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If CBS wants to show boobies after a reasonable time, say, 9:00 (the internationally accepted "Boobie Hour), have swear words and show people's heads exploding like a melon, let them. [ ... ]
Little kids that are up at 9:00 watching porn are already suffering from parenting fail and no amount of FCC nanying is going to save them.

Sorry but boobies != porn. Go to any beach in a non religiously run country. (Or just go to Flickr - may be NSFW depending on your views on watching perfectly natural stuff)

I've seen a couple cool cars by Toyota, but to issue DMCA takedowns like this is pretty silly.

Not only is it not relevant (they could cite Trademark but not Copyright on most user-created photos), but its just anti-fan, which is a great way to alienate people.

Imagine, now the sites will have pictures of all other brands of car except Toyota. I'm sure that would make Toyota execs proud.

here's a painting from a pompeii brothel you might like: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/211691819_59a1c5345b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pantufla/114081011/

That wasn't Megatron, he (it) was already frozen underneath the Hoover Dam. It was Starscream on Mars.

Secondly, the press did cover Biden's "gaffes".

They did cover gaffes — socially awkward or tactless acts. But not the "gaffes" — stupidities and outright lunacies smoothed-over as mere gaffes. For example, if it were anyone from the opposing ticket, claiming:

When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, "Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will control it."

MSNBC would've had a "Lebanon History Special" at prime time to show the entire nation, just how pathetically wrong that statement was — and on how many levels!

But it was Biden and up until very recently even a well-meaning slashdotter (not some Joe Carpenter) didn't realize, just how far from this Universe the man, chosen by Obama for his "foreign policy credentials," really lives.

McCain chose Palin. That was part of his strategy to energize the Religious Right AND an attempt to get the female vote.

And Obama chose Biden. That was part of his strategy to alleviate the concerns of his own foreign policy inexperience and reduce the impact of racial prejudices. That one strategy worked and the other didn't is works of the press and their now-documented bias towards Obama. The media — dishonestly — claimed, that Palin's inexperience trumps Obama's (as if they ran for the same post!), while looking the other way as Joe Biden mounted one lunacy over another.

Now that Obama has won, we might see more penance from the reporters and editors. We may even get some buyer's remorse from the voters. But they'll be justified, claiming, the papers misled them. This will be studied in journalism courses as a great example, of how not to write...

For google, we might be talking about magma ;-)

Here is a photographer (rooftop65) based in The Dalles, known to get a good shot or two of the Google data center.

The one and only Flickr. Maybe you've heard of it?

For the purpose of training the muscle fiber to relax, passive extension is both more effective and considerably less damaging than any active stretch.

Expert dynamic stretching can be very safe; it is a progressive, low-risk sequence of actions performed by someone very familiar with their limits and the exercises themselves that does not put the practitioner at significant risk. All stretching should be preceded by a warm up. As I said before, passive stretching is safer for the non-expert. I also mentioned that training the antagonist to relax is important. I use passive stretching to train for these reasons, among others (such as lawyers...)

Light active stretching can help with optimizing the alignment of the muscle fibers, but it shouldn't be done pre-workout, and it can actually antagonize the relaxation of the muscle since as one approaches the extension limit of the muscle a protective reflex causes the muscle to tense up.

Yes. PNF, most commonly dealt with using hold-relax techniques in the passive stretching context. I actively teach this myself in order to assist in training the new practitioner to fully extend, and it is one of the reasons I focus on passive stretching with interspersed warm-ups rather than dynamics.

Nothing against you in particular but I have yet to meet any athletics instructor that actually studied kinesiology to any technical extent, especially in martial arts.

Well, now you have. Here's part of my martial arts library (behind the trailing leg... :-) and here's my main library.

The advice of nearly everyone else is derived from hearsay and anecdotal observation.

Well, not to diminish the usefulness of a technical education in any way, but in turn, you should be careful not to dismiss the observation of people in the field, who deal with real-world issues constantly. Yes, fads and myths get around, but I think you'll find that there is quite a large segment of instructors who manage to not swallow them because there is no confirming research. Personally, I can always wait until there is actual data out there before I subject my students to a new idea in this particular area.

For the purpose of training the muscle fiber to relax, passive extension is both more effective and considerably less damaging than any active stretch.

