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I have read the article and the associated Flickr post by the kid being the target of the school. The article features some of the photos; they are breathtaking. This kid got a knack for it, I tell'ya!

Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

The kid started to sell the pictures to parents, having confirmed with his teacher that he indeed held copyright to the pictures. Apparently the school did not take lightly to him earning money using school equipment and first incorrectly claimed that they owned the rights to the images. The kid knew more about copyright than they did, so they then changed their allegations to him invading peoples privacy by publishing photos where they could be identified on his Flickr page.

IANAL, but that might actually have some standing as opposed to the intial copyright claims. Funny how copyright has turned into a general-purpose, first-line-of-offense tool for media control these days. Anyway, the school itself actually did the same thing, by allegedly posting similar images on their social meda pages.

It should be possible to post images where the models can not be identified or where they have signed a model release form. Selling pictures to the parents should never be a problem.

I find it rather surprising that such an enterprising artist would not be supported. I can understand that the school might not want him to monopolize the equipment or similar but I doubt that was the case here.

The threats about being 'reported to the IRS' are also dubious; as long as he declares that income I doubt it would be any problems? In Sweden, where I live, you can earn quite a bit of income on the side, as a hobby, as long as you report it and pay taxes. Which you just do on a field in the income tax form.

Is there more to this story? We have no comment from the school (they have not responded). Maybe the school expected to be able to use these photos for free? Or maybe someones buddy sports photographer felt threatened by this kid's artistic merit and sent the principals after him?

CAPTCHA: disaster

For once, not xkcd.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

How about some common sense?

* Insert Blu Ray
* Ads / Trailers come up
* Can't skip the ads so I press *mute* on my AVR
* Can't skip the ads so I go to the bathroom until they are done
* 5 minutes later, finally at the main menu. Unmute, and I can do what I originally set out to do. Watch the freaking movie.

There is NO legal obligation that I _must_ watch the ads.

What, are you going to ban closing your eyes next??? /Oblg. DVD pirate experience

* http://farm5.static.flickr.com...

Some time in the future, SpaceX *does* plan on performing landing at Cape Canaveral. They already have control of what was formerly called Launch Complex 13. SpaceX has now renamed it "Landing Complex 1".

Only complaint I have, I really wish most of these telescopes were open to the public. I have never had the opportunity to look through anything bigger than a backyard telescope and it would be amazing to be able to see what a thirty meter telescope can do.

The big telescopes on top of Mauna Kea aren't exactly backyard efforts - they're more akin to giant multispectral digital cameras. I'd be surprised if there are any optical paths suitable for a conventional viewfinder - you're really not going to 'look through' one of these beasts.

You can get to see inside some of them, though - there are escorted summit tours with guides giving loads of information on what astronomers are doing up there, along with access to 'at least one' of the observatories. I went on such a tour a few years ago, and got to see inside one of the twin Keck telescopes. Bloody incredible.

It's really quite alien up there, with not much air. The tour required us to stay at the ~3km altitude visitor centre for an hour or two to help us acclimatise - we got to watch a video on the construction of the telescopes, and on quite how and why the mountain was so important to the native Hawaiians. After that, it was off to the summit - SUV mountaineering, we dubbed it.

This is not intended as simply a "citation needed" response.. The earliest case I remember is from the Mac OS 7.5 T shirt:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Like this
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

We've been carefully growing for two full seasons, with some plants getting multiple cycles. No losses at all, other than one hailstorm, which we now prophylactically deal with by having the project under a bit of roof where it can still get the sun it needs, but hail can't hit it straight on. Not a perfect solution, but it's something. And it has worked.

I am convinced that the details matter.

We've been carefully growing for two full seasons, with some plants getting multiple cycles. No losses at all, other than one hailstorm, which we now prophylactically deal with by having the project under a bit of roof where it can still get the sun it needs, but hail can't hit it straight on. Not a perfect solution, but it's something. And it has worked.

I am convinced that the details matter.

That's a deep answer. This is the funniest article of the day for me as a flying robot/drone developer.

While the germans are flying drones all over the place, selling them and have a regulatory framework, they are complaining they cannot build/sell autonomous cars... and calling out other countries, mainly the US as beating them in that game.

But in the US, it's the completely reverse... or bizarro situation. While Google and Uber are building autonomous cars, and getting them approved for use, drones on the other hand are DOA with no framework insight... and drone companies are complaining countries like Germany and France (and Australia) are beating them in that game.

Oh, "the irony of the rant".

