Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations

I'm writing this from Antarctica by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

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

Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by irving47 · 2004-07-26 05:58 · Score: 2, Interesting

I don't know much about satellites and their orbits. Is that likely?

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Otter · 2004-07-26 06:01 · Score: 4, Funny

But we only get Slashdot part of the day because of the satellite.
You mean all those 503 errors? No, the rest of us get them too.
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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by KD5YPT · 2004-07-26 06:09 · Score: 3, Informative

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).

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by PrinceAshitaka · 2004-07-26 06:09 · Score: 1

Prove it.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes, it is quite likely that you don't know much about satellites and their orbits.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Wudbaer · 2004-07-26 06:18 · Score: 4, Interesting

Apparently yes. Some years ago a friend of a good friend of mine did an internship on the German South Polar station for about half a year. Apparently they had Internet (my friend IRCed with the guy regularly) but only for a couple of hours apiece because of the satellite.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by nahorniak · 2004-07-26 06:27 · Score: 1

Do you know/have you heard of Roger Barlow? He's my friend's dad who spent a year in Antarctica in the early 90s monitoring fault lines, among other things.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by mks113 · 2004-07-26 06:36 · Score: 1

I'm guessing here, as I've heard this to be the case from other south-pole posters.

Normal satellite internet would be obtained through geosynchronous satellites. Unfortunately, those are over the equator, which would be right on the horizon from the pole.

So my question is, do they connect by tracking lower orbit satellites, or is there some wobble in the satellite orbit that allows contact for part of the day?
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:39 · Score: 1, Interesting

They use old satelites that are slowly falling out of their orbit.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by tverbeek · 2004-07-26 06:47 · Score: 1

They could be using a satellite in polar orbit (at whatever speed/distance) which could give them connectivity roughly half of the time.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by phidipides · 2004-07-26 06:50 · Score: 1

I visited Palmer Station last year (http://www.mountaininterval.org/journal-2004-01.h tml#20040119) and they claimed to have a full-time wireless network going -- we were able to check email using our laptops. I would assume that McMurdo, being a small city, would also have full time access. Not sure about the South Pole station or bases from any other countries.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by daeley · 2004-07-26 06:57 · Score: 5, Funny

They use old satelites that are slowly falling out of their orbit.

So when they say their Internet connection is down, they aren't kidding.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by TehHustler · 2004-07-26 07:36 · Score: 2, Informative

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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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Eowaennor · 2004-07-26 07:40 · Score: 3, Interesting

They use inmarsat, which provides a satellite that is not on a perfect geosync orbit. This gives them REALLY GOOD high speed coverage for a little bit less than 12 hours per day, an d crap the rest of the time. Most of the interference during the transitional time is from the mountains in the distance. The dish they use looks like it points to the horizon, and it just rotates around following the satellite, and you can even tell time by which way the dish is pointing =)
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 07:42 · Score: 1, Informative

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.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by clarkcox3 · 2004-07-26 07:43 · Score: 2, Informative

They could use satellites in polar orbit, which would be visible from either pole about half the time.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 07:51 · Score: 2, Interesting

Palmer has 24x7 @ ~384k
McMurdo has 24x7 @ ~1Mb and has no spare BW.
Pole depends on which bird is visible and yes one of the birds is dying and has been for a while which is why it is being used by the NSF (they're cheap).

Also don't forget the LAG.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by mattyrobinson69 · 2004-07-26 08:42 · Score: 2, Funny

send me some pictures too:

mattyrobinson@gmail.commmm (without the extra m's of course)

although this is probably pushing it, send me a penguin by snail mail.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by golo · 2004-07-26 08:43 · Score: 1

I'm not familiar with what is used in Antarctica but satellites in disuse do not loose altitude so much as they orbits get inclined with respect to earth's equatorial plane. This is natural tendency that has to be constantly corrected. This corrections require fuel that eventually runs out.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by mattyrobinson69 · 2004-07-26 08:47 · Score: 1

send me some pictures too:

mattyrobinson@gmail.commmm (without the extra m's of course)

although this is probably pushing it, send me a penguin by snail mail.

also, OT rant about /.:
slashdot requires you to wait 2 mins between posts and slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between posts [after cut and paste] really pisses me off, they both just got me
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by mattyrobinson69 · 2004-07-26 08:51 · Score: 1

ive just been informed by my woman that penguins live at only one of the poles, this means there's a 50/50 chance that i now look like a complete twat.

also, OT rant about /.:
slashdot requires you to wait 2 mins between posts and slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between posts [after cut and paste] really pisses me off, they both just got me
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Stackster · 2004-07-26 08:55 · Score: 2, Informative

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.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by DavidTC · 2004-07-26 08:58 · Score: 2, Funny

If they had the cash, they could have three satellites circling north to south, and have internet connectivity all the time.
Of course, all research stations at the south pole are forever broke, unless they're secretly investigating an ancient civilization under the ice or something.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by eugene+ts+wong · 2004-07-26 09:03 · Score: 1

In this day & age, they can live almost anywhere. There are some @ the Vancouver zoo & the various zoos. There are probably some in Hollywood. I think that the penguins migrate elsewhere during their summer.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by aldousd666 · 2004-07-26 09:06 · Score: 1

finally, seems like a definative answer. Interestingly enough AC, you seem to do a lot of posting. ;P

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by rupert2000 · 2004-07-26 09:38 · Score: 1

Damn that evil satellite!!
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by cvdwl · 2004-07-26 09:53 · Score: 2, Interesting

I worked last fall (Austral Spring) at McMurdo Station. Satellite coverage there was fine, though ~1200 people could clog the uplink pretty well after work. We also had good phone service, all routed through eastern Washington state.
I believe I was told that McMurdo, at ~77S, could hit many of the equatorial and inclined orbit satellites, but South Pole Station had to wait for something to venture farther south of the equator to get a good shot. On the other hand, with no trees and GPS satellites all converging overhead on polar orbits, we had awesome GPS reception, routinely 9-10 satellites in range.
Finally, yes, I read /. there and through a 50km wireless link from a field camp at the base of the Dry Valleys. I'd bet someone has read it from the camp near the top of Mt. Erebus.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by da007 · 2004-07-26 10:24 · Score: 2, Funny

My current physics teacher was once director of computing for the University of Miami and all net traffic going and comming to the South Pole went through his office. He said that there was only a 2-3 hour window of opportunity to send and recieve data each day.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by XenonOfArcticus · 2004-07-26 10:35 · Score: 4, Interesting

I can back this up. McMurdo uses a satellite earthstation located at an uninhabited island several miles south of "town" itself, which is on the southern coast of Ross Island:

Black Island

The connection is a T1 that goes from town to Black Island via point-to-point microwave. Part of the T1 is used to carry voice telecom, fax lines, and MPEG-encoded television from the US.

Black Island was chosen because it can see (looking north) over the large bulk of Mt Erebus to make LOS with a geosync bird at the equator. See photo on the page, above. That's the dish in the dome, and you can see how high up the horizon Mt Erebus protrudes. McMurdo is at 77.88 degrees south, so a equatorial sat is still above the horizon.

Pole, at a full 90 degrees south cannot see a real equatorial geosync bird. But, birds that are decaying in orbit become highly variable in the N/S direction, so they appear to wobble up and down on the horizon. When it's up, it's usable. There are no mountains or ground clutter at Pole, so it only has to be up a little bit. Geosync birds do not move in the E/W direction, so the dish only has to track up and down. A previous poster who described the dish spinning around to track the horizon is sniffing skua dung.

I participated in a project to try to establish other lines of communication out of McMurdo via the NASA TDRS sats. I think I'm the sitting guy in this photo.

Black Island is 'uninhabited', but people stay there for various periods of time to keep an eye on troublesome equipment. They brew a lot of beer there, during the down times.

I was present during the season of the construction of the current dome and dish on Black Island (though I was not at BI itself at the time). During a critical period of construction, part of the dome was finished, but it still had gaps in it. A massive storm (Herbie) came up, and shredded the whole dome with 120+Mph winds, spreading debris for miles. A new dome had to be flown in at the last minute, and landed in a heavy cargo plane on the rapidly-melting ice runway. But the new system has worked very well for the last 10 years, and McMurdo has excellent connectivity.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by mattyrobinson69 · 2004-07-26 10:38 · Score: 1

in the wild, you ponce. There are a type of penguins that live in south africa naturally. http://www.arlington.k12.ma.us/penguinproject/wher epenguinslive.htm
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by samrolken · 2004-07-26 10:44 · Score: 1

Mod Parent Down: His post is a near-exact duplicate of this post from an hour earlier: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=115804&cid =9804250 And his ripoff post is modded higher than the original one that he ripped off!

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Mac+Degger · 2004-07-26 11:33 · Score: 1

Oh, come on! Be consequent and use 006 for the remainder :)

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Mac+Degger · 2004-07-26 11:56 · Score: 1

Talk about an expensive sundial!

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by tylernt · 2004-07-26 12:52 · Score: 1

and it just rotates around following the satellite

As XenonOfArcticus put it so eloquently:

Geosync birds do not move in the E/W direction, so the dish only has to track up and down. A previous poster who described the dish spinning around to track the horizon is sniffing skua dung.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by plover · 2004-07-26 13:55 · Score: 1

I know the Russians used to use three high-inclination satellites in highly elliptical orbits to broadcast television signals to Siberian residents. I remember an article from 20 years ago in Popular Electronics by a ham who added a second motorized axis to his 8' dish and had a computer set up to track them as they appeared over his horizon. He tuned the picture in on a SECAM monitor. It's probably not a particularily challenging feat these days, but back then this was quite the major hack.
I wouldn't doubt that NASA could repurpose old commo satellites for Antarctic service. Once replaced by newer birds, their former owners are probably glad to donate them in order to be rid of the liability. Of course that would mean some pretty beat-up junk is left over to service the Antarctic, but hey -- it's free, right?

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by 1u3hr · 2004-07-26 15:52 · Score: 1

penguins live at only one of the poles
Yes, the south. But though they haven't been sighted since 1844, there were the Great Auks in the northern polar regions, pretty similar to penguins.
At least they provide a way to retcon those cartoons you see with Eskimos, polar bears and penguins in the same place.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by thogard · 2004-07-26 16:05 · Score: 1

When they deorbit the geosync sats, they shift them north or south which results in a wobbly almost geo-sync orbit which quickly moves them out of the prime spot and keeps them from hitting other things in the prime spots. Over time that odd orbit gets hit by tidal forces which should keep the sat away from anything else until it becomes become eccentric enough to completely deorbit. The problem is it takes a very long time to break a stable geosync orbit.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Technician · 2004-07-26 16:37 · Score: 3, Interesting

Yes, it is quite likely that you don't know much about satellites and their orbits.

Umm, Geostationary satellites are positioned over the equator and not reachable from the poles. Any other orbit would cross the equator and would not be in a poar region 100% of the time. What part of the orbits did he not know?

It made sense to me. A geostationary satellite over the North pole either would not be stationary and be on a polar orbit visiting both the north and south poles (Synchrnous polar orbit) or would simply fall down due to gravity since it wasn't orbiting at all.

Now if you could link to a swarm of satellites with orbits like the GPS system, then there is a chance of 24 hour coverage.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by golo · 2004-07-26 23:59 · Score: 1

Right. My mistake on the grammar.
I was trying to point out that 'old' satellites do not fall down but rather get "inclined" (THEIR orbits that is).
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Eowaennor · 2004-07-27 04:20 · Score: 1

Im sorry, I've been there.. The dish rotates around tracking the satellite which is NOT in a geosync orbit, like I said. Read up on inmarsat before saying I'm sniffing skua dung.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by Eowaennor · 2004-07-27 04:29 · Score: 1

I suppose that because XenonOfArticus has never been at Pole, he has no clue what he is talking about.
As I mentioned before, the inmarsat is not on a geosync orbit, you should probably read up on that before saying I sniff skua dung.
Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by tylernt · 2004-07-27 17:39 · Score: 1

You said it was "not on a perfect geosync orbit". This implies that it is in a geosync orbit, albeit imperfectly. It would have been clearer to say "not in a geosync orbit" if that was what you meant.

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Re:I'm writing this from Antarctica by sundy58 · 2004-07-27 20:35 · Score: 1

Last week I was reading from Summit Camp in Geenland. We are sponsored by NSF and are building radars to quantify the ice sheet movment. We are also working on a fix for your problem with Iridium modems and have a constant connection to the internet except for a few call drops per day.

The strangest place was.. by neomac · 2004-07-26 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

.. in bed with my wife.

But it'll never happen again honey, I promise!

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Re:The strangest place was.. by CoolVibe · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 2, Interesting

not me reading slashdot, but my wife, after sex. Oh wait...
Re:The strangest place was.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

... while dropping the Cosby kids off at the pool.
Re:The strangest place was.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 1, Interesting

the strangest place ive ever read slashdot was from was the Dominican Republic in a crappy internet cafe.
Re:The strangest place was.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't feel embarrassed - we've all been in bed with your wife.
Re:The strangest place was.. by sporty · 2004-07-26 06:04 · Score: 1

Funny, I've chatted from there too. I mean.. er..

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Re:The strangest place was.. by MarsDefenseMinister · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 2, Funny

That would in the butt, Bob!

(if you don't get it, don't moderate)

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Re:The strangest place was.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

You're saying she's been /.ed?
Re:The strangest place was.. by Hell+O'World · 2004-07-26 06:31 · Score: 2, Funny

"Up the butt, Bob"

Newlywed, though, makes the list because of one reason: it's the only game show with an urban legend. Supposedly, Eubanks once asked the question, "Where is the strangest place you and your husband ever made whoopee?" One female contestant answered, very simply, "Up the butt, Bob" (or, in other versions, "That'd be the butt, Bob"). Eubanks swears it never happened, other people say they saw it. Eubanks has ruined his credibility on this issue by stating "I could have sold a million 'Up The Butt, Bob' T-shirts if I'd wanted." Chuck Barris would be proud of that sentiment. Anything to make money, after all.
Re:The strangest place was.. by Binestar · 2004-07-26 06:43 · Score: 2, Informative

This did actually happen: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/newlywed.htm

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Re:The strangest place was.. by Brain+Stew · 2004-07-26 06:44 · Score: 2, Informative

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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Re:The strangest place was.. by dnoyeb · 2004-07-26 06:46 · Score: 1

Its not quite urban legend considering they have a cable channel dedicated to old game shows and they show it at least once a week.

No, it was not so rehearsed as "That'd be the butt, Bob."

It was a simply "The but?" It was obvious that she couldn't think of a better answer.

I think your post deserves to be modded up cause its the first thing I thought of when I saw the slashdot topic.
Re:The strangest place was.. by Strange_Attractor · 2004-07-26 06:49 · Score: 1

I saw a "Greatest Game Show Bloopers" or some such on VH1 about 8mon-1year ago. Eubanks hosted it, and he admitted it was real and played the clip (bleeped, of course). It's not just an urban legend.

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Re:The strangest place was.. by pcmills · 2004-07-26 06:51 · Score: 5, Funny

no just port scanned.

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Re:The strangest place was.. by Nef · 2004-07-26 06:58 · Score: 1

Man I wish I had mod points...IIRC that was the 'New' Newlyweds and the question was "What was the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?"
Re:The strangest place was.. by akvalentine · 2004-07-26 07:18 · Score: 1

It actually happend.

Saw a "Funniest Moments in Game Shows" kind of show once and they showed the clip. Eubanks was also in that show stating that he, for some reason, forgot that it happened, which is why he told people that it didn't.

If I am remembering correctly, she replied "In the ass." which was bleeped, but it was obvious what she had said.

I hadn't heard the "urban legend" about this when I saw it, so I just about died laughing when she said it.
Re:The strangest place was.. by Whalou · 2004-07-26 07:21 · Score: 1

This gives a new meaning to Ping of Death

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Re:The strangest place was.. by Gonarat · 2004-07-26 07:25 · Score: 1

I've actually read /. from my Parent's basement too...my Dad's office is in the basement.

The rest of the story is -- my Parent's basement is in a different state (Illinois) from where my house is (Kentucky), so I guess that doesn't really count.

