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The Teddy Borg is Alive!
probabilistic writes: "Check out what bored MIT students are up to -- a few of my friends, in their never-ending quest for network connectivity and female companionship, created the Teddy Borg. It might look like an innocent teddy bear, but behind the soft exterior lurks a GigaFast 5-port 10/100 ethernet switch."
What's the point of this? Maybe networking a bunch of animals together? Or the proverbial Beowulf cluster of stuffed animals?
"A group of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Now that... is... irony!" - Bender
I subscribed to Slashdot for THIS?! Fuck that.
Oh, well. If it was done at MIT it must have been impressive. As a non MIT graduate I would find it impossible to put some electronics inside something else.
Actually I'm going to start a new project: given raw materials of a computer and a box, I will put the computer inside the box. Clever eh?
Actually no. It'll never be interesting because I'm not at MIT.
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She likes it because its cute.
You like it because its a Giga switch
I to wondered what the heck "Teddy Borg" is for....
Then I saw the poll at the end.
Desirable to geek chicks.....
Guess this is why I'd never get into MIT. These guys KNOW how to get laid!
"Bother," said the Borg. "We've assimilated Pooh."
Let's see them put a network switch inside a *real* bear. Then I'll be impressed.
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
Yeah, the next step is to extrapolate and sell this great idea to Microsoft so that they can install the .NET platform on teddy bears and other kinds of toys. Resistance is futile.
Engage!
Yah. I was thinking I could do the same thing with a wireless hub and a stuffed bunny (anntenne in the ears).
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...is because MIT/IS does not allow switches on the network. All you are allowed to do is plug cat5 directly into a port. If you need more ports, you gotta tell IS to give you more. This incredibly public advertising is a good way for the admins to take away your connectivity :)
I dont have a
i submitted a story last week about IBM embedding strong cryptographic chips in their computers and it was rejected.
instead we have MIT boneheads embedding a switch in a bear.
I dunno, maybe it's just me but I woulda used red for the bear's eyes
And as far as his "vain hope of attracting women" goes, well, dude thay're the vainest! (ie don't cross your fingers, and wait for the phone to ring)
:)
Put one of those wireless netcams in it. Give it to the hot chick down the hall, Instant Free DormPorn. Of course this is very illegal and I am not responsible for the beating you will recieve from her boyfriend and subsequent jail time if you get caught.
"Our products just aren't engineered for security,"
-Brian Valentine,VP in charge of MS Windows Development
If I had a daughter, I'd love the idea of giving her a laptop and a switch like this. All of a sudden, the idea of a "sleepover computer party" wouldn't be so gosh darn nerdy. They could stay up all night playing with Virtual Barbie or whatever is the software of the year.
Please don't. Sorry, buy guys aren't attracted to computer chicks. She'll never have a boyfriend. She'll just be referred to as 'that weird computer girl.' Just some suggestions for life.
"Awwww, what a cute teddy bear! His eye's even light up!" (reaches out and grabs bear, ripping out cables in the process)
"Nooooooooooooooooo! Not my game of Quake!"
"I don't trust goats," --To Catch a Spy
Sorry...I couldn't resist... ;-)
"It take 9 months to bear a child, no matter how many women you assign to the job."
Yeah. I stopped reading right there. I don't want to know how to access the bear's ports, thank you very much!
A little work on its "speech" curcuit and "Network down, waaaaa!"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If you ask me, a bear with cat5 coming out of its paws and light-up lights is far scarier than my innocent little 'normal' 8-port switch.
Only on slashdot can a posting be rated "Score -1, Insightful".
This story has all the right elements to appear on the front page. It mentions:
College students (and lots of bonus points for being MIT students)
Star Trek
"female companionship"
The challenges of geekhood
Network connectivity
Taking things apart and modifying them, not necessarily for a useful purpose.
Toys
Of course, I don't know how it got through without even mentioning Linux or Anime. Maybe Slashdot needs to work on its story filter.
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
Yeah I hear what you say.
I knew one fine geek chick who was one of the most gorgeous women I have ever seen. EVERY man wanted her on our uni IRC server. She steadily worked her way down the nick list, setting friend geek against friend geek till we were all a writhing mass of jealous, back stabbing obsessives. Then she broke all our hearts by leaving
** Geeks and Girls just don't mix **
if i were gonna give my girlfriend a stuffed animal with electronics inside, it wouldn't just consist of a hub. there'd definately be some "imaging" equipment too..
this is just a placeholder till i send back my real sig from the future.
First person to crack up buy the round after work.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
First a Teddy Bear switch. What's next, a potpourri heat-sink for your CPU, perhaps?
Smell the over-clocked goodness.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
And a further addition could
be the "anatomically correct" Wi-Fi bear
with above mentioned camera.
Just keeping up the bad taste.
(Female participants are encouraged to
add their own tastless comments.)
You mean a Furby?
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
There was ONE girl at your high school who was a mad hacker, hung around in the computer labs, and had this wicked personality.
Just look at this....
//RECURSION/shared /mnt -o ip=18.238.3.106 /mnt
/]# umount /mnt /]# smbmount //RECURSION/opengl /mnt -o ip=18.238.3.106 /]# cat >/mnt/asdf /]# cat /mnt/asdf
[root@localhost root]# nmblookup -A 18.238.3.106
Looking up status of 18.238.3.106
RECURSION <00> - B <ACTIVE>
FOURTHEAST <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
RECURSION <03> - B <ACTIVE>
RECURSION <20> - B <ACTIVE>
FOURTHEAST <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
SLUG <03> - B <ACTIVE>
[root@localhost root]# smbclient -L RECURSION -I 18.238.3.106
added interface ip=10.88.20.10 bcast=10.88.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
Password:
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
OPENGL Disk
MYMUSIC Disk
SHARED Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication
Server Comment
--------- -------
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
[root@localhost root]# smbmount
Password:
[root@localhost root]# ls -l
total 49639
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4225 Sep 12 09:14 hallbudget.wks
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35725704 Jan 18 01:21 sp6i386.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12739202 Nov 6 01:56 star wars episode 2 teaser.mov
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2359352 Dec 22 1998 XZerg1high.bmp
[root@localhost
[root@localhost
Password:
[root@localhost
Test
[root@localhost
Test
Oh dear! World writeable share.....
oh common, this is probably the first and last time in your life you can say, "i hacked a teddy bear's samba server"
But can we crush its teddy spirit with the /. effect?
MWHA HA HA!
Where's the embedded webcam for girl snooping? I think (based on /. article summary) that this teddy is supposed to be in the room full of girls providing network connectivity for them (as official service) and pictures of girls in the room for those interested (as "unofficial" service).
:)
hany
EVERY man wanted her on our uni IRC server.
Wow, lucky girl. 'Oh, all the guys who use this erver want me.' ha ha HA.