You mean all those corporate tax cuts which were handed to them which was supposed to trickle down to the rest of us?

Trickle down economics carefully explained

Try here: Softserve News

By the way, this storm is already almost over. It's real peak was early Tuesday morning when the Bz hit 8.33. I snapped almost 500 pics during the early morning hours.

Here's the album for anyone who's interested.

Natural gas from gas wells is not just burned off or vented. It is sold.

It's supposed to be. Out in the ND Bakken undertakings, the law requires that the gas output from the wells be taken off, rather than burned off, within one year of when the well begins to produce gas. Only a small fraction of the wells have done this -- one look at a night time satellite photo of the area shows you the result. Most of them look just like this. No one is rushing to prosecute the well owners, either.

Natural gas from gas wells is not just burned off or vented. It is sold.

It's supposed to be. Out in the ND Bakken undertakings, the law requires that the gas output from the wells be taken off, rather than burned off, within one year of when the well begins to produce gas. Only a small fraction of the wells have done this -- one look at a night time satellite photo of the area shows you the result. Most of them look just like this. No one is rushing to prosecute the well owners, either.

I think the point is that Fraternities are often exclusionary by nature. A description that is not singular to white organizations.

Example: take a look at the Alpha Phi Alpha web site. This is one of the preeminent black fraternities in the US. An elite group of young men. The recently deceased ESPN sports caster and all-around great guy Stuart Scott was an Alpha when I was in school. At that time they were exclusively black and often quite ardent about that fact. I'm a long way from campus now, but from their national website it doesn't look like their focus has shifted much.

Another esteemed black fraternity is the Omega Psi Phi Q Dogs. A quick perusal of their website shows long list of esteemed members of society. There only appears to be one race represented.

By contrast the SAE website seems to be an exercise in diversity. According to the first list I could find, TKE is the largest frat in the US. They were a big jock frat when I was in school and pretty much had the aura of the stereotypical frat boys. I think they had one or two minority members at that time. A quick look at their website indicates that they have a majority white, but diverse set of faces represented at their events.

I'm no fan of frats or the fraternity system. When I was in school those of us who were not into the frat scene ridiculed those who were as weak-willed followers who needed to seek out artificial friendships and exclusive clubs to make themselves feel better about themselves. A few more miles on the chassis and I've revised that sentiment, but the claim that fraternities are exclusive by their very nature is certainly supported, as is the claim that white fraternities are more inclusive than minority fraternities.

You know, the new bill has Laurier on it too.

What's the point of a fancy SDR on the lower bands though? At least in the States most of the amateur bands with any kind of useful propagation are so narrow that one of the brain dead simple sound card SDR rigs can cover the majority of your band of choice.

This is going to be long-winded; there's quite a bit to cover. Sorry. :)

Cover, yes. Cover well, no. You need lots of bit depth for adequate dynamic range without filters, bit depth almost no one offers, and if you don't have adequate bit depth, then you really need front end filtering and probably a stepped attenuator as well. You need EM protection because HF antennas tend to be large and prone to large induced voltages. You need good frequency linearity if you want to use the SDR to get accurate measurements (even the s-meter.) For the ham bands, it's also nice if the SDR supports a sample rate of 400 khz or better, which is tough for a sound card SDR. Then there is frequency accuracy and stability, not to mention external reference sources (there all kinds of cool things you can do with a very stable SDR, like this AM graveyard band carrier forest), and then we get into multiple front ends for diversity reception and noise reduction. If you want to remote the SDR for any reason, you really need ethernet, and if you need ethernet, you need some smarts. And you need ethernet anyway, because USB bloody sucks (speaking as a cross-platform developer.) So If you want a good SDR, you just don't end up with a "brain dead simple" SDR.

As to narrow ham bands in the HF range, well, not really. 160 meters is 200 kHz. 80 meters is 500 kHz. 20 meters is 350 KHz. 15 meters is 450 kHz. 10 meters is 1.7 MHz. The WARC bands are all pretty tiny. Also, for SWL, some of those are quite wide, and even more so if you include the out of band regions where the pirates are. Pirates being quite unpredictable, you want them in the spectrum so you can see them when they pop up, so bandwidth is quite relevant if they are of interest (personally, I find them fascinating.) Come to that, if you want to see what overall prop/activity is looking like, you need 30 MHz of bandwidth to do it live.

I will grant you that someday, we may be able to put a 48 bit, multiple Gs/s A/D on a chip with a full ethernet interface cheap enough for anyone to own; but not right now. Until that day, good SDRs will not be "brain dead simple."