I have also read /. from the Children's Museum in Indianapolis (great place to go if you have Kids) from the Library (not very strange), and at the Mall (a few years ago, the Jefferson Mall in Louisville, KY had these internet terminals set up to advertise someones DSL service).

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Re:The strangest place was.. by Gudlyf · 2004-07-26 07:31 · Score: 2, Funny

Actually I think she was ./. ed.

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Re:The strangest place was.. by ViolentGreen · 2004-07-26 07:37 · Score: 1

I have also read /. from the Children's Museum in Indianapolis (great place to go if you have Kids) from the Library (not very strange), and at the Mall (a few years ago, the Jefferson Mall in Louisville, KY had these internet terminals set up to advertise someones DSL service).

If they were in Jefferson mall, they probably got stolen. I have to admit that Jefferson Mall is a lot nicer then it used to be.

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Re:The strangest place was.. by Khasmo · 2004-07-26 08:12 · Score: 1

Hey, I just fingered her.
Re:The strangest place was.. by real_smiff · 2004-07-26 08:59 · Score: 1

You're saying she's been /.ed?
ewwwww. all the times i've been here and i've never made that connection before.. (i dunno about in the US, but here, having a slash is getting your weener out, and dotted.. well you can figure that out, the classic porn end-move - unless AC was being totally innocent!)

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Re:The strangest place was.. by aldousd666 · 2004-07-26 09:18 · Score: 1

Not to mention "Port Knocking"

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Re:The strangest place was.. by LadyLucky · 2004-07-26 09:47 · Score: 1

Don't feel embarrassed - we've all been in bed with your wife - in Japan

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Re:The strangest place was.. by fatboy · 2004-07-26 10:13 · Score: 1

... while dropping the Cosby kids off at the pool... in the Beer Sellar's pisser on 2nd Ave in Nashville, Tn

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Re:The strangest place was.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 11:46 · Score: 1, Funny

She's been more than just portscanned. I did some penetration testing on her. I'm sending a full report, but to summarize here, there are some huge holes.
Re:The strangest place was.. by strider44 · 2004-07-26 13:11 · Score: 1

I can hear it now:

"Oh god, Oh god, Longhorn is supporting HD DVD!"

I once posted to Slashdot from by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:47 · Score: 3, Funny

a girlfriend's apartment. Probably somewhere most Slashdotters have never posted from...

Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 1, Funny

No, I post at your girlfriend's apartment all the time. And by post, I mean on Slashdot and not in any sexual way.
Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by 0racle · 2004-07-26 06:26 · Score: 4, Funny

You think your any better? Your at your girlfriends apartment and what do you do? There are far better things to do then post to slashdot. Have her make you a sandwich or something.

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Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by CodeArtisan · 2004-07-26 06:43 · Score: 5, Funny

I used to read it at my girlfriend's apartment. It was great - until my wife found out.
Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by jhunsake · 2004-07-26 06:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Why don't you just repeat the joke, but in a less-funny way? Oh, you just did...
Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:48 · Score: 3, Insightful

Maybe we should commend him, as it's a difficult task to make that tired joke even less funny.
Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by TulioSerpio · 2004-07-26 06:55 · Score: 2, Insightful

dont ask how many Slashdotters have posted from YOUR girlfriend's apartment

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Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by Blimey85 · 2004-07-26 07:06 · Score: 1

Cartman: Get in the kitchen and bake me a pie!!!

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Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by Wakkow · 2004-07-26 09:00 · Score: 1

That reminds me back when I was in the dorms, I was reading slashdot at a female friend's room (she's now my gf).. I accidently clicked on a goatse link. doh. They didn't believe me that it was an accident.
Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by Malevolyn · 2004-07-26 10:22 · Score: 1

I've posted on /. from my ex-girlfriend's house before.

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Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by jamesh · 2004-07-26 13:59 · Score: 1

I know how you feel. My wife got pretty mad when she found me reading slashdot too.
Re:I once posted to Slashdot from by Mr2cents · 2004-07-26 16:16 · Score: 1

Is she THAT ugly?

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strange but I'm sure very common... by infinii · 2004-07-26 05:47 · Score: 3, Funny

the shitter with a wifi connection

Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by Moofie · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 2, Funny

DUDE! Can you see me or something? That's creepy!

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Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by iamacat · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 4, Funny

Here I am, right in the pooper,
Birthing another slashdot trooper...
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by jawtheshark · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

cellphone here, but yes...

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Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by Malc · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

Are all you guys crazy? Do you like the idea of haemorrhoids? Leave the laptop behind, forget the reading material, etc. Be in and out as quick as possible or you will regret it eventually.
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by Short+Circuit · 2004-07-26 06:08 · Score: 1

And how long does it take before you realize your legs are asleep? Don't drop that PowerBook walking back to your cubicle!

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Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by Glog · 2004-07-26 06:26 · Score: 4, Funny

That would explain all the inspired posts on Slashdot...
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:30 · Score: 3, Funny

What the hell are you talking about? Am I missing a joke or are you saying that sitting on a toilet for too long will give you hemorrhoids? I'm pretty sure it occurs if you put too much strain on your... ass. I don't think merely sitting there will give you hemorrhoids.

I think trying to crap as fast as you can may give you hemorrhoids, though.
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by Grrr · 2004-07-26 06:45 · Score: 1

For those of us who own or have owned motorcycles, it's too late already.
HAND.

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Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by mdrn28 · 2004-07-26 07:26 · Score: 1

Am I missing a joke or are you saying that sitting on a toilet for too long will give you hemorrhoids?
Indeed, that is the case. Sitting on the toilet too long will increase the risk of developing hemorrhoids, according to most medical info.
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by BigBir3d · 2004-07-26 08:16 · Score: 1

the #2 reason to buy a wireless base station!

thank you thank you, please tip your waiter.
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by dukeisgod · 2004-07-26 08:29 · Score: 1

The heat my Al Powerbook generates reminds me to get out of there pretty quick. Otherwise, my legs will have 3rd degree burns.
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by AndrewCox · 2004-07-26 09:26 · Score: 1

Am I missing a joke or are you saying that sitting on a toilet for too long will give you hemorrhoids?

Indeed, that is the case. Sitting on the toilet too long will increase the risk of developing hemorrhoids, according to most medical info.

Sitting anywhere for extended periods of time increases your risk of hemorrhoids. So if you're trying to hurry up on the toilet so you can get back to your desk chair, you're not helping the situation.

However, straining while on the toilet is probably the quickest way to get hemorrhoids. The ideal solution is to get plenty of fiber (a fiber supplement such as Metamucil does wonders) so that you don't need to strain on the toilet. A nice side effect is that your bathroom trips are nice and quick, so you can get back to slash^H^H^H^H^Hwork.

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Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by geniusj · 2004-07-26 11:11 · Score: 1

Are you sure you're not thinking of a hernia?
Re:strange but I'm sure very common... by Eccles · 2004-07-27 02:46 · Score: 1

Sitting anywhere for extended periods of time increases your risk of hemorrhoids.

The toilet, however, which lacks support in the middle, is a little worse than your standard office chair. Also, if you've already had a movement, standing up and walking will serve to return your organs to a more normal state. So do focus esp. on minimizing toilet time.

Take it from one who knows more than he'd like about this...

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Hmmm... by Oxy+the+moron · 2004-07-26 05:47 · Score: 1

My bathroom? Does that count?

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i admit it by The+Other+White+Boy · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 2, Informative

ive read /. from an ipaq while sitting on the can.

Loo? by raile · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 1

Given the ubiquity of WiFi these days, I'm assuming "the toilet" doesn't count as a strange place anymore...

During a meeting at Microsoft. by Acrimonious+Coward · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 2, Interesting

...and no, I'm not an employee.

The Toilet by Finster · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Ahh...my office away from my office. The toilet. The only place where one can truely be left alone with Slashdot.

Slashdot?! Nay! by higuy48 · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 1, Funny

I read Fark you insensitive clod!

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Internet Kiosk by Short+Circuit · 2004-07-26 05:48 · Score: 2, Interesting

Christmas day. A dollar for five minutes. Only used three minutes. Was in Chicago visiting my brother for the "Adopt-a-Sailor" program. He was in basic training at the time.

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Re:Internet Kiosk by digitalsushi · 2004-07-26 05:58 · Score: 1

Did it spit out 40 cents when you clicked the 'X'?

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Re:Internet Kiosk by dotwaffle · 2004-07-26 06:25 · Score: 1

Adopt-a-sailor? I'd buy that for a dollar!
Re:Internet Kiosk by Short+Circuit · 2004-07-26 06:32 · Score: 1

Local families adopt sailors in basic training for a couple days. They take them out to eat, give them Christmas presents, that sort of thing. It's very helpful to morale among the recruits.

My parents and I drove down to Chicago, and were able to "adopt" my brother.

It was the tail end of Christmas vacation, and I don't have an Internet connection at home, so I was desperate for some Slashdot reading.

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Re:Internet Kiosk by Short+Circuit · 2004-07-26 06:37 · Score: 1

No...IE was in kiosk mode the whole time. I don't know what happened when I left.

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Re:Internet Kiosk by Zebbers · 2004-07-26 07:26 · Score: 1

Adopt-a-Sailor....
I wont even go there....
Re:Internet Kiosk by jrockway · 2004-07-26 07:46 · Score: 1

I think I just came up with a new name for a pornographic anime series...

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Re:Internet Kiosk by dotwaffle · 2004-07-26 07:47 · Score: 1

In case no-one got that... It was supposed to be a Robocop reference... And the fact sailors don't have the greatest rep in the world ;)

Oooh! Sailor!
Re:Internet Kiosk by Cyberop5 · 2004-07-26 15:06 · Score: 1

Interesting, I found an internet kiosk that had about 30 minutes left over at the Puerto Vallarta airport, so I read slashdot.

Same city I was also proud to wear my slashdot t-shirt to a foam party and dance with real women.

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IN INDIA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 5, Interesting

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

Re:IN INDIA by garethwi · 2004-07-26 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Is this the first outsourced slashdot reading on record?

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Re:IN INDIA by Short+Circuit · 2004-07-26 06:12 · Score: 1

It's not really recorded because he posted as an AC.

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Re:IN INDIA by nfg05 · 2004-07-26 12:58 · Score: 1

It is because now it can never be removed as long as Slashdot is still up. Also gives time, date, just not identity. An anonymous letter from the civil war area is still a record, is it not?

Strangest place by Dolly_Llama · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot..

In the butt?

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Re:Strangest place by liquidsin · 2004-07-26 06:51 · Score: 1

What, like the back seat of a Volkswagen?

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Re:Strangest place by Aliencow · 2004-07-26 07:30 · Score: 1

True!
Re:Strangest place by hobo2k · 2004-07-26 09:07 · Score: 1

No, that's the most uncomfortable place to read slashdot.
Re:Strangest place by DonGar · 2004-07-26 11:49 · Score: 1

In the back of a volkswagon?

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Several by NIK282000 · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 1

Pc in a museum in PEI (canada)

Radioshack

Futureshop

The museum was tough because the PC was set up to keep you out of windows.

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Re:Several by admdrew · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

The museum was tough because the PC was set up to keep you out of windows.

...windows is a system requirement for slashdot? :P

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Re:Several by admdrew · 2004-07-26 06:11 · Score: 2, Funny

Apparently my comment went over your head...

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Re:Several by jrockway · 2004-07-26 07:51 · Score: 1

> The museum was tough because the PC was set up to keep you out of windows.

That reminds me of the email kiosks in the CCC at UIC (if you don't go to UIC, then that's meaningless to you, i know). Anyway, I wanted to read my gmail. It's webmail, right? Well it "DENIED" me because "gmail.com is not a webmail service". Okay fine.

I just pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL as many times as I could. About 700 task manager windows came up and then a "SECURITY BREACH" dialog came up. I killed that program, which prompted it to spawn about 30 more. I could feel the computer overheating, so I just left :)

So yeah. Kiosks make me mad. Just thought I'd share that.

(BTW the commentary I got from my friend I was with was "you just can't make Windows secure, can you")

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well that explains it... by natron+2.0 · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny

No wonder most of the stories on /. are crap today!

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On the Jon by Fr05t · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 1

Yup.. I've been know to use my notebook to read it on the throne.

Re:On the Jon by Fr05t · 2004-07-26 06:01 · Score: 1

I posted this then started seeing "pooper" and "loo" posts popping up. Maybe ODSN should start getting some TP and Air freshener banner adds, or thinkgeek could make then with caffeine and neon lights!

mmm caffinated toilet paper..

On the internet... by Soft · 2004-07-26 05:49 · Score: 1

... nobody knows you're a Martian.

Top of a 100' antennea by skywalker107 · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 5, Interesting

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

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Re:Top of a 100' antennea by ONOIML8 · 2004-07-26 06:29 · Score: 1

And I thought I was the only one to have done that. I've read it on the tower and in the shelter.

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Re:Top of a 100' antennea by illcare · 2004-07-26 06:37 · Score: 1

more than once
You mean twice?
Re:Top of a 100' antennea by R-66Y · 2004-07-26 08:36 · Score: 2, Funny

That's one of the infinite possibilities, yes.

Later,
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Re:Top of a 100' antennea by kendric · 2004-07-26 13:04 · Score: 1

The strangest for me: the top of a power generating windmill. We have dial up internet up at the top, and we wanted to see if it was working and so, I pinged the main server. Well, later on that day, we needed a rather specific tool, so I got a guy to bring it up to me, and while I waited, I logged on to slashdot and read the headlines.
Re:Top of a 100' antennea by bziman · 2004-07-26 16:24 · Score: 1

I briefly forgot we were talking about reading slashdot, and I was thinking... wow, that must have been a challenging place to get it on... I see a 100' climb ahead of me -- up out of the gutter.
Re:Top of a 100' antennea by Threni · 2004-07-26 21:26 · Score: 1

I'd like to read Slashdot using my WAP phone but apparantly Slashdot isn't up to it. It sort of worked once, if you don't mind missing out on the comments. Which is sort of the point of Slashdot.

Check out the BBC news site from a WAP phone for a lesson in how to do it right.

www.fishkeeping.co.uk

Re:Funny you should ask by over_exposed · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 2, Interesting

Holy CRAP (no pun intended) a lot of people read slashdot from the crapper. Does anyone care to comment on the psychology of this phenomenon? I can't - I'm part of the case study.

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On the toilet eh? by ezzzD55J · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 1

7 out of 8 replies now (at threshold 1 at least) are saying the same thing.. :)

Re:Funny you should ask by prator · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm in the stall next to you. I'd appreciate a courtesy flush.

-prator

From the subway by IceCat12 · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 1

I used to read it during the subway trip into the city on my palm m515. Does that count as an underground slashdot club?

Liuzhou ,China. by robslimo · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 1

Back before 'net cafe's were in all the big chinese cities (heck, Liuzhou was/is backward enough they may still not be very netified). Funny, I did it with an international LD call back to my ISP in Oklahoma. It was mainly to check my email, but I spent a very few minutes doing a little surfing.

My AT&T calling card almost blistered my backside before I was done.

You insensitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 1, Funny

I'm sitting on a fucking asteroid here saving your ass wishing I were on that oil platform I belong on with 8 nutters (long story) thinking of Liv and you have the fucking nerve to ask me if I read Slashdot? Hell yeah. Get over it.

The can. by eel · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 1

Probably not as unsusual as it once was, but this was in the day before wirless became popular. But I had run (tee, hee) some cable to the bathroom and well, it was an interesting artical. Shure beats the newspaper.

Re:The can. by khrtt · 2004-07-26 06:06 · Score: 1

Shure beats the newspaper. Sure, but can you wipe your arse with it when you done reading?

Jail by g0bshiTe · 2004-07-26 05:50 · Score: 1

5 to 10 in the state pen.

