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Taken with a Canon EOS 50D camera -- no telescope.

These too, though you have to be somewhat northerly to see this stuff.

THAT is what YOU could see, if you could get your town to turn off the lights.

Streetlights? Phooey. Just carry a flashlight. They also make special lamps that don't reflect a lot of light upwards if you must have light (why???)

You -- and especially your kids, if you have any -- are missing a heck of a lot if you live, as most do, in the midst of light pollution.

Trust me on this one: Outdoor artificial lighting is overrated.

Taken with a Canon EOS 50D camera -- no telescope.

These too, though you have to be somewhat northerly to see this stuff.

THAT is what YOU could see, if you could get your town to turn off the lights.

Streetlights? Phooey. Just carry a flashlight. They also make special lamps that don't reflect a lot of light upwards if you must have light (why???)

You -- and especially your kids, if you have any -- are missing a heck of a lot if you live, as most do, in the midst of light pollution.

Trust me on this one: Outdoor artificial lighting is overrated.

Do you know the R value of 2 ft of concrete? Its pretty high.... Like R20 and higher. It also has a high specific heat load holding ability.

There is a reason people do not make houses out of it though. Continuous pour concrete has been around a long time. Hell its just a matter of putting up the forms and filling the troughs.

Cost. Yep that much concrete costs quite a decent amount to pour, work, mix, make, transport. You then end up building another house on the inside. Because most people do not like concrete walls. So you frame another house on the inside to cover it up.

You can get to 5-10 stories with concrete. Its not that difficult and well understood engineering problem.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rac8/5205848122/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

Also most stick frame houses are put up in under a week. The other 6 months is spent putting up dry wall. Waiting on the electrician to show up. The carpet guy is late by 6 days... and so on. It is all the finish work that takes *much* longer than the outside skin of the house.

PRESIDENT MADAGASCAR
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3533/3875134850_c4dc95299a.jpg

They are merely respectable businessmen, offering you their protection...

Nerd appeal? http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkdouyk/241484893/

Completely true - Facebook (where I would guess 80%+ of the photos are from cameraphones) is rapidly making Flick as irrelevant as Kodak...

And that doesn't even include the fact that the claim no one uses cameraphones on Flickr is completely bogus anyway - Flickr actually says the iPhone has been the #1 camera on their site for a while now... http://www.flickr.com/cameras/

True - far fewer use Flickr than Facebook. Having said that, I use Flickr for photos (despite being an avid Facebook user too), and so do most of my friends (in fact, they introduced me to Flickr originally). For me at least, it offers a number of advantages over FB:

- It's built for photos from the ground up, rather than being a social networking site that also happens to let you upload photos. So it has a lot of useful image-specific tools that Facebook doesn't. It also has some nice geotagging features, allows you to preserve/edit/view EXIF information, proper creative-commons-based image rights controls etc.

- Much simpler privacy controls. Basically, for each photo, it's either public (viewable at http://www.flickr.com/username by anyone - no Flickr account needed), or viewable only by Flickr friends. When sharing photos with friends and family (who may or may not have a Facebook account), it's simpler to say "go to this URL to see my photos", than it is to get them to sign up to Facebook, become my friend etc. (I know that can probably set up FB such that certain photos are visible to non-members while still hiding all the rest of my posts and information ... I haven't looked into it ... but FB's privacy controls are more complex and overkill for the task at hand. Flickr seems a simpler and more elegant solution.)

- It's not Facebook. While I'm not saying that I 'trust' Yahoo more than I do Facebook (or any other large corporation for that matter), it can't hurt not to have all my stuff in one place, right? If Facebook suddenly suffers a major security flaw, or decides to sell everyone's data or some other evil thing, at least they won't have my photos :) (Similarly, if Flickr goes bad, they have my photos, but not any other personal info that FB has).

- It was (and frankly, still is) a nicer site to use and navigate than FB. And it used to be kinda cool before Yahoo took it over... :(

Submission fails to note that they want pictures of the same locations as the original project.

Plus, if you follow through to the collection of original photos you're supposed to recreate you'll discover that they've helpfully sorted them by photographer, and not, say, location.

Because who wouldn't want to sift through 15,000 photos organized by photographer to see if they can find one near them that they can recreate?

