Actually, I was thinking about the radioactive iodine isotope the doctors used to successfully treat my wife's thyroid cancer. That's something very positive about radiation.

Came for this:

One .png to rule them all
one wavelet to find them
one .jpeg to compress them all
and with the imagemagick library bind them.

Left satisfied.

Actually, the more I look at the Rockwell and the Bazille, the more sophisticated the results of the comparison appear to be. You've got a group of men, off in the background, engaging in a conversation that you are not able to hear. They're the subjects of the piece, but you don't see much of them, you can't hear what they're saying, and what they're talking about is partially obscured. You assume that because they're invited to the back room of the barbershop that they're more than just customers, similarly the men discussing the painting appear to share a common interest. The stoves suggest that a warmth exists, and that the people are physically comfortable in both places. The empty foreground spaces indicate a purpose that's going partially unused at the moment. The chairs give an identity to each place: the barbershop chair helps you understand that it's a shop, and because no one is sitting in it, you realize that a discussion other than banal haircut chatter about the ballgame is going on. The empty salon chair lets you know that the studio is underutilized - maybe this is a showing of unpopular works?

I still think that the paintings are likely unrelated to each other, but it seems that both artists were thinking similar thoughts when they chose to paint these. And that's the sophistication of the algorithm.

It's not just the furniture and the occupants, but how the artist chooses the scene. There is a balance to a picture, with different ways to give the painting a sense of place, or to guide the eye to focus on that which is more important to the artist. The artist could choose to leave out the stove. He could choose a time when the room has more or fewer people, or when the faces are distinct or obscured, whether or not they're facing the artist, etc. Rockwell chose to paint a barbershop with no customer in the chair, but instead used the illumination to highlight the barber and his friends otherwise occupied in the back room. He even went so far as to place himself outside of the shop entirely, looking through the front window with no chance of overhearing. Bazille chose to include a group of people talking at the back of a salon, highlighted by the light coming in from a window; they're set far enough away that you might not overhear them. Neither artist had to include the stove or the chair, but might have done so to help provide extra distance between the viewer and the subjects.

So given that, look at why someone would find these paintings interesting. Is it that there's a conversation going on that we have to imagine, but cannot hear? Do both of these paintings appeal to someone who likes to eavesdrop on others? Is there a universal desire being triggered? If so, was there influence? Did Bazille's painting ask a question that Rockwell tried to reinterpret, or is it simply that they both coincidentally wanted to dig into the same aspect of human nature in the same way?

I think it's a very relevant and interesting question; at least in this field. It might still be coincidence, but it might not. And we'll never know just by looking at the painting.

Oh dear god, can this be more full of wild speculation?
They have been possible for well over 4 decades, mythbusters build them on a regular basis, one blew up so massively that it spread the car across the desert after it hit the ramp.

Honestly I really wish the sensationalism would go away and DICE would hire people that actually knew something about the technology.

Lastly it is a LOT easier to convince someone to blow themselves up in the name of their god than it is to build a remote control/ robotic car. This is a non-issue designed only to scare people about technology.

The human can only do that if both pictures come to his attention. But there is so much out there that it's almost impossible for someone to be familiar with every piece to the extent they'd be able to recognize them. The computer has infinite patience, it can attend to vast quantities of the most minute details, it has a catalog that doesn't fade with time, and the ability to re-run increasingly sophisticated algorithms as new ideas are brought to bear.

For example, Rockwell's barber shop and Bazille's studio share a few subjects in a few common locations, but it's hard to look at them and say "there was an artistic influence." Rockwell was noted for realistic depictions of idyllic Americana, so any influence there would likely have been the architecture of the setting and the choices of overall composition and balance. Choosing to include a group of three people, an unoccupied chair, and a wood stove, does not seem to imply much more than coincidence. But if you weren't comparing every item in the catalog with every other item in the catalog, you might not have bothered to notice at all.

Which brings us to the real question: how would knowing the answer (or even asking the question) make a difference to the world?

slashdot would die the second they flipped that switch. It would completely and utterly die. Ask Taco how successful the subscriptions were for no ad's.

It happens here as well. I have seen several people that say something negative about the Republicans or Tea Party get everything they post for days modded down no matter what the content of the posting.

bot accounts can squelch you automatically every time you post. And it happens on Reddit a lot.

Most Americans gladly gave up freedom for Fake security. So it's normal here to give up freedom at the drop of the hat for appearance of comfort.

No, but the point is that it was viewed as a revenue generator, instead of a public safety tool. It wasn't because "this will reduce accidents by X%" or "this will save X lives annually", he said out loud "this will make us $(money)." And that is the true corruption here, not simply that some scamologists benefited from it.

Really, public safety issues should always be revenue neutral so they avoid the conflict with revenue generation, and instead focus on delivering the purported benefit. But how do you take money out of the equation? Make everyone who runs a red light sit in jail for a day?

its not. BMWMOA is a pay for access site to post and it's got a full share of trolls.

Nuke the server from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

This is the norm everywhere. If a person WANTS to be in public office, chances are good that they are a scumbag looking for bribes. It has always been this way that the scum of the earth always want to be in politics.