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It could be the 1997 bloop that the Navy picked up on their sonar equipment

Well, it's certainly not the 1965 Bloop, aka "Debbie." Even if it was, it wouldn't necessarily rule out it being a shoggoth, either.

Agreed. This was from last December in Kazakhstan, by the way:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27159137@N08/3186737368/

About the same time frame as those researchers and their discovery. Seems to me that this type of hacking has been going on all over, for a long time already.

And yes, I'd say it's criminally negligent to use any Windows OS on ATMs or anything else where security matters...

We already have this in Manchester, England:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35164707@N07/3516169162/

As do many British cities.

I'd mod this up if I could. It's the best peripheral I have ever used. It feels like a big old vintage trackball from Missile Command or Centipede, and it has a bunch of good options for the 4 buttons and the mousewheel. It's very precise and easy to control. Great for massive copying and pasting jobs.

Here's some related desk pr0n...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncarr/3415723327/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncarr/1691475117/

I'd mod this up if I could. It's the best peripheral I have ever used. It feels like a big old vintage trackball from Missile Command or Centipede, and it has a bunch of good options for the 4 buttons and the mousewheel. It's very precise and easy to control. Great for massive copying and pasting jobs.

Here's some related desk pr0n...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncarr/3415723327/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncarr/1691475117/

Bias alert, I'm the Zenoss Community Manager.

Zenoss was written with the intention of making it easy to monitor and manage tens of thousands of network devices remotely. By using templates and device classes, once you have a single machine monitored the way you like, you can apply that to thousands of other devices, making individual changes as necessary. Zenoss handles network hardware, servers (Linux, Unix and Windows), databases, applications and just about anything else you need to monitor. There's a network map and a Google map mashup for mapping. No need to start from scratch, there's already an Open Source (GPLv2) Python-based solution with a large community and installers for Linux and OSX and a VMware image to get started (plus source for everything else). Lots of documentation and frequent releases, with commercial support available. If you're coming from Nagios or Cactii, you can reuse any custom plugins you've developed.

Now if I could only find my car keys ...

Have you tried Google? They're doing some really amazing stuff with their engine lately.

I live in North Dakota, the generally really flat place that is boring as hell to drive through as there's no scenery. Trust me when I say that a wind farm really adds a lot to the landscape around here. That and at certain parts of the day they can look downright amazing. Here's an image I found on Google image search to show you what I'm talking about. There are a few other really nice ones at well.

Now anyone think this story was posted just because the quark happens to be named "strange"?

b) They slow down the wheels (removing weight from the wheels is much more useful than removing weight from the frame, because of the angular momentum or whatever it is).

You've got detachable reflectors on your wheels? I can imagine that adds some weight.

They're normally like this. I think bikes sold in the UK have to have them (when they're sold, not when they're used). I used to have about 50 in various shapes, found in packets of breakfast cereal (like these).

In Netherland, they're standard on rims, and optional on the side of tires. It's just a thin strip, and doesn't add a lot of weight.

I've seen those on some tyres, but not on a rim.

After a lot of searching, I've found this, which is presumably what you mean. £12 seems a lot for four stickers though, motorbike-sized ones are £4 for four.

Where I come from, ants make hills not holes.

I always wanted to make a bumper sticker that was similar to the share the road stickers except change the graphics a little (use your imaginations, i'll wait, done? Ok, good.) and change the line to something like "Use the sidewalk" or "Roads are for Cars" or, "Pithy bumper stickers won't keep me from honking my modified train horn as I drive by."

Possibly "Wearing spandex makes you a tool."

Add your own! Its fun!

What am I, as a Schemer? A minimalist? A chess player? But seriously, I always saw PHP as one of the prime examples of cargo cult language design. "Perl has strings in front of variables, let's copy them, gods will be pleased." Obviously no one cared that in Perl, the sigil has some actual meaning, like in shell, unlike in PHP, where the single type of variables could be handled the same way it is handled in Python, Ruby, stc. And then the adoption of that strange Java-like OOP system, quite weird for a dynamically typed language. Another cargo cult thinking? "Let's make a cargo plane out of wood and straw, soon the big birds will drop us more crates."

I find the exclusion of Asian buttocks interesting, but understandable given the absence of booty on the typical Asian female.

