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Anybody else get the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 ad on this Slashdot article (screen shot below)?

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/bradley1976 /slashdot_ms.jpg

At Denny's

And if you're going to steal, get it right! George's wording was far better:

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

See? That word: squandered. Much, much better than wasted. You can waste anything but only riches can be squandered. And you forgot the fast cars. Unforgivable.

You know, I'm not sure that'll work too well.

your wish has been granted: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/covarde_anon imo/lixao/3772.jpg

And their software immediately recognized the new chip and switched execution modules? I gotta get me some of that for the Micro-Crunch co-processor on the ARM9 chip that I'm using.

The third WTC building on 911 collapsed without ANYTHING touching it. It just collapsed straight down as if it had been demolished. They even abandoned it first. It was UNDAMAGED until it collapsed.

The HOLE in the pentagon was not large enough for the plane that struck.

The jet fuel of an airliner doesn't burn hot enough to melt the structural steel that was used in the WTC buildings. Yet they found molten steel in the wreckage.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7842741 50 9736411725&q=wtc+3
That was not an airplane strike, it was demolition.

are you a lebowski achiever? link

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/dhakala/beara rms.jpg

BONG HITS 4 JESUS isn't something that can be protected under the constitution because it isn't a political or ideolical belief.

Are you kidding? That's an extremely political thing to say.

Just ask yourself - What Would Republican Jesus Do? for the answer ;)

About 2 years ago I decided to get into hobbie prop building. One of the first things I built was a vacuum-forming table out of some MDF an empty beer keg a bit of metal from Home depot and a home built heating element.
http://24.251.127.62:8088/gallery/vacformtable

I have used this thing to make several diffirent things from speaker boxes to Stormtrooper armor. It has been a blast. The latest project I have made has been a rotocast machine.
http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a331/arsonsmith/ Rotocast%20Machine/

I started by building the lego mock up at the bottom of that link then started aquaring the other parts. It has been used to make several diffirent things from replica guns to costume masks and helmets.

In the corner, out of the way. :)

It would be really nice if OpenOffice imitated the UI of Office 2004 for OS X or Abiword for OS X. It's very good. Here's a screen shot.

It would also rock if they dropped the current UI toolkit and switched to wxWidgets or QT. Then it would finally feel responsive and look native. Same for Mozilla.

This is what I can offer in the way of cold hard evidence so far.
Anything more, and I'd be breaking a promise

Please note that every patent that is open in the corresponds to the number listed in the index.

Also note that I only screen captured 7 out of 5082! I also thought that by pointing out exactly what was done, at least someone else out there could also attain the info themselves if the so desired. Again, without me breaking any promises to this person.

• Drive bys with BB guns in Kentucky.
• A riot for spots in line in Burbank.
• Read - 10 to 12 people robbed in PS3 line (dubious, but possible). [Via Digg]
• Read - Sheriffs shut down another California store for rowdy behavior.
• Read - Police break up NY SonyStyle store fight.
• Read - Brawl breaks out at another Wally when manager plays musical PlayStation chairs. Seriously, what an idiot. [Thanks Kyle D.]
• Read - Shots were apparently fired at a Texas Wally. Pics here and here of the 5-0. [Thanks, Jason]
• Read - Two armed, masked robbers overtook a customer in Springfield. [Thanks, Jason]
• Watch - North Fresno / Merced had stampede-riot insanity. [Thanks, Jonathan]

• Drive bys with BB guns in Kentucky.
• A riot for spots in line in Burbank.
• Read - 10 to 12 people robbed in PS3 line (dubious, but possible). [Via Digg]
• Read - Sheriffs shut down another California store for rowdy behavior.
• Read - Police break up NY SonyStyle store fight.
• Read - Brawl breaks out at another Wally when manager plays musical PlayStation chairs. Seriously, what an idiot. [Thanks Kyle D.]
• Read - Shots were apparently fired at a Texas Wally. Pics here and here of the 5-0. [Thanks, Jason]
• Read - Two armed, masked robbers overtook a customer in Springfield. [Thanks, Jason]
• Watch - North Fresno / Merced had stampede-riot insanity. [Thanks, Jonathan]

