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Video games, they claim, spark "positive social traits, such as creativity."

How would this compare to dancing with another person?

For socially adept, happy, creative people, dance with another human, not a video game. Like these people here, here, here, and here.

Yes, it would mean you'd have to stop playing with your Wii ... for at least a little while.

>I wonder if the crowd already has its own Flickr group set up -- if not, what are they waiting for on that front?

Well, there's this one

was this it?

(saw that during a search on flicker. the cakage in that heatsink is both amazing and disgusting.)

I was at one of the audience tapings for 'TSS' in san francisco, a few years ago. very sad to see the show leave, taking all that good geek (true geek) talent with it.

I once sent an amd k8 system to a friend in the mail. I made the mistake of leaving the big heatsink (I think it was a barton chip and those were VERY hot back in the day) attached. the pc was sent ground, I think, and so it didn't get the best treatment. turns out that the heatsink came off the cpu socket and was doing some kind of 'round the world tour' inside the pc case! when he opened it up, there were ding marks from the sharp edges of the heatsink all over the mobo ;(

that was bad. but it gets worse. my 'genius friend' decided to just try it as it was and not even bother to fix the heatsink back to the chip!

I think in 5-10 secs, he -guaranteed- that that system will never run again. I would have liked to know if the mobo was still working - but now, the whole thing is toast.

he didn't know? really? a BIG HUGE HONKING heatsink and he thinks he can turn on a system without it?

sheesh.

now, that was years ago. today with the core2 arch, you almost don't NEED a heatsink. its amazing. I have overclocked core2 chips (see 'BSEL mod' for changing 800fsb to 1066fsb via some conductive paint) and STILL the chip is cold to the touch when I run memtest86. my bsel mod photos are here, btw: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bsel&w=47907743%40N00

its now my usual procedure to install a fan speed control and set it to MIN for all my core2 systems that I build. I love the fact that even at slowest rpm, it still never gets hot enough to even pull your hand away from the hs/fan. amazing..

I also do have a via epia that I use for my mythtv box:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/1890660635_273662e3c9_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2005750966_a1b8d242b3_o.jpg

in that 2nd photo, you can see its drawing 24watts (with a kill-a-watt lcd meter). its 100% fanless, uses a 1ghz cpu but it DOES get quite hot to the touch so I leave the top case skin off; that way I can get by with no fan at all. its been doing my myth-tv recording (using hdhomerun HD tuner box, networked) for about half a year now; no reboots and very reliable.

low power systems are cool ;)

I was at one of the audience tapings for 'TSS' in san francisco, a few years ago. very sad to see the show leave, taking all that good geek (true geek) talent with it.

I once sent an amd k8 system to a friend in the mail. I made the mistake of leaving the big heatsink (I think it was a barton chip and those were VERY hot back in the day) attached. the pc was sent ground, I think, and so it didn't get the best treatment. turns out that the heatsink came off the cpu socket and was doing some kind of 'round the world tour' inside the pc case! when he opened it up, there were ding marks from the sharp edges of the heatsink all over the mobo ;(

that was bad. but it gets worse. my 'genius friend' decided to just try it as it was and not even bother to fix the heatsink back to the chip!

I think in 5-10 secs, he -guaranteed- that that system will never run again. I would have liked to know if the mobo was still working - but now, the whole thing is toast.

he didn't know? really? a BIG HUGE HONKING heatsink and he thinks he can turn on a system without it?

sheesh.

now, that was years ago. today with the core2 arch, you almost don't NEED a heatsink. its amazing. I have overclocked core2 chips (see 'BSEL mod' for changing 800fsb to 1066fsb via some conductive paint) and STILL the chip is cold to the touch when I run memtest86. my bsel mod photos are here, btw: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bsel&w=47907743%40N00

its now my usual procedure to install a fan speed control and set it to MIN for all my core2 systems that I build. I love the fact that even at slowest rpm, it still never gets hot enough to even pull your hand away from the hs/fan. amazing..

I also do have a via epia that I use for my mythtv box:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/1890660635_273662e3c9_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2005750966_a1b8d242b3_o.jpg

in that 2nd photo, you can see its drawing 24watts (with a kill-a-watt lcd meter). its 100% fanless, uses a 1ghz cpu but it DOES get quite hot to the touch so I leave the top case skin off; that way I can get by with no fan at all. its been doing my myth-tv recording (using hdhomerun HD tuner box, networked) for about half a year now; no reboots and very reliable.

low power systems are cool ;)

I was at one of the audience tapings for 'TSS' in san francisco, a few years ago. very sad to see the show leave, taking all that good geek (true geek) talent with it.

