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On Saturday, a lively group of writers and editors on a Miami Book Fair International panel aim to explore the state of the genre, which appears to be more fertile than ever.
Erotic fiction has been around forever, though if you havent paid attention you could be forgiven for presuming it surfaced just last spring, when Random House imprint Vintage Books published the 5 0 Shades trilogy and all bondage broke loose. The novels, about the inexperienced Anastasia Steele and her billionaire, S&M-obsessed paramour Christian Grey, have sold 35 million copies in the United States in all formats with worldwide sales of more than 50 million, according to Russell Perrault, vice president and director of publicity for Vintage.
The novels meld classic romantic formula James was inspired by the fan fiction she wrote about Twilight with explicit BDSM (thats bondage/discipline/sadism/masochism to you), a clearly potent blend.
At another time in America, erotica meant Henry Miller or Story of O, sexually frank literary fiction that changed U.S. obscenity laws forever, author and activist Susie Bright said via email; shell be part of the book fair panel. It was a First Amendment and intellectual breakthrough as well as steamy nostalgia. Shades of Grey by comparison is a triumph of ebook marketing its a business story, the killer ap that happened to be a book. Shades also represents the dominance of fan fiction a la Twilight and the romance genres complete dedication to erotic storytelling. Romance for years has been as triple X as you can imagine, but it was the nice girls ... secret. No ones pretending anymore.
Indeed they are not. These days you can find an erotic fiction section in Target and prominent displays of 50 Shades knockoffs in airports across the country, though ebooks have made things easier for shy readers embarrassed to buy explicit titles. Heated fans argue all over the Internet about who should play Christian Grey in the upcoming film. Parodies are popping up, like Fifty Shames of Earl Grey by Fanny Merkin and Andrew Shaffer. James is mulling a fourth book, and copycats are no doubt cashing in on the wave. Meanwhile, longtime erotica writers while pleased with the media attention wonder if new readers will find their way to and stick with other, quality work.
For publishers, the success of 50 Shades has been a boon according to Brenda Knight, associate publisher of Cleis Press, which has been publishing erotica for 33 years.
Weve seen an amazing thing happen, Knight says. We started hearing about 50 Shades last March. By May, Fifty Shades fever had kicked in. ... It really helped mainstream erotica. I think our sales went up something like 30 percent. Its settling back down now, but when a fourth book comes out, we hope it happens all over again.
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I have a male zorua and was wondering if anyone would be generous enough to trade me a spare female one for it. I just restarted my black game, so I don't have access to a ditto... and would like to breed it. Thank you!
im looking for a legit shiny zorua or Zoroark
i have a shiny seismitoad uft legit
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I have several regular Zoruas (no special moves) at level 1 of both genders and I'm looking for a female Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam.
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Looking for: Mewtwonite X, Tyranitarite, Pinsirite, Manectite, Life Orb, PP Ups/PP MAX, Evolution Stones (Thunder, Moon, Sun, Shiny, Dawn, Dusk).
Shiny wants: HA Timid Froakie. Timid Electrike. HA Adamant Mawile. Adamant Scyther.
POKERUS available upon request with any trade.
I Really want a shiny zorua level 1 if possible pm me we can work out a offer
Several lv 1 Zoruas up for trade, not requesting any specific pokemon in return :3
Moves are Dark Pulse, Leer, Extrasensory, and Shadow Ball
so far all are male, but I am breeding more and will try for any specific nature, characteristic, or gender if you'd like!
~if you'd like it to have Pokerus, I can do that for you too!
Several lvl 1 Zoruas up for trade with Dark Pulse, Perfect Spd and SpAtk IV's
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I have several zoruas to trade all different genders and natures. PM me trade will really to take just about any non-hacked pokemon
I've got tons of Zorua from shiny breeding and I really want to get rid of some. Will trade for whatever you have to offer.
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I have level 1 Hasty and Timid Zorua, w/ Dark Pulse. Perfect HP, Speed and Special Attack IV's. All male. If you're interested I'm looking for level 50, untrained Vullaby. Or, a Tornadus.
Obviously I have White and the creators were morons for not making either visible for Pokedex and Global Trade Station access.
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I have legitimate level 1 female zorua's with timid natures to offer, looking in return for legitimate:
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Event Female Zorua or Zoroark Timid/Naive good ivs nickname Meema will offer big for this pm me if you have it please
I have SHiny Zorua UT and a Normal In game Zorua lv 10 UT.
