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Computers, Court, and Fingerprints
Degrees writes "Should Law Enforcement be allowed to Photoshop fingerprints? That is the question posed in this article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The suspect is charged with murder, and the evidence was circumstantial before the fingerprint enhancment. At the end, the crime scene investigators say they want encrypted cameras. The implication is they want DRM-enabled digital cameras with software for full audit-trail capability. Would that make the Photoshoping more credible? Would DRM cameras be a good thing for Joe Citizen?"
I don't want them tracing those nude pictures of my 17 year old girlfriend back to me... I prefer to just put them out on gnutella for all to see anonymously! ;)
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Photoshop the fingerprints so the ridges and whorls are real big.
Like double D's or so.
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...just as long as they don't go effect happy and start making lens flares and drop shadows and start saying "l00k 47 my 31337 gr4ph1x" during court room proceedings.
To make a pun demonstrates the highest understanding of a language
Just google a bit and you can see he's right.
get it? google?
haa haa ha ha ah never mind
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This concern has been expressed more eloquently by a young but wise voice:
"Verbing weirds language." -- Calvin, to Hobbes
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I'm pretty sure what makes it a word is having the other person or people understand it without explanation. Even if you don't know what Photoshop is or what one does with it, the meaning of "photoshopping" can certainly be glorked from context.
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Nonsense. I've seen with my own eyes how a fuzzy security camera or satellite photograph clearly show faces or license plate numbers using sophisticated software in several major Hollywood movies.
Come on. The real reason they should not be able to Photoshop pictures of fingerprints is that they should have to use the gimp instead.