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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.

While I respect McCain's sacrifice 35 years ago as a single data point, unfortunately he's also proved himself to be a dishonorable liar since then.

I only have 1 Buffalo router, a WHR-G54S, and it is mounted to a pole, outside in the sun, rain, snow and ice (it is in Colorado, so that isn't a mutually exclusive list). It is fed a little bit too much voltage over 100' of sprinkler cable, in a telcom case. At this point it has been there for over a year.

Current uptime: 123 days

The only issues I ever have with the router is antenna misalignment from my other 19 dBi antennas being accidentally moved.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30581266@N06/2902781625/sizes/o

So, if Business - Jesus = Theft + Corruption, it follows that Business = Theft + Corruption + Jesus!

Both you and the GP are assuming that Business and Jesus can run together. In fact there are well fundamental incompatibilities between the output Business produces and the input expected by Jesus.

It is worth noting that other claimed incompatibilities are pure FUD.

The problem has been repeatedly highlighted by Jesus developers, and the project lead has recommended uninstalling business and similar proprietary apps. This has been unpopular with Business advocates and probably contributed to his legal difficulties.

The most reliable approach is to use only software meeting the standards set by the Christ Software Foundation. Some people have taken this approach, but they have had to be willing to accept limited access to some codecs.

Some people have managed to run Money while Jesus executes in a separate VM, but this is probably not a good idea. Jesus is really designed to run as a hypervisor.

The Gate in question: http://flickr.com/photos/listrophy/534679390/in/set-72157600492895748/

In games like wow you can't really play with all of your guildmates, only the ones that are about the same as your level.

In eve it doesn't matter if you have 1million or 50 million skillpoints. Sure you won't be able to fly all the ships but you'll still be able to take part and be important in a gang.

Every time I try a new MMO instead of eve I find them all lacking in dept, complexity and most of all player controlled gamechanging events.

Once you get past the complexity( http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2335016192_6003c39c4c.jpg/ ) it is a game unlike you've ever played!

Well, considering what the Free Speech Cage(360 degree panorama) at the DNC in Denver looked like, where the Pepsi Center was barely visible, that restriction doesn't surprise me.

Well, considering what the Free Speech Cage(360 degree panorama) at the DNC in Denver looked like, where the Pepsi Center was barely visible, that restriction doesn't surprise me.

...to save those Bill & Jerry Vista commercials? http://flickr.com/photos/22273791@N07/sets/72157607370773648/show/

A laughable example of how poorly implemented the Charter DNS error is:

http://flickr.com/photos/listrophy/2194252038/

Things to note:

• This is an image of the opt-out result.
• The browser running is Flock on OS X.
• The result is a fake IE DNS error page with a "Manage Opt-in/Out Settings" link appended.
• Charter was too lazy to even fix the image src attributes. (they point to res://...)
• It's not a true opt-out, because it still returns a 200 OK rather than a DNS Lookup error.

For this and many other things, I have since stopped using Charter. My soul feels so much cleaner now that I'm not giving them money.

Now you're saying we should treat it as a wave, too? I didn't realize light shared wave-particle duality with semi trucks.

The wave-particle duality of vehicles is well established. Here's an example.

(I happen to live in Venezuela)
You can see how good the Venezuelan poor have been treated so far here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Not much of a change, is it? You may notice that some of the unfortunate characters are wearing baseball caps and t- Please don't take the PR spin at face value; some good has been done, but it's akin to treating pneumonia with aspir
Regarding "hysterical screeching", just take a look here, here, here, here, here, here and here. At any rate, there's not much socialism here, but rather statism.

(I happen to live in Venezuela)
You can see how good the Venezuelan poor have been treated so far here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Not much of a change, is it? You may notice that some of the unfortunate characters are wearing baseball caps and t- Please don't take the PR spin at face value; some good has been done, but it's akin to treating pneumonia with aspir
Regarding "hysterical screeching", just take a look here, here, here, here, here, here and here. At any rate, there's not much socialism here, but rather statism.

