I'd think they'd prefer notoriety under an alias, e.g. "The drinkypoo Bandit" rather than a real name unless they could obtain attribution knowing there wasn't enough evidence to convict.

Nowadays, you just motion capture it

I think they also use equations to calculate motion. Especially when you're talking about objects where the number of elements (e.g. hair) and other issues make motion capture difficult. And they're good at it. I recall several years ago an old DOS game (probably the last one I played) where the motion rendering was so impressive I felt like I was actually in the floating boat.

Scientific analysis was used to investigate the deflation. Statistical analysis was used to investigate the probability of this being a random occurrence. An unusual application of both and there's the political aspect of "fans ... attacking the science".

When an officer of the law gives you a lawful order, you must comply

That's a good point. However, I think there's the potential of a Hawthorne effect. The police may order you to desist taking a video arguing an unarmed suspect is more likely to resist arrest knowing that video is being taken.

Now they are eating the lunch of all sorts of brick and mortar stores.

I suppose (from TFS)

even though the company often reports losses

had something to do with. I think there are very few companies, including profitable ones like Microsoft, that have that luxury.

It's somewhat impressive how a young woman was able to successfully fabricate/orchestrate this kind of business empire w/o first dropping out of some ivy league school. Her mea culpa sounds like a contrived effort at exculpation, i.e. a planned follow up since she knew she'd eventually get discovered. Did she have help?

You'd be better of with Chaucer. He's surprisingly not too hard to parse with a little effort, mostly with spelling and some with vocabulary. You'd think the efficiencies derived from proper spelling would make the case for proper English.

It's natural!

Why take pictures of paintings

I generally agree, though a selfie (dread word) provides a different perspective association with a painting that memory can't - i.e. seeing yourself standing next to the painting as opposed to seeing it as it is.

With respect to buildings (or other, esp. outdoor images also available online) one might be looking for a unique composition involving lighting, perspective, &c. There's also the same perspective element as well.

With practice, one can keep face-to-face meetings on-track, mitigating the time-wasting factor

With practice one can write clearly enough to mitigate the "benefits of body-language and subtle queues to meaning." It works both ways and with email at least you've got a better record than memory. While I generally prefer email, a conversation is typically more efficient when you're trying to converge on some point of agreement.

Meetings are most effective when you can review written content in advance such that you have time for thoughtful review. Thus you can spend/limit the face time to addressing questions and issues that have some thought behind them.

It might be a parody because I've actually found this post close to readable!

Their Groups website has been useful for long tail applications where users can get help and exchange information. One advantage is the single website with the same UI. It's convenient to leave open/scroll through the latest updates from a few groups on the same page.

Alas some of the vendors/developers are setting up their own forums, so you now you've got to go to each website, login and deal with each UI. More effort so it's easier to skip. Too bad Yahoo's not put more effort into it.

Why the controversy regarding some bizarre conjunction of lighting and camera response? Match the color channel information with color test images and you're done.

Re:AKA... "don't reinvent the wheel"

...unless you have to redesign your car to make it fit.

I think the point of the article was that that's sometimes the case.