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i have a modest nature zorua LV1 Pm if you're intrested
I have a lvl 9 female zorua with a naughty nature
it's not from an event (i got it's mother in a trade)
I'm willing to trade for charmander, growlithe, pidgey, eevee or glaceon ( all preferably female) or ditto (any gender is good), all below lvl 50
pm me if you have another offer i might still trade if i'm interested (i'm still looking for flying, ice, dragon and fire pokemon, starters and regular pokemon from previous gens are also liked)
any nature is good for me really, i just want to have my favourite pokemon on my game (since i'm not past the league yet i can't get my pokemon from previous games)
i can also get you an egg if you'd like (have a male zoroark not up for trading so the eggs are definantly zorua)
----->ignore this post, will no longer be able to trade till halfway september (internet and wifi go byebye *sniff*)
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Also does any of you guys breeded zoura because I just try to get one in the beginning of the game
Im looking for a lv 1 male zorua with dark pulse egg move, nature doesnt really matter. Pm me with what youd like
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I'm looking for a english Zorua, male or female. Prefably male, but I don't mind. I don't have anything brilliant to trade. I was unable to get the wifi shiny pokemon at the time they were offered and i would really like a Zorua. I preferable don't want one with the following natures: Lonely, Lax, Hasty, Naive, Mild, Rash or Gentle. Though i know i'm not in a position to be fussy.
If you can help, then pm me.
I can breed Zorua with specific moves and natures. Looking for any shiny I don't have; IVs and natures of the shinies don't matter at all. PM me if interested!
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Found a shiny Beldum on a chain of 5. Battled, put it to sleep, chucked ball after ball...and watched it kill itself with struggle. FFFFF.
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I am trading a zorou egg lv 1 or a lv 1 zorou. I would like a victini any lv or depends on what pokemon you are offering in return. PM me if you are interested.
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Improved yields and expanded acreage will boost Canadian wheat output by 22% this year to a record 33.17 million tons, the government estimates. Canola production will jump 16% to an all-time high of 16.03 million, while barley expands 18% to 9.43 million, the most since 2009. Corn was forecast to match last year's record of 13.1 million tons.
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While capacity at grain elevators has increased 5.4% in the past decade to 11.6 million tons, that's down from 14 million in 1990, when the country had four times as many elevators, Canadian Grain Commission data show. The government doesn't track storage on the nation's farms, where production of grain and oilseeds are up 38% since 2003.
Grain Bags Canada, the largest seller of plastic sheets used as a cheaper alternative to metal bins for keeping harvested crops dry, has been sold out for the past month. It's the first time in its seven-year history that the Humboldt, Saskatchewan-based company had none to sell, including the popular 10-foot-by-300-foot (3-meter-by-91-meter) bag that can hold as many as 15,000 bushels, President Aaron Yeager said.
"We knew before harvest there was going to be a shortage of grain bags," said Yeager, adding that he plans on ordering as much as 40% more next year so he doesn't run out. "Every direction I look, I can see a bag or two in the distance, and they're not all mine."
Bumper Crops
Output in North America has rebounded after drought last year cut U.S. corn production by 13% and soybeans by 2.6%. Hail and adverse weather in 2012 reduced Canada's canola crop by 5.1%, and wheat and barley yields fell.
While planting in western Canada was delayed this year because of excess rain and cool weather, crops progressed as the weather improved. Wheat yields will be a record 3.23 tons per hectare, up 13% from last year; barley yields will jump 27 percent; and canola fields will produce 2.07 tons per hectare, up 31% from 2012, government data show.
"No one anticipated the size of the crop that we've actually got," which may take more than a year to market, said Brent Watchorn, executive vice-president of marketing for Winnipeg-based grain handler Richardson International.
Exports Rising
Export demand may soak up some of the surplus and help limit price declines. Canada will ship 20.5 million tons of its wheat crop to foreign buyers in the current crop year, the most since 1995, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Canola sales will jump 10% to 8 million tons, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada said Oct. 16.
Canola futures probably will rise to C$505 by the end of March, fueled by increased export demand, said Terry Reilly, a senior commodity analyst for Futures International in Chicago. Exports of oilseeds including canola may gain 12% on demand from China, Japan and Mexico, said Ken Campbell, a vice president of North American Softseed Crushing for Decatur, Illinois-based processor Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.
