Photoshop No Longer The Tool Of Choice For Counterfeiters

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12 January 2004
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Photoshop rips heavy cultural symbols out of artists’ phrasebook
Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking?
Photoshop BS

Yep, the latest version of Photoshop, (Photoshop CS), now automatically detects US currency and prevents you from manipulating, copying and pasting it.

Paint Shop Pro 8 has also followed suit.

This handy site contains links and facts about using bank note images for countries around the world. And if I’ve read the US guidelines correctly, you can use illustrations of US currency provided you follow these guidelines.

So why is Adobe restricting law abiding Photoshop users?

Pranks

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12 January 2004
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A Washington man’s apartment-sitter wrapped everything he owned in aluminium foil while he was away:

A lone book titled Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends was untouched.

But nearly everything else in Chris Kirk’s downtown Olympia apartment was encased in aluminum foil when he returned home Monday night from a trip to Los Angeles.

The walls, ceiling, cabinets and everything in between now shimmer with a metallic glow, thanks to a prank by Kirk’s longtime friend, Olympia native Luke Trerice.

If that prank doesn’t float your boat there’s always the teenage pranksters who are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food.

Inside the Lego Master Builder Search

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11 January 2004
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As most self-respecting geeks know, Lego is currently searching for a new Master Builder to hold the enviable position of building with Lego all day and getting paid for the privilege. One applicant describes the nerve-wracking experience of going through the first-round interview. In the end Lego surprised everyone and selected three new Master Builders, including Nathan Sawaya, creator of the Han Solo Lego sculpture

Stone Skipping the Scientific Way

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11 January 2004
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Using a machine launching aluminium disks Lyderic Bocquet, a physics professor at the University of Lyon, and his colleagues discovered the magic angle of 20° as that required to maximise stone skipping. Jerdone Coleman McGhee of Wimberley, Texas, holds the current Guinness Book of World Records title for a 1992 toss that yielded an impressive 38 bounces across the Blanco River in central Texas

New Net Banking Scam

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10 January 2004
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Customers of the nation’s five leading banks are unwittingly being siphoned of their savings online, after logging on to official internet banking web sites. Federal police are investigating the latest international banking scam involving the use of online trojans to steal personal account details via computers, which don’t have anti-virus protection

Global Warming Will Cause Mass Extinction

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9 January 2004
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A quarter of known land animals and plants, more than a million species, will eventually die out because of the global warming that will take place over the next 50 years. International scientists from eight countries have warned that, based even on the most conservative estimates, rising temperatures will trigger a global mass extinction of unprecedented proportions — unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced

Bondage Bears

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9 January 2004
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Bondage BearsDon’t know who or what Alpen is, but I love that they use studded, leather clad, masked, whip-wielding, bondage loving teddy bears as an advertising campaign.
I wonder if there are plans to merchandise the bears with the product. The NRMA had costumed teddy bears available, but they run more along the lines of aviatrix — Royal Flying Doctor fundraiser — than dominatrix — via Forget to Remember

Girl Geeks

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8 January 2004
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A very cool cartoon from Queen of Wands, highlighting the problem women have when dealing with moronic tech store personnel, who are condescending little arseholes who wouldn’t know one end of a computer from another and are just intent of trying to scam what they incorrectly perceive as an easy mark.

Also worth a look at the pair of amusing cartoons that precede and follow this gem.

Now all I need is an RSS feed of this site and I’ll be a happy camper.

FBI Can Inspect Bank Records Without Court Orders

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8 January 2004
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The so-called Patriot Act II was discovered last year and the public outcry that ensued was enough to get the bill tossed out the window. One of the goals of that act, however, has made it into law under the radar of the community at large. The retarded monkey boy has Intelligence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (the relevant section is 374) into law, which among other things, grants the FBI the power to obtain financial information without a court order from a judge. It also expands the definition of financial information to include business such as car dealerships, jewellery stores and insurance companies. The law prevents the business that hands over the information to the FBI from telling their customer about the request

Microsoft Word Forms Passwords Hacked

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8 January 2004
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SecurityFocus has published a hack that can be used to unlock Microsoft Word documents that have been password protected. The secure file can easily be edited and the original password re-inserted, removing any trace of the modification. Dell uses password protected Word files to send quotes, which could make for a messy legal battle. This feature, known as Password to Modify, is not the password protection on the document itself, just the protection that restricts unauthorized editing of the file. This hack allows someone to download such a file, edit it, and restore the password… effectively allowing changes to the file to go potentially unnoticed

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