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Deep Underground by Leif_Bloomquist · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

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

Re:Deep Underground by MisterFancypants · 2004-07-26 06:35 · Score: 1

I've actually read it from 700m below the earth, in a salt/potash mine in Germany. Susumu, the king is not in Germany.
Re:Deep Underground by cyberwave · 2004-07-26 06:42 · Score: 3, Funny

no you didn't, you lying sack of shit. You're a 12 year old who lives in southern California.
Re:Deep Underground by superflippy · 2004-07-26 08:35 · Score: 1

700m below the earth, in a salt/potash mine

Are you a nuclear physicist?

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Re:Deep Underground by Leif_Bloomquist · 2004-07-26 08:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

Nope, a robotics engineer. We were working on another teleoperated mining machine like the one in this Slashdot story and part of the project was a high-speed data link underground. We had Internet access in order to send test results back our office, and it meant we could surf duing lunch breaks. :-)
Re:Deep Underground by superflippy · 2004-07-26 14:30 · Score: 1

Interesting. My husband is a nuclear physics grad student and one of the experiments he's worked with actually took place deep underground in an old salt mine in order to reduce the amount of background radiation.

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Re:Pron by Eu4ria · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 1

You know you are a geek when you would read slashdot and then download the movie later, rarher than watch the action live!

Strange people out there... by wviperw · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 1

What kind of weirdo reads /. from an oil platform in the middle of the sea?

/me reaches for toilet paper

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That explains it! by cpn2000 · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 1

A lot of posters claim to read Slashdot sitting on the can. I imagine that explains the general quality of posts ... chuckles

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Re:That explains it! by muskr · 2004-07-26 06:20 · Score: 1

To the contrary! We now know that some of them are not actually full of shit! (Mod: -5 bad pun?)

Strangest, eh? by codesurfer · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 1

Without a doubt - NYC. To a guy from Ottawa, Canada, that's about as strange as it comes.

Like... by Dr.+Bent · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

...in the back of a Volkswagen?

Re:Like... by pete-classic · 2004-07-26 06:20 · Score: 1

I appriciate a good Kevin Smith reference as much as the next guy.

That wasn't one.

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Re:Like... by thpdg · 2004-07-26 06:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Sounds like a very uncomfortable place.

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Re:Like... by mog007 · 2004-07-26 07:23 · Score: 1

The operative word is strange, not uncomfortable.

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Re:Like... by drivers · 2004-07-26 07:40 · Score: 1

I appriciate a good Kevin Smith reference as much as the next guy.

That wasn't one.

Dude, check the department field of the article.
Re:Like... by Black+Mage+Balthazar · 2004-07-26 08:58 · Score: 1

It would also be funnier if the joke hadn't already been made in the original post (look at the dept.)
Re:Like... by taernim · 2004-07-26 10:02 · Score: 1

No... more like someplace girls dread. ;)

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A hole.... by Himring · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny

This guy does it from a hole in the ground he dug (an epic adventure; a hole, in the ground, in a galaxy, far, far, away...).

The Hole

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Re:A hole.... by networkBoy · 2004-07-26 06:12 · Score: 1

I have a screwy deformed rib cage so I squat instead of sitting usually.

Screwy deformed brain too . . .
Why dig a hole in your back yard? Just because?
that said I did read his entire webpage about diggingthe hole. Some kind of sick fascination I suppose....
-nB

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Re:A hole.... by Zebbers · 2004-07-26 07:36 · Score: 1

Now that is what personal webpages should be like...
very fun read, great pictures and very entertaining. :):)
Re:A hole.... by Himring · 2004-07-26 08:51 · Score: 1

I thought /.'ers were some king of educated people, but I must be wrong !!!

I wish I could kick your ass...

How sophisticated of you....

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Re:A hole.... by orac2 · 2004-07-26 09:12 · Score: 1

Maybe an enemy that he can steal sump pump technology from?

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Re:A hole.... by loraksus · 2004-07-27 11:08 · Score: 1

deer ;)

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Scotland by AngryScot · 2004-07-26 05:51 · 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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Re:Scotland by realkiwi · 2004-07-26 08:31 · Score: 1

Now that is a lie because in the highlands you don't need a fridge! Beer is at the right temperature when you leave it outside!

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Re:Scotland by andybass · 2004-07-26 08:55 · Score: 1

Luxury. I read from a mud-filled hole in the middle of nowhere surrounded by mosquitos the size of canned hams.
Re:Scotland by Jaywalk · 2004-07-26 09:46 · Score: 1

Ah, Scotland. Since I don't haul the laptop with me when I go overseas, vacations in Scotland are always accompanied by a game of Hunt for Access. My favorite spot to date is in Broadford on the Isle of Skye. There's a gas -- er, petrol -- station there that seems to be the one big business on the main drag that includes a supermarket, a laundrette, a rental plance and (IIRC) a dentist. Stuffed back behind the laundrette are two coin-op internet-connected computers. A pocket full of coins and I was happy.

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Re:Scotland by bbtom · 2004-07-26 10:33 · Score: 1

Obligatory link: BBC Western Highlands and Islands blogging - yep, they wired up a Scottish island with internet and taught all the residents to run weblogs. At NotCon in London there was a speech by the guy who runs it - Videos / MP3s etc.

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Re:Scotland by zsau · 2004-07-26 11:00 · Score: 1

there was only one power socket

I call your bluff! No house has been constructed without at least two in every room, and half a dozen in the kitchen!

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Re:Scotland by TheGreatOrangePeel · 2004-07-26 16:23 · Score: 1

you should have used a lightbulb socket to a two prong adapter in the fridge. That way you could say that you read /. in the highlands on a 28k modem in a fridge in a small house. That way you're charging your battery, reading slashdot, and lighting the fridge via the LCD ... just don't close the fridge door. Assuming you belive the light goes out when you close the door...

the pooper by niko9 · 2004-07-26 05:51 · Score: 3, Funny

I've gotten in the habit of wanting something to read when I do number 2.

One day I coudn't find anything interesting within reach and had already memorized not only the ingridients to my shampoo and conditioner, but the location of their corporate headquarter too. I pulled out a 25ft CAT 5 cable, one end into the switch, and the other end into my thinkpad X22 3Lb laptop.

It was a good poop, and I learned alot that day.

Nick

Re:the pooper by kruczkowski · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

This was one of my main reasons of getting 802.11b at home. I tried to use the same reason when trying to get my boss to get 802.11b at work.

For some reason no one wants to touch my laptop now...

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Re:the pooper by stienman · 2004-07-26 06:00 · Score: 3, Funny

It was a good poop, and I learned alot that day.

I hope you learned that plastic does absorb odors...

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Re:the pooper by pinchhazard · 2004-07-26 06:30 · Score: 1

Who else reads shampoo and conditioner bottles when there's nothing else to read in the bathroom? Alternately I play the game on my cellphone, or pretend that my cellphone is a starship treading the unknown depths of inter-fixture space. In that case, the bottles become outposts or security emplacements.

I feel like pooping creates some kind of subtle change in my... energy. That's the right word.

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Re:the pooper by cvd6262 · 2004-07-26 06:42 · Score: 1

I have an X20... Did you burn your legs? When mine runs for more than five minutes, it gets very hot. Just wondering.

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Re:the pooper by PetoskeyGuy · 2004-07-26 12:00 · Score: 1

...I pulled out a 25ft CAT 5 cable, one end into the switch, and the other end into my thinkpad X22 3Lb laptop.

You couldn't find anything within reach except for a shampoo bottle, conditioner bottle and 25 ft of Cat5 cable? Do you have some sort of GoatSE storage system?

Ching Mai by richard_willey · 2004-07-26 05:52 · Score: 1

I spent a glorious month backpacking through Thailand back in January. The country is quite wired, so I had the chance to check in from a number of cyber-cafes.

I'll use this opportunity to put in a plug for Thailand. Wonderful country. Can't recommend it highly enough.

My only regret is that I wasn't able to purchase any teak furniture while I was up North. If you are willing to ship and entire container (~$5000 or so), you can get incredible bargains. Large dining room table and 6 chairs, beautiful construction for about $600.

If anyone is considering a visit, cut a deal with friends beforehand and bring schematics...

Re:Ching Mai by raju1kabir · 2004-07-27 03:07 · Score: 1

I spent a glorious month backpacking through Thailand back in January. The country is quite wired, so I had the chance to check in from a number of cyber-cafes.

In that case you'll be pleased to hear that I'm posting from Buddy Internet Center in Chiang Mai this very moment, my stomach extremely full of spicy red chicken curry. Fastest connection I've had in months.

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Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gateway by jlcooke · 2004-07-26 05:52 · 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.

well, by digitalsushi · 2004-07-26 05:52 · Score: 1

the weirdest place *i've* ever read slashdot from was the scooped out inside of an 800 pound miracle grow pumpkin, via my wireless ibook.

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Re:well, by twofidyKidd · 2004-07-26 06:09 · Score: 1

Now you know damn well this is slashdot, so I call bullshit until you post pictures of this monstrosity. Otherwise, you're out of your gourd if you think I'm buying that one (pun intended.)

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Svalbard by JimDog · 2004-07-26 05:52 · Score: 3, Interesting

I just returned from a trip to Norway and Svalbard.
Just for fun, I pulled up Slashdot on my Treo 600.
Surprisingly, both Telenor and Norway NetCom had very good GSM/GPRS coverage in and around Longyearbyen (the main city on Svalbard, pop. ~1500). I think this is probably the northernmost GSM service area in the world, at 78 degrees north.

-j

Re:Svalbard by elrond1999 · 2004-07-26 06:45 · Score: 1

Well of course they do. Svalbard is the best connected part of Norway. Actually every house has a free multi megabit VDSL connection. This is then connected through a very long subsea cable to mainland Norway.. Now why would they do that for 1500 ppl? Well they have a very large Satelite download station that requires it and the residents are just tagging along for free :) More info here: Norway to wire North Pole

from a.... by zogger · 2004-07-26 05:53 · Score: 1

... truckstop on one of those insert x-dollars for a few minutes web access kiosks.

Ecuador by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 05:53 · Score: 1, Interesting

I'm reading /. in the middle of the Jungle at an oil camp.

Me!? I'm a -1 troll!!! by Goalie_Ca · 2004-07-26 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

So naturally I read it in a cave and under bridges.

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Re:Me!? I'm a -1 troll!!! by spood · 2004-07-26 08:52 · Score: 1

If it wasn't for the karma hit, I would have modded you troll just for the humor factor.

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Bush alaska by Zorton · 2004-07-26 05:54 · Score: 2, Interesting

I've read slashdot from a location only accessable via float plane running on a generator over a starband connection. Sitting in a tent sending e-mail and reading slashdot while swatting mosquitos definitaly ranks up there.

Re:Bush alaska by kannibal_klown · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

Not to doubt your story...

But how is a location only accessable via float plane? I mean, if it's an island somewhere, surely a boat (sail or otherwise) could reach it, with a rowboat or zodiac to get you to shore.

I'm just curious. Does it have to do with restricted waterways or something? Or surrounded completely by coral reefs.

Again, I'm actually curious, not doubting you.
Re:Bush alaska by GrubInCan · 2004-07-26 06:10 · Score: 1

Think lake - not island.
Re:Bush alaska by Zorton · 2004-07-27 05:29 · Score: 1

Most locations outside of the road system in Alaska have no other pracitcal means of reaching them other than float plane. Runways are typicaly put in larger towns but, for the most part untill the winter, finding something flat to land on can be a challenge. That's the great part about lakes and float planes, water is mostly flat. Coastal communities can be reached by boat however the time spent is considerable and when your trying to get something done spending 3-7 hours in a boat eats up your daily schedule. Plus you have to consider the weather when traveling long distances via boat, small craft advisories are considered a decent day most of the time :)

Cursed with monopresence by brentharris · 2004-07-26 05:54 · Score: 1

But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from, or the most remote place you're currently reading it from?

Not being capable of omnipresence or even polypresence, the most remote, and only, place I am currently reading from is my office desk in Atlanta.

The summit of Mauna Kea by igable · 2004-07-26 05:54 · 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.

Re:The summit of Mauna Kea by taernim · 2004-07-26 10:15 · Score: 1

Silly guy... Hawaii isn't in Canada or France! :-P

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Re:The summit of Mauna Kea by ZZmonki · 2004-07-26 12:03 · Score: 1

I'm posting from 14,000' in Canada France Hawaii Telescope's control room right now actually. Yippy for lack of O2!

If I had sumbitted a good story this morning... by fiannaFailMan · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

... and got rejected, I'd be very upset right now.

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Vacation by Klar · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 1

From an internet booth while on vacation in the Dominican Republic during reading week. A few people who were waiting behind me to use the computer were like "News for nerds?!?!" and getting upset cause they wanted me to get off so they could read their damn hotmail...

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Grammar nazi no more by sudotcsh · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Regarding the article line:

But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from?

I was going to suggest they use the proper English, "What's the strangest place from which you have ever read Slashdot?" but ... I then realized if I did that I'd have my head up my ass.

For your average Slashdot poster that's more of the standard place from which to post.

are cell phones "weird"? by GrendelT · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 1

I read /. from my cell phone's 'web browser' during a defensive driving class.

How about over lynx via an SSH connection when the web-proxy @ work went down?
(I also played TTYQuake over SSH too)

Re:are cell phones "weird"? by dyefade · 2004-07-26 08:02 · Score: 1

If you were actually driving at the time it would be pretty weird I guess...

Places I'd Like To See by patricksevenlee · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 2, Interesting

Some places I'd like to see on the list:

- The Playboy Mansion
- The Oval Office
- Stonehenge
- Atlantis

And of course this place: http://community.webshots.com/album/70233469ukYjLT

Hmm. by xmutex · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 4, Funny

Is this like a geek version of the weird places you've had sex?

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Re:Hmm. by TWX · 2004-07-26 07:20 · Score: 1

"Is this like a geek version of the weird places you've had sex?"

Funny, that. I could state, "in the ASU Galvin Playhouse men's room", but I didn't have a computer with me and I did have a girl with me...

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Re:Hmm. by hxnwix · 2004-07-26 09:22 · Score: 1

If geeks don't screw, where do they come from? The evidence contradicts the meme! How could this be?
Re:Hmm. by cheesy9999 · 2004-07-26 09:32 · Score: 1

A golf course.

(Sex, not Slashdot)

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Re:Hmm. by glwtta · 2004-07-26 11:09 · Score: 1

Geek sex - what a poll that would be!
1) In bed.
2) With a girl.

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The tally so far... by HarveyBirdman · 2004-07-26 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

"On the toilet" : 1,624,115
"In Soviet Russia" : 890,560
"While commuting" : 5,109
"While stuffing face with food" : 4,483
"While watching pr0n" : 1,294
"While having sex (solo)" : 1,154
"Inside Michael Moore's colon" : 27
"Inside George Bush's head" : 25
"Hiding in the rafters at the Democratic convention... my God, the gas! The gas and hot air and bullshit are suffocating me! : 1
"While having sex (with partner)" : 0

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Re:The tally so far... by Hansu · 2004-07-26 06:09 · Score: 1

That Soviet Russia is interesting since Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1992 and I thought Slashdot started in 1997 or something like that.

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Re:The tally so far... by baudilus · 2004-07-26 06:17 · Score: 1

(with partner)

That changes everything...
Re:The tally so far... by punkin · 2004-07-26 07:01 · Score: 5, Funny

"Inside George Bush's head" : 25

Damn, the echoes must be terrible.
Re:The tally so far... by zsau · 2004-07-26 11:04 · Score: 1

"While having sex (with partner)" : 0

Hey! I resent these stereotypes! I've tried reading slashdot while having sex (with partner), but it's awfully difficult.

I'm yet to find a partner...

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Re:The tally so far... by CAIMLAS · 2004-07-26 11:12 · Score: 1

dear god man, 2nd to last nearly made me LOL. I laugh loudly, and I'm sitting in a class with 30 other people during the world's most boring lecture yet known to man.

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Driving on the highway.. by JayPee · 2004-07-26 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny

..piss drunk, traveling 90MPH+ (friend was driving) using a Sprint PCS connection with my iBook, ranting about how "fucking amazing" technology was.

booze + wireless = endless ranting about "amazing" stuff.