Farmers with storage may be reluctant sellers, and grain buyers may be eager to restock inventories depleted by last year's smaller crops, Richardson's Watchorn said. Wheat reserves before this year's harvest tumbled to a five-year low of 5.057 million tons, down 15% from a year earlier, and canola inventories fell 14% to 608,000 tons, Statistics Canada said Sept. 6.
Global Glut
A bumper crop in Canada will help global wheat output jump by 5.8% to 692.6 million tons, the most ever, in the 12 months that began July 1, the International Grains Council said on Sept. 26, boosting its forecast from a month earlier by 2 million tons. The council predicted corn production will rise 9.3% to a record 943.2 million tons.
The prospect of ample world supplies has kept hedge funds and other large speculators betting on a drop in wheat prices for the past nine months. Their net-short position on Sept. 27 was 35,000 futures and options contracts, while corn holdings were the most-bearish since the data began in 2006, at 126,345 contracts, according to the most-recent report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Data was suspended this month because of a partial U.S. government shutdown.
Wheat futures in Chicago will drop to $6.35 in the fourth quarter as output grows in Argentina, Australia and the Black Sea region, Rabobank analysts including Luke Chandler said in an Oct. 2 report. On Sept. 30, Damien Courvalin, a Goldman analyst, forecast $6.50 in three months. Corn, after touching a record $8.49 a bushel last year, may drop below $4 within 12 months, Citigroup said on Oct. 3. The grain was at $4.4275 today.
Canola Forecast
Canola probably will average C$470 in the 12 months through July, said Neil Townsend, the head of market research for Winnipeg-based CWB, formerly the Canadian Wheat Board. Prices averaged C$600 a year earlier.
Global food costs tracked by the United Nations dropped for a fifth straight month in September, led by a 25% plunge in cereal prices, the agency said Oct. 3. The "favorable supply outlook" will mean lower prices next year, the IMF said Oct. 8.
Grain supplies in Canada also may wait longer than normal on farms or in storage because there isn't enough shipping capacity by a rail industry that transports about 95% of the nation's crops, said Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Winnipeg-based Western Grain Elevator Association, which represents grain-handlers including Cargill and Glencore Xstrata Plc's Viterra unit. Companies may need twice as many rail cars as normal to move all the grain this year, he said.
On Ground
Most of the export-terminal capacity is sold out through November and some buyers are booking deliveries into April to make sure they're not waiting for supply, Richardson's Watchorn said. Three elevators that have exceeded their capacity are storing a total of 96,000 tons on the ground in the first week of October, according to the Canadian Grain Commission in Winnipeg.
Bast, the Manitoba farmer, said he spent C$150,000 this year to add 10,000 bushels of storage capacity, an 11% increase, including new silos and a grain dryer. That only gives him enough room to store about 60% of his crop, which means the rest will have to be sold at low prices or into someone else's bins.
"If the terminals are plugged and can't take more grain, then everything has to sit at a standstill," Bast said. "Everything is full at the farm right now, and we've got some more that's got to come off the field yet."


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I think these artist would be a good fit for Strange, especially with Aqualeo and Hopsin being the best fits. Who would you like to see Strange sign that hasnt been on there yet?
i like grant rice...i always forget about him
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I believe I have finally lost it.
Yes I have gone mad, bonkers, insane, cuckoo and crazy.
Why, you ask? Well to be dreadfully honest I am ashamed of myself. I truly committed a sin in the eyes of "Twenty Something Single Mums" the world over. This last weekend my lovely daughter was with her father, it was also the end of the month and there were two events that I had been invited to, the first, Kings of Leon(of which I had a FREE Ticket!) and then a night out, not only to watch the Currie Cup Final between the Lions and Sharks(an epic game apparently) but also have cocktails and party the night away with my friend the Minkster(and party the night away she did!).
How do you ask, does a woman decide? Well, if you happen to be me, you choose NEITHER. Yes, you heard me correctly, whilst everyone I know was living it up and having a jol, I had chosen to STUDY…..I feel sick just mentioning it.
My Saturday went something like this:
Working, Studying, Shopping, Short visit at a friend's place, Washing, Studying, Cooking and Studying.
