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Dawoodmajoka

Hi, you have been deleting parts of the Lucas Kanade optical flow aricle. At your criticism, I have removed the iterative vs. non-iterative statement and also presented the least squares implementation as one "possible solution" among many. What exactly is your objection now? I told you that the method has been adapted by many to optical flow in different ways. Gave you some articles too, by Bruhn et al. (iterative)and by Barron et al. (non-iterative). BTW: I would not be here for some time. Dawoodmajoka (talk) 20:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I've just added a reply here that should also answer this message. -- Femmina (talk) 21:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I have also added something in response here :-) Dawoodmajoka (talk) 22:35, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading Image:Trogg david blaine.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, consider reading fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, consider checking that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Rory096 06:17, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I didn't actually remove it from the article (at least not the first time, and when I did, I only removed it because images with no source are at risk of being deleted), someone else did. BTW, it would be best if you actually specified which GNAA member took the picture. --Rory096 00:22, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

It was probably his girlfriend. I'll ask him about that as soon as I see him on IRC. -- Femmina 00:37, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

So, I just spoke with him. The person that took the picture don't want to be identified, but he said it's fine for him to publish his picture here on wikipedia. -- Femmina 01:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey, sorry about taking the text out of that caption, but without that small piece of text it's all perfectly inoffensive, but with that in, it heavily implies racial and homophobic slurs against the child. While I know that Wikipedia is NOT censored (I've argued that many times), I just felt that in this case it was entirely unnecessary. I know I didn't explain it well, sorry. Foolish Child 08:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

No, it's not that. As you can see I ultimately agreed to change the caption to remove that joke. It's just that after your edit I had to edit the page again to fix the sententence. -- Femmina 18:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh. Sorry. Evidently I wasn't paying much attention. Foolish Child 18:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

This person is not related with GNAA in any aspect, he's known as lenny and he shouldn't be allowed to modify the GNAA page. lord heartiez 15:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Dental floss

Thanks for your contribution, but we are trying to write an encyclopedia here, so please keep your edits factual and neutral. Some readers looking for a serious article might not find them amusing. Remember, millions of people read Wikipedia, so we have to take what we do a bit seriously here. If you'd like to experiment with editing, use the Sandbox to get started. I hope you can help us out! PJM 13:01, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

The above is a template message, not a personal message. I don't see it as "arrogant"...I'm sorry you think so. If you feel that Dental floss reads like an ad, then by all means improve the tone of the article. However, edits like the one you made today are not helpful - no offense. PJM 16:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Nero (band)

Hi there, I noticed you recently attempted to prod Nero (band). The prod was removed, but I've listed it on AfD, so if you get a chance, come around and vote. StarryEyes 20:08, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Biodiesel

Thanks for your note. I don't regard biodiesel as a cure-all, but simply as one way of reducing reliance on imported petroleum. I recognize that growing corn and distilling it has a cost which can sometimes exceed the cost of the petroleum that it replaces, but I would still like to see more information about biodiesel in Wikipedia because people are interested in the topic. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 15:37, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

IHBT

Good job :) --Quirex 22:19, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you but I'm not trolling in CyborgLog. It's just that I'm right. I'm always right. -- Femmina 18:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Public Radio Interview

Hi there,

My name is Neille and I'm a producer with a national public radio show called Weekend America. We want to do a story on the fine line between an individual who deserves an entry on Wikepedia and one who doesn't. As someone who's weighed in on the issue, I was hoping you might be able to chat over the phone for a few minutes.

We're a conversational show and want to have a relatively laid-back discussion about what goes on in Wikipedia, just to let you know that this isn't a debate-type show where we encourage fighting.

If you're up for it, or if you have any questions, you can e-mail me at nilel (at) marketplace (dot) org to set something up.

[http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/ ] Thanks! Neille

Neille i 20:48, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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I'm in love with you Femmina Via strass 00:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

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-- Femmina 19:23, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

April 2008

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to IPhone. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. KelleyCook (talk) 15:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Note to self: dont' reply to this comment ever again. You already did that twice, Femmina (talk) 00:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Committed Identity?

