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Server In A Fly
Tablespork writes "These guys have implanted the world's smallest webserver-on-a-chip into a dead fly! From the site: "Fly, grants us the ability to virtually possess the body of a dead, preserved fly via web-based technology." There is a webcam monitoring the fly, so you can watch as you blink the LEDs." And don't worry if something goes wrong with it -- "Several pre-programmed and wired flies will be on hand in case of technical malfunction."
Cool, this might spice up someone geeks sex-life, if they manage to get it into spanish-fly as well!
(and yes I know it's a beverage...)
Waiter! There's a server in my fly!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
my other sig is a 500 page novel
Why didn't they mount it at head height so you can see it while standing upright?
...a beowulf cluster of these? har har har
/.ed? >:D
Also, can you imagine what happens when it get
...WEIRD!
Now if you could move its legs or its wings, that would be worth posting!
Ahh... First we kill a fly to embedd a webserver in its corpse, then we put it on slashdot and watch the webserver die... My evil plan has been fulfilled!
That's nice. Besides the fact that the chip is small, I see no point in sticking it in a dead fly. In fact, that seems quite pointless and the main focus of the article should be on the tiny chip, not the fact that it happens to be inside a dead fly. That's not impressive whatsever.
1. Make a webserver-fly-implant
2. Sell it over the web
3. Profit!
.: Max Romantschuk
... LEDs in a fly, which supposedly can be switched via ethernet. Great, just what we needed, gonna solve a lot of the world's current problems.
Take the time to admire this scientific breakthrough.
"Hey Bob, I finally slammed that big fly that's been buzzing on-and-off my sandwich all day!"
"Why do I get a 404 on the project's page? Bob?"
-- It's always darker before it goes pitch black.
Imagine a beowulf swarm of those!
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
It will be impossible to trace a bug in that webserver... because the bug is outside the webserver. Ha Ha Ha.
Enough said!
This is sick! Someone call the fly rights movement! How would you like a webserver shoved up your ass?
The site linked is up fine right now, but the IP they give at the top as being the actual server on the fly isn't responding. Is it slashdotted? I'm picturing a smoking fly in the middle of the plastic cube. I'm just glad I don't have to smell it.
Fly Server Admin: Damn you slashdot! Damn you! You killed my baby!
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
I am going to add a statement to my will saying that, after I die, someone can implant a web server in my small intestine.
The impressive part is that they killed the fly by catching it in the air with chopsticks.
Damn.. Peta is'nt gonna be happy about this..
1. Killing poor flies..
2. Implanting Chips in dead flies..
I'm a pretty funny guy, no I take that back, a REALLY funny guy, but other than the obvious "waiter there's a server in my fly," I just can't think of any good ones.
Of course it is 5:30 in the morning and I haven't slept in two days.
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
This is by far the strangest thing I have ever seen. I am almost offended by the idea of using a dead fly for decoration of an IC. What is this world coming to? If I didn't know any better, id think that this was the work of a plan9 user.
Time to watch more Cowboy Bebop.
Kan jeg få en pils, vær så snill?
I suppose it gives a new meaning to building pages on the fly...
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
In Soviet Russia, flies....do something to you. Servers...lights. I don't know, leave me alone.
*The Bill of Rights - void where prohibited by law
Actually... why couldn't I have one of these installed in my body somewhere, so I can host my own blog for all to see.
The next step has to be to get wireless on the chip and put the lot on a live fly (might need to upgrade to a bumble bee). Then we could have a beowulf swarm!
-- "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me!"
Imagine this: you are flying around, minding your own business, maybe having a nice sip of that fresh little rotting piece of meat on the counter, when suddenly you die. You are barely dead, when someone sticks a webserver up your ass, which kinda hurts, and then installs some LEDs on your back, drilling right through your well maintained exoskeleton.
Then, when you have been online for just a few days, some hord comes down to slashdot your fine new webserver, and the lights go out.
If I were that fly, I'd be pissed.
Which reminds me of superfly. Know him? Check him out somewhere on www.shockwave.com.
In short, what the page is trying to make clear is that these guys put a tiny IC, capable of functioning as a webserver, together with a LED in a dead fly (with some more, identical cyberflies as backup).
