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We're doomed!

Not to mention good old "Secure beneath the watchful eyes".(yes, they are actually serious. As in, that poster is not ironic.)

God. I want one of those posters SO bad!

Not a huge surprise. They already have the "If you suspect it Report it" campaign.

Not to mention good old "Secure beneath the watchful eyes".(yes, they are actually serious. As in, that poster is not ironic.)

Obligatory: Internet Superforce Uniform. Ballsack camel toe NOT optional.

I dunno, you should ask this guy!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/233/456245383_405882a8af.jpg?v=0 I see this sign on my way to work, what on earth were those Aussies thinking?

Dear CmdrTaco,

Since your current editors are apparently way too busy to Google for a couple of important links (some of which are even mentioned in the summary), I decided to help out.

Here they are.

Am I hired now?

(Also, that is one butt-ugly car. I'll stick with my Mazda3, thank you.)

obligatory:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13442381@N00/298995952/

OR
Pay $5000 for a 30 m2 apartment, share it with 5 other people, so you can pay the rent, and act like it's totally normal.

Not true. More like $800/month for a nice 40 m2 apartment, for myself alone. Oh, and that price includes 30Mbps fiber optics. Unlimited and unfiltered, of course.

It's also probably worth noting that our IT-job salaries are much higher here than they would be if we were working in the USA.

Maybe on your Home Planet of Oh, yeah sure.?

Sorry. I couldn't help it.

We should just have it display this at the end of 10,000 years: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/457753126_1934773ba3.jpg?v=0

Nah, I had just shot those and tried to make a photosynth of them. It didn't act as advertised, but at least all the photos ended up online. I didn't have them anywhere else to link to, or else I would have linked directly to the cockpit photo, which shows two distinct cockpit windows.

    How about this...

    USAF Diagrams of the pilot and RSO seats

    Photo of the RSO seat (the rear seat)

    It's not to argue the point though. There were 13 1-seat A-12 and 32 2-seat SR71's built.

    And just to keep things interesting. Here's a M-21 with a D-21 drone

If cities would allow no-holds-bared competition, every city would end up looking as if it were overrun by a herd of rabid gophers. It is simply not feasible to have 20 companies run wires/fibre/what-not all over the place.

You mean like these: 1, 2, 3, or 4? Or these: 5, 6? Darn, I wish I had those links, last week another /.er posted links to city views with a bunch more cables.

A saner idea, which some cities have implemented, is to place a whole network of city-owned conduits (essentially weather-proof empty pipes) which then can be leased for a nominal fee by anyone who wishes to run a fibre or some other wiring through them to a customer. Probably even more efficient would be for a city to run optical fibre to all households and simply lease that fiber to whatever competing businesses the residents wishes to be connected to.

It is better than what we have now. A Broadband Utopia does like you say, run fiber to homes and businesses then leases access. Here's the link to TFA.

Falcon

If cities would allow no-holds-bared competition, every city would end up looking as if it were overrun by a herd of rabid gophers. It is simply not feasible to have 20 companies run wires/fibre/what-not all over the place.

You mean like these: 1, 2, 3, or 4? Or these: 5, 6? Darn, I wish I had those links, last week another /.er posted links to city views with a bunch more cables.

A saner idea, which some cities have implemented, is to place a whole network of city-owned conduits (essentially weather-proof empty pipes) which then can be leased for a nominal fee by anyone who wishes to run a fibre or some other wiring through them to a customer. Probably even more efficient would be for a city to run optical fibre to all households and simply lease that fiber to whatever competing businesses the residents wishes to be connected to.

It is better than what we have now. A Broadband Utopia does like you say, run fiber to homes and businesses then leases access. Here's the link to TFA.

Falcon

400MP is more than a bit of an exaggeration of reality. I'm a big proponent of medium format films myself but I'm hard pressed to come up with a 120 film that can be expected to resolve at better than 200MP in a 6x6cm square. Just because the drum scanner will scan it at 400MP doesn't mean you're resolving any more detail from the emulsion than you would have at 399MP (let alone 200MP or in most cases 120MP).

With that said, I can take a grainy consumer grade fast film like Ilford HP5+ (ISO 400) and starting from a small web-sized image I can scale up to resolve some pretty incredible distant details. That's consumer film on a consumer flat bed scanner with little in the way of preparation for scanning.

Given a stable shooting platform, like a lunar lander, and a nice slow fine-grained film, such negatives run through modern professional lab grade drum scanners would be of a much higher resolution than you're going to get out of, say, a modern Canon EOS 5D Mk II.

400MP is more than a bit of an exaggeration of reality. I'm a big proponent of medium format films myself but I'm hard pressed to come up with a 120 film that can be expected to resolve at better than 200MP in a 6x6cm square. Just because the drum scanner will scan it at 400MP doesn't mean you're resolving any more detail from the emulsion than you would have at 399MP (let alone 200MP or in most cases 120MP).

