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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced design assistance to help the capital cities of Michigan, Wisconsin and Washington develop designs for greener, healthier, more vibrant neighborhoods. The designs will provide models for the growing number of communities interested in sustainable designs that improve the environment, strengthen local economies, and protect people’s health. The cities, which were selected through a national competition, are:

- Lansing, Mich. will receive assistance to develop options for transforming a 14-acre parking lot between the state capitol and Hall of Justice into a public park that showcases green infrastructure and renewable energy technologies. The design assistance aims to help reduce combined sewer overflows, prevent flooding, reduce the heat island effect, beautify public spaces near major civic buildings, and connect pedestrian walkways and transit to community and state institutions.

- Madison, Wis. will receive assistance to explore ways to make pedestrian and bicycle improvements and add green infrastructure, such as trees and rain gardens, to streets in the Triangle Neighborhood. The project aims to make it easier for residents to access nearby transit, open spaces, and the Monona Bay, and also improve water quality in the bay.

- Olympia, Wash. will receive assistance to incorporate green infrastructure along Capitol Way to reduce stormwater runoff, improve access to businesses and the waterfront, and adapt to climate change. The project aims to strengthen connections between the capitol campus and downtown, encouraging people to walk and bike to shops and restaurants.

This is the fourth year of the Greening America’s Capitals program. To date, 15 capital cities have received assistance, including Boston; Charleston, W.Va.; Hartford, Conn.; Jefferson City, Mo.; Little Rock, Ark.; Jackson, Miss.; Lincoln, Neb.; Montgomery, Ala.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Washington; Baton Rouge, La.; Des Moines, Iowa; Frankfort, Ky.; Helena, Mont.; and Indianapolis, Ind.

EPA recently posted reports for Baton Rouge, Des Moines, Frankfort, Helena, and Indianapolis. EPA assistance will help the cities pursue green infrastructure, more walkable streets and other amenities. View design options for each city at http://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov/sets/72157633206541248/

Greening America's Capitals is an EPA program conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. The partnership is helping communities across the country create more housing and transportation choices, reinforce existing investments, and support vibrant and healthy neighborhoods that attract businesses.

More information on Greening America’s Capitals and a link to the reports:
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/greencapitals.htm

More information on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities:
http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov

Bad as Bernie Madoff ... and noone shot him either. What is wrong with ol' fashion vigilante justice = rope + tree? America slumbers under cosmopolitan legalism .... way too feminized & pussified a culture .

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

How do you control our little yellow waka-waka friend on a touchscreen?

It was a gadget like this, so no touchscreen -

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2168205052_bcd0802ca5_m.jpg

A 500 micron thick liver isn't going to process much alcohol.

I suspect this individual would disagree, and would heartily welcome this scientific advance.

... it wasn't this view.

California's rolling blackouts were a poster child for exactly how wrong privatization can go. The blackouts were intentionally induced by Enron executives in order to make more money. Some of them went to jail for it, because they were inducing them under fraudulent circumstances.

Privatization is generally a bad choice when speaking of monopoly situations, and power distribution is very definitely a monopoly in the United States. It is both a natural monopoly (it's very very expensive and very time consuming and very messy to install a second grid on top of the first one) and an enforced monopoly (nobody wants this in their neighborhood). Unregulated private monopolies are the worst possible choice for customers, in every respect, and regulated private monopolies aren't much better. Private companies are no more likely to run a monopoly better than a government is, and in many cases, they're provably worse. Profit motive is a bitch.

Take a look at the power supply for one.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2588/4134606215_ef206f02b4_b.jpg

The Details of an ANAL FONT

Go here instead -- it's meta and safe.

I went there to see if it was the real tubgirl, or a clone of goatse, or what. Tubgirl seems to have changed position a little from when I saw her last decade. Hopefully it'll be another decade or three before I see here again. Now I'll have to start drinking heavily again just to get that out of my head -- sigh...

The iGOOGLES! They do NOTHING!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27865228@N06/6209348934

20s is far too long at 70-200 mm, you'll turn the stars into streaks.

Set to the highest ISO you can, set the exposure to about 2s...3s, take about 100 shots, and stack them (lots of free apps available, or photoshop, etc.)

You want the best image, that's how you get it.

For instance, here's a shot of a MUCH dimmer and smaller comet made just that way at 200mm; check out how you can see both the ion and dust tails:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48447736@N00/4695946008/

(you can see that the 2.5s exposure there was even a little too long... the stars are visibly elongated. You can "fix" that in software, but it's kinda cheating.)

People just loved the Flickr redesign.