Expert dynamic stretching can be very safe; it is a progressive, low-risk sequence of actions performed by someone very familiar with their limits and the exercises themselves that does not put the practitioner at significant risk. All stretching should be preceded by a warm up. As I said before, passive stretching is safer for the non-expert. I also mentioned that training the antagonist to relax is important. I use passive stretching to train for these reasons, among others (such as lawyers...)

Light active stretching can help with optimizing the alignment of the muscle fibers, but it shouldn't be done pre-workout, and it can actually antagonize the relaxation of the muscle since as one approaches the extension limit of the muscle a protective reflex causes the muscle to tense up.

Yes. PNF, most commonly dealt with using hold-relax techniques in the passive stretching context. I actively teach this myself in order to assist in training the new practitioner to fully extend, and it is one of the reasons I focus on passive stretching with interspersed warm-ups rather than dynamics.

Nothing against you in particular but I have yet to meet any athletics instructor that actually studied kinesiology to any technical extent, especially in martial arts.

Well, now you have. Here's part of my martial arts library (behind the trailing leg... :-) and here's my main library.

The advice of nearly everyone else is derived from hearsay and anecdotal observation.

Well, not to diminish the usefulness of a technical education in any way, but in turn, you should be careful not to dismiss the observation of people in the field, who deal with real-world issues constantly. Yes, fads and myths get around, but I think you'll find that there is quite a large segment of instructors who manage to not swallow them because there is no confirming research. Personally, I can always wait until there is actual data out there before I subject my students to a new idea in this particular area.

Which reminds me of this [NSFW]

I have 3 routers running Tomato:

2* Wrt-54GLs, one as a base station and the other as a client:
306 days, 20:34:49
267 days, 10:53:39

1 Buffalo WHR-G54S, which actually lives outside, in a sealed box:
152 days, 15:23:18

The 2 Linksus router get used for Bittorrent occasionally, with no issues that aren't related to antenna misalignment or interference.

Perhaps a month or two living in a communist country would re-align you with the definition of your "rights".
It's a fucking router. Don't like it, go buy a fucking 54GL and load your own goddamn OS.

your own goddamn OS would be wrt, which is linux, which is communism.

it was electroluminescent (whatever happened to that tech?)

You still see it, on things like PC case mods, the undersides of cars, and t-shirts. A more practical use is using el wire for things like stair tread lighting - it doesn't emit much light but it does emit enough to mark the edges. Some old HH amps used an EL panel for the backlight on the front panel - the whole front lit up green.

It was probably too power-hungry for sensible laptop use, although it might be good for large displays.

You can do some nice lighting tricks with it like this (5 second exposure, shaking a bit of el wire about in a very dark room).

As for other things, the indented Windows keys Microsoft now mandates (Since the release of Vista) should really be flat, although that is not a deal breaker.

What is this?
The DELL keyboard I'm on right now (which I think it actually of a Logitech pedigree) has the windows key just like the alt key, excepts it's got a circular indentation with a raised windows logo in a circle. Similar to the top 2 here: http://static.flickr.com/36/113313821_90211ff7ec.jpg .

Is this what you're talking about? I don't like it, but it's not too much of a bother.

Let us pray that they don't mean memories like these.

Not only that, but they'll be able to tell you where you left them, too.

There was a meme a while back, where people would post a photo of everything in their pockets (or handbag).

oh get off it. Here:
"yellow pages" . . 244 000 000 hits . . . 2 600 times linked in all of the Internet
flickr . . . . . . 251 000 000 hits . . 305 000 times linked
blogger. . . . . . 222 000 000 hits . .. 92 300 times linked

Two useful web sites that get a similar number of mentions. Only in this case the mentions aren't referring to a paper edition! Because these services are actually useful, they get linked to from all over the web.

Here's the table with hyperlinks, you can check for yourself:
"yellow pages"-244 000 000 hits-2 600 times linked
flickr-251 000 000 hits-305 000 times linked
blogger-222 000 000 hits-92 300 times linked

Still think I picked on Slashdot? I've given you ample evidence.

The above are actually useful services. If you want to try to give me a counterexample, go ahead. I have shown you that yellowpages.com is a useless service. If you want to produce a counterexample (a site linked as little as yellowpages despite being actually useful), be my guest, I defy you.

But you won't find one. Because it's as I told you: yellowpages.com is as useful as looking at hamburgers over the Internet, and gets about as many links.