Re:Driving on the highway.. by bamberg29 · 2004-07-26 06:04 · Score: 1

I've definately done that too--but with T-Mobile GPRS.

David

@WiFi hotspots by Audigy · 2004-07-26 05:56 · Score: 1

Most recently, a Panera Bread restaurant downtown... not really too remote.

McDonald's restaurants are everywhere though; apparently they're aiming to wire them all for WiFi eventually.

PocketPC + WiFi SD Card = pretty cool, though.

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Best spot ever... by ph33nd · 2004-07-26 05:57 · Score: 1

Well, with my wireless, I have to say, the bathroom has been a choice spot for me to read slashdot... better than a magazine...

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In the bathroom by chaffed · 2004-07-26 05:57 · Score: 1

At the movie theatre avoiding a really bad movie the woman made me go see.

I love my zaurus.

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Not a strange place at all. by baudilus · 2004-07-26 05:57 · Score: 1

In the bathroom.

...of course it was number 2!

I read slashdot by Unnngh! · 2004-07-26 05:57 · Score: 1

...from the goatse.cx server room. We keep getting all these hits with referer 'slashdot.org', and I just can't figure it out...

sl5500, train-ride through the rührgebiet ... by torpor · 2004-07-26 05:57 · Score: 1

... kismet running in the background, 'wget' running on stuff i want to read offline in a console, and /. running in itty-bitty font mode as i ride from arnheim to münich, using whatever open 'net i find en route to download stuff on my freshly-accidentally-formatted sd card ...

not necessarily 'strange' (unless you think germany is strange, i do sometimes...), but the revelation for what i was doing and how weird it was to have so much computing power, so soon, in a place i always wanted it (trainrides) came about quite a few times on that trip.

wasn't up for any compiling, really, but i did make some notes on a pen-based editing 'system' that would be good for plain ol' C code writing/authoring, with pen...

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What if... by c0ldfusi0n · 2004-07-26 05:58 · Score: 1

We could start a "Extreme Slashdotting" movement, pretty much like Extreme Ironing!
Hell, it may even be considered a sport in the near future!

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traffic jam by kent_eh · 2004-07-26 05:58 · Score: 1

Once road traffic has been stationary for a while, it seems safe enough to so some surfing while you wait.

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1100 feet from the man by Sowbug · 2004-07-26 05:58 · Score: 4, Interesting

August 2001, the middle of the desert in Nevada, while setting up my Burning Man art project. I was furious at myself for making a last-minute untested change to the firmware that killed the visuals, and now I had to reprogram 27 EEPROMs hanging 10 feet in the air by climbing a ladder and plugging a ribbon cable into each one and holding my laptop perfectly steady for 90 seconds while the flash programmer ran. It was a miserable way to spend an hour, and I was convinced I'd wasted five months of effort.

About halfway through I remembered that 802.11b was blanketing the area and wondered whether I had a signal. Although it was over a thousand feet from the camp areas, the conditions were perfect. So I checked e-mail and Slashdot; odd how a geek finds comfort when he's far from home.

How shameful by lukewarmfusion · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

I checked Slashdot from a $3 for five minutes internet kiosk in the Bahamas on my honeymoon. My wife was done with her email (which was cheaper than making a phone call!) and we still had a few minutes left, so she let me use the last few. Instead of communicating with my friends and family, I checked Slashdot.

And no, Slashdotters don't count as my friends and family.

Re:How shameful by torpor · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

luke, i am your father, you insensitive clod!

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Re:How shameful by Jhan · 2004-07-26 06:48 · Score: 1

... My wife was done with her email (which was cheaper than making a phone call!)

Medium long phone call, 1 MB.

Minor text essay, 1kB.

Why are you suprised?

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I'm on the moon. by sy5nak · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

Will someone please email Buzz and tell him I'm still up here? I'm using a high power 802.11 directional antenna and I have to craft a packet and send it off 8 minutes before the rotation of the earth brings that "default" linksys ap into my line of site. Thanks guy in Toronto!

Re:I'm on the moon. by nolife · 2004-07-26 07:05 · Score: 1

The reason no one has ever responded to your packets is due to the fact that you miscalculated light speed by a huge factor. It only takes 1.2 seconds for electromagnetic radiation to get from the moon to earth. I would guess you are probably getting actually connecting to an AP about 136 miles to the east of Toronto ;)

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Re:I'm on the moon. by sy5nak · 2004-07-26 07:22 · Score: 1

Either that, or I've crash landed on a different moon about 143 million Km's from earth.

The nudey Bar by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 2, Funny

nothing better than Beer, Tech and T****es. Why here u ask? If a girl that you don't want a dance from comes up to you, what better way to turn her around than look liek a nerd.

Re:The nudey Bar by tesmako · 2004-07-26 06:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Extremely clever, who would have thought that one could use nerdiness to repel women? Will have to try that some day.
Re:The nudey Bar by switcha · 2004-07-26 11:45 · Score: 1

The nudey Bar
Why here u ask?
...what better way to turn her around than look liek a nerd.
Well, you could try your horrible spelling and punctuation.

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Thailand by almeida · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

I've read Slashdot over really slow dialup links from Thailand, mainly Bangkok, but a couple times in Hua-Hin and I think Chiang Mai too. Reading something like Slashdot over flakey phones lines makes you appreciate websites that aren't laid out in tables. Because it's all tables, whatever browser I was using at the time didn't like displaying anything until the whole page was loaded. I eventually switched to the "light" version of the site, but even that was painfully slow.

Re:Thailand by iguana · 2004-07-26 08:19 · Score: 1

I have a living will that states if I fail to read Slashdot for six consecutive days, I'm to be considered legally brain dead. My brother got married on Koh Samui, an island off Thailand last fall. I checked /. daily from the ubiquitous internet cafes in Bangkok and Koh Samui.
Re:Thailand by joe_adk · 2004-07-26 17:00 · Score: 1

dang... I was just about to post "From Koh Samui, Thailand." It was part of the daily routine while I was there.

I can top this by mfh · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

I stowed away on Cassini and am posting from inside a crate of pudding. Not sure why they packed that...

You can find out exactly where I am here.

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Re:I can top this by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:03 · Score: 1, Informative

Here's an article on Antarctic internet access.
"The South Pole gets much of its telephone and data communications capability from NASA and U.S. Air Force satellites that are reaching the end of their orbit life cycle. At that point they become visible from the Pole, so to speak, in highly inclined geosynchronous orbits. Johnson said the satellites are now at a stage where they're far from reliable."
Re:I can top this by FlutterVertigo(gmail · 2004-07-26 10:56 · Score: 1

We tried this about fifteen years ago[1] when I created JUGGLE-L. Someone was living out where God lost his shoes in Africa and managed to make a connection.

[1] And as always, those days are when I referred to the Internet as "The World's Biggest Secret Club". If you knew about it, it was likely because you were on it. Otherwise...
Re:I can top this by identity0 · 2004-07-26 13:22 · Score: 1

I can top that. Hi, I'm your new brother. I'm posting from inside YO MAMA.

Highway 1 near Watsonville by rmd6502 · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

Using a CDMA data connection to my laptop (I'm the passenger; don't /. and drive!)

Re:The toilet. by Rimbo · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 1

That, and laptops. :)

Constipation used to be a problem. Now it's a blessing in disguise...

Can't tell where.... by mseeger · 2004-07-26 05:59 · Score: 5, Funny

But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from

Can't tell where it was, but the speed was 150 mph ;-).

Regards, Martin

Re:Can't tell where.... by WormholeFiend · 2004-07-26 06:03 · Score: 1

didnt you have connection problems due to the Doppler effect?
Re:Can't tell where.... by TeknoHog · 2004-07-26 06:44 · Score: 4, Insightful

Note to moderators: this has something to do with Heisenberg...

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Re:Can't tell where.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 09:32 · Score: 1, Funny

Can't tell you when it was, but the speed was 88 mph.
Re:Can't tell where.... by hkon · 2004-07-26 09:34 · Score: 1

Can't tell where it was, but the speed was 150 mph ;-).

Dr. Heisenberg, is that you?
Re:Can't tell where.... by steptoe6125 · 2004-07-26 10:47 · Score: 2

that must be 150.00000000000000000000000 mph?

Roaming the streets? by Lindar+The+Bard · 2004-07-26 06:00 · Score: 1

Probably the weirdest place I've accessed Slashdot is walking through my neighborhood at 10pm. People were asking me why we (my friend and myself) were out walking around with laptops. We replied,"Oh nothing *mumbling*just scanning for unencrypted wifi connections." to which he replied,"When I was a kid, it was kickball." then he drove away.
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New Jersey by pegboy · 2004-07-26 06:00 · Score: 1

I'm reading slashdot is the most messed up place possible. New Jersey!

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On an island in the Adriatic Sea by otisg · 2004-07-26 06:00 · Score: 2, Interesting

Jelsa, Hvar, Croatia.
Tourists: don't bother coming here, it's really, really awful here! Baaaaaaad! :)

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I post on it from by Turn-X+Alphonse · 2004-07-26 06:00 · Score: 1

Thisreally strange planet full of little pink things who have to wear multicolour fabric to becomec "fashionable" and who had evolved so their breeding has become for fun between the youngest of the species.

This odd race also enjoys killing each other, taking strange substances, which disable the basic abilities of the brain and even find this an entertaining pass time.

It's quite the intresting place :)

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Awwww! :-( by HarveyBirdman · 2004-07-26 06:00 · Score: 1

And no, Slashdotters don't count as my friends and family.

Way to ruin my Monday, you, you, you poopie-head! :-P

*sniffle*

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on a cellphone on a bus.. by khrtt · 2004-07-26 06:01 · Score: 1

..and more than once, I'm afraid to admit. Not the most pleasant experience, as the cellphone screen is barely big enough to read more than the headline page, and the text input is almost too slow for a decent first post attempt.

Lhasa, Tibet by crowej · 2004-07-26 06:01 · Score: 2

Lhasa, Tibet in a cyber cafe across from the Banak Shol. Such a deal -- only 2 juan (~20 cents) an hour, including the free email proofreading by big brother.

On a tractor, in a field... by erwin · 2004-07-26 06:01 · Score: 2, Interesting

while waiting for a combine to fill some wagons with corn. It was fsck'n cold, too. The LCD of my smart phone was sluggish, but, hey, this is /., so I didn't notice.

of course, I checked it last week while sitting on the same tractor while waiting for a wagon of hay, too. It was hot, but the phone was still slow.

i would tell but i can't by tisme · 2004-07-26 06:01 · Score: 1

Oh gosh, if only I *could* tell you. Maybe in a few years I will...

Re:The toilet by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:02 · Score: 1, Funny

between the time of me writing the original message and pressing the "submit" button, there were already 7 comments about people reading /. on the toilet!

Explains all the crap people post, doesn't it?

Not really strange, but strange for slashdot by Aggrazel · 2004-07-26 06:02 · Score: 1

I read slashdot all the time from the Gym while using some cardio equipment, lots of them have internet access attached.

I read /. from my boss's office. by MisterLawyer · 2004-07-26 06:03 · Score: 1

I work at a automotive repair shop. Sometimes while I'm at work, I sneak into my boss's office to post replies to slashdot articles. Umm I gotta go...

Pretty freakin' remote by BMazurek · 2004-07-26 06:03 · Score: 1

I accessed it from the hotel office here...the Serengeti Serena Lodge. It was so freakin' slow that I couldn't bear to do much of anything. I had to stop.

On the plus side, there are Internet Cafe's on every street corner in Dar Es Salaam (the capital) and in Zanzibar! The connections there weren't fabulous, but they weren't awful either.

Brad

Last week... by garcia · 2004-07-26 06:03 · Score: 1

I was on vacation in South Carolina (HHI) and was enjoying emailing co-workers from the beach. I figured I'd hop on Slashdot and read this story from my Hiptop I ;)

In a crystal ball by fejes · 2004-07-26 06:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Fascinating articles, that way too, although the print is hard to make out. Something about Microsoft being sued by SCO, I think...

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For those who don't get the reference by FuckMeter · 2004-07-26 06:04 · Score: 5, Informative

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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Re:For those who don't get the reference by joemc79 · 2004-07-26 07:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Rate Naked People at FuckMeter! (Not Safe For Work)

You know, it's a good thing you put that "not safe for work" discalimer on your sig. Otherwise, I'd have no idea that rating people at FuckMeter.com would be at all objectionable. Thanks for the warning.
Re:For those who don't get the reference by applef00 · 2004-07-26 07:51 · Score: 1

The tape of the show also "disapeared" for about twenty years. It was considered by many to be an urban legend (about which you can read more here--threr's also audio and video of it there, too. Nobody really believed that it actually happened. It was just in the last couple of years that the network copped to it actually existing. If you ever watch VH1, and they stop playing "I Love the '_0s" long enough, they'll show "Funniest Gameshow Moments" (or something like that). The clip is in shows number 1 and 2, at the very end if you're interested in seeing it. It's pretty funny.
Re:For those who don't get the reference by tunabomber · 2004-07-26 09:05 · Score: 1

Well, on one episode, the question for the ladies was: "What's the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?"
Jason Lee: "Whoopee? What the hell does that mean!?"

(This was back in the '70s, you couldn't say "made love" or "had sex" on TV, so they would say "whoopee.")
Jason Lee: "Oh. You mean, like fucking?!"
Audience: GAAASSSSP

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Re:For those who don't get the reference by vehn23 · 2004-07-26 09:12 · Score: 1

I also like when people manually type in "sigs" because its very important that we readers with then disabled see this particular sig.
Re:For those who don't get the reference by taernim · 2004-07-26 09:53 · Score: 1

They parodied this famous moment in Kevin Smith's Mallrats as well.

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Re:For those who don't get the reference by ffsnjb · 2004-07-26 12:39 · Score: 1

Where's the +5, NJ Trilogy Quote mod when I need it?

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Re:For those who don't get the reference by Mr+Europe · 2004-07-26 19:12 · Score: 1

This how our company shows the fuckmeter.com:

xxxxx Corporation limits internet browsing of non-work related web sites. The limitation is based on xxxxx's internet guidelines and ethical principles.

The requested document (http://fuckmeter.com/) can not be opened due to it's content.
Reason: DDR score = 94. This page will not be displayed because it contains prohibited words or it has exceeded its tolerance of questionable words.

Russia, Nepal, Dutch Harbor by Nept · 2004-07-26 06:04 · Score: 3, Interesting

I was in Russia on vacation this year, and read slashdot whilst in Irkusk (city in Siberia near Lake Baikal).

Kathmandu, Nepal at an internet cafe. I wouldn't consider it terribly strange or remote though.

in Dutch Harbor, a southernmost island on the alaskan aleutian chain (unalaska) on a rather slow dial-up.

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Don't know how I pulled it off... by MoeMoe · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 4, Interesting

This was a year or two back when I had an old Palm IIIc and a Nokia 8290...

I was in the Bahamas and they didn't have any internet access... I could use my cell phone though I had to dial a special extension to reach into the USA... I rigged the IR port on my IIIc to use the IR port on my phone as a modem and dial out.... I checked my email, took a peek at Slashdot (or what I could see from it) and logged off...

2 weeks later, a bill for $78.00 for overseas calls and internet usage... It was worth it for the koolness factor :p

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Re:Don't know how I pulled it off... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:50 · Score: 2, Funny
"2 weeks later, a bill for $78.00 for overseas calls and internet usage... It was worth it for the koolness factor :p"
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Re:Don't know how I pulled it off... by MoeMoe · 2004-07-26 07:16 · Score: 1

I knew the bill would sky rocket... It was paid by my company anyway (work phone in case something went wrong back here), but I think the data access overseas was a bit much :p

Like you wouldn't have done the same... :p

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Re:Don't know how I pulled it off... by Jesus_666 · 2004-07-26 09:05 · Score: 1

That reminds me of something... Soon I'll be on some kind of mini-convention where 60 people share three PCs on an ISDN line and there's no way to connect your own box to the network.
Maybe I can let my Vx use my mobile as a modem to download /. and then hotsync it onto my PC from where I can read it comfortably.

