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Comment This has technical merit (Score 1) 206

Compression of RAW to JPEG and the alteration of JPEG images leaves a distinct signature in it's Error Level Analysis results. Using a simple utility like http://www.impulseadventure.co... to automatically prescreen images would relieve a huge burden from their shoulders. For authenticity, requesting the RAW after the JPEG to see if the compression gradients are uniform would work as a nice level of security as well.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 3, Insightful) 87

Forcing both parents to work likely isn't causal. The breakup of the family working all together at the same/related jobs is likely more specific. One can work and nurture at the same time, they rightfully go hand in hand. Teach your progeny what you know the way you learned it. It promotes learning and confidence in learning.

Comment Lost Backups or Outside Email Services? (Score 1) 465

Can anyone speak to the emails they are discussing here? It's obvious that any competent IRS email server would have been backing these emails up, but if they were using Outlook, there is a well known issue regarding the size of PST files, corruption, and subsequent purging of the files. Often administrators will purge the user's inbox after their local PST file has been backed up. Then, that file is remounted in Outlook, or kept on the local machine for use at a later time. If these (or the old Exchange data) weren't being backed up, this is not only poor administration but likely a breach of law.

The second possibility is that other email services outside the IRS were being used. If they are trying to get to this email, I'd like to know.

I'm not defending what they're saying, it all sounds like bullshit. I'd just like someone with some understanding of the technicalities of what's going on to chime in.

Comment Re:The Lavabit case... (Score 1) 69

People wonder why USPS is failing. Do you realize that a fairly simple technical implementation marking data with digital postage would legally shield it all? USPS should be Lavabit, hell an ISP. Its simply because the PEOPLE OCCUPYING OUR GOVERNMENT UNDERSTAND DDOS. Clog all the pipes. Eventually our 'No's will be accepted as authoratative. Because.

Comment A healthy head does not mean a wise one. (Score 1) 2

Segregation from so much of our natural environment leads to weakness against it. Plants deliver a lot more than nutrition. They provide low doses of all sorts of foreign bits to our bodies, allowing us to adjust. Id be willing to venture even to the missing light bands. The production rate is amazing, but never forget that eating your own dirt is essential.

Submission + - GitHub Launches Bug Bounty Program, Offers Between $100 And $5,000

An anonymous reader writes: GitHub today launched the GitHub Bug Bounty program "to better engage with security researchers." In short, the company will pay between $100 and $5,000 for each security vulnerability discovered and responsibly disclosed by hackers. The program currently covers the GitHub API, GitHub Gist, and GitHub.com. GitHub says its other Web properties and applications are not part of the program, but it says vulnerabilities found “may receive a cash reward at our discretion.”

Comment Re:not flaming (Score 1) 232

From what I can tell, yes. If it contains blood or any of it's 4 major parts, Witnesses won't accept it. This doesn't seem to contain those things. There is an understanding that once you break a thing down so far, it's no longer blood.

Comment Re:not flaming (Score 1) 232

The answer is: If it contains blood or any of it's 4 major parts, Witnesses won't accept it. This doesn't seem to contain those things. There is an understanding that once you break a thing down so far, it's no longer blood. Things beyond the 4 major parts are considered a "conscience decision", which means it up to you whether you take it or not.

Comment Re:Derivative work (Score 2) 344

This, this right here reveals a valid point. Region locks, limited releases, and so forth are supposed to be about geographical areas, not the language. If "Rocky 30" gets released in the US only, there is nothing restricting a Chinese speaking American from watching the film. Claiming that one is "making content available" to an audience who hasn't been permitted yet is a load of horse shit. However, since by some countries' laws content might be restricted, I assume the derivative works could potentially inherit those restrictions. I think it's obvious that distinction isn't clear. Seems a better practice to work with the site in helping them understand where the content is supposed to be available. There is nothing stopping the content provider from getting paid for a film. However, I do completely understand how this mindset doesn't hold up for books, and rightfully so. With books, making the translation of the book availble would make the core value of the product worthless. The core value of a DVD is not in the text.

Comment Re:Reference to Island of Stablility (Score 3, Informative) 64

For those interested: Nuclei with shapes like this or barbells are significant in solving the problem of filling that range of elements on the Periodic table that were skipped. Ideas were proposed that nuclei would need to have these shapes in order to be stable if the nucleus followed a shell model similar to electron shells. You can read more by researching "Island of Stability"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

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