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I agree that evidence spoofing is highly dangerous as in the example CPS failure I quoted. There is a fine line between spoofing or creating evidence and unearthing evidence and I suspect that few if any are equipped to understand, let alone do anything useful. I am also concerned about false doubts being created to allow the guilty to go free. So called social media has plenty of people angling to discourage or block sensible activities such as vaccinations.
Bob, you might be onto something about the set up of the devices, I have been known to do such things in the past and then not quite remember what it was… when trouble strikes, as it always does a while later. A root and branch examination of the set up is often needed to trace the cause of the snafu. My setup also has some ‘name blank’ or ‘Unknown’ devices about which I do know, but the router refuses to identify reliably. It also has at least one, sometimes two or three devices that it fails to declare knowing about while they have active, (wired) connections. It gets stupid when one switch lists devices that the other treats as some hidden secret while passing traffic to and from them.
I have seen some routers have limitations on the number of WiFi devices they can run at anyone time. I have two different WiFi access points and one or two devices appear not to like one of them for some daft reason, possibly they are a bit liverish? As a result only the hardly ever used Fire Stick is now the one device that uses one of them. This is not an issue as everything else can ‘see’ the main router well enough to work.
Good luck with the sleuthing.
As an aside to the above. The small hospital is situated on a 30 mph road that runs through a village with a church and school at its southern boundary, about 100 yards beyond the school the limit changes to the national limit for narrow roads. Anyway, after joining this road and about 600 yards along I was followed by a father and his kid as I stuck to the limit, boy did I wish I had a rearward facing camera as the git waved, jumped up and down and demanded that I speeded up, I did not. In fact I dropped down to 25 as I past the school shortly after chucking out time. Once free of the limit I speeded up to 50 ish along the winding road and the git then fell a couple of hundred yards behind. What an idiot.
Information from rubbish is of course impossible, but as this github shows it is possible to hallucinate a much clearer image based on sufficient training data (the image flips between the original and an hallucinated image). I would guess that this should easily cope with ‘regular’ images such as the clock face example, and similarly extrapolate regular features from a blurred face. However a defence lawyers would have a field day as soon as they saw the technical phrase ‘hallucinate’ the image!
Would anyone be daft enough in real life to use such reprocessed images or films in real life? Sadly the answer is yes, the CPS did so recently in a case alleging indecent assault by a person carrying a load of bags and parcels, I kid you not. They ran the video at one third or one quarter speed (I cannot remember which) and allegedly showed that the accused had time, in spite of his parcels to carry out the assault, in seconds. The case failed.
However, because of the way that video is recorded with its master frames and change frames only, it can sometimes be processed to improve clarity, an extension of the so called sharpening techniques available with still digital images. Though I venture to propose only for the purposes of suggesting, (not confirming beyond reasonable doubt), possible suspects who would be worth a follow up. Such video processing has required considerable processing power (though that is always changing) and would be more costly than most crimes would justify, partially due to the like high failure rate to get anything valuable. However, (big if coming) it scares some little sh’one’t into not committing a crime that could justify the artistic effort.
Thank you Bob and PM for kind and supportive words.
The daughter in question will be 27 shortly so it feels that her life course is more or less set in stone now. She did not go to volunteer at the food bank on Tuesday as I was feeling unwell, but hopefully she will do a few hours there today. As for driving, she has no spatial awareness and can have a collision with a cup and almost anything and grade one problems with making sure that food gets into her mouth every time. Her biggest problem would be that she can panic for not just Britain but the entire world and that is not a good day. She does dream of independent living, but how she would ever get to the shops, let alone select what she wanted, pay for it and use it when she got home again I have no idea. She goes for the most complex recipes, but then cannot even get further than pealing an item or two.
For the moment it is a case of keep on trucking and hoping, (though sometimes hope feels more like road kill than a beacon).
I saw the spine man yesterday, he can do nothing for me at the moment, the great money issue, but is keeping me on the books via a six month review appointment. To be fair, spinal issues are not currently life stopping and I can walk reasonable distances, though not slowly, I lurch too much when going slowly. Once I get going quickly I am fine in a straight line and currently better than my wife who has worse ‘whole body issues’, though not with her spine.
Bob, you are very correct, the world is slowly changing though other less ideal forces have not been routed. At least we got to seeing our then 19 or 20 year old signed up for a proper assessment. So proper that seven years later we are still waiting for the report!
