they've been paid to deliver.
Talk about killing the messenger.
A few weeks ago I was very busy at night and couldn't get a chance to clean all the spyware off my wife's PC, which had become useless due to all the popups. Know what happened? The PC got TURNED OFF for a few days, thereby NO ads got delivered. I'd like to see what THAT does to their business model....
Disney has already ventured into projecting videos on uncommon surfaces, such as the water spray screen in Fantasmic and the Grim Grinning Ghosts effect in the Haunted Mansion attraction.