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Build Your Own HERF Gun
James writes "Rostislav Persion from Voltage Labs has successfully constructed a HERF gun (a device like EMP but directional) in his home that is capable of stalling cars at a distance and crashing computers as well. He has videos of the device in action as it lights up LED's at a distance and triggers motion detectors. Theres also a bunch of other security stuff and science stuff which is quite interesting and controversial, such as cell phone tracking, mood altering audio signals, gyro guns, and other things of this nature. The site owner was also featured in US News Magazine and MTV for some of his work."
After learning about his device, the US military used their larger HERF gun to deactivate his HERF gun.
Now will it fit behind the front grille of my Crown Vic?
Cut me off will you you asshole!!!
You're using her as bait, Master!
It's nice that this webpage says in caps "IP LOGGED" followed by your IP. I guess this way he can tell who's HTTP GET broke the webserver's back.
I was just worrying about not meeting my recommended daily allowance of EF radiation with this cellphone in my pocket and 10 PCs near my desk. Now I can build a HERF gun -- problem solved!
No, There still is the as yet unaired "Who Wants to Marry a Middle Aged Producer?" or "When Shopping Carts Attack!: The Wallmart Files".
The hardcore porn will have a little time before it gets plastered over Fox.
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Since when did MTV become the authoritarian reference on Slashdot? Are we supposed to be in awe? What's next - a story submitted by a guy who once in high school dated Britney Spears?
NERF gun.
NERF vs HERF. Hmmm...
One shoots harmless soft plastic objects. The other shoots EMPs. Hmmm...
I better make sure I don't accidentally give my 4 year old the HERF gun. It would suck for me to be in traffic, trying to threaten people with a lousy NERF gun.
Then, after coming home from a bad day, I'll find that my kid's new toy destroyed a cul-de-sac block.
I regret saying this already, it shows my age, and possibly my viewing habits.
In the brief remake series of Knight Rider, Knight Rider 2000 I think it was called, Kit could disable cars from a distance presumably with a similar device. I beleive the bad guys then did something to their Porsche Carerra 911's which made them impervious to this attack.
David Hasselhof's hair was similarly insulated from the radiation.
FCC Notice
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
1. This device may not cause harmful interference.
2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
64.105.67.47> u guys are gonna get slashdotted any minute now
67.118.175.173> bah
64.216.0.81> surviving slashdot very well
I'm glad to see someone is working on perfecting the HERF gun. After all, they have to keep up with the progress made since Slashdot perfected the website-killing HREF gun a few years ago. Just point and click, webserver goes down. :-)
fair.org counterpunch.com truthout.com indymedia.org salon.com
eff.org guerrilla.net debian.org gentoo.org
Probably the same thing as one of those old-fashioned gas-expansion lead accelerators would do.
We don't need peacemakers in this day and age, we need warmongers, to drive out the filth of the arab nations. Silly person. ;-)
[insert witty comment here]
I suppose if you use it on someone with a Peacemaker, you'd get shot. :-) Not much electronics in those.
So would this (scroll down to Carl Gustaf). Probably much more fun to watch, too.
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
I'd love to shoot people with Greek food.
I gave myself to Jesus, but now he never calls
Umm, I think you meant authoritative. The authoritarian reference on slashdot is, was, and always will be Microsoft.
Except when it's Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent, or Intel, sex.com, the European Parliament, or George Bush. But those are just on Saturdays.
Monday through Friday, it's Microsoft.
And never MTV.
[BTW... MTV will never carry a show about a guy who once dated Britney Spears in high school, because the MTV viewers are typically not interested in fifty-somethings.]
Even hydraulic actuators have electromechanical servo valves, which I assume could be affected. For a large plane without pulley-and-cable backups, this could be catastrophic. The only kind of plane that would potentially be immune would be a small piston-engine, which does not require electricity of any sort -- not even in the ignition system (magnetos).
mood altering audio signals
I want an instrument that plays the brown noise, damnit!
We're trying to find the Brown Noise! It's this one pitch, this certain frequency, that makes people lose bowel control!