I once sent an amd k8 system to a friend in the mail. I made the mistake of leaving the big heatsink (I think it was a barton chip and those were VERY hot back in the day) attached. the pc was sent ground, I think, and so it didn't get the best treatment. turns out that the heatsink came off the cpu socket and was doing some kind of 'round the world tour' inside the pc case! when he opened it up, there were ding marks from the sharp edges of the heatsink all over the mobo ;(

that was bad. but it gets worse. my 'genius friend' decided to just try it as it was and not even bother to fix the heatsink back to the chip!

I think in 5-10 secs, he -guaranteed- that that system will never run again. I would have liked to know if the mobo was still working - but now, the whole thing is toast.

he didn't know? really? a BIG HUGE HONKING heatsink and he thinks he can turn on a system without it?

sheesh.

now, that was years ago. today with the core2 arch, you almost don't NEED a heatsink. its amazing. I have overclocked core2 chips (see 'BSEL mod' for changing 800fsb to 1066fsb via some conductive paint) and STILL the chip is cold to the touch when I run memtest86. my bsel mod photos are here, btw: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bsel&w=47907743%40N00

its now my usual procedure to install a fan speed control and set it to MIN for all my core2 systems that I build. I love the fact that even at slowest rpm, it still never gets hot enough to even pull your hand away from the hs/fan. amazing..

I also do have a via epia that I use for my mythtv box:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/1890660635_273662e3c9_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2005750966_a1b8d242b3_o.jpg

in that 2nd photo, you can see its drawing 24watts (with a kill-a-watt lcd meter). its 100% fanless, uses a 1ghz cpu but it DOES get quite hot to the touch so I leave the top case skin off; that way I can get by with no fan at all. its been doing my myth-tv recording (using hdhomerun HD tuner box, networked) for about half a year now; no reboots and very reliable.

low power systems are cool ;)

Expanding upon your "significance of 7 rows for both third and first stanza" theory, I immediately notice that the Wilson Hall building has 7 columns (count them: here and here. Your suggestion appears helpful.

If the orientation of the columns is rotated 90deg to make them rows, the stanzas may map to the columns in the building. If we assume the messages are significant, and the correlation to building "rows" is significant, and the left over "8th rows" from stanzas are significant.. we could derive all sorts of possibilities for the mapping of the remaining rows to a position in the building. Again, seeing how others here are much better at finding mathematically significant aspects than I am, I will throw this theory out and see if you or someone else can parse it.. because I believe the "25 columns in the last row of Stanza 1, 21 columns in the last row of Stanza 3" will need to be parsed somehow.

Also, speaking of my lack of math background-- can anyone post something useful for the second stanza? I know John and Geoff (linked crackers) have decoded the three character string below the second stanza, as being "508 (0Ã--1fc) or 2812 (0xafc)" but what about the second stanza itself? If it's base sixteen encoded can someone work on decoding it? We are really working with 2/3 of the available information here, and I think the remaining third will provide a lot of momentum.

also, as I expect this will continue long after this story is no longer at the top of the page, anyone who wants to collaborate via e-mail, may feel free to contact me. my email address is encoded as follows ;) ... myslashdotusernamewhichisfourcharacters.slashdot at gmail. Now I really wish I'd looked closer at the original story, instead of glancing and thinking, "wow, lots of math and the letter is probably a prank.. what else is there to read on slashdot today.."

here are some shocking pics about the earthquake disaster. http://www.flickr.com/photos/69675184@N00/sets/72157605134000340/

time to donate!

Oh i have Shock Treatment. haven't watched it yet.... :) But yes, it was something like that. A friend posted some pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caseylea/with/2503302939/ i do intend to watch it...

This has been known for many years. Here are more taken from my personal ant Web site:

Ants in yer... Pants? NOT! (Toshiba notebook/laptop); Ants Invade Apple iBook.

Ants In
My Nokia Mobile Phone (A Yahoo! account is required).

Ants in Omniview switchboxes: An e-mail story of ants invading a network
switchbox. Thanks nTrFace.

Argentine ants invade a network hub.

Ants had taken up residence in a guy's external hard drive: Ontrack
and Computerworld
(seen on /.).

