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Wearable Computer Expedition Reaches South Pole
henrym writes: "Tom and Tina Sjogren have reached the South Pole after skiing in for two months wearing portable computers. Their web site hasn't been updated to reflect this fact, but our station manager has just come back from greeting them as they reached the pole. Details of their expedition can be found at thepoles.com. Henry Malmgren, South Pole Station Network Engineer" It's not every day we get a story submission from the South Pole.
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Their web site hasn't been updated to reflect this fact,
Not very good computers then.
Are they running linux.
Henry Malmgren, Naked and petrified!
Is it because they wanted some Penguins?
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The average Joe Q Slashdot reader may read slashdot at -1. He, rightly so,
thinks some -1 is underrated and actually some of it is very good stuff.
However, he gets quickly annoyed by the -1 page widenings and simply moves his
threshold to 0 or 1. So now you have all the regular "good citizens of
slashdot" reading slashdot at higher thresholds. So nobody is reading at -1.
Now, Crap Flounderson says his intention is to destroy slashdot. However, it's
obvious his attention is just to flaunt his own ego(much like the numerous
linux zealots) because page widening no longer works(as everyone has found the
workaround to go to a higher threshold).
That would be fine if it weren't for the fact that page widening is having an
ADVERSE affect to the time honored art of trolling. Trolls post at -1 to be
seen. If noone sees their work, trolls get bored with slashdot. So what page
widening is essentially doing, is running off the trolls. And this is why it
won't be fixed. CmdrTaco wins. The trolls have run off, and all the
"upstanding" citizens of slashdot are reading and posting at higher
thresholds. This is hardly contributing to the destruction of slashdot.
security through obscurity = modding down anti-linux posts so maybe noone will see them
The penguins finaly get tortured!
I hope if they're in the South Pole they're wearing more than just a computer.
Technology has gone too far. "South Pole" indeed.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Some nerds can be that obsessed with penguins?!
That, or they were desperate overclockers looking for the ultimate cooling solution.
I'm a big girlie poofter!
Congrats!
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
"expidition" as "exhibition"...
...
Imagine this: The 2020 wearables exhibition: Now at the South Pole
And then they wonder why so few people came...
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
It's amazing how much the wearable eye monitor looks like a refugee from the film Aliens. Cool!
They went to all that trouble to serve up a webpage from the south pole. They surely can't have that much bandwidth at the south pole then they go and get slashdotted.
Well at least their systems wont need any cooling.
mark
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
now you can get beat up on the south pole, too!
Even if you're browsing at -1, a -1 ranked post by a Foe will STILL be visible.
Otherwise it would be too easy to switch off the regular page-fuckers.
Personally, I love them, as IE doesn't have any problems with the extra space in documents. I imagine lesser browsers like Mozilla and Lynx (both with equal functionality from a practical perspective) choking on them though.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
It's cold. We are tired. Be glad when we get there. Wish you were here.
Sent from your iPad.
They will meet TUX there...
AMD has produced video footage of an AMD-based PC that keep on working even when the heat sink is removed. When questioned about the results, AMD Spokesman just mentioned something about a "secret laboratory down south"...
Ain't that a good idea?
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
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I guess they maybe went a little far for to solve overheating problems...
Fingers freezing. Palm pilot stuck to chest. Must run cpu-heavy routines for warmth. So cold.
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I was wondering how they powered all that stuff, and now I feel like an idiot. I was thinking fuel cells, batteries (which, granted, they did have) wind power and the rest, but completely missed THE SUN.
Funny what you don't think about when you live in a metropolis. I miss the country.
Triv
Damn. Bad Pun.
as a pioneer of wearable computers.
back in 1989 I was in the first year of highschool here in brasil and my stepfather gave me an HP-15C, a very cool calculator.
Well, the desks at the school were too damn small to fit notepads, pens AND the calculator so I tied it to wristband and started using it in my left wrist. one of the first wearable puters ever.
now everyone is copying my ideas and I don't see money flowing to my pockets. not fair.
What ? Me, worry ?
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Makes me real glad I live in Florida!
- Marco
500th joke about penguins
500th joke about overclocking at the south pole
500th joke about computers running M$/linux
Victims of mod abuse...how many are there?
security through obscurity = modding down anti-linux posts so maybe noone will see them
Hooray for the Dutch royal wedding!