:)
The webserver (1K of space) shows a simple page, and the visitor of the page can turn the LED on/off.
Further, the 'surgery' on the fly had to be carried out within 24 hours after its death, or it would have become too brittle, though the author noted that it's possible to rejoin broken off legs &c. with some glue. Provided you can find the bodypart in question
The reason for this project? It's art, you insensitive clod!
Site & blog: http://www.mayaposch.com
... and I thought that "Adapting applications on the fly" was an article about hot-swappable modules!
Eh eh, they flie is dead...
Wow.
Brings a whole new meaning to 802.11!!!!
-dave
Do you keep hackers out with a firewall or fly-paper?
Did anyone (including the person who posted this story) actually read the article?
If you read the article, the first thing that jumps out is the date: June 1 to September 3, 2001. In fact, if you'll notice, the IP address they refer to (http://139.142.46.159) is long gone.
Reading further, it is revealed that this was a museum exhibit at the Mendel Art Gallery in Canada in 2001. The link cited shows the proposal they sent to the museum, which is why it reads rather oddly ("This will ideally allow for gallery staff to replace the fly.") The museum accepted the proposal, as can be seen here, at the museum's website.
Please, editors, do your homework before posting these stories. It's an interesting story, but quite dated.
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run a time server?
;-)
I'll make my computer watch time fly
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
The world has been waiting for innovations like these... too bad there's animal cruelty involved
I want my karma, and I want it now!
some people will casemod anything.
A fly-sized webserver? I'm suprised it lasted long enough for me to see it. Or maybe its something to do with the fact that its early morning in the US...
Anyone into hardcore here ? ;)
Well, not exactly me, but this "song" was the first tot pop in my head while reading the article.
Yes, I read it (*gasp*).
Mirror here, without the video. Not sure if my home page will stay up longer than the original though ;)
In my opinion, Scientology is a cult you should avoid.
The first slashdotting of a fly:
139.142.46.159
What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
Wow not only are there bugs in software, now there is software in bugs. *ducks*
But does it run Linux?
The following statement is false.
The previous statement is true.
Welcome to my world.
(may take a few days though, and get posted/swatted a couple of times.)
Did the fly die before or after beind slashdotted?
Please, Slashchick, do your homework before criticizing these stories. It doesn't matter if they're dated.
If wireless networking devices eventually get small enough, they could install a webserver in the fly while it was still alive. Or they could do it with bees (one hive = Beowulf cluster). Does anyone (human) have a webserver chip installed in them?
An 802.11b version inserted into a live fly.
help meeeee... heellp meeeee...
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
Isn't that what it says during the Windows 98 install? Press any key to continue...
"your fly's undone!"
how long before NetBSD is ported to the .FLY platform?
(n/t)
There's a Server in your Bug ...
Jon - TheSpork
... and make the thing into an excellent spy tool!
think of the irony considering what happened to that server after it's been posted here ...
Jon - TheSpork
.... what if an old lady swallows it?
Next, I want to see a webserver inserted into a live fly, connected via bluetooth.
:P
The fly has to then be seen buzzing around in that glass box, not stuck on a stick
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so they stuck a microchip in a dead fly? what's the fly got to do with anything?
>Alexandra Stratulat
>Programs Facilitator
>Mendel Art Gallery
What next a webserver implanted in dead fetus? I'm glad that Mendels legacy is alive in well...
US-UK-Israel: The real Axis of Evil
okay, sorry to ruin all the fun here, but if they have chips *that* small that will serve pages, why not put one in one of those stomache-camera-pills, along with an RFID type low-power broadcaster, so you can webcam your interior?
sorry I find no other reason why you'd do this kind of things.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
For years, we have heard of the coming possibility of chips embedded into our own skins, to allow easier identification, better retention of personal data, and all that jazz... I have not heard about such in a few months, but is this, perhaps, a first step towards that? Agreed, this goes *way* beyond a simple ID chip, but then again, we're talking dead insects, not live people...
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
The biggest dick in the world?
/. crowd. NWA?? Anyone?? Anyone??
Is that too old for the
"There is a server in my bug!" not "There is a bug in my server!"
