[Kosh]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122900117.html


Can Sony do something that is NOT controvertial for once?

[Solatar]

I used to like Sony. Now I really won't touch any of their stuff...

I just don't like Microsoft, but consider them a necessary evil...

Go Nintendo!

[achtung]

  That's funny!

[Taristin]

I've hated sony since my PS2 died on my a year afer purchase, and their actions (with the rootkit, atrac, and this) only reinforce my bias. **** Sony.

[Mefustae]

I recall Microsoft getting in similar - albeit somewhat less vocal - **** about this sort of thing in Sydney around the time the Xbox was released. They went around the city spray-painting that insipid Xbox logo onto pavements, and ended up getting a mouthful from the city for their troubles.

Just testament to the fact that all big gaming companies are complete pratts... except Big N... 

[NGTM-1R]

Just testament to the fact that all big gaming companies are complete pratts... except Big N... 

Famous last words...

[Mefustae]

Famous last words...

Not really. Famous last words would be something like; "Ha! They couldn't hit an elephant at that dis-"

[Flipside]

Or...

'Pfah! That's not loaded!'

[karajorma]

If I were rich enough I'd buy the buildings and then go to Sony's corporate offices and spraypaint them. I'd love to know what charge they think they could bring against you when you can point to a building you own that they have done the exact same thing to.

[Turnsky]

they call it art?.. that's really not helped by the color of the wall it's painted on 

just to note, the characters painted look, well... stoned. 

[Kie99]

I've hated sony since my PS2 died on my a year afer purchase, and their actions (with the rootkit, atrac, and this) only reinforce my bias. **** Sony.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20051104

[Scuddie]

The painted characters look like bottom class, would-be "gangsta" hoodies, who usually don't have enough money to afford PSPs.  Either that, or they're a ho who spent her free cash on a PSP.  Either one is equivalently ridiculous.

[Turnsky]

The painted characters look like bottom class, would-be "gangsta" hoodies, who usually don't have enough money to afford PSPs.  Either that, or they're a ho who spent her free cash on a PSP.  Either one is equivalently ridiculous.

  either that or the artist's a no talent hack who is color blind, and/or on LSD, and thus didn't need to color...

mind you, i wonder if some enterprising young kids decide to "color" and "edit" the advertisements on their own. 

[Ghostavo]

Waits for the day when Sega will rise from it's softwary grave and take the console world by surprise.

[achtung]

Waits for the day when Sega will rise from it's softwary grave and take the console world by surprise.

That will signal the beggining of the end days!

[SadisticSid]

Sony seem to be able to do no good these days. Why aren't the PR alarms going off in the higher echelons of the company with these ludicrously controversial things? It's not like they could've expected the rootkit to remain undiscovered or their vandalism to remain unnoticed.

[Charismatic]

Anyone else notice that in the picture of it, you can tell its a jpeg cauze of the crap around the 'grafitti'. I think the picture is fake and the story is false as well. Anyone else think so? Even if its not a jpeg, it still shows evidence of it beign faked.

[Taristin]

Anyone else notice that in the picture of it, you can tell its a jpeg cauze of the crap around the 'grafitti'. I think the picture is fake and the story is false as well. Anyone else think so? Even if its not a jpeg, it still shows evidence of it beign faked.

[sandy]Uncalled for.[/sandy]

[Deepblue]

The painted characters look like bottom class, would-be "gangsta" hoodies, who usually don't have enough money to afford PSPs. Either that, or they're a ho who spent her free cash on a PSP. Either one is equivalently ridiculous.

either that or the artist's a no talent hack who is color blind, and/or on LSD, and thus didn't need to color...

mind you, i wonder if some enterprising young kids decide to "color" and "edit" the advertisements on their own.

Wish granted.

[Descenterace]

*BS*

[sandy]Uncalled for.[/sandy]

Seconded.

Yes, JPEGs have compression artifacts. That's pretty much what 'lossy compression' means. You can't tell anything from those artifacts in this case because the image is currently in JPEG form, so if the lines were added afterwards those artifacts would still be there.

If anything, those artifacts would suggest it was real. If the image was now a PNG (or other lossless format) and had been edited after being compressed as a JPEG, those artifacts would not be present.