Or maybe I'd rather spend that money on getting some counselling...

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Re:Don't know how I pulled it off... by MoeMoe · 2004-07-26 12:05 · Score: 1

In my defense, I did this on my Palm IIIc to view it, and it was done during the morning.... The nightlife is was the time I used for chicks.... I got far enough ;)

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Greetings from Kabul! by telstar · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

How can we have a discussion about posting from strange locations without mentioning Junis? Without question, that's my favorite all-time slashdot thread!

All up'n yo face! by Chess_the_cat · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

Keep these shitty submissions up and I won't read it at all. Funny LOTR castings? WTF?

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On my cell phone by ZagNuts · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

at the beach. I set slashdot to "lite" right before I left for the beach. The problem was that I left max stories at 30, which caused my cell phone to run out of memory. I finally managed to get to my preferences, still on my phone, and set the max articles to 10 or something like that. I then had to hold the down button for about 15 minutes until my phone got to Save at the bottom (there are tons of check boxes that it has to go through). I actually had to do that last step about three times because at first the preferences caused my phone to run out of memory too, but I didn't realize that until I got almost to the bottom to find that the bottom was missing. So after I rebooted the browser (yes, you can do that on a cell phone), I finally set the number of articles to 10 and was able to read the headlines (comments were way too much for the phone to handle). The phone is a Sanyo 5500.

Re:Funny you should ask by Mantorp · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

can you spare a square?

Geez... by FatTux · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 1

First, this. And now, this one.

Indeed a slow day. See ya later.

From The Planet ... by CHaN_316 · 2004-07-26 06:06 · Score: 1

Omicron Persei 8 PUNY HUMANS! I AM LRRR, Bah, this is a CowboyNeal heavy episode of slashdot today anyways....

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I once read Slashdot from.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:06 · Score: 3, Funny

..Belgium! Get this! Belgium!

Re:I once read Slashdot from.. by andrew_0812 · 2004-07-26 07:16 · Score: 3, Funny

This vulgar use of profanity is outrageous! I am deeply offended.
Re:I once read Slashdot from.. by Short+Circuit · 2004-07-26 07:55 · Score: 1

Yeah...It wasn't gratuitous, and it certainly wasn't a movie.

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Re:I once read Slashdot from.. by phazethru · 2004-07-26 10:35 · Score: 1

What? Is slashdot no longer considered a serious artistic meduim? This post should be up for an award!

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Re:I once read Slashdot from.. by Thnkoman · 2004-07-26 18:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

I read it from English class at BYU. Now I know you don't think that's weird, but you trying going anywhere on the internet with the Mormon filters in place on that campus. It's only a matter of time before they learn of /. comments and even that is taken from me. :(

When visiting other continents by invisik · 2004-07-26 06:07 · Score: 1

While I live in the US, I've accessed slashdot from europe, africa and asia, on my cell phone and my laptop..... It's good stuff!

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As of now im reading slashdot from by Cprossu · 2004-07-26 06:07 · Score: 1

my roof next to the fricken condensor.... ummmmm anyone know how to fix a freon leak? =X

Underground in a coal mine by axler · 2004-07-26 06:07 · 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...

Re:Underground in a coal mine by Creepy+Crawler · 2004-07-26 07:44 · Score: 1

Very neat..

Do you get paid more for working down there as an admin?

I know a few miners.. They get paid for doing a "good load" about 120k a year.
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Re:Underground in a coal mine by axler · 2004-07-26 09:36 · Score: 1

No extra pay... It is something different, and people tend to ask a lot of questions once they find out that I've done that. Yea, you can make six digits as a miner, but I'll stick to making less and keep my geek status...
Re:Underground in a coal mine by Creepy+Crawler · 2004-07-28 15:17 · Score: 1

Very cool ;)

My dad is actually a major geek too. He's built an exhaust that's really clean. Ive seen the prototypes he's done along with the testing equipment. Because of this, he's been down in the pits (heh) testing it all out.

I'd tell you more, but patents are pending and all.. If you do see him, my Dad works for Arvin/Meritor. Very cool stuff he does ;) Yep, electro-acoustical engineer.
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Theater! by DarkBlackFox · 2004-07-26 06:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Most strange place must have been backstage during a production of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya." Oddly enough the play is set in Soviet Russia, so I got a chuckle out of all the jokes on Slashdot that night.

Re:Theater! by bendelo · 2004-07-26 06:58 · Score: 2, Funny

In Soviet Russia, Uncle Vanya backstages you
Re:Theater! by Mac+Degger · 2004-07-26 12:49 · Score: 1

D'ya have a nice sleep after?

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Re:Theater! by Xilo · 2004-07-26 17:33 · Score: 1

Every show I crew for, I bring my laptop and a WAP for the entire cast to use backstage. Amazingly, it's only caused one late entrance in months, and one with the incorrect costume. I'm actually working on interfacing it to the light board so that I can stage-manage from backstage when we're short on people in black clothes..

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Yellowstone NP, Mammoth Hot Springs by goatcheese · 2004-07-26 06:07 · Score: 2, Interesting

And before any one jumps on me, it was after a full day of nature activities :-)

I was getting Verizon 1xRTT signal in my cabin, of course I was going to get on the net with my laptop!

I dont read slashdot by golan · 2004-07-26 06:08 · Score: 5, Funny

you insensitive clod!!!

Re:I dont read slashdot by System.out.println() · 2004-07-26 07:48 · Score: 1

Well, not the articles, at any rate.

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Re:I dont read slashdot by wtrmute · 2004-07-26 07:54 · Score: 1

Read Slashdot? Whoever does that? This is the original `chmod 622` news site...

The Most Common Place by thpdg · 2004-07-26 06:08 · Score: 1

On the clock, at work, preferably, while a member of management is in your office, talking to you, while you nod politely.
My second fav is on my PDA, over Wi-Fi, in the conference room, during some important Engineering meeting.
Let me just say, that the Wi-Fi works in the bathroom, so that's probably the legit answer to the question.

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Lusty Lady Theater by bawb · 2004-07-26 06:08 · Score: 2, Interesting

I was the tech manager at the SF location. It got kind of surreal sometimes, as the muffled din that the place would put out often sounded like scores of women being axe-murdered. [That and the naked girls/women running around everywhere.]
Um ... why did I quit that job again?

Just this past Saturday night by ciurana · 2004-07-26 06:08 · Score: 1

I was reading slashdot.org from DNA Lounge in San Francisco (http://www.dnalounge.com). I love clubbing and go out almost every Saturday but had not been to DNA since Jamie bought the joint.

Very cool web browsing/IRC/SSH set up.

And yes, I just couldn't resist checking slashdot.org from there, sometime around 30 minutes past midnight.

I understand that DNA Lounge is also a WiFi hot spot, for those of you geeky enough to bring a laptop to a dance club...

Cheers,

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Re:Just this past Saturday night by vaportrailz · 2004-07-26 12:50 · Score: 1

Live 1/4 block away and havent seen any signal from DNA. Plus they have about 12" of stucco out there.. good luck getting any signal out the front door.

Easy to answer... by algedeon · 2004-07-26 06:09 · Score: 1

Canada... both strange and remote...

Strange... by caldroun · 2004-07-26 06:09 · Score: 1

I don't read Slashdot.

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I read slashdot *while* having sex. by digitalgimpus · 2004-07-26 06:10 · Score: 1

I read slashdot *while* having sex.

Then I had to take my hand out of my pants so I could post a witty comment.

Re:I read slashdot *while* having sex. by Ari_Haviv · 2004-07-26 06:30 · Score: 1

reading news about google turns you on?

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Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by SharpFang · 2004-07-26 06:10 · Score: 1

been doing this, until the asshole of the provider changed the WWW->SMS gateway to require "read text from image, type into box" real user authentication, rendering a week of coding useless :P I still can send emails, but can't script the reply. And even if I could, the asshole provider stuffs half of the message with commercial spam.

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In a strip club by jeffmeden · 2004-07-26 06:10 · Score: 1

and boy was that place strange

Funny that you should ask this... by LinuxTek · 2004-07-26 06:12 · Score: 1

I just recently went to San Francisco for the weekend with some friends. We decided to go to the DNA Lounge (the bar from one of Netscape's founders) and it had a couple of linux boxes lying around for the people to use.

I connected to IRC, read /. and opened an SSH connection to my server to start some download I forgot to start in the morning, while my friends were dancing and drinking.

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remotely on j00r 0wn3d b0x0r by Al+Dimond · 2004-07-26 06:13 · Score: 1

That's right, all of you.

Yuck... by muskr · 2004-07-26 06:14 · Score: 1

I feel strangely compelled to clean my keyboard and mouse and go wash my hands.

Re:Yuck... by batemanm · 2004-07-26 09:48 · Score: 1

Well the sign does say 'Now wash your hands'

Johnny B Reading by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:15 · Score: 1, Funny

The strangest place I have read Slashdot is on the toilet having a crud. I love wireless networks, although my laptop has been a little unstable since then.

Slash "Doting" it for my sister by kscode · 2004-07-26 06:15 · Score: 1, Interesting

I once had my sister read out slash while I was busy making pancakes for her :D

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a moving car in BFE by DNS-and-BIND · 2004-07-26 06:15 · Score: 1

Once, in rural China, I had to make a car trip of several hours. I wasn't looking forward to it. I hooked up to the local modem line, dialed in at 24k, turned off image loading (CTRL-G in Opera, thankyouverymuch), and clicked on several article comments in "nested" mode. Gave a few minutes for 'em to load (text gets compressed by modem) and disconnected. I then had enough to read until the battery ran out. Of course, it was Slashdot discussions, so it warn't that great, but it was better than the company papers I knew backwards and forwards already.

Needless to say, this was before Slashdot went into permanent "overload mode" and would display more than 50 comments at a time. I couldn't play Nethack because the laptop keyboard doesn't have enough keys.

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On the rugby field by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:15 · Score: 1, Interesting

...waiting for the game to start, on the coach's laptop.

The "Stans" by Saeed+al-Sahaf · 2004-07-26 06:16 · Score: 2, Interesting

I read /. from tent in a certain small country north of Afghanistan (one of the former Russian properties collectivly known as "The Stans"), last year. I also read it in Diego Garcia.

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Re:The "Stans" by orac2 · 2004-07-26 08:32 · Score: 1

a certain small country...I also read it in Diego Garcia

Suuure. So you're special forces or a spook then?

(For those who don't know, Diego Garcia is a small island in the Indian ocean whose entire indigenous population was forced to relocate in the 1960s and 1970s so the UK and US could blanket the place with an airfield and some serious electronic eavesdropping equipment. No-one not okayed by the Powers That Be is allowed to visit.)

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Re:The "Stans" by rxmd · 2004-07-26 09:18 · Score: 1

That would probably have been Uzbekistan - from where I happened to read Slashdot for about three months last year, from some villages over jolly 28k8 modem lines :)

God, coming back to Tashkent to an Internet cafe with an 1 MBit line felt like being headed dead-on on the fast lane for the Century of the Fruitbat...

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Re:The "Stans" by Saeed+al-Sahaf · 2004-07-26 09:19 · Score: 1

Suuure. So you're special forces or a spook then?
Not really. Lot's of run-of-the-mill grunts like me in The Stans and at Diego. Standard short tour TDY for DoD and Air Force folks.

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Re:The "Stans" by orac2 · 2004-07-26 14:19 · Score: 1

Fair enough, and pretty impressive: Bamford's Body of Secrets certainly makes it sound like a fascinating place.

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Re:The "Stans" by dubl-u · 2004-07-27 18:35 · Score: 1

Not really. Lot's of run-of-the-mill grunts like me in The Stans and at Diego. Standard short tour TDY for DoD and Air Force folks.

I can verify that. Circa 1994, a friend was looking at the phone book's list of country codes and noticed Diego Garcia. Neither of us had heard of this, and since this was back before the rise of the search engine, we couldn't find much out. So we started calling random numbers.

After we discovered that the phone number space for the whole country was 4 whole digits, we started at the low end and worked our way up. We eventually got a Cable and Wireless tech who was really glad for the diversion. He told us a fair bit of nonclassified information about the island, including how boring it was to be posted to a sliver of sand so far from anywhere that the middle of nowhere sounded like a step up.

Printed? by pen · 2004-07-26 06:16 · Score: 1

I usually print out AlterSlash at 6 pages per sheet. (Using Proxomitron to change the tables from 600 pixels wide to 100%.)

Happy Hunting grounds for Techies! by nova20 · 2004-07-26 06:16 · Score: 1

Anxious Twat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Agnes Scott College... in my fiance's dorm room.

For those of you that don't know it, ASC is a women's college about 30 minutes away from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Coincidence? I think not!

/nova20

Bangkok by bef126 · 2004-07-26 06:17 · Score: 1

The farthest I've ever been from my house (east coast us) has been Thailand. If I remember, the internet coffee houses charged aroung $6 us dollars per 1/2 hour of connection time. So I've at least got some apache log entries from Thailand floating around somewhere on the slashdot servers.

Re:Bangkok by raju1kabir · 2004-07-27 03:19 · Score: 1

The farthest I've ever been from my house (east coast us) has been Thailand. If I remember, the internet coffee houses charged aroung $6 us dollars per 1/2 hour of connection time.

I'm posting from a net cafe in Thailand right now. 1 megabit DSL here, and I can feel it (it feels nice) when downloading.

Rate sheet for the place is right in front of me on the desk, so for the general info welfare I'll transcribe it:

1-20 minutes: 10 baht (US$0.25)
21-60 minutes: 20 baht (US$0.50)
60-120 minutes: 30 baht (US$0.75)

Can't complain about them rates. If you paid $6 you wuz skrude.

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From the jail.. by Dizorder · 2004-07-26 06:18 · Score: 1

No.. Just kidding.

Does the toilet count? by Supp0rtLinux · 2004-07-26 06:18 · Score: 1

I have a bad habit of multitasking, so I often take my laptop to the crapper, and /. is by far the site I read the most.

Now, perhaps I could use my laptop on the crapper on a submarine under an ice shelf in the Antartic?

Re:Does the toilet count? by GreatBallsOfFire · 2004-07-26 06:19 · Score: 1

I thought I was the only freak who did this! Har!

Kuwait.. by trav3l3r · 2004-07-26 06:19 · Score: 1

I have read slashdot from tents in Kuwait and trailers in Saudi...

Odd by ChozCunningham · 2004-07-26 06:20 · Score: 1

My sleep. More than once.

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A bit uncomfortable... by Short+Circuit · 2004-07-26 06:20 · Score: 2, Funny

...but at least you got good signal.

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Rainman by Luke+the+Obscure · 2004-07-26 06:20 · Score: 1

I am in a high school summer school classroom, surrounded by several screaming autistic kids and a few screaming down syndrome kids on a Pentium I running Windows 98.

Currently, one of my students is wearing a firemans hat and rocking back and forth, one of them is throwing books and another one is sitting under a desk grunting.

The rest, as I mentioned, are screaming.

Re:Rainman by mforbes · 2004-07-26 06:34 · Score: 1

For goodness' sake, get the kids off the Pentium! How do they stand on such a small block of silicon anyway?
Or wait, is that a new pharmaceutical?

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Military Bases by ZBM-2 · 2004-07-26 06:20 · Score: 2, Interesting

I've surfed /. at the Pentagon,from Korea,and in the desert(twice). But it's cool,because I'm a sysad and have to keep up on IT stuff.

"Yes Sir,this is official business. I'm getting info on a new virus we might get hit with. Natlie Portman's hot grits? Er,that's the name of the virus. Yeah,that's the ticket."

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puerto escondido, mexico by makeyourself · 2004-07-26 06:21 · Score: 1

i downloaded the rss feed to my ipod, read it at the beach.. found out about google's stock, wrote a note in the back of a corona's label (drank the corona) and rushed to the internet cafe to find this was a better place to post... so i guess it was a corona label

Hey there, old-timer by CdBee · 2004-07-26 06:21 · Score: 1

With a /. UID of 458 you've been reading slashdot long enough to have checked it from every internet café on Earth.. and this is the best you can do?