More on frequency range: If you want to use the SDR for a panadaptor for an existing receiver (very common use), then it has to cover one of the IF frequencies and associated bandwidth of the receiver, which tends to be in the HF range (not always, though.) Then there are cray-cray folk like myself; among other things, I use my SDR to monitor bats in our attic. To do that, the SDR has to be able to do a good job with the first 100 KHz, also true of experimentation with sonar and other audio ranging and detecting tech.

I'm not saying there isn't stuff up higher than HF; of course there is. Some of the really cool stuff (wifi, for instance) is as high as 5 GHz. Satellites, public utilities, etc. Any motion video needs to be up pretty high (but it also needs very significant bandwidth.) But HF has a huge amount of interest, it's where most hams actually hang out, and as it's a very challenging reception environment, higher end designs are of great interest. So are hackable designs one can get at. For instance, if you built yourself a multi-stage filter bank for the various HF bands, you could have them switch automatically as you tune. Likewise you could control add-on attenuators, RF preamps, and switchable transverters (which can give a nominally lower freq range SDR excellent access to higher bands.)

I have a variety of SDRs, and switching is simply a matter of prodding a menu. I have access from about 1 Hz to 3 GHz across the group, with varying features as described above. In the end,

This begs the question, though.

I'm not sure what qualifies as "Art", I've never seen a Tattoo that would be worthy of a gallery. Some of them could be used as a bumper stick, and some even good enough for a comic book. Either way, it's never a plausible reason to have it drawn on your skin of the rest of your life.

Here's one I think is art, even though I don't think highly of religion: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...

I really like this, too: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Neither one strikes me as cartoony, and both strike me as worthy to wear.

Most tats leave me cold, though.

Are you sure unicorns don't exist? Here's some proof and some more.

It is very rare where I'm feeling like the equipment is the limiting factor to the point where I want to invest the money to replace it.

I'll tell you when I feel it. When I see something I want to shoot and I don't have my 6D with me, and all I can bring to bear is my Galaxy Note 3. Which has a decent camera for a smartphone, but it won't get me shots like my EOS 6D does.

But yeah, you're quite right. I've been watching Canon carefully through the 40D, 50D and 6D lifespans, and I'm interested in more dynamic range and better low light performance (not that some conveniences like easier wifi, cordless charging, on-board timer wouldn't be welcome.) More megapixels... 20 seems fine to me. It already exceeds the ability of most of Canon's L glass to resolve a point, particularly at the edges of the sensor. Might be years yet before they really top the 6D from my POV. But when they do, I'll be there, wallet in hand.

Yes, this. No smartphone on earth could wean me away from my Canon 6D.

Because I can do things like this with it.

There is likely a significant portion of people now who have never seen a glass coke bottle and do not realize how thing the bases of them were. Likely from the time they were born, coke has been served to them from a cup or plastic bottle.

I dunno if this will give an idea or not about the thickness of them.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Perhaps this one helps.
http://www.antiquebottles.com/...

Of course they can simply do a google image search for those as well as for coke bottle glasses to see the resemblances.

I'm not at all. I've seen some crazy people do some stuff with strange equipment in the local astronomy club. I quizzed an older gentleman at the last Astro-fest who appeared to be taking photos of what I thought was nothing, no nebula, no galaxy, turns out he was recording the magnitude changes of variable stars for an open amateur database that effectively crowd sources science efforts.

He did this photometry with a Canon 1000D. A lot of effort was put into characterising his sensor and detecting the optimal signal to noise ratio for exposures and at least one paper says that using standard DSLRs you can detect a 0.02mag shift in start brightness once everything is properly set up.

Detecting planets using the method described would not be difficult from an equipment point of view, we take photos already of things far fainter (see the little blur in his picture? That's the dumbbell nebula. Here is my picture of it taken with the same sensor as the Nikon D200 (except strapped to a peltier) my point being that his picture and data looks like blurry garbage compared to what some people are doing with their equipment so if he can see the data then I would believe it to be possible.

As an aside back at our laser lab at uni we used cheap webcams to analyse laser modes. It was 1/100th of the price of a photometer array but it worked because all that is important is repeatable measurements. Everything else including externalities like temperature of the sensor, atmospheric disturbance etc can be characterised.

I used to frequent the bar where a Austin on Rails goes to socialize. "Hipster" is not the word I'd use. "Geeks" would be more accurate. Hipsters don't wear boring backpacks, shuffle their feet and stare at the floor while walking into a bar. No hipsters and only one women.

