Scientists Need Volunteers To Look At the Sun (Saturday 13th of March 2010 08:00:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that Royal Observatory's 'Solar Stormwatch' needs volunteers
to help scientists spot Sun storms — known as coronal mass ejections — before they
cause damage on Earth. 'When you look up at the Sun certainly ...
(more)Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled (Sunday 23rd of August 2009 10:00:02 AM)
Glow-in-the-dark writes "The Swiss office for Data charge has asked Google to turn off Street
View within the country because it doesn't meet the clime popular when ok was given to go ahead
with the photography. Google answered privacy poignant with the ...
(more)Burning Man Responds To EFF's Criticism of Policy (Saturday 15th of August 2009 09:00:05 PM)
Briden writes "Earlier this week, we discussed the EFF's criticism of the Burning Man Photo
Policy. Burning Man has now responded at length on their own blog. Here's an excerpt: 'In fact,
there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased ...
(more)Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? (Friday 17th of July 2009 10:00:11 AM)
Kpoole55 writes "I've been googling for an answer to a quiz and I'm not making much progress.
The problem is image collections, and finding the better of near-duplicate images. There are
many programs, free and costly, CLI or GUI oriented, for finding ...
(more)Software Converts 2D Images To 3D (Friday 10th of July 2009 12:00:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "Dr. David McKinnon from Queensland health center of Technology, has afresh
launched a site that turns your sets of 2D images into 3D bump maps by way of 8 years of his
research. The catch is that you need to have between five ...
(more)Bing Gets Porn Domain To Filter Explicit Content (Tuesday 16th of June 2009 07:15:09 PM)
Sopssa writes "Bing has set up a quarantine domain just for porn images and videos. '[The]
general manager of Microsoft Bing said in a blog post that potentially express images and video
content now will be coming from one departmentalize domain — ...
(more)Greece Halts Google's Street View (Wednesday 13th of May 2009 05:15:06 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Greece's Data screen Authority, which has broad powers of enforcement for
Greece's strict privacy laws, has banned Google from gathering detailed, street-level images in
Greece for a planned extension of its Street View mapping service, ...
(more)Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy (Saturday 07th of February 2009 01:45:02 AM)
Mario_grgic writes "Recently announced Google Earth version 5.0 adds interesting new
physiognomy like images of ocean floors and some thoroughgoing images of Mars. But it also
brings another unwelcome change for Mac OS X users. Google top brass update ...
(more)Israel, Palestine Wage Web War (Wednesday 07th of January 2009 02:45:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "A war has erupted on the but intranet should be lowercase; internet
was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of
arpanet between Israel and Palestine, apace with the war being fought ...
(more)Mapping Planets and Moons In 3D With Stereophotoclinometry (Friday 26th of December 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Subcomdtaco writes with this snippet from a story in the NYTimes: "Dr. [Robert] Gaskell, with
dos he big over a quarter-century of trial and error, can process hundreds of images in a few
hours, slap them atop one another electronically like coats of ...
(more)Water Detected At Record Distance From Earth (Monday 22nd of December 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Matt_dk writes with news that scientists have detected water in a galaxy 11.5 billion
light-years from Earth. diploma came in the form of emissions from water masers around a quasar
at the center of the galaxy. expose at such a large stretch was made ...
(more)Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble
scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists
announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world ...
(more)The Pocket-Sized Projector Has Arrived (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
Mallumax writes "David Pogue of New York Times has reviewed Pico which is a pocket overhead
overhead projector from Optoma. The review is quite diverting
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(more)One of HST's Cameras Is Back In Action (Monday 27th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
StupendousMan writes "One of the two big cameras aboard the Hubble Space dish antenna is the
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC2 for short. As the most recent HST status report
indicates, the camera was lately powered up again and sent commands ...
(more)One of HST's Cameras Is Back In Action (Monday 27th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
StupendousMan writes "One of the two big cameras aboard the Hubble Space radar telescope is the
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC2 for short. As the most recent HST status report
indicates, the camera was afresh powered up again and sent commands ...
