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A example from Ethiopia:

http://flickr.com/photos/adavey/2868581353/in/set-72157607357696464/

Notice that Ethiopian orthodox church descents directly from the original Christian church in Judea, it was not brought into the country by west-european missionaries in later ages. They had over thousand years of tradition of painting Christian images without even knowing what white people look like.

For those who might think that Darwinism was an invention of Creationists that made fun of some new obsession with Darwin, I offer a photograph up as counter-evidence: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpurrin1/315328560/ Colin Purrington

No, you're old when you recall that you HAD a six-million-dollar-man doll... er, action figure

Yes.

You're sure? It appears to me they're filtering based on IP number: (Screenie)

"Your picture of Stalin riding a Year3 Limited Edition Starflower inside a German concentration camp was both upsetting and historically inaccurate."

Warning: Before you click this link, it's probably not safe for work and will be upsetting to most people. Using my Google Fu on caches, I tracked down the image prompting the above quote.

As soon as managers start by not asking for billions in "bonus for good work" while their companies are crying for tax money, you may expect me to follow.

Until then, how do you expect me to swallow this and take a back seat, for the "good of all of us"? To throw more money at those leeches? Here is what I'd consider a good start.

Then we may talk.

Actually my electric razor does charge over USB.

My razor charges over mini-donuts.

That's not Texas; THIS is Texas.

Paleoseismology as you described is actually quite difficult. In the case of the San Andreas, you can't really look at off-set streams and such. You can rarely discern more than one or two events along such offsets, and once you do, it is very difficult to determine the age of the offset. You can get the amount that it's moved, yes, but not the timing. Worse, since you don't know the timing, you don't know if the offset is from one or more events.

The way it's done for strike-slip faults like the San Andreas is to look at a cross-section perpendicular to the fault, looking for layers of material off-set (or suddenly changing thickness, etc.) along the fault. The best way to date those layers is through carbon-14 dating of organic material, which can give you accuracy only within ~1-200 years - and that's assuming that the organic material you date is not from elsewhere, is not from 200 year old trees, etc. If an event offsets every layer from the bottom up to a certain point, you date the top layer that it cuts through to get a maximum age, and the layer that it didn't cut through is the minimum age.

You can imagine the difficulty and ambiguous nature of this. The individual layers that you have to recognize and date are on the scale of centimeters to decimeters - I've seen some of the areas that were used, the famous one being along Pallet Creek which is along the San Andreas northeast of LA (I have a picture of it - well, it is a picture of a girl standing in front of it - here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/penguinchris/3037578910/) Here, luckily there was constant, relatively rapid deposition of material. In most places this is not the case, so any record of movement on the fault is eroded away.

For the San Andreas, we have a partial record going back ~1500 years. There really is no reliable way to reach back further than that - the record isn't normally visible in older rock units. Looking at the larger-scale structures is interesting by itself but doesn't tell you anything about when specifically there was movement. The fault system in the Sichuan region is fairly well understood - it is a kind of combination strike-slip/thrust fault (see http://quake.mit.edu/~changli/wenchuan.html for some nice diagrams.) But I want to call BS on the idea that they have any idea how frequently major earthquakes have happened there - and even if they do, the idea that it is "perhaps millions of years" since the last one is ridiculous no matter what.

And then, when you *do* figure out a approximate year for an earthquake, how do you determine how big it was? Again, extremely difficult! The best estimates come from comparing old written records of destruction with those from modern earthquakes - nothing scientific at all!

What's being done extensively with the San Andreas is physics-based computer modeling - we have some idea of the force building up, and combining that with records of historical earthquakes we can make an estimate of a major earthquake every ~150 years. But even for this, the best-studied earthquake area, it's not much more than a guess.

I don't know as much about the Teton fault (other than that it is a normal fault, not a thrust fault as you stated ;) ) but I'll comment on the idea of a "magnitude 7 earthquake every 400-700 years." These kinds of estimates are based on the very difficult work I described earlier (and I'm not sure how much has been done for the Teton fault) and whatever geologist came up with that would probably admit it is a simple guess without much to base it on. I mean, think of it - is knowing there's a large earthquake every 400-700 years really all that useful anyway?

By the way, I assume any dating of the Teton fault would be done this way: when new patches of rock are exposed along the fault as you described, they start getting hit by cosmogenic radiation. By measuring the amount of cosmogenic radio isoto

Pic related: http://flickr.com/photos/oybay/50811412/

I'm pretty sure the northern part would be happy to just get some food.

