FYI regarding "cryptome", the originating site for the painfully slow-loading pic (and I'm on broadband):
Cryptome begins to "lock-out" downloads after 100 views from the same locale. That explains why the first few people on the thread didn't have a problem.
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Since there are now over 1500 views to the thread, cryptome is blocking the FR hotlink.
Here's their policy:
Cryptome is attacked several times a day, like many other sites, nearly always by rogue bots, or bots set by default to siphon everything, including deep links, until a new user learns to trim the wide mouth suck. WGet and Webdup are the worst offenders, but not the only ones, because they come ready to siphon everything until reconfigured. Hog bots suck thousands of files in a session before pole-axed. Prime offenders also are the ravenous searching and indexing engines, which 24/7 roam the web repeatedly gobbling the same files, or trashing with 304s for files already indexed. Because these pigs shutout other readers, Cryptome blocks any address which downloads more than 100 files per session, and that often requires blocking an entire domain for providers which assign a random address per session. About every six months Cryptome lifts all blocks (except for eternal offenders), now about 200. If blocked send a message to jya [at] pipeline.com, with affected domain name or IP number. Until the block is lifted, use an anonymizer like anonymizer.com. Please don't unleash bots, or pinch their gorge.
http://cryptome.org/
I think the slow loading pic also explains why after 1500 views only 40 some people have commented on a very hot-topic thread.
It took my DSL less than a second to load the entire page, photo included.
Thanks for posting the photo A.A. Cunningham. It's the best resolution of that photo I've seen.