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"We don't know the guy." - Rick Falkvinge

well, it's not like you haven't met.

http://imgur.com/xbDef.jpg

- js.

Reminded me of this: http://i.imgur.com/MFEQB.jpg

"Moved to a legal system"? I think it's better said "finally recognized the fundamental character of our (and all) government."

We are the people the Constitution was written both to protect, and to protect against.

Huxley feared we would be drowned by a sea of irrelevance

I'm sure they melt like butter when you mention how it comes factory loaded with xterm and all the software updates are via apt.

Here is an updated version of the graph, with the N900 included.

http://imgur.com/4R1D4

Welcome to China.

A more accurate translation would be "dry fried duck", but I suppose there's a more elegant translation.

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http://blog-imgs-38.fc2.com/o/t/t/ottovon/_20gb601.jpg
Welcome to Hong Kong -- this one actually made it to local news headlines for its hilarity.

[ Bold/top line is original text, middle line is google's translations (which sucks), and bottom is what it really means ]

Nepenthes = carnivorous pitcher plant. No risk of spilled liquid because all electronics are above any potential water level.

Will a picture be enough detail?

http://imgur.com/e1TRO.jpg

Computer case modified to run as a horticultural box.

Reminds me of my favorite scene from "Office Spaceman":
" Mmm... Yeah I'm gonna need you to come in and work on this over the weekend ".

Perfect ad placement for this story... http://imgur.com/hTSpc.gif

Here

I brew my own beer. It's nowhere near as complicated as maintaining one of THESE

So we decided to give you a hand...

Disclaimer: The reddit comment isn't mine.

I think I just saw this guy in Laussanne! http://imgur.com/x9fXD But then again those look like megabloks....

So I have an older computer (P4 I think) that has no memory. A friend gave it to me and I had thought of putting memory in it (DDR 1 I think), but was told it would cost less to buy a new computer. I think this might be a good computer to turn into a linux computer and finally learn to use linux. I have pics of the motherboard here. I don't really have the money to buy memory, no one in my town wants the computer, and there's nowhere to recycle it either. So, it just sits in the back room collecting dust.

http://i.imgur.com/NNPWn.jpg Poor mousey never had a chance. :-(

CFL works, but when it comes down to it, LED still wins.

http://imgur.com/oWM8W.jpg

There's one of my current plants. That's only two weeks into flowering.

"But Led's just don't give the PAR you need."

Excuse me? LEDs can be 100% PAR. Do you even know which wavelengths are peaked in PAR? PAR matters when you're using a white diode of a specified color temperature. When you go monochromatic on each diode, PAR is a given to be 100% as long as you use the proper wavelengths.

"Also... hold the Train, Are you saying a 400 Watts used for HPS is uses more power then 400 Watts of LED's? I hope you know what a watt is."

Did you even read the beginning of the statement where 'removing all that excess heat' is mentioned *BEFORE* any of that? Have you done the research, for that matter? A 400w LED panel will put off far, far less heat than a 400w HPS, thus you will use far less power by not having to cool nearly as much. This is simple thermodynamics, one does not even need to know what a watt is when one knows the glass casing on the HPS is hot enough to light a cigarette but the LED is cool enough to set right on top of the plant without causing significant damage.

"To address your note on cooling, Plants in a closed space need air flow anyway. Also since the light is at the top of the room, And O2 rises; you can get rid of the heat and oxygen at the same time. Therefore cooling costs only come into play at about over 400watts."

I can see you've never done this sort of work before. Plants in a closed space at *MINIMUM* need air circulation, not air flow, to prevent air stratification and subsequent burning. With HPS, I needed to vent my closet. with LED, no venting required, just airflow and the occasional dose of CO2. The oxygen from the top gets pumped back into the hydroponics nutrient reservoir, as the root zone requires oxygen. Cooling costs come into play even at 100w HPS, as that bulb is MUCH hotter than a 100w incandescent (you forget ballast inefficiencies as well as another source of heat generation.)

"From personal experience a 100 watt led is about the same as 100 watts of HPS, But the LED was 4 times the cost. Granted this was about 2 years back when they were still pretty new"

You got a "NASA-Spec" LED panel, didn't you? You got bit by the marketing, that light ratio is a bunch of nonsense. LED has been used for almost a decade with success, but NOT by following the BS NASA published back in the 80s. My 90w panel performs like a 400w HPS in vegetative phase, and like a 150-200w HPS in fruiting/flowering. Also, most panels use those low-bin diodes, so the one that probably caught your eye by price was of extremely-inferior quality. Hell people are still buying the 'lite-brite' LED panels and complaining that it doesn't work. That's what happens when you don't do the research to determine if a product is garbage or not. To make things even funnier, even the 'experts' over at CandlePower can't grasp the idea that lumens means nothing to plants at all, which automatically disqualifies them as being able to judge a horticultural LED light.

