It's also worth noting that the difference in lighting can be explained by the bamboo. The guy in the blue is getting direct sunlight from the right of the frame, but McAfee is, in part, shielded from it because of the plant.
It probably isn't fake. The original image is also a better resolution where it looks much more real.
Where is that better resolution picture? All the ones I've seen look fake to me. And not because of lighting. The image of him just looks very flat. No depth. And the angles of his head to body look like a picture was taken of him at a slight angle, printed on a flat board and then placed straight to the camera.
Based on what people are saying here, I think there are a lot of different styles.
For instance I have a friend who frantically selects and reselects small portions of the text the whole time. I on the other hand just highlight a line and hold shift then down arrow at the end of each line I know exactly which line is next to be read.
What's interesting to note is that Sweden doesn't extradite for political crimes. So, legally, there's nothing that Assange has to worry about. Honestly, the more I looked at it the more I started to wonder if he was just being paranoid.
Sweden has in the past illegally handed political asylum seekers over to the CIA without extradition requests, knowing these people would be handed back to the regime they escaped from, to be tortured.
Later Wikileaks released documents that showed that years after this had supposedly been stopped, Swedish military intelligence uncovered that CIA rendition flights were still ongoing, with the cooperation of Swedish airport staff.
So there might not be much for Assange to worry about legally, but that doesn't say much.
He might very well be paranoid, but Sweden hasn't exactly acted in a way that does anything to give someone in his position reasons to trust they'll even follow their own laws.
I think part of the problem is that many of them just get more headlines as a result of their weirdness. There are plenty of people fighting these fights without being insane, Schneier for one.
http://www.schneier.com/
You just don't hear him being accused of raping anyone, that's all.
You'd be surprised how far and deep the problem goes. I would also argue that it's not just limited to software patents in particular, but it's become common practice for many companies to create patents for anything they can imagine. This has resulted in a deluge of patents that have to be sorted out by the USPTO, and therefore a lot of bad, should-be-invalid patents get okayed.
(Summary: Competitor gets an illegitimate patent approved, and now a company that has been "infringing" on that patent since before they applied to get it has to stop making their product. Why? Because litigation will likely put them out of business, even if they win.)
I'm not against the idea of patents, but the direction they've been going in recently, in fact the direction our entire economy has been going in recently, has been that of favoring those with the money to blow on hordes of lawyers capable of interpreting and navigating the legal minefield they themselves have lobbied to create.
I'm surprised no one found this condemnation of a society "constantly getting louder with this new internet generation" to be oddly similar to the idea that "each successive generation is getting more and more immoral" -- an idea that I would argue has not only been thoroughly debunked, but also rather impossible as well.
Of course I'm not saying that overall our cities haven't increased in their background volume by virtue of more people and things such as air planes and leaf blowers, but to go another step further and call a entire generation of people inconsiderate and loud because they're used to being on a "solipsistic" internet smacks of a classic sense generational moral superiority.
And I'm also just as surprised that to come here, with as good of a community as I feel HN has, after scanning through the comments section, not a single person mentioned this in the first comment in each comment-tree. Instead it was a mess of "well, yes, us quiet people are so superior...".
It seems plausible that with the steadily increasing population density the overall loudness or chances of being near a source of loudness is actually increasing.
Also, "more immoral" is a claim going back thousands of years, which is in large part what makes it unlikely. The claim that the internet generation is louder is only making a claim about a trend in the last 20 years or so.
It probably isn't fake. The original image is also a better resolution where it looks much more real.