A photograph showing ants nesting in a guy's phone box, affecting his DSL connection and phone system.

As a techie firefighter (wildland), yep, I would recommend that my hypothetical kids do... whatever they want. Wildland firefighting is a great summer job where you get paid to set stuff on fire, so I would push that.

And then you bet I am going to teach them how to use *nix, which might predispose them to being a techie...

...when your dev team looks like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53246655@N00/581894457/

Probably. It could also burn pretty well, since burning a CD isn't that hard.

If you've seen pictures of the Fail Boat around the internet, you might be interested to know the story behind it (link is to printer version). In short, the whole ordeal happened as a result of the requirement that they dump ballast water before entering US waters. The story on Wired covers the accident as well as the salvage operation and is an excellent read.

It appears that this is a dangerous enough process that it was worth eliminating it. That, or they're just trying to cut down on travel time by not having to stop - but that's just the cynic in me talking.

It was going to take three weeks for BT to sort out DSL in our new house, so I had to set up a temporary office in the empty old house with only scrap furniture to hand.

http://flickr.com/photos/bigbold/985267763/
http://flickr.com/photos/bigbold/987089821/

These setups make the offices in the article look positively charming.

It was going to take three weeks for BT to sort out DSL in our new house, so I had to set up a temporary office in the empty old house with only scrap furniture to hand.

http://flickr.com/photos/bigbold/985267763/
http://flickr.com/photos/bigbold/987089821/

These setups make the offices in the article look positively charming.

Forget France and Sarkozy, Google streetview needs to worry about running into the Overreaction Guy in San Francisco.

http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2459053420/

The percentage of Mac laptops can be overwhelmingly large in certain niches, which reminds me of this photo I saw not too long ago.

Wind and solar have been proven to work now. Entire cities and even states in some countries are being run on renewable technologies.

You'd have to have a pretty small city or state to have all of its energy produces by wind or solar.

Here is a picture of only a small part of a the San Gorgonio wind farm, over 3,500 turbines 1,500 acres that can't even match a single nuclear reactor in terms of its peak energy, much less its base capability.

Take a closer look on Google Maps of this wind farm.

We would need hundreds and hundreds of these kinds of farms to provide all the electric power for the US.

And here's one from a competing company...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pamplemousse/225029183/

Here's how it's done, ladies and gents...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/440970636/in/photostream/

One issue is that it is very easy to covert trees and other plants back into gasses.

And then as you plant more of them, and get a forest that looks like a tree farm, fire becomes a larger risk.

And then your carbon sequestration devices are threatening surrounding communities.

A huge issue across the US is overpopulation of forests because we have been preventing forest fires for so long, so there is definitely no shortage of trees in many areas.

Other than that small detail, yeah, plants are one way to easily store carbon.

One issue is that it is very easy to covert trees and other plants back into gasses.

And then as you plant more of them, and get a forest that looks like a tree farm, fire becomes a larger risk.

And then your carbon sequestration devices are threatening surrounding communities.

A huge issue across the US is overpopulation of forests because we have been preventing forest fires for so long, so there is definitely no shortage of trees in many areas.

Other than that small detail, yeah, plants are one way to easily store carbon.

Fair enough. I don't know what country you live in, and I'm not sure if these requirements are the results of laws specifically prohibiting the use of someone's image without prior consent, or simply a reaction to civil suits that have succeeded in winning compensation for someone who was able to convince a judge they were not fairly compensated for the use of their image. I'm fairly certain getting everyone to sign a release is intended to ensure distribution of your film can not be held up by litigation, rather than complying with legislation. It's "good practice," not a legal requirement. Then again, there may be laws specifically geared toward commercial ventures like film productions.

As to special consideration being given to newspapers and the like, you don't need a license to be a news photographer. You don't even need to be employed by a newspaper. I've sold photos "free lance" to newspapers. And I've never been asked to provide a release signed by the subject. Do I get special consideration as a free lance photographer if I intend to sell the photos I take?

I don't know. I'm not trying to argue. It's just that a lot of people think you need to get permission to take photos in a public place and I know of no laws (in Canada, at any rate) that require this. There is actually an interesting blog on this subject over at flickr.

The question - as I see it - is do you know of any laws (in either the US or Canada) that would prevent me from taking a photo of a stranger and posting it on Facebook or Flickr or my own website without their express written or verbal (on camera) consent? I'm not talking about site policies, I'm talking actual laws that citizens must follow.