...but you all still vote Republican.

No. We don't. I have not voted republican since well into the last century. Basically since I developed the perception that republicans don't give the south end of a northbound rat for the health of the nation as a whole - economically, biologically, ecologically. I find their "me first and the rest of you can DIAF" attitude to be as utterly reprehensible as it is dependable.

I vote Democrat and will continue to vote Democrat as long as the hint of humanity they exhibit exceeds that demonstrated by the republicans. Right now, the republicans are at an epic low in this regard, consequently them getting my vote is basically an outright impossibility.

I do not consider optimum agency (personal liberty) and comprehensive safety nets to be at worthy odds in a wealthy society. Which we are. That's me. The broad outcry against the ACA has taught me a great deal about how others think. I used to think I was too pessimistic, that everyone had a core of generally extendable compassion within them, no matter what it looked like.

Nope. Then there are the "little" lessons...

Some unmentionable person(s) ran over a kitten in the middle of the wide-open parking lot at the grocery store here six weeks ago. When Deb and I rolled up, all we could see was a little head sticking up from the crushed body, frantically swiveling around like it would do it some good to see the next filthy scumbag coming. The little wretch was in plain view of at least a hundred people, and somehow, not a one of them could seem to see it. Whereas it was the only thing we could see. Crushed pelvis, completely broken front leg, broken tail, abrasions... broke my heart -- and at the same time, it's really fortunate for me that I didn't see it happen, or I'd probably be in jail right now.

Instead, we saved the kitten... cast comes off this Friday, and although the pelvis will never be right, she can walk again. But I will never, ever, forget the lesson.

There has never been a time when wooden bikes weren't being made. As late as the 1930's, people were making bikes with wooden compression-type spokes, rather than steel tension-type spokes, and currently there are piles of amazing wooden bikes being made.
This Owen was used as a triathalon bike, with some very respectable finishes (race finishes, not varnish finishes): https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
Satoshi Sano has been building spectacular bikes using traditional Japanese boatbuilding techniques: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and
http://sanomagic.world.coocan....
Note internal cabling in steam-bent frame elements, and a wooden seat on a steam-bent seatpost.
And since bamboo is wood, there are at least a dozen companies using bamboo as the primary frame material.
Calfee started it, as far as I can tell:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

But there are many others, like Panda and Boo.
Bamboosera makes a great Cannondale-shock mountain bike:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and Hero Bikes make work and utility bikes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Hero (and at least two other companies) go so far as to offer classes, where over a weekend you start out by harvesting bamboo, and end up making a complete ready-to-build-up frameset.
http://www.herobike.org/collec...

There has never been a time when wooden bikes weren't being made. As late as the 1930's, people were making bikes with wooden compression-type spokes, rather than steel tension-type spokes, and currently there are piles of amazing wooden bikes being made.
This Owen was used as a triathalon bike, with some very respectable finishes (race finishes, not varnish finishes): https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
Satoshi Sano has been building spectacular bikes using traditional Japanese boatbuilding techniques: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and
http://sanomagic.world.coocan....
Note internal cabling in steam-bent frame elements, and a wooden seat on a steam-bent seatpost.
And since bamboo is wood, there are at least a dozen companies using bamboo as the primary frame material.
Calfee started it, as far as I can tell:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

But there are many others, like Panda and Boo.
Bamboosera makes a great Cannondale-shock mountain bike:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and Hero Bikes make work and utility bikes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Hero (and at least two other companies) go so far as to offer classes, where over a weekend you start out by harvesting bamboo, and end up making a complete ready-to-build-up frameset.
http://www.herobike.org/collec...

There has never been a time when wooden bikes weren't being made. As late as the 1930's, people were making bikes with wooden compression-type spokes, rather than steel tension-type spokes, and currently there are piles of amazing wooden bikes being made.
This Owen was used as a triathalon bike, with some very respectable finishes (race finishes, not varnish finishes): https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
Satoshi Sano has been building spectacular bikes using traditional Japanese boatbuilding techniques: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and
http://sanomagic.world.coocan....
Note internal cabling in steam-bent frame elements, and a wooden seat on a steam-bent seatpost.
And since bamboo is wood, there are at least a dozen companies using bamboo as the primary frame material.
Calfee started it, as far as I can tell:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

But there are many others, like Panda and Boo.
Bamboosera makes a great Cannondale-shock mountain bike:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and Hero Bikes make work and utility bikes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Hero (and at least two other companies) go so far as to offer classes, where over a weekend you start out by harvesting bamboo, and end up making a complete ready-to-build-up frameset.
http://www.herobike.org/collec...

