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Comment: Re:The real question: (Score 1) 332

Probably standard procedure to run a set of automated scans. Also, if the data was hidden via steganography in plaintext as opposed to encrypting it to look like (ie: Gaussian) noise in an audio/video file, then it sticks out like a sore thumb. You can just do local noise and autocorrelation estimates in small locales, and will be well on your way to figuring it out in no time. It's not that different from detecting how people have photoshopped an image, in the simpler cases.

http://www.errorlevelanalysis.com/

Hope you find it informative and interesting. :)

Comment: Ha! In Canada you get off free (Score 1) 434

by Dogbertius (#39727987) Attached to: Man Protests TSA With Nudity
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Drunken+Abbotsford+wash+themselves+wash+without/6410075/story.html

A few guys in a city not too far from Vancouver got off with a warning. In the US, you get stomped, arrested, thrown into a dozen different lists that make day-to-day life humiliating, unbearable, etc. Why do people in the US hate their own bodies so much?

Comment: Re:BS is more like it (Score 1) 467

by Dogbertius (#39683079) Attached to: Magical Thinking Is Good For You
A background that prizes intelligence, critical thinking, and physical excellence above all, ironically. It's paid off in spades for members of my family, being predominantly engineers, doctors, and officers, some members being two of the three.

And to answer the former of your two questions, no, I can't recall ever venting on an inanimate object. Seems rather childish. Do you throw your console controller to the ground when you lose a match in a video game? Perhaps you pound your keyboard when you are behind schedule on an assignment? Or maybe you hurl a hockey stick at the ground when you've lost a match?

There is a limited number of occasions which may call for violence, self-defense being the only one I've ever had to use to justify my actions. Child-like tantrums and rage? Not so much.

Comment: BS is more like it (Score 2) 467

by Dogbertius (#39680893) Attached to: Magical Thinking Is Good For You
You may be confusing belief in imaginary nonsense with the figure of speech known as apostrophe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_(figure_of_speech)

Can't recall ever thinking that an inanimate bottle cap is somehow venting some sort of rage against me by magically altering its physical properties such as hardness and tensile strength just so lucky ol' me has a hard time removing it from the bottle to which it is affixed. Can't say I've ever understood this primitive "instinct" that inorganic material objects somehow develop personalities and violate the fundamental laws of physics just to vex me of all beings. I call BS.

If you wait long enough, it will go away... after having done its damage. If it was bad, it will be back.

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