Not that I'm bitter or anything but my (much better) writeup/submission of the same thing yesterday included a link
to the ENTIRE photo set of SEVENTY-ONE images. (including a size comparison of the PS3 fan to a BD disc)

http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q208/chudgoo/PS 3%20Disemboweled/?start=all

A toy language? Excellent! I just got a small Linux board with limited* resources and I wasn't sure if PHP would fit. Are there many commercial toys programmed with PHP? :)

* Mind you, "limited" is relative. A 200MHz ARM9 chip with 32M ram, 4GB flash drive, 2.4 kernel and Busybox beats the 486/25, 16M ram, 200M hard drive with Slackware 2.1 that I used to run my multi-user BBS on, while playing nethack, quite nicely. (Kids these days...)

If the general public has a hard time filling in a circle on a paper (which is how I vote, I'm in the military so I vote absentee), they will have a much harder time using a computer. The self-verification process of a computer is the problem, because the self-verifying process is what's corrupted and prone to hacking. Check out the simple easy sample paper ballot I designed. It's pretty close to what I use when I vote. If somebody can't figure that out, they don't need to be voting.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/jabbausaf/b allot.jpg

Witness the Zune. I am prepared to predict that the Zune doesn't really steal the market from the iPod, much in the same way the xBox didn't from the Playstation. But the Zune will be profitable. That is my prediction.

Do you expect that argument to have any credibility in the context you put it in? DO you realize how vastly unprofitable the Xbox was? And that's what you're holding up to say that the Zune has a chance in hell?

Have a look at this graph. It shows console sales over time where t0 is the release date for each console. Now go rethink your argument.

Who is this Bennett person ?

Oh yes Oh yes oh yes! Jail that tard.

The question we should be asking, is why is US growth so low, and how can we fix it.

Your post has the answer to your question:

Contrary to popular belief, a substantial amount of engineering for Dell is done in the US, not in Taiwan. Employees have constructed an effective wall to foreign design centers and have actually left the company any time mgmt has tried to tear it down (thanks to HP for showing employees what to be afraid of).

Dell is an exception, rather than the rule. Jobs have been fleeing the United States for years... First it was manufacturing, then engineering/technology too. Foodservice and low-level Health Care positions don't pay nearly as well as manufacturing, IT, or engineering used to. Wages in the jobs that are still in North America are being squeezed by competition from low-wage China and elsewhere.

There's no chance of fixing the economy now - the time for action was in 1992/1993, when Traitor Bush the Elder first negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement and Traitor Clinton pushed the NAFTA implementation bills through the congress. Or in 1995 when the World Trade Organization was first organized. Or in the 80's, when Reagan (really, Puppet Master Bush the Elder) was printing money to pay for his military buildup. Or in the late 60's/early 70's, when the Feral Government was printing money to pay for the Vietnam war. Or even more recently, when Traitor Bush the Junior negotiated the Central American Free Trade Agreement (and others).

There's also the hordes of illegal immigrants (encouraged by the corptocracy) depressing working class wages... But vdare was yesterday's story...

The best we can do now is elect a congress who will impeach/convict the Bush/Cheney junta. Tell your friends - Fire the [republican] incumbents, the Bush depression has already begun.

Economic restructuring is a good thing, because many of us are miserable in the current political/economic climate. Look at the people you see out in WalMart's isles: fat & sick, and looking for satisfaction in meaningless trinkets. Going to get a little rough, but it will certainly be worth the struggle in the end.

I've some earthboxes and seeds, so I won't be entirely dependant on produce shipments from far away, picked by mexican slave labor.

These earthbox pictures are from 3 weeks ago (start with the last picture). The plants are coming along nicely, and I'll be harvesting my first lettuce & tomatos soon (I'm in the desert southwest, so the plant-killing summer heat has just recently abated).

