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Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations
aarrieta writes "I was thinking about the location of Slashdotters around the world. Many of us read /. from our houses/offices/schools. But I guess there are people reading Slashdot from non-traditional places/sites (an oil platform in the middle of the sea, Antarctica, the ISS, etc?) But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from, or the most remote place you're currently reading it from?"
ive read /. from an ipaq while sitting on the can.
For those who don't get the reference, and why it's funny... There used to be a TV game show in the US called "The Newlywed Game." It featured recently married couples and the idea was to see how well they really knew each other. The host would ask the men a question, and in order to get points, the women would have to guess how their husband answered. (And vice versa, women would get a question and the husbands would try to predict their wives' answers.)
Some of the questions were tame, e.g. "Ladies, what is your favorite type of seafood?" If a guy's wife answered "Shrimp" but he had predicted "Flounder" they didn't get a point. You get the idea.
Well, on one episode, the question for the ladies was: "What's the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?" (This was back in the '70s, you couldn't say "made love" or "had sex" on TV, so they would say "whoopee.") They were going for answers like "the kitchen table," or "the movie theater."
They got to one woman and she answers, "In the butt."
Hilarity ensued.
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It is possible, most satellite that CAN service Antarctica have a very high orbital inclination, but even then the coverage rate would be about 8 hours (assuming the satellite is in geosynchronous orbit, which most communication satellites are).
In US, you can easily buy enough major firearms to wipe out your neighbourhood but a few little fireworks are banned.
or you could just get a phone with a browser(if the phones own sucks use some j2me one).
last summer i was quite a lot away from home and wrote tens of comments from the 3650 of mine on slashdot(and so, commenting on slashdot while fishing, listening to grandparents endless ramblings & etc).
from a skiing elevator too..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
ya... its lame, I read /. a few times while at the Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas on my honeymoon.... 2 weeks ago
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This did actually happen: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/newlywed.htm
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It exists, no urban legend.
Eubanks showed the clip recently on, "The Most Outrageous Game Show Moments" on VH1 and the clip was featured in the criminally underrated biopic of Chuck Barris, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
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Actually they have, but you'll need to be able to access the site fully (read: from a PC) to change it.
-Go to preferences
-Go 'homepage'
-Tick the 'Light HTML' box
-Profit!
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Incoming mod-bombing for having a different viewpoint, 2 o'clock! Heads up!
Try:
http://slashdot.org/palm/
I dont understand how an satellite falling out of orbit experiences changes in anything other than altitude. To see the south pole from the equator would need a pretty major plane change.
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For high-lattitude comms, a typical strategy is a Molynia orbit. This is a high-eccentricity high-inclination orbit with the apogee way high over the target area and the perigee very close to the atmosphere above the antipodal point.
This gives you a satelite which remains in the sky for a considerable period of time, but does go out of range for a short while each orbit.
They could use satellites in polar orbit, which would be visible from either pole about half the time.
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
A satellite in geostationary orbit that is left to itself (when it runs out of thruster fuel that is used to keep it in place) doesn't lose altitude, but rather the orbit gets elliptical and slightly "skewed" from the Earth's equatorial plane (I think the Moon is to blame for this, might be other factors as well). The result is that the satellite appears to be moving in a figure-eight (as seen from the Earth's surface).
A normal geostationary satellite is not visible from the south pole (it is a few degrees below the horizon), but one in deteriorating orbit can sometimes be seen from the south pole.
There are 010 kinds of people. Those who understand octal, those who don't, and 06 other kinds of morons.
http://slashdot.org/palm/
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Where you'll find something that not only cleans up all the cruft to make it PDA friendly but also works just as well on your mobile and WAP browser (via the Google WML browser).
(ob. disclaimer: I wrote it, so I might be slightly biased)
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