Comment Re:Dont worry - Sen. Joe Liebermann will pay (Score 1) 410
count the times how many times word 'liebermann' passes in the above chronology.
I did. It was twice. What do I win?
(my point being your chronology is not very convincing)
Comment Not just banned from XBox Live... (Score 5, Informative) 453
I've been reading the argument that people have just been banned from XBL, because modifying your console somehow violates the TOS of XBL.
However, this time the ban does not just kick you off online multiplayer, it also disables functionality to install games on the included HDD! Games already installed on that HDD will not be accessible anymore. Also, any savegame you continue playing with on the banned console will get tagged with the result that you can't copy it to any other (banned or unbanned) consoles anymore.
Since a lot of people bought the Xbox360 with the ability to install games on the internal HDD right out of the box it can be argued that MS impaired the users' hardware in some way.
Also: it is rumored that it is possible for MS to band your console through future (mandatory) updates on game discs, even if you never played online. The technical capabilites are there, but if they ever start doing that their XBL-TOS-argument will be seriously flawed.
Comment Re:Take back the seconds (Score 3, Insightful) 383
Because your might decide NOT to confirm your number after you typed the last digit, for example if you mistyped the number or changed your mind.
Comment Re:Why are we still discussing this?! (Score 1) 625
Sylar? Is that you?
Comment to $1 Billion in Sales? (Score 4, Funny) 106
"Guitar Hero III the First Game to $1 Billion In Sales"
from the this-sentence-no-verb dept.
Comment Re:You cant teach tact. (Score 1) 639
Librarians tend to be nerdy and incredibly sexually creative.
Which of your porn flicks did you discover that from again?
Comment Re:I shall name my first child Renata Pronk (Score 4, Funny) 482
poor boy...
Comment Sounds like... (Score 4, Funny) 482
...your standard geek.
What, too close to home?
Comment Re:Why can't we mod down submitters? (Score 1, Redundant) 125
you just WHIISH that was true...
Comment Re:In reality, people move things (Score 1) 583
A major one.
Submission + - SPAM: Photoshop allows us to alter our memories
Anti-Globalism writes: "In an age of digital manipulation, many people believe that snapshots and family photos need no longer stand as a definitive record of what was, but instead, of what they wish it was.
It used to be that photographs provided documentary evidence, and there was something sacrosanct about that, said Chris Johnson, a photography professor at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area.
If you wanted to remove an ex from an old snapshot, you had to use a Bic pen or pinking shears. But in the digital age, people treat photos like mash-ups in music, combining various elements to form a more pleasing whole.
What were doing, Mr. Johnson said, is fulfilling the wish that all of us have to make reality to our liking.
And he is no exception. When he photographed a wedding for his girlfriends family in upstate New York a few years ago, he left a space at the end of a big group shot for one member who was unable to attend. They caught up with him months later, snapped a head shot, and Mr. Johnson used Photoshop to paste him into the wedding photo.
Now, he said, everyone knows it is phony, but this faked photograph actually created the assumption people kind of remember him as there."
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It used to be that photographs provided documentary evidence, and there was something sacrosanct about that, said Chris Johnson, a photography professor at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area.
If you wanted to remove an ex from an old snapshot, you had to use a Bic pen or pinking shears. But in the digital age, people treat photos like mash-ups in music, combining various elements to form a more pleasing whole.
What were doing, Mr. Johnson said, is fulfilling the wish that all of us have to make reality to our liking.
And he is no exception. When he photographed a wedding for his girlfriends family in upstate New York a few years ago, he left a space at the end of a big group shot for one member who was unable to attend. They caught up with him months later, snapped a head shot, and Mr. Johnson used Photoshop to paste him into the wedding photo.
Now, he said, everyone knows it is phony, but this faked photograph actually created the assumption people kind of remember him as there."
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