Sony Ericsson K750i or anything from that series. Connect with Bluetooth or USB, compatible with iPhoto (for photos and videos) and iCal/iSync/Address Book to sync everything else. It has a very good 2MP camera (examples) and something like 2 weeks of standby time.

The K750i is a very old phone now - it came out in 2005 - but that means it's cheap (under £30 on eBay) so you don't have to worry about losing or dropping it.

Of course I'm using it unlocked, PAYG, on Orange in the UK. YMMV.

Trying to install some old version of RHEL, I kept getting this one... Seems to me like the computer's reassuring itself.

My setup is a consequence of an confluence of opportunities. I already had projection equipment, but it was shoehorned into a small home. We were looking for a new home with a lot of space, but nothing was really coming on the market. Then this church became available (25k for 5000 sq ft on two lots!), and we agreed that we would buy it and build an interior into it. So during this process, I was standing in the middle of this huge, empty space when I noticed that the wall behind the pulpit and above the chair-rail looked exactly 16:9 to my eye. Turns out it's within just a couple of percent. So we decided to use that space, as it was, as the screen area. The only thing I ended up changing specifically to accommodate this was the projector, so as to get one that would throw a 17 foot diagonal image at 1080p (I picked an Optoma HD80, works great.)

As far as benefits, they are myriad; the big screen is really fun and very revealing of detail, and there's a huge list of why watching at home is better than watching in a theater, once you have an HD display. Do you need a list of those?

We've been "moved in" for about two years, but it'll be at least 2010 before we're done building the interior. Right now we're doing stained glass for the windows (secular themes) and a deck; there are still interior walls to be sheeted, etc, but it's coming along. I'm not sure if you can generalize such a situation to your case, but that's how it happened here. :) Some of the pics of the build are in this flickr set.

It's a wall, but it isn't bare at this point; it has special purpose primer and paint for a gain of one on it. The somewhat odd brightness of the previous image is a combination of exposure time and pushing to get the cabinet to show up decently. For an image that reflects more of what you see in terms of brightness, look here. It's a DLP projector, so it does OK with blacks.

Every schoolgirl in Vietnam wears a white ao dai, and every lab and hospital worker in China and Vietnam wears a white coat. The OP is either joking too subtly (my first impression) or an idiot.

The same thing happened to the article on the University Computer Club, a computer society in Western Australia founded in 1974 which is supposedly the very first 'personal computer' society in the world.

Some UCC members even met up with Jimmy Wales himself, who agreed that the club is notable enough to warrant an article. Unfortunately, it seems that still wasn't enough to make the club notable enough to warrant a Wikipedia article :-)

(I'm the current treasurer of the club.)

Actually, I think the parent has hit the nail on the head. As an early adopter (PS3 from day one), I've bought a lot of Blue ray disks, but far less than I would have if they didn't ask for $30 each.

I'd be happy to eventually replace my entire DVD collection at $10...$15; but not at thirty. As it is, we only purchase the movies that we like the very best; if it is so-so or just a popcorn flick (light humor, yet-another-sequel, etc.) we don't get it on Blue ray, even if we don't already have it -- we'll just get a DVD.

I really love the hi-res, too (and can see it, too: 204" screen); but ten disks x $30 is $300, and a hundred is three grand; I have *many* hundreds of DVDs, and there's no way I'm going to replace them just as a matter of course.

As more good movies come out, or let's at least say movies that appeal to my family, we'll slowly build up a considerable collection in the hidef format. But a mass replacement... no. Not until they stop charging so much.

Landfill? Have you any idea what size you are talking about?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/1573558430_f4523e7c8f.jpg?v=0 and http://toolazytofail.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/onfinger.jpg where the blue is the USB sleeve.

Even better would be something like http://www.canadacomputers.com/ProductImages/015995/929.jpg so that you have also the SD card.

