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Submission + - FCC Wants Proposals To Manage White Space Database (wetmachine.com)

Submitted by kdawson on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @11:32AM

kdawson writes: A year after voting unanimously to open 'white space' frequencies for unlicensed use, the FCC has now issued a public notice seeking database proposals (PDF). Howard Feld explains in his blog posting: 'At last! We can get moving on this again, and hopefully move forward on the most promising "disruptive" technology currently in the hopper. And move we are, in a very peculiar fashion. Rather than resolve the outstanding questions about how the database provider will collect money, operate the database, or whether the database will be exclusive or non-exclusive, the Public Notice asks would-be database managers to submit proposals that would cover these issues. ... I label this approach "good, but weird."'

Submission + - Computational Photography Further Blurs Reality

Submitted by kdawson on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @08:05AM

kdawson writes: (From the see-it-when-I-believe-it department) We're already wary of trusting that photos we see online or in print represent unaltered, unmanipulated reality. Techniques of computational photography that have been demonstrated at graphics conferences show how the lighting in a room, the position of the camera, the point of focus, and even the expressions on people's faces can all be chosen after the light is captured. The moment that the picture so beautifully captures may never have actually happened. The article calls this development "arguably the biggest step in photography since the move away from film."

Submission + - What Would Google Decide?

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kdawson

on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @12:37PM

kdawson writes: "Gary Stock, the guy who invented the Googlewhack, tried a bit of Google election predicting last night. Using a methodology that is entirely indefensible, and which he does not try to defend, Stock asked Google to call the results on Michigan's five referendum questions. The result: Google's answers to two questions were spot-on, two questions were answered correctly but underrepresented the 'yes' vote, and one question was reversed. An 80% accuracy rate has got to beat any number of the pollsters and pundits who have been shouting at us since last August, no?"

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