There has never been a time when wooden bikes weren't being made. As late as the 1930's, people were making bikes with wooden compression-type spokes, rather than steel tension-type spokes, and currently there are piles of amazing wooden bikes being made.
This Owen was used as a triathalon bike, with some very respectable finishes (race finishes, not varnish finishes): https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
Satoshi Sano has been building spectacular bikes using traditional Japanese boatbuilding techniques: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and
http://sanomagic.world.coocan....
Note internal cabling in steam-bent frame elements, and a wooden seat on a steam-bent seatpost.
And since bamboo is wood, there are at least a dozen companies using bamboo as the primary frame material.
Calfee started it, as far as I can tell:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

But there are many others, like Panda and Boo.
Bamboosera makes a great Cannondale-shock mountain bike:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and Hero Bikes make work and utility bikes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Hero (and at least two other companies) go so far as to offer classes, where over a weekend you start out by harvesting bamboo, and end up making a complete ready-to-build-up frameset.
http://www.herobike.org/collec...

There has never been a time when wooden bikes weren't being made. As late as the 1930's, people were making bikes with wooden compression-type spokes, rather than steel tension-type spokes, and currently there are piles of amazing wooden bikes being made.
This Owen was used as a triathalon bike, with some very respectable finishes (race finishes, not varnish finishes): https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
Satoshi Sano has been building spectacular bikes using traditional Japanese boatbuilding techniques: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and
http://sanomagic.world.coocan....
Note internal cabling in steam-bent frame elements, and a wooden seat on a steam-bent seatpost.
And since bamboo is wood, there are at least a dozen companies using bamboo as the primary frame material.
Calfee started it, as far as I can tell:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

But there are many others, like Panda and Boo.
Bamboosera makes a great Cannondale-shock mountain bike:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
and Hero Bikes make work and utility bikes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

Hero (and at least two other companies) go so far as to offer classes, where over a weekend you start out by harvesting bamboo, and end up making a complete ready-to-build-up frameset.
http://www.herobike.org/collec...

Why does Kahn need access to my gmail account? Free? not so much I think.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

The first bounce is pretty crazy to think about too. It landed, went 4cm into the surface, and bounced back up. It took an hour for it to stop moving away from the comet and start falling back down, and in that hour it only managed to travel about a kilometer. The entire thing is so otherworldly. Check out this picture, it might be my favorite so far. It's from 10km up and looks across the surface, and you can see a haze of some gas or dust plus the stars in the background. I've never seen anything that looks like that, it's just amazing.

This is an amazing shot in my opinion, like something out of an early 1960's sci fi show:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

With some image processing it can probably get even clearer. We are seeing the rawer early versions.

The spewing "jet" ones are also interesting, but do look similar to past Enceladus images. The difference in this case is that they are probably only a few miles away from the probe instead of a few thousand.

This is so cool. ... Isn't that freakin' amazing? ... I'm getting goosebumps all over and feel like back in the 70ies when we'd been to the moon. (my Grandpa worked at Grumman as a Engineer on the Lunar Lander btw.)

We've landed on a friggin' Comet! This is so awesome!
F*ck yeah! YAY! Go, space exploration, go!

This is so cool. ... Isn't that freakin' amazing? ... I'm getting goosebumps all over and feel like back in the 70ies when we'd been to the moon. (my Grandpa worked at Grumman as a Engineer on the Lunar Lander btw.)

We've landed on a friggin' Comet! This is so awesome!
F*ck yeah! YAY! Go, space exploration, go!

Ahh here they are...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

The NTSB's flickr about investigation.

how about a million dollar coin? https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

He looks exactly the way he sounds.

I bought my RPi as the primary interface for my Tiki Bird. Really enjoyed the project. Lot's of good open source stuff available. WiringPi for GPIO control. Vixen for sequencing. LIRC for infrared control.

I also enjoyed doing autopsy on a Squawkers McCaw. It's incredible the amount of sensing and control they packed into such a cheap toy.

Remember, The Bird is the Word!

they get dirty..

Here's mine:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

I understand what you're saying (I think) but I've always wondered (and this is from a hardware-guy's perspective) wouldn't you rather have one big monitor, than two small monitors? I know there may be a significant price difference, but the whole concept of bigger=better seems to be a nomenclature that itself keeps expanding when it comes to screen size. If you can learn to enjoy the multiple desktop feature that corychristison is talking about, couldn't that be as good?

