What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

Re:What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Mar... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:21AM (#5563175)

Unfortunately there's nowhere near enough resolution to identify anything beyond the battery and wire labels. Do those bozos think they're saving useful amounts of bandwidth by using postage-stamp size images in 2013?

Part of photo 16/28 looks somewhat like a ferrite loopstick from the AM radio portion of a portable radio, but again it's hard to be sure. The distinction is important because if that's what it is, then this PC board is probably from a benign device that just happened to be carried by someone nearby.

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Re:What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Mar... by anigbrowl on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:27AM (#5563200)

They probably want other media outlets to pay for the high-resolution photos. They're not postage-stamp sized, nor are the people bozos for not making your life maximally convenient. You could try searching for larger-resolution versions with Tineye or so, though chances are the FBI are way ahead of everyone on this since they employ specialists in this sort of thing.

As for the ferrite loopstick, it occurs to me that if the battery pack is from an RC device (which is what it's marketed as), the bomb maker have used the RC interface as a trigger. But that's just a guess.

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Re:What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Mar... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:37AM (#5563226)

They're not postage-stamp sized

Yes, they are, on my monitor.

nor are the people bozos for not making your life maximally convenient.

Yes, they are bozos. The FBI released those photos to the press for a reason. What do you suppose that reason might have been?

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Re:What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Mar... by anigbrowl on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:54AM (#5563276)

Well, we can't all size things for your small monitor Bob. They're about postcards-zied on mine, but perhaps larger-resoltuion versions will show up on Google images in a day or two. I don't know whether the FBI intended for them to be released or not, according to CBS the pictures were obtained from a leaked intelligence bulletin to local forces. If the FBI really wanted them widely available I imagine they'd put hem up on FBI.gov, and who knows, maybe they will.

I just don't see the value in insulting people for having their systems run to your specifications. It makes you sound like a dick. I suggest you write to them and offer to host the high-resolution versions or something.

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Re:What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Mar... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:08AM (#5563303)

I suggest you write to them and offer to host the high-resolution versions or something.

Yeah, I'll write to Reuters and see if they need to borrow some bandwidth from some random guy with a cable modem. There's a plan.

Seriously: why are you defending the all-too-common practice of posting miniscule images in important news stories?

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Re:What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Mar... by anigbrowl on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:11AM (#5563310)

I'm not defending it Bob. I'm objecting to you whining about people being bozos, and I wish now I had just ignored you the first time.

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Re:What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Mar... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:31PM (#5566545)

I'd certainly not try to discourage you.

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