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Making Your Room Quiet

Posted by Hemos on from the ssshh-SHUT-UP dept.

el_flynn writes "This may be a cure for those of you with loud computers, or perhaps those who spend lots of time in NOC rooms that generate lots of noise: NewScientist.com mentions about a "Silence Machine" that gets rid of unwanted noise. I want one to quiet down my neighbour's loud dogs. " These are also being tested in cars, to make the car quieter. I've got a pair of the headphones that the article alludes to - they make airplane travel much nicer, and having something like this to cancel machine noise would be excellent.

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  1. Hemos ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hemos ... shut up!

  2. Obligatory -1 troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now to invent one that can invert Katz's articles and block them out completely.

    1. Re:Obligatory -1 troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Click here.

      Oh yeah, you have to log on. Tough luck AC.

  3. Re:Fist Sport by groman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll. My machine has 9 fans in it, yet it manages to be quieter than the office iMac(which tends to beep randomly from time to time, I'd fix that, but I just don't care all that much)

  4. It's alright... by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Expect a -4 Karma hit soon.

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    1. Re:It's alright... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's a lamer troll than the first post!

  5. Sad day ... Stephen King dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead by Spazholio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I'm gonna need some backup on this one....I've been scouring the news sites, and can't find anything about this...what radio station did you hear it on? They have a website?

    2. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      WYHBT, Maine.

    3. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead by Spazholio · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ah. Clever. Do you not have something better to do at 1:30 in the morning?

  6. Cancles by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I remember at the end of the NFL season, John Madden was going on and on about cankles. They'd zoom in on some guy's cankles, and he'd circle 'em. Pretty funny stuff.

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  7. Re:Dells by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dooood - you got a dell!!!!

  8. Re:White noise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With traffic outside whitenoise can be of great benefit.

  9. Re:White noise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah - I hate slim shady too.

  10. Re:Well, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought Jobs mainly designed the new iMac to use that pivot/swivel surface for snorting coke.

  11. linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I really like linux! It runs good! But I also like windows too! They are both good so I use them both!

  12. Re:PC Speaker? by laserjet · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    moderators: why is this modded down? this has serious potential in the future and should not be discounted.

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  13. Please do. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kill yourself, I mean.

    Rid the world of yet another dumbfuck-shit-for-brains wintel user.

    Thanks.

  14. Re:Dells by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU IDIOT! Alpha's were built by DEC. AMD builds Sparc cpus. Get it straight!

  15. An Open Letter to the TACO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear CMDRTaco,

    I want to cook you dinner.

    Thanks

  16. Re:Dells by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dood, YOU'RE a raging FUCKTARD!!!!

    and you've got a DULL computer.

  17. Five days... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... til April 9th.

  18. Re:Noise cancelling headphones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ALMOST cool.
    Not quite Gaydra Fagler.

  19. my bad by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I will apologise now to the moderators for posting some garbage in this article. My mistake. Please spank the posts down to -1.

  20. Invisibility machine by SpaceTux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder when this trick will be possible with light rays instead of audio waves :)

  21. Silence Machines? Feh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We don't need no stinkin' machines 'round 'ere. These so called silence machines are probably in violation of the regulations set down by the Butlerian Jihad!

    'round 'ere, we just get Usul to shout, "SILENCE!" a bit. Works great, and brings death to those who stand against the righteous.

  22. Re:Beyond! by n-baxley · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, you knew that we couldn't have a story on slashdot without a paranoid, anti-establishment post getting modded up over 2.

    Sigh

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