I prefer many small monitors over 1 or 2 big ones because it is easier to snap/lock/full screen apps in each screen. There is probably a software solution to carving up a large monitor into grids, but I've never bothered to look for it.

I do use virtualwin to create 4 virtual desktops in windows 7. But each virtual desktop is for performing a different type of work.

Like virtual desktop 1 is for development. Monitor 1 - view of my application, Monitor 2 - source code, Monitor 3 - documentation/googling. I never have to alt tab while building an application or web page.

Virtual desktop 2 is for server stuff. Monitor 1 - performance/status on servers, Monitor 2 - SSH sessions, Monitor 3 - documentation/googling, misc.

But does your process scale? While everyone's requirements may be different, here's another technology so beer drinkers can stress less about ever running out of beer. These were the best images I could easily search for to cite my point. We already *have* the technology people!

...I've always wondered (and this is from a hardware-guy's perspective) wouldn't you rather have one big monitor, than two small monitors?

For some use cases, two separate monitors make sense, and I find that I actually like the conceptual separation they provide. When I'm doing PCB design I can have the schematic open on one monitor and the PCB on the other; it's convenient to just click on Maximize on each window and know that they're both going to equally and maximally fill the available real estate. Ditto for mail client and browser. Also, the total width-to-height ratio is greater than it would be on a single big monitor - that's a double-edged sword, but on thw whole I like it.

OTOH some programs don't play well with it - VLC doesn't seem to understand what's going on and I need to resize the window on some videos, and ImageMagick is pretty much unusable.

I understand what you're saying (I think) but I've always wondered (and this is from a hardware-guy's perspective) wouldn't you rather have one big monitor, than two small monitors? I know there may be a significant price difference, but the whole concept of bigger=better seems to be a nomenclature that itself keeps expanding when it comes to screen size. If you can learn to enjoy the multiple desktop feature that corychristison is talking about, couldn't that be as good?

Time to update the charts again.

> If you cannot even trust the platform, then how does your logic work?

The logic works fine. Platforms can work fine too. Society, however, doesn't. So that part is up to you.

> Can't trust cell phone cameras. By definition it's a camera attached to a communications device. It's designed to share that photo.

Exactly right. Buy a DSLR if you require discretion in photography. Ensure it does not have network connectivity (some do... Canon 6D, for instance.) If you take an image with a cellphone camera, be aware before you ever shoot it that you can have no reasonable expectation of privacy whatsoever. It goes further than that, too. When using a smartphone, again be aware you have no reasonable expectation of privacy whatsoever with regard to texts, voice conversations, video conversations, email, your location, billing, logging and so one for every service the phone provides you (or others) with.

> Can't trust storing it on a PC as PCs are connected to the Internet in the overwhelming majority of instances.

No. If you want to store something that requires discretion, then you require a non-network connected PC. There's no inherent need to connect a PC to a network. Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to. Nor is there a need to construct a PC with bluetooth, wifi and so on. Nor is there a need to leave a PC in a generally accessible location and/or condition. These are all user choices. Make them wrongly, and your security is compromised. But they are not inevitabilities. There's a lesson here: just because others do something in some particular manner does not mean that you have to do so.

> Then there's the whole point of a picture, looking it at it. Typically that means more than just the picture-taker looking at it

Again, no. This is also user choice. You are responsible for the consequences of your choices, and for knowing the things you need to know to make those choices well. The key here is to be informed enough to make the most correct choices. "It's typical" is not a metric that binds anyone in any way. If you embrace such a thing, you either choose to do so or you are so ignorant that you know no better, in which case anyone who trusts you with data that requires discretion is making a serious mistake.

The images I have taken or otherwise created that I have *decided* you may see are here. The ones I have *decided* you may not have access to, you will never, ever see, barring use of military levels of force. These conditions were quite literally trivial to instantiate and maintain. Think, choose, easy implementation, all done.

> For all we know, none of these women's accounts were compromised. Their boyfriends, husbands, ex-boyfriends, ex-husbands, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends accounts could have been, or those people could have shared the photos with others, and their accounts were compromised.

The issue isn't account centric. It is behavior centric. You must identify data that needs protection; you must identify the trustworthy in regard to both persons and systems; you must control distribution; you must employ discretion and ensure that your knowledge is up to the task of seeing all these things through. If you cannot do these things, you are (at the very least) a potential victim of your own limitations. And you should probably fix that. :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

If you want communism, all you have to do is download it.