With that said, I can take a grainy consumer grade fast film like Ilford HP5+ (ISO 400) and starting from a small web-sized image I can scale up to resolve some pretty incredible distant details. That's consumer film on a consumer flat bed scanner with little in the way of preparation for scanning.

Given a stable shooting platform, like a lunar lander, and a nice slow fine-grained film, such negatives run through modern professional lab grade drum scanners would be of a much higher resolution than you're going to get out of, say, a modern Canon EOS 5D Mk II.

BTW, steam is invisible ;)

As invisible as this giant plume coming out of the evaporative towers of the nuclear power plant near Antwerp ? I suppose those are really minute water droplets condensed out of the saturated air (as in clouds), so I guess that technically you're right, but you can imagine what the GP is talking about.

That's a met car, not a Norfolk car. Norfolk squad cars look like this: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2132/2279892412_ab358a0a60.jpg

Software patents are WRONG, and so I'm on Microsoft's side

While I agree that the Supreme Court should run software patents through with a sword and throw them down their elliptical staircase, it's worth noting that the patent Microsoft was found guilty of infringing is used in Uniloc's "SoftAnchor, which provides copy protection for software and games to prevent the creation, distribution and use of unauthorized copies."

So Microsoft was found guilty of infringing a software patent on a DRM system.

I'm not sure whether I'm happier about the fact that Microsoft lost a court case for implementing DRM or the thought of Microsoft gearing up to use their own legal department to invalidate a software patent. It seems almost surreal...

there's a small chance a dolphin is in front of your sonar dome when you begin pinging

Small chance? HAHA! Dolphins swim alongside, in front of, and in the wake of ships all the tyme. Here's some photos of dolphins doing just that.

Falcon

Yes, but this experiment was concerned with levels 100 times higher, over 200 dB. The odds of dolphins being THAT close to ships doesn't seem likely.

You don't think dolphins get that close to ships? Dolphins literally swim along side ships within feet. Flickr has some photos of this.

Falcon

Get her name right, moron.

Shouldn't that be "Get A BRAIN! MORANS"?

In the link above, picture in your mind's eye a Photoshop job with "Star Trek" in the t-shirt and "GO MEGAN" in the other cardboard. Unfortunately, I don't do Photoshop.

The Inca designed their buildings with sloping walls and trapezoidal windows and doors - an early 'earthquake proof' design.

Apparently the random interlocking of stones was more to do with them a) showing their prowess at stoneworking and b) a natural consequence of working huge lumps of stone (why bother carving them into brick shapes). It's not the best picture but you can see an example here.

A great example of this type of construction is in Cusco. The Spanish built their own building over an Inca temple (I think it was the temple of moon, sun and stars) which they failed to tear down as they had done with most others. Years later there was a huge earthquake and the Spanish building collapsed to reveal the Inca temple which only suffered a few minor cracks.

The Alphasmart Neo is a useful device that apparently runs on a Motorola DragonBall chip running at 16Mhz and change. http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=c68328ez It runs for 700 hours on three 2AA batteries. Of course, it doesn't do much. http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=motherboard&w=39436080%40N00&m=pool

Indeed, it's also used in Hong Kong to build skyscrapers. An amazing site to see an incredibly tall building construction site with bamboo all the way up.

An example:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76504836@N00/209169446

Makes far more sense than using steel, for many different reasons..

You say that now, but as soon as some vigilantes show up, you and your hippie palls take to the streets with "Badges, not Masks" signs. Fucking hypocrites....

> Try taking a photograph of the Hollywood Sign - it's protected by trademark or copyright law and the folks in Hollywood do go after people.

Oh, really?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?&search=hollywood+sign
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hollywood%20sign

Man, they must be making millions, nay, billions off those lawsuits!

Nowadays that's spelled WiiPod. She could give him a weepot in return.

I agree completely, but I still love Stitches!

I took a Southwest flight from LAX to Sacramento recently that had the WiFi.

As soon as they said they had it, I took an iPhone picture and uploaded it to Flickr, then I turned on my MacBook, went on GMail and looked through my contact list, then proceeded to Google Video Chat with a friend in Washington, DC. I pointed my MacBook camera out the window to prove I was in a flying plane! Interestingly my friend was on a new WiMax service in DC. The quality of service was pretty phenomenal!

All I can say is that WiFi in a plane is awesome, but I suspect not too many people were really using it on my flight, and as it becomes more typical I suspect there will be bandwidth contention.

Who are the biggest WAR CRIMINALS of them all.

Thank you for helping spread freedom and democracy around the world.

Yours In Socialism,
Kilgore Trout

AKMudflats posted for thanksgiving 2008 that she was going to be away with friends and family in an isolated place (27th, http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/happy-thanksgiving/ ) the linked Flickr account ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/akmudflats/ ) has images from said isolated place, possibly Perry Island, on the 29th and 30th November 2008. I can well imagine the Rep. Doogan could just ask around if anyone knows where the pics were taken - he was apparently a journalist for 14 years he must be reasonably good at finding out who people are.

