Let's get all tech-nerdish for a minute, because I've seen an inaccurate statement reported several times now, about the latest inane birth certificate conspiracy theory, most recently at TPMDC: With Drudge Report's Help, Birthers Latch Onto Phony Forgery Theory. > In fact, the effect was not a sign of foul play at all, but a common attribute of PDF files containing text as an image. On many PDFs, a feature called OCR (optical character recognition) recognizes the letters in the image and separates them into their own layer. This explains why you're able to highlight and copy raw text from some PDF files even though it's actually not a word processing document. As I pointed out yesterday, the OCR setting in Adobe Acrobat is actually irrelevant to this issue; OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has nothing to do with the "layers" you see if you open a PDF file with Adobe Illustrator. Even if you scan a document with OCR turned off (which is the case with the birth certificate PDF released by the White House), these "layers" are still created. In Portable Document Format, they're not actually "layers" at all. They're a result of the method Adobe ... A photo of the Sons of Ben celebrating Carlos Ruiz's goal in the Union's home opener against Vancouver is being featured on the Drudge Report today. World Net Daily lunatic Jerome Corsi has appeared twice on the vile white supremacist radio show "Political Cesspool," which explains why he continues to promote the right wing's Birther conspiracy theory; he's an unreconstructed racist himself. DERPCorsi has released another book on the subject (now the featured story on the front page of Drudge Report), drawing the attention of the right's dumbest blogger, Jim "Dim" Hoft, in a harmonic convergence of sheer idiocy: Birther Nation… Drudge: New Book Reveals Obama's True Identity | The Gateway Pundit. Hoft's comment: > Leftie heads explode... 'MISSING RECORDS IN HAWAII, MISSING RECORDS IN KENYA, MISSING RECORDS IN INDONESIA'... > > **We're all birthers now**. YouTube says the view counter on a video clip that is linked to the highly popular Drudge Report has stopped because it YouTube is following its standard procedure for preventing "artificial inflation" of the video's viewcount and ensuring that all viewers that are counted are actual people and not computer programs known as "bots." Arianna Huffington is rich. No disputing that. But she's not the kind of rich where you can just lose $82 million in the couch cushions and never notice it. So when the Washington Post says Huffington personally made $100 million from the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL while the Drudge Report says she only made $18 million, it's worth asking: Who's right? #### It's ba-ack A copyright enforcer that's filed more than 180 complaints against websites for quoting all or parts of newspaper articles is suing for ownership of the Drudge Report's domain.… Wikileaks founder Julian Assange looms like the mysterious British freedom fighter V atop the Drudge Report, threatening a "devastating" confidential document dump if his organization suffers any more hack attacks. Paypal says Wikileaks and its donors are pals no more. Amazon.com boots Wikileaks off its virtual cloud, citing vague and unconfirmed suspicions.
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References:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/38474_PDF_Documents_OCR_and_Conspiracy_Theories#rss
http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168321&44=120636459&32=3796&7=195227&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fsports%2Fblogs%2FThe-Sons-of-Ben-get-Drudged.html
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/38419_Jim_Dim_Hoft-_Were_All_Birthers_Now#rss
http://www.cnsnews.com:80/news/article/youtube-says-view-counter-stopped-drudge
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/?p=1815
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/10/righthaven_sues_drudge/
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71385.html
http://pixelhat.net/
Sunday, May 1, 2011
PDF Documents OCR and Conspiracy Theories The Sons of Ben get Drudged Jim 'Dim' Hoft 'We're All Birthers Now' YouTube Says View Counter Stopped on DrudgeLinked Biden Video to Prevent ‘Artificial Inflation” Count; It Will Update Later No Arianna Huffington Did NOT Just Make $100 Million Copyright troll sues for ownership Drudge Report domain Wikileaks Wrangling May Be Escalating Into Cyberwar