A map tells the tale better than words.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22771301@N06/3240658463/

Who googled google..

http://flickr.com/photos/tonyaustin/3241509252/

It does depend on the data. But I do think that the easily accessible bandwith is growing faster than the size of data that needs to be transported secretly across borders, so that it's more and more practical to make the transport by data-transfer rather than carrying physical media.

There's going to be exceptions for a while, where your data is, and must be, huge, and you're transporting them from a region with very poor bandwith. But I do think the *trend* points towards the extinction of physical-media as a means of data-transport.

If it's risky data to be carrying, there's still no reason to hand-carry it across the border. If I wanted to get 10GB of unpopular data out of Iran (not completely random example, I've got several close friends in Iran), I'd *never* risk asking any of them to carry it. Rather I'd ask them to encrypt it, store it on a flash-card or something, and mail that card out, putting no return-adress on it, and if extra paranoid, have the card mailed in a different city than the one they live in.

It's not idiot-proof, but it's hell of a lot better than showing up at the border and hoping for the best.

If it was only 1GB, yeah, I'd ask them to upload it. Sure, it'd take time, but even by modem, you can upload a gigabyte in about 30 hours. If there was no rush, I'd ask them to do it 50MB a day, spread over 3 weeks. Wouldn't be that suspicious, particularily not if the upload happened to https://www.flickr.com/ https://mail.google.com/ or a similar site where it's non-suspicious to upload 50MB worth of data every now and then.

I am a photographer (serious amateur, not paid professional) and I use Gimp. It's mostly good for photography work, but it does have some inherent limitations. For example, my archival 16 bit greyscale scans of medium format B&W film have to be downsampled to 8 bit before Gimp can open them. For simple touchups, and a little bit in the way of zany effects, Gimp is actually pretty good if you can live within its limitations (and I do).

With that said, most "photographers" today are more like "graphic artists" that use a photograph as the foundation for creating electronic art that is based on a photograph. I strive to get it right in-camera and mostly use Gimp now for scaling, adjusting the curves for on-screen display, and possibly a light unsharp mask at the desired display resolution.

(recent example... Mamiya C330, 80mm Mamiya-Sekor, Kodak TXP320 film expired in 2000, developed in Rodinal 1:50. Metered with Sekonic L358. Scanned with Vuescan on an Epson V500.)

He's also an ex-popstar, a TV documentarian, married to this gorgeous creature, contributes to the vast sum of human knowledge, and obviously enjoys his job so much it almost hurts.

Compared to the assorted collection of pigeon crap that passes for celebrity these days, this man is a god. This is the kind of role model children need, not some (to paraphrase a great man) twat who can kick a ball and looks good in his skivvies.

3G HSPA has already been announced for the next Maemo-based device. See http://sites.hardwarezone.com/sg/nokiazone/content/sersitiv/files/2008/09/maemo-5.jpg (This was during the Maemo Summit in Berlin, September 2008).

Though, I don't really know if a Maemo-based phone would be a good thing for the Internet Tablet. Sure, having data abilities wouldn't be a bad thing (even though the prices are still high, it's starting to come down), but "phoning" it would probably be a mistake. The problem is that when people buy a phone, they expect everything to be shiny, blinky, and worky. And well, we all know the n8x0 platform is far from polished for the consumer market. I would definitely recommend an Internet Tablet to my nerd friends, never to a dumb blonde who just wants to browse the Facespace. In that regard, I am hoping the next evolution of the Internet Tablet remains just that, and Internet Tablet, with added connectivity, for sure, but just limited so that the niche remains quite hacker-focused.

Oh, and: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff/2885618332/in/pool-maemo

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=nude+child&m=tags

I must be an offender for possessing the cache.

Here's a picture of one:

http://flickr.com/photos/photofinderguy/2472113998/

I guess they didn't give up on DIVX after all: "R(egion) C(oding) E(nhancement) by Circuit City".

A few years ago, all the Radio Shacks in Canada were changed into mini "Circuit Cities," branded as "The Source - By Circuit City" - They were the same size as a Radio Shack, but under the Circuit City brand. I wonder what will happen to them...

Here's a picture of one:

http://flickr.com/photos/photofinderguy/2472113998/

Hardly a fair comparison, eh? The background is clearly further in the distance from the dog than the rock is to the crab. Not to mention that the dog's whole face is in focus, so your depth of focus is not as narrow in this shot as you're claiming.