Another IIS installation... Oh the horror.
in the fly that is. BSD in a dead fly.
Nevermind.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
Straight outta Saskatchewan!
Well, they know flies there...
Doesn't everyone wants to reincarnate as a webserver?
in this case, the proper expression would be: "they've hoisted themselves on their own copyright petard".
.contain even more evidence of high FUDgerIE.
lookout bullow. rumour has it that fuddles has also left folk's holding/emailing out, millions of 'draft' documents, that
va.msn.?net? (VAST)? last gaspers at best.
I suppose LEDs don't really get hot.
:)
when I was in college I can remember Mark Taylor bringing in a artist that was hooking himself up to electrodes and a web server and you could control him movements via a webpage.
So you would click on a link on a page, and could make his right arm contract, or his left leg, whatever.
Then he went live and he got lots of clicks and as a result was spastically moving about (he was suspended - perhaps by hooks in his back since that was another art thing he had done in the past).
They let us try out the electrodes and they were uncofortable in that it feels like an intense muscle cramp since it fires all the muscle fibers instead of a smooth contraction like we normal have.
I don't recall the guy's name, but it had an S in it, I think at the start. and he was not 'merican
Slygart or something like that.
damn art people are weird.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Coolness - its the first step blurbflies. When reality falls apart and Dominoes start doing our heads in, I'll know who to blame.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Uhmm... This resembles some sort of "modern art" where someone puts a small point of colour on the center of a big white sheet of paper. This sort of crap would be "art" ?! Surely is a waste of time, brain cells (if any) and a immoral use of a fly corpse just for frilly things. My 2 cents.
if they could find a way to keep the fly alive and attach a wireless webcam to it. It would give a hole new meaning to "bug."
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
This is what happens when you read too much Gibson. The idea that a fly corpse with a Webserver chip and two LED's stuck in it is a "cybernetic being in a state of attempted reanimation" is ludicrous, since the system would behave exactly the same without the fly corpse. It ain't exactly Deadly Friend
It's worth noting that among this artist's other works are screenshots of his cluttered Mac desktop, used as a "visual medium" for artistic expression.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
Yeh, and add a little 802.11b to the mix and you have a Wi-Fi-Fly-Fest :)
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
Just how am I supposed to debug this thing when it crashes (into a windshield)?
--GrouchoMarx
Card-carrying member of the EFF, FSF, and ACLU. Are you?
They must have used a RAID...
Put the chip in a virgin fly and HTTP 403 takes on new meaning! :)
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
. . . . I've been trying to get a fly OUT of my server.
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
Given that the site says the server has been running July 1999 I wonder if the fly web server is just an 'interesting' application of the same technology?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these things. To the uneducated observer it would look like a fly orgy!
First there was those bee's now these flys. And I thought Internet Kitchen Appliances were stupid.
What next, Internet Controllable live animals, ssh to your dog and tell it to sit, cat with a mysql database and php frontend to see when it needs food.
It's a bug and its a feature ;)
Does it run Linux or would it fly linux...?
....Excuse me, but
... a beowulf cluster of those!! -1, cliched
Man hurredly runs with two policemen in tow:
Man: "I can't believe it, they stole everything!"
Cop1: Everything?
Man: "Everything!"
(Man and cops head into empty server room)
Man: "They were right here. Ned! The servers! they stole all the servers!"
Ned: "No, they didn't. I embedded them on a dead fly on the window sill. It'll save us a bundle."
Announcer: "IBM dead fly servers! It'll save you a bundle"
Cop2 (hunched over the window sill): Um, I think that carpenter ant is dragging your server away
But wait till this fly returns from the dead with the help of his cybernetic implants to seek revenge! Revenge Of The Cyborg Fly! Don't say I didn't warn you.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
It was supposed to be a live fly, but couldn't withstand the soldering iron.
It's probably a good thing though, live flies tend to keep dropping their 'tokens', which would not only offend patrons, but upset network admins.
What I'd give to be a fly on the wall for that exhibit.
-Adam
I don't know about Ninnle Linux, but I'm pretty sure that Hooty Linux is up to the task!
I wonder if the DOD has seen this? Just think a new spy
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
They'll be worrying about Swatter!