So, 5 years ago I bought this PC, with a fairly tricked out MoBo and case (each about $200); total computer cost was around $800, with the latest greatest hardware (it has a Core2 duo E6300, from when they were brand new). Its still running beautifully today, on Win7 (purchased student upgrade for $30). Ive done a few graphics and drive upgrades, so in total Ive spent about $1000 on it. How much would a new Mac cost? And for that matter, what are the chances the processor would still be supported, if I had gone Mac back then?

Sorry, you can justify Mac usage on personal preference, but dont ever try to make the case that its for financial reasons, cause thats utter bullocks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/madaboutmacs/233221927/

Bashing would imply false information simply meant to insult. Which bit of data do you find not factual?

Apart from the meaning of "bashing"? Uh - your whole story.

Nice certificate fact basher. You have a very distinctive writing/ranting style

What do you consider to be SV that Santa Clara isn't part of it? Maps like this, which get put up as posters in offices throughout the area, make it pretty clear than Santa Clara is a major part of SV.

It's obvious what the problem is—not enough is being done to promote employee awareness of their responsibility to help protect their own work and that of their colleagues. To that end, I propose setting up a site where IT people can download informative posters and pamphlets to fight back in the war not against personal freedom but against data integrity. Here is one example of a precedent.

There are some vending machine combos that this makes sense for, but seriously - pudding?"

Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?

There are some vending machine combos that this makes sense for, but seriously - pudding?"

I was not expecting to see whiskey, but this instead.

Please have a look at this concept of a window / ventilator http://www.flickr.com/photos/46922157@N00/

he just took a info graphic from another blogger who did all the research while he did not do any and called it bull-crap. because 'he' personally thinks those companies are not out to control what the media reports, despite all the evidence on how murdoch for example runs news corp and all that he owns? or how the news companies G.E. owns were downplaying the whole nuclear crisis in japan because *gasp* they make reactors themselves?
and he was given top billing on a slashdot article that made the front page? http://www.flickr.com/photos/70805309@N00/319047856/ and yes i know the irony involved in posting that picture.

The quote below is from the he.net website, that doesn't seem all that great.

But people are starting to deploy it now, look at the growth of the number of BGP route entries in the routing tables:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23667510@N03/6493294453 (IPv4)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23667510@N03/6493294527 (IPv6)

And that is even though we need less IPv6 entries than IPv4 per network, because one IPv6 entry is much larger than one IPv4 entry. A lot of networks that now have 4 or 10 IPv4 entries, might now only need 1 or 2 IPv6 entries.

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Networks Running IPv6

We can measure the percentage of networks running IPv6 by comparing the set of ASes in the IPv6 routing table to those in the combined set of IPv4 and IPv6.

IPv4 and IPv6 RIBs Last Parsed: Sun Dec 11 01:07:46 PST 2011
IPv4 ASes: 39706
IPv6 ASes: 4923
ASes using only IPv4: 34893
ASes using only IPv6: 110
ASes using IPv4 and IPv6: 4813
ASes using IPv4 or IPv6: 39816
Percentage of ASes (IPv4 or IPv6) running IPv6: 12.4%

The quote below is from the he.net website, that doesn't seem all that great.

But people are starting to deploy it now, look at the growth of the number of BGP route entries in the routing tables:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23667510@N03/6493294453 (IPv4)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23667510@N03/6493294527 (IPv6)

And that is even though we need less IPv6 entries than IPv4 per network, because one IPv6 entry is much larger than one IPv4 entry. A lot of networks that now have 4 or 10 IPv4 entries, might now only need 1 or 2 IPv6 entries.

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Networks Running IPv6

We can measure the percentage of networks running IPv6 by comparing the set of ASes in the IPv6 routing table to those in the combined set of IPv4 and IPv6.

IPv4 and IPv6 RIBs Last Parsed: Sun Dec 11 01:07:46 PST 2011
IPv4 ASes: 39706
IPv6 ASes: 4923
ASes using only IPv4: 34893
ASes using only IPv6: 110
ASes using IPv4 and IPv6: 4813
ASes using IPv4 or IPv6: 39816
Percentage of ASes (IPv4 or IPv6) running IPv6: 12.4%

Issuing a DMCA-takedown notice for content you don't own copyright to is illegal, yes.

Ignorance is bliss, eh?