Here is a representative example.

or rather it's last page - I actually had the German translation of that issue since somewhere in the mid-nineties... :D

np: Whitetree - Tangerine (Cloudland)

On the flipside, there is a compelling argument for figuring out alternative energy sources. The argument is based on strategy security interests and not flower power tree hugging cheerleading, or even well intentioned but somewhat speculative computer models. Read as an example the recent NYT article by Thomas Friedman. For those of you with the courage to read a message that has not been preapproved and prepackaged by the mass media, a much clearer exposition is here.

The absolutely immense cost of the US military (defense spending is the largest category after entitlement programs) is only part of the picture. How do you price in the wars that you loose? How do you put a price on the concessions you end up having to make having to backward medieval rulers - surely they are not satisfied with a bow or romantic stroll? We're arming with one hand, via petrodollars, the same groups and regimes that we end up fighting only a few years later. The Cold War ended when oil prices crashed driving Russia's economy into a tail spin. This was the defining moment of our generation! A

According to this graph.

NO!!! Then it will turn all the vegetarians into carnivores! T~T See? -> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2820401196_e75abeec6f.jpg

How come metric fanatics don't suggest we move to a base-10 system for angular measurements?

They have.

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/apple/

I am in the process of scanning a few thousand negatives that I have found at my parents house. I am scanning them at 3000dpi and storing them in Aperture after doing some corrections on them. Any photos I find that correspond to these negatives gets tossed. The negatives then get stored in the negative sheets and put away for safekeeping. The scanned images get backed up to Amazon S3. My wife thinks I'm crazy but this is history. I want my children to know their grandparents and great-grandparents.

Some of the negatives I have go back to the 1940's when my mom was around 6 or 7 years old. The film quality was bad, but with the help of VueScan and Aperture, these B&W's are coming out great. You can see these here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffself/

I always used to think that Fuji's Velvia 50 and Ilford's Pan F+ to be too slow to shoot outdoors on a dark afternoon. A recent journey to Whitby in May taught me that both of those films look absolutely luscious on a dark, moody afternoon.

I used a tripod once or twice, but for the most part I shot handheld with a Pentax 645 and a Hexar AF and a shutter speed of 1/125 or 1/60. Don't be afraid of using slower films - and if you're in a pinch, just prop the camera on a rock/branch/bit of wood/etc! If you don't use a support of some kind, you'll have to shoot wide-open, but there's a certain beauty in that look, too.

That wouldn't be a problem, he's got an app to track his MacBook on his iPhone.

Oh, wait...

iphone locating another iphone, if the image doesn't post check out flickrDOTcom/photos/whitakerz/3652760684

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fairvue/2162957508/sizes/l/

Can film do that at ISO 6400?

I never really thought I'd be so saddened by the loss of any film stock, but I reconnected with Kodachrome through a massive effort to scan over a thousand slides from my family's life in 2008 - 75% of which were Kodachrome.

The two most beautiful pictures of myself and my sister were made on 35mm Kodachrome using my father's Pentax K1000.

30-something years later I made a picture of my Mum and the image felt dreamy and at the same time the level of detail was unflinching. I wish I had used the whole roll making pictures of my family.

Perhaps I'll use those last three rolls in my fridge for pictures of people I love. A fitting end to this way of interpreting the world.

The Kodachrome look now firmly passes into the realm of nostalgia.

Not all people are journalists. Reporters without Borders doesn't care about non-journalists being arrested (well they might care, but it isn't what they are talking about).

Most everyone that was arrested were protesters; people trying to exercise their freedom equally or moreso than the reporters. But isn't it funny how the press largely ignore the abuses against protesters? Reminds me of how by and large the black community won't stand up for civil rights for gay people.

I don't recall Reporters Without Borders getting all bullshit when Houston mounted police trampled and beat the shit out of a bunch of Central/South American janitors. In fact, their profession largely ignored it. Go on, search for "Houston janitor protests" and find me a single news story that talks about the horses trampling the protesters (which is the sole point of mounted units; they're a legal loophole, because the cops argue the horses can't be completely controlled, thus they're not responsible for someone getting trampled.)

Oh yeah, what about this picture, seems he knows the tricks alright.

Thanks for the link. Something like this (or this) is a lot more interesting (IMO) than the rolling wedge type of robot that's so common in this type of competition.

