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Mac OS X, Word and the quest for the unbloated PDF
I’ve found out two things to deal with PDFs in OS X: how to unbloat the huge files coming from Save to PDF in Word, and how to password protect PDFs. Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Mac OS X, Microsoft Word, os x, pdf, preview, tech for scholars
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No Pardon for Turing
Despite the 20,000+ collected signatures, the British House of Lords has dismissed the motion to pardon Alan Turing: “A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence,” … Continue reading
After SOPA / PIPA, RWS
The appalling Research Works Act, in the harsh words of The Guardian, is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretense of being on the side of scientists. I, for myself, never believed their good intentions. Continue reading
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Tagged open access, public access, Research Works Act, scientific politics, scientific publishing
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Buy me ! Upgrade me ! Register me !
Since when nagging screens have become cricket for bought wares ? Continue reading
Am I forgetting anything ?
I have just realized : the most important event in my professional life since the Ph.D. viva-voce defense went unannounced in this blog. I have been recently accepted as a faculty member of the Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial … Continue reading
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Tagged academic world, career in science, DCA / FEEC / UNICAMP, UNICAMP
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In a Flash
What is happening to the Firefox Flash plugin, those days ? The critter has created a life of its own. Nowadays, it’s always the same story: I am minding my own business, and all of the sudden the CPU fans … Continue reading
Good ad, creepy ad
When does effective ad sense falls right into the uncanny valley and becomes ultra creepy ad sense ? Like, when I visit a (not that popular) website, type another URL a few minutes later and get an ad from the … Continue reading
Recently accepted papers on ICIP and SIBGRAPI
I had a paper accepted on ICIP, the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, and two papers accepted on our counterpart national conference, SIBGRAPI. Continue reading
Scientific sense and hurt sensibilities
(…) recently, I had a tough choice to make. A student was to submit his Master disstertation to the viva-voce committee, and, as it usually happens in Brazil, he has sent me a draft for corrections and suggestions. His “Results” chapter contained, among cold graphs and tables, several very explicit images, illustrating in detail the cases of success and failure of our [pornography detection] algorithm. The only thing is: all images contained censor bars. Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, computer vision, pornography, pornography detection, self-censorship
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No easy answers
Barely a few months (6, 7 ?) since using Mac OS X and my system has got basically unusable: MacPorts has died and gone to hell, root certificates get systematically rejected by Safari, the system is sssoooo ssssllllloooowwww that using … Continue reading