One of the UK's beer companies used to help sell their cans by having pictures of models on the side. At the time, it was just an beer can with a picture of a model, but now these pictures capture the fashions of the era, that would be hard for any designer to reproduce without having reference pictures ( 1980's.

Now these beer cans are actually collectors items.

Although as a caveat, I did format and build my machine from scratch, and if I didn't have to do Windows Updates from time to time... I'd have even longer system uptime -- take a look (That's in Hours:Minutes:seconds)

I haven't had any problems with Vista other than it being rather mediocre in terms of an 'upgrade' from what it offers compared to XP.

I mainly do development (.NET, sorry folks), play games and surf the web. It works fine for my needs. The FPSes aren't far off what I got in XP, and given that the driver model isn't changing at all in Windows 7, I'm sure it will improve more as time goes by.

As I recall, the drivers in XP sucked when they were first released -- we can give folks a little while to get it all sorted in Vista and migrate it right into Windows 7.

It's really not that bad.. and with over 1200 hours of uptime now, I am not complaining. Windows 7 seems to address GUI complaints I have had, and that's good... I'll be patient to see what else comes of it.

I still use my little Sharp Actius PC-MM10 for travel. It's certainly underpowered with a 1GHz transmeta chip, fixed 256MB of RAM, and a 15GB hard drive. I net installed the basic Ubuntu 7.10 and then added xorg and fluxbox. I would not call it snappy, but it does everything I need it to do. It is smaller than an Apple Air. Here is a photo.

Tags won't be just as bad, they'll be worse. They require a considerable effort to tag consistently. You also have to think of all the possible tags that could be related to the file. Is it "friends", "acquaintances", "buddies", etc? Is it singular or plural? Will "birthdays" be enough, or you also have to file it under "parties", "celebrations" and "events" in case you remember the file you need was related to some sort of celebration but you can't remember which?

What happens with categories that are diffuse, change meaning, or their contents?

People seem to manage it exceedingly well.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/13/gefen-hd-mate-scaler-and-switch/

I personally have one and I wrote an article on this thing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meantux/2188250245/

At home I got my PS3, my obsolete HDDVD player and my cable top Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD connected to my HDMate inputs.

I wonder if Bill knows that his new logo is almost identical to the Codemasters logo?

Google: group robot porn

Returns:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/418760979_1bafe68c02_b_d.jpg

Cake!

[...]erase undesirable memories[...]

undesirable for whom?

Her, for one

We Filipinos were way ahead in that regard -> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/103053707_82776c774a.jpg

("Bayanihan" roughly translated means "helping your neighbor." House-moving is the most common depiction.)

I'm busted. Guess it was also dumb to put that "By Rich Miller" on the article. Here's the actual URL for the photo on Flickr, which we've fixed.

event photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29456235@N04/sets/72157607883586121/

There's obviously a lot of skepticism on this site.. however a few years ago I was having a bbq and, before you ask no one had started drinking or smoking anything, but a couple of us saw these silver globes traveling EXTREMELY fast around the clear sky, they (and there was about 8 of them) sped over the horizon and then shot upwards twirling around each other. DEFINITELY not a bird, plane.. photos are: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2959668832_e5abe840d1_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2959668228_778ac7d3d9_o.jpg After seeing these, I'm convinced we're not alone..

There's obviously a lot of skepticism on this site.. however a few years ago I was having a bbq and, before you ask no one had started drinking or smoking anything, but a couple of us saw these silver globes traveling EXTREMELY fast around the clear sky, they (and there was about 8 of them) sped over the horizon and then shot upwards twirling around each other. DEFINITELY not a bird, plane.. photos are: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2959668832_e5abe840d1_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2959668228_778ac7d3d9_o.jpg After seeing these, I'm convinced we're not alone..

Kitware was the company founded to support the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), an open source software system for data visualization. VTK has a huge C++ library as well as hooks for scripting for very rapid development. Who wouldn't want to build custom 3D views of their data?

You forgot flickr.

No, there aren't any other photo sharing websites out there.

No, there aren't.

We did that the first time around, with a list of key phrases for each candidate.

We did that the first time around, with a list of key phrases for each candidate.

We did that the first time around, with a list of key phrases for each candidate.

We did that during the first debate. We had a separate list of "drink" phrases for Obama and McCain.

And yes, "My friends" was the first thing on the McCain list.