Thats what my slashdot fortune cookie says today. This must be that joke :| .
From the site:
Our approximation and abstraction of reality becomes indiscernible as technology continues to mediate our everyday experience. Tele-presence art, however, attempts to be less concerned with the technological feat than with the breaking down of unidirectional communication structures distinguishing both visual arts and mass media. Within the installation, Fly, the utopian rhetoric invested within the notion of telepresence is ultimately usurped by the ultra-trite, supra-insignificant act of possession.
Yeesh. Since when is "because it would be so cool!" not a sufficient reason?
if you can get a word in postwise, around va lairIE's dismal PostBlock(tm) device.
.contain even more evidence of high FUDgerIE.
anybuddIE knows, if you're going to advertise (take/get monIE) for Godless felons, you MUST keep the 'riff-raff' DOWn to a whisper, bullow the din.
failing that, who waNTs their ADs to be underlined with 1000 byte MEs from the 'target' audience?
lookout bullow. rumour has it that fuddles has also left folk's holding/emailing out, millions of 'draft' documents, that
va.msn.?net? (VAST) [trustworthycomputing.com]? last gaspers at best. talk about foistering dismal failures.
Could it be that they've got a midget in the pedestal playing the chess moves, err, another computer doing the web page and using the Fairchild chip as an LED controller?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
... a web spider comes along?
Is this fly-by-wire?
Even though this is 'old news' It would be pretty cool if they culd get a WiFi chip on the fly, and a little more space... Maybe practicality is not present here, but if every frickin' fly I see has a Wireless access for me and my laptop, I think that would be pretty cool....
>>
Why is an almost 2 year old story about a dead fly just now making it to the front page. When I read the article I thought it was mildly amusing but when I realized how old it was I thought whats the point...
http://www.chipdocs.com/pndecoder/datasheets/FAIR/ ACE1101VMT8.html
It describes the chip as an arithmetic controller engine, but the datasheet requires paid registration. Could this chip actually serve web pages?
I confess I don't know enough to judge.
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, Never drive a car when you're dead
mmmmmmmm
It appears to have been slashdotted(surprise!)
Do you think that google has spidered the fly???
Rethinking. You don't need a line buffer, just a teeny-weenie state engine to parse the stream as it comes in. (It's been a while since I had to think in a space that small.) Very very tight.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
a *hive* cluster of these...
http://people.howstuffworks.com/art.htm
.. you have squashdotted a fly!
yush
It's an impressive little thing, I agree, but we're SLASHDOTTING IT!!!
It's either going to be reanimated as a plain old zombie fly or, due to excess heat, etc. from the chip, mutate into some sort of Zombie Flyzilla!
Maybe that isn't so bad. Toss in 802.11b hardware and some other guts - broadband wireless access for all!
The google spider got it...
IN SOVIET RUSSIA....
bugs have your webserver!
those who control the past, control the future. those who control the present, control the past.
fly posters will be prosecuted
I think we just slashdotted Jeff Goldblum.
... just because you can do something, that doesn't necessarily mean you should.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
How ironic, the web caught in the fly.
Read the article? Me? Pfft!
So, to me, this particular instance of the same thing from 1999 is basically a neat soldering job but nothing technically innovative in terms of embedded connectivity. But as art, it's pretty cool. ;)
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
Mmm... Juicy.
We need more details....like, did they use the Flyweight Pattern?
.. if they could fit a squid in a fly.
Live web cams
I eat my words! As you can see here there is a package for the chip that supports a SLIP connection with a limited TCP/IP stack. Wow! Impressive! Granted it doesn't do a lot, but for the sort of applications it would be used for, it doesn't need to.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
They would have needed a June bug.
.. they tried to add more disk space and killed it. I guess one could say that RAID killed the fly.
Live web cams
Server bug. Server bug.
-- null
Hey, Is that a
COLD FUSION REACTOR
I see under the red LED?
WOW!!
Could we all get those neat little chips glued to our butts? Cause you know that behind every website there is a a$$h0le.
"Times may change, but standards must remain the same." - George Carlin.
.. was so overwhelmed by serving up web pages that the developers would whisper words of encourgement... "Cache it if you can!"
Live web cams
Guy1: "Why is that fly on fire?"
