Always on the look out for creative unbelievable monikers!

From an article in the National Examiner on the names of small donors to the Obama presidential campaign.  They were obviously made up to get around campaign finance laws limiting donations. These names include:     * Doodad Pro     * Derty Poiiuy     * Jgtj Jfggjjfgj     * Good Will –  whose address is the Goodwill headquarters in Austin, and whose occupation is “Loving You.”     * Mr. Jfggjjfgj     * “Mong Kong     * “Test Person     * “Jockim Alberton Additional Names: Obama Sock Puppet ……. "Ellie Light" UserNameAlreadyExists LusakaThisIsGreenLeader

Google OCR Experiment

This is an experiment to see if google will perform optical character recognition on the file.  They are written in Japanese.  I hope to be able to recover an html version after google indexes them. E5M_INST-Communications-Protocol E5M-TM_-TS-Manual OCR and support for Japanese OCR Online Japanese OCR Tool Tesseract OCR readme Tesseract-ocr training data for Japanese OCRopus Article about scanning an entire book HP abandoned the code for Tesseract and later donated it to a University who then invited Google to partake.   It is probably the way to go to do OCR on Japanese.  No installer for Windows so most likely easiest Read more…

Fraud: Haibaiwang International Electron Trading Co Haibai Wang 6013 8264 0700 3270 143 Alibaba Scam

I attempted to buy some ddr memory from.   The product was promised to be sent by EMS.  What they do is put a package full of nothing into the postal system in the slowest manner possible so they can send you a tracking number but it arrives with nothing. Only later did  I find other people listing this fraud on an Alibaba forum webpage.     Helpful Links Forum page with list of scammers including Haibai Wang AlibabaScam.com I have found this fake business on other websites:  You can see here:  http://haibaiwang.en.gongchang.com/about I am sure they will show up other places Read more…

Quantum entanglement is not as out of the ordinary as you might think

Simplification using single particle experiment explanations Consider a single particle source.  The particle is equally likely to emit in any direction.  That situation is depicted below                                               : What you imagine is that a localized particle emanates from the emitter and you detect it somewhere on your ring of detectors surrounding your experimental set up.  You can use your detectors ringing the emitter to verify that emissions are equally probable at any angle.   I imagine the situation differently.  What I imagine is below:                                                 The concentric blue rings depict the phase waves of de broglie  propagating outwards from the Read more…

What could be more boring than a traffic jam?

I always wondered why a freeway with no accidents or other driver diversions such as a policeman pulling over a speeder can come to an almost complete halt.  I think if have figured out this mystery.  The following graph is velocity versus distance on a freeway.  Here in Phoenix there is a location on the freeway where you can be driving at a normal highway rate and then encounter a traffic jam.  Once through the 4 miles of the traffic jam the freeway opens up again to acceptable conditions.                                                            Note the oscillatory behavior in the jammed area Read more…

Integer solutions of pythagorean triangle relation

                                1      4      9      16      25     36      49  ….                      1       3      5      7       9      11     13                               2      2      2      2       2       2       For example:       And it is interesting to note that 9 is an integer square all by itself so          or        Which is an Read more…