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I was more impressed when that bunch of Catalan Highschool Students did the same thing. They also had some fairly impressive photos as well.

Slashdotted, pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30721501@N05/collections/72157621244472915/

The Washington Coliseum in DC has a thin-shell concrete roof supported by an odd concrete exoskeleton. The construction method is known as the Zeiss-Dywidag process.

The method was somewhat popular in the early 20th-century, but seems to have fallen from favor after WWII. That said, the Coliseum is still standing, despite a great many years of abandonment and deliberate abuse. That said, it's a prime target for historical preservation, given that it's an architectural oddity, has a rich history (the Beatles played there!), and is in dire need of repair.

That would be this one:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2919900856_b2a2843b80.jpg

I hike, camp and mountain bike a lot, and I've found tons of uses for Google Earth.

I'll use it for research before going out on a trip. It has a convenient "Ruler" tool that I use for rough estimates of trip distance. I also like using it to spot interesting terrain near where I'll be, that I might not have have noticed otherwise. It's even helpful for mundane stuff like finding areas that might have good camping sites.

When I get back home I'll use it, along with GPS Visualizer, to plot GPS tracks. It gives a better idea of the landscape than plotting over a topo map or plain satellite images.

It's also useful for identifying mountains and other landmarks that I see while out. I can always whip out a topo map and figure it out from that, but Google Earth is easier and more accurate because I can position the viewport to closely match what I saw.

Inasmuch as these aren't actual 3d displays such as this or this, but simply stereo displays, very limited single-perspective (same as 2d) "flat-image-per-eye" technology from about 1900 or so, it seems somewhat beside the point to complain about entities marketing installation with the word "sync."

The market has already looked at the jug, poured the koolaid in its mouth, and swallowed it entirely on its own. There's little point in claiming they didn't want any koolaid.

It's 3D if the display offers more than one viewing angle, composite or not. Or to put it in a way that even the most uninformed consumer can grasp, if a one-eyed person (or a person with one eye closed) can view the object in the perspectives we expect from the real world, it's actually there to perceive. That's something worth characterizing as 3D display.

You said the Internet was its own society, and I immediately thought of this.

...lolcats turn 42.

They're a lot older than that.

Best typo this week

The telegraph was reporting a hardon collider operating at these energies. I know the french-swiss are a little light in the loafers, but that seems dangerous no matter your persuasion...

Downloading a file (from a P2P network) for private use is perfectly legal as long as there is no lucrative or collective use of the downloaded copy.

So this pretty much destroys copyright in Spain, right?

No.

As long as you don't sell it, Music is free?

No. You have to pay to see live music, you have to pay to buy a CD, you have to pay to buy guaranteed quality music from iTunes. You just don't have to pay to share music you like with other people, ensuring it gets the widest possible audience.

Collective use (what ever the hell that is) is also ok.

Are you sure this is what you want?

Yes. This has (at least) the following positive benefits:

- Killing recording industry (not musician's) profits (I want to help)

- As a side effect of the point above, helping independent music get an equal footing with artists backed by the big four (this could lead to music on the radio which isn't homogeneous shite!!)

- Increasing creativity and artistic output by allowing people to share things they like with each other.

I certainly hope that this can help make sure artists are celebrated on their artistic merits, rather than how much money they can bring in through aggressive, ubiquitous marketing campaigns.

Exactly how much talent did britney spears have, anyway?

I would not consider that a large and bulky scanner at all. Check out these scanners being used by Robarts Library in Toronto for the Internet Archive project: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15573112@N03/4252089363/in/set-72157623030966641/

Thanks for using my picture to illustrate the story http://www.flickr.com/photos/halans/137332282/

...besides, high-level programmers often underestimate just how big a sector embedded programming is. The $IDIOTS_PET_LANGUAGE is for a PC. Now get me more RAM and better CPU for all the devices running embedded software, that are in my sight range as I look around:

- my cell phone.
- 6 different monitors (OSD doesn't happen magically. Something remembers the settings...)
- a videoserver
- 2 cheap switches
- a regulated power supply
- a heat-controlled soldering iron
- a regular phone
- 3 PC keyboards (hey, neither PS2 nor USB protocols happen by themselves)
- 3 computer mice (optical, meaning pretty advanced image analysis)
- my hand watch
- a battery charger
- a USB hub
- a security motion sensor
- an MP3 player
- a webcam
- a multimeter
- a car alarm remote
- a pendrive.

