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I simply want to say thanks and I love you.... But please don't say you love me back, or that you love my page, or that I am great, or the best, or any of that, because then I will think that you think I am posting this just to get feedback and feel good about myself. Which isn't true. I just want to say I love you all very much and thank you for being a part of my life. And if you think: 'Well

This just in from PCWorld.com: "Watch out Windows XP diehards: if you run the open source media player VLC you may be vulnerable to malicious attacks. A bug discovered in November affecting VLC was recently made public on Full Disclosure, a security-focused mailing list. The reported bug (dubbed CVE-2014-9597) allows a specially crafted video file with the FLV file extension opened in VLC 2.1.5

This just in from How-To-Geek: "You’ve seen it over and over. The FBI uses their advanced technology to “enhance” a blurry image, and find a villain’s face in the worst possible footage. Well, How-To Geek is calling their bluff. Read on to see why. It’s one of the most common tropes in television and movies, but is there any possibility a government agency could really have the technology to

This just in from the BBC: "Twenty years ago the government backed a major expansion of the CCTV network - now funds are being cut and cameras shut off. Is the UK's CCTV boom over, asks Rachel Argyle. In 1994, the Conservative government launched the Partners Against Crime initiative, with Home Secretary Michael Howard saying he was "absolutely convinced that CCTV has a major part to play in

Long time Photoshop users know that in order to get the most out of Photoshop, you'll need a pretty nice workstation with the "right" video card. Adobe explains why: "The advantages of using a compatible video card (GPU) with Photoshop are better performance and access to more features. In this document, you will quickly find out everything you need to know about how Photoshop uses the Video

You might have missed this one, but it's an interesting article on authentication and hoaxes. "For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor’s mansion in Springfield, Ill., signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864. The story behind the picture was compelling: Mrs. Lincoln had Mr. Carpenter

Here's an interesting paper from Murdoch University in Australia. "The reliability of digital evidence is an important consideration in legal cases requiring sound validation. To ensure its reliability, digital evidence requires the adoption of reliable processes for the acquisition, preservation, and analysis of digital data. To undertake these tasks, the courts expect digital forensic

This just in from the Scientific American: "For those of you who don’t know what Coursera is, it’s one of several apps/websites that provides courses online. It’s an amazing system allowing for thousands of students to participate and view the same lectures. Such courses are generically referred to as MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses. Coursera and its competitors, such as edX could potentially

The following scenario was featured over on StackExchange. Background: A colleague had given me a large 33Gb .mov for use in a project, I put this file on a backup drive. I made an identical copy of this 33Gb .mov file and placed it in a folder that I'd use to work on a Premiere Pro Project. I ran Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and dragged in the 33Gb .mov file into the Sequence (imported it) Premiere

I was binging on Discovery Channel shows and flipping between football games today. BTW, happy new year. I was amazed to watch as the people featured looked at pictures and video and described what they thought was in the video - a body, a tool, a hieroglyph, a UFO, and etc. I wasn't convinced. It seemed that all the pictures contained exactly what the producer wanted to see, but critical or