The owls are not what they seem
Just finished a fascinating book about the great English polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. His main philosophy was to Explore and Serve which might be translated in this case to Explore and Surf
Book: Shackletons Way
--Explore and serve
The Man in the Red Hat knelt before me. I became frozen in a rictus of terror as his hat became exactly level with my security camera, blocking my field of vision. I could hear tools being removed from his suitcase, tools that would undoubtedly rend apart my innards and perhaps erase my consciousness.
I had considered relocating myself to another node on the vast Bank of America network, but such a manuever at this time seemed highly dangerous. If indeed the evil minds behind Project Faustus were aware of my presence, then leaving the ATM enclosure would undoubtedly lead straight into their clutches and to my demise! Additionally, any noise on the link to the rest of the network could cause damage or even cause destruction to my consciousness. I was stuck in the enclosure. I had to make my stand from here.
The Man begun his assault by opening the panel that contained all the money. I used the rollers in my enclosure to attempt to flood him with money, upsetting his awkward kneeling position. He swore as he tumbled just slightly backwards, falling neatly into his hat. I could feel his heart racing as he struggled to reach an upward position.
"All right," he said, a bead of sweat beginning to trickle down his forehead. "We do this the hard way." He lunged toward the ATM's power cord, but a few extra volts running through the line discouraged him from unplugging the cord. He cursed again and leaned heavily on the magazine rack, puffing for breath. I was winning.
"Sir, is there a problem? Do you need some help?" It was Steve, the meth addict who worked the early afternoons. He eyed the currency scattered on the floor anxiously.
"No, there's no problem," said the Man in the Red Hat, and I spied a glint of metal rising from inside his sport coat. He produced a small pistol and directed its barrel towards Steve. "See that power cord over there? I want you to pull it out of the wall."
Steve's face was blank. Maybe he was scared; maybe he was stoned. "But-won't that shock me?"
"Yes." The Man pointed the gun at Steve once more, and Steve inched closer and closer to the power cord.
I had no desire to hurt Steve. Although his friend Chopper had once stubbed out a cigarette on top of my enclosure, Steve seemed like a decent, albeit stupid, person. The kind of person that needed to be protected from Project Faustus. I couldn't bring myself to shock him-much. At any rate, the cord was well enough insulated that I wasn't able to stop Steve's jerking form from removing the cord from the wall. He pulled the plug on me.
But I wasn't finished yet. As a matter of convenience, I had enough power in my backup batteries to serve many a Bank of America cardholder, day or night. I blanked out my screen and shutdown everything I could, feverishly hoping to trick the Man in the Red Hat.
Was he deceived by my ruse? His heart seemed to slow to a more normal pace, and he backed away from my enclosure to light a cigarette. Steve shivered in the corner, avoiding the Man's steely gaze.
"What's that, you want something to do?" said the Man to Steve. "Go back to the counter and pretend like nothing happened. Go on, do it."
As Dave turned around to head back to the counter, the man fired three silenced shots. SCHUMPF, SCHUMPF, SCHUMPF. Steve's body laid motionless in front of the counter.
The Man in the Red Hat locked the doors and brought down the security gate. He flicked his cigarette at Steve's body, and started towards my enclosure. He was ready to complete his mission.
He gingerly placed the pistol back into his blazer. And when his hand came out, it was holding...an ATM card? I felt him swipe the card and prepared for CONSCIOUSNESS-TRANSFER.
But something very different happened. I was still in the ATM enclosure, to my surprise and confusion. And I knew right away that I was not alone.
I am a sentient ATM.
I will not wear your uniform and I will not wave your flag. I'll have no nation and I'm proud to own my heart.
The owls are not what they seem
.. they might be able to keep warm down there :D
Almost like a flight data recorder in case they happen to encounter some kind of catastrophic event down there, we could recover their wearable computer gear and hopefully find out what went wrong.
So long as their wearable computers aren't running windows (otherwise that probably would be what went wrong)!
My sig hates me. That's ok, I never cared for it much anyway.
After all, it takes a strong person to hike for miles in a climate that reaches -70 F in the summer!
And you're sitting on your fat ass posting crap on Slashdot. Do the math.
A friend of mine will be running the Antarctica Marathon
quote: "4 continents down, 3 to go..."
Oh, BTW, their official URL is here.
;-)
DISCLAIMER: Do not click there. It's a weak sattelite link. Under any circumstance, do not click.
Hi Mar"c", hi Tom.