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Re:Hey there, old-timer by torpor · 2004-07-26 07:47 · Score: 1

hey man, who really has time to read /. in truly strange places?

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Public Restroom by nsyrus · 2004-07-26 06:22 · Score: 1

Yesterday I read slashdot on my PDA from a public restroom with a WiFi spot nearby. Gave me something to do while sitting on the john :)

remote? by sugarmotor · 2004-07-26 06:22 · Score: 1

" ... the most remote place you're currently reading it from?" - I'm usually pretty close to where I am. I could work on that - you little geographical-centrist.

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remote village in india by phreakv6 · 2004-07-26 06:22 · Score: 2, Interesting

at a remote village in india... connected thru my laptop and cellphone.. i even made a post that got a +5 Interesting :). And btw... During daytime in india u hardly get 2-3 articles posted in abt 8-10 hrs time.. that is very bad.. all interesting stuff on /. happens only at nights here.. wud the editors do something about it pleaseeeeeeeeee !

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Re:remote village in india by wheatking · 2004-07-26 06:48 · Score: 1

how about starting up /slashdot/india ?

ref: Your .sig by Morphine007 · 2004-07-26 06:22 · Score: 1

Anyone who hooks up through Slashdot Personals -- you **MUST** post about it! Karma be damned!

erm.... what exactly are Slashdot personals?

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Re:ref: Your .sig by gabbarbhai · 2004-07-26 06:28 · Score: 1

erm.... what exactly are Slashdot personals?
If you don't know about it, you're not fit to read /. grin..
Re:ref: Your .sig by Morphine007 · 2004-07-26 06:48 · Score: 1

If you don't know about it, you're not fit to read /. grin..

207082 vs. 719706

... I'm not new to /. but I was doing infantry officer training, and kinda missed some points of /. evolution.... so I ask again, wtf are they?

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Re:ref: Your .sig by RLiegh · 2004-07-26 07:15 · Score: 1

They're the slashdot brand applied to match.com; not sure of the details but match.com had a bunch of ads running here for a while.

Was pretty lame really (which is why I am so vague on the details...wasn't really worth noticing).
Re:ref: Your .sig by gabbarbhai · 2004-07-26 08:54 · Score: 1

Welcome back. It's just a joke, doesn't really exist. Except maybe this lol. Stay safe.
Re:ref: Your .sig by pyrote · 2004-07-26 12:04 · Score: 1

erm.... what exactly are Slashdot personals?

Left hand meet right hand.

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Re:ref: Your .sig by gabbarbhai · 2004-07-26 17:19 · Score: 1

context, context... :)
Re:ref: Your .sig by Ciaran_H · 2004-07-27 02:43 · Score: 1

But there was one good thing about the site... the layout obviously hadn't been checked in Konqueror.

Check the age dropdowns in this screenshot to see what I mean. :D (and yes, that was a bona fide screenshot except for the added circle).

The one and only... by IcePop456 · 2004-07-26 06:23 · Score: 1

while on the crapper....where else?

North Africa by wilbrod · 2004-07-26 06:23 · Score: 1

This post could also be Wheere is the weirdest place you've used internet since almost everytime I go online, I take a peak at /..

I was living in Tunisia, North Africa, for four months and I have been able to do my Internet stuff in a Publinet (Internet Café). I think it was around 2$ CAD per hour(Cheap for us, but you can get a pop for 0.40$ there, and a meal for 3$ at a fast food place, so it's not so cheap for them) About 15-20 computers were sharing a slow DSL connection.

You have no idea how slow it could be when the place was packed. Still, I've been able to control my computer located in Canada thru WinVNC using the low quality/bandwith options AND read Slashdot.

Strangest Place... by drakyri · 2004-07-26 06:24 · Score: 1

The strangest place I've read Slashdot from?

Definitely New Jersey.

Next to a monkey by eabell · 2004-07-26 06:25 · Score: 2, Interesting

I glanced at the front page just to check the connection speed at Djuma, which is in Sabi Sands, which is in South Africa. I stopped by to use the PC in the evening to dash off a quick email home and would tend to bring up CNN, Yahoo Mail, and Slashdot in that order.

Monkeys would hang out just a few feet away, outside the hut, watching me. Kind of wild.

(And here's a link for the game lodge, which was a gorgeous place.)

Strangest Place by digitalgiblet · 2004-07-26 06:25 · Score: 1

From the future!

Actually in the bathroom of a flying car passing the moon heading to Saturn to look for the remains of the Cassini.

With your WIFE!

the beach by endocrantz · 2004-07-26 06:26 · Score: 1

All last week on the Jersey Shore I pulled a chair up on a dune overlooking the ocean where I could grab a ssid linksys/no-wep connection. My son thought it was odd enough to photograph.

From a by IneffibleMind · 2004-07-26 06:27 · Score: 1

Grocery store...... so freakin sad.

A hospital... by eurleif · 2004-07-26 06:27 · Score: 1

My father was in the hospital on life support for over a month after severe heart problems (he recovered very well, by the way). I was living in a small room intended for family of ICU patients the whole time, and I read Slashdot a lot during the stay.

Who wants to explain it to him? by HarveyBirdman · 2004-07-26 06:28 · Score: 1

NM

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Howabout this... by superdan2k · 2004-07-26 06:29 · Score: 1

...I read Slashdot during my morning shit. I combine the two greatest technological inventions in the history of man: wireless Ethernet, and indoor plumbing.

I am so 1.0, baby.

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On a 386 laptop... by yeremein · 2004-07-26 06:29 · Score: 4, Interesting

... dialed into my ISP with Qmodem 4.5, over the 2400-baud internal modem, using lynx.

Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by gl4ss · 2004-07-26 06:30 · Score: 2, Informative

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..

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Near the campfire by Yngvar · 2004-07-26 06:30 · Score: 1

I always take my PDA with me along with Bluetooh enabled cell phone when go into the woods or to the mountain side, since GPRS (Internet via the cell phone) works in this part of Russia almost everywhere.
Thus, i very often read Slashdot from some strange places like 40 metres tall rock near the Ural mountains, or sitting by the campfire.
Once i did it even from the deep deep forest, at 2 am :-)

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From the place all men dread... by mprog · 2004-07-26 06:31 · Score: 1

I read /. from a nice chair outside the women's dressing room on my SE P800 while my girlfriend tries on clothes... And it was when I did this for the first time that I knew I had just purchased salvation in the form of a symbian smart phone...

The strangest by ONOIML8 · 2004-07-26 06:31 · Score: 1

At my desk.

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Bleh.... by NewOrder · 2004-07-26 06:31 · Score: 1

At 80mph via Verizon data card and laptop on I-80 somehwere.

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hear ./ by JairVBJunior · 2004-07-26 06:32 · Score: 1

I'd love to *hear* the Slashdot while driving. Why not a wireless internet connection on my car and a little box running some kind of text-reader software, that would be sweet. All open source of course, even the car ;-)

Of course I could store all the news I want to hear on a usb pen-drive, plug it on my usb-drive-enabled-cd-player (I wish!) and go on to my work place.

Of course I could also forget all this crap and wait to read ./ on my work place :-)

Im a geek... by Ethon · 2004-07-26 06:32 · Score: 1

Laying in my girlfriend's bed on her laptop :'(

From the top a tower on top of mountain by div_2n · 2004-07-26 06:32 · Score: 2, Interesting

With a laptop perched on a tower at 250ft above the top of a mountain while aligning some 802.11b antennas. Beautiful view. Nasty winds.

Reading SlashDot by SphericalCrusher · 2004-07-26 06:33 · Score: 1

You probably won't find it strange, but my pick would probably be from my cellphone. It shows up very beautiful on my Motorola v400 phone. I've also made a couple of comments from it and meta-moderated. Other than that, I've DVed out to my 55" television once to play some games and I loaded SlashDot on it. It was quite a sight -- too bad I didn't take pictures. But yeah, on average, I read from my home network or if I get time, at school.

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36,000 ft by sedrikk · 2004-07-26 06:34 · Score: 1

I read slashdot from a 777 cruicing at 36,000 feet.

On vacation by Hangtime · 2004-07-26 06:34 · Score: 1

A small island off of Vanau Levu, Fiji Islands called Nukubati.

can't top this one by Ari_Haviv · 2004-07-26 06:35 · Score: 1

I was able to read slashdot 20 years ago...in Japan

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Side of Mt. Adams by zulux · 2004-07-26 06:35 · Score: 1

I keep an old Psion Revo and a Iridium satelite phone in my backpack when I'm out in the woods - it lets me fix servers, while still enjoying my vacation.

I had Telneted (SSH is too slow over a satelite link) into my home server, and from there, to my customer's server.

After I fixed their problem - I just had to try a 'lynx slashdot.org'.

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Iraq... by mack+knife · 2004-07-26 06:36 · Score: 1

From an Internet cafe in Erbil, Iraq.

Also Baghdad, but given the abundance of satellite connections for media types there, I think that's less unusual.

Re:Iraq... by seafortn · 2004-07-26 07:13 · Score: 1

Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan... (inside a big plywood box)

This comes from the middle of the Pacific Ocean by kjhart0133 · 2004-07-26 06:36 · Score: 2, Interesting

I'm a daily Slashdot user/reader and am located on Kwajalein Atoll. We're on the equator just west of the international dateline and thousands of miles from anything. Kwajalein Atoll is the site of a large radar installation run by the US Army. All the ICBM tests launced out of Vandenber, CA, are targeted to land here and we track the (unarmed) warheads all the way to splashdown, just off our islands. We also track and maintain a catalog of all the stuff circling overhead in orbit, from space junk to space stations. It's pretty cool work, but VERY remote. We're thankful for our 56K satellite link to the internet. Sure would be nice to have broadband.

Stravinsky Fountains, Paris by cvd6262 · 2004-07-26 06:37 · 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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The strangest place... by enilnomi · 2004-07-26 06:37 · Score: 1

I've ever read Slashdot from? That's easy -- the cafeteria at Hope College in Holland, MI. Take your pick; all three qualify as "strangest."

(P'bly only Taco will appreciate that one ;-)

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Weird? Um, maybe not... by didde · 2004-07-26 06:37 · Score: 2, Interesting

On an Ericsson P900 from the top of the main peak at a Swedish ski resort?

The weather was good and the sun was out. We stopped for a smoke in the slopes, and I figured why not try it out. Worked ok, except for the slooow GPRS though.

Mowing the Lawn by mainfr4me · 2004-07-26 06:38 · Score: 1

You would be very surprised how hard it is to read a Treo on my old Simplicity.

Guatemala by nicholaides · 2004-07-26 06:38 · Score: 1, Insightful

Internet cafe in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

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Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by josh3736 · 2004-07-26 06:40 · Score: 2, Funny

I actually read on my cell phone over WAP. Google can trasform regular HTML pages into WML pages. Kickass.

Unfortunately, this has led me to read Slashdot while driving.

DAMN YOU, WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY!

...actually, I probably shouldn't say that too loudly.

Yee Olde Baghdad by wbraunoh · 2004-07-26 06:41 · Score: 2, Interesting

Not that anyone has to believe me, but I'm in one of Saddam's old palaces here in Baghdad. :) Fun fun fun!

Well err... by thrill12 · 2004-07-26 06:41 · Score: 1

... I am trapped here in the past, sitting with my laptop in the dinosaur-infested jungle of the Cretaceous Period. As I have nothing better to do right now, I decided on using my ether-chronos-network card to connect back to the future and read some historic literature, like erm Slashdot.
Now, if only someone had that blue chronoterm component for me, so I could finally get out of this place, that would be... aaaarghhhhh a Rajasaurus narmadensissssssss

Connection timed out.

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from a sealed-off undergroud bunker by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 06:42 · Score: 1, Interesting

I read my Slashdot from a secure internet terminal in a sealed-off underground bunker. Fortunately, we're only sealed off for a month at a time every few months!

As you might guess, we also get satellite TV and radio, but its a lot safer to have chats on the internet that bother those cooped up in here. I think I owe what's left of my sanity to Slashdot!

Honeymoon by ryane67 · 2004-07-26 06:43 · Score: 2, Informative

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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Re:Honeymoon by fmayhar · 2004-07-26 08:32 · Score: 2, Funny

So when will the divorce be final?

Re:The Toilet by LilMikey · 2004-07-26 06:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Bah... I read it in the crapper all the time. Now if you meant you were actually IN the toilet, I stand corrected.

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Strange locations by PhotoBoy · 2004-07-26 06:44 · Score: 1

Thanks to Wi-Fi I can now read Slashdot from the comfort of my toilet.

Translation: by jayhawk88 · 2004-07-26 06:44 · Score: 3, Funny

"Please tell us the biggest lie you can think of."

Re:Translation: by revividus · 2004-07-26 10:15 · Score: 1

Are you suggesting that I didn't really read /. with Red Lectroids on Planet Ten, by way of the Eighth Dimension?
That's rather harsh.

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From a Van Halen concert by nolife · 2004-07-26 06:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Sorry but I think Sammy Hagar sucks...

Luckily my box seats were free and I had my Blackberry with me.

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Rwanda by xpi · 2004-07-26 06:46 · Score: 2, Interesting

I was fixing a V-sat connection from Universite Du Rwanda in Butare, Rwanda and slashdotting.

Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by xa0s · 2004-07-26 06:47 · Score: 1

fido also has a neat unlimited GRPS (56k) package for $50CDN/month.. im usin that now to post from work with my laptop :)

On a boat by PhraudulentOne · 2004-07-26 06:47 · Score: 1

Reading on a Boat on the shore of Lake Huron over a WiFi hotspot connection from Tuckersmith Communications

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In an operating room by wringles · 2004-07-26 06:48 · Score: 1

No, I was not the patient. And I wasn't operating either. It was back then when I was still a medical student and I had to watch this very lengthy surgery (like 6 or 7 hours). Things were getting a bit slow, there was an old terminal in the OR which was used to check lab results. Security wasn't particularly good at the hospital, and I could telnet to a machine running linux in the research lab I was working at.

NICU... by CokoBWare · 2004-07-26 06:49 · Score: 1

I read /. in the parent's courtesy lounge when my son was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at my local hospital. He was sleeping at the time and I had to get my fix o'/.

My Tent by sahrss · 2004-07-26 06:49 · Score: 1

During the summer I like to camp out instead of live in an apartment. I hook up my laptop to my CDMA cell phone and read /. all the time!

Cruise Ship by dcigary · 2004-07-26 06:49 · Score: 1

On a Cruise Ship between Ketchican, Alaska and Skagway, Alaska.

And yes, I was on my honeymoon.

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Re:Funny you should ask by AragornSonOfArathorn · 2004-07-26 06:50 · Score: 1

How about a ply? I'll take a ply.

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Off the cost of British Columbia by tverbeek · 2004-07-26 06:50 · Score: 1

I checked /. briefly on a cruise from Seattle to ports in Alaska.

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On a treo 600 by the1truedan · 2004-07-26 06:50 · Score: 1

I test drove a treo 600 at the local Sprint PCS store, and the first site I went to was slashdot. Then I posted a troll anonymously. I love technology.

Who's steering the ship? by jon_tom · 2004-07-26 06:51 · Score: 1

How about from the bridge of a cruise ship? :)

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Lynx on a Debian VMWare inst via SSH on a Sidekick by javester · 2004-07-26 06:52 · Score: 1

SSH on Sidekick, albeit slow, rox!

Ipoh Malaysia...... by Desmoden · 2004-07-26 06:52 · Score: 1

while building a new SAN in an old segate factory.

Imagine, Fresno (for the CA folk) but in the middle of a 3rd world rain forest.

While Kuala Lumpur is a great city. Ipoh is about 3hrs outside in the middle of freaking no ware. It's a freaking dump

Re:Ipoh Malaysia...... by CosMae · 2004-07-26 15:02 · Score: 1

I have lived both in Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur, and I disagree that the former is a dump. However, if you are speaking from the perspective of the location of the seagate factory that you are at, then it is a dump, since they have more or less massacred the environment around it to build those factories. It has become utilitarian and is rather ugly. However, the main town itself is quaint in a small town kind of way, with some pre-war buildings leftover from the second world war. But it aint that small as it is big enough for you to get lost in.