I don't know of any, but again I am happy to be corrected.

Take a good, hard look at this "DNS Error Page."

For this, and many other reasons, I have dumped Charter.

We have flickr for sharing photos, youtube for sharing video, imeem for sharing music I should get in early and register youaroma.com

having JUST replaced about 6 capacitors in an older motherboard (due to bad chinese caps, infamous story from about 5 yrs ago) - I concur!

trusting ALL our electronics to the chinese is a fool's decision!

then again, we have had a good amount of fools running this country, so I'm not all that surprised.

if I was president (yeah right..) I would create a program to ENSURE that all chips, transistors, parts (etc) are ALSO made here (at least for security related equipment and sensitive gear). we NEED to have manufacturing return to the US. we can't count on foreign countries to continue to supply us with parts and even building know-how.

we are risking A LOT by trusting (!) all our parts suppliers and in the case of the chinese caps, that really bit us badly! we'll be paying for THAT mistake of theirs for decades (parts are still in the supply chain and even the military has to weed out the bad chinese caps from THEIR parts bins).

have we learned nothing from this?

(answer: yup. it appears so.)

but how I wish we would get someone clueful who could see this and help restore not only manufacturing (key industries) but also the pride of having something say 'made in USA'.

btw, here's a photo of the mobo that I just repaired. you can see the 'plus signs' on the top of the capacitors have blown! the parts were all of $5 (total) and some time to unsolder and replace; but imagine if really important equipment was using these kinds of cheap parts. scary, isn't it?

here is another photo but this one is of a netgear gig-e switch. this one is well known (search for it, gs-108) and also has the blown-cap problem (the 2 small caps on their side were the bad ones). the caps didn't fully blow up (like my motherboard's caps did) but they still failed causing 'blinking lights of death' to the netgear switch. I replaced the bad caps with much larger newer ones and all is well again. but still, few people have the time and patience and know-how to do this. and if its in the field and something fails, you're screwed until you can replace the whole unit or if you have time to fix a pc board, but its rarely economical to do that.

having JUST replaced about 6 capacitors in an older motherboard (due to bad chinese caps, infamous story from about 5 yrs ago) - I concur!

trusting ALL our electronics to the chinese is a fool's decision!

then again, we have had a good amount of fools running this country, so I'm not all that surprised.

if I was president (yeah right..) I would create a program to ENSURE that all chips, transistors, parts (etc) are ALSO made here (at least for security related equipment and sensitive gear). we NEED to have manufacturing return to the US. we can't count on foreign countries to continue to supply us with parts and even building know-how.

we are risking A LOT by trusting (!) all our parts suppliers and in the case of the chinese caps, that really bit us badly! we'll be paying for THAT mistake of theirs for decades (parts are still in the supply chain and even the military has to weed out the bad chinese caps from THEIR parts bins).

have we learned nothing from this?

(answer: yup. it appears so.)

but how I wish we would get someone clueful who could see this and help restore not only manufacturing (key industries) but also the pride of having something say 'made in USA'.

btw, here's a photo of the mobo that I just repaired. you can see the 'plus signs' on the top of the capacitors have blown! the parts were all of $5 (total) and some time to unsolder and replace; but imagine if really important equipment was using these kinds of cheap parts. scary, isn't it?

here is another photo but this one is of a netgear gig-e switch. this one is well known (search for it, gs-108) and also has the blown-cap problem (the 2 small caps on their side were the bad ones). the caps didn't fully blow up (like my motherboard's caps did) but they still failed causing 'blinking lights of death' to the netgear switch. I replaced the bad caps with much larger newer ones and all is well again. but still, few people have the time and patience and know-how to do this. and if its in the field and something fails, you're screwed until you can replace the whole unit or if you have time to fix a pc board, but its rarely economical to do that.

That does seem quite silly.

Unless you are using a fiber optic cable with a transparent sheath, there shouldn't be any kind of detectable emissions from a fiber optic cable, especially not EMF, since there shouldn't be any moving electric current, right?

The line might heat up very slightly from the signal losses, but that wouldn't be rapid enough to reveal anything useful about the signal, especially if manchester encoding is used, where the light would be on 50% of the time.

OptinRealBig belongs to none other than Snotty Scotty Richter. I haven't heard of that guy in a while. I was hoping he had been hit by a bus or something.

to the NSA was the original slogan :-P

http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/att/att_splash.png
alt link: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/18/93928749_9092b299e5.jpg

With sites like Whrrl coming out it's only more evidence that the complaints from people like the founders of dodgeball are more than just complaints.