Admin: "Damn you Slashdot!!!!!!!!!"
SIGFAULT
Literally.....
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. - HST
...not really, just wanted to make sure all the fly jokes were used up.
-- Boycott Shell
.. VC's would have funded this company with $100M promising that the fly-based-server market will be a $90B industry by 2005 (backed up by a $5K Jupiter Communications report). IPO with market cap of $7B. News article, "ZDNet Fits 225K Fly-Servers in 42U". Market cap inflates to $10B .. [sigh] What I'd rather see is a 100-node Beuwolf cluster mounted to a billy-goat.
Should include the word ODD in that drop-down!
Ahem... as I get into my comic book man disguise...
Strangest... story... EVER!
If a pion (n-) collides with a proton in the woods & noone is there to hear it, does lamdba decay into the source pa
I don't actually want to imagine a beowulf of these things.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
I know an old lady who swallowed a webserver, /.ed
I dont know why she swallowed that webserver,
perhaps she'll be
According to the schematic that is supposedly used for the server, the RX line isn't even hooked-up; although, the TX line is active.
But what point is there in that??
Web server after all ...
Infuriate left and right
are we now to be witness to the 1st /.ing of a (formerly) living being?
bZZZ...
Damn fly
I know!
bZZZ...
*fly screaming* AHHH!
Slashdot: The Digital fly swatter!
Life is like a jar of jalapeños, what you do today may burn your ass tomorrow.
Ack! Make her the webserver next time.
i on -wall-d4.jpg
http://www.conceptlab.com/fly/img/fly-installat
See for yourself.
Considering the date of the article this probably is now part of Ashcroft's security iniative..
Never say that government moves fast, with intelligence, or reason..
Don't Tread on OpenSource
Does anyone else see this spawning a monster-eats-Tokyo type of television series? Swarms of cyborg insects invading Tokyo and implanting tiny webservers in every person they land in.. watching our children slowly become cyborgs... arghhhh Borg Bugs!
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
You think this is a fly with a chip on its back but actually It the base code for windows to be delivered to China as requested.
If we could just harness the energies of all these folks with too much time on their hands, we could... dare I say it? ... rule the world!!
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
They implat the web server into a living fly - with wireless.
"Waiter! There's a website in my soup!"
Bored in class, one of us would capture the largest fly we could, and hold it down carefully on the desk. The other would pluck one of our shoulder-length hairs out and carefully tie it to one of the fly's rear legs. To the other end of the hair, a small scrap of paper was attached.
The sight of this flight-crippled insect floating around the classroom in slow motion was hilarious! Once we had three aloft at once :))
db
Cig:
ôô
Lead admin sighs, holds head and mutters "that was the server..."
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If he wanted to avoid any sympathy, he could have used a cockroach. Even PETA should be okay with that. However, there is then the dangerous possiblity of "cockroach cluster" jokes -- which could lead to Python.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
but an automated troll. and by the looks of it, using a malkhov chain based text algorythm. A really simple random text generator that creates psuedo english based on word pairs.
I wonder what text he used as the input....
click me
A new idea:
1. Catch a bunch of insects, flies, dragon-flies, beetles, mosquitos maybe, spiders.
2. Implant microchips that control and coordinate movement and have them wirelessly connected to seperate controllers.
3. Put them into a glass cube.
4. Now you have a 3D game, where different characters can be controlled to move around and kill each other.
5. Profit.
You can't handle the truth.
If you read the article, the first thing that jumps out is the date: June 1 to September 3, 2001. In fact, if you'll notice, the IP address they refer to (http://139.142.46.159) is long gone.
"And this was just before the events of September 11th. Coincidence? I tell you, Al Queda will be using flies against us!
Raise the Terror Level to Chantreuse!"
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
is an earlier post with what should have been the obvious 'excuse me, your fly is down' reference, by Androidcat.
I expected more "In Soviet Russia..." posts. Typically, the bugs are in the webserver.
Brings new meaning to the phrase, "Excuse me, your fly is down."
the fly is a web server. think spider.......
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
The point? What is the point?
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Boss: "DON'T YOU HAVE WORK TO DO?"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Mother: "What's wrong with a date now and then? I'll trade the dead fly for a grandchild"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Dad: "Is it a job? A dead fly server is nice but you can't eat with it."