I must step in here and make a few comments because I am both a tech person and an artist. How did that happen? When I was graduating from Rutgers with a degree in physics, my parents gave me a nice 35 mm camera outfit. A decade later the Princeton Ballet was paying me for my ballet photos. Photography has always been an important hobby of mine. It has also helped me in important ways at work. It has helped me to develop an artistic side that communicates better than too many tech people. It also helps me to understand society -- both the larger one and the tech one -- better than most.

Let me point people to my Flickr site where I am known as Chuck Divine. There are over 40,000 images there. My Science Fiction Art has gotten me attention in Washington, DC art circles.

I eventually got into IT, partly because I was good at it, partly because I liked doing it and partly because I could make a decent living at it. My career has taken me to all sorts of places -- including NASA. At NASA where I saw some good people doing good work -- and some screwing up so badly that it caused major accidents like that which happened to the Space Shuttle Columbia. Do check out the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. It is a well done analysis of a tech organization that needs significant reform.

I have also gotten involved in the STEM problem. Some of us are calling it the STEAM problem. The A stands for the Arts. It seems that scientists and engineers with an artistic side are more productive in their tech field than people without that side. They also work better with other people, tech and not tech. Some years ago I wrote a public policy paper titled Aerospace Workforce Issues that gets into this topic in some depth.

Let me finish by telling people here that people who know me describe me as bright, friendly and a bit shy and quiet -- most of the time.

That's more than enough for now. I hope I have been able to get some tech people to consider opening their minds a bit.

I must step in here and make a few comments because I am both a tech person and an artist. How did that happen? When I was graduating from Rutgers with a degree in physics, my parents gave me a nice 35 mm camera outfit. A decade later the Princeton Ballet was paying me for my ballet photos. Photography has always been an important hobby of mine. It has also helped me in important ways at work. It has helped me to develop an artistic side that communicates better than too many tech people. It also helps me to understand society -- both the larger one and the tech one -- better than most.

Let me point people to my Flickr site where I am known as Chuck Divine. There are over 40,000 images there. My Science Fiction Art has gotten me attention in Washington, DC art circles.

I eventually got into IT, partly because I was good at it, partly because I liked doing it and partly because I could make a decent living at it. My career has taken me to all sorts of places -- including NASA. At NASA where I saw some good people doing good work -- and some screwing up so badly that it caused major accidents like that which happened to the Space Shuttle Columbia. Do check out the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. It is a well done analysis of a tech organization that needs significant reform.

I have also gotten involved in the STEM problem. Some of us are calling it the STEAM problem. The A stands for the Arts. It seems that scientists and engineers with an artistic side are more productive in their tech field than people without that side. They also work better with other people, tech and not tech. Some years ago I wrote a public policy paper titled Aerospace Workforce Issues that gets into this topic in some depth.

Let me finish by telling people here that people who know me describe me as bright, friendly and a bit shy and quiet -- most of the time.

That's more than enough for now. I hope I have been able to get some tech people to consider opening their minds a bit.

What I said is that it's not feasible to put charging stations in every parking spot. It is insane.

I cannot say for sure if they are at all parking spaces, but in Alaska....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doc100/7396598454/

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/02/electric-cars-in-alaska/

So if our neighbors in the crispy cool north do it without an issue, what makes it impossible or insane in the rest of the country? This is not only possible, but we have a sort of prototype out there already. Next up is to start doing Nuc plants again.

The utter lack of "possiblenous" in so many slashdotters makes me think that it would be impossible to have any more than 64 K of Ram in computers.

Given the size of the smart watch, I'm pretty sure I stumbled across a Samsung Glasses prototype.

I was involved in a large ecommerce site. $30 million. All in java, when it was finished we had started using the latest Java 1.1.5. By the time Java 1.2 came out java was very, very popular ... there was a lot of hype about it, but not much in the universities. That changed rapidly but the popularity of Java came first. Everyone knew that at the time. Now think about this image. This is post-hype, it was already waning by the time of the new millennium, but still dominant. That is before the popularity in the universities and colleges.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iruk/5840082663/ - screen isn't blue, but the first word on it is "Blue"

You forgot one

Yes, but for a geosynchronous vehicle to be in its station-kept orbit might be precision of something like 0.05 degrees (http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/station-keeping.html). Cygnus had to hold at 30m and again at 10m distance (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/sets/72157635370456732/show/, slide #11) for go/no-go decisions prior to moving to the docking position. Totally different orders of magnitude.

Spiderman doesn't do web flight.

Don't be so sure. http://flickr.com/photos/giantsizegeek/7368940948/lightbox/ And since he's a "Science!" superhero, you can bet he'll use this in a fight against Electro soon.

or even better kill them, put it on tape and post it on liveleak - it has to be as violent as possible, but once you kill a couple of these trolls rest assured the rest of them will disappear quickly. Violence is the only answer.

