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Video Forensics: Catching the Crooks on Camera
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more and more video evidence is submitted in court cases, a scientific method of image enhancement and reconstruction must be used. Investigators seem to be moving towards commercial software that has survived the intense scrutiny of court cases, rather than...
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Retraining Your Fingers
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of multiple keys simultaneously to produce characters. Chord typing can be highly efficient and has been in use, particularly in court stenography, since the late 1800s. Regardless of all the options, absolute efficiency or ergonomic benefit has rarely correlated...
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Warwalking
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in the world and I wanted to find out how good wireless access was inside. A mall occupies the first eight floors or so. From a food court on the 7th floor I was able to access an unencrypted wireless network. It was slow as molasses, but at least I was able...
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Acer Packs the Athlon64, More Fire Power Under Its Ferrari 3200 Notebook's Hood
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as it looks and how things stand regarding battery life. First, a word about the manufacturer: since last year, Acer has been the official purveyor of notebooks, servers and monitors to the court of Ferrari in the extremely popular sport - not only in Europe...
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Music Playback Made Simple
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not legal for me to do what I am doing. They want the right to grant permission, "protect" their music, and charge extra fees for extra use. Ultimately, the resolution will be determined in court. Meanwhile, I have not bought a CD for years but I do buy music...
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Answers - 4
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enabled. Not all public wireless hotspots use technology that prevents wireless client-to-client communication. This writer recently used the free wireless in the food court of Pittsburg's airport and found via a quick browse of My Network Places that the entire...
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Ripping Software To Try, Continued
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copying software, you'll get a lot of results for pirated software and programs that are actually spyware in disguise. You'll also find DVD X Copy - the grandaddy of DVD rippers - which was forced off the market by U.S. court order in 2004, but lives on in...
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Technical Discussion
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In fact, we think you would do well to treat the MythTV suite of software applications as a harness for exercising greater control over those appliances that govern our daily activities outside the workplace. MythTV pays court to the do-it-yourself community,...
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How Notebook Batteries Work and Why They Explode
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phones exploding in pants pockets, and maybe the occasional mobile phone setting the interior of a car on fire when left on the dashboard. All this, and more, has been quietly swept under the covers, settled mostly out of court by companies with deep pockets....