These all were programmed either in VHDL, Asembler, or C. The phone has some J2ME code too. Think of upgrading each of these devices so much that its firmware could be rewritten in, say, Perl. Or C#.

Also, think about how much embedded programming is in every PC. Each device controller has its own firmware... my bet is any average house contains more embedded programs (in embedded devices) than PC applications on the "family PC" and stored on media.

High-level programming languages are nice and have their place, but considering embedded "a niche not worthy of attention" is a bad mistake. The proportions between amounts of server:desktop:embedded software are much closer to 1:1:1 than most "high-level" programmers are willing to admit.

The PIC micro-controller pic18F series and above have several nice C language tools that make embedded programming pretty nice.

My off-grid solar battery energy storage monitor using a pic18f8722 controller.
http://www.flickr.com/video_download.gne?id=4252648643

Early build construction slide-show.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaspook/sets/72157622934371746/show/

...besides, high-level programmers often underestimate just how big a sector embedded programming is. The $IDIOTS_PET_LANGUAGE is for a PC. Now get me more RAM and better CPU for all the devices running embedded software, that are in my sight range as I look around:

- my cell phone.
- 6 different monitors (OSD doesn't happen magically. Something remembers the settings...)
- a videoserver
- 2 cheap switches
- a regulated power supply
- a heat-controlled soldering iron
- a regular phone
- 3 PC keyboards (hey, neither PS2 nor USB protocols happen by themselves)
- 3 computer mice (optical, meaning pretty advanced image analysis)
- my hand watch
- a battery charger
- a USB hub
- a security motion sensor
- an MP3 player
- a webcam
- a multimeter
- a car alarm remote
- a pendrive.

These all were programmed either in VHDL, Asembler, or C. The phone has some J2ME code too. Think of upgrading each of these devices so much that its firmware could be rewritten in, say, Perl. Or C#.

Also, think about how much embedded programming is in every PC. Each device controller has its own firmware... my bet is any average house contains more embedded programs (in embedded devices) than PC applications on the "family PC" and stored on media.

High-level programming languages are nice and have their place, but considering embedded "a niche not worthy of attention" is a bad mistake. The proportions between amounts of server:desktop:embedded software are much closer to 1:1:1 than most "high-level" programmers are willing to admit.

The PIC micro-controller pic18F series and above have several nice C language tools that make embedded programming pretty nice.

My off-grid solar battery energy storage monitor using a pic18f8722 controller.
http://www.flickr.com/video_download.gne?id=4252648643

Early build construction slide-show.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaspook/sets/72157622934371746/show/

Deadpool would like a word with you...

Just to recap.. the video on their website states it's just below 3W per Gbit.
They actually put up a photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisco_pics/4406738473

Now... if i do the maths, that turns out to be 322000 Gbit * 3 = 966000W.
It strikes me as not very easy to handle from a heat dissipation point of view.

Here's an image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisco_pics/4406738473/sizes/o/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2680/4406738473_f7949d8a7f_o.jpg

This sounds exactly like what Smokey Yunick claims to have engineered back in the day. http://www.legendarycollectorcars.com/featured-vehicles/other-feature-cars/smokey-yunicks-hot-vapor-fiero-51-mpg-and-0-60-in-less-than-6-seconds-see-and-hear-it-run-in-our-exclusive-video/ Basically it uses hot gas vapor to improve fuel efficiency. It basically doubled the mileage of the Fiero's iron duke motor. Link to diagram: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2738903116_71abf7785c.jpg

Somebody did.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atendesigngroup/4408394372/in/set-72157623558035182/

It's analog. Since they don't have electricity, the computer in question is hydraulic, with power provided by the operator via pedals. ~

I thought this was going to be another boring videogame article until I actually read it:

-Portal gets surprise update March 1st
-People see new mystery achievement
-People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light
-Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places
-Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement
-Smart people yank .wav files out of game content folders and run them through SSTV programs [http://i49.tinypic.com/s4b7zn.jpg] [Edit: link should work now. Yes, it's darker than the original.]
-Produces 22 cryptic image files in a numbered sequence, 4 morse code
-Somebody runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number
-Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ)
-People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it
-Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info [backup/backup]
-End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork:
http://www.imagebanana.com/img/sdl9h...P3ARGcolor.gif http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2801/...b95fd393_o.jpg

THAT is neat!

Here is Tom Cruise demonstrating pinch and zoom in 2002. HERE

Software patents are going to be the death of Western success. Okay... maybe not the death but we are so going to catch a nasty cold from them.

Agreed.