Greg: Another chapter in your book is, "Death by Denial." People seem to be in total denial as far as what's making them sick and overweight. Is that what you touch on in this chapter?
 
Carolyn: Yes. I even refer to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's work on the five stages of death and dying that people go through. When it comes to the death of our society, the death of our culture, we are in complete denial of what's going on. You see, we don't think governments or business could be that sinister -- that they would rather make money than be concerned about human health. Instead of accepting this fact, people have put their head in the sand. They've got to wake up to the reality that the government and corporations are corrupt and simply don't care about our health. What Marshall McLuhan said is that only puny secrets need protection. **Big secrets are protected by public incredulity, and that's where we are now.**
 
-Death by Modern Medicine [healthliesexposed.com] (emphasis added)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/ojibewa/214 2ads.jpg
Scanned straight from the paper in the box.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7315/igavy2.jpg
Another good shot with the box.. Way to go EA....

Here is some nice evidence A Photo of the 3.62 MSG Sponsor install screen. Notice the red box.

The Nyko Intercooler is not a good idea.

It does bad things.

The Nyko Intercooler is not a good idea.

It does bad things.

The Nyko Intercooler is not a good idea.

It does bad things.

The Nyko Intercooler is not a good idea.

It does bad things.

Do I have to post a picture of me and a screenshot of my desktop? Or should I just smack you now?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/macoafi/mea ndshane.jpg
Me, my boyfriend (also here on slashdot...somewhere)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/macoafi/two sidesscreen.png
My desktop...yeah, it's Gnome not KDE. I like Gnome. The point remains: it's Linux, I'm a girl (and you may decide for yourself what you think of my looks)

Do I have to post a picture of me and a screenshot of my desktop? Or should I just smack you now?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/macoafi/mea ndshane.jpg
Me, my boyfriend (also here on slashdot...somewhere)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/macoafi/two sidesscreen.png
My desktop...yeah, it's Gnome not KDE. I like Gnome. The point remains: it's Linux, I'm a girl (and you may decide for yourself what you think of my looks)

Here's the latest Motorstorm stuff:

http://www.theimageplace.net/uploads/3ad5a7da3f.gi f

http://www.theimageplace.net/uploads/75e17505fb.gi f

http://ruliwebfile.dreamwiz.com/mpeg3/tgs2006/ruli web_hdv_sce_ps3_motost.wmv

Ridge Racer screens 1080p 60fps:

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/735/7354 14/ridge-racer-7-20060926101953719.jpg

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/735/7354 14/ridge-racer-7-2006092610195189.jpg

PS3 games to be 60 dollars - so much for that FUD:

http://www.ps3land.com/article-687.php

Xbox 360 displays pulled from Best Buy in preparation for the PS3:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/msuman2k4/b bsps2006.jpg

One more month until the PS3 hits the shelves and all the anti-Sony FUD will turn to the usual bitterness about "Sony once again fooling gamers with teh Hype"...

I think that I will *not* be taking pictures of my coworkers with this. I don't want to see anyone I know in that kind of detail. My most of my co-workers look like this anyway. Why would I want a closer-in shot to see the pores, etc.

2 cents,

QueenB

I play mine on a 1982 Sharp VZ 3500, a pretty decent setup (about $1500 back in the day) which has auto both-sides-play for LPs and auto-detects and queues the size of record you've inserted. It will be even more awesome once I get the bad switches fixed (they aren't connecting fully, they're old and dirty).

Fixed the banner.

http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie /?action=view&current=Attack_Chopperwmv.flv

The "2000 bit passkey" is really the disk encryption keys for loop-aes. See http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README . They are longer than 2000 bits.

The disk encryption keys are stored on USB and decrypted via passphrase (key encryption key) using a custom init process that mounts the encrypted loop-aes disk(s) and does the pivot_root / exec init into the target. This gives you full disk encryption booting from a trusted read-only kernel+initrd iso image. (or hdd bootloader)

The "instant off" is the key zeroisation mechanism where loop-aes keys (rotated in memory) are flushed and the disks are now inaccesible. A reboot and passphrase auth with USB key device present is then required to get back to a working state.

