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26th July 2004

For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum

“Over the last three years, Professor Farid and his students have become experts at forgery, making hundreds of images that look authentic but have in fact been digitally tweaked. License plate numbers are changed. A single stool standing on a checkerboard floor is suddenly a pair of stools. Dents on a car are wiped away with a few mouse clicks. The skillful tampering disturbed the images in ways that the human eye could not detect. But Professor Farid says his algorithms can spot them and sound the alarm.”

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26th July 2004

Stamp Cups

“Those irritating ringmarks that mugs and cups leave… well, you can turn them into a nice floral pattern now with a set of Stamp Cups. The pattern on the base of the cup match up so you can join as many marks as you want.”

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26th July 2004

Free Shell Accounts

“The biggest Free Shell list on the net. They are a non-profit organizations. They provide all kind of free services for the Internet Community, so don’t hack them!”

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