True, true. But you wouldn't want to go running in climbing shoes. The material gives you too much grip; great for being sticky while moving slowly on a vertical surface, not so great for evading the long arm of the law.
I mean, it'd be one thing if they were building this database for sale, or as a SAAS solution that other police departments were going to pay them for. But I'm sure there are lots of applications which do indeed scarf images randomly for the web and repurpose them for their own use, without threat of copyright lawsuits.
If they want the information to be accurate, they should go to the source and pay the price.
However, they could certainly take the Google approach and find a way to collect the data from the public, taking pictures of shoes and asking what make/model they are.
The problem with building a database based on web images is not so much the fact that they're running afoul of copyright--I'm sure I could find an attorney who would argue fair use rules or something along those lines, since they're not selling the DB--but rather that there is no guarantee that the data is accurate. If they were to work with shoe companies and compensate them for their time, I'll be they could get a beautiful database of shoe prints, normalized and with metadata included. How much more helpful would it be if they not only had the images, but the wireframes so that they could, from a steroscopic photo of an impression, do a comparison of shapes, angles and depths to find the perfect match?
If an unusual shoe print is discovered at multiple crime scenes within a certain location range and time span, it may lead investigators to look for connections between those crimes which may help identify an individual associated with all of them. Without something to connect the different crimes, it may be more likely that the an individual responsible for or at least involved in all of them would be more difficult to identify.
There are up sides and down sides to what I describe here, but it's silly to suggest that being able to cross-reference shoe prints AND identify their make/model is not a good idea for law enforcement.
Heck, they still use blood type to narrow suspect lists, if I understand correctly. And each blood type accounts for a much wider swath of the population than, I would assume, almost any shoe print. Maybe Converse Chucks, which have pretty much remained the same over the last 50 years, would have enough presence among wearers to be no more common than, say, O- blood, but otherwise, active wearers of any given shoe print probably number in the millions at any given time, not the hundreds of millions.
A lot of opera users I know change the user agent to allow it to work on IE-specific sites. Is it possible that you've reconfigured the user agent thusly? If Google thinks you're connecting with IE6, it won't do a lot of cool things because, well, IE6 can't do those things.
Yes. Eddie Murphy, and before him, John Belushi and Steve Martin and that crew. But !#$@$, Eddie Murphy was funny back then. "The dogs are barking... do they bite? I don't know! Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord!"
It's true; I think "years ago, when it was funny" should be part of SNL's official name. I said it semi-tongue-in-cheek. Thanks for calling me out on it.
Again, "Autobahn". "Bahn" means "train", so the faster roads were named that way to indicate that this was a way to get long-distance/high-speed transit like a train, but using a car. "Baun" means nothing.
Yeah, great. I'm not sure what you think you know about me, but I do know that it's spelled "Autobahn". I think I saw it spelled your way in a Konami video game once.
Yes, and paying $25.00 will clearly make that crappy driver into a good one who can handle speeds up to 90 mph.
Don't get me wrong; I've enjoyed exceeding the speed limit at various times in my life, but when I see some kid blazing down a residential street at 50 mph, my first thought is not, and will never be, "I hope he paid his daily speed pass fee!" Not only is it the case that most people can't handle the responsibility of the additional speed, but also, even with vehicle inspections and the like, there's absolutely no way to account 100% for the conditions they'll be driving in on the day they have their pass. A small but sudden rain storm, followed by an animal dashing across the highway at an inopportune time will have a much greater effect for anyone going 90 than it would for someone going 55, 65 or even 70.
His best role was as himself, hosting Saturday Night Live, years ago when it was funny. I remember a skit set at a sci-fi convention, and all the convention goers insisted on asking him questions about the science and logic of specific episodes. He blew up at them, telling them to get a grip. Best line: "You... have you ever *kissed* a girl?"
I'm guessing you use a Mac. This is a program which I LOVE on the Mac and HATE on Windows. I've got a dual-core 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo based Windows machine... granted, it's running XP, but shit, if iTunes is running, everything grinds to a halt.
To that end, the same thing happens with Quicktime and Safari on my Windows machine. I'll be upgrading soon to Win7, so I have hopes that it'll run better, but at this time, Apple products on Windows *suck*.
The marriage judgement may take a short time, but it's based on a huge amount of rigorous analysis which allows Gottman and Carrere to identify important factors over a small period. It's not that anyone could accurately make that judgement; anyone *with the appropriate training and/or experience* could accurately judge divorce rates quickly because they know what to look for and what to ignore.
The whole point of "Blink" was that an untrained snap judgement is worthless, but with proper effort and practice, you can train yourself to make good snap judgements. Unfortunately, most people, like the woman in this story, have not done so.
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True, true. But you wouldn't want to go running in climbing shoes. The material gives you too much grip; great for being sticky while moving slowly on a vertical surface, not so great for evading the long arm of the law.
Weird. I guess I there's a bug in my ROT13 implementation. If I run my text through twice, I just get the original message.
Nice. "All your base are belong". You purposely left off the last two words to give a smaller sample to review and potentially recognize patterns.
Why do I hear Samuel L. Jackson's voice when I read your post?
...I just drove over the Sandy Bridge this evening. Coincidence? I don't think so!
...their may be consequences to such behavior.
And lets not even get into the illegal vs unethical discussion
Can we get we get into the contraction vs. possessive discussion?