Thanks for the link. Something like this (or this) is a lot more interesting (IMO) than the rolling wedge type of robot that's so common in this type of competition.

Of course I find a screenshot just after hitting submit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/soopahviv/121120624/

A truly pathetic marketing campaign also precisely explains Microsoft's vision for an incompatible Internet, composed of "cleverly concealed web page[s] that only Internet Explorer 8 can view".

Yes, vandalized bus shelters became recently a serious problem in Britain.

But at least you can feel... secure? This looks like satire, but scarily enough, it is real:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toasty/2171185463/sizes/l/

I think this is called a threadjack. Been here a long time, don't do this much.

Here's the LA Times view. Here's the Flik'r slideshow.

As of now, the top story on CNN is FCC gets 300,000 calls as analog TV disappears.

Ahhh that brings back memories....

OBJECTION!

The Genesis and Super Nintendo had much different specs! The evidence is...

TAKE THAT!

Compare the screenshot of the title screen of Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog. The second in particular proves it.

Where is the proof in these pictures?

TAKE THAT!

The Sonic the hedgehog picture is dithered around the edges of the flag!

(Slams hand on the desk)

The video chip in the Genesis could only handle 256 colours, while the Super Nintendo could manage 16-bit colour and transparency! There's no way you could say those specs were similar!

(Shit, I need to stop playing so much Ace Attorney)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikomatic/1418564994/sizes/o/

Hmmm...maybe I was wrong...negative correlation?

Just kidding!

I made a (small, non-random) sample of age and UID a while back when this topic came up, and saw no correlation with age. I can't imagine a mechanism whereby UID would correlate with intelligence and if it doesn't correlate with age, why would it correlate with maturity?

See my chart here.

Black Hole Sun, won't you come
And wash away the rain...

It's really a beautiful piece that has to be stood next to in order to be appreciated. The sun wasn't in the right place for me to take any brilliant photos (and all I'd have had was my cellphone) but this one at least gives you a nice clear view.

Those Wired pictures are nice and all but if you want wallpaper, why don't you just go to the source, LLNL's Flickr page? As an aside, as someone who works at the US's other major laser fusion facility (there aren't many, I'll leave it to you to figure out), I can tell you that all the scaled implosions we've been doing for the past 10 years here validate the expectation that NIF will achieve fusion ignition, burn, and high gain when they go to 2MJ cryogenic DT ice implosions next year. We are extremely excited. This will be the first time nuclear fusion breakeven and ignition will have been achieved in a laboratory. I want you to think for a little while about what the long term implications of fusion energy on technologically advanced human civilization will be. I still don't think very many people realize that this experiment is a MAJOR step in that ultimate goal.

So in Russia it's illegal for a company to sell a 10 year old product, even though that product will be 2 versions old this year? If we could make legal demands to sell retired products I'd still be eating Ninja Turtle cereal today.

I found this flickr pic on an NCR ATM
This blog entry detailing a NationWide (UK Bank) ATM
and a Youtube video of an ATM on a boot cycle

But what if they are "true perching birds" instead?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scalzi/1970031768/in/set-72157603091357751/

...when governments realize that the truth of what they are actually doing will shock, disgust, appall their people.

IMHO free flowing information is what ultimately caused taking down the Berlin wall.

Now, that we know that our governments torture, steal, abuse their power, serve the money-printing oligarchy instead of serving us, what are we going to do?

I guess... http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreinla/235687297/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreinla/3135176066/

...when governments realize that the truth of what they are actually doing will shock, disgust, appall their people.

IMHO free flowing information is what ultimately caused taking down the Berlin wall.

Now, that we know that our governments torture, steal, abuse their power, serve the money-printing oligarchy instead of serving us, what are we going to do?

I guess... http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreinla/235687297/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreinla/3135176066/

you wish it was google

take a look at this

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png

I wonder how Bing stands up against Google..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png

comparison

Folding bikes are even better as you can also use public transport when needed.

What city do you live in that doesn't have bike racks on buses, or bike storage in trains?

If your buses don't look like this: http://www.kreikenbaum.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bus_seattle.png
And your trains don't look like this: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2498748942_c901404f13.jpg?v=0

You're doing something wrong. :)

See here for said simple benchtop equipment.