I thought this from reddit was hilarious:

http://flickr.com/photos/zen/2344697/

This is my maths party from last night. As you can see, it got pretty rowdy.

Even more off topic, but I guess it's OK to talk about YAP now :)

I don't know if it's HQ, but... http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewneo/779675730/

Looking at google maps, he's probably in California.

Google Maps Linky

Further down the threads, he links to his Flikr photos of these roms.

Second Linky

Some of these chips are clearly EPROMS, you can see the quartz window peeking out from under a label

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonguard/2429248669/

Remember this is an unreleased game. It's likely that they would use UV EPROMS right up until the final release when they'd commit to a binary to be produced as mask roms. That way they could use the time honoured method of burning a batch of EPROMS, testing them, erasing them under UV and burning a new batch.

Actually back when these things were still used I never worked on a project that was high volume enough to justify a mask prom. The break even point was about ten thousand chips IIRC. I worked on a system where the production run was only a few hundred per firmware revison so we always used EPROM. Then again you could get chips that were physically EPROM but had a plastic package and no window. They could be programmed in the field, but only once.

Here's a picture of the chip

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonguard/2429242881/in/set-72157604647023310/

It's a Intel D2763-4. Apparantly it's 8K*8, available in either windowed or OTP versions. It's not really clear how it differs from the very popular 2764.

http://www.cpushack.net/chippics/EPROM/2763/

Some of these chips are clearly EPROMS, you can see the quartz window peeking out from under a label

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonguard/2429248669/

Remember this is an unreleased game. It's likely that they would use UV EPROMS right up until the final release when they'd commit to a binary to be produced as mask roms. That way they could use the time honoured method of burning a batch of EPROMS, testing them, erasing them under UV and burning a new batch.

Actually back when these things were still used I never worked on a project that was high volume enough to justify a mask prom. The break even point was about ten thousand chips IIRC. I worked on a system where the production run was only a few hundred per firmware revison so we always used EPROM. Then again you could get chips that were physically EPROM but had a plastic package and no window. They could be programmed in the field, but only once.

Here's a picture of the chip

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonguard/2429242881/in/set-72157604647023310/

It's a Intel D2763-4. Apparantly it's 8K*8, available in either windowed or OTP versions. It's not really clear how it differs from the very popular 2764.

http://www.cpushack.net/chippics/EPROM/2763/

Well if you want to know what they look like... I can't vouch for how accurate these images are. I can see that they are either the largest clerical fuckup of all time, or a great hoax.

Travelling through Madrid airport in the summer of 2003 there was a series of display cases with every Lockhead Martin aircraft every made. Gorgeous little wooden carvings. When I saw this beauty I nearly dropped from shock. Then I walked backwards on the travelator to snap the pic - hence the horrible blur. There is also a closeup.

Either somebody in the marketing department made a career ending mistake, or someone in the modelling department had some fun with the spanish public. There should be enough plane nuts on these here threads to decide...

Well if you want to know what they look like... I can't vouch for how accurate these images are. I can see that they are either the largest clerical fuckup of all time, or a great hoax.

Travelling through Madrid airport in the summer of 2003 there was a series of display cases with every Lockhead Martin aircraft every made. Gorgeous little wooden carvings. When I saw this beauty I nearly dropped from shock. Then I walked backwards on the travelator to snap the pic - hence the horrible blur. There is also a closeup.

Either somebody in the marketing department made a career ending mistake, or someone in the modelling department had some fun with the spanish public. There should be enough plane nuts on these here threads to decide...

I saw this sign on the street in downtown Washington. I don't know how well it worked out for him, but it's pretty much an act of desperation for him at this point.

Well, I'm not sure you'd call it "normal", but if what you meant was "streetlegal, typical vehicle performance, and not cramped", I'd say the answer is now. Compare the Aptera with Pac Car II. And yes, it's competing in the X-Prize.

Sure, the results of these extreme efficiency competitions aren't directly applicable, but the engineering can make its way into mainstream cars. Mainstream cars have to deal with a *lot* of things other than just efficiency -- everything from how you turn on the high beams to the motor for the windshield wipers. These sorts of contests simplify things.

I read about this two days ago on reddit.com and grabbed a screenshot of the ad before it inevitably disappeared... http://flickr.com/photos/ghoti/2412827108/