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There are several policies which will be changing as a direct result of this incident and the goal is that nothing like this ever happens again. Any errors from now on should be on the side of caution.

Also, see http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/05/sometime s_we_ma.html for more details of Flickr's response.

If I remember correctly, Yahoo's oneSearch already did this ? Except it doesn't seem to be available for regular search.

On the other hand, I've been playing around with the Alpha (Beta) search, which seems to be much cooler. But only available for australia (the cool interface must be due to their uber-cool office).

Flickr HQ has since issued an apology for the removal of her post.

It is still not restored. How long does it take for them to do that? Or is their own internal administrative management panel some form of menu hell that they can't figure out how to navigate to find the OOPS button?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/45555499/in/set -1142602/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/31580466/in/set -1142602/

Pretty ladies always get my sympathy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/45555499/in/set -1142602/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/31580466/in/set -1142602/

Pretty ladies always get my sympathy.

Perhaps Only Dreemin should switch to making prints of this instead: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40865443@N00/49914248 0/.

I don't know nuthin about censorship, but man she is hot!

Flickr HQ has since issued an apology for the removal of her post.

Flickr is intended for personal use and is not a generic image hosting service. Professional or corporate uses of Flickr are prohibited.

We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Use.

Today I have been in contact with OnlyDreemin and asked for clarification on this issue. I was saddened to learn they have received death threats over this matter, proving once again just how passionate people are, no matter how misguided, when it comes to this type of theft.

It's pretty compact compared to the size: 12,500 tons in a cylinder 21.6 meters long and 15 meters in diameter.

<shameless_plug>Oh, and they do have retina scanners and other outlandish technology!</shameless_plug>

It's pretty compact compared to the size: 12,500 tons in a cylinder 21.6 meters long and 15 meters in diameter.

<shameless_plug>Oh, and they do have retina scanners and other outlandish technology!</shameless_plug>

It's pretty compact compared to the size: 12,500 tons in a cylinder 21.6 meters long and 15 meters in diameter.

<shameless_plug>Oh, and they do have retina scanners and other outlandish technology!</shameless_plug>

Sera

Yeah, it's empty now, but it seemed like a good place for people to post pics of their annoying LED's:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/billoflights

Their having written a book and occasionally appearing in the media is not that unusual. Here in the UK there is a site called b3ta, which hasn't really caught on that much in America, because it's very UK-centric. I wouldn't say that they're more than a subculture, but they've released a book (full of user-made content) and, though I've never seen them on TV, you do get them occasionally in the newspaper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B3ta http://www.flickr.com/photos/robmanuel/sets/540143 / (scans of times when b3ta appeared in the press)

Microsoft, like SCO, is going to look like a fool. Comments

I found a nice spoof on an advertisment for the Flemish socialist party (sp.a).

I don't think you need a translation, but you might not know that Spa is *the* best known mineral water in Belgium !

Let's not get crazy now.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/soulglo/475741724/in/ set-72157600149506695/

Prev Field/Next Field - to replace the appalling tab/shift-tab

Submit Form - this one clicks "OK" so users don't confused about the ENTER key when there are rich text fields on the form (Escape can remain the "Cancel Form" key)

Help Key - using F1 as 'help' seems to have single-handedly killed the function keys. Eleven perfectly usable program-specific keys that no-one uses any more. Bring back function key overlays! :-)

I found a huge bug in my kitchen last fall; I took a picture and mailed it to my local university's entomology professor, who was kind enough to identify it.

Hey, it's not like the photographer has to identify the animal. And besides, people who aren't scientists can take decent pictures of pigeons, of frogs, or of squirrels; there are various forums for positively identifying plants and animals, and there's no good reason to restrict media sources to experts.

Hey, it's not like the photographer has to identify the animal. And besides, people who aren't scientists can take decent pictures of pigeons, of frogs, or of squirrels; there are various forums for positively identifying plants and animals, and there's no good reason to restrict media sources to experts.

Hey, it's not like the photographer has to identify the animal. And besides, people who aren't scientists can take decent pictures of pigeons, of frogs, or of squirrels; there are various forums for positively identifying plants and animals, and there's no good reason to restrict media sources to experts.