"Maybe if you were planning a growroom to be in operation 10 years you might make you money back on bulbs and ballasts, But PAR Freq Optimized LED's haven't exactly been around that long."

You'll make the money back in power costs alone in the first year, and this was proven even in a multi-million dollar NFT shed setup. In fact, I have pictures of multiple shed setups, at least the beginning - http://imgur.com/xpkCI.jpg - there you go, that was the initial setup for multi-stack NFT, and http://imgur.com/ryQrh.jpg that's of a single-tier NFT under some spots and a prototype panel.

We can even grow animal fodder WITH NO LIGHT AT ALL.

Our technology is an easy decade ahead of anybody else in the game even though we've only been around for about a year. Why? Real new research instead of copying something done AGES ago.

Even NASA/Dynamac has my personal cell number.

"But Led's just don't give the PAR you need."

Excuse me? LEDs can be 100% PAR. Do you even know which wavelengths are peaked in PAR? PAR matters when you're using a white diode of a specified color temperature. When you go monochromatic on each diode, PAR is a given to be 100% as long as you use the proper wavelengths.

"Also... hold the Train, Are you saying a 400 Watts used for HPS is uses more power then 400 Watts of LED's? I hope you know what a watt is."

Did you even read the beginning of the statement where 'removing all that excess heat' is mentioned *BEFORE* any of that? Have you done the research, for that matter? A 400w LED panel will put off far, far less heat than a 400w HPS, thus you will use far less power by not having to cool nearly as much. This is simple thermodynamics, one does not even need to know what a watt is when one knows the glass casing on the HPS is hot enough to light a cigarette but the LED is cool enough to set right on top of the plant without causing significant damage.

"To address your note on cooling, Plants in a closed space need air flow anyway. Also since the light is at the top of the room, And O2 rises; you can get rid of the heat and oxygen at the same time. Therefore cooling costs only come into play at about over 400watts."

I can see you've never done this sort of work before. Plants in a closed space at *MINIMUM* need air circulation, not air flow, to prevent air stratification and subsequent burning. With HPS, I needed to vent my closet. with LED, no venting required, just airflow and the occasional dose of CO2. The oxygen from the top gets pumped back into the hydroponics nutrient reservoir, as the root zone requires oxygen. Cooling costs come into play even at 100w HPS, as that bulb is MUCH hotter than a 100w incandescent (you forget ballast inefficiencies as well as another source of heat generation.)

"From personal experience a 100 watt led is about the same as 100 watts of HPS, But the LED was 4 times the cost. Granted this was about 2 years back when they were still pretty new"

You got a "NASA-Spec" LED panel, didn't you? You got bit by the marketing, that light ratio is a bunch of nonsense. LED has been used for almost a decade with success, but NOT by following the BS NASA published back in the 80s. My 90w panel performs like a 400w HPS in vegetative phase, and like a 150-200w HPS in fruiting/flowering. Also, most panels use those low-bin diodes, so the one that probably caught your eye by price was of extremely-inferior quality. Hell people are still buying the 'lite-brite' LED panels and complaining that it doesn't work. That's what happens when you don't do the research to determine if a product is garbage or not. To make things even funnier, even the 'experts' over at CandlePower can't grasp the idea that lumens means nothing to plants at all, which automatically disqualifies them as being able to judge a horticultural LED light.

"Maybe if you were planning a growroom to be in operation 10 years you might make you money back on bulbs and ballasts, But PAR Freq Optimized LED's haven't exactly been around that long."

You'll make the money back in power costs alone in the first year, and this was proven even in a multi-million dollar NFT shed setup. In fact, I have pictures of multiple shed setups, at least the beginning - http://imgur.com/xpkCI.jpg - there you go, that was the initial setup for multi-stack NFT, and http://imgur.com/ryQrh.jpg that's of a single-tier NFT under some spots and a prototype panel.

We can even grow animal fodder WITH NO LIGHT AT ALL.

Our technology is an easy decade ahead of anybody else in the game even though we've only been around for about a year. Why? Real new research instead of copying something done AGES ago.

Even NASA/Dynamac has my personal cell number.

Steve Jobs demonstrates the correct way to hold the iPhone 4

This picture really says everything that needs to be said:

http://i.imgur.com/zAJ0y.jpg

Another reddit poster showed the true way to hold an iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/h9UDd.png [imgur.com]

Obviously a Photoshop job. He is actually telling us how long his penis is.