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
well, it took me ages to work it out so I'm a fool tooooo.
all flys are web servers. spiders web.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Talk about serving web pages "on the fly" :-)
Sorry, couldn't resist
In Soviet Russia, our bugs have programs
Sorry again
Well, i'll give it a try:
There was an old woman who swallowed a server
It didn't deserve her, but there went the server
and i don't know why /she swallowed the fly/
But we can light up her eyes...
i think this one has to end with...
i know an old woman who took windows source
she's dead, of course! oke, i think it's out of my system now. Apologies for the temporary insanity...
"I'd say 'Have a good time,' but arson is still illegal.
Let the puns begin!!
- Usually, the bugs are IN the server...
- I wonder if they'll install a list-server, too?
Majordomo for Musca domestica
- If it were a porn site, would it have buggery?
- I suppose this server isn't "RAID" compatible
FlyServ: More bang for the bug!DAMN! I CAN'T STOP --must---click--submit---
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Think of the number of redundant servers I can run. I got so good at swatting flies in South America that I'd make millions as an admin.
Of course, it's probably a security risk since you can probably break 128-bit encryption with a cluster of these in about a second.
It'll never fly.
there is no fucking reason on earth to kill an animal to satisfy your geek lust.
I tried embedding my PC web server in a fly. My fly died too.
It's entertaining to see the ./ thread about this project.
For anyone that's interested, I am working on a new project with the body of a preserved mouse (or frog) that is wired up with a server, a camera and twitching legs (user-controlled).
After that, I'm planning on trying to mount a camera/server set-up on a living cockroach that users can control the walking direction of.
The technology implanted into the fly - webACE - was an adaptation of technology originally created by Frederic White: check out his work at http://d116.com/ace/
For more details on my work, stay tuned to http://www.conceptlab.com and if you have any questions, it is best to email me at garnet [at] vividworks [dot] com.
Garnet Hertz
"Beowulf cluster of perpetual motion machines power successful search for the Loch Ness monster", or "Duke Nukem Forever released"?
WWJD? JWRTFA!
It died of course.
This gonna make programmers freak.
Admiral Grace Hopper must be doing 45 RPM by now.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
What's the point? Cheap, silly, groan-inducing puns -- that's the point! How sick and twisted would we be as a race if we didn't look at a story like this and think...
Who needs a legitimate reason with all this comedic potential? Our fly server will be here all week, and it wants you to try the veal!
Visit me on the web at Permanent4.com.
There was an old geek who swatted a fly.
:-}
He wriggled and jiggled and put a web server inside.
He posted the fly, a URL for our eye.
(wait for it...)
I don't know why, we slashdotted the fly.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
URL comes up forbidden now. Anyone got a cache reference?
Terrycloth Lobster
Adds a whole new meaning to getting bugged, or on the other hand, can you do a full bug sweep of your house with a can of raid, or your own computerized spiders?
Revolutions are never about freedom or justice. They're about who's going to be top dog. -- Kilgore Trout
The site is already /.'ed. So does that make /. the bigest virtual distributed fly swatter in the world?
--
If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
...that the fly in your soup -- the one with the teeny-tiny camera and custom-made mask/snorkel -- is spying on you. Either that, or John Ashcroft has come up with a New and Better(?) method of domestic surveillance.
;-)
Ooops! Dang it, I didn't want to give him any ideas!!!
Anyone for a new series? Maybe something like "Spy Fly?"
I'm going to go take my meds now...
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
Wow, we can kill things specifically to embed web servers in them for public amusement. Great accomplishment. What's next, grandma? I find it rather disgusting.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
What you need to do is outfit the cockroaches with weapons, 802.11, micro fuel cells - or maybe you could power everything by thermal or solar cells, and it could be the greatest online game ever, as long as the cyborg roaches dont take over the rest of new york
regarding the poisoning, Spanish Fly was sometimes confused with Fly Agaric - a narcotic mushroom which not only released inhibitions and gave you a sensation of flying but would occasionally cause nervous paralysis (internal organs stop responding and you die) if you ate too much.