Before you think I have completely and utterly lost my marbles, I didn't quite spend my entire Saturday evening studying. I did manage to watch "I am Legend" and "300″ and then prompted by plans for Sunday evening(which subsequently fell through), I spent some of that time painting my nails and straightening my hair.
Okay, you still think I'm nuts, I dont blame you, I really dont. But there is never just one reason for a persons seemingly demented behaviour and so I will say, begrudgedly, that one of the other reasons happened to be the fact that even though it is the end of the month, my budget tells me I'm in no shape to be living it up…..I feel sick again.
You see, October happened to be a very expensive month for me, and though I wont be going into details, there are some bills that are in dire need of paying this month…and we know how I feel about debt…absolutely paranoid…so yes, like a good little girl, I'll be paying those debts(I quake in fear of having my name put onto the Credit Bureau).
I look back on this weekend, and honestly, for the first time in a long time, feel a slight pang of regret. But only slight you see, for some, if not most of the party animals of this weekend gone by, are still suffering from hangovers from the pits of hell(and I cruelly laugh at them!).
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Never willingly stay at home at the end of the month(especially when free of all adult obligations)!
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The event is divided in two parts, a walk-through experience and a museum. I'm not going to talk about the exibition part, I think the photos at the end of this post are just enough. What I want to share with you is the walk-through.
When you enter the Experience, you have to pass through a tunnel which represents the time vortex, the Opening Theme accompanies you until you reach a room with some item from the first episodes of the last series. You'll have to wait for a few minutes before starting, then you'll be ushered into a room with some benches and a big screen. A recap of the episodes with the 11th will be showed and the voice of Matt Smith will introduce you to the event. At the end of the video a crack on the screen will open revealing a new room. A museum on the Starship UK. Some relics from the "past" will be introduced by a sort of holographic guide, including a Van Gogh paint and other stuff showed in the last five series (even the telescope appeared in "Tooth and Claws"). Look closely, the room is full of stuff from a lot of episodes and most of that things will not be introduced to you because of the Doctor. In fact, during the explanation there will be an interference on a monitor and Matt will appear. He is trapped in a sort of second Pandorica and he is searching for Amy and Rory, but all he managed to find is you... "Shoppers". He asks for your help to find the TARDIS and bring it back to him. He activates his sonic screwdriver and makes the TARDIS meterialize into the museum. You hear the tipic "Whooosh Whooosh" and the TARDIS is there, just a few steps from you. the door opens and, yes, it's bigger on the inside. You move into the TARDIS and place yourself in front of one the consoles, Matt explain how to drive the TARDIS (at least using the updates he made to make it easier to drive for humans, or at least kids... the TARDIS loves kids). Obviously you will not drive it correctly and you will made it land too early. You have to leave the TARDIS now, just to find where you are (ehi, the TARDIS has a second exit). You will RUN on a path with the echoes of Matt saying to you to don't blink... Yeah, you got the point, the path is full of Weeping Angels... I was expecting actors to play that part... No, there were holograms and believe me, they are so much scary!
At the end of the path you will be trapped by the Dalek Rangers (well, you know, the multi-color Daleks). They want to kill you in the very same moment they identify you as a human. Again Matt will try to save you stating that you are not humans, but a sort of sub-race... Shoppers. The Daleks doesn't trust him, but they will be interrutped again before they could kill you (poor Daleks). The old bronze Daleks appear and start a sort of war against the Dalek Rangers, all you have to do is RUN away to another room. The doctor is now free and into his TARDIS, but the crack is still open, so you have to put on your 3D glasses and the whole time vortex is showed to you with the magic of the 3D movie... Every Doctor's enemy is falling into it but before to disappear they will try to kill you (just to do something, you know). Daleks, Cybermen and even Weeping Angels will try to grab you. The most scary moment was with a Weeping Angel: He was just... falling... you know, as every statue could do... I turned to my girlfriend to see her reaction, but when I turned back to the screen I found one of his hands just a few inch from my head... I lost a beat of my heart in that moment...
It was amazing, with a meticulous eye for details. It's very immersive and funny and scary and Doctor-ish! I loved it!
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CDT announces passing the Superfest Torch to the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability Culture and the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind
The previous organizers of the Superfest International Disability Film Festival are thrilled to introduce the stellar new management team: Catherine Kudlick of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability and Bryan Bashin of the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind.
