From TFA: "A lightsaber is like a sword on steroids".
OMG! Will people please stop using 'on steroids' this way?! I recently found that references to actual steroid use are becoming tertiary results when Googleing the term (among other things).
The last line in the article is awesome: "There are very few prostitutes who want to be called by Craigslist and asked to give additional identifying information."
This immediately made me think 'so you are saying that some prostitutes want Craigslist to call them?'. Now that's kinky.
....does something crazy. Big deal. Why is this even on/.? Oh, I see, it marginally relates to video games. News? No. For nerds? Maybe. Stuff that matters? Not remotely. Epic fail.
Regarding checks, with their watermarks, UV-readable text,and what not, I don't think they would fall under the category of 'absurdly easy to fake'. However, people are absurdly easy to fool. So the result is the same. And with credit cards, are you talking about making physical fake cards? Because that's not exactly something one can whip up with supplies from the local hardware store. Generating valid numbers however, along with a little social engineering, the same results can be had with little effort.
Sure you could, if you had $185K. But for those of us want to start a web-based company (and who aren't trust fund babies), renting great.est or amaz.ing would be a viable alternative.
I predict a large outpouring of capital to secure any suffix TLD. Just think how companies will clamor to make words out of their URL (see: de.licio.us). I am going to buy ".ing" and ".est" and make a fortune!
I get a little spooked running Google apps for business (not to say I don't). Sometimes I think, 'wow. if my broadband decided to go down for half a day...then my entire business would grind to a halt'. Not that it wouldn't be impacted either way, but with solely cloud-based basics like word processing, we couldn't even work with files offline until the ISP came back.
NYTimes article has been soundly debunked and the 'sound portraits' article is barely two paragraphs long. Try reading this. If you get tired, take a break. I know it can be hard to get through an entire article without pictures.
Like I said, he was a recovering heroin addict. That 5 year break from constant usage (aka "being in recovery") is what allowed him to grow into old age. Were it not for that he would has almost certainly died decades earlier.
Morphine is the naturally occurring active compound found in opium, whereas heroin is a manufactured derivative of said compound. In wathcing that video I would say his son is confusing a opium/morphine addict with a heroin addict.
From the "source": In 1974....Burroughs successfully withdrew from heroin use and moved to New York.
So he started using in his late 20's and went into recovery in his 40's. He was never an 'old heroin addict'....unless you are a kid and 40's = 'old' to you.
There are old recovering heroin addicts. I have spent a good amount of time around that element of society and never met anyone who was actively (e.g. several times a week) shooting smack for more than 15 years. OTOH I am related to a few 60+ so-called maintenance alcoholics that have been downing at several drinks and/or beers a day since their teen years. Their livers are failing and they probably qualify as the walking dead, but they are still at it. I think the key difference is that alcohol is a food, where as heroin is a narcotic opiate.
Say it with me folks.... UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. Of course UFO's exist! If a flaming dead cat is dropped from an airplane at night, and no one can identify it, it's a UFO. Anything that cannot readily be identified, and that flies, is a UFO. Now, whether some of these UFOs are alien spacecraft is an entirely different matter. Of course, once a UFO is identified as an alien spacecraft, it would then cease to be a UFO at all.
The article mentions the authors 'cheating a little' by de-blurring the image under 'ideal conditions'. From what I can gather, he is using a source Photoshop file (PSD) as the sample. If he already had access to the source PSD file, wouldn't it be easier to just click undo a few dozen times?
Can this be reproduced to a raster image at all?
Exactly. Like teaching a child the best possible answers to a series of predetermined question types. Wait...isn't that standardized testing? Oh my god....American schoolchildren are replicants!
I can see ways around this. Say you are a senator a want to sell an old typerwriter on Ebay...that's offical business I suppose.
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Great vintage President Deluxe Vote Obama typewriter. The keys are in great shape but WE NEED CHANGE, needs ink cartridge,......
Time to start back-dating invoices and generating fake receipts. Not that he would actually be able to do that...I mean you would have to know people who were experts in computer....oh wait.
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Check that. I should have said "I recently found that references..."
From TFA: "A lightsaber is like a sword on steroids".
OMG! Will people please stop using 'on steroids' this way?! I recently found that references to actual steroid use are becoming tertiary results when Googleing the term (among other things).
OMG be careful with Google Sync. You can create a singularity and destroy the universe!