Is that what happened? So far only according to a known criminal, at the most to me it's amusing that one criminal is crying about another criminal.
Seriously who gives a fuck? It's music and video since when did "entertainment" become so important as to occupy more than a passing moment of thought?
Judging by your comments one would think it was great big deal worth fussing about, it isn't.

Ignorance is bliss, if you knew everything that went on in this world you would most likely curl up an die or outright kill yourself like the photographer of this picture did.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex978/1016152029/

It's a brutal, cruel World we live in, if you want to spend your energy fussing about 2 criminals screwing each other be my guest, I would think you might want to direct that energy to a more meaningful purpose, for example the children like the one in the photo.

How would the US react if Iran sent a drone?

The US would do the same thing the USSR did 50 years ago to a U2: shoot it down and complain.

Are you so sure?

Russian aircraft use to routinely overfly Alaska and penetrate as far as 100 miles from Fairbanks and the US did nothing. In recent times they F15s at Galena Forward Operations base, but even those are gone these days.

There is very little to be gleaned in drone surveillance over the US because we know better than to leave anything out side in view of satellites, and the society is so open there are easier ways.

Why can Samsung (let alone others) still make phones (Android even) that don't like iPhones if there is no way to do it? http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6119/6351394329_549cd8a502_o.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1321492746269

I may have remember the details wrong, but that doesn't detract from my point. Apparently red light is 750nm, not ~600 (oops). I remember the wavelength discussed as "not much longer". A wavelength of 1100nm is not that much longer than 750m, especially considering that up 10um is still considered to be IR.

One cool thing that I found while googling is this picture of someone doing the same kind of test with an incandescent light bulb, but using IR sensitive cameras to visually demonstrate the effect.

And anyway, you're kind of proving my point: your superior knowledge wins over a nice sounding story. I didn't even have to be wrong on purpose, merely having a fuzzy recollection of events was enough. Nonetheless, you have a method available to you for not just detecting the error, but demonstrating the correct answer. That's capability is just not available in any religion. You're told to believe whatever your religious text and/or people in positions of power say, and there's not much you can say to correct them -- because you have no way of discovering and then demonstrating what is 'correct', even in principle.

For the right number, several possible startups already exist. http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinkent/140341111/

Although, I'm sure some of them are not legal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Td--Hltuol

Or Good for You.. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=giant+tesla+coils+in+russia&oq=giant+tesla+coils+in+russia&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=18110l28969l0l29610l27l27l0l10l10l0l297l3564l0.8.9l17l0 Sorry if any of these links are down.. seem to have struck a nerve with someone!

Brits do one better and use outright Liddless Eye symbology.

I know I'm being pedantic/trolling, but I can't let this one slide. See those lines around the Underground-symbol-eye things, those would be eyelids.

One of the neighbors is particularly upset about it to this day. They put up a sign that's visible from the runway. http://www.flickr.com/photos/picatoria/3309671778/

Privacy advocates (such as myself) are rightly worried about such technology for exactly the reason their name implies.

Brits do one better and use outright Liddless Eye symbology.

It's kinda depressing to realize our leaders consider Sauron their ideal.

I went like Canon IXUS v3, Canon Ixus 80, Canon EOS 500D (DSLR), got my first prime L lens some time later, then sold the EF-S lenses, then the 500D, got the EOS 5D II (which is very nice). Got some more L lenses. Got my own photo studio and studio lights, light formers, and then I took this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiei/6385882661/ Now I'm with Phase One 645 DF with a Phase One P25 (digital medium format). The DSLRs are great to learn about aperture and time variables. Oh and once you start with the lights, don't forget the light meter. I don't want to miss it. My friends are like taking 5 - 20 pictures with flash to finally get an approximately right lightning. A good picture is made of 60 % light, 30 % lens, 10 % camera.

I can second this. I've got an S95 (previous model) and love it. Full automatic to full manual mode and fits in your pocket. Has the sensor of the low-end Canon SLR's - much better than the sensor used in many point-n-shoots. The S90 was also very good, but only does standard video, not HD.

I bought it after owning a Canon S230 for 8 years. I loved that one so much (built like a tank, and got some great shots out of it) I got the S90, then upgraded to the S95 shortly after. Find one of those if you don't want to pay full price for the S100.

CHDK also works on the S90 and S95 (don't know about the S100 yet), if you want to do some advanced hacking (like writing scripts!)