Here's another shot from a prosumer camera showing the transition of focus.
http://flickr.com/photos/jfleming701/3175553385/in/pool-895363@N21/

Note that these shots are just random ones that I'm pulling from Flickr. Not anything of my own.

If you don't know what GPL and GNU are for, GTFO.
If you think Firefox is a decent GNU/Linux application, GTFO.
If you're still looking for the Control Panel, GTFO.
If you don't know Tux from SCO, GTFO.

Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real GNU/Linux users. Keep your filthy Windows fingers to yourself.

It certainly does, but many of them are just covered in rocks. I think this is mostly a joke for my fellow Minnesotans (or WI/MI). Here's how I remember Superior:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/janet_powell/199608971/

You guys should read the strobist thread on it. I'm in a bunch of photo-geek forums and the comments have been really entertaining...

"His shoulder is cut off. It doesn't flow!"
"The loop lighting is too subtle."
"Why'd they use an octabox???"
"Couldn't afford a hair light what with the economy and all, eh?"
"Taken with the new Canon 5D-MkII...nice!"
"Who did the color charting? Skin tone is way orange!"

I thought they were hard on my photos when I post 'em...

Not a particularly good shot, but it shows similar DOF using what you'd call a P&S.

http://flickr.com/photos/inotion/3198341477/in/pool-843626@N22/

Not moot at all. When a P&S camera can achieve this or this, with the same subject distance and perspective compression (due to focal length) please let me know.

First shot was taken with a Canon 5D and a manual focus 58mm f/1.2 lens, the second with a film Nikon F3 with a 35mm f/2 lens. Both at wide-open apertures.

Only that combination of focal length, film/sensor area (36*24), focus point and subject distance would render an image with that kind of perspective and out of focus blur (called bokeh). Perspective and subject isolation are important in the artistic side of photography.

These images are not possible with point and shoot cameras.

Not moot at all. When a P&S camera can achieve this or this, with the same subject distance and perspective compression (due to focal length) please let me know.

First shot was taken with a Canon 5D and a manual focus 58mm f/1.2 lens, the second with a film Nikon F3 with a 35mm f/2 lens. Both at wide-open apertures.

Only that combination of focal length, film/sensor area (36*24), focus point and subject distance would render an image with that kind of perspective and out of focus blur (called bokeh). Perspective and subject isolation are important in the artistic side of photography.

These images are not possible with point and shoot cameras.

This really isn't new at all for the Carolina's. My wife and I were in VA beach a few years back and happened upon a sign for no swearing. I said "that's fucking stupid" and she said "no shit". We walked on and that was that. But if I'm not mistaken, I do believe there is a fine associated with breaking this law, and it would be very questionable under the first amendment.

This is some of that feel good bullshit law creation that could turn into some nasty stuff - if we didn't have a reasonable society. This is fucking stupid, but until I (or someone else) get fined for what I say... I don't give too much of a shit. Let the soccer moms feel like they're doing something.

Tits

Flickr burns up to 10TB in uploads in a single *day*...

Just for clarification purposes, this story needs the tag: !murdersyourwife

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronocdh/2651155110/sizes/o/

That's almost akin to saying that the Chinese don't really have any problems with their freedom because they can simply leave if they want to.

No, its more like you are looking to move to a different county and choose China (all the while knowing their laws) and then complaining about them once you get there.

I chose to live in a neighborhood that has restrictions, and I enjoy the fact that when I'll never see something like this in it. My decision has (obviously) not affected that home owners ability to create/decorate a ridiculous/tacky home (by my standards) but I do have some control on whether or not I'll have to live by it.

If you don't know what GPL and GNU are for, GTFO.
If you think Firefox is a decent GNU/Linux application, GTFO.
If you're still looking for the Control Panel, GTFO.
If you don't know Tux from SCO, GTFO.

Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real GNU/Linux users. Keep your filthy Windows fingers to yourself.

I'm aware of furry drama. I have a friend who is a furry and he lives communally in an apartment with other furries in which the roommates rotate every three months or so. Drama city, according to him.

Sounds awful. I'm sharing a flat with another fur since over a year now and, thankfully, there's no furry drama involved and it helped me moving out of my parents house :)

There's no reason to put scare quotes on self-esteem.

I know what self-esteem stands for, but thanks for summarizing anyway. I put the quotes there out of habit because, back in school, I heard that word way too often. Essentially, if you were a bully you'd get lots and lots of second chances and therapy, but if you were the target of their bullshit, well, you get told that you've got low self-esteem and that's it. That's why I'm still passively-annoyed (heh) when someone mentions self-esteem.

