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Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations

Posted by simoniker on from the back-of-a-volkswagen dept.

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?"

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  1. I'm writing this from Antarctica by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But we only get Slashdot part of the day because of the satellite.

  2. IN INDIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I read slashdot at an internet terminal at the foot of the Himalayas.

  3. Top of a 100' antennea by skywalker107 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have browsed /. more than once while tethered to the top of a 100' broadband tower.

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  4. Deep Underground by Leif_Bloomquist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've actually read it from 700m below the earth, in a salt/potash mine in Germany.

  5. Scotland by AngryScot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    in the highlands :) on a 28k modem in a small house(hut) that belonged to one of my friends dad. there was only one power socket so we had to unplug the fridge to charge the laptop :)

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  6. Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gateway by jlcooke · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My cell phone provider (Fido.ca) gives me 150 free email messages a month which I can send out from my basic SMS enabled phone. I format an SMS just right and it'll turn into an email. I send this email to my an aliased email address on my home machine which pipes it into a perl script. I can request weather information, system uptime, etc. And yes, I can download the slashdot XML news page and parse it up, tokenize it into emails 160charactors long and EMAIL it back to my cell phone.

    "new SMS to 003436". "CMD S" for slashdot news command. 10 seconds later I get 2-4 SMS messages giving me the slashdot headlines. I've done this from a cottage, a highway coach, toilets in dingy bathrooms.

  7. The summit of Mauna Kea by igable · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I read slashdot before starting a shift at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on the 14, 000' summit of Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

  8. Underground in a coal mine by axler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've done work as an underground network administrator for an energy company that has a huge fiber optic network underground. There was about 1200 feet of earth above me, and about 6 miles between me and the elevator out...

  9. Stravinsky Fountains, Paris by cvd6262 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Between the fountains and the Pompidou center is a great wifi spot. I posted using my Zaurus regularly while I was in Paris for four months.

    I even met the guy who's point it is. He's on the third floor to the right of the police station. I asked him if it bothered him that I was on his wifi and he said, "Pas de tout" ("Not at all").

    PS - Go easy on him, turn off images while browsing.

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  10. In a fire? by SmurfButcher+Bob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My favorite was being stuck in a burning commercial warehouse. We were positioned with a two-and-a-half to protect a rather large fire-load (huge pile of pallets and several tons of lumber), while the fire rocked on the opposite side of the structure. We had a trench cut in the roof about 40 meters farther in, with the wood behind us. Our job was to wait, and make sure the fire didn't cross that trench cut... and also tell the attack crew to run like hell if it got behind them.

    So, we drag our line to where we need to be, mostly blind. We've got a thermal imager with us, so we can see what's going on, but most of the time is spent staring at... nothing, just smoke wafting in our faces, along with faint glow from the imager display.

    After about 10 minutes of this I'm bored out of my skull, and I realized I'd stuffed my IPaq in my shirt pocket before putting on my gear. The ambient smoke only allowed you to see about 4 feet, but the temperature was tolerable... so I whipped it out, and... detected an open wifi, lmao. So, slashdot is hard enough to read on an IPaq, but throw in wearing full gear with an SCBA in a medium smoke condition, it was probably one of the stranger places I've read slashdot. Had fun, though, I managed to get AIM up and send off a few lines to the wife.

    And no, trying to read it with a thermal imager doesn't work :)

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