KL can be a dump too, if you had only seen some parts of the city without looking at the nicer areas. In retrospect, those parts could be worse than the worst parts in Ipoh. Believe me as I have lived in those two parts of the country for two decades put together, and I got my first Internet experience from my little home in Ipoh as a teenager.
Re:Ipoh Malaysia...... by starworks5 · 2004-07-26 15:33 · Score: 1

ive read slashdot not only in ipoh, but in a small kampung(kampung) in the middle of the jungle. malaysia can be nice, but it matters where you are, i was in kelantan for 3 months, it was living hell. people said "matsaleh", wherever i went, but kuala lumpur was quite nice. and infact ill be going to malaysia in another 2 months for a 3 month visit. (got a girl who i am going to visit). and this time im going to see if perhaps i can get a job there because of abduallah badawi's new policy on open source.

speaking of whom, does anyone think he is better/worse than mahathir?

I read it from an Internet Explorer! Yay! by vitalyb · 2004-07-26 06:52 · Score: 1

May god forgive me.

new topic needed by ahess247 · 2004-07-26 06:52 · Score: 1

I think slashdot needs a new photo-oriented topic consisting only of slashdotters reading slashdot in strange slashdot-esque places.

Re:new topic needed by t_allardyce · 2004-07-26 07:20 · Score: 1

That probably wouldnt be a good idea judging from where most people say they read it from...

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It's full of light... by sdjunky · 2004-07-26 06:52 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm posting this from that mythical place we have all heard of. Outside.

I don't know how much longer my body can take the bombardment of these intense rays of heat and light. Man was not designed to undergo such a harsh and cruel environment. The people around me walk with no regard for their fate. Not knowing that little by little this intense heat is killing them just as it is me.

It is for the better of those in my local D&D group that I am undergoing this experiment. I know, one day, that my dice will be saved in remembrance of this great and perilous journey.

What strange species is this? It has long hair and smells nice. And it's skin even has color.

I# los#ng signa########## [end of line]

Re:It's full of light... by HunterZ · 2004-07-26 12:43 · Score: 1

I'm posting this from that mythical place we have all heard of. Outside.
Reminds me of this Penny Arcade strip:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-04 -30

"It's not my fault your world orbits a ball of fire!"

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On The Can! by Represser · 2004-07-26 06:52 · Score: 1

Don't know about you guys but I kick out of reading /. from the office can on my wireless.

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the iss is my office! by the_pointman · 2004-07-26 06:53 · Score: 1

you insensitive clod.

Slacker by bigtangringo · 2004-07-26 06:54 · Score: 1

One word: Google

If you still have access to it I guess... thanks mydoom!

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From the toilet... by Krezel · 2004-07-26 06:55 · Score: 1

Thats what 802.11b was invented for, right?

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It isn't exactly an urban legend by burgburgburg · 2004-07-26 06:55 · Score: 2, Funny

As was seen in "The Most Outrageous Game Show Moments" and was discussed here at snopes.com, a 1977 episode did feature a woman responding to the query about the strangest place she'd ever had the urge to make whoopee with the question: Is it in the ass?

The snopes.com article discusses various issues concerning the whole case.

Re:I'm a manager by gregarican · 2004-07-26 06:55 · Score: 1

Does that come before or after your TPS reports?

Reading slashdot by JJahn · 2004-07-26 06:55 · Score: 1

I often read Slashdot...IN JAPAN!

The Toilet by Chanc_Gorkon · 2004-07-26 06:56 · Score: 1

I have surfed Slashdot on the toilet with either a WiFi PDA or Laptop. The next would be a not so weird place but a weird device...a Hotel TV Internet device. Almost as slow as a modem.

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A remote island in the Philippines by broohaha · 2004-07-26 06:57 · Score: 1

In 1999, I was in a small town 15 or so kilometers from the nearest city in the province of Negros, Oriental, visiting relatives there. They had an iMac (probably the only on in the island) with a 56k modem. But the best connection speed I could get to a fledgling ISP in the city was around 4800 baud due to really bad phone phone lines.

I managed to load up slashdot, but I didn't have the patience to go beyond the homepage.

Five short years later, the same ISP now offers DSL (but still not to the small town I was visiting), and I'm fairly certain there're quite a few slashdot readers over there now.

strange places? by Raagshinnah · 2004-07-26 06:58 · Score: 1

well...i'm reading slashdot from Quebec *grin*

SLC-6 by Jimmy_ht · 2004-07-26 06:59 · Score: 1

How about the monolith Nasa left in california $2 Billion later - Space Launch Complex 6 in California. http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sts_sl c-6.htm

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New logo by rumblin'rabbit · 2004-07-26 06:59 · Score: 5, Funny

News for turds. Stuff that splatters.

Re:New logo by PsychoFurryEwok · 2004-07-26 09:07 · Score: 1

I physically lol'ed at this one. Bravo. Haha.

From work, in a wierd kind of way by KillerHamster · 2004-07-26 07:00 · Score: 1

At a former job, they had Slashdot completely blocked. They also blocked telnet and ssh from the workstations to anywhere outside the company. However, I discovered that I could ssh from my machine to the database server and then to an outside machine and read Slashdot in lynx from there, which I did as long as I worked at the place (not long).

Re:From work, in a wierd kind of way by dolmen.fr · 2004-07-26 21:54 · Score: 1

...which I did as long as I worked at the place (not long).

I don't need to ask you why.

On an Atari ST by Punk+Walrus · 2004-07-26 07:00 · Score: 1

I once read Slashdot off an DT/80 dumb terminal connected to a 28.8 modem over Capaccess (which was then a free ISP).

More recently, on an Atari 520 STFM, using Flash!, a terminal package, connected to a Linux box via mgetty. I think it was vt52 trying to interpret Lynx. Just because I could.

Formatting hilarity ensued.

The Bathroom by dukeisgod · 2004-07-26 07:04 · Score: 1

Thanks to advances in Wi-Fi technology, I can read slashdot while I drop one. Say goodbye to those low tech paper news sources.

Same place, but method changes... by mercuryresearch · 2004-07-26 07:04 · Score: 1

I'm building a vacation house in nearly the middle of nowhere (though "somewhere" keeps getting closer) in the high deserts of northeastern Arizona.

It's completely off grid. When I started building in 1999 I had to use a 3W motorola "bag" phone with a RJ11 converter to dial in to the server at the office -- 4800bps max. Power supplied thanks to the sun.

By 2002 I could use the analog modem built into a Kyocera palm-based phone. Still 4800bps

By 2003 I could use a native IP link over a new phone, thanks to a major infrastructure upgrade in the area. (Unfortunately now I have too good of a line of sight to a very visible 500-1000' tower about 3 miles away.) Probably about 30kbps.

In mid 2004 I found out I can now get a faster fixed wireless connection in "the middle of nowhere" (~1Mbps) than I can get a wired connection at my place on the extreme outskirts of Phoenix.

It's been interesting watching the development of the 'net this way.

On Mars... by adrian_hon · 2004-07-26 07:05 · Score: 1

I've read it from the Mars Society's Desert Research Station, located in the Utah desert. It's not Mars, but it might as well have been since we had to wear spacesuit-analogues when going outside...

My location by jeriqo · 2004-07-26 07:07 · Score: 1

Currently reading from a camping club in the south of France, at the Mediterranean sea, using wifi access on my iBook :-)

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Yeah, but have you ever read Slashdot before... by charliefrog77 · 2004-07-26 07:07 · Score: 1

...on weed?

The ONLY place I read slashdot by porkUpine · 2004-07-26 07:08 · Score: 1

On the crapper. Seriously. I can read in peace. :)

The OPerating room by spineboy · 2004-07-26 07:08 · Score: 2, Interesting

Right now in the hosp OR while I'm waiting for the pt to wake up

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Re:The OPerating room by suwain_2 · 2004-07-26 16:09 · Score: 1

At my local doctor's office, there's a computer in every room, for patient records, prescriptions, etc. A paperloss office, so to speak. And I assure you, my doctor's typing skills aren't so great. (Maybe it's just a carryover from doctors' handwriting skills?)

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Re:The OPerating room by spineboy · 2004-07-26 16:38 · Score: 1

Well I was going to type O.R. (an abbrev. for operating room) but I changed my mind halfway through typing the word and came up with the above mentioned typo in the grandparent post. I was called away before I had a chance to correct the typo, and thus the resulting post.

I won't deign to respond to your trollish remarks as to the current state of medical care in the USA.

P.S. the pt (patient) woke up and is moving his hand and fingers just fine.

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Cruise Ship by JDonahoe · 2004-07-26 07:10 · Score: 1

Cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean. I had to check my work e-mail while on vacation. I glanced over at Slashdot since the boss was already picking up the tab for the $0.50/minute Internet charge, and I needed a break from the sunburn.

The most remote place in the world... by MrIcee · 2004-07-26 07:11 · Score: 1

Is, of course Hawai'i - which is separated from land masses by over 2000 miles of open ocean in all directions... but just to add icing to the cake:

At 13,800 feet on the top of the worlds tallest (not highest) mountain (measured from the base) - on Mauna Kea where the observatories are
At 13,600 feet on the top of the worlds most massive mountain and still active volcano, Mauna Loa, at the summit
At sea level 5 feet from molten lava pouring into the ocean and creating huge explosions (Kalapana side - no cell coverage park-side at the flow)

Cell Phone Friendly Version by dunc78 · 2004-07-26 07:12 · Score: 1

I have tried accessing slasdot from my cell phone before but my browser said it ran out of memory. Have the people at slashdot ever considered making a cell phone friendly version?

Re:Cell Phone Friendly Version by akgoatley · 2004-07-26 07:20 · Score: 2, Informative

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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Re:Cell Phone Friendly Version by darkith · 2004-07-26 07:29 · Score: 4, Informative

Try:

http://slashdot.org/palm/
Re:Cell Phone Friendly Version by jasonwea · 2004-07-26 08:29 · Score: 1

Hey, this isn't bad. Much better than trying to read it via Google's WAP proxy.

The problem I find with these low bandwidth versions is there isn't enough data on each page which results in so many round trips to the server. Google's WAP proxy is terrible for this. My phone can handle lots of pages fine (I read the text only version of BBC News regularily for example). Large pages give an out of memory error which means I then have to go view the page a nibbble at a time via Google. Oh the pain.

Does anyone know of any proxy type sites one could use that gives you some control on how small the chunks are? (splitting only at paragraphs would be ideal). If not, I guess it might be time for Yet Another SourceForce Project.
Re:Cell Phone Friendly Version by Mr_Silver · 2004-07-26 19:59 · Score: 2, Informative

Try:
http://slashdot.org/palm/
Alternativily give up trying to gouge your eyes out with spoons over the brain-dead linking system which means that offline browsers won't work properly and head on over to:
http://www.fourteenminutes.com/code/avantslash/
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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The strangest place of all... by teamhasnoi · 2004-07-26 07:13 · Score: 4, Funny

I'd say the oddest, and least likely place for anyone to be reading /. would be the Slashdot offices, considering how many dupes are posted...

:o

Top of the world by tmrz · 2004-07-26 07:14 · Score: 1

well both tops
http://www.nomealaska.org/ Nome,Alaska where santa lives.
http://www.co.north-slope.ak.us/ North Slope where nothing lives except angry polar bears that eat santas helpers.

On a fairy... by FirstTimeCaller · 2004-07-26 07:14 · Score: 1

On a Washington State Ferry in the middle of Puget Sound. Although I don't consider this unusual as I do this pretty much everyday.

Someday the ferries promise Wi-Fi connections... until then this is made possible by AvantSlash.

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Top of a cell tower... by Inspector · 2004-07-26 07:16 · Score: 1

Like it says in the subject. Good test to make sure the backhaul is working :)

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September 11th 2001 by Matey-O · 2004-07-26 07:16 · Score: 1

I used my ipaq with the IR port pointed to my nokia phone in the Baggage terminal at Denver International Airport....Slashdot was the only 'news' site to be able to handle the load that morning.

While I'm sure plenty of people get slashdot that way now. That was the first plane trip I'd been taking in, like, four years. :(

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Stange Place? by pmootrey · 2004-07-26 07:16 · Score: 1

I currenttly read slash from the USS Abraham Lincoln, the middle of the Pacific Ocean At times.....San Diego, Japan, u name it on the Pacific Coast, I'm Slashin to it.....

ON the butt by famazza · 2004-07-26 07:17 · Score: 1

I like my Multimedia projector.

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Dual Monitor by Metsys · 2004-07-26 07:17 · Score: 1

I have a dual monitor set up, and I usually have a game on one screen and a web page on the second.

So, I guess you can say that I've read /. on Phobos, a Skaarj Mothership, Area 51, Lordaeron, Castle Wolfenstien (and surrounding area), Hell, and every PTMC mine from Mercury to Tycho Brahe to name a few.

News For Nerds. by mirio · 2004-07-26 07:23 · Score: 1

Indeed.

This is a new variant on the "strangest place you've ever had sex" question. I guess with us nerds, reading Slashdot and having sex are somewhat interchangeable.

strange by standsolid · 2004-07-26 07:24 · Score: 1

I'm reading slashdot from an unpatched Windows XP box. You Linux zealots can back off, because I'm not having any probl

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Strangest Place to read /. by proudlyindian · 2004-07-26 07:24 · Score: 1

Office ofcoz

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Who will be the first from space? moon-bounce? by davidwr · 2004-07-26 07:26 · Score: 1

And runner up:

Has anyone read /. using a signal bounced off the moon?

Be honest folks - don't say you did it unless you really did it.

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Backwoods Alabama by Barumpus · 2004-07-26 07:27 · Score: 1

While visiting my brother... somewhere outside of Auburn... where his nearest neighbor was a long distance phone call... and people were watching... with guns...

Hello. by xYoni69x · 2004-07-26 07:27 · Score: 4, Funny

To anyone who might be reading this: I am stuck inside my toaster, please send help.

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Re:Hello. by genner · 2004-07-26 09:12 · Score: 1

Thats what happens when you run freebsd.
Here's a install link to help
TNPI - Mail::Toaster Install

Re:Funny you should ask by TroyFoley · 2004-07-26 07:27 · Score: 3, Insightful

News while taking a shit has got to be as old as newspapers. The advent of cheap, daily newspapers definitely popularized it.

Slashdot is a news service.

That's pretty much all there is to it.

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If you could smell me now... by asdfasdfasdfasdf · 2004-07-26 07:32 · Score: 2, Funny

The strangest place I read slashdot from is the John. But the weird thing is not really that I do-- I bet a lot of you do, it's that I'm too cheap to buy a wifi router, so I haul the 20 feet centrally located ethernet cable and my wife's laptop in for some "light"* bathroom reading.

Sure, I could read it on my Treo 600, but that would be cheating. And slow.

*light=not so light. The Dell Inspiron 1100 w/ 15" screen is like 10 lbs.

Kwajalein: third most remote location in the world by Uninvited+Guest · 2004-07-26 07:32 · Score: 1

I used to read SlashDot when I was living on Kwajalein Island, the third most remote location in the world.
The second most remote location is Diego Garcia.
The first is unnamed and uncharted, but is expected to be rediscovered shortly.

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Telephone Call from Istanbul by Knights+who+say+'INT · 2004-07-26 07:35 · Score: 1

All night long on the broken glass
livin in a medicine chest
mediteromanian hotel back
sprawled across a roll top desk
the monkey rode the blade on an
overhead fan
they paint the donkey blue if you pay
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
my baby's coming home today
will you sell me one of those if I shave my head
get me out of town is what fireball said
never trust a man in a blue trench coat
never drive a car when you're dead
Saturday's a festival
Friday's a gem
dye your hair yellow
and raise your hem
follow me to beulah's on
dry creek road
I got to wear the hat that my baby done sewed
take me down to buy a tux
on red rose bear
got to cut a hole in the day
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
my baby's coming home today

Be Careful by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-07-26 07:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Especially if her port is in promiscuous mode, you never know what worms may have gotten through. Pay close attention and see if any Trojans which may use that port.

