Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels
Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
Number of source images: 600
Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs
Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days

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Check out the bus on the avenue to the right of center. There are other interesting artifacts from seaming the picture like disembodied torsos hovering down the sizewalk, etc. I even found someone picking their nose.

2.5 gigapixel photo montage with zoomer

Q: Is it possible to form a complete sentence from the word "Terrorists?"

A: Watch and see for yourself!

Terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists.

biochik007 wrote:
] w1ld wrote:
] ] mp3 of Kerry support both sides of many issues.
]
] That rox! sad but true, sad but funny...

Actually, its not true. Its standard issue political dishonesty, and the people who buy into it are the problem with this country. I mean it.

Political issues are complex. The way that politicians manipulate you is by pretending that they are not. This works as follows:

1. Say you are going to do A. (Example: Save the children.)
2. Demonstrate that A is good. (The children are at risk!)
3. Ask people if they support A. (Don't you want to save the children?!)
4. Once people have expressed support for A, propose legislation that includes both A and B (Section A says we want to save the children. Section B proposes doing do by disposing of toxic waste by turning into candy and distributing it on Halloween.)
5. When people vote against your legislation because of section B, accuse them of opposing section A. (How dare you suggest that we shouldn't save the children! Don't you want to save the children!?)
6. If all else fails, accuse your opponent of being inconsistent. (First, you said you wanted to save the children. Now you say you don't.)
7. Never actually discuss part B.

Everyone will go along with it, because they are too fucking stupid to bother to actually read the legislation in question. It works every time.

In this case:
1. Say that you are going to disarm Saddam Hussein.
2. Publish intelligence information of questionable value (in one case ripped verbatim from a college student's class report) supporting the idea that Saddam is an imminent threat. No one can question this information because you control the intelligence services and they sign off on the intel.
3. Ask Congress to pass a resolution supporting your effort to disarm Saddam Hussein.
4. Once the resolution has passed, blow off the international allies who typically provide the financing for such military adventures and launch a pre-emptive war that significantly undermines established international law concerning military conflicts (only as a last resort, only in self defense).
5. When people oppose you because of part 4, accuse them of opposing the idea of disarming Saddam Hussein. Make sure you completely confuse the concepts of what was done and how it was done.
6. If all else fails, accuse your opponent of flip-flopping (First, you said you wanted the war, now you say you oppose it.)
7. Don't talk about how we're going to pay for this. When it turns out that there is no WMD, claim we are there to support democracy, while simultaneously stating that you are fine with an Islamic Fundamentalist state in Iraq if thats what the people there want.

This is how politicians fuck you. Bend over. You are being fucked.

RE: Audio mp3 of Kerry doing the Flip Flop

Unrefutable proof of Bush's bulge.

Bush's Bulge: CONFIRMED

k wrote:

] "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cast it a little
] differently this week, at a news conference in Missouri. Iraq
] is making progress, he said. “At some point the Iraqis will
] get tired of getting killed and we'll have enough of the Iraqi
] security forces that they can take over responsibility for
] governing that country,” he said."
]
] [ More good news, and a fascinating strategy from Rumsfeld.
] That's the fucking Sec. of Defence talking! EVENTUALLY
] THEY'LL GET TIRED OF GETTING KILLED?!!?!? You've got to be
] fucking kidding me. No shit, Rumz, but how many americans are
] gonna get shot, maimed, or beheaded in the meantime? How many
] civilian casualties? How many new terrorists are we going to
] create in the process? What an asinine thing to say. -k]

Rumsfeld recently said Saddam Hussein is still at large, directing terrorists, and wonders if he is still alive, because we haven't seen him on video in quite a while now. You can see it for yourself from the Daily Show clip:

RE: Rumsfeld's a moron.

Trying to figure out something in a redundant firewall design. Two legged firewall design, two of everything. So two switches on the internal side of the cluster, two switches on the external side as well. Firewalls are running active/active. Internal switches are trunked together. External switches are trunked together. From top to bottom we have:

ExSwitchA ExSwitchB

FirewallA FirewallB

InSwitchA InSwitchB

Question is this: How can you cross connect, for example, the external switches so that ExSwitchA touches both FWA & B, and ExSwitchB touches both firewalls as well? Reason being if ExSwitchA fails, you still want B to throw packets at both firewalls.

I'm cooking up a few things in my mind but it gets ugly at layer 3. Assume that the firewalls cannot aggregate their links. Assume the clustering solution is a multicast software load balance solution. Assume OSPF is available.

I'm willing to live with "lose a switch, lose a firewall" and just have the firewall be fat enough to cope with the bandwidth but as an exercise I'm just trying to think about how to handle this.

Just found this one. Guess that I was thinking of wall-to-wall carpeting in 28 guesses :)

20Q - Play 20 Questions Against an AI

Decius wrote:

] Did anyone else get this spam? I've gotten several spams from
] these guys over the past few months. This morning's seems to
] have gotten some attention. There is something fishy about
] this. I scratched my head on it, so I figured I'd post it and
] see if anyone else has any opinions.

Here's the WHOIS info before it was changed:

Registrant:
Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism

2560 Virginia Avenue, NW
Suite 171
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: FREEMUSLIMS.ORG
Created on: 21-Apr-04
Expires on: 21-Apr-08
Last Updated on: 02-May-04

Administrative Contact:
Huber, James huber@huberspace.net
704 Donaldson Ln., SW
Leesburg, Virginia 20175
United States
7037719368 Fax -- 7037719368
Technical Contact:
Huber, James huber@huberspace.net
704 Donaldson Ln., SW
Leesburg, Virginia 20175
United States
7037719368 Fax -- 7037719368

Domain servers in listed order:
NS.THEHOSTGROUP.COM
NS2.THEHOSTGROUP.COM

RE: We are so Sorry for 9-11: Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism

IconoclasT wrote:
] I think I need a WTF / Stupid People category.. What a
] dumbass!
]
] What do you get when you try to pass a 15-foot, 9-inch
] tractor-trailer under a bridge with a posted 14-foot
] clearance?
]
] A least $100,000 in damage and one of Nashville's main
] interstate arteries closed from 9:45 a.m. until about 2:30
] p.m.
]
] Yesterday morning marked the eighth time since 1991 that the
] Demonbreun Street overpass above Interstate 40 had been hit by
] a tractor-trailer carrying an oversized load, said Kim Keelor,
] a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of
] Transportation.

I wonder what that must have felt like if you were on the bridge at the time. They have a natural jiggle even when the traffic is stopped. Must have been a bumpy ride when it hit!

RE: Saturday, 09/11/04 | Middle Tennessee News & Information

] POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (Reuters) - President Bush
] offered an unexpected reason on Monday for
] cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: "Too many
] OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all
] across this country."

BWAHAHAH!

Yahoo! News - Bush: OB-GYNs Kept from 'Practicing Their Love'