Re: Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-09 Thread Sarad AV
doesn't sound good,hope all the court rooms will be able to authenticate the tape,I mean a very good editing tool and a CG expert working on it may come out with real frightening stuff. Who would say that the dinasours of jurrasic park didn't look real :) Sarath. --- R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL

Coin flip nonrandom

2004-03-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Science News Online Week of Feb. 28, 2004; Vol. 165, No. 9 Toss Out the Toss-Up: Bias in heads-or-tails Erica Klarreich If you want to decide which football team takes the ball first or who gets the larger piece of cake, the fairest thing is to toss a coin, right? Not necessarily. A new

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-09 Thread An Metet
Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a writes: The passphrase locking idear won't fly, but a biometrics-lockable wallet could. Isn't part of Pd envelope goal establishing a tamper-proof compartment? We know Pd is evil, but once hardware support is everywhere, one can as well use it for

Re: Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Schear
Transferring home videos from tape to PC is a common and inexpensive consumer practice today. Tapes are cheap and trashing them after use for recording of incriminating evidence is an effective way to get rid of that copy. Once transferred to PC users can also now easily encrypt the videos.

Re: Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-09 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 06:34 AM 3/9/04 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: ,I mean a very good editing tool and a CG expert working on it may come out with real frightening stuff. Who would say that the dinasours of jurrasic park didn't look real :) A movie has been made about this. I think it