Domain: cellar.org
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Re:Farmers
How about this guy. It looks like a little more power than it takes to run a watch.
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=14259
Also my dad was telling me about how when he worked in a radar stating in the airforce. If you pointed the range finder antenna downtown you could light up the arc sodium lamps.
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We've had flying cars since the late 40's
http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=11712
It's really not that great of a technical challenge to make a car that flies. The real challenge is the infrastructure. For the flying car to become the norm, you need a system where your average reasonably un-trained person can operate the thing safely.. And really the only way to do that is to make it fully autonomous. Also you'll have lots of issues with keeping the traffic out of the way of general and commercial aviaton.
It isn't going to happen any time soon, no matter what that crackpot Moller has to say about it. -
slashdot discussion: mathematically impossibleThis has been discussed previously on slashdot.
Especially, there was an article showing that objective estimation of development times is mathematically impossible:
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Re:Abuse
Hehe. Might make you a tad obvious when you walk through the body imaging sensor at the airport, bus, train station, school, shopping mall, sports event, amusement park, etc.
Face it, you will be scanned, identified, and monitored: http://www.millivision.com/products.html
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Re:First of allAh, who can forget:
or, of course, Koolio
[Please, I beg you for a mod up. I've learned my lesson about trolling, I swear.]
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Re:That's one big ass easter egg
Not as big as this easter egg.
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I made a computer desk...
It's no integrated case, but I like it. Maybe someday I'll make a case - I like the idea.
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Dollars Over Common SenseLooks like the power industry bought themselves another study from PSU.
Wish I had some of that money.
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Re:For those of you who think e-voting is simple:Thanks for the post, it was good. For this:
So what happens if you just leave all the kiosks offline and give them all a copy of the master voter registration db? Now you've opened yourself up to voter fraud: you could go from kiosk to kiosk, casting multiple ballots as yourself.
I remember an image of the day at The Cellar Honduras prevents voting fraud which might solve this problem. Actually, the problem it solves occurs today in many elections. This biggest problem with it, the people who are going to whine about the mess. It will probably take a massive scandal before Joe Citizen would be willing to agree to this.
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Re:$200 George W Bush BillCellar Image of the Day had these way back in the day. Good cashier help is hard to find if they can be faked by these.
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Re:$200 George W Bush BillCellar Image of the Day had these way back in the day. Good cashier help is hard to find if they can be faked by these.
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Evolution of marketing
I remember reading one of the Dilbert books, Is your computer safe from hackers? where it said that marketing will continue to become more and more manipulative Make money with your website! as it builds upon the shoulders of already tried marketing schemes.
I just wonder how long before Specials on Ink Jet refill kits! they start putting ads Long Distance for just 1c per minute! in the middle Spy on your neighbors! of all web content? -
Re:Corporate Rumors
Rumor has it that AMD intends to begin advertising a dual-purpose "egg frying" processor shortly.
Just make sure you don't use it on your lap. -
Corporate Rumors
Rumor has it that AMD intends to begin advertising a dual-purpose "egg frying" processor shortly.
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Re:Well..Look at the way people like to impress each other with cellphones in countries where you can't carry weapons
;)You mean with cellphones like this?
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Solutions to lack of slack
there is only so many times in a day you can "go make coffee" or "check your email".
It sounds like you need some help... I've built up a fairly good list of sites to visit while waiting on things at work. I've put together a fairly good-sized list so that even if I get to the bottom of the list, by that time, I can start back at the top of the list again and there'll be new material. =)Geek Slack List
- http://www.subgenius.com/
- http://www.slackersguild.com/
- BBC News
- http://www.memepool.com/
- http://www.plastic.com/
- http://www.arstechnica.com/
- http://www.metafilter.com/
- http://www.techdirt.com/
- http://www.bottomquark.com/ (Science News)
- http://newsforge.com/
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/
- http://www.anandtech.com/
- http://www.bjorn3d.com/
- http://cellar.org - Image of the Day
- http://www.collegehumor.com/
- http://www.everything2.com/
- http://www.kuro5hin.org/
- http://www.theonion.com/
- NASA - Astronomy Picutre of the Day
- http://www.majorgeeks.com - Windows Shareware / Freeware
- http://www.advogato.org/
- http://www.sweetcode.org/
- http://www.disinfo.com/ - Disinformation
- http://www.somethingawful.com/
- http://www.astronomynow.com/ - Astronomy News
- http://www.aip.org/ - American Institue of Physics - News
- http://www.adequacy.org/
Hope this helps =)
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Rubber bulletsHave you ever seen what a rubber bullet can do?
They're not all they're cracked up to be, that's for sure.
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Bowlingual
I wonder if this Universal Translator will handle the canine language...
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Re:And the craptification will be complete
Lucas's desire to ride the wave of merchandising income driven by the sheer inertia of the franchise.
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One of the strangest things...
In the Philly area, what is now Voicenet was originally a files-n-pr0n BBS back in the day. The gent who ran it was a serious hobbyist. His system grew to something like 50 lines. Nowadays, with T1s leading into Ascend boxen, managed by a single Radius server, 50 lines is not unthinkable. But hobbyists back then knew nothing of Unix. So 50 lines meant that he had 50 386s! And no rack mounting... these were on cheap bent-metal racking with scores of wall warts for the modems! I think it was all in his garage or something.
I heard that the guy was astounded out of his gourd to see one of the first SLIP-oriented ISPs set up correctly with those same 50 lines run from two Sun pizza boxes.
(My own BBS lives on in the form of a web community. The Cellar, est. 1990. The IotD in my sig is just a part of it.) -
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