We did that during the first debate. We had a separate list of "drink" phrases for Obama and McCain.

And yes, "My friends" was the first thing on the McCain list.

We did that during the first debate. We had a separate list of "drink" phrases for Obama and McCain.

And yes, "My friends" was the first thing on the McCain list.

A friend commented that my shifting was smooth; I was surprised because I keep planning to have someone who knows cars to teach me.

I noticed that mistake after I posted.

The small print on the sticker states:

Actual mileage will vary with options, driving conditions, driving habits an vehicle condition. Results reported to EPA indicate that the majority of vehicles with these estimates will achieve between 16 and 22 mpg in the city and between 23 and 33 mpg on the highway.

This does not state that this car will achieve the range, just a disclaimer that the variance is typical for a car rated 19/28. I assumed manufacturers marketed the best numbers possible without getting sued.

I use fifth and sixth as overdrives; difficult not to accelerate in the first four gears. At what speed does fifth become more for acceleration than coasting?

Good to know that the $3000 was not just for the spoiler.

My "experiments" were flooring the accelerator in each gear until the car hiccuped from red-lining. More controlled acceleration should give better results. I did drop into second at 70mph once (missed fourth -- I stated I was not good with manual shifting) and the car handled it well.

Neither of mine was an automatic or a convertible. I tested the automatic before buying the first. About a quarter mile flat and up a ramp. Flooring the automatic was straining past 50 mph. Without trying, the manual was at 90mph at the same place.

A female friend bought a '99 automatic TransAm and special-ordered the WS6 because she liked the hood. Any performance benefits would be lost to the automatic transmission. The car is probably extremely rare; who else would pay just for the look?

Well the point of that small print is to tell you that is the range of number that they have achieved. The numbers in larger print are just the median of the numbers in the small print (do the math, you'll see). They'll never claim a car will get the upper limit they see in testing, because people would be crying about it when they didn't get that mileage. Most people also aren't willing to drive in such a manner to get that 33mpg. 33mpg is also not likely because their testing at the time did not include real world conditions, so it's a little high.

Well, 5th and 6th are overdrive gears. 5th is .74:1 and 6th is .5:1, but 5th gear is still a very good acceleration gear because of the amount of torque the LS1 puts out. As for when 5th is better for acceleration, it all depends on what rpm you shift into it at. The best power band on a stock LS1 is from ~3500rpm to ~5500rpm (see http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/2943983193_b2b78190f3_o.jpg for a dyno graph of my car stock as an example), so 5th gear from 3500rpm to 5500rpm should accelerate well. Of course at 5500rpm in 5th, you'll be going somewhere around 166mph. Top speed in 4th is around 135mph, btw. All the above assumes that you've got a stock T-56 and 3.42 gears in your rear end. Drag, vehicle weight, etc will affect actual speeds though.

I've been told that the cars will do ~167mph stock (well with the limiter removed). I've been ~155mph a few times on a track and it was still pulling fairly well and the ride was shockingly smooth. Your TA would probably be a bit more stable at those speeds because of the better suspension and maybe because of the different spoiler, but I'm not sure if the TA spoiler would give you any more down force vs. the Formula's spoiler.

Top speed in 2nd gear is around 75mph. There is a point at which downshifting into a certain gear for increased power becomes pointless though. 60mph in 2nd is ~4800rpm, so you still have a reasonable amount of the power band left. Shifting into 2nd at 70 leaves you about 600rpm before the rev limiter; that's why I mention 60mph.

Naw, automatic TA's are far from rare. I don

lets not forget this one

And you instead discover that it's driven by a somewhat butch, middle-aged woman, right? :) That's the stereotypical PT Cruiser driver around these parts.

Out of curiosity, would you say that this car (Aptera Typ-1) looks angry or happy? It's got a bit of a smile line, but the headlights and "nostrils" look kind of devious to me and almost make the smile look like an evil grin.

Also, everyone evaluates cars as faces, rather than as machines or butts.

Cars *do* have butts, and sometimes you can tell carmakers put some effort in making them look quite curvaceous.

If the results had been real, by now cars would have evolved to have faces painted on them rivaling the toothy grin on the Curtis P-40s of the Flying Tigers.

Shark teeth painted on a war plane are surely acceptable, but in a civilian car you need a measure of... discreetness? So you have headlights, hood and grille as surrogates to play with.