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Much of 2012 was spent developing plans for how to carry forward with Superfest International Disability Film Festival, now that the members of the core group are retiring, relocating or pursuing other passions. We invited a number of Bay Area disability culture specialists to tell us what they thought were the essential elements of Superfest and who had the vision, talent and energy to take it to the next level. We were soon led to Catherine Kudlick, Professor of History, SFSU, who became Director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability
(http://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu) in August 2012. Kudlick is charged with finding new ways to explore disability arts with both academic and community involvement. As many will recall, the late Prof. Longmore was a disability arts and culture leader who mentored young filmmakers and participated in Superfest to support their efforts. Kudlick introduced us to another new star in the Bay Area firmament, Bryan Bashin, the CEO of the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind
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Together, they have committed to continuing a Bay Area based festival that will annually showcase juried films of artistic excellence that portray disability or reflect on issues from a disability point of view. They are looking to expand the traditional film festival experience to include more fringe or experimental aspects, such as animation, television treatment of disability issues, collaborative events with film schools, a research room where students and film aficionados could tap into a disability film collection, and a "film camp" where film lovers could spend long weekends at an accessible retreat evaluating new or classic productions. As you can see, the new team is using a wide-angle lens to examine ways to make the festival experience more dynamic and involving a greater number of participants.
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The left-coast based international disability film festival, known as Superfest, is the longest running festival of its kind in the world. After its developmental years in Los Angeles in the 1980s, it was transferred to the Bay Area in 1998. Operated as a project of CDT (formerly Corporation on Disabilities & Telecommunication, now Culture, Disability, Talent), annual film festivals were held in Berkeley 1998-2011, under direction of Pamela Walker, succeeded by Liane Yasumoto in 2002.
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A few global blending layers of PS grain, noise etc. should wipe any detectable differences in noise profiles out if done properly. Obviously with some cost, but hardly for web usage.
Glad to see someone is thinking along the same lines I am... wonder if they've tested that...
added noise will not mask diffrences in original noise patterns - yes it will help hide them slightly but I doubt it will stop this working... as even with "new noise" the original noise will stilll create a differing pattern when mixed with the new noise!
As said by Karl Gnter Wnsch and AluKd, this method is known. The details (kurtosis) may be new, but even then I would have expected they used black + shot noise parametrizations. The contribution to the state-of-the-art is little.
Photoshoppers and detectors know this. They hide (or search) for different noise profiles or (ommitted in the work) different compression artefacts. Esp. wrong JPG blocks are detectable if they aren't aligned modulo eight.
I would have assumed that corresponding software became standard in forensic work a long time ago. It probably did.
Photoshop has its uses and strengths in the hands of professionals who, like magicians don't dispel all their procedures : )
This paper hints at the reason why proprietary noise reduction software such as Nikon's NX2 is so much more effective than e.g. Photoshop; proprietary software is inherently context-sensitive.
There should be an easy way around this detection. Simply take a noise reference shot of your camera (grey card) and overlay that over the final image (maybe after a pass of noise reduction on the shopped image. Why use the noise reference shot? Well it's a better representative than any algorithmic noise and would be harder to detect...
I wouldn't rely on any of these methods destroying the evidence without damaging the IQ so badly the image was unusable. My partner was doing research on digital watermarking years ago (the invisible kind), and those watermarks would survive all kinds of transformations and adulterations. The confidence in a match would decline, bit still be quite high even after the pictures has been messed around with quite a lot, including applying noise reduction and adding noise. Watermarks are just very subtle alterations that are effectively noise of a sort that can't be readily perceived and can't be identified as a watermark. The characteristic noise of an image is much stronger than a subtle watermark and would be even harder to eliminate without messing up the image completely.
Watermarking can also be used to detect if an image has been altered, and by approximately how much. Law enforcement was one of the only customers for the technology a decade ago, for evidence photos.
Watermarking is a completely different beast. It works by encrypting information by modulating somehow the carrier data, usually with strong reliance on redundancy.
No kind of watermarking survives "all kinds of transformations", either. Some fare better, some fare worse - some are even made weak on purpose to catch tampering.
The thing to understand here is that watermarking is (fairly) strong because it's made on purpose. It's not reliant on visible aspects, but on the underlying data. It's also very redundant.
Excellent. Maybe we will again be able to rely on photos as evidence ("the camera never lies") by being able to prove a photo has NOT been manipulated.