Hi there, I saw your userbox about Committed Identity but didn't see the actual template and hash-output string on your userpage. Is it somewhere else, or missing, or need help in adding it? Just curious. Regards, Unimaginative Username (talk) 07:54, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hai2u. The link included with the userbox template is broken or something. Maybe it always was, but I really don't care. I put many userboxes on my page just because it pisses off some wikipedians. Femmina (talk) 15:54, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

You actually have to create the ID code and paste the "Committed Identity" template at the top of your userpage, which is separate from the userbox. I made a list of simple, step-by-step instructions in case you find the process confusing. They're here. Take care, Unimaginative Username (talk) 21:06, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Original incarnation?

"seems notable and the article is well written I guess. No spelling errors and goes straight to the point" Femmina 23:48, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I noticed your feedback regarding a previous article in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GirlChat an AfD and was wondering how well written it was when it was put up, because nowadays articles will get deleted before even getting a chance to become well written. Are you perhaps an inclusionist? Tyciol (talk) 06:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't remember about commenting on that article at all and I'm very drunk right now, but probably I was joking. I don't think blogger, vloggers and scum like that should have an article on wikipedia at all. Femmina (talk) 02:54, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

OpenCV page

Hi, I've seen that you've deleted the reference to ndOpenCV in the Wikipedia page.

Three observations:

a) Nanodesktop doesn't require an illegal modification of the PSP firmware. ndOpenCV works perfectly also on the original Sony PSP firmware (1.5), so the concept is simply false.

It won't run on the original 1.5 firmware without the % filename exploit. The only firmware revision that could run unsigned binaries was 1.0 and units with that firmware revision has been sold in Japan only for a short period of time.

In any case, the % filename exploit isn't an illegal modification of the PSP firmware. And it is a shared concept that the changes of the PSP firmware isn't illegal. It makes that the warranty decades but it isn't illegal. For example, in Italy it is activity protected by specifical laws (if you're italian, I can send you the references about this).

b) OpenCV is a project released under BSD license, so everyone can modify it and port it under an embedded platform without any official authorization

That's ok but it's also irrelevant for this discussion.

c) Actually ndOpenCV is the ONLY possibility to use OpenCV under a small device that isn't compatible with the common PC standards (XFree and Unix)

That's also irrelevant and I don't know if what you claim here is true or not but PSP's main processor/memory subsystem isn't fast enough to run the majority or the algorithms available in OpenCV.

This is not true, for 2 reasons. The former is that PSP has a VFPU unit, that is able to execute 2.3 GFlops/sec. of floating point operation. ndOpenCV uses this component and in this way it obtains the necessary power for computations. The second is that ndOpenCV can work not only on PSP, but on every platform that will be supported by nd in the future. In fact, nd has been designed with the goal of a quick portability of the OpenCV libraries under every embedded platform. If you want to see the importance of this porting, you can look for Nanodesktop Blind Assistant or for the CamShift Demo, or for the other nd OpenCV applications:

http://visilab.unime.it/~filippo/Nanodesktop/PSP_PSPE/Homebrew%20Demos/ndPSP_PSPE_Homebrew_Demos.htm

Using this porting, we've executed PentLand face recognition, Lucas-Kanade optical flow, Viola-Jones face detection, SIFT recognition. And this with good performance.

Cheap embedded hardware with a fast processor that will run unsigned binaries is available from many vendors.

Yes, but with a cost very very higher, and with a minor standardization. Second point: if you want to execute OpenCV on your palmtop, you need to execute Intel HighGUI. This component requires the presence on the system of the original Windows API, or of the GTK libraries. If your palmtop isn't compatible with the original Win32 API (Windows CE requires changes in OpenCV source code to compile), or with XFree/GTK, the OpenCV cannot natively run. And in fact, if you look for OpenCV applications that run on a palmtop device, you'll discover that they are very few.