Brown noise is an ausilation of sound that causes the bowels to losen! The Brown Noise is believed to be ninety-two cents below the lowest octave of E flat. The French experimented with it in World War II.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
All I want to know is will it fry the cell phone of thoes people who can't seem to STFU in the restaurant. Perhaps a hand held version of this could be wielded by ushers in movie theaters.
Mood altering audio signals, eh? You mean music.
Hell, I want to be throwing harpoons manually from a flatbed trailer. Then winch the car closer, secure the rigging and I'll be first across in the boarding party. Think Road Warrior...that was a good start.
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How ironic.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
wow won't he be pissed...
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
It's not about stopping people who are fleeing the cops, it's about stopping the cops when they are chasing you.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
...Dick Cheney has a pacemaker, doesn't he?
Read Pynchon.
I think it was called Kit
Aw fer cryin' out loud. KITT. Knight Industries Two Thousand. And you call yourself a dork. (at least I'm assuming you would, posting with a 5 digit uid).
Simple: just embed some encryption software in the gun. The criminals then wouldn't be able to copy it since that's illegal under the DMCA.
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Karma: Ran over your dogma.
Where's the 'add this to cart'-button? I hate those site designs where you can't find the functions you're looking for.
That's nothing, Slashdot has the HREF gun and it can take out an entire webserver.
By reading this comment, you immediately waive any and all rights regarding it.
My god - what I wouldn't give to get my hands on one of these things.
Where I live, streets that contain straight stretches of longer than about 10m are a target for the local petrol heads with their turbos. The only thing is, that in order to get the turbo to fire (which they like - it lets people know they can afford turbo - even if they only have a hatchback and they work in the local supermarket), they need to over-rev the engine even when they're taking they're mum to the shops. The sonic effect is something like;
"BRRRMMM!! (phssh) BRRRRRMMM phsssshhh BRMMRMRM phssh"
I would like to hear something like;
"BRRRMMM!! (phssh) BRRRRRMMM ph...ZAP! SHAZAM! phsszzzppt. put...put......put."
Show those suckers.
All things in moderation; including moderation
That's, uh, Boeing. The Boing 777 would be made of rubber.
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Slashdotted already...
I'd say
Taser to the block
Bah! Taser shmaser! There is only one definitive answer to stopping crooks in cars...
McDonnel Douglas AH-64D Apache.
Works every time (just ask some former relatives of some Iraqi families).
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
Monday May 12th 2003
CNN is reporting that there have been a huge number of HERF gun attacks on telecom and financial systems installations in the United States in the past two days. The attacks have seriously impacted the ability of Americans to conduct day-to-day life, knocking out many telephone, TV, and radio stations and forming large lineups at banks where customers desperately try to withdraw money from stressed teller staff.
CNN has learned that the attacks were performed by the Linux fraction of al Queada which is referred to as "al Tux" in CIA circles. Apparently the group learned of concise plans to make HERF guns from a story on the geek website "Slashdot.org".
Editors at Slashdot could not be reached for comment as they had suffered malnutrition from not being able to eat microwave burritos or pizza pockets for the past 48hrs.
Just zap those idiots with their car stereos blasting crap at 2am.. Problem solved, peace and quiet again.
Too bad the site is toast.. slashdot effect or 'homeland security' ???
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I think that prior to a story release /. could mirror the piddly little site and do us all a favor. Apparently /. has the pipe to cope.
Secondly, I want to see a device that will cook these assholes with that 400db, 6hz THUMP THUMP shit. These punks drive past my house and split my skull with that horrid shit. It's an invasion of MY PRIVACY. I don't want to hear that, I don't want to FEEL THAT. I want QUIET in my house. These sorry assholes think it's cute to thump that shit into my house and make ME suffer that trash..
I hope that it's causing them brain damage, like brain tumors and other nasty things.
I would pay BIG MONEY $$$$ for a device that I could aim at them and totally fry their stereos as they drive by, and I mean fry it beyond repair.
They deserve it. They are breaking the law and they deserve to be punished.
So what would a Bong 777 be made out of?
-Ev
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Nobody knows for sure. The project was cancelled early in its design phase after the engineers started saying things like "They call them fingers, but they don't fing."
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