Re:Be Careful by Ruliz+Galaxor · 2004-07-26 08:23 · Score: 1

Trojans? pfff, my gf doesnt call me Achilles for nothing! :)
Re:Be Careful by red+floyd · 2004-07-26 08:25 · Score: 1

I guess that would make it easy to jack into....

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Re:Be Careful by Eccles · 2004-07-26 08:48 · Score: 1

pfff, my gf doesnt call me Achilles for nothing!

How much do you pay her?

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Re:Be Careful by zyche · 2004-07-26 08:56 · Score: 1

Well, as long as you make sure you run in full durex mode you should be fine!
Re:Be Careful by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 09:01 · Score: 5, Funny

You can finger her box to see if anyone is logged in.
Re:Be Careful by Yokaze · 2004-07-26 09:56 · Score: 1

You are homosexual?

Unless you (both) are refering to the Hollywood version of the story.

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Re:Be Careful by shfted! · 2004-07-26 17:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah, but don't hack in through the back door -- I hear that can get messy.

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Re:Be Careful by hackus · 2004-07-27 11:53 · Score: 1

Man, there are so many Puns in that line I am having a problem sorting them in my binary tree...

-Hack

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More the Time Than The Place by CACondor · 2004-07-26 07:38 · Score: 1

A hotel in Hong Kong, just aftyer checking in from a flight that started in San Francisco. 3AM, September 12, 2001

I have by 2names · 2004-07-26 07:40 · Score: 4, Interesting

read /. from the inside of the cab of a 360 ton mining truck on my iPaq 4150.

Top that.

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Re:I have by warrax_666 · 2004-07-26 07:56 · Score: 1

I read it while inside your iPaq 4150. So there.

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Re:I have by twofidyKidd · 2004-07-26 08:10 · Score: 1

I am posting this comment from the back of a volkswagon situated mere yards above the surface of a subterranean Antarctic lake, using a satellite-transmitted, hotGrits-encrypted signal relayed from a hut in soviet russia, off natalie portman's summer home, and into the slashdot server, all for profit, nothing but net.

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Re:I have by avronius · 2004-07-26 08:32 · Score: 2, Interesting

That depends...

2 years ago I worked at a remote mining site in northern BC on my ThinkPad. Used an orinoco wireless access point to access the LAN / WAN. That WAN spoke to the world over a VoIP link (a la Cisco) via Anik1 (Satellite) terminated in Vancouver. In the Vancouver office we had a nice little NAT / Firewall setup to points beyond.

I surfed slashdot from the tailings dam - not something I'd recommend, as the smell will get to you after a while. I voted in polls from the landing strip while waiting for supplies.

Although not incredibly robust (the signal was weak, and required line-of-sight for connectivity, etc.), it kept me up to date on stuff that mattered.
Re:I have by humblecoder · 2004-07-26 09:40 · Score: 1

I am posting this comment from the back of a volkswagon ...

That's great, but is the volkswagon running on biodiesel?

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Re:I have by nlindstrom · 2004-07-26 11:14 · Score: 1

That's great, but is the volkswagon running on biodiesel?
Who cares! The $64,000 question is: can your Volkswagon run Linux?
Re:I have by nlindstrom · 2004-07-26 11:20 · Score: 2, Funny

However, my /. sessions are limited to when my system doesn't blue sc7&#(13AL8#[CARRIER LOST]
Bzzzt, wrong!* Nobody at Microsoft uses modems. Rather, it would look like this:
However, my /. sessions are limited to when my system doesn't blue scSTOP: 0x00000019 (0x00000000,0xC00E0FF0,0xFFFFEFD4,0xC0000000) IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Restart and set the recovery options in the system control panel or the /CRASHDEBUG system start option.
* -- Apologies to those who like to yell "stop with the bzzzt wrong crap!".
Re:I have by tylernt · 2004-07-26 12:55 · Score: 1

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Volkswagens... in Japan!

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Re:I have by shird · 2004-07-26 13:35 · Score: 1

Uhm.. actually to be pedantic, there would be no post at all because the connection would be lost and the post would be ignored.

Ignoring that, the 'STOP IRQ_LESS..' crap certainly wouldnt get sent over the wire. What you are seeing is what the server has recieved, not what the client sees. So a bunch of garbled mess, plus [CARRIER LOST] (if injected by the server when the connection has been lost) would in fact be what _we_ see, as in what the server has received from the client and put up for us to see.

So, the bzzter has been bzzted.

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Re:I have by nlindstrom · 2004-07-26 14:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Look, it's a bird! No, it's a man! It's ... Captain Obvious!
Re:I have by Wog · 2004-07-26 16:17 · Score: 1

Maybe he's being super-geeky and posting via telnet?
Re:I have by Xilo · 2004-07-26 17:10 · Score: 1

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=115804&cid =9808627

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Strangest place... by FedGeek · 2004-07-26 07:41 · Score: 1

Maybe this isn't TOO strange, but I mostly check in on /. from the Miami Computer Forensics Lab. I am a Special Agent working cybercrimes (no, not napster or movie sharing). Between piles of HDDs and a few dismembered Macs and Wintels, I have an Internet line on a fractional T-1. Check up on /. and other computer news thru the day, as well as check computer and HDD websites for disassembly/reassembly ideas. I wonder about that lab in Antarctica...

I have quite a few odd places... by jacobhoupt · 2004-07-26 07:41 · Score: 1

When I was working in a gas station in Indy, I'd MUD and read /. at the counter on my laptop. I've also checked up on /. from a stripper's apartment before I left for work.

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From my patrol car by borcharc · 2004-07-26 07:43 · Score: 1

Ever wonder why it took so long for the cop to come back with your speeding ticket? Dam CDPD modems are slow though...

Copan Ruinas, Honduras by MochaMan · 2004-07-26 07:43 · Score: 1

From a laundromat. Painfully, painfully slow.

Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by josh3736 · 2004-07-26 07:47 · Score: 1

Unfortunately that's not WML. It's just an extremely stripped-down HTML page.

My phone won't read HTML.

My weirdest place... by ionpro · 2004-07-26 07:47 · Score: 1

... I once read Slashdot from a computer terminal at the women's basketball hall of fame in Knoxville, TN. I noticed that their computer wasn't properly locked down (They were using a web-based app in IE and had forgetten to disable the Ctrl-O shortcut for "Open...") and loaded Slashdot to show my sister how.

From Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia by Vortex_ICS · 2004-07-26 07:47 · Score: 2, Interesting

Hey, im from Bolivia, southamerica, just wanted to say that I read ./ everyday and every time I can at work... great community !!

And now something really weird... by elmartinos · 2004-07-26 07:50 · Score: 1

Standing on the viewing platform of the Skytower (New Zealand, Auckland), looking through one of those free spyglasses into a nearby office building, watching someone browse Slashdot!

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Re:The Toilet by grassy_knoll · 2004-07-26 07:51 · Score: 1

Ahh...my office away from my office. The toilet. The only place where one can truely be left alone with Slashdot.

I beleive you've misspelled Natalie Portman.

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Tashkent, Uzbekistan. by hughk · 2004-07-26 07:56 · Score: 1

Not particularly weird but a lousy connection at about 4800 in Tashkent from an apartment with an analog modem. You set the browser for offline use and download the first couple of levels down from slashdot and browse at your leisure.

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While testing out my wifi card by Aslan72 · 2004-07-26 07:56 · Score: 1

On the corner of two streets in my town while I was wardriv^h^h^h^h^h^h^h testing my wifi card out on my laptop.

That and a Cyber Cafe on the dingle penninsula in Ireland.

--pete

from a crackhouse by Leninix · 2004-07-26 07:58 · Score: 1

Judging from most comment, it's probable that a lot of slashdotter send messages straight from a crackhouse.

Re:Not Unusual but innappropriate maybe? by NixusAM · 2004-07-26 07:59 · Score: 1

Ya Quite Screwed up of youuuuuuuuuuuuuu, sorry the coroner processing the body next to me bumped into me. For Shame tho!

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Two Places Stand Out by da'+WINS+pimp · 2004-07-26 08:05 · Score: 2, Interesting

They are:

1. In a stand while hunting deer - I purposely placed a deer stand where it could get a CDMA cell connection to surf on my Treo 300 and hunt at the same time. Pr0n and firearms, no place but Texas!
2. MDRS, the only thing strange about there was that none of my other crewmates had ever heard of /.

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I got everyone beat... by iCoach · 2004-07-26 08:05 · Score: 1

right now.. posting from...

Wisconsin.

-Coach

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VT100 class terminal by Shulai · 2004-07-26 08:07 · Score: 1

I have not very exotic places to do it, but sometimes I read ./ in my the terminals in my faculties corridor. Our web/mailserver has 14 of these old beasts, with login fixed to Pine access, but as I administered the thing I had shell access to it.
The server is itself and old no-brand PII 350, it will be soon replaced by a new HP server, it is annoying because the HP has no ISA slots for the multiport card, so it will be attached somewhere else.

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When I realized I was a nerd by teklob · 2004-07-26 08:07 · Score: 1

I was compiling something on my linux router/firewall box and opned up a seperate terminal at 3 AM to check slashdot through lynx was the instant I realized: I'm such a geek

crapper by MoxFulder · 2004-07-26 08:08 · Score: 1

I find that SlashDot makes EXCELLENT bathroom reading. Thanks 802.11b!

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Wardriving in my car by Cryolithic · 2004-07-26 08:08 · Score: 1

from *someone's* access point

On a NY City bus going down 5th Ave piggybacking. by mikehihz · 2004-07-26 08:09 · Score: 1

Amazing how many open hotspots there are in midtown Manhattan going down 5th Ave.

Got that capped by Enti · 2004-07-26 08:09 · Score: 1

Took a crowbar and some Solid Snake stealth, but at least I can say that it's a first.

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-999509.html (c|net)

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Far north Japan, over a *really slow* dialup by StandardDeviant · 2004-07-26 08:12 · Score: 2, Interesting

Subject pretty much says it all. That was also the time I ssh'd to work to check out a bug that I'd gotten emailed, for a telecommute distance of a little over eight thousand miles. Dealing with that much latency required an almost Zen level of patience, which I guess was kind of appropriate given where I was.

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1100 feet from the man? Pffft by fo0bar · 2004-07-26 08:12 · Score: 1

I was sitting on the steps of the man last year (2003), with a laptop and a directional antenna pointed at our camp, which had a repeater to Oregon Country Fair (the people who do the satellite uplink). I was uploading some photos for our newspaper (which never got used in the paper, oh well), and was checking Slashdot during the wait time.

On a related note, the Reno Gazette Journal will be at Burning Man this year with a second satellite uplink. The primary purpose will be for journalists to upload stories (they got burned last year when Oregon Country went down for over a day right before the burn, and was depending on the internet connectivity, despite everybody saying "don't rely on anything for anything!"), but they may do public 802.11 as well.

Harsh justice. by Witzner · 2004-07-26 08:12 · Score: 1

I remember once while I was breaking into my company's server room looking for something worthwhile to steal, I logged in to catch up on the latest +5 Funny posts from Anonymous Coward. These days, I mostly read /. in the prison library, when I've saved up enough cigs to rent computer time from "Bubba", who hasn't had his computer rights restricted yet. You know it's an addiction when you have the choice between buying "nocturnal protection" from Bubba and buying his computer time, and you choose /.

In the bath by Zurgutt · 2004-07-26 08:12 · Score: 1

..and the power cord was plugged in too. A chance for real geeky death :)

my pop helped make that possible... by Corf · 2004-07-26 08:13 · Score: 1

...he's the NASA dude quoted in this article about how the fiber cable for Svalbard was funded, and what good it can possibly do. Apparently he had to ride out to the tracking station they have there on a snowmobile, escorted by folks with rifles in case of polar bears. I wish my job were that much fun.

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Make a HOWTO! (Re:Highway: Home Server...) by Kru)(fen · 2004-07-26 08:13 · Score: 1

Well, I am sure I am not the only one who would like to see a howto on this :)

In Communist China.... by Jetson · 2004-07-26 08:14 · Score: 1

No, seriously.

Two years ago on a trip to China I visited one of the internet kiosks in a mall in Dalian (near the N.Korea border). I actually wanted to ssh into my home machine and check my email, but discovered that the Great Firewall of China blocks all of the 24/8 network. Most official news sites were also obviously modified. On a whim I hit Slashdot and found it was completely uncensored. I even posted from there, but unfortunately that discussion is long gone from the archives so I can't prove it.

The rates over there are actually not too bad (for a foreigner). I think they wanted 2 Yuen (US $0.35) per 15-minute block. Yes, it was high-speed....

Apparently in some of the larger cities there are uncensored internet cafes. I visited one in Shanghai and they had two rooms -- one for those with foreign passports and one for those who were Chinese or had no passport on hand. If you had a foreign passport they would log your time of entry and exit along with your passport number, presumably so the government could follow up on any leaks.

Re:In Communist China.... by knisa · 2004-07-27 04:07 · Score: 1

Wow, I got a deal then, I only paid two quai (yuan) an hour.

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Help, I'm stuck on an exersize bike in Gold's Gym! by antispam_ben · 2004-07-26 08:14 · Score: 1

Not really, but I was a member in Lilburn, GA for a year, where six recumbent bikes have these touchscreen net terminals by NetPulse. They of course weren't good by any standard, but were usable enough to read slashdot and most anything online except .pdf documents.

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Now that's a short attention span. by Beardo+the+Bearded · 2004-07-26 08:14 · Score: 1

I can only think of one reason to bring a laptop into the john, and that's for pr0n.

If you're halfway through and start wondering what's going on on Slashdot, I'm a little concerned for you. ;)

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I read /. when I'm in church. by Phantom-Organist · 2004-07-26 08:15 · Score: 2, Funny

My laptop is with me everywhere, never leave home without it. So when they are blabbering about in church I have my computer stitting on the Organ Console or the bench next to me and read during mass. You know how long winded priests are so I can get a good bit of reading in between Hymns.

At the bar... by PC9001 · 2004-07-26 08:15 · Score: 1

Quite often I bring my laptop to the bar with me and plug in my wireles card, find an open network, and read Slashdot.

Siberia by infinite9 · 2004-07-26 08:15 · Score: 1

I recently adopted a child from Siberia (Novosibirsk). I read slashdot from the hotel there. It was last november. 30 below. I also AIMed friends at work at 1am, 1pm in chicago.

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Hasn't anyone else read slashdot... by Keifer · 2004-07-26 08:16 · Score: 1

...in Japan??

While scuba diving by JSR+$FDED · 2004-07-26 08:17 · Score: 1

Man, I have to share this. One day, I made a bet with a fellow diver named Rob that I could read slashdot while scuba diving. Rob didn't believe me. On the day before the dive, I took out my digital camera from its housing (an Equinox FITS-40, excellent for back-scatter) and I put my Zaurus inside. Note that I had to write a quick hack to power it on with a timer so that it would launch the browser and load the /. home page. Sweet.

The connection was good on the beach but the only thing I wasn't sure of was whether I would receive wi-fi coverage at sixty feet of depth. We dove and when we reached the bottom of our dive, the Zaurus came on and after a few anxious minutes, loaded the Slashdot front page. I couldn't believe my eyes, nor could my friend.

Next time, I'll have to find a way to actually browse.

So now we know your nickname, Mr.Troll by Chemisor · 2004-07-26 08:17 · Score: 1

So you are the Seattle Troll! I didn't know you posted on Slashdot too. What kind of a connection are you getting under that bridge? And by the way, what's the story about the volkswagen?

Re:So now we know your nickname, Mr.Troll by Tingler · 2004-07-26 08:34 · Score: 1

So you are the Seattle Troll! I didn't know you posted on Slashdot too. What kind of a connection are you getting under that bridge? And by the way, what's the story about the volkswagen?

Just in case you don't know what the parent post is talking about:

Seattle Troll

from my balcony during the great blackout... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 08:17 · Score: 1, Interesting

complete darkness everywhere and me basking in the glow of my laptop screen connected via gprs wireless card