No new PSP is sold with 1.0 or 1.5 kernel anymore, PSP slim and PSP brite can't natively run those versions and downgrading requires hacking anyway. So, in the end, ndopencv is a kinda pointless port.

This is absolutely false, because ndOpenCV shall allow the execution of the OpenCV over any platform that shall be supported by nd in the future and it is impossible, actually, to execute OpenCV on a handheld device without passing through the nd solution, or changing heavily the original source code for Windows CE.

HighGUI isn't a requirement for the core OpenCV library and I don't understand why you can't just compile OpenCV itself for the target platform and then use the native widget set offered by that platform. Maybe this discussion should be moved to the OpenCV talk page so that other people can weight in the argument. Maybe a link to Nanodesktop and ndOpenCV should be added to Psp homebrew rather than on the OpenCV's page. -- Femmina (talk) 12:41, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Femmina, without HighGUI, you haven't cvCreateWindow/cvDestroyWindow, the access to the webcam, the mouse callbacks, the feature of loading/saving image files from disk (in brackets, porting the original Intel HighGUI code requires the porting of the different graphical libraries for the several supported image formats under the new platform; in ndOpenCV they are already ported), you loss the cvConvertImage routine. So, if you try to compile any OpenCV source that you can find in the original Intel package (samples), and that you can find in any other website, the program shall not work. Furthermore, in the cxcore library, cxswitcher must be modified (it contains code in x86 assembly that must be replaced), cxerror contains calls to the original widget that can be replaced. If your embedded device uses particular functions or hardware units for mathematical acceleration (as PSP does), you must change the Intel code to utilize them. I repeat you: actually nd is the only way to execute the OpenCV programs and sources on an embedded device that doesn't support XWindow manager without big difficulties.

You can have all those things using the native platform API. Also, I've not examined every single source file of the core library, but I think there is no mandatory inline assembly anywhere, but even if there is some then what do you expect? Intel started that project. One more reason to use PC104 hardware or something similar instead of an hacked PSP. -- Femmina (talk) 16:02, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

This is, simply, absurd. Please, explain me how you can execute a simple cvCreateWindow using the platform API. My impression is that you are creating excuses on excuses for justifying the erasing of the voice. But there is no technical reason: it was only an arbitrary act done by you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.10.165.113 (talk) 16:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

You don't understand that you never need to call cvCreateWindow. On the target platform you call the generic function to open a window, allocate a drawable surface and then use simple loops to copy to and from opencv matrices to the native drawable surface. It's simple. -- Femmina (talk) 16:18, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

You don't have OpenCV then. You've a part of OpenCV (cxcore). And this is totally unuseful. To have OpenCV compatibility, means to have the compatibility with the "OpenCv source code". For example, if I want to executed the template matching, I must recompile this program:

http://www.bernardotti.it/portal/showthread.php?t=85402&highlight=cvshowimage

And this must be done only with small changes. The researchers download by the net the programs, and want to recompile and use on own platforms without troubles. But, if I must replace cvNamedWindow, cvShowImage, cvLoadImage, cvSaveImage, cvGrabImage, cvSetMouseCallback with my platform code... the entire discussion becomes ridicolous. For the mathematical acceleration, what do you suggest ? Rewrite entire cxcore and cv, to make them compatible with own processor ? And when the software shall be ported on a different embedded platform, shall you have to rewrite all hacks that you've created ?

OpenCV isn't official supported by Intel for Cell processor, too. But, strange thing, the citation is done. I repeat: there is no technical reason for your erase of my voice. The porting is very important because it is lack of sense to say that it is possible to use OpenCV without HighGUI. If you're italian, I'm very glad to discuss about this with you via email. Otherwise, do what you want, but your behaviour with me wasn't correct in my opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.10.165.113 (talk) 16:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Please, move this discussion in the OpenCV area if you retain that it's better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.10.165.113 (talk) 14:28, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