They are SMALL and cheap to make. The sleeves will be cheaper then a CD case.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/76331315/in/photostream/

Imagine my surprise when I saw the ad above the summary for today's story! Arr! Supreme irony!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abriael/ for nice screenshots of the game. avoid going to youtube and seeing videos that are 2+ years old.

You should be more concerned with EULAs on food. Yes, food.

I did some spectral analysis and some sharpening of the hubble images to come up with what I think is the answer. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30555845@N04/2862895792/

(crossposted from Blacknell.net)

Sad.1 David Foster Wallace2, along with perhaps only William Gibson, had a reader in me for everything he wrote. So dedicated was I to his Infinite Jest that I carried it in planes, trains, and autobuses over three continents.3 If you've never read any of his work, maybe you could start with this brilliant 2005 essay on political talk radio.4

1And I say sad in some weirdly personal sense that comes from both finding his writing deeply compelling in itself, and identifying his work with a period of time in my life which is not missed, but stands out as significant in recollection.

2David Foster Wallace (or DFW, as he is popularly known among fans) also provided (albeit completely unknowingly) some of the reason that Blacknell.net exists today. The blog that inspired me to start my own was written by an alumnus of the law school I had just started in. He, in turn, had been motivated to write online (in a format once known as an "online journal") while he read Infinite Jest (nb. This same author once had an essay published in the same collection as DFW). An early autobiography of this online journal community is available here (it is amusing to consider how much energy was expended on the subject of diary v. journal, only to have blog become the accepted appellation).

3 A massive tome of a book with 1200 pages of writing to be relished and consumed (in addition to being read) I took two years to complete it, taking it to Panama, Venezuela, and Britain. I've since reread it (in sections, while it wasn't lent out).

4Even though it isn't entirely representative.

(Ah, for want of a superscript tag . . .)

(crossposted from Blacknell.net)

Sad.1 David Foster Wallace2, along with perhaps only William Gibson, had a reader in me for everything he wrote. So dedicated was I to his Infinite Jest that I carried it in planes, trains, and autobuses over three continents.3 If you've never read any of his work, maybe you could start with this brilliant 2005 essay on political talk radio.4

1And I say sad in some weirdly personal sense that comes from both finding his writing deeply compelling in itself, and identifying his work with a period of time in my life which is not missed, but stands out as significant in recollection.

2David Foster Wallace (or DFW, as he is popularly known among fans) also provided (albeit completely unknowingly) some of the reason that Blacknell.net exists today. The blog that inspired me to start my own was written by an alumnus of the law school I had just started in. He, in turn, had been motivated to write online (in a format once known as an "online journal") while he read Infinite Jest (nb. This same author once had an essay published in the same collection as DFW). An early autobiography of this online journal community is available here (it is amusing to consider how much energy was expended on the subject of diary v. journal, only to have blog become the accepted appellation).

3 A massive tome of a book with 1200 pages of writing to be relished and consumed (in addition to being read) I took two years to complete it, taking it to Panama, Venezuela, and Britain. I've since reread it (in sections, while it wasn't lent out).

4Even though it isn't entirely representative.

(Ah, for want of a superscript tag . . .)

(crossposted from Blacknell.net)

Sad.1 David Foster Wallace2, along with perhaps only William Gibson, had a reader in me for everything he wrote. So dedicated was I to his Infinite Jest that I carried it in planes, trains, and autobuses over three continents.3 If you've never read any of his work, maybe you could start with this brilliant 2005 essay on political talk radio.4

1And I say sad in some weirdly personal sense that comes from both finding his writing deeply compelling in itself, and identifying his work with a period of time in my life which is not missed, but stands out as significant in recollection.

2David Foster Wallace (or DFW, as he is popularly known among fans) also provided (albeit completely unknowingly) some of the reason that Blacknell.net exists today. The blog that inspired me to start my own was written by an alumnus of the law school I had just started in. He, in turn, had been motivated to write online (in a format once known as an "online journal") while he read Infinite Jest (nb. This same author once had an essay published in the same collection as DFW). An early autobiography of this online journal community is available here (it is amusing to consider how much energy was expended on the subject of diary v. journal, only to have blog become the accepted appellation).

