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Don't Believe The Quickies
Gleb sent us an IETF draft for
electricity over IP (yeah it's old, but it's funny).
dbcooper noticed that New Scientist mentioned a kit spaceship for $500k.
Oh, and here's some (warning! Over 18 and over!)
Odd Javascript that I can't even begin to describe, but it's so odd that I just had to share it.
l@ps@n pointed out some
Star Wars Origami that is actually pretty sweet.
Mr. Fusion urges us to fry that Voodoo3 with two neon sign transformers and watch the fireworks.
Phrogman noted that SpaceRef has posted some amazing time-lapse movies assembled from the Hubble space telescope showing stars blowing gas (insert joke here).
zenray notd that this month's SC Magazine does a market survey about tools needed to do a forensics-quality copy of disk drives. Basically the requirement is to be an exact byte-for-byte copy; 'dd' gets their BEST BUY award. Congrats!
mommydearest wrote in to plug that Ultimate Chaos is hosting the Ultimate AOL CD Invention contest here (grand prize is an IDE RAID controller!). Best I ever came up with was wallpaper (during my cubist period I filled up a wall).
An anonymous reader found the
x10-men which ain't exactly X10, and it ain't exactly X-Men, but it is truly frightening.
And finally, what with election coming up and all, it's a good thing that
LafinJack wrote in to let us know that Joe Leiberman and Dick Cheney have joined the ranks of political quake 3 skins available. Taunt and kill them before doing so becomes treason!
I'm wondering about the legal rational behind this. Is there actually a law that says you can't depict your pres/veep getting killed or something? It seems to me like this is a pretty obvious first amendment issue. I would consider a quake skin of the president to be a form of satire which should be protected along with all other fun offensive-to-the-government stuff like political cartoons.
But in this day and age, who knows.
Nick
Disk Duplicator
:)
Who woulda thunk it?
...if you don't like dd, you're probably just bitter about paying for GHOST...
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Joe Leiberman and Dick Cheney have joined the ranks of political quake 3 skins available. Taunt and kill them before doing so becomes treason!
This would be, of course, unconstitutional, and not just because of the 1st amendment. Article III Section 3 reads in part: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Unless Quake3-skin makers constitute their own sovereign state external to the United States, it could not be construed as treason. What's more, under that same clause, you'd either have to confess openly in court, or be convicted on the testimony of two witnesses to the act. So, if you frag alone in the dark, you're safe.
And if you're considering whether this is not on topic, ask yourself, "What exactly is on topic in Quickies articles?"
Back Before AOL even had the cds we had a contest where we took all of the old AOL disks and gave them to schools. The program was called Floppies for kiddies. You really should check it out. Look for it on Google
I always wanted to build a parabolic mirror out of AOL CDs with the sole function of melting all future AOL CDs.
:)
Wonder how that would fare in the contest
Ad in classifieds: Pandora's Box (no box) $5
is the text at the bottom.
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A small warning in the text would have helped.
I didn't really want a bunch of naked chicks bouncing around on my screen here at work. Or in fact even at home, though I do appreciate the javascript artistry. Now if they were naked Ian Thorpes, you would have another story for the home choice...
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the star movies. I think it's awesome that we have been looking long enough and hard enough that we can start to put things like this together. It really makes these things seem 'real' in a way that static images cannot.
-josh
I fail on several points, which is probably why the thing doesn't work for me. Anybody know the Javascript code for detecting trash-TV viewers?
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Alright, so those're pretty cool. But, from someone who's been folding for most of his existance, Joseph Wu's Origami Page still is among the greatest, and has what might be the greatest X-Wing Model (2 notes: 1, it's a .pdf file, 2, it's the "Chi-Wing Fighter" to avoid copyright infringement, no relation to the starship we know). There's no limit to what one can do with a square of paper (and people are pushing that limit (yet another note, warning, adult content) all the time...
-InsaneFolder
My other char is '!'
That would be committing a hate crime, but go ahead and blast the brains out of the Cheney Q3 model.
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"The ship will use engines made from ceramic materials and burn a mixture of methane and liquid oxygen, generating a maximum 3g of thrust."
3 grams? I'm impressed...
darius
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Kinda tough with all those naked girls bouncing around the screen, don't you think?
Ok. The javascript thing is slashdotted so I'll probably never know why I have to be 18. (I'm not.) AND, I had a chance at winning the AOL CD contest, but knowing slashdot someone'll probably make a webserver made entirely out of CDs and destroy any chances I have. Slashdot sucks.
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Well, it wouldn't be treason. But what the author is talking about is the 1917 law which made threats directed toward the President a federal violation.