Burp Castle.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/sets/72 157594523182264/

"The Bitches Flickr"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelhyman/

Looks like my kind of place. I will very likely avoid it now, because this woman goes out of her way to be an asshole.

Burp Castle.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/sets/72 157594523182264/

"The Bitches Flickr"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelhyman/

Looks like my kind of place. I will very likely avoid it now, because this woman goes out of her way to be an asshole.

"Class of 2005":

Carla, Brian and Phil: IP Lawyers
Dental surgeons 'Be' and 'Mole'
'Tone-toke': Astrophysicist
Messy Mel: Brain surgeon
'Liz': Senator
Wufus: Neurologist

Lighten up Millersville, sheesh

Je cromprends bien ce que tu veux dire et ton opinion par rapport à Sarkozy, je t'envoie quand même ces photos qui sont un peu en raport par rapport à ce que l'on dit
Welcome to Sarkoland
Une de plus intéressantes est celle ci:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/488971 823/in/set-72157600185909178/
et celle ci
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/487779 559/in/set-72157600185909178/
ile st clair que ce n'est pas Sarko qui a demandé à ce que l'on disperse la foule ainsi, mais c'est quand même assez curieux que ce soit utilisé le jour même où il a été declaré gagnant

Je cromprends bien ce que tu veux dire et ton opinion par rapport à Sarkozy, je t'envoie quand même ces photos qui sont un peu en raport par rapport à ce que l'on dit
Welcome to Sarkoland
Une de plus intéressantes est celle ci:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/488971 823/in/set-72157600185909178/
et celle ci
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/487779 559/in/set-72157600185909178/
ile st clair que ce n'est pas Sarko qui a demandé à ce que l'on disperse la foule ainsi, mais c'est quand même assez curieux que ce soit utilisé le jour même où il a été declaré gagnant

Je cromprends bien ce que tu veux dire et ton opinion par rapport à Sarkozy, je t'envoie quand même ces photos qui sont un peu en raport par rapport à ce que l'on dit
Welcome to Sarkoland
Une de plus intéressantes est celle ci:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/488971 823/in/set-72157600185909178/
et celle ci
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/487779 559/in/set-72157600185909178/
ile st clair que ce n'est pas Sarko qui a demandé à ce que l'on disperse la foule ainsi, mais c'est quand même assez curieux que ce soit utilisé le jour même où il a été declaré gagnant

Exclusive photo. :-)

Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth.

http://static.flickr.com/108/261905722_d2912c0465. jpg?v=0

Still waiting for them to add it to Earth.

It's BarCamp you silly goose. I would highly recommend organizing BarCampChicago similar to how we organized BarCampAustin 2 this past March. I mc'd most of the day and helped get presentations rolling and the likes. We got some of the companies at SXSWi to open up bar tabs (Microsoft, thanks to Chris Bernand, pitched in $1000 that went pretty quick, thanks to Dave Morrin from Facebook for the $500 tab and burritos too). Towards the end of the evening Soulhat played a show and we all ended up having a good time.

The most important bit with a BarCamp is that the community should be behind bringing it into existence, instead of waiting for USENIX, WWDC, or an O'Reilly conference, make your own! Have fun :)

BarCampAustin 2 Video BarCampAustin 2 Photos

Nice.

I feel inclined to port Pro MIDI Player to this platform I'm currently hacking around on .. in an effort to completely dissuade any of my normally-interesting-musically friends from ever getting up on stage with a laptop and faking a 'performance' ever again .. ;)

Furthermore, as of now the Digg's main page has been taken offline. Guess it was due to the fact it looked like this and "stories" popping up linking to pages such as this one.

Damnit. And just when I was going to post my "OMFG Cracker Ponies !!!" story. Damnit. http://www.flickr.com/photos/15887989@N00/48096188 5/ -jim

I made the following "work of art" while bored in class this evening. It represents the aformentioned hex number as a 16x8 image.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironix/480962180/

The above, but graphically: enjoy!

