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Crushing Experience
sp00 writes "The Tsunamii.Net Crush Server is currently online live from the Millbank Gallery in London! Watch as the webserver counts itself down before it activates the industrial crusher attached to it, bearing 150-tonnes of brute force onto itself and terminating its existence. Check out the details on the Tsunamii.Net website or visit the webserver directly at http://195.195.81.5."
/. will crush it first.
(-1 redundent to the other 300 posts saying the same thing)
Thats a cool idea.. I've often had similar ideas while running the cardboard box crusher at work.. It'd be nice if the webserver had more info than just a counter tho.
Watch as slashdotters from around the world bring the web server to its knees and save the poor server from extinguishing it's own life!
Sod art, this is jsut cool :) ever dropped a tv out of a second story window for the hell of it? ever destroyed something cause its fun? thats what hes aiming for :)
...it's got to be running Linux, because if it was running IIS on Windows, the 150 ton hand of the BSA audit department would crush it in no time.
Who cares whether it is Windows or Linux. They are ruining equipment that some school or non-profit organization could really benfit from, and why? Just so a handful of \.ers could make crappy jokes and so this person could become "famous" for a couple of seconds.
* 2 computers - both connected to the Internet
*One working as a web server and the other as a web client.
*The client is connected to the server through the Internet.
*The server is then crushed physically by a machine thus causing the server's data to be lost - the client will continue to search for the (server) site in vain.
* This action will be performed once and recorded on high-speed video or film. To be played back for the period of the show.
My personal opinion is that someone has accidentally crushed his own brains instead.
If I was trying to do this, instead of making it time based (waiting for a clock to count down) I'd have made it page view based.
After, say, 1 Million page views the server crushes itself, first come, first served, so to speak..
PS: Yeah, yeah, make it completed page serves from unique and resolvable IP addresses, to try and avoid the usual trolls scripting page hits to try and crush it too early. Maybe something else, not sure..
"Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers." - Hobbes
That being said, I have to admit that I don't "get" most "post-modern" art either, and suspect that most of it is pretensious crap. But I understand enough to know I'm too ignorant of the ideas involved to really have a useful opinion.
At least they could have put a decent picture of the thing there. You can't even see it well.
so instead of donating the server to a school or non profit organization that might NEED it, its going to be crushed and destroyed.
This is almost as selfish as the people who blow up their old MACs.
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
What a cool idea for a contest...
:) We work just enough to buy ramen and pay for 'net access. *Really* dedicated hackers don't even pay for the net access! :p (Mountain Dew and Pop-Tarts are obtained in bulk from nearby vending machines, usually through non-orthodox means)
:)
Most *real* old-skool hackers don't have enough funds to buy themselves a decent PC.
Anyhow, my point, if I did have one in the first place would be that the contest would consist of a nice new box in the crusher and the hacker who gets in and saves it from destruction gets to keep it! It's like the cyber version of a game show!
Okay well, *I* think it would be cool.
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
To save the server, just turn off Javascript in your browser - the clock immediately stops! Hurrah!
Together, we can rebuild^Wsave it!
Tim
Right...and every time you buy a CD or go to a movie, you are spending money that school or non-profit could really benefit from. And every time you eat at a restaurant, you are spending money that some hungry person could really benefit from. And every time you take a vacation, you are spending time that could have donated to a local charity. And...
Entertainment is nonproductive. Deal with it.
To someone that needs a computer, or a school perhaps. Seems like a waste
-Master Switch, one more element in the machine
Actually, every time you eat at a restaurant, you are paying people's salaries and wages. Ditto vacation, etc. So, wasting time and stuff: bad. Wasting money: ? Well, there are whole industries that benefit from people doing that. See also Velbein.
KLAATU, BORADA, NIh*ahem*
FYI, I received the same "release" as quoted above in multiple pieces of spam this weekend. Keep this in mind when we show our support and interest in this (admittedly amusing) venture.
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.... I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
An idea I had, prior to 9/11 anyway....
My house has numerous wired appliances, to be controlled and observed via the internet. Something I thought of doing was to rig up a mock nuclear bomb, movie style, with the keypad and readout on it, something similar to what was used in "Broken Arrow". The idea is, people could set the timer and start the countdown, and anyone watching could abort the timer. If, for any reason, the timer managed to reach 0 while someone was watching, that person would get automatically added to the firewall rules and wouldn't be able to access the site anymore. For all practical purposes, the entire network would "disappear".
At least, I thought it would be a clever prank that might worry someone for a few minutes anyway. And I'd be sure to put enough casual disclaimers around that it wasn't real. However, after 9/11, even the perceived threat of something like that was likely to result in a lot of "shoot and ask questions later" approaches by your favorite law enforcement agencies, so I just trashed the idea.
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
Actually, that goes for anything you might do for a living -- putting up buildings, selling cars, whatever. If you enjoy your work, you probably take pleasure in doing it well. You might accept criticism, but you'd think that ignorant criticism is stupid. And you'd be right.
Or music. What kind do you like? Do you enjoy dancing to it? How do you feel when somebody with two left feet criticizes your favorite music as "noise"?
If you think this self-smashing computer is stupid and pointless, you're entitled to think so. I might even agree with you. (In this case I probably would!) But unless you make a serious study of what's going on, you're not entitled to make authoritative statements about it, and insult the people doing it.
Unless, of course, your name is Rush Limbaugh. But he's special!
This sure sounds like a tempting box to hack. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it turns out to be a honeypot. I guess we'll have to see on Wednesday.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Well, yeah, you have a right to express any opinion on any subject whatsover. Even when you're opinions are totally ignorant. Doesn't make you less ignorant.
Could you imagine if this thing had a positronic brain governed by the 3 laws (or any of the modifications)? We'd have a revolution on our hands!
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
Yeah, but entertainment doesn't have to be gratuitously wasteful (key word in bold). It's likewise entertaining to blow up your house, run your car off a cliff, or piss in your toaster to see what color the steam is.
Amazingly, it's also fun to read a book, write a program, or hell, write a book. Yeah it's a drag to _always_ avoid doing the stupid, wasteful shit that gives you the pleasure of being reckless, but it seems like people have lost the ability to make this a once-in-a-while pleasure rather than an every other day pleasure.