I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

http://www.flickr.com/cameras

see

A couple of years ago I modified my old EOS 350D, replacing the IR-blocking hot mirror in front of the sensor with a filter that only allows IR through. I've taken loads of photos with it since then (please excuse the increasingly crap Flickr) - pretty much all hand-held with available light. Depending on the conditions (metering still works on visible light) I might be +1 or +2 stops up on typical outdoors scenes, while -1 or -2 stops down on near-IR-bright scenes like under forest canopies.

Images are generally pretty much direct from camera, all using the same white balance (set off a piece of white paper under tungsten light when I first did the conversion) - blue tones vaguely correspond with longer wavelengths. In-camera contrast is whacked up to the maximum, but little else. (The custom white balance is kind of weird - with a 'normal' setting, pictures come out looking fluorescent pink.)

I haven't noticed any magical see-through-clothes abilities from the camera, although I haven't really checked...

legos? porn? rule 34, baby.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonahray/sets/72157622998142461/detail/

As did He. He just didn't brag about it: "For I did not speak of my own Accord" - John 12:49

But as with most 2000+ year old stories, there are multiple versions: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sa_steve/4461940839/

At Flickr, there were over 50,000 complaints in the help forum, people all hate the new design there.

It eats up bandwidth and RAM like crazy (over 10 times as much as the old version).

Yahoo/Flickr ignored all the complaints!

If you want an example of bad web design, try a Flickr search, it keeps loading more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more pictures all to ONE results page... it won't quit until your browser explodes!

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=beach

Try to get to the bottom of that page. Ha ha!

Note: the old search had reasonably sized thumbnails that you could sort, each page took about 2 seconds to load.

Every page on Flickr is screwed up that way. And yet Yahoo/Flickr continue to ignore the complaints (and suggestions on how to make the site useable).

At least now I know what cruel game you're playing.

Cheers

Try this:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/3d-print-failures/

Not entirely. If that were the case, there would be only one 4xx code: 401 NO.

But in fact there are different codes for permissions, payment, structural changes, etc. It is not that strange that a new outside force gets a new code. Even then, this is an OSI layer 9 or layer 10 (Financial, often erroneously called "Economic") issue.

For those who don't know, there are actually multiple ways to run GNUstep's UI There's Macintosh Style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camaelon/1317405806/lightbox/ There's Next Style: http://www.gnustep.org/images/GWorkspace.jpg And there's Microsoft Windows Style with all menus attached inside of application windows: http://www.gnustep.org/experience/images/lm_xp_themed.png The Classic UI style is only one of many options, you can set which style you prefer in System Preferences.app and it applies across all GNUstep applications automatically. It's better integrated than KDE and Gnome's versions of this. I really want to see webkit get completed,once it's done GNUstep will hae a usable desktop environment for everyday use and it should be a lot more comfortable to boot up on Linux and run it full time as a development/desktop environment. Let's face it, once you've setup X, Sound, and Networking most workstations don't get moved around, and all you really need is browser, text editor, music and video players along with terminal and Remote Desktop. GNUstep already has all of these tools, it's just missing the browser.

PayPal requires a government issued photo ID for all but the most trivial uses. They already have photos from many customers - it's not only legal, it's required by anti-money laundering legislation.

I have no idea why anybody would mess with an abusive online behemoth who wants to extend offline, when they probably have a wide range of banks to chose from in a free market. Pay using my face ? That sounds gimmicky and insecure.

What we need to do is shatter the credit card industry oligopoly and PayPal is in no way a solution, they use the same Visa/Mastercard/Amex networks as everybody else. If there's a place for government regulation is this: define a standard for the payment network and force every entrant to inter-operate. It's fucking ridiculous to have 5+ POS devices at every desk, each bank protecting it's little walled garden. The inefficiency is covered by our own pockets.

Get rid of them and replace with simple maths question:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2268237733_cda4a1dbb3.jpg?v=0

Sure!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevesobczuk/5794802769/

my response was to your desire of a 1m^3 workspace for $2K. Not on this planet, not in this lifetime.
Thanks for the link though, it is big but clearly the quality of the printouts leave much to be desired. Here are more images for that machine, kudos to him for building it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtcircuit/sets/72157624845973625/
but I don't think he'll ever make really nice parts with it not with the gears and motors he's using. Can't hold tolerances. If the quality of the parts he's making is good enough then probably making them out of oven baking clay would achieve the same result with much less machinery. Faster too. The machine won't get better with tweaking, it will take better construction and parts and engineering which means higher costs.
Again, not to take away from his efforts, it is a fantastic machine, it's just not going to make high quality parts. Taking his time and effort as a sunk cost, what is the projected cost of making a copy building to his prints?