So it's not all BS, just convolution..
is there a ghost in the shell?
I think my Grandma would make an awesome web server. This reminds me of the CyborgRat.
Post details of old project bizarre enough to attract attention with lots of encouragement to clickthrough to a site selling expensive toys........spammed !
Zombie processes running on several University and DoD computers have initiated a Denial of Service attack against the Fly's webserver. Experts are confused whether using RAID would have prevented this.
Do you use a can of bug spray?
will have a whole new meaning
I just got the message:
"Thank You Slashdot!
(you just made me $0.05 richer)
RCTOYS.COM
Close Window
4423 x $0.05 = my money"
Rather than bitch about being slashdotted, the guy has style and, put up a banner to a cool geek toy site and let us pay for slashdotting him. That's so much cooler than complaining about it. Kudos.
I think the fly got slashswatted.
I'm only paranoid because everyone is against me...
I like my women how I like my sugar.. granulated.
Awww Crap.
Now planting a server with a webcam in a LIVE fly would have endless possibilities. No, wait...
I don't need no estinkin'
Jeepmeister
I think the ideas for new market segments for wearable gadgets are going way out of proportion. How would this generate money? The buyer is dead, for crying out loud!
The page you get now when you try to access the site says, "Slashdotters: Please bookmark this site and come back next week..." (What?! Is he a glutton for punishment or something?)
:)
Looks like we swatted that fly.
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
You must be new here if you don't realize how played out the "You must be new here" line is on Slashdot.
here
be gentle...
SIGFAULT
This is one of the first "slashdot response" 404 pages I've seen that actually attempts to turn a profit via click-throughs. I wonder if we can slashdot the click-through site too?
Also, this is some pretty sick stuff--killing small animals and inserting web servers into their corpses? uh...Not exactly the fruits of a healthy mind, imho...
Brian
These would make good surveillance devices!
All we need is to implant it in a LIVE fly, add some wi-fi, and let it send some neural feedback?
He must be under the assumption we won't (inadvertently, of course!) Slashdot his phone network, too...
Hehe. I'm imagining people calling him and going "First Post!" and then hanging up.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
Yeah, that's 'art'. So is the turd that resembles Fred Flintstone that I just flushed down the toilet. Maybe I should have stuck 'Fred the turd' on a stick, and and put it in a 'gallery' instead.
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"I am a fly who onced dreamed he was a man.....and without a webserver"
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
Ok, this is actually a good proof of concept for the private sector. Of course, the US Army (and CIA as well) is rather ahead of this one, having built small mechanical bugs with cameras and wireless links in them. Or at least they were working on that project. Great for observing terrorists inside their caves, but the transmission tends to break up easily inside caves. Same problem with the ground robots they used. Easier to use earth-penetrating radar in overhead surveilance.
Dude, you just stepped on my webserver.
Oh shit, sorry...
Hey, the music stopped?
Oh shit, sorry...
But remember to always mount a scratch fly!
______
Once: you're a philosopher. Twice: a pervert.
Several pre-programmed and wired flies will be on hand in case of technical malfunction. Each fly will be cabled with a standardized electrical male/female plug end - an RJ45 (standard ethernet) connector. This will ideally allow for gallery staff to replace the fly.
but is it hot swappable?
I wonder if he's thought about goat servers?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I see (by the updated page 8:40pm EST) that his next project will involve either a dead (crunchy?) frog or mouse with a web server and able to twitch by web command. Umm, in a necro rut perhaps? (The cockroachcam sounds cool. Talk about Reality TV!)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
WHY the HELL would ever want THIS????
Now, a living fly with a webserver + camera that is connected to the internet via bluetooth or 802.11 would be cool...
If only he managed to bug the bug by installing the webcam inside the fly...
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
now if only we could figure out how to put food into third world childrens hands, gosh thats a tuffy...
Hey, nevermind /.'s not reading articles.. but you are totaly confused! look harder...... theres no chics :>
lord o mercy!
Cool, now I can go to fly.com and force them to visit my neighbour instead of me.
...but, what would happen when you plug in the 802.11 card though? Will it still be able to fly?
Thus spake the master programmer:
"Let the programmers be many and the managers few -- then all will
be productive."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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