Joking aside the kids we knew when they were little have grown up by ten years of more and their advantages from better diagnosis, support and treatment are very obvious. Our daughter is not so much stuck in the slow lane but many days appears to be stuck in reverse gear in her slow lane. She will never make the progress your GS has made, (and all strength to him, you and your’s for that). Her support worker has agreed to try again getting her to use a point to point bus. Every previous attempt has resulted in catastrophic failure with the rescue wagon needing to be sent out to fetch her back once more. There is little or no chance she will ever be able to work, so it is easy to despair about the future. We kept hoping that one more burst of assistance would tip her over into winning some small steps as from that greater gains can be made. This is just what you found with your GS. However, I guess that for every success there will also be some who will not make the gains. Maybe it is now too little too late.
I have not used Tesco Direct that much but it is more than I have used Argos. Tesco goods turned up as ordered, Argos required trips to the shop and a saga. Guess which I prefer.
I side with ANY store that wants some proof of entitlement before handing over goods, in fact I would not wish to use anyone whose ideas revolved round chucking the goods at the first punter through the door. I remember that Tesco did lay down their rules very clearly as the process went through with my orders.
Recent changes to the card rules and the card holder not present frauds might also force greater care.
Steve, I think that they hoped to build volumes to cover costs, but as forces moved against them they tended to lose the battle. Sales had to be driven by expensive advertising and the money was not really there for everything.
The Register has a moderately interesting account of the case, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/wileyfox_goes_into_adminisitration/
It appears to be a bit of a string of consequences starting off with the Russian bank that loaned that funds which have now dried up, less than stimulating sales and higher cost of parts. I make no comment about the effort as the phone appeared to be received quite well, just not in well in big, enough volumes. There could yet be a fire sale rescue.
dwynnehugh, I cannot argue with anything you say because I have no alternative knowledge. To be fair they do come across more as a sort of ‘CSI plus’ team than anything else. I had either discounted the pathologist role or simply not acknowledged it in my thoughts. Thinking about it pathologists were normally hospital based and dealing only with the item on the slab than roaming the countryside investigating how the body booked its passage to the icebox and slab. At one point my eldest daughter wanted to continue her training into pathology, I cannot really see her doing so as a field worker as portrayed. However, setting that aside, if someone is to do something I still feel they should either be shown doing it marginally close to the right way or suffering the consequences of miss-operation.
Dave’s comment on flashing lights reminded me of an incident many years ago when the flashing lights were filament bulbs with a finite life rather than LEDs. A new system went live and could be heard doing its thing and displaying an array of flashing lights. So far so good. The equipment hall did have cycles of rising and falling noise as it operated, At the precise moment of a lull happened, the light panel was switched off to save the bulbs and everyone else nearly had to dash for the bathroom.
I guess we all get sensitised in our own ways. My father instilled a few ‘hygiene’ habits around things that could go bang, after his fairly specific wartime experience. He spent his time either guarding things or blowing them up. He disposed of over age and damaged explosives which were sometimes used to ‘assist the UK food effort’ by blowing tree stumps, rocks any pretty much anything else out of the way of farmers. He never did much soldering as such. He also cleared ordinance in Egypt. He became a stickler for handing explosives, guns and munitions the right way and had a respect for such as sweating gelignite etc. He used to claim that many disarmed explosive would happy burn off without the unwanted attention of detonators and that they would sometimes heat up brews over such a fire while on disposal works in the desert. What you never did in his book was take risks by pointing guns, of any size, or messing about with any devices until you knew they were inactive.
Ed Agreed, pass or fail is not relevant. It is a gauge at best, perhaps like one in a fuel tank. I does not measure the quality of the tank only the amount of its contents, however this should not be extrapolated too far. It might indicate why someone does not like, or perform well at certain things, but that is simply the ways that things are for them. A bit like colour blind painters or electricians might not be a great idea. Someone who does not like noise and does not get on with crowds of people might make a lousy nursery school teacher, but possibly still make a great stock controller dealing with goods note people.
Management teams are always falling for fad personality tests, their enthusiasm for the latest fad appears to be in inverse relation to their skill at taking the company forward. I have severe doubts about some of the authors of these fads. They are a bit like the definition of a consultant, someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, then takes your watch.
I saw one road scheme test that failed comprehensively causing serious congestion. The sadist who set it up was pleased. Their model predicted that the scheme would fail so the validity of their modelling tool was proved.
Steve, this was the original thread in which I posted about an Asperger’s test. The one I found/used was on this link https://www.aspergerstestsite.com/75/autism-spectrum-quotient-aq-test/
It ‘sort of’ sounded a little more based on ‘something sound’. than some of the others, but they can all be a bit subjective and get rigged one way or the other by a different reading of the questions.
You threw me by posting back into a different thread!
Oh, what a surprise, (Not), I found the online checker and came out in the range as well, which might explain some aspects of the children. Some questions were a bit borderline, but the ‘clear’ ones were very clear. I’m the person who would rather clear used glasses and plates wash up or (in the past – 1970s) do the music at a party than meet and greet.
