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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.
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The shareholder is always right.
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)
Hmmm, I definitely qualify for the age requirement, considering I'm 257 months of age.
Plus, we get the awesome warning from CmdrTaco, too:
(warning! Over 18 and over!)
Whee! Reminds me of Airplane!
Man: "Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet your Captain. Captain Over."
Clarence: "Gentlemen, welcome aboard."
Man: "Captain, your navigator Mr Unger and your first officer Mr Dunn."
Clarence: "Unger."
Unger: "Over."
Dunn: "Over."
Clarence: "Dunn!"
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
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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!
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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.
"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?
That was Airplane! 2 - The Sequel. The original Airplane! had Captain Clarence Over and Roger Murdock, and Victor (lastname?)4 The exchange went something like this:
Tower: "You have clearance Clarence"
Over: "Roger. Clarence has Clearance"
Murdock: "Huh?"
Over: "Ok, Roger"
Murdock: "What's the vector Victor?"
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Here's the actual quote, courtesy of the IMDB:
Murdock: "We have clearance, Clarence."
Clarence Oveur: "Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"
Tower voice: "Tower's radio clearance, over!"
Clarence Oveur: "That's Clarence Oveur! Oveur."
Tower voice: "Roger."
Murdock: "Huh?"
Tower voice: "Roger, over."
Roger Murdock: "Huh?"
Captain Oveur: "Huh?"
If you are talking about the United States:
according to the constitution. I don't know where you get this "You can only commit treason if you are a government employee" unless there is some admendment I don't know about...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
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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Listen, if you think it's unsafe and you don't like that, nobody's forcing you to fly in it.
Frankly, if I had the chance to fly in the Kitten and my chances of coming back alive were as low as, say, 33%, I'd jump at it like there was no tomorrow (and maybe there wouldn't be). You may like your life to be nice and safe, and that's fine with me, but you have no right to force that on other people.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
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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- 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? :)
It got the pics from my hdd. Wait! Those are on my unmounted partition!
:)
Uhhh...shit. I said too much.
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....
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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no, that won't do shit for the landfill.
the more aol cd's get burned up in this comp, in real big objects, the better...
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