Another reddit poster showed the true way to hold an iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/h9UDd.png

Civ 4 map plots are squares. Civ 5 are hexagons. I don't see an easy conversion process that won't produce real not-just-semantic map differences

Someone at reddit posted a diagram of how to do this fairly easily: http://i.imgur.com/lpJRd.png

The only problem is with moving resources out of city limits, etc... things which may or may not be practical problems.

as illustrated here http://i.imgur.com/Rcei4.jpg

THIS is a serious breach of privacy, and yet releasing the IPs of people accused of downloading a torrent is cool with the authorities, media, and seemingly everyone else? Do we really want to be turning to 4Chan for insight into how fucked our system is? http://i.imgur.com/LgjPH.jpg

don't you think your text is a bit too jaggy?? here's a comparison.

Not only were the images bright, garish, and distracting, but there was NO option to turn it off.

I use the address bar in Chrome for my searches so I rarely ever visit the Google homepage. So unfortunately I missed this. I think it looks pretty good (but even when I used Google I used iGoogle so I had a nice design on the page all the same).

Anyway, in the screenshot that the guy posted above, it clearly says "Remove background image" in the bottom left.. how did you (and presumably millions of others who Googled "remove google background") miss that?

Personally I liked this "feature".

On a Mac, Safari gets 120 and Chrome gets 142... Strange.

Although why any browser supports Geolocation worries me. Maybe it's just because Google makes Chrome.

I vote that someone makes a standards-only-compliant browser. No site-specific hacks, so that web designers can just test the page once in that, and if it works there, it should work in any standards-compliant browser.

even firefox scores much more.

http://i.imgur.com/cT08B.png Well, seems like Chrome is more compatible with HTML5 than Safari is, so why limit the demo to Safari only?

How about something like this?. Jobs starring in the 1984 commercial.

British Petroleum's new mascot: http://imgur.com/3JFae.jpg

Actually, I normally strip it down to this:
http://imgur.com/97o1W.png

But that's my gripe. I can customize what icons show up and where they are positioned to my heart's delight and Microsoft went and made it more convoluted/impossible.

It's not really a point of moving it down, but I like to put my menu to the left with the address to the right. You could do this in IE6/Windows Explorer:
http://imgur.com/elKJo.png

Since I have a widescreen monitor, I utilize all the space I can while the IE7+/WinVista+ address bar wastes a ton of space taking up the entire top row.

http://imgur.com/TtJxC.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:

http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:

http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:

http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:

http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:
http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

  http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

  http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

  http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:
http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

  http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

  http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

  http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:
http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

  http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

  http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

  http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:
http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg

  http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg

  http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg

  http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg

I uninstalled the "beta" chrome version from Synaptic Package manager and selected "stable". No more "beta" - http://imgur.com/EWran.png

http://imgur.com/OiEXQ.jpg

Still says beta for me - in true Google style! :)

When I think of advertising on an airship, I always think of the the one in Syndicate: http://imgur.com/YwRYY.jpg

... but see for yourself.

http://imgur.com/4AFTe.png

Here is how flash trading works. Basically a super computer sits below the trading floor watching incoming and outgoing transactions. Lets say you have $300,000 in savings and want to put $100,000 in company A as its stock price looks reasonable. It lists for $16 a share and you put down your $100,000 in shares. The super computer sees this HUGE grab and your transaction. It quickly buys all your shares before your transaction is complete and raises the price to $18 a share before your transaction is complete. Goldman Sachs or the other firm takes $2 from you in the process as you end up with less shares due to it becoming $18 a share within a few hundred milliseconds. Here is an illustration.

Your illustration does not match at all the illustration you link to.

.. but why is the trading so frenetic in the first place? Why this absolute pressure to trade nownowNOW?

The stock market is a theoretical long term investment. It was before glass-seagul was appealed.

Here is how flash trading works. Basically a super computer sits below the trading floor watching incoming and outgoing transactions. Lets say you have $300,000 in savings and want to put $100,000 in company A as its stock price looks reasonable. It lists for $16 a share and you put down your $100,000 in shares. The super computer sees this HUGE grab and your transaction. It quickly buys all your shares before your transaction is complete and raises the price to $18 a share before your transaction is complete. Goldman Sachs or the other firm takes $2 from you in the process as you end up with less shares due to it becoming $18 a share within a few hundred milliseconds. Here is an illustration. The same firms do the same when selling so if you decide to dump a stock at $18 you end getting only $16 a share and Megabank makes another $2 a share.

Its used like this and here are some more details on how it works. SHorting is quite popular and caused Greece some turmoil. The same is true with investors shorting bank stocks and mortgage backed securities in 2007. Flash trading was likely the culprit as it could do this in ways you and I could not imagine.

The original crooks of the 1929 stock market crash complained after Glass-Seagull that they could not run the stock market with games like they used too and it was no fun anymore. It looks like its returned to just that today.