My brother works with the poor in Brazil, and I've seen Rio favelas first-hand. There may be sewerage problems, but people there typically have satellite TV to watch the football. And lots of cellphones.

People have jobs. They party hard. It's not all crazy gunfights and despair.

It's really pretty darn cyberpunk. And beautiful in a strange way. Even the crime is just applied capitalism.

My photos
My 2009 travel blog

An excellent movie (and TV series) about the nature of everyday life in a modern Brazilian slum is City of Men (sequel of sorts to City of God, about the rise of the slums/gangs in the 1970s).

Generally taking a photo of someone and publishing it requires permission from the person photographed.

I'm sure these guys were more than happy to sign the release form. And they must have used a big stack of paper for this one

Did the zone the van was in make taller vehicles illegal? If not they've got fuck all to complain about. Hopping the dude's fence would have been trespassing. But driving by the place in a moving van isn't illegal. Google van shouldn't be either. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2219/2051749701_5b81783834.jpg --- Not taller than a moving van window.

Google is neither anonymous, nor does it use hidden cameras... and they'll take down or blur the photos if you ask. Not really the same as what you're implying there.

The cars aren't all that visible. Google Street View Car

It would be pure chance to see one coming.

The larger question is why you should have to ask for a take-down - rather than demanding that Google ask for your permission.

I really don't see the philosophical or policy basis for seeing this as something which privacy laws should prohibit. What is visible in public should be photographable to the public.

The neighborhood street was home to a kind of extended family.

It was a place for kids and dogs. The elderly who were no longer as agile or clear-headed as they once were. You see this thought idealized in the paintings of Norman Rockwell: Homecoming

The anonymous intruder with his hidden camera has never received such a welcome.

The above poster is referring to this link in the article.

"There is no such thing as too hot or too cold riding a bicycle, only inappropriate clothing."

What's the appropriate clothing for riding a bike in deep snow or on icy roads or in a blizzard

Great point.

Most of the so called content that iPhone users are missing out on are Flash based games. Consider those in a touch environment, oy vey.

And w/re to those web sites which choose to present core content behind a Flash binary instead of good old open, plain text: http://www.flickr.com/groups/annoying-flash/

All these sites can bugger off.

I drove over to the Canaveral National Seashore for this launch. The position of the sun made it very hazy from where I was. This shot is geotagged if you're so inclined to see exactly where it was taken. I didn't see that sonic boom wave and no one I was with made any mention of it either. That's really spectacular.

FWIW, I really love this photo of the launch which was taken by a guy in the same spot where I was. It captures the Atlas V flying past the sun which I thought was perfect given the nature of this mission.

-S

I drove over to the Canaveral National Seashore for this launch. The position of the sun made it very hazy from where I was. This shot is geotagged if you're so inclined to see exactly where it was taken. I didn't see that sonic boom wave and no one I was with made any mention of it either. That's really spectacular.

FWIW, I really love this photo of the launch which was taken by a guy in the same spot where I was. It captures the Atlas V flying past the sun which I thought was perfect given the nature of this mission.

-S

Of what possible use would a 'camera' be in locating a stolen laptop? Would they be able to identify anything other than a room with 1 or two walls in the background? If they saw a face, would that bring them realistically any closer to an arrest?

There's at least one case where a stolen computer took photos of the new owner (presumably either the thief or someone complicit / unwitting downstream in the fencing process) and then automatically posted the images online. The photos show a clear image of the person's face, plus rather large tattoos on each arm. Additionally, Flickr provided the IP address the photos were posted from.

AFAICT these pictures were not terribly useful; I'm assuming that if the information led to recovery of the computer the owner would mention it in their blog. If so, it would imply that it's not simple to use webcam information to recover stolen hardware.

It would be cool if, say, the IR spectrum or just more dynamic range in the visible spectrum could be tone-mapped to human perception in this way, resulting in perceptually sharper images by way of a direct retinal implant.

I used some cat6 ethernet I bought at newegg for cheap, and already crimped. Then I bought some of these from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812993025. I have seen other sites that carry them too, and they worked great in the plates that I got at home depot. Finally, a trip to home depot for some low voltage boxes and some modular wall plates. I have done 2 rooms for around $40 bucks, but most of my cost was the couplers and tools. The boxes and plates are really cheap and I also picked up a bag of blank plugs and some coax cable plugs.

It helped that I have a drop ceiling, full basement, but Lowes sells a long flexible drill bit just for doing wiring. I ended up putting a gig-e switch in my office and one in my basement. I don't know how fast they are since I only have one gig-e computer, but the switches say they connect at gig-e.

