I got nipped by it before they even admitted it existed. Two FBI agents showed up at my door with a copy of an email I'd sent to my father and cousin. A few weeks later, their director was testifying before Congress that CARNIVORE is only used to monitor known criminals. Well, I have never been charged with, much less convicted of, anything more severe than a minor traffic violation. So much for his integrity.
Don't believe anything the FBI says. Really, do you think they'd retire something like this without a much more capable and invasive replacement?
I ran strings on my digicam's firmware and found a lot of intriguing stuff, but I have no experience with this sort of thing. I have no idea where I'd even begin trying to decompile it.
Why does the article compare the size of this aircraft to the White House? It's not like most people, or even most Americans, have a clear idea of how big the White House is.
Maybe they're suggesting that this aircraft would be ideal for the next hijacking.
Why? Because not enough cops are getting shot! Isolated incidents are blamed on the shooter rather than the officer or the department. If more cops get shot, maybe it will force an examination of candidate screening, training, and departmental policies. When pigs start behaving like public servants instead of thugs, then they can be treated like human beings again.
But maybe it went supernova a zillion years ago, and the light from that event is almost here! You never know.
That's what sucks about the idea of interstellar exploration. The rest of the universe might already have blown up, and we wouldn't know it until we got there.
How do you think this differs from any other social network? If you don't associate with immature idiots, you won't have these problems.
LiveJournal isn't just a bunch of kids spreading rumors. I've met several very cool people via LJ -- some of them in meatspace, and some of them *gasp* FEMALE! Old school LJers (who had to be invited by paid members) have a pretty vibrant social network going on. You just can't get into it because you're obviously a WHINING EMO LOSER!
The government is corrupt now because of private businesses.
Capitalism almost destroyed itself once before. The United States was on the brink of a Communist revolution before FDR saved capitalism from itself with his "anti-business" New Deal.
Do you think Shrubby or anyone else in Washington has that kind of testicular fortitude? When the ivory towers start getting truck-bombed, don't look halfway around the world for the culprits. The levee is about to burst, and the wealthy elite are running out of fingers!
Each 300,000-dollar apartment occupies an entire floor, and there are 11 floors? While 300 grand is pretty steep for an apartment, 3.3 million doesn't seem like a lot for such a revolutionary building (pun! ah, I kill me).
Your comment and the article are both right, but neither explains very well, IMO.
The point they failed to make is that a smaller sensor requires a shorter focal length lens, and that is what increases the depth of field. A lot of digital point & shoots have f/2.8 or even faster lenses, but they still have enormous DOF.
I think you're exaggerating a bit. A $500 film scanner is good enough for even serious amateurs. Sure, a $5000 scanner might theoretically deliver more quality... if your slides are that good! But I can tell you from experience that a $5000 scanner isn't really going to gain you anything over a $500 scanner unless your exposure was perfect and you had your camera bolted to a heavy-ass tripod. The resolution of a handheld shot tops out at about 9 megapixels.
But you're quite right about one thing: the best software in the world isn't going to rescue the images from some shitty $69 flatbed!
Right. That's why they chose flights with the maximum number of passengers, and hit the WTC and Pentagon in the early afternoon when the maximum number of people were present.
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The problem is, the U.S. government does subsidize this kind of research (though universities, if not directly) but the "rights" to the final product still end up in the hands of our filthy pharmacuetical corporations.
Who funded this research, I wonder? And who will profit from it? I can't imagine France and Brazil are immune to American-style corporate greed and corruption, despite being so much more culturally advanced...
There comes a time when certain products and services become commodity, and it becomes the responsibility of government to step in and remove the profit from the equation. Currently, these industries include health care, insurance, telecoms, and basic utilities. Nobody but fucking nobody has any business making a profit from these essentials in this day and age!
My uncle has no legs and he don't need no stinkin' webcam rifle! He still bags a couple whitetails every year. I think he has a special permit that lets him shoot from his 4-wheeler.
Is this webcam rifle thing gonna haul the game back to the truck, too?
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Don't believe anything the FBI says. Really, do you think they'd retire something like this without a much more capable and invasive replacement?
I ran strings on my digicam's firmware and found a lot of intriguing stuff, but I have no experience with this sort of thing. I have no idea where I'd even begin trying to decompile it.
Maybe they're suggesting that this aircraft would be ideal for the next hijacking.
Why? Because not enough cops are getting shot! Isolated incidents are blamed on the shooter rather than the officer or the department. If more cops get shot, maybe it will force an examination of candidate screening, training, and departmental policies. When pigs start behaving like public servants instead of thugs, then they can be treated like human beings again.
That's where the 2nd Amendment comes in.
I'll tell you where I expect privacy, got it?
That's what sucks about the idea of interstellar exploration. The rest of the universe might already have blown up, and we wouldn't know it until we got there.
Don't mod jokes down just because you don't get them.
LiveJournal isn't just a bunch of kids spreading rumors. I've met several very cool people via LJ -- some of them in meatspace, and some of them *gasp* FEMALE! Old school LJers (who had to be invited by paid members) have a pretty vibrant social network going on. You just can't get into it because you're obviously a WHINING EMO LOSER!
Capitalism almost destroyed itself once before. The United States was on the brink of a Communist revolution before FDR saved capitalism from itself with his "anti-business" New Deal.
Do you think Shrubby or anyone else in Washington has that kind of testicular fortitude? When the ivory towers start getting truck-bombed, don't look halfway around the world for the culprits. The levee is about to burst, and the wealthy elite are running out of fingers!
Each 300,000-dollar apartment occupies an entire floor, and there are 11 floors? While 300 grand is pretty steep for an apartment, 3.3 million doesn't seem like a lot for such a revolutionary building (pun! ah, I kill me).
Is that the network for kiddie pr0n?
The point they failed to make is that a smaller sensor requires a shorter focal length lens, and that is what increases the depth of field. A lot of digital point & shoots have f/2.8 or even faster lenses, but they still have enormous DOF.
But you're quite right about one thing: the best software in the world isn't going to rescue the images from some shitty $69 flatbed!
Wow, you just totally missed the point.
To put this in terms non-photo geeks might understand:
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No, no argument there. I used the wrong word.
Who funded this research, I wonder? And who will profit from it? I can't imagine France and Brazil are immune to American-style corporate greed and corruption, despite being so much more culturally advanced...
There comes a time when certain products and services become commodity, and it becomes the responsibility of government to step in and remove the profit from the equation. Currently, these industries include health care, insurance, telecoms, and basic utilities. Nobody but fucking nobody has any business making a profit from these essentials in this day and age!
Is this webcam rifle thing gonna haul the game back to the truck, too?
Maybe.