The use of 8 radios means most of them are in monitor mode attached to different antennas. There are two amplified cards (1W teletronics in line) which can be used for injection / active attacks, but 2 transmitting radios is about the limit practically speaking due to 802.11MAC / CSCA.

The WPA/WPA2 cracking references WPA-PSK dictionary attacks / cowpatty speedup via the Padlock hash engine SHA1 instruction. This gives you about a 10-20x increase in dictionary attack throughput but is still slow compared to most attacks. Many other kernel functions (loop-aes, IPsec, entropy in /dev/random) and user space applications (openssl, openvpn) are also tweaked to utilize the padlock core described here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardw are.jsp . Montgomery multiplication offload is still in the works...

[The "breaking SHA1 and RSA encryption in a single processor instruction cycle" line appears to confuse the implementation of these primitives (SHA1/MontMult) in a single instruction. These are not cracked by a single instruction.]

The comment about government sales is likely due to the fact that this system is well over FCC EIRP limits, thus restricting commercial sales to military or emergency services.

Additional images here:
http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/coderman42 /?action=view&current=janusbox.jpg&refPage=&imgAnc h=imgAnch3
http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/coderman42 /?action=view&current=janusbox-dev.jpg&refPage=&im gAnch=imgAnch2

The "2000 bit passkey" is really the disk encryption keys for loop-aes. See http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README . They are longer than 2000 bits.

The disk encryption keys are stored on USB and decrypted via passphrase (key encryption key) using a custom init process that mounts the encrypted loop-aes disk(s) and does the pivot_root / exec init into the target. This gives you full disk encryption booting from a trusted read-only kernel+initrd iso image. (or hdd bootloader)

The "instant off" is the key zeroisation mechanism where loop-aes keys (rotated in memory) are flushed and the disks are now inaccesible. A reboot and passphrase auth with USB key device present is then required to get back to a working state.

The use of 8 radios means most of them are in monitor mode attached to different antennas. There are two amplified cards (1W teletronics in line) which can be used for injection / active attacks, but 2 transmitting radios is about the limit practically speaking due to 802.11MAC / CSCA.

The WPA/WPA2 cracking references WPA-PSK dictionary attacks / cowpatty speedup via the Padlock hash engine SHA1 instruction. This gives you about a 10-20x increase in dictionary attack throughput but is still slow compared to most attacks. Many other kernel functions (loop-aes, IPsec, entropy in /dev/random) and user space applications (openssl, openvpn) are also tweaked to utilize the padlock core described here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardw are.jsp . Montgomery multiplication offload is still in the works...

[The "breaking SHA1 and RSA encryption in a single processor instruction cycle" line appears to confuse the implementation of these primitives (SHA1/MontMult) in a single instruction. These are not cracked by a single instruction.]

The comment about government sales is likely due to the fact that this system is well over FCC EIRP limits, thus restricting commercial sales to military or emergency services.

Additional images here:
http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/coderman42 /?action=view&current=janusbox.jpg&refPage=&imgAnc h=imgAnch3
http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/coderman42 /?action=view&current=janusbox-dev.jpg&refPage=&im gAnch=imgAnch2

I left the feeding flap open...
I found in the morning covered in fluff, motionless on the floor.

Wow! That's one amazing goldfish!
I guess you should have closed the kitchen cabinets too!

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I would like to confirm that this was a great GenCon - we finally got pictures of Drysc and Tseric.

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/Sheshie/?ac tion=view&current=GenCon06.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=im gAnch1

Oblivion's a big step back from Morrowind in all important aspects. I've gone back to Morrowind, and I recommend everyone else does too, what with the infinite view distance now available: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a156/MojoBox/MGE _Balmora.jpg

IN HONOR OF THE SUBJECT MATERIAL, I HAVE CHOSEN TO USE THE CAPS LOCK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE FOR THIS POST.

On second thought, that's far too annoying.