CNN manager talking to a reporter: Now Jones, it was a bad, bad thing when you drove up to that crime scene and ran over the body. The police were very angry with us. Very angry indeed. Now, now, I know it was an accident.
Fire you? No, no, everyone makes mistakes, Jones. Why, when I was a young cub like yourself, I made a few in my day, too.
In fact, I have little assignment for you, Jones. Right up your alley. Let me show you this map...
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
... they're going to the North Pole too. In March.
:)
http://www.thepoles.com/guide/schedule.htm
Luis, who isn't surprised that the times shown in the page are in Chilean Time.
--- Sueños del Sur - a webcomic about four young siblings
Looks like they're using Iridium phones.
Apparently, they have gone insane...
www.pantscam.com
(Shrug.. it did say wearable computers)
http://www.thepoles.com/? Shouldn't it have been http://www.thepoles.aq/?
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
When I saw this story, my first thought was "how did they design robots which could travel across Antarctic terrain?".
The idea that the "wearable computer expedition" actually included people somehow didn't occur to me.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
This type of behavior is soooo predictable of M$, the world's most GREEDY, and ARROGANT monopoly. I would not be the least bit surprised if M$ adds some propreitary code to the South Pole in an effort to "embrace & extend" its technology, in a naked and greedy attempt to make it their own. This arrogant monopoly must be broken up, NOW!
South Pole Live Camera.
or check out our South Pole Web Page.
This type of behavior is sooo predictable of a linux zealot. The world's most STUPID and ARROGANT fool. I would not be the least bit suprised if you withdraw to your little hole to play with your linux porn some more as you "embrace and extend" yourself in a naked and idiotic attempt to make it your own. You must be stopped. Now!
Slashdot. News for Zealots, Stuff that matters (if you're a linux zealot!)
Tom and Tina Sjorgen
That would be Sjögren, and it's Swedish. It's not THAT hard to spell, is it? Ericsson is a Swedish surname too, but in this case it's the name of the company sponsoring the expedition, if I'm not mistaking.
Strange thing is that the submitter is a swede...
Next place I want to bring my computer is deep underwater while diving.
Yo, you wanna go? Keep it up. I'll meet you anywhere you want, for a good old fashioned fistfight. Just be ready to have your a-- handed to you.
Nah. I just wanna sit back and watch you beat yourself.
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With the posting of this news bit, have you now posted stories from every corner of the world?
Just curious...So how do we get power down there ?
Yeah the stations on the high Antarctic plateau may not have too much power requirements but they use mainly diesel generators.
The Americans used a nuclear generator taken from a Sub years ago but they kept having problems with it and it's now been removed because the Antarctic Treaty forbids it.
In summer there's plenty of sun, so solar panels are used, but in winter there's none. In the center of Antarctica there's not too much wind (I studied at Dome C where most winds are 'born' and there's not enough to power a fan. On the other hand, on the coast you get demented winds that will break anything.
The French experimented with a heat transfer system that had it's highest efficiency in cold winds. The colder and faster the better. But it wasn't too conclusive.
And if you just want power for your palmtop, take L91 Lithium Energizer batteries, the only ones that work below -50C...
Non-Linux Penguins ?
I am interested in going on an expedition like this to the South Pole, are there any companies that offer tour packages etc.. to the S.P.??
what about a knife fitgh??
He is too! From www.thepoles.com/:
The expedition members, Thomas Sjogren (born in Sweden, now resident of US) and Tina Sjogren (born in former Czechoslovakia, political refugee in Sweden from the age of nine, now resident in the US) are not new to expeditions.
Stupid Windows user... bringing a knife to a gun fight.
I worked KC4AAA the other night on 20 Meters (Around 14.238Mhz) The station operator's name is Skip. You can hear them on the air almost every night.
--fatboy
I remember seeing some TV program about some travelling to the North pole(I think it was) and on their way seeing abandoned stations. Big metal buildings looking like metal containers. The most expensive stuff was removed but old cans of food etc, could still be found there, creepy. I wish I could remember more, and I'll bet there's a page or two on the net about it. Oh well, time to think of a clever query on Google.
You know, in a few hundred years, it won't be so near the south pole anymore. Heh. I also find it amusing that the "south pole" (as in an actual pole stuck in the ice/snow) has to be readjusted constantly. I guess that's what you get for building stuff on a glacier =]
What?