It is grossly cruel the way people treat furries (and emos).

It really isn't that bad, at least for furs. Sure, we get trolled and some people really take that personally, but that's all online. Now, offline, in the real world, it's not that bad really and those who protest furry conventions look way dumber and socially retarded than us. See for yourself:

Look at them, all alone in the rain. The dude in the lab coat, head of the convention, later went out to them to have a chat. They were very timid and unable to explain what they were doing (can't find the newspaper article, sadly).

Same folks as above I think

Fail

I don't know, maybe /b/tards and the like are bellow furries. They act all tough on the 'net, but look at them. Hope that wasn't too much chatter :>

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/3189837806_6f5367125b_o.png

Robot bar tenders are the first thing any decent roboticist thinks of.

Here are:

* the Robomoji, a mojito maker
* a cocktail robot from the 2007 Maker Faire
* this one complete with face from Roboexotica 2007.

And here's the original recipe for a Mojito.

Robot bar tenders are the first thing any decent roboticist thinks of.

Here are:

* the Robomoji, a mojito maker
* a cocktail robot from the 2007 Maker Faire
* this one complete with face from Roboexotica 2007.

And here's the original recipe for a Mojito.

Here is a page full of light pollution examples. Look at those and think in terms of the energy wasted.

If the light was simply directed at the ground you could get away with fewer fixtures, lower wattage and actually *improve* nighttime visibility.

This one makes the point well...a comparison of the sky as seen from Leamington, UT, (pop. 217) vs. Orem, UT, (pop. ~400,000). I agree that most of the others just seem to confuse the point trying to be made and do little to promote the initative.

Only the first photo of the Group is any good at "showing" light pollution. The rest are terrible.

Only the first photo of the Group is any good at "showing" light pollution. The rest are terrible.

Yes, 800 is a very conservative number. On my last two visits to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum annex at Dulles International ( http://flickr.com/photos/pvera/sets/72157594265546348/ ), I shot over 400 frames without even trying. Just walking once through each section was enough to fill the SD in my D50.

we actually might make this a shirt, i'm not kidding either.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/3175456884/

They really should implement SSL logins soon. It appears as though Barack Obama's Twitter account was recently somehow affected by this: http://flickr.com/photos/cparker15/3171416978/

While I know this doesn't really mean a whole lot to many on Slashdot, I'm sure Barack Obama has a lot of followers that have been duped by him.

There, fixed it for ya.

My Libretto was rated for 8 hours with the fat battery pack, but I never got more than 5-6 hours. That was still enough to keep me from having to join the tethered geeks near the wall at conferences, but only because I had two batteries and could leave one charging in my room... then swap it out at the lunch break and before the evening sessions.

Not to mention that you don't want to risk a non-removable "iBattery" turning into something like this like my original Macbook Pro's did.

LOLCATS!!! <3 <3 <3 :-)

famous eve learning curve graph

Oral surgery, however, is different. It hurts when it happens, it hurts like hell afterwards, and Wendy's Frosties actually become medicinal by being the only thing you can eat to put any calories (even if they are empty) in you while at the same time being cold so you can leave it on the wound (with yummy results), causing 1 frosty to provide 30+ minutes of relief.

It looks pretty gnarly too. I took pictures. They're quite poplular:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/tags/aftersurgery

They really should implement SSL logins soon. It appears as though Barack Obama's Twitter account was recently somehow affected by this: http://flickr.com/photos/cparker15/3171416978/

While I know this doesn't really mean a whole lot to many on Slashdot, I'm sure @BarackObama has a lot of followers that could have been duped by this.

I assume that you would want to get rid of pictures like this and these as well? They are being actively encouraged to undo the damage done by people like you - so I suggest you avoid looking at religious art for a start.

In fact, given that most women these days breastfeed where ever their baby needs it, I suggest you stay in your basement and never come out.

"IN the mid 1970s, the first laws were passed that said it was illegal. First amendment concerns surfaced but those were beaten back with the argument that producing it required that a crime be committed by an adult against a child. You couldn't produce child porn without actually raping a child."

Before we could use the rape argument, we had to increase the age of consent to make sex with children rape.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ageconse.html

and in Europe we still find ages of consent below 18:

http://flickr.com/photos/11438926@N00/2091874900/sizes/o/