Certainly on 5 December they were in Whittier Harbour and on Perry Island. Would the harbour logs show who made such a journey?

Google shows me that Perry Island is a tiny volcanic island in Prince William sound. Flickr shows me there was one house on it in 1976.

Nice! My buddy has the perfect bike to go with that http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackdood/2883756612/in/set-72157607459314461/

Laser etch ur laptop with Super Mario's game maps http://www.flickr.com/photos/46429967@N00/sets/72157612666668835/

Although it's not a "free of any copyright" donation, and it's limited, check out the Library of Congress account on Flickr. LoC photos are uploaded, then the community adds information about the photos through tagging, notes, and comments.

And they are quite good at handling images I think; http://www.flickr.com/commons

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/205/504902031_6a2577b848.jpg?v=0

Results not so good... But you won't get those cute comments.

I recently had a perfectly good set of RAM degrade to useless in
only 3 months here

This could caused by contact failure, especially if tin/lead
contacts are mixed with gold connectors. Any electrical contact is subject to
fretting corrosion that eventually makes the contact unreliable.

Here are some articles showing why fretting corrosion occurs and
what to do about it:

http://www.chemassociates.com/products/findett/PPEs_Swedish_Cell.pdf

http://www.nyelubricants.com/lubenotes/LN_Sta_Sep_Elec-04-2.pdf

http://archives.sensorsmag.com/articles/0500/78/main.shtml

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/51024/01/Final_Tribology_paperJMcB__(A).pdf

An old radio engineer's trick from the 1930's is to coat the contact
with ordinary vaseline. It is a hydrocarbon and cleans the grime and
oxides from the surface allowing a true metal-to-metal contact. This
reduces the contact resistance by a factor of ten and stabilizes it.

The vaseline leaves a film that lubricates the contact and
eliminates the fretting corrosion. It works on memory cards, power
connections, SATA connectors, pcb contact fingers, and any other
connector in the PC.

For more information, please see my post on mysteryonion's page on
solving Kenmore front load washer fault codes at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysteryonionpatch/471156850

To find it, search for "monettsys". It is dated Wed Feb 25, 2009,
11:58:03 pm, near the bottom of the page.

Regards,

Mike Monett

This one. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22628029@N00/ Obviously they're no longer made. What these pictures don't tell you is you can physically separate the two halves, permitting a trackball to be placed in-between. The halves are also tentable via three legs per side.

Personally, I'd rather live longer, and if better air quality is what it takes, then that's a sacrafice I'm prepared to make.

A reasonable wish, I wish slashdotters were better informed about the science of how to improve air quality to we can better inform employers and voters. The U.S. is going through a massive 'coal bubble', dirty 'CLEAN (sic) coal' power plants are cropping up in place of nuclear or alongside massive hydroelectric power plants. It won't be long before there won't be a safe place from pollution. Big cities such as LA, London, Beijing and SLC are legendary for their pollution, what is less well known is that the Ohio river valley from Pennsylvania to the western Great Lakes states is chronically polluted with NOx, SOx, CO2 (obviously, though the Fed still refuses to count this as pollution) and particulates. The first step towards reducing this is figuring out how much of the world gets by with 1/10th to 1/2th the energy usage per person, grab the bits which don't impact our 'comfort' enough to be balance a shorter life and research what it would take to bring back the comfort for the bits that people think is more important than living longer.

Killbots want peace too, but programs must complete.

But it rocks absolutely too.

Reminds me of this set of pictures that were taken by sending a Pentax K10D in a box into space.

Others have mentioned various things, but I really like the GIMP's color picker, as seen here.

That said, I really want some equivalent to OpenCanvas on linux. Really, any sort of digital painting program. No, not some MS Paint clone, not even one with layers. GIMP plus custom brushes is workable but clunky, and the UI is terribly unsuited to the task.

If you look closely at this photo of their tracking computer, its a MacBook Pro running Ubuntu :-)

Granted, this kind of thing has been done before, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this is simply a really cool project, particularly for a group of high school kids.

They have a flickr page with more photos of the balloon and the results (note that much of the captions are in Spanish). I'm impressed; in fact, I'd love to try this myself.

Here's images from a similar flight conducted by Oklahoma State university students in July last year:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arena5/sets/72157606119049987/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/makerfaire_uk/3355610023/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/makerfaire_uk/3355610023/

We had a ton of fun. The physical lunar lander game was really excellent, and Paka's horse was a terrifying lump of lumbering metal - really one of the most impressive animal robots I've ever seen. Great times.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/makerfaire_uk/3355610023/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/makerfaire_uk/3355610023/

We had a ton of fun. The physical lunar lander game was really excellent, and Paka's horse was a terrifying lump of lumbering metal - really one of the most impressive animal robots I've ever seen. Great times.

Get off my... uh green thing, with the, um little plants? What's it called?

Uhhh... Link?