I don't think the Secret Service (who would be the ones investigating such threats) would consider Q3 skins to be an actual physical threat...
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Anyone have a pole pig they can try that voodoo 3 stunt with? Now THAT will make a spark!
Oh boy this rocks.. I happen to have about 10000 (actual number) aol cds sitting in my living room in huge cardboard boxes.
If you call the AOL 800 number and ask to talk to someone in charge of distrubuting disk and tell them that you have a store. They will send you HUGE boxes of them. And they ship them priorty mail too. My roommate and i were going to wall paper our living room in them (shiney side up of course)
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I have a huge pile of AOL cds... Hey, lets built a battlebot!
--cr@ckwhore
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/. is a commercial entity. goto slashdot.com
*sigh*
Please read my post again, and smack yourself for me.
Especially the parts about "GNU", "RMS", and "common usage".
If you aren't unconscious by now, understand that in the common usage of the English language as regards this subject, everything in a "Linux distribution" will henceforth be referred to as "Linux" whether you like it or not. People will call Redhat 7, X, SuSE and ls "Linux". And they won't call Redhat 7 "Redhat 7.0", either. And no one will pronounce either "Linux" or "either" the same, either. Ha ha ha.
Okay? Are we done yet?
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...and I've never received an AOL CD in my life *sob*. I've begged friends to give me theirs, not so that I could actually sign up, but so I wouldn't feel different, but it just isn't the same. I don't know what I've done to deserve this, but I just hope Steve Case is happy.
Now I've seen it all!
Appended to the end of comments I post? 120 chars?!
"Ultimate Chaos is hosting the Ultimate AOL CD Invention contest here (grand prize is an IDE RAID controller!)"
Wow! I'm so glad they're giving out such an apropos prize for the competition. I mean, with IDE RAID, I can finally get the data mirroring capabilties of SCSI.. without the ability to have more than two devices per channel, the speed, nor the reliability. Now I can use those amazingly reliable Maxtor harddrives to make two of their 40gb drives into one, big 80gb drive!
Kinda like how AOL gives you connections to other people, without all that Internet stuff you'll never use.
Thank you, Ultimate Chaos!
(PS: irony is a key factor in this post. Everyone should get a certain amount of it in their daily diet.)
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But what about the children in Columbine being secretly and subtly trained by the evil, evil gaming industry to prepare for the overthrow of the US Government? That's what these skins are about! You think kids will know the difference between a skin and an elected official?!
Mr Katz? Where are you?!?
I went to the page, and my mouse changed into the "waiting" symbol and stayed that way?
I guess it's just javascript making it look like you've been slashdotted!
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There is NO WAY I'll ever put my trust in a standard laptop computer to pilot a spaceship. At my school laptops are standard issue, and the amount of hardware related problems I see every week is enough to steer me away from the thought of laptops in mission-critical situations.
As for the "special software", I certainly hope it doesn't run on any existing OS, as they're all WAY too unstable. (you can't deny that, Linux zealots ;)
"The ship will use engines made from ceramic materials and burn a mixture of methane and liquid oxygen,"
How expensive would this fuel be? I understand that the basic elements are abundant, but surely it would cost a lot to prepare. Anyone have any idea?
GOsh, this is REALLY a perfect timing. Just as I am about to write a review on proposed book on lambda switching etc. Desperately trying to remain serious.
You can read more detailed information about the Kitten over on Jim Hill's business site at ThriftySpace.com. Cerulean Freight is scrounging for financial backing at the moment, but once they get over this relatively minor hump, I expect they should be able to prove out Kitten pretty quickly.
But, as you will be able too see over on ThriftySpace.com, the Kitten (which isn't even designed to reach Low Earth Orbit) is just Cerulean Freight's prototype. They expect to produce a working vehicle next called Calico,that would be capable of reaching orbit with a payload of almost two tons. Like the Kitten, it would be able to make quick turnarounds.
-Mikehttp://meckardt.net
http://orbitalhabitat.com
I'm an idiot, and you can see so if you look at my signature.
This idiot gave out his password. It can be found http://www.visi.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~tdo/slash.pl
Everybody always fries hardware and wonders what it is that made it stop working. Well, if you think about it, it stopped working when the chip fizzled and the smoke came out ... so I'm pretty sure that it's smoke that makes chips work. I hear Intel uses some mirrors too!
The review that gave dd the best buy award really made my day. I actually used dd to make an exact copy of someone's 2.1 gig drive. I was an "expert witness" for the defendant in a civil case.
The plaintiff's attorney and expert insisted that their tool (encase) was better. They got all boo-boo faced when I booted Red Hat and used a two-letter f'n system utility to do the job of their $1,600 piece of software.