PS: Is Digg down? Digg-dotted? Plug pulled by lawyers?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/480421012_f6314 effbe_o.gif

wish it could have been recursive; but flicker just isn't that fast... ;)

You may think that a glowing red eye switched on by the evil bit is a fault light.

But red on a robot is a feature

Well, I read the page above, and I actually agree with those results. Thing is, I scan in the negative as a TIFF (16bit) and compare it to a TIFF (16bit) from the RAW file. So almost apples and apples.

There are some shots where I took the same scene from my apartments window and on the negative ones (in this case Fuji Natura 1600) has way more visible dynamic range than the 30D shots (also ISO 1600).

But perhaps the built in lightmeter from my Bessa is much better than the one from the 30D? The Canon ones like to make everything too bright and with digital, if it is too bright, there is no way to get any data back ...

Its just my personal experience, that when I shoot digital, I really know I have to be careful which dark to bright areas, negative film is so much more forgiving for doing light measure errors.

Just for compare:
Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595985/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142975/in /set-72157594430666737/

Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595878/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142775/in /set-72157594430666737/

of course I could have boosted the dark areas via the curve tool in CaptureOne, but I would have introduced more "noise".

Well, I read the page above, and I actually agree with those results. Thing is, I scan in the negative as a TIFF (16bit) and compare it to a TIFF (16bit) from the RAW file. So almost apples and apples.

There are some shots where I took the same scene from my apartments window and on the negative ones (in this case Fuji Natura 1600) has way more visible dynamic range than the 30D shots (also ISO 1600).

But perhaps the built in lightmeter from my Bessa is much better than the one from the 30D? The Canon ones like to make everything too bright and with digital, if it is too bright, there is no way to get any data back ...

Its just my personal experience, that when I shoot digital, I really know I have to be careful which dark to bright areas, negative film is so much more forgiving for doing light measure errors.

Just for compare:
Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595985/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142975/in /set-72157594430666737/

Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595878/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142775/in /set-72157594430666737/

of course I could have boosted the dark areas via the curve tool in CaptureOne, but I would have introduced more "noise".

Well, I read the page above, and I actually agree with those results. Thing is, I scan in the negative as a TIFF (16bit) and compare it to a TIFF (16bit) from the RAW file. So almost apples and apples.

There are some shots where I took the same scene from my apartments window and on the negative ones (in this case Fuji Natura 1600) has way more visible dynamic range than the 30D shots (also ISO 1600).

But perhaps the built in lightmeter from my Bessa is much better than the one from the 30D? The Canon ones like to make everything too bright and with digital, if it is too bright, there is no way to get any data back ...

Its just my personal experience, that when I shoot digital, I really know I have to be careful which dark to bright areas, negative film is so much more forgiving for doing light measure errors.

Just for compare:
Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595985/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142975/in /set-72157594430666737/

Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595878/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142775/in /set-72157594430666737/

of course I could have boosted the dark areas via the curve tool in CaptureOne, but I would have introduced more "noise".

Well, I read the page above, and I actually agree with those results. Thing is, I scan in the negative as a TIFF (16bit) and compare it to a TIFF (16bit) from the RAW file. So almost apples and apples.

There are some shots where I took the same scene from my apartments window and on the negative ones (in this case Fuji Natura 1600) has way more visible dynamic range than the 30D shots (also ISO 1600).

But perhaps the built in lightmeter from my Bessa is much better than the one from the 30D? The Canon ones like to make everything too bright and with digital, if it is too bright, there is no way to get any data back ...

Its just my personal experience, that when I shoot digital, I really know I have to be careful which dark to bright areas, negative film is so much more forgiving for doing light measure errors.

Just for compare:
Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595985/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142975/in /set-72157594430666737/

Fuji Reala Ace: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/380595878/in /set-72157594516795095/
Canon 30D: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/335142775/in /set-72157594430666737/

of course I could have boosted the dark areas via the curve tool in CaptureOne, but I would have introduced more "noise".