If the proposed abolishment of caps lock keys is successful, I grow concerned about what myself and my predecessors will celebrate on INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY which happens to be October 22. And don't tell me it's not a real holiday because that is one convincing website. It has a news flash with a picture of a potato, uses the word "bitches" and has a countdown for the days remaining to INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY. And look at this other reputable site, Out House Rag that also backs INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY. That's more than Adults Day in Japan has to say! Please, if I have to put up with one more Nevada Day (October 31) the least you can do is let me have my INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY. Please don't remove your caps lock key because they're not evil!

You know, there's this horrible site that actually encourages you to remap your caps lock to a more suitable function ... but of course that would just be sacrilegious and a very dangerous process (don't try it at home!).

Absolutely. Three philosophies, three operating systems, three different types of people—I doubt I could have said it better myself. But as a Mac user, I'm obliged at least to try:

• Us.
• Them.
• You.

Most of them are not from or connected Washington DC.

Where do you get your information from, exactly?

No connection, my ass.

Apple can't figure out how to put the proper amount of thermal paste on a CPU.

As opposed to Dell, who apparently uses too much thermite paste in its batteries.

- Tony

Not about the image that the original post is about, but about what happens after something like this gets out. Read this blog post:

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014929.php

A fine example of a blogger making a fool of themself, doing the exact same thing they are accusing Reuters of doing. Read my response to it:

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The only photograph that strikes me as somewhat odd is the bottom image http://powerlineblog.com/archives/Hajj4567.jpg.

The other 4 images are clearly photographs of the same scene. Let me give you my view on the positioning of the photographers in each.

#1 : http://powerlineblog.com/archives/Hajj1234.jpg
This picture was taken with a regular angle lens, say somthing like 35mm, towards a building, across the bridge that is out. The photographer was standing close to the right side of the road (when viewed in this direction). The car in the next picture is out of the frame, to the left of the photographer. The photographer is too far from the actual damage to get a good shot of it. The actual damage is close to the right shoulder of the man in the center of the image, off to the left.

#2 : http://powerlineblog.com/archives/Hajj1245.jpg
This picture has been taken from the opposite side of the road from #1, i.e. the left, shooting in the same direction. The photographer will have used a telelens, say 200mm. This pulls in the distant background and seems to place the pilons in the center of the road closer together. Note the tree white and red pilons, with the overturned fourth. Now look at #1 again, you will notice the same three pilons with the overturned one pointing towards the photographer. Also not that the two palms and the car on the right side of the road are visible in #1 as well, off in the distance.

Again, this picture has been shot across the destroyed bridge, which is now partly obscured by the car and the man. But you can make out the concrete mesh fragments sticking off the right shoulder of the man, to the right.

#3 : http://powerlineblog.com/archives/Hajj2345.jpg
In #3, the photopgrapher has arrived at the collapsed bridge. From this angle, the photographer, shooting with something like the 35mm again, can shoot into the gap, clearly showing the damage. The photographer is now well past the car in #2, but the other car is still visible across the gap. The car in #3 is actually visible in all of the images, as is the building in the background, though very poorly in #1.

#4 : http://powerlineblog.com/archives/Hajj3456.jpg
In #4, the photographer has moved back beyond the overturned car. Or, about as likely, #4 was actually taken before #1. The photographer is now so far back and to the left, that the small watchtower is also in the frame.

The allegations in the piece are sensationalist and don't stand up to scrutiny. The author (and powerlineblog) are doing exactly what they are accusing Reuters of doing: posting material without a critical and sceptical review. If the bottom photo (#5, http://powerlineblog.com/archives/Hajj4567.jpg) was published as a photo of the same incident, that's not right But some of the comments on the other 4 are simply wrong.

I've included a schematic drawing of the scene as I think it was, for your reference. Note that I was there no more than the author was and that errors in my reasoning or schematics should in no way impact what Reuters and Hajj have to say for themselves.

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The schematic I'm talking about: http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k88/Grismar75/i

- anonymous at /b/[NSFW] finds a way to find separate private user profiles on Photobucket in the recent[possible NSFW] directory.