They don't hash the raw file itself they construct a specialised hash based on the image content. It breaks the image up into chunks, analyses those chunks and generates a hash from that analysis. The intent being to make it resilient to cropping, scaling and colour changes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

So why is lying to Congress not a punishable offense?

Jail isn't going to do any good unless you put the whole agency in jail.

Unless the law will include criminal penalties it's of no value.

It's interesting how laws made to limit non-government workers *always* have the criminal penalties, and laws that are made to limit government workers always conveniently forget that part. When we start jailing people who break laws like this we'll start making headway.

The settlement terms of my lawsuit against EA included that they're supposed to inform UPFRONT of the SecuROM DRM.

If they're no longer doing that, I've got standing to sue the fuck out of them again.

SecuROM Frequently Asked Questions

Israel have detente with two of their neighbors...

Created under GWB, and the left hated it, extended under BHO, and the left goes silent. I'm trying to figure out at what point does principle gets put aside for politics?

You also have to be competent enough to evaluate the security vulnerabilities of said source code.

So communism and socialism is a religion?

And that's something I'm working to eliminate in America.

Would you remove your appendix yourself ? Don't go in court without a lawyer, specially when the other part has one. That's a stupid move.

Justice cannot exist the law is so convoluted that a if a third party professional is required to help you understand it. Then it just becomes a competition to find out which professional is most cunning, rather than who is legally in the right.

If the judge is prejudiced against you for choosing not to use a lawyer, it's just a protection racket where everyone involved in law is scratching each others' backs.