Examples:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/canonpowershot_s95/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/canonpowershots100/

CHDK:
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

I can second this. I've got an S95 (previous model) and love it. Full automatic to full manual mode and fits in your pocket. Has the sensor of the low-end Canon SLR's - much better than the sensor used in many point-n-shoots. The S90 was also very good, but only does standard video, not HD.

I bought it after owning a Canon S230 for 8 years. I loved that one so much (built like a tank, and got some great shots out of it) I got the S90, then upgraded to the S95 shortly after. Find one of those if you don't want to pay full price for the S100.

CHDK also works on the S90 and S95 (don't know about the S100 yet), if you want to do some advanced hacking (like writing scripts!)

Examples:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/canonpowershot_s95/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/canonpowershots100/

CHDK:
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

There are lots of things one can photograph without needing anything special. It's certainly possible to take a striking photo even with a cell phone. It can look good, if the conditions are right.

Now, that's assuming you don't have special needs. If you want to take photos in challenging conditions, you probably want to get a DSLR. Challenging conditions include: low light (that includes indoors), things that are very far away (say, wildlife photography), things that are very small, long exposures, when you want a shallow depth of field, and situations that require something better than the on-camera flash.

You can try to do most of that with a point and shoot, but even if you choose your composition wonderfully it still won't look very good. DSLRs produce much better results, and also have the huge advantage of being able to choose the lens. I think for most basic things the actual DSLR isn't all that important, as you already gain a huge amount of flexibility from just being able to use a different lens.

They do. It's called The Millionaire

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13122283@N04/2688454970/in/set-72157606286431778

Software defined radio. Makes analog radios look, sound and feel like the stone age.

Nuff' said. :o)

There's also this: http://www.veezzle.com/photo/204092/Taiwanese-Tomato-Snack
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34001272@N02/3176533346/

In Taiwan it's also common to buy and snack on cherry tomatoes on skewers. Not sure if they're all sweetened or something. Anyway Google is getting more useless nowadays so I can't give better links/references :).

Our Man Flint had a nice watch with a little T-shaped arm that telescoped out and tapped his wrist.

At least one OPDX guy has shown up with a pistol open-carried. He and the gun were escorted out by police, just to check his legality, from what I understand.

But no violence or arrests occurred.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zervas/6218025265/in/set-72157627833942922/lightbox/

By my estimations they will look something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alttext/247484506/

He's neither naive nor an idiot, you're just missing his point. The point isn't that all livestock grazes happily; the point is that there exists land where it's far more efficient to raise animals than grow crops. Consider this rough, wet, rocky, hilly terrain: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15584779@N00/4974177967/ This isn't suited to growing much, but you'll see plenty of sheep. And they are free to roam about the hills, eating whatever then can find. (I wouldn't say roam happily tho' - the weather is pretty miserable for most of the year ;)

I'm developing features for software defined radio. Higher end radios, for those of you who don't know, tend to have a lot of controls. Bandwidths, IF shift, notch filter(s) with frequency and Q settings, AGC decay, intercept and knee, frequency, band, memories, panadaptor controls, waterfall controls, demodulator type, demodulator settings... it really goes on for quite a while.

Initially, I mapped a whole bunch of functions to keys, but eventually ran out of keys. Sure, there are on-screen controls, but they're not as nice as physical knobs. Essentially similar to the problem the submitter faces, at least in some respects.

So, my solution? First, a Griffin Tech Powermate knob for tuning -- because that's what you do most of with a radio. Big knob, very precise, easy to use. Then, a Behringer BCR2000 B-control rotary control deck. Cost was about $156 from Amazon. This is a MIDI device that can map any of 32 knobs and 24 buttons to arbitrary functions. Coding to the device was relatively simple; implement a MIDI learn function, then map whatever seemed fun to a physical knob or button. The board will remember several scenes, too, so you can set up a bunch of controls all at once. Works great. There's another version of the board with a somewhat similar price but a different complement of controls, works similarly, though I think it's a bit more biased towards audio concepts (faders, specifically.)

There are other physical control solutions that utilize MIDI out there as well, but I have found none as economical as the BCR2000. BTW, I don't have anything to do with Behringer other than as a satisfied customer.

freetards

At the point that you start picking on the mentally ill to try to divide us up you are beginning to look like a pretty sad and pathetic individual.

The Android headers conform to this.