They spent an hour looking for "some kind of autoexec.bat or config.sys file" to make sure this terrible Linux thingy wasn't erasing their precious evidence.
So at least one "expert" (heh) agrees with the review.
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Note it says $10 million to the company that first makes a reusable vehicle, not the first one that makes a safe, reusable, reliable vehicle. One can cut corners to make it reusable and/or for cost that sacrifice safety.
I'd prefer if the second group that made such a vehicle got a reward instead of the first should the first one neglect any safety issues. One could make a reusable vehicle that works fine via remote control, but has poor airlocks around the people inside of it.
By reading this post you agree to send me $500,000 to buy my own spaceship kit. Failure to comply to this agreement is a violation of contract and you will be prosecuted in court.
Mess Stuff Up
Look closely at the amazing time-lapse movies. The first one is actually becomming some sort of lizzard man. This is really weird......
Have you checked out Zoid.com yet? Zoid.com
Yeah, but those nine minutes are pretty cool.
IMHO, though, the original British version "Robot Wars" is better. They make the robots run through an obstacle course first, and then a knock-stuff-down competition before the three battles begin. You can't win by just making a battle bot, since you have the other stuff to get to first.
Wow this is getting OT, but oh well. If you're lucky your local PBS station will air Robot Wars. (If you're really lucky you'll live in the UK! <g>)
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I own two high voltage sign transformers, a 15,000 V 30 mA and a 12,000 V 60 mA. Bought them used for less than $10 from a local sign company. I've used them to fry just about everything i can think of. Gummi bears are kind of neat to fry, and still taste good afterwards. When frying electronics i use a pair of high voltage wires i built with alligator clips on the ends. I clip one to the side of the device to be toasted, and wave the other over the equipment to areas that interest me. If you put an arc directly through a capicitor for long enough they sometimes explode. Most components just melt except for chips which you can draw lightning traces in.
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I'm really upset at your post. It is simply not up to Slashdot grammar standards.
Don't you think that should have been "votaress" rather than "votary"?
Thank you very much!
You need to use two hands... and quit jigglin' the mouse like that!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
The funny thing is, when I figured out why my girlfriend couldn't browse the web anymore, I told her about what a great honor this is, and she's just angry 'cuz she can't check out her own web page chat board! I swear, these webmasters are all so self-centered. She went off in a huff to watch TV, and now she's making fun of me because I'm posting to slashdot.
Use the mirror, mentioned above, and if you want to do non-MouseTest stuff, try PhiloVivero dot Com for a while. I'm moving out of static HTML and into Wiki anyway, so going to my wiki and be amazed. Source code at SourceForge.
In response to some, there are no typos on that page. I really do mean 18 months of age or older. And if you're not buddhist, you can't view the page. Also, if you are considering building a working Star Wars replica spacecraft out of AOL CDs and $500,000, then all restrictions (except the DMCA) don't apply to you!
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And when I duplicated the partitions, I was able to mount them using the Amiga Fast Filesystem kernel driver. Shweet! I got a really nifty external SCSI drive in exchange for recovering that drive. Now we're waiting for an Amiga emulator with the stuff to play Rocketz.
dd has been the Swiss Army Chainsaw of Strange Device Recovery for me. I've even made a custom bootfloppy, dd'ed it into an image, scp'ed the image onto my buddie's router with a blank disk sitting in it, and then created the floppy for him all the way across town. Give me two letter UNIX commands any day!
- Issue 1: Internet over Power Lines.
Instead of worrying about how slow that 56k modem is in connecting to my porn, err, news sites, now we can save the phones for more important things, like actually talking to people. [d.v]: Uh, I don't like the thought of a T1 that everyone can access. I'll stick with phone lines, or better yet, cable modems! it is illegal to tap a cable line without a high-level-of-proof warrant! : [JL]: Fine, whatever.- Issue Two: A Spaceship For A Half-Million? Apparently, it's possible to buy a kit that will let you use methane and liquid oxygen to fly sub-orbitally!
One nice thing about methane: EVERYONE produces it! Maybe I can swipe a bottle of oxygen and fly to the Caymans and enjoy my offshore accounts! [d.v]: No contest! I'll get you drinks! [JL]: No way. I don't swing that way!- Issue Three: Linux is the Best Way To Copy A Disk.
[d.v]: Please to be reading the laptop. [JL]: "Don't Trust The State"? [d.v]: No, the OTHER one. [JL]: "Linuxgruven." I see. I don't touch Unix with a ten foot pole. [d.v]: Loser. [JL]: Hey, I make the snide remarks!- Issue Four: The Presidential Quake Skins: A Threat for the future?
