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http://www.newser.com/story/206347/behind-georgia-highway-crashes-an-optical-illusion.html[^]
Having driven in Atlanta a few times, my first thought on seeing this headline was "What kind of illusion would make the "6" on a speed limit sign look like a "9". 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Stories about optical illusions work better when there is an image of the illusion even when they wrap the phrase in double quotes
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As for the optical illusion, officials will shield the problematic lane from view by placing reflective panels atop the median wall.
Oh good, so they can be blinded by the sun at certain times of the day???
Marc
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There is nothing like seared retinas to make someone forget about optical illusions!
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Ah. Thought it might have been another Goatse billboard that caused the accidents.
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In further sad news it was announced to day that Yankee Doodle Pigeon from the Dastardly and Muttley TV show has passed away.
Reports indicate that he was found last night in the kitchen under a covering of short crust pastry
it is reported that the first emergency services to the scene are reported to have said "mm tasty pie"
Dastardly and Muttley have refused to comment but are being held as persons of interest
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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S-s-s-s-s-so they f-f-f-f-finally s-s-s-s-stopped that p-p-p-p-pigeon!
Zoink boink pling bzzzzz!
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Nagy is that you?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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You don't have to get rude! 
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Sorry you just sounded so much like him (its the gin)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Now I have the song "Stop that Pigeon" in my head. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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A previous colleague just sent me this. I always liked his work, landscapes, (old, abandoned) buildings, vehicles...
And it seems he made it public: Awesome photography[^].
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Link to a site that doesn't seem to be functional. Is that because I'm in the US and it's geo-fenced?
Sarcasm - it's not just a verbal skill - it's a lifestyle!
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Frank Alviani wrote: Is that because I'm in the US and it's geo-fenced?
Don't think so... Why would it be?
Link works for me though...
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Worked for me too. And I'm in the US.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I am in the US and it works for me.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To much post processing for my taste, but he's showing some promise when he comes out of the HDR hole.
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Those all look like digital captures; not photographs. 
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[Psst - snap[^]]
veni bibi saltavi
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I think Airplane[^] was his best work. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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So the virus scanner at work is slowing down a download for Android Studio which is:
https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r22.6.2-windows.zip
Well, that's a google zip so it's probably okay. But the stupid virus scanner could just check the domain and the hash of the original zip and then know that it is okay. But instead the virus scanner doesn't and it slows the installation to a terrible crawl as it :
1. unzips the files.
2. copies files to sandbox
3. examines each file for malicious bytes
It's terrible.
VirusTotal.com
So I thought, wow, VirusTotal.com probably has the hash of this file anyways and we could instantly discover if it were malicious.
I go over there, enter the link and it reports 1 of 63 (of virus scanners) as being malicious. Blueliv reports malicious content. You can see the report at:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/3a290d3a65cebd7a29a9c98106bfc04ef5e1f2df096412b55cd5de3f76e3b65b/analysis/1431690217/[^]
What!?! Ugh. There has to be a better way.
* EDIT ****
Okay, I also noticed that if you click the information tab on the report, it says download size exceeded size allowed only 32 Mb will be downloaded. So I guess virustotal.com basically failed. Confusing.
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Because a hash database is very easy to defeat. Just sprinkle some random bytes around in unimportant places and you pass the test again.
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Wow, really?
I thought a hash of a file was extremely difficult to defeat.
I mean using a proper (uncracked) hash algorithm.
I know MD5 was cracked but others?
Interesting.
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It's hard to generate a collision, it's trivial to generate a non-collision.
edit: OK so I re-read your original post, do you mean make a database of known-OK files? That wouldn't be easy to get past.. it would also be completely unworkable though.
modified 15-May-15 8:37am.
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