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Smart Bricks to Monitor Buildings of the Future
Roland Piquepaille writes "Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a "smart brick" which can monitor a building's health and report its conditions wirelessly. "This innovation could change the face of the construction industry," said Chang Liu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. "We are living with more and more smart electronics all around us, but we still live and work in fairly dumb buildings. By making our buildings smarter, we can improve both our comfort and safety." Built into a wall, these bricks could monitor a building's temperature, vibration and movement. Such information could be vital to firefighters battling a blazing skyscraper, or to rescue workers ascertaining the soundness of an earthquake-damaged structure. These researchers also think these devices could help monitoring nurseries, daycares and senior homes. You'll find more details in this summary."
how long it'll be before the paranoid slashdotters come in and say "and they'll monitor your every move with it!" Happens when every story about technology like this is posted.
I sincerely wish you were dead, fuck you.
And you didn't get fp, bitch.
When I see oddbal piercings in a guy, I immediatly assume he's into S & M, homosexuality, fisting, etc. Presumably, he also has a prince albert, and there's a good chance he is castrated. I didn't ask him (if he's not gay, he might kick your ass, and if he is gay, he might fuck your ass), but I'm sure he'd fit right in at the geek compound.
Dear rotten.com, I am unsure if you are aware of the problems that your "Incident with the bird" picture has caused on the popular technology website slashdot (http://slashdot.org).
Many users of this site's messageboards are posting links to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/ and making text based representations of a bird on a man's penis. Frankly, while I am pro-freedom, this type of photo sickens me. Could you please move the location of the bird page on your site to keep slashdot readers from seeing things that are completeley unrelated to computers and technology? I'm not asking you to remove the content, just to relocate it.
FYI the text representation of the bird is:
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with a link to the offensive site (http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/ ) underneath, these "Penis Birds" are posted by Penis Bird Guy, Penis Bird MAN and several other users.
Regards, Andrew J. Tosh
GAY mystical DRAGONS swim through the air above you tickling themselves with pieces of pizza and clicking their blue high heels together with a crooked toothy grin and singing:
"Shiny happy people laughing Meet me in the crowd
People people Throw your love around Love me love me Take it into town Happy happy Put it in the ground Where the flowers grow Gold and silver shine Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing Everyone around love them, love them Put it in your hands Take it take it
There's no time to cry Happy happy Put it in your heart Where tomorrow shines Gold and silver shine
Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing" - REM, Shiny Happy People
OMG! Wau!