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=121338473& context=photostream&size=l

a photo taken at a sun java party in santa clara. (papa java can be seen in the photo, too)

duke is REAL ;)

I first got a Fujifilm S5500, which has a nice optical zoom, reasonable resolution, good feature set including various manual options, and is flexible enough for most lighting conditions. Good photography is about controlling many exposure parameters, such as focal depth. For any light condition there is a combination of ISO, exposure speed and F stop. For small camera phones the solution is to have a small lens with infinite focus. The limitations are that it can't zoom in; except digitally, and you can't get a shot that brings out the subject. Is that bad? Well, if you just want a snap a camera phone is great.

However, even the Fujifilm, which is a great camera, has its limits. The big one for me is start up time and shutter lag. When it comes to being able to quickly react to unexpected events that last only a few seconds there is simply no substitute for a DSLR. The ability to turn on your camera and have it ready to shoot before you get the eyepeice to your eye is vital. For example, before I had my Nikon D70 I went on a trip watching dolphins. There was a fantastic display of dolphins jumping clear out of the water, but I didn't get a single shot because unless you have the shutter half way pressed on most dogitals it takes a second or so to actually fire.

However, I have now been the photographer at two weedings, and the D70 has been wonderful; you can see the shot and press the shutter in a fraction of a second. At an airshow recently I captured a boeing jet taking off at a high angle of attack; impossible with cameras with shutter lag. The quality of the images is slightly better, and the lenses provide a little more flexibility, and there are more complex lighting options, such as speedlights that are better than the built in ones on smaller digitals, but the biggest feature for me on a DSLR is the instant shutter.

The review in this context limits the test to things a camera phone can do - that is take a photo of something reasonably close and not moving. Thats not to say I think camera phones are bad or poor quality images, just that they don't have the flexibility of a DSLR.

All of the shots in the review are closeups. Knowing form experience, Camera phones are pretty good at closeups.

Given that I am quite impressed by SonyEricsson Cybershot series. The K790 is just as good as a Digital camera of that caliber.

Also since the review focused on a single shot and location, it's hard to see how each of these perform in various lighting conditions and outdoors. Flickr has a camera finder service which makes it much easier to find and review live shots.

And obviously bigger sensors have much, much better low light/high ISO performance ... but there is something to be said for being able to carry a camera in your pocket.

Almost. The primary thing that you gain with a bigger sensor and removable lenses is control over the depth of field. You just can't fake that (very well anyways) with a compact camera. As far as low light sensitivity, Fuji has released some superb sensors with their F10/F11/F30/F20/F31fd models. Of course, DSLRs also come with much more manual control, but that's a very artificial limitation.

I've got an F30, and there's less noise (and less heavy handed noise reduction) at ISO 800 than you'll see on some more full featured cameras at ISO 400. I took these two at ISO 800, with no flash: Graffiti on the beach, San Francisco Mayor Newsom, Burlesque (ISO 800+flash). ISO 1600 on this camera can still yield usable prints, and ISO 3200 is good for an emergency shot.

Sure, I miss some things about an SLR with this camera. For instance, I miss having manual control over the focus. I dislike that the 3:2 aspect ratio can only be chosen at the lower of the 6MP quality settings. Sure, sometimes I miss being able to use a better zoom lens, but then I realize that this thing fits into my pocket.

And obviously bigger sensors have much, much better low light/high ISO performance ... but there is something to be said for being able to carry a camera in your pocket.

Almost. The primary thing that you gain with a bigger sensor and removable lenses is control over the depth of field. You just can't fake that (very well anyways) with a compact camera. As far as low light sensitivity, Fuji has released some superb sensors with their F10/F11/F30/F20/F31fd models. Of course, DSLRs also come with much more manual control, but that's a very artificial limitation.

I've got an F30, and there's less noise (and less heavy handed noise reduction) at ISO 800 than you'll see on some more full featured cameras at ISO 400. I took these two at ISO 800, with no flash: Graffiti on the beach, San Francisco Mayor Newsom, Burlesque (ISO 800+flash). ISO 1600 on this camera can still yield usable prints, and ISO 3200 is good for an emergency shot.

Sure, I miss some things about an SLR with this camera. For instance, I miss having manual control over the focus. I dislike that the 3:2 aspect ratio can only be chosen at the lower of the 6MP quality settings. Sure, sometimes I miss being able to use a better zoom lens, but then I realize that this thing fits into my pocket.