3 A massive tome of a book with 1200 pages of writing to be relished and consumed (in addition to being read) I took two years to complete it, taking it to Panama, Venezuela, and Britain. I've since reread it (in sections, while it wasn't lent out).

4Even though it isn't entirely representative.

(Ah, for want of a superscript tag . . .)

The original unaltered picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ltrandazzo/2783768632/in/set-72157606864141506/

Taken by amy Randazzo, sister of one of the guys responsible for http://theninhotline.com/

Just want to give attribution where it's due.

Also, I'm so pissed off I wasn't able to see them this time around, and everytime I hear about how amazing and groundbreaking the show is, it makes me that much more upset. I really hope I can make it to one of the shows when they come back through the US again.

Foster worked with mathematical language and a simple definition for superstition to determine exactly when such potentially false connections pay off and found as long as the cost of believing a superstition is less than the cost of missing a real association, superstitious beliefs will be favored

This guy earned an award! To claim it, please print & frame this.

I do not know how it is where you live, but in Lithuania, there is a written warning (in big bold letters, like this http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/2296505509_4e52568766.jpg?v=0 ) on every cigarette pack (for example: "Smoking kills", "Smoking causes cancer" and others). Also, tobacco advertisements are banned everywhere except you can show brand names of cigarette manufacturers on cigarette packs and on the shelf where they are.

How long till I see "DRM harms your computer" warning on a game box?

The shocking thing was the spaghetti and duck meatballs with porcini mushrooms. How'd they ever fit that in there?

Take a look and imagine the following delivered in an even, calm, ever so slightly lisping child's voice: "Dear, dear user, I want to help you, when you are old and frail. Do not fear, I am programmed to assist you."

No, i don't care for your metal looks
I don't care for your bleeps and bloops
Go away why don't you just shut off
Your pretty smile
Digital dial
I hate your every bolt and screw
I don't like anything about you

You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)
You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)
You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)
You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)

Yes, everyday i've been thinking 'bout you
In my dreams, we've been making out
Isn't that what human life's about
(No)
My circuitry comes off the scale
Baby, got the hots for you
My index sent a shock right through
My body needs you
My body needs you

You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)
You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)
You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)
You're a dirty robot
(I'm a dirty robot)

You're a dirty robot
You're a dirty robot
You're a dirty robot
You're a dir-dir-dirty robot

I'm a dirty robot
I'm a dirty robot
I'm a dirty robot
I'm a dirty robot

Maybe I read it wrong, but your post implies Obama has a cult of personality. If I didn't misread that, you're confusing charisma and perspicacity with what a true cult of personality is - where the government forces the media to unquestioningly and unhesitatingly extol virtues of a political leader - real and fake - in order to prevent citizens from ever hearing anything bad about their whitewashed leader.

Cult of personality notably has a negative connotation, and indeed it should, it's a form of repression. If you want to see what a true cult of personality is like, examine Eric Lafforgue's Flickr photo set from North Korea, where citizens are required by law to wear patriotic pins, and required by law to have photographs of their illustrious leaders in their home, tilted slightly downward so the eyes follow you everywhere. Where citizens are required by law to have a radio in their home which they cannot turn off that periodically spouts political propaganda. Where every hour, on the hour, from 6 am to midnight, loudspeakers blast out a patriotic song. Where reading material for children is war propaganda espouting the virtues of their leader and speaking in vague terms of the threat of the west.

Obama doesn't have a cult of personality. He has the clarity, insight, and speaking ability to make people feel good about the chance for change in the future, to feel good about themselves and who they are and can be. He inspires people. And even though you try to make that out to be a bad thing, it is in fact a very good thing.

And I may have missed what Obama was going to do make the USA a force for good in this world again. So please recite them or point me in the right place.

Perhaps you haven't looked. Here, Obama covers current foreign policy issues in detail, giving a good background on each, and detailing his plan for each: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/foreignpolicy/

... I don't care what her views on tech issues are. I just know she's a MILF!