I reprogrammed a 32 position training simulator, mapping out the key board by snipping out test code from an original program and thought of it as fun, then made up all the training tapes. I taught the maker a few short-cut steps for making the tapes – (it was in 1980 and tapes were OK back then).
I cannot argue with your comments Ed, except that I should add that the spectrum reaches a little wider than you suggest. At one end there are the neurotypical population and then as you travel across the spectrum more and more divers differences emerge, the far end sees those who cannot verbalise, may be violent and appear very antisocial. Some aspects can be lightly sprinkled across much of the spectrum. Violence may be the result of an almost dementia like failure to process situations, empathy may or may not exist and even then can take various forms. So instability can be another characteristic needing careful titration of mood stabilising treatments, cue big yellow van and large building memories.
It is highly complex as a huge range of difference in behaviour exist. Some seek to type people according to their behaviours allocating points to key issues to show where people may be on some mythical scale. However this is unreliable and therefore not very successful. There is evidence suggesting that some displaying autistic behaviours also have other medical and digestive issues affecting their reactions to treatment(s) and the absorption of e.g. trace elements. This is the point where some will jump in with the old cause vs effect debate.
The commonly used term is comorbidities. It can include such as thyroid issues, epilepsy or non epileptic seizures, an intolerance to some antibiotics. minocycline should probably be avoided by anyone with any sort of Asperger’s or autism – it can cause a lupus like reaction. That is really not fun. We have the worn torn tee shirts accumulated over the years.
I suspect that he is completely correct seen from his own very mature viewpoint. Sadly in the case in question that person’s viewpoint laid in a different direction, apparently without boundaries. He possibly wore blinkers as to the effects he might cause, was tied up in his own quest and therefore lost what might be termed perspective. Our daughter has her own views on everything and even when presented with clear contradictory evidence her viewpoint cannot be shifted at all. Happily to date it has been on things that do not really matter, e.g. the content of TV programmes, she will boldly state a view of a programme totally at odds with the real content. It is this unshakable belief that what some think is right is the source of danger. Happily your grandson is carving a life for himself and has a future towards which he can look. Many do not have that beaconing light and other thoughts and inward facing activities fill their waking hours. Many Asperger’s and Autism cases can have incredibly driven minds to take on even the narrowest, most minute details of subjects. Some excel at music, art, maths or computer related activities, or something else; sadly if no outlet exists for their interest trouble can find them.
I am happy for you and yours that such a sensible balanced view pervades the thinking processes.
All I can say is that I am sorry that it would not work for you. I simply load up the reader – not the PDF editor version, then I select typewriter and bang in the text. I have used the picture editing mode in other programmes and, like you, I found problems with that way of working. The results were fuzzy rather than sharp. I hope that one way or another you can find a workable solution.
What I had to do was copy & paste into paintshop, sadly I can’t get a small font. It doesn’t look to bad. Thanks for the suggestion foxit sounds good, too pricey for the purpose. I am dl and experimenting with some PDF editors see if any are free to use.
I use the free version, for which I still get updates so I assume it is still available. I would not put forward a costly option. Use this link and click on the Free version, https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/
That is what I did.
Richard
John, I they are already *.PDF files you can use something like Foxit reader to type directly into the form. The item is free to download, there are other PDF file editors that can be used. It is a little more difficult if the form has some sort of protection, a few do. Then you must print them out and rescan – as a *.PDF if you wish.
It is well worth spending a few moments to get the knack of editing such forms and a lot of time proof reading the result, – ideally on another day so you read the errors as errors as errors and do not just accept them. (Used the joke that the fastest way to find error in a document was to print out several copies and watch the printer spew out the errors.)
I agree with ED, many forms do have stupidly tiny boxes for many aspects, they appear to have been created to prevent reliable completion.
After five hand operations, two on my eyes and a couple on my spine, writing is now possible, but not always comfortable or reliable. I tend to scan forms and complete them on the computer, only adding such as the signature by hand. That way if they show a tiny box for anything I use a tiny computer font and fit in most of the details, the signature may still sprawl out slightly, but I have not had a problem. This has worked for a range of forms to date, probate, and HMRC, NS&I, disabled user bus passes, hospitals, insurance claim forms and so on. No one has ever questioned that method of working except to say it was nice to have a readable form for once.
I had a look at my credit cards to see if I had even signed mine, (yes I had) and after years of doing so I did manage to do something similar on all of them. My problem was that at one time not all pens would work reliably on the surface and if the hand ‘had a moment’, the result could be suspect.
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