This skin is another problem with video games in this country! The violence implied with this, uh, 'skin', is obvious: you are to kill the VP's! Another skin - which my sources tell me is 'damned kool', the Republican and Democratic candidates are also targets! [d.v]: You should see my skin. It's Ralph Nader. And NOTHING sticks to him. You should see it against the Republocrats and Democritans. [JL]: Thank God I'm out of time. I have to screw with my social-security check to make sure I can afford HEAT in the studio next week! Good night!I used to be someone else. Now I'm someone better.
Real life is underrated.
Can't they at least steal the basic shape of NASA's X-24 lifting body? (the photograph in the article is the X-24, not 'Kitten'!) That flies- their illustrations would not, not if you strapped Shuttle boosters to them.
Yeesh- I've had my airplane designs recently sassed as 'stoner aerodynamics', but _this_ is _ridiculous_. What would that be then, quaalude aerodynamics? :)
If they'd been of Natalie Portman, it'd be a different matter, eh?
Gee, I thought it was a real nerd joke. The X10 Window System and the X-Men. Like the T-shirts that came out at the same time as the Malcolm X movie, featuring a huge X, and in smaller print "version 11, release 4" and in even smaller print "don't worry, It's a nerd thing".
Now what is this _other_ X10 thing? They have an particular ugly web side, which made it difficult to see what they were trying to sell.
It got the pics from my hdd. Wait! Those are on my unmounted partition!
:)
Uhhh...shit. I said too much.
Come on! Surely the most creative use of AOL CD's involves the least number of disks.
I mean really, how much imagination does it take to envisage a 24 foot Yellowfin Tuna made out of hundreds of AOL cd's? But creating a replica of the Eiffel tower out of a single disk? Now that takes imagination!
The comp. should be the most creative use of the least number of AOL cd's
The big problem is this approach does not take enough of those nasty silver-ish coasters off the general market
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
Easy, when you shoot the skinned NPC, the blood comes out red.
Rich
I've seen this javascript effect before at:
http://drooldonkey.org
still, it's very cool. The only problem is that this effect runs slow on Celerons. Damn cheap floating point....
JeffK from SomethingAwful put together a Flash demo that tells the world about Linux.Oh well, I thought it was funny at least:
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Man frying your video card looks like as much fun as throwing monitors off of four story buildings. Fire is always appreciated and thanks for sharing , good luck on any future projects!
Ferric the Mysterious God of Suicide
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't it a
I write this postmortum as I have been shot due to a grave programming error that caused the moustachecounter to malfunction, but that is another story, you see I got distracted by some very intense and explicit footage I found on the Internet.
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well the link did however give out his personal info. so I changed the password to plexor and corrected his typos. yeah I did something nice for a troll, go figure.
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I guess I don't believe in karma
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
I still can't get over the fact that the Hubble just magnifies the light that hits the lens and doesn't actually see through space, through all those light YEARS.
Dirt doesn't need luck.
Rich
missed out again... I wanna be a /. quickie!! /file.html is surely a contender.
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When I originally submitted this, I had a little thing at the end, "McCain will frag you all!!"
:)
Hell, *I* thought it was funny.
Too bad they dont have a McCain skin yet...
The one and (thankfully) only,
LafinJack
we are building a religion
a limited edition
we are now accepting callers
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Actually that would make it a Linux port of a UNIX command, though it's really a GNU port, particularly since it can be built for other Unixy platforms as well. There's a long history of replacing the half-broken tools that came with one's Unix distribution with the reasonably standard GNU ports of them, though I personally began to lose interest in that when they started consistently using those --extremely --long --option --strings. Not that dd can be helped in that regard.
;)
I'd probably be willing to call something a "Linux command" if it were specifically written for Linux without portability in mind. cdparanoia would be a current example, though portability is in the works there. More likely, I just wouldn't use the term at all. But then I'm probably just another pedantic idiot.
Skins are hollow, two-dimensional shells with no actual substance inside. Elected officials are...wait.
You can only commit treason if you are a government employee.
I don't know enough about the laws governing treason in the United States, but I can tell you this much:
If you work for a corporation, you're an employee of the US Government. Apparently, because a corporation has special rights granted to it by the Federal Gov, anyone who works for a corporation is considered to be an employee of the Federal Gov't.
So if you're working in the drive thru at your local McD's.... you're a government employee, and thus, according to the logic of your post, capable of being charged with Treason.
(unless you're an independant contractor)
-The Reverend
-The Reverend (I am not a Nazi nor a Troll)
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