If it's that hard to tell, the point of making any original photos is moot. Unless these edited pictures are just a form of encryption, and the pedos then reverse the photoshop filters on their end... but still, that's no different from distributing encrypted CP, so what's the issue?

I don't know, I imagine all the underworld stuff involved with CP production is pretty expensive.

But what if people made money off car crash photos, what would you think of the analogy then? With respect to the supposed implausibility of a car crash fetish.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)

To be accurate (at least, as far as I know), evolution doesn't address the why at all - it leaves that up to other fields (which do so sufficiently). Evolution merely explains the *what* - that is, what happens.

To paraphrase, evolution by itself is rather weak, since it's mainly rules based on evidence. The strength of evolution comes when combined with other related fields, as they appear to confirm the conclusions drawn by evolution. The same is true for the big bang theory which, when combined with other stuff such as inflation, seems to paint a universe consistent with our own.

Also, cosmic background radiation. Ha! :p

I am not sure if this is how they measure, but Google makes some tools for site owners to check speed and it would be logical that they use something like this.
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
(Similar to YSlow)

Also, Google Webmaster Tools has a Site Performance section (under labs) which may have something to do with this.

Plagiarism? I watched Avatar for the graphics. Not for the plot or idea. A frigging computer program could generate the plotline/ideas[1].

It resembles other works as much as the other works resemble each other.

What next? Some pizza company suing another pizza company for making their pizza taste like pizzas?

Cheesy stuff has been done for ages.

I doubt a Michelin chef is ever going to claim Frozen Supermarket Pizza Co made a billion dollars ripping off his recipe for melted cheese, pepperoni and dough ("invented" back when he was young and thought he was great).

FWIW, most inventors who patent stuff are like 6 year old kids who just came up with the innovative idea for a ham and cheese sandwich.

This guy here must be pretty disappointed at how stupid we all still are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart#Anecdotal_Notes

Too bad for him, humanity hasn't booted to the next stage yet. That's his dream I think. I doubt he's so disappointed that he didn't make billions from the mouse.

[1] There are computer programs that invent stuff - provide a bunch of parameters and they can vary them to find various "interesting" points.

From a slightly older article on the same blog:

The load time data is derived from aggregated information sent by users of your site who have installed the Google Toolbar and opted-in to its enhanced features.

So this isn't quite as susceptible to people playing games with Googlebot as it might appear.