Here's the same car on a better day

well, I tried to get reliable numbers. In a BBC article from 2007 I found a mention of 14.2 million cameras. I don't know how many of these are government owned, I would be interested in knowing how many there are,

Sale of a CCTV camera is not a reportable event (unlike sale of a television, since use of TV receivers is (with caveats) an activity requiring an annual licence costing about £135. Which reminds me to renew mine in the next 3 months), so reliable statistics probably do not exist.
Down the hill from me is a branch of a popular "technical electronics" store, probably vaguely equivalent to America's "Radio Shack". The sort of place that you could buy a motherboard, OR a 6-pack of replacement capacitors to repair your existing motherboard. Their shop is nearly square, with one wall being the windows, doors and tills ; of the remaining walls, approximately 1/4 to 1/5 of the wall space is devoted to CCTV equipment - cameras of various capabilities, monitors, multi-channel CCTV recording systems, mountings and housings of varying degrees of obtrusiveness, dummy mountings. That's not a precise metric, but it gives you a sense of the scale of sales. Looking at their sales effort (which presumably reflects their sales successes), their most common sale is a 4-camera system with a several-hundred-hour recording system that can output chunks of time from all cameras onto a DVD. The typical use of these is for a small shop - two cameras cover the tills and door from different angles and would be obtrusive to deter overt robberies ; two more cover the more obscure corners of the shop, where shop lifters try to hide their stolen goods on their persons. So, the equipment is probably intended for passive monitoring - AFTER the shop workers have called the police about an event (a robbery by direct assault or covert shoplifting), the management can store the camera records for use in prosecution and/ or sentence setting. No-one is permanently monitoring the cameras.
The myth that "14 million cameras require 14 million custodies" is only a myth ; the vast majority of CCTV cameras are for deterrence and for after-the-event evidence presentation.

And wtf is garden vandalism

Errr, vandalism of a garden. Is it that obscure? On the same night the Nigerian couple over the road from us had their white concrete bird-bath and potted-flower "thing" (I have no better description) smashed while we had a 2-year-old row of box hedging ripped up, with it's bedding plants ("Lambs Lugs" http://www.flickr.com/photos/29771883@N06/2812431980/ ) and most of the plants being taken off site. Theft, burglary, or racism? You decide. The Scottish police investigated it as a racist incident, but couldn't come up with anything.

why are you leaving in the same house as a drug dealer?

I didn't say that ; I said "the drug dealer upstairs". I live in the same building as a drug dealer. I suspect that a notice on the front fence, where the drivers and foot customers can see it, to the effect that "If you can read this sign, then you're close enough for the CCTV to have recorded your face." would have an effect. Unfortunately, the effect would probably be firebombs through some windows and bricks through the rest.
(Incidentally, I bumped into the guy I brought my dope from in university last week - we're still friends. If he's still dealing, his neighbours probably don't know about it and only think of him as the IT manager of an educational software company. Which he is.)

At the same time it is stimulating these problems by stimulating teen pregnancies (free flat for a teen mother, etc.),

Typical fear and hatred of press phantoms.

FYI, the (only just) teen mum who lives upstairs (next door to the drug dealer) is housed by the council (like the drug dealer and t

perhaps it's some ancient forbidden love dance gone horribly wrong; such chain "action" is seen in the "living fossil" horseshoe crabs. (which are also arthropods, rare surviving relative of the trilobite, and almost as old as the little guys in TFA)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blondeonblonde/462916466/in/set-72157594323781031/

How about glass tiles on a 100'x30' wall, or a 30'x75' wall?

I wrote the code, my brother in law did the hard parts.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikcharlton/348280630/

John McCain can't type because his arms were repeatedly broken by the Vietnamese while he was a POW. Why do you insult disabled veterans?

Well, that's what his campaign claims when the embarrassing topic of his technological ignorance comes up. On the other hand, here you can see him firmly holding a pad in one hand, while signing his name with the other hand, standing up, with no awkwardness that I can observe. He's hardly an invalid. If he can do that, he can type on a keyboard.

I think you're putting the proverbial carriage before the horse. As best as I can tell, McCain's injuries were not used as a claim to avoid embarrassing topics...in fact the "embarrassing topic" was brought up in 2000 by him in describing his injury (disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this site): http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/09/12/barack-obama-campaign-mocks-john-mccains-disability-in-new-ad/