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USB Menorah

Fiver-rah writes "There's USB Christmas trees; lame acrylic things with LED lights that are powered by your computer. It's an amusing idea, but it doesn't really take advantage of being attached to a computer. Enter the USB Menorah. It can correctly calculate the dates of Hannukah for at least the next few thousand years (or any historical date back to 2 B.C.E.). As well as 'lighting' the candles based on when the sunsets (I set the default geography for San Francisco/Berkeley, but you can enter any latitude/longitude and (assuming you don't live too close to the arctic circle) it will be correct to within a few minutes. Furthermore, the shamas (candle you use to light the other candles) can blink out any morse-code message you want--it'll convert the words to morse code for you! And you can even put it into Kwanzaa mode! Each candle can take three different colors (Red, Green & Yellow), allowing you to do some animation. Software is a GPL command line program for Mac OS X. Basically only the USB communication stuff needs to be ported for other OS's. Delcom (the manufacturer of the USB interface chip) supplies drivers for Windows, and a few people have written Linux drivers, so it wouldn't be too hard for a motivated individual."

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  1. Death to Zionism (nt) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    (nt)

  2. USB Menorah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Soon to be followed by the "GET A LIFE" meno-whore-a

  3. Put the Mudslums in camps - nat'l alert is raised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The United States will not be safe until every fucking Mudslum is either thrown out of this country or put into internment camps where we can keep an eye on them.

    Send the fucking Mudslums to Europe, they seem to love them there.

  4. Happy Hannukah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Happy Hannukah you fucking Jews!

  5. USB sin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah but does it work on Shabbos?

    Tell me when you get USB gas chamber rigged up, then I'll be excited.

  6. Re:Put the Mudslums in camps - nat'l alert is rais by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Death to zionism

  7. Fucking jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fucking jews, taking over technology. Get the fuck away you JESUS KILLERS

    Praise Jesus, have sex with goats

  8. Slow news day? by TehHustler · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Come on, whats the point of this?

    --

    TheHustler
    http://www.elmarko.org/ - Useless bilge
    http://www.asylum-games.co.uk/ - Co-Founder
  9. Correction: it is BC, not "BCE" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "BCE" is really a "politically-correct" version made by people who are intolerant of even references to different religions. It sounds as clunky as saying "personhole cover" instead of "manhole cover".

    The intolerance is even applied inconsistently: they censor the Christian faith by changing BC to BCE, and can in the same breath refer to months named for Roman gods and days of the week named for Norse Gods.

    They just learn to be tolerant of beliefs they may not share, and stop trying to censor things.

  10. How Loving by CALBIZ · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can we have a plastic Talmud with burning Goy LED's?

  11. Re:Put the Mudslums in camps - nat'l alert is rais by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fine, fuck the jews, the american zealots and you! Death to them all.

  12. Re:lame acrylic things? by orthogonal · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Jeez, if you're gonna be making fun religious hacks

    USB Christ on the Crucifix, with LED stigmata and optional LED bleeding heart of Christ for Catholic buyers.

    Amaze your children at Christmas time as they see Jesus's wounds pulsing to the beat of Jingle Bells and other holiday favorites!

  13. Re:Judging from the pictures.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Can I tell him?

    The gentiles deserve to know our plans for world domination!

    The Chosen People are benovolent and kind rulers. Wal-Mart is a great job... just stay away from our gated mansions and golf courses.

  14. Re:Saddam would love one of these by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Same difference you subversive asswipe.

  15. This just proves once again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...that the term "Jewish hacker" is an oxymoron.

  16. Useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What a useless piece of shit.

  17. Re:Why 2BCE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    he is a Reform Jew if that makes a difference?

    He's a reform Sambo, so he was doing a little liberal enlightened Protestant dance for the man.

    What a bunch of Uncle Toms reform rabbis are. Not surprising that they begged the Lutheran church in the 19th century to let them join as "members of the Mosiac faith." Further down the page you've got some poor sap who was "educated" by a Tom like this saying Judaism is not really so much of a methodical religion as much as it is a spiritual one, when in fact we are the people of the law and the written word.

    The reform movement and its supporters are purveyors of self-inflicted genocide according to Article 2 section C of the United Nations Genocide convention of 1948. They have an "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group...[by] deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

    Never servin 'em well, 'cause I'm an un-Tom
    It's no secret at all
    Cause I'm louder than a bomb

  18. Happy Zyklon-B Day, ya fucking kikes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Huff it down!

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