(more)Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack (Monday 06th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
Rifles only writes "A German techie has found a remarkably simple way to discern some of the
content of encrypted volumes containing images. The encrypted images don't reveal themselves
totally, but in many cases do let an attacker see the outline of ...
(more)DARPA Developing Super Scope (Sunday 28th of September 2008 12:45:07 AM)
Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the critical mechanization Office of the Defense liberal
inquisition Projects Agency (DARPA) are third world country new high-resolution scopes that
extend the range of viable image acknowledgment and reduce atmospheric ...
(more)What images come to mind to the words Silent Surrender? (Thursday 10th of July 2008 06:01:30 AM)
Things far too racy to reveal here online, dear!!! (ahem)
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Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 12:41:07 PM)
#space_on_irc.freenode.net (Dusty) writes "Lake Cheko in Siberia has been noted as the
contingent crater of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event. This news was discussed here in
December, but details on the crater were scant. Now a new paper written by Luca ...
(more)How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web (Friday 23rd of May 2008 06:11:23 AM)
Lgmac brings us a story about how NASA will bring pipeline from the Phoenix Mars lander to the
information highway in the coming days. CIO circular speaks with JPL's chief lore engineer and
others about how they'll provide massive amounts of data from ...
(more)MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life (Thursday 10th of April 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Dixie_dean writes "Microsoft researchers are third world country a way to enable you to capture
every moment of your life and store it on your computer. The principal analyzer with
Microsoft's inquest arm, Gordon Bell, is third world country a way for ...
(more)Paintings of Italian Artist - Lucio Salvatore (Thursday 10th of April 2008 12:00:00 AM)
LANGUAGEThis series of pictures is a meditation on the origins of Thought and its fundamental
words whose interpretations, that havechanged through the different Epochs, have and will
always determine the destiny of every civilization. ...
(more)Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway (Wednesday 09th of April 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Hermit_crab writes "Janet and George McKee are the neighbors of the Borings, who we discussed
yesterday as the couple suing Google over StreetView. The McKees own a house that is act in a
much more intrusive set of Google StreetView images. 'The Google ...
(more)Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption (Friday 22nd of February 2008 07:00:05 AM)
Jcrouthamel writes "Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern radios retain
their space for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating budget temperatures
and even if removed from a motherboard. whereas
notes:although and ...
(more)Your Worst IT Workshop? (Thursday 20th of December 2007 12:30:07 PM)
Suntory writes "I am a lecturer at a Spanish university. This week had to attend a workshop on
'Advanced HTML and CSS' for the teaching mash unit staff. Some of the ideas that the presenter
(a fellow lecturer) shared with us: IE is the only ...
(more)Saturn's Moons Harboring Water? (Monday 15th of October 2007 06:15:03 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "New bizarre images of Saturn's moons are exciting scientists as there may be
some indication of water, possibly at very low depths in the frigid medium they possess. From
the article, 'Titan's north pole is currently gripped by winter. ...
(more)Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt (Tuesday 09th of October 2007 12:15:02 PM)
Jackpot777 writes in with an AP story out of Paris reporting that Interpol has distributed
photos of a man suspected of sexually exploiting children. The images were recovered from movie
house taken off the Internet in which the man's face had been blurred ...
(more)Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing (Thursday 27th of September 2007 01:15:06 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "Jack bren gun has done it again, now by making available gay porn
for unlimited viewing on public records. Judge Jordan wrote on an issued order: 'The attached
exhibit, which includes several graphic images of oral and genital ...
(more)Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images (Thursday 09th of August 2007 09:45:03 PM)
Beetle B. writes in with research from Carnegie Mellon demonstrating a new way to replace
arbitrarily shaped blank areas in an image with portions of images from a huge catalog in a
totally seamless manner. From the abstract: "In this paper we present ...
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