The last line in the article is awesome: "There are very few prostitutes who want to be called by Craigslist and asked to give additional identifying information."
This immediately made me think 'so you are saying that some prostitutes want Craigslist to call them?'. Now that's kinky.
....does something crazy. Big deal. Why is this even on /.? Oh, I see, it marginally relates to video games. News? No. For nerds? Maybe. Stuff that matters? Not remotely. Epic fail.
No, that was one of the inanimate objects.
Regarding checks, with their watermarks, UV-readable text,and what not, I don't think they would fall under the category of 'absurdly easy to fake'. However, people are absurdly easy to fool. So the result is the same. And with credit cards, are you talking about making physical fake cards? Because that's not exactly something one can whip up with supplies from the local hardware store. Generating valid numbers however, along with a little social engineering, the same results can be had with little effort.
Sure you could, if you had $185K. But for those of us want to start a web-based company (and who aren't trust fund babies), renting great.est or amaz.ing would be a viable alternative.
I predict a large outpouring of capital to secure any suffix TLD. Just think how companies will clamor to make words out of their URL (see: de.licio.us). I am going to buy ".ing" and ".est" and make a fortune!
I get a little spooked running Google apps for business (not to say I don't). Sometimes I think, 'wow. if my broadband decided to go down for half a day...then my entire business would grind to a halt'. Not that it wouldn't be impacted either way, but with solely cloud-based basics like word processing, we couldn't even work with files offline until the ISP came back.
NYTimes article has been soundly debunked and the 'sound portraits' article is barely two paragraphs long. Try reading this. If you get tired, take a break. I know it can be hard to get through an entire article without pictures.
I submit that this is only 'near infinite' because eventually the link will become Slashdotted and thereby unreachable.
The entire text of this post was lifted from here!
Like I said, he was a recovering heroin addict. That 5 year break from constant usage (aka "being in recovery") is what allowed him to grow into old age. Were it not for that he would has almost certainly died decades earlier.
morphine != heroin
Morphine is the naturally occurring active compound found in opium, whereas heroin is a manufactured derivative of said compound. In wathcing that video I would say his son is confusing a opium/morphine addict with a heroin addict.
And yet no sources for this information are cited. No even a mention of it in his Wiki page. I remain unswayed.
From the "source":
In 1974....Burroughs successfully withdrew from heroin use and moved to New York.
So he started using in his late 20's and went into recovery in his 40's. He was never an 'old heroin addict'....unless you are a kid and 40's = 'old' to you.
There are old recovering heroin addicts. I have spent a good amount of time around that element of society and never met anyone who was actively (e.g. several times a week) shooting smack for more than 15 years. OTOH I am related to a few 60+ so-called maintenance alcoholics that have been downing at several drinks and/or beers a day since their teen years. Their livers are failing and they probably qualify as the walking dead, but they are still at it. I think the key difference is that alcohol is a food, where as heroin is a narcotic opiate.
Having "sitting in the bathroom" and a reference to one's "creative juices" in the same sentence kind of grosses me out for some reason.
Say it with me folks.... UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. Of course UFO's exist! If a flaming dead cat is dropped from an airplane at night, and no one can identify it, it's a UFO. Anything that cannot readily be identified, and that flies, is a UFO. Now, whether some of these UFOs are alien spacecraft is an entirely different matter. Of course, once a UFO is identified as an alien spacecraft, it would then cease to be a UFO at all.
Or maybe you could lose the earbuds and create your own background music
The article mentions the authors 'cheating a little' by de-blurring the image under 'ideal conditions'. From what I can gather, he is using a source Photoshop file (PSD) as the sample. If he already had access to the source PSD file, wouldn't it be easier to just click undo a few dozen times? Can this be reproduced to a raster image at all?
Exactly. Like teaching a child the best possible answers to a series of predetermined question types. Wait...isn't that standardized testing? Oh my god....American schoolchildren are replicants!
I can see ways around this. Say you are a senator a want to sell an old typerwriter on Ebay...that's offical business I suppose.
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Great vintage President Deluxe Vote Obama typewriter. The keys are in great shape but WE NEED CHANGE, needs ink cartridge,......
you get the idea....
Time to start back-dating invoices and generating fake receipts. Not that he would actually be able to do that...I mean you would have to know people who were experts in computer....oh wait.