Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Facial Recognition Software Update by Juan Caruso

BACKGROUND 

Juan Caruso will continue as guest blogger until Vigilis returns with more substance ...

Escaped Prisoner Still at Large (about 8 hours ago)
Sindri Þór escaped a low-security prison yesterday, fleeing to Sweden by plane. He had been in custody from 2 February for his partaking in a robbery of 600 computers which were specially fitted for Bitcoin mining.

An international warrant has been issued for Sindri’s arrest, and Swedish police are involved in the search. Icelandic police have questioned several individuals, including Sindri’s wife, in an effort to ascertain his whereabouts. He is believed to have had help in escaping the prison and reaching Keflavík airport yesterday.




Slightly improved finally, wouldn't you say?

Submarines are always silent and strange.

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Saturday, January 09, 2016

ANSWERS: Levity QOTW from 6 JAN 2016

Background

Related information, photo(s) and links for questions are found in the original posting here
Each question below (with the missing blanks filled in) was the title of  ICELAND REVIEW ONLINE's  "MOST POPULAR" news stories highlighted on the front page, January 5, 2016:

Questions of the Week with ANSWERS

(Fill in the Blanks and Name the Country)
    ____(1)_____ Hikers Respond to Criticism   ANSBritish

   Charged for Flying People into ____(2)_____ Area. 
ANSEruption

    Killing of Basques Now Banned in West ____(3)_____  
ANS West Fjords

     _____(4)_____ Couple Arrrested in Brazil 
ANSIcelandic
 
    Body of Tourist Found on  _____(5)_____  ANSSnæfellsnes

Name the country  _____(6)_____   ANSIceland

Name its related news publication _____(7)_____  ANSICELAND REVIEW ON LINE

Submarines are always silent and strange.

 

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Saturday, October 03, 2015

What is wrong with THIS submarine photojounalsim?

Background

Nature and Travel | Iceland Monitor | Wed 30 Sep 2015 
Catfish nests in a rare submarine geothermal silica cone
Diver and photographer Erlendur Bogason captured this photo of a catfish (anarchias lupus) in the depths of the ocean at Eyjafjörður, North Iceland.

The catfish was found guarding its eggs in the Strýtur chimneys, giant submarine geothermal silica cones that rise from the 70 metre seafloor of Eyjafjörður.

Bogason and his friend Árni Halldórsson discovered this natural wonder in 1997, and the area has become very popular for diving.
 
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Above is a super photograph and description of a rare natural locale. Non-diver, nature observers must appreciate this decades-old, natural wonder about which we would probably otherwise never have been aware. 

What is wrong with THIS submarine photojournalism?  

M.E. QUIBBLE:  "Female catfish spawn (lay their eggs) close to the surface of the water where they are safe from other bottom-dwelling aquatic animals."   The Icelanders make an outstanding point in local identification of the species as a catfish, because the elevated spawn in geothermal silica chimneys is equivalent egg protection to laying eggs where safe from bottom dwellers.  

Yet, the accompanying latin name for the fish species, the one applied to four generations of United States submarines called USS Seawolf (SS-28, SS-197, SSN-575, and SSN-21),  is anarchias lupus, which is correctly spelled (Anarhichas lupus). The latin signifies the northern wolffish, also known as the seawolf, Atlantic catfish, ocean catfish, devil fish, wolf eel. 
 
Confused yet?  Try here.

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