You know this? You have actually checked them all? I mean, I personally believe this. I think Google is a pretty careful and well resourced company which isn't likely to screw up, but

So, where's the problem? Oh, right ... people who think that EVERYTHING should be protected when it's their code, and NOTHING should be protected if it's someone elses code.

The problem is pretty clear. People signed up to Linux in the belief that they were putting in to a common pot that everybody would have a chance of having a meal from. Now Google is actively looking for ways to split out the meat into a special strainer and eat from those bits of that pot whilst not letting anyone else.

This fud falls into the same category that Stallman and the FSF were engaged in back in August. Lots of "blah-blah-blah" and no substance - just another attempt to get some attention with a baseless attack on Android.

You think that it isn't a problem that there are thousands of people who have the right to terminate my manufacturers license to give me updates to my phone? But then in fact; we see your signature and realise that this wasn't meant as some thinking, logical attack:

RMS is asking police to investigate a murder attempt. Someone slipped Odor-Eaters into his sandals.

The first time you see this, it's pretty funny. Stupid, immature, but then who doesn't occasionally laugh at a "poo" joke? Potty fart.. HA ha haaa... oh. But this isn't just a joke to you. This is your signature which you have now kept for months on end. This is how you define your personality; by a personal attack on someone else's hygiene "opportunities". At the very least it's the theme you would like to use to link your posts together. I mean fuck sake; what is your problem?? Did RMS take you to Catholic church as a child or something?

Freud said it best - he wasn't worried about the nutcases he treated, but the nutcases who were friends.

Freud was a nutcase himself. What an appropriate post.

Sure, you can do it all digitally, but the expense behind digital cameras, flat panel display so everyone can see, requiring someone technically adept and posting all the photos, etc. makes a Polaroid seem too simple.

See, the problem is... you've failed to do the math. Quite aside from the cost of the camera, Polaroids were (usually considerably) more than $1/shot. And they're low-resolution. And they're slow. And they smell. And they're a waste of paper, *particularly* in the role you cast them here. Know how I know? Used to use them as tests before committing to 35mm.

But we keep funding projects that never get off the ground.

Looks like they are off the ground to me?

Since the links in TFA were quite unhelpful: it's a small 2-seater electric car that's intended for short trips only. The $7000 gets you the car and there's an unspecified fee to lease the battery.

Overview: http://green.autoblog.com/2011/10/31/crowd-sourced-streetscooter-electric-vehicle/

Picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/think_on_tour/4194887078/in/photostream

Not sure I'm following you, but I have to say that thunderbolt is in no way a viable replacement for a Mac pro.

I run six monitors and four TB-class HDs; can you imagine the nest of cables and wall warts that would require if the expansion method available was thunderbolt, rather than four PCI slots and four hard drive caddies?

I'm *really* hoping the mac pro thing was just a rumor, because I'm not particularly looking forward to having to Hackintosh a machine together to get the performance and configuration I need. And if they make that impossible somehow, I'll have to consider moving to something more open, and at this juncture, Linux looks like the only game in town, unless someone starts an OSX clone project (lord, I wish they would!)

When you give an application to Apple to test, if it involves accounts you have to give them working logins. So it could be the test logins worked OK, just not some (or all?) general logins.

It was failing as soon as it started, way before you could enter any account details.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dynamitedotorg/6306722740/in/photostream

"It's actually illegal to drive above the speed limit or below the speed limit in the US"

This is incorrect for two reasons.
1. The US doesn't have uniform driving laws
2. I don't know of any state with such a law.

I'll give you point 1, but point 2 means you must live under a rock. Given that limits can be upper and lower, you must never have seen a minimum speed sign. Let me provide one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetruthabout/2727717062/

I don't know how wide spread these are, but they definately have them across the river from me in Minnesota.

The fair tax contains provision for allowing the basics to go untaxed. This is why it is NOT unfair to the middle and lower classes. Not mentioning this is paramount to bald faced deception.

Current tax mechanism in a nutshell

Why the current tax system is hopelessly regressive

Why a/the fair tax is FAIR

The fair tax contains provision for allowing the basics to go untaxed. This is why it is NOT unfair to the middle and lower classes. Not mentioning this is paramount to bald faced deception.

Current tax mechanism in a nutshell

Why the current tax system is hopelessly regressive

Why a/the fair tax is FAIR