^^ PSP pirates please follow this advice and avoid cluttering my talk page with made up technical explanations. Thanks. -- Femmina (talk) 16:22, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

are you an idiot?, he gave you clear and perfectly understandable technical reason's for his justification of reasons for porting to the psp, you yourself decided to ignore these reason's competly, please, if your going to remove stuff, don't get owned in the process=-)... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.47 (talk) 02:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi! You've just discovered the magic of open proxies don't you? -- Femmina (talk) 15:06, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

u wish, no the main user that you were arguing with decided to post your moron way's on a respected psp development site, i took it apon myself to make the above actions —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.40 (talk) 01:22, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

You mean respected psp piracy site? -- Femmina (talk) 14:28, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Femmina, see this site: http://visilab.unime.it/~filippo/Nanodesktop/PSP_PSPE/nanodesktop_PSP_PSPE.htm

Is it a piracy site for you ? But do you understand that you're defending positions that are simply absurd ? (Filippo Battaglia)

What you mean? -- Femmina (talk) 16:20, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Wow, honestly, you should take a step back, their's a huge diffrence between development of one's applications on the psp(homebrew), and piracy, piracy is the downloading of something created by people with the intent of selling, and yet not paying for the application and/or game(such as an ISO, CSO, etc), do not, AND I REPEAT, DO NOT, confuse piracy with homebrew, homebrew, is the creation of an application and/or game, without the intent of selling, and is placed on the free market, for use by anyone and everyone freely, and is in no way illegal, secondly, if sony truely felt these actions were illegal, people such as DARK_ALEX,and Teams such as Noobz, C+D, M33, and such, would already be under arrest, sued, and have been given ceist and desist orders on many occasion —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.171.0.138 (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Dark Alex's identity is kept secret for exactly that reason. Now go away from my talk page. I don't want you to further promote game piracy here. Thank you in advance. -- Femmina (talk) 18:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely false. The development of free applications for Sony Playstation Portable is activity allowed by the civil rules of all European States, because it is part of the right of ownership. Visilab Research has even done a juridical research about the problem, and Pegasus has written an entire paragraph about the argument. The recent sentences of the judges has stated the total and absolutely legality of the operation. And the recent declarations done by Sony management, has done clear that the installation of a custom firmware is a legal activity; the only trouble can be the loss of the warrancy, but the operation is fully allowed. Naturally, we can provide you all references about the sentences of the tribunals that say what I said. In Italy, the operation is even allowed by a specifical law, that allows the reverse engineering by the final user. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.19.167.114 (talk) 18:22, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Give references (as in links to credible sources) on appropriate places. Stop babbling here. I don't care and nobody else will read what you write if you do it here and you don't provide references. -- Femmina (talk) 18:35, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

In Italy operation is allowed by law 22 Aprile 1941 nr. 633 art. 64 ter and art. 64 quater. About the operation of flashing/modding of a console, see Sentenza Tribunale Bolzano 20/12/2005 (http://www.interlex.it/testi/giurisprudenza/bz051220.htm). Citation of the core part:

Ritiene il Giudicante che colui che acquista una Playstation, come ogni altro personal computer, possa modificarla, in quanto proprietario, ampliandone le funzionalità. L' acquirente per legge deve essere libero di disporre del bene nel modo più amplio ed esclusivo.

Declarations of the Sony management about the legality of the custom firmware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psp_homebrew

Sony has told the media that any issues resulting from running modified code on the device would void the warranty.[1][2] They have also stated that the problem is not with homebrew but piracy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.16.175.161 (talk) 19:42, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the copy and paste from wikipedia. I really appreciate it, but that says nothing about the legality of the custom firmware (CFW) itself which is not "clean" of sony's code. It says you can reflash your own console, whitch is not surprising, that's all. And besides that my understanding is that the DMCA forbids the act of enabling piracy on a device, and we are on the english wikipedia in case you didn't notice. What sony's management said, legally speaking, is worthless. And again, by writing here on my talk page you're just wasting your time. -- Femmina (talk) 19:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

You're wrong again, because DMCA has also, like the italian law, an article that makes legal the reverse engineering for scope of interoperability of own programs: http://www.chillingeffects.org/reverse/