I have some photos of what I done on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianjpugh/sets/72157621578462074/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianjpugh/sets/72157622296384977/

I used some cat6 ethernet I bought at newegg for cheap, and already crimped. Then I bought some of these from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812993025. I have seen other sites that carry them too, and they worked great in the plates that I got at home depot. Finally, a trip to home depot for some low voltage boxes and some modular wall plates. I have done 2 rooms for around $40 bucks, but most of my cost was the couplers and tools. The boxes and plates are really cheap and I also picked up a bag of blank plugs and some coax cable plugs.

It helped that I have a drop ceiling, full basement, but Lowes sells a long flexible drill bit just for doing wiring. I ended up putting a gig-e switch in my office and one in my basement. I don't know how fast they are since I only have one gig-e computer, but the switches say they connect at gig-e.

I have some photos of what I done on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianjpugh/sets/72157621578462074/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianjpugh/sets/72157622296384977/

Slashdot got a nickel for every typo...

...Taco could easily have enough money to buy his PT Cruiser back?

Can you say eyesore?

Some infrastructure the government should contract out to business. And then mandate free access to all competitors. Like roads, water, sewage. For some reason, phone, cable and internet didn't follow that philosophy.

I don't drag it out very often, but still have this one up on the closet shelf. 20 MHz 386SX, separate floating point coprocessor, pre-1.0 Linux, MGR windowing software. Passive matrix 640x480 LCD display, MGR drove it in one-bit mode. I recall doing a large amount of technical work on it -- simulations, 100-page technical reports, etc. Four D-sized nicad batteries lasted about two hours, but it was easy to carry a spare set.

Some stills cameras, e.g. on phones, are shutterless as well, but often have some interesting artefacts.

Ha, sweet; but that's not the most illustrative image from that set. I prefer This one.. you know, since hardware folk might mistake your linked image with some new, weed-whacker style floppy propeller system. :3

In the photo I linked, I love how the "pseudoblades" also have well-defined shadows xD

Some stills cameras, e.g. on phones, are shutterless as well, but often have some interesting artefacts.

Ha, sweet; but that's not the most illustrative image from that set. I prefer This one.. you know, since hardware folk might mistake your linked image with some new, weed-whacker style floppy propeller system. :3

In the photo I linked, I love how the "pseudoblades" also have well-defined shadows xD

There are already shutterless cameras. They're called video cameras...

Some stills cameras, e.g. on phones, are shutterless as well, but often have some interesting artefacts.

In this case it is probably due to the high level of correlation between pixel position and "shutter" time. I'm guessing that, in the paper, (judging only by the abstract) they are using a pseudo-random pattern for the pixel sampling which would trade these weird effects for 'noise' which would be less obvious.

Weird. The story made me suddenly phobic of close-ups of Mars mooning.

Forget buses, what about those huge Chevy SUVs with Olympic logos, that VANOC suits ride around in? And, no, they aren't hybrid.

Why do they need those kinds of cars to drive around? So far as I know, they don't use them to take kids on weekend picnic...

A 5'3", 170 lb (BMI=30) person like this is not going to spill into your seat. For airline seat purposes straight weight is probably a better indicator than BMI.

The problems with your argument are as follows:

(1) "Mayor Tommy Battle" and his "task force to include 25 community leaders" does not equate to Alabama congresscritters, Alabama citizens in general, or the tea party movement.
(2) Nor do I really think if we took a poll of Alabama's citizens that we would find a majority who thought Obama was "fascist" or "communist".
(3) So far I haven't found anything definitive about Mr. Battle's political affiliation... maybe someone else can make a more skilled research. But the best lead I have is that he spoke at a conference for Democrat women. It may be the case your assumption he represents conservative groups is incorrect. Was it substantiated by anything other than seeing the word Alabama?
(4) Promoting small government does not preclude people from supporting the existence of certain government programs. I mean, theoretically you are talking about conservatives (or some crude caricature thereof), not anarcho-capitalists. As "the Alabama task force fighting the new plan includes former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and former Ares project manager Steve Cook," I think it there are probably some decent balancing arguments for maintaining the program.

I'm not saying that securing pork isn't likely to be among the motivations, or that there mightn't be some hypocrisy; but as far as establishing either of those points goes, all you did was rant off some wild generalizations.

FYI. The biggest rack is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theogeo/4167451445/

You forgot the link http://www.flickr.com/groups/42852929@N00/ (Warning: NSFW)