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Comment Re:Simple (Score 0) 546

by qkw on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @06:07PM (#27141797) Attached to: What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives?

Unfortunately, the aspect ratio doesn't match that from a step up/down, however it does match the aspect ratio for two steps up or down. Thus it is easy to scale a four to a page layout.

i think you'll find that any rectangle can easily scale to "4-up". It's the "2-up" scaling that is in any way an interesting property.

Comment Re:Even beyond that... (Score 0) 348

by qkw on Monday March 31, 2008 @07:39PM (#22926310) Attached to: Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software

I remember a number of years ago I saw a documentary starring John Clease and Liz Taylor about the science of beauty (sorry i can't find any references). The big thing to come from this was an exploration into the golden ratio. One of the guys they talked to in it made up a "mask" made up of triangles where side lengths were at the golden ratio, in the general shape of a face. Then they put this mask over images of beautiful people (with whom the mask lined up well) and ugly people (where the mask has no correlation to the face).

Of course I suppose this is highly dependant on the mask that was chosen, but as a heuristic at the very least it demonstrates the computability of beauty.

Soldiers Can't Blog Without Approval 358

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @10:41AM from the how-else-will-we-know-what-they-ate-for-lunch dept.

denebian devil writes "Wired.com has obtained a copy of updated US Army rules (pdf) that force soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages without first clearing the content with a superior officer. Previous editions of the rules asked Army personnel to "consult with their immediate supervisor" before posting a document "that might contain sensitive and/or critical information in a public forum." The new version, in contrast, requires "an OPSEC review prior to publishing" anything — from "web log (blog) postings" to comments on internet message boards, from resumes to letters home. Under the strictest reading of the rule, a soldier must check with his or her superior officer before every blog entry posted and every email sent, though the method of enforcing these regulations is subject to choices made by the unit commanders. According to Wired, active-duty troops aren't the only ones affected by the new guidelines. Civilians working for the military, Army contractors — even soldiers' families — are all subject to the directive as well, though many of the people affected by these new regulations can't even access them because they are being kept on the military's restricted Army Knowledge Online intranet. Wired also interviewed Major Ray Ceralde, author of the new regulations, about why this change has been made."

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