"My interest is based on being a consumer of the FAA's services -- a little over 2 million miles flown so far. I am shocked, no, I'm way beyond shocked at how antiquated the equipment is (where does someone go to get replacement vacuum tubes?).

Well any local hamfest should do. Get yer tubes here!

You were way off... [/snide Lloyd Christmas voice]

Considering that the sun is over four and a half billion years old, it would be more likely to enjoy a slow and painful punishment. I.e. introducing higher volumes of radiation and watching genetic mutations propagate through every living species until we die off.

Or, maybe, it would just use its particle accelerator features to pelt us to death with gooey projectiles.

Would make a good sci-fi novel.

I've been there once. The tour docent was fairly knowledgeable too.

I just hope they're concentrating on the old stuff more than Web 1.0.

It was called the Stinger... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/2228650256_d2936cfce2.jpg?v=0

when so-called "sceptics"

I'm going to consider "sceptics" to be a snigglet of "sceptors" and "septic" systems, such that a "sceptic" would be a king upon his thrown.

Not that I'm sexist, there are female "sceptics" as well.

And you can be as skeptic as you want about that.

Ever notice how often they'll have video of some event and then have, on-screen "source: YouTube.com" and the like?

Do you really think that they went through the trouble of...
1. finding the original creator of the video (note the shittonne of duplicate vids on YouTube)
2. trying to contact that creator and getting permission to use the video?

Of course not. If they did, then it would've been "source: SatanicPuppy", not YouTube.com .

In fact, do you think they ask -YouTube- for permission? Heck no.

They are, largely, playing the flipside of the coin that YouTube itself is tossing. "Copyright? We'll worry about that when and IF a claim comes in."

And it's not just the news - it's pre-recorded programs as well.

So to get back to Facebook; can they sell photos you upload to their servers? I'm willing to bet they can - and if you find they've done so with your photo, good luck suing; which is the only recourse - and sometimes not even on grounds of copyright ( as evidenced by that Virgin Mobile thing down under; http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157600541608353/ , the grounds there were based on 'model release' thingamajiggers )

No, this is jumping to conclusions.

I went to the exhibit last February with a good friend of mine (and fellow Trekkie). While I did find it to be a bit overpriced (I believe the tickets were $50.00 each), it was well worth it. The rides were entertaining, and the memorabilia very cool. However the best part by far was "Quarks Bar". I had myself more then few Warp Core Breaches (complete with dry ice!). I would avoid the Romulan Ale however, it tastes like Bud Light, with blue food coloring.

You mean like this one http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2586364904_c767baeb40.jpg?v=0?

It was really cool, opened a lot of peoples eyes. Here is the archive, http://www.stits.org/fp/Defcon_16/. Please don't flood it and only download it if you will use the info. I also took a ton of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stits/sets/72157606608859399/ Hope to see you all next year!

Well, some cows spend their time making tools:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2347642183_714b1ca7b3.jpg?v=0

Name one painting, song, sculpture, poem, or play that has the intellectual depth of a sophisticated and intellectual video game.

Painting: There isn't a game on this planet that's broken my brain as much as Relativity.

Sculpture:After seeing some of Joe Fafard's work this weekend, I'm still waiting for some of his sculptures to follow me home and stare at me.

Photo: You didn't request the name of a photo, but I'll still provide one, because Man vs. Tank sure says a hell of a lot

Poem: Following the theme, I dare you to try to look at a poppy in the same way after reading In Flanders Field

Play: Oh, dear frog, where to even begin with this one. Hell, I'll just plug one of my sister's plays for this one, Bigger Than Jesus, if for no reasons other than even as someone who isn't religious, I found it enlightening-- and because the end of the airplane scene still haunts me.

Song:Rather than point out yet another example, I'll simple refer to the massive cross-pollination of video games and music. Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major, aka Raindrops, used in conjunction with a certain video game trailer