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Comment Re:Probably won't happen soon (Score 2) 378

Most of their problem was that using a cutting torch to open a hole for the insertion of the water. The heat of the torch in the closed space of the safe melted or burned everything inside.

Also, Mythbusters is almost going to show a successful criminal approach - they are too reliant on the cooperation of law enforcement. The only successful ones they show are ones that are too impractical.

Comment Re:As expected... (Score 1) 400

IMDB ratings have a serious problem as far as new movies are concerned, as the latest movie of any reasonable quality tends to get many people rating it a "10" (which should mean it's perfect). It takes a while before a movie settles down to what its real rating should be.

IMDB has algorithms to lessen or even disregard votes of 10's and 1's. IMDB also looks at the voter's history to apply the appropriate weight.

You also left out that many newer films also get many people rating it a "1", just because they don't like the franchise or an actor.

Comment Re:No details (Score 1) 80

The point being that although the prints may not show up to the eye in the photo, processing it to enhance the size and contrast may make the prints stand out.

Exactly - the investigators on the CSI tv series have been able to do this for years so I don't know why this is news.. All they have to do to read a person's drivers license from a 640x480 security camera image taken from 200 meters away in poor light is to ask the image processing dude to "enhance image".

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