When creative expression is protected by a technological protection measure, the situation becomes even more complex. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) generally prohibits circumvention of technological protection measures. On its face, since circumvention is generally required for reverse engineering, this prohibition would prevent reverse engineering of those measures that control access to a copyrighted work. The DMCA contains a limited exception to the ban on circumvention, which permits reverse engineering of the technology by specific classes of people for limited purposes [17 USC §1201(f)]. The exception allows reverse engineering of computer programs if the reverse engineer lawfully obtains the program, seeks permission from the copyright owner, only uses the results of their efforts to create an interoperable computer program and does not publish the results. The resulting program must only interoperate with the reverse engineered software, however, and cannot interoperate with the technologically protected content (movie, book, video game, etc.) itself. Under the DMCA, engineers may also develop programs that facilitate reverse engineering for their own use or the use of others if they meet the above test. Reverse engineers must carefully consider their planned work and whether it fits into the exception, because the exception is far too narrow to be useful for many reverse engineering needs.

And, as I'm tired of your arrogant behaviour, I advice you that I'm ready to create a case again you and again Wikipedia, because your reasons are simply pretestual... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.16.175.161 (talk) 20:12, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Sir, again what you copied and pasted here is not quite relevant to what I just asked. But please do create a case against me. If you think that will help you... -- Femmina (talk) 20:21, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Wait, wait... Did I read that right? You're going to report me and Wikipedia to the police because your project is not going to be included on Wikipedia? Is that what you just wrote? -- Femmina (talk) 20:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I haven't used the word "police". It isn't the case, and I've never thought what you say... But I would that you understand that your behaviour isn't acceptable. And the fact that six-seven people think that you're absolutely WRONG (in Italy and in England) means something (in my opinion)... Perhaps are you really wrong ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.16.175.161 (talk) 21:02, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

That's a bummer. I was already dreaming of myself in a courtroom defending the honor of Wikipedia. However, just look around here you'll find something to involve somebody else in the dispute. Be sure to mention the fact that you think I'm a troll. And please do register an account already. -- Femmina (talk) 21:10, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Probation notice

Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia! In case you are not already aware, an article to which you have recently contributed, Talk:Climatic Research Unit hacking incident , is on article probation. A detailed description of the terms of article probation may be found at Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation. Also note that the terms of some article probations extend to related articles and their associated talk pages.

The above is a templated message. Please accept it as a routine friendly notice, not as a claim that there is any problem with your edits. Thank you. Hipocrite (talk) 12:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

As an additional note, please be certain to remain civil at all times. I notice above you state that you "put many userboxes on [your] page just because it pisses off some wikipedians." This behavior is not acceptable, and should not be continued. Hipocrite (talk) 12:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

What are you talking about? Can't I write a joke? Want to block me for no reason? Then go for it, I'll fight it back and we'll see who is right but don't come here to threaten me because that pisses me off a great deal. Thank you. -- Femmina (talk) 12:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't see a threat in what I wrote. Hipocrite (talk) 12:46, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

This behavior is not acceptable, and should not be continued. sound like a threat to me. It strongly suggests or else I'll block you and tell your parents and it doesn't even tell me what you want me to stop doing, so it's not helpful. But I essentially got what I was looking for in that article's talk page so I won't be continuing anything there. -- Femmina (talk) 13:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Femmina, regarding your question, not only are you not correct, you're completely out of order in making a personal attack on another editor's honesty as well as failing to assume good faith. Statements like yours are not acceptable on any talk page, and are particularly unacceptable on the talk page of an article where probation applies, as you've been notified. From your later statement you do seem to be aware of the requirement to assume good faith, please word your statements more carefully in future so that they meet the sensible recommendations of our civility guideline and don't attack other editors. I'm sure you mean well, but more care to be civil is needed. Thanks, dave souza, talk 17:05, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I disagree. But thank you for the unrequested lecture. -- Femmina (talk) 18:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

haha, you got some spunk and soul, Femmina :D MichaelWestbrook (talk) 04:40, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

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