If you were a mechanic, a single ratchet would cost $99.
In my world of Freedom, I could make my own ratchet. I've seen Gilligan's Island... I could make one out of a coconut! And you can't stop me!
Occam's Razor suggests that a more likely explanation is merely that Apple polishes the consumer experience first, and the nerd experience second.
Brilliant.
You're telling me people voluntarily pay money for this stuff, even though they know the company is going to keep the hardware locked down?
Crazy, isn't it?
Uh, isn't this how Google images works?
I mean, it'd be one thing if they were building this database for sale, or as a SAAS solution that other police departments were going to pay them for. But I'm sure there are lots of applications which do indeed scarf images randomly for the web and repurpose them for their own use, without threat of copyright lawsuits.
Hmm, perhaps I need to start selling treadless crime-shoes.
Maybe you could get police departments to invest in them, since they'd be able to catch the perps as the slip-slide around corners during foot chases.
If they want the information to be accurate, they should go to the source and pay the price.
However, they could certainly take the Google approach and find a way to collect the data from the public, taking pictures of shoes and asking what make/model they are.
The problem with building a database based on web images is not so much the fact that they're running afoul of copyright--I'm sure I could find an attorney who would argue fair use rules or something along those lines, since they're not selling the DB--but rather that there is no guarantee that the data is accurate. If they were to work with shoe companies and compensate them for their time, I'll be they could get a beautiful database of shoe prints, normalized and with metadata included. How much more helpful would it be if they not only had the images, but the wireframes so that they could, from a steroscopic photo of an impression, do a comparison of shapes, angles and depths to find the perfect match?
If an unusual shoe print is discovered at multiple crime scenes within a certain location range and time span, it may lead investigators to look for connections between those crimes which may help identify an individual associated with all of them. Without something to connect the different crimes, it may be more likely that the an individual responsible for or at least involved in all of them would be more difficult to identify.
There are up sides and down sides to what I describe here, but it's silly to suggest that being able to cross-reference shoe prints AND identify their make/model is not a good idea for law enforcement.
Heck, they still use blood type to narrow suspect lists, if I understand correctly. And each blood type accounts for a much wider swath of the population than, I would assume, almost any shoe print. Maybe Converse Chucks, which have pretty much remained the same over the last 50 years, would have enough presence among wearers to be no more common than, say, O- blood, but otherwise, active wearers of any given shoe print probably number in the millions at any given time, not the hundreds of millions.
A lot of opera users I know change the user agent to allow it to work on IE-specific sites. Is it possible that you've reconfigured the user agent thusly? If Google thinks you're connecting with IE6, it won't do a lot of cool things because, well, IE6 can't do those things.
s/FireFox/Chrome/
I've totally managed to avoid this by never purchasing a PS3, an XBox, a Nintendo DS, or for that matter, an iPhone.
Yes. Eddie Murphy, and before him, John Belushi and Steve Martin and that crew. But !#$@$, Eddie Murphy was funny back then. "The dogs are barking... do they bite? I don't know! Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord!"
It's true; I think "years ago, when it was funny" should be part of SNL's official name. I said it semi-tongue-in-cheek. Thanks for calling me out on it.
Again, "Autobahn". "Bahn" means "train", so the faster roads were named that way to indicate that this was a way to get long-distance/high-speed transit like a train, but using a car. "Baun" means nothing.
Yeah, great. I'm not sure what you think you know about me, but I do know that it's spelled "Autobahn". I think I saw it spelled your way in a Konami video game once.
Cool story, bro.
Yes, and paying $25.00 will clearly make that crappy driver into a good one who can handle speeds up to 90 mph.
Don't get me wrong; I've enjoyed exceeding the speed limit at various times in my life, but when I see some kid blazing down a residential street at 50 mph, my first thought is not, and will never be, "I hope he paid his daily speed pass fee!" Not only is it the case that most people can't handle the responsibility of the additional speed, but also, even with vehicle inspections and the like, there's absolutely no way to account 100% for the conditions they'll be driving in on the day they have their pass. A small but sudden rain storm, followed by an animal dashing across the highway at an inopportune time will have a much greater effect for anyone going 90 than it would for someone going 55, 65 or even 70.
His best role was as himself, hosting Saturday Night Live, years ago when it was funny. I remember a skit set at a sci-fi convention, and all the convention goers insisted on asking him questions about the science and logic of specific episodes. He blew up at them, telling them to get a grip. Best line: "You... have you ever *kissed* a girl?"
I'm guessing you use a Mac. This is a program which I LOVE on the Mac and HATE on Windows. I've got a dual-core 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo based Windows machine... granted, it's running XP, but shit, if iTunes is running, everything grinds to a halt.
To that end, the same thing happens with Quicktime and Safari on my Windows machine. I'll be upgrading soon to Win7, so I have hopes that it'll run better, but at this time, Apple products on Windows *suck*.
The marriage judgement may take a short time, but it's based on a huge amount of rigorous analysis which allows Gottman and Carrere to identify important factors over a small period. It's not that anyone could accurately make that judgement; anyone *with the appropriate training and/or experience* could accurately judge divorce rates quickly because they know what to look for and what to ignore.
The whole point of "Blink" was that an untrained snap judgement is worthless, but with proper effort and practice, you can train yourself to make good snap judgements. Unfortunately, most people, like the woman in this story, have not done so.