This meshes with an item on Australian ABC-TV Media Watch last night (www.abc.net.au/mediawatch) about Google Images being able to match almost any image with other images on the web, so proving or disproving an image's veracity. They used an image asserted by a newspaper to be of Osama bin Laden to prove that it was a fake - it was of another similar looking person.
So, two new tools come together to provide truth. This is good.
not likely anytime soon... the technology mentioned in the article can prove an image has been manipulated, but it can't definitely prove an image has not been manipulated... even the researchers admit that there are processes that their technology can't pick up...
Manipulation begins even before capturing a single image (choice of subject, context, composition, time, perspective, exposure, model make-up, pose, etc... ). Unless you are a forensic photographer maybe which are trained to keep such things neutral, I suppose.
That is one great looking putter.
No wonder the algos zeroed in on that one...
Similar techniques aren't entirely new:
No. It's the tendency for the statistical distribution of image noise to have a certain shape.
If there are algorithms to detect it, then the same algorithms can be used to hide it, what's the point really?
Much like the TSA deters only the stupid terrorists, this will deter those with weak photoshop mojo. I can't think of anything bad about deterring a bunch of people who are bad a photo manipulation from even trying.
Not that I bet you can recite, reverse engeneer or apply these algorithms.... thats the point!
Like algorythms of this complexity are a simple and easy thing to make?
Unless I am looking at pictures supplied by Joseph Stalin or Joe McCarthy, I could care less if photoshopping can be detected.
No, that's the American way of saying wot you just said and is perfectly understandable to those who live in the USA. But I do have to say that this fine example of being "divided by a common language" makes me cringe whenever I see or hear it ;-)
RPJG is correct and I couldn't care less about the pshp'g. Language, on the other hand, matters greatly and I couldn't care more about it!
The Americans I know would consider "I could care less" wrong. "I could care less" implies you do care somewhat, which is contrary to the intended meaning that you care very little or not at all. Idiom and usage override logic sometimes, but this is too much for me.
Anyone who works professionally with image compositing already knew this for quite a long time.
Most of the time compositing actually goes torwards making sources match in photographic aspects and that, yes, usually includes dosing BOTH photographs with heavy loads of NR.
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Wouldn't such images show a loss of detail (at the 100% level) due to the NR of the first step? Sure, it would need a different algorithm to detect the removal of noise and its replacement and you probably would not be able to tell the different areas apart but you would be able to detect that somebody was covering their tracks.
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All NR incurs in loss of real detail, so yeah, of course. It's pretty hard to differentiate this loss of real detail from the one you get from general, day-to-day editing, though.
The noise added will cover it, though, as any algorithm that looks for high frequency patterns will mistake noise for relevant data at any significant detection threshold. I mean, WE humans are fooled by random noise into thinking we're seeing more detail than there actually is.
One thing that COULD give away a composite would be large scale patterned noise, bit if they were searching for this kind of pattern mismatch, I'd guess they'd have quite a lot of false positives and wouldn't really catch all the real stuff.
does something like this but not this close though
i searched the above picture with this.
What if after you ps'd the pic, do some NR, and then add a bunch of random noise evenly on the pic, rinse and repeat. Would the software still be able to pick up the unmatched noise pattern?
I don't need an algorythm to see that picture is photoshopped.. And I'm not talking about the absurd subject. Or is that just me?
The bird is on a whole different plane of sharpness for instance.
Maybe, but the objective is to automate the detection process so that we can go through two million images to quickly narrow down composite ones for manual inspection, a task that would otherwise be impractical due to the labor and time involved.
So now the ante has been upped for compositing. Now one needs to get the new "uniform noise signature" filter posted by some hacker who just wants to meet the challenge. Next.
Good idea, but not bulletproof.
By printing and image on the transparency and doing alcohol pattern, you can undermine the method to the point it is non relevant.
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96A1 represent Beretta's evolution of the world famous 92FS pistol and it completely interchangeable with other 92 family magazines. The removable front sight allows the user to easily replace a damaged sight or replace it with an accessory sight. The frame of the A1's have an integral Mil-Std-1913 rail for rapid attachment of tactical lights and laser aiming devices. The internal recoil buffer increases service life by reducing stress on the receiver created by the more powerful .40 S&W caliber ammunition, while the captive recoil spring assembly's single-piece design simplifies the assembly and disassembly process and minimizes the possibility of spring loss.