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Comment Re:Incredible (Score 1) 173

by leetrout (#28722371) Attached to: NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost
Dick Natger from Goddard representing NASA said that most of the previous video footage was stored on video tapes, not telemetry tapes, and that yes it was a shame no one made any effort to note which tapes had the footage, but it was only 1 track on a 14 track tape that no one would normally expect to have video on anyway.

Comment Re:An interesting PR problem (Score 1) 173

by leetrout (#28722275) Attached to: NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost
The AP reporter covering this also made that statement. The rep from Lowry Digital emphasized that they are merely a restoration house. Of course anyone who works with post production knows that all that software is like photoshop for video and they could do effects with it. But they assured us that they are working closely with NASA to 'not fix too much'.
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leetrout writes: "I attended a media briefing held by NASA at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning where they released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission. The clips released are about 40% of the total footage to be restored by September by Lowry Digital in Burbank, CA. Wired has all the clips A couple remarkable comments made during the briefing included the opinion from the original footage search committee that the original slow scan footage (stored as a single track on telemtry tapes) has been lost forever as the tapes were likely recycled by the mid '80s (apparently common NASA practice). Also, that some one from the applied physics laboratory was in Australia converting the slow scan directly to video. This differs from NASA's goal of merely broadcasting the event, which it was successful at. Unfortunately, no one knows where those tapes of approximately 2 hours of footage are located."

Comment not a trojan, an expansion for the secret games (Score 1) 117

by leetrout (#26974567) Attached to: Zero-Day Excel Exploit In the Wild
1. Open up a new document.
2. Press F5.
3. Type in x97:L97 in the reference box and press enter.
4. Press tab.
5. Hold down ctrl+shift.
6. While holding these two buttons click on the chart wizard button on the icon bar (the button looks like a bar graph).
7. Play the game while it secretly crafts a worm to take the extra money when transactions are rounded (only a few hundredths of a cent) and deposits them in an offshore account.
8. ...?
9. PROFIT!

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