While I am sympathetic to your point in general, I am not clear on how it applies to this particular submission. staticflickr.com is the domain that Flickr serves images from; presumably the submitter uploaded the images to Flickr so they would be on a solid host, and then used them in the submission. I doubt Flickr cares if he is increasing their traffic numbers.

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html

The only problem is you cant run GPU standalone.
There was one project by someone who reverse engineered old Radeon HD2400
http://www.edaboard.com/thread236934.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73923873@N05/sets/72157631771354007/
but that guy deleted his git repo before publishing the news blurp and some photos and they quickly shut up about it.

I would love to be able to use GPU cards standalone for Vision projects, or just as a openCL accelerators for embedded systems.

The camo suit looks remarkably like the costume that the late Neal Pozner designed for Aquaman back in the 80s.

If you're comparing a phone camera with a DSLR then it means it has already won. Anyway, here's more technical details.

Sample photos from the phone http://www.flickr.com/photos/87544844%40N00/sets/72157634597356196/
Review of the photo tech http://pureviewclub.com/2013/15270
Whitepaper from Nokia on the tech http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/2723846/data/1/-/Lumia1020-whitepaper.pdf
Sample photos from the predecessor http://www.flickr.com/groups/nokia808/
Nokia presentation showcasing the phone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Q3bxo7vJI&hd=1

If you're comparing a phone camera with a DSLR then it means it has already won. Anyway, here's more technical details.

Sample photos from the phone http://www.flickr.com/photos/87544844%40N00/sets/72157634597356196/
Review of the photo tech http://pureviewclub.com/2013/15270
Whitepaper from Nokia on the tech http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/2723846/data/1/-/Lumia1020-whitepaper.pdf
Sample photos from the predecessor http://www.flickr.com/groups/nokia808/
Nokia presentation showcasing the phone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Q3bxo7vJI&hd=1

Socialists wear organic copper threaded wool hats.

The copper hats come in his and hers.

The tin foil hat.

The government has the fix for everything. Just let them confiscate more of our wealth and give them more power to micro-manage every aspect of our lives. That's the solution to this problem and apparently every other problem.

Let me guess; you live in one of those red states, like the top ten ranked by Romney's infamous 47% who pay no taxes http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/10/non-payers-by-state.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg
and where the federal government "confiscates your wealth" by giving you back more of it, compared to the blue states where the federal government "confiscates our wealth" to give it to you guys so that your ignorant asses won't starve and turn to cannibalism, for which assistance you bite the hand which feeds you as an expression of your Christian morality.
2007 - http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/fedspend_per_taxesbystate-20071009.pdf
2004 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpinto/2987025203/

Greetings comrade! All hail Marx and Lennon! I hope you are well rested.

I will be at least mildly surprised if former career KGB officer President Putin does not fete him.

Four laptops of American secrets arriving via air courier is plenty of reason to celebrate.

As a foreigner bringing secrets to Russian, I image he'll be popular with at least some of the women. With Pussy Riot, probably not so much.

Philby's name is prominent in the history of espionage. Eventually Snowden's name will join it.

Here is my bulging battery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonhowes/sets/72157634257975524/

Hmmm ... I dare not click the link, fearing a euphemism ...

Here is my bulging battery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonhowes/sets/72157634257975524/

I can't speak for the Vita, but my daughters 3DS and DS both use cartridges.

And so does the Vita. The PSP had optical disks (in the UMD format, which Sony couldn't get to catch on), but the Vita goes back to cartridges.

It doesn't need to be as powerful as a console level graphics. This same argument was applied to how iPhone cameras couldn't compete with full frame sensor DSLR's. It didn't need to: http://www.flickr.com/cameras Hardcore gamers make the mistake in assuming that everyone who buys a console has the same requirement for graphics power as they do. It's quite the contrary. I know at least 7 friends as well as myself who have PS3's that sit there and collect dust. We originally bought it for FIFA 2010. Then we started to use it a lot more for Netflix when that became available. And now that all the TV's have Netflix built in (and 4 of us have Apple TV's), the PS3 never gets touched. We were all just talking about this a couple of weeks ago - none of us have plans to get any of the new consoles. They're simply not worth it for us. And I somehow doubt our situation is unique, or even rare.

Gee, I wonder why Tesla doesn't seem to be too concerned with these imporant and necessary SEC regulations, that about a dozen people pro-Google here have referred to and nobody has a link for.

Please elaborate on 9.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_gilbert/1085416756/

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