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AltImage writes "This interesting project uses water as an organic network between two computers. It analyzes the color of each pixel and 'prints' out pulses to the electronically controlled water valve - a different pulse pattern depending on the color of the pixel on screen."
so how long before i can use this to cool my computer and send the data?
This sounds about as funny as RFC 1149 IP over Pigeon
Water isn't organic..
I don't know, some of the stuff I've gotten out of the tap probably contains more organic material than most snack foods.
If this pans out, soon we'll be able to Surf the 'net!
Its really a
Come on now.. you can call it all the fancy shmancy names you like but that what it is eh?
Cant fool us!
-- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
I put a contraption like this under my leaky kitchen tap and got...
HELP! I'M BEING HELD PRISONER AT THE RESERVOIR!
I keep telling myself it's just the water company messing with our heads, but...
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
Seems to me, water was an uncreative choice for a creative project. Why not:
Wine - An object lesson in classy networking.
Milk - Don't have a cow, but your MOO just got creamed.
Diesel - Oh, you knew they were going to get into high tech somehow.
Coffee - Finally the name "Java" makes sense!
Antifreeze - Hey, it just might work!
Urine - For something that has pissed you off so much over the years
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. -A. Turing
... a few years back during a LAAAATE night hacking session on a device driver for some hardware, I decided I'd had enough and needed to do something fun.
... and I got a few odd looks from a co-worker as I cleaned up, chuckling to myself, but hey...
I unglued myself from the swetty membrane that had formed between the edges of my ass and the chair, delved deep into foggy memory banks for details on how to move my arms and legs, got up and robo'ed to the kitchen with curled fingers to make pasta. It was a LOOONG code session, damn.
Halfway back, I got the idea to use noodles to connect the device I was working on to my PC, just for fun. Easy enough to do: the serial line from my debugger to the outboard gear was just three wires.
Some avid hacking with duct-tape, judicious use of PCB-posts, and 10 minutes later, I had things working!! I could talk to my device over the soggy noodle!
So funny, sending commands over pasta!
Okay, I went home after that. It didn't work so well the next day, when the pasta had dried up and stuck to the edges of the PCB
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Imagine, just turn on the shower and you have a movie playing.
Feds at your door, just drink the water.. poof
The plus side is that now you can have internet access from your tap and finally we can stop bitching about cable companies....
Negatives: ;-)
Overclocking your AMD can vaporise your data... as if burnt motherboards werent enough
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Am I just confused, or wouldn't this be more appropriately titles IP/H2O?
Alan
First I cant vouch for.. but definately it will be your last after you get modded to hell and back, and before you go for the ride.. dont forget to turn of that TAP, you dont want ATARI 2600 images travelling around your house.. do you ;-) ?
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water plus iodine phosphide is extremely explosive.
;-P
careful, carnivore is watching.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Well when the utility contracters hooked the green pipe up to the blue pipe our water had lots of organics in it.
H20/IP functions in a similar way as TCP/IP but focuses on the inherent viscous properties of water that are not present in traditional packet networks.
So a Token Ring system done this way would be a viscous circle?
Uhh...Professor, I don't have my assignment because my dog drank it...
****--- A fortune cookie once told me the meaning of life...so I ate it. ---****
So if water is the media for tcp/ip, flushing the toilet would be considered a DoS attack? I imagine flushing while someone else is showering would be a DDoS, hence the screams...
Unfortunately you can only send data one way--downstream.
"You saved 1968." - Ms. Valerie Pringle to the crew of Apollo 8
Wasn't this a joke in Red Herring a few years back?
If it doesn't pan out, and gets a little "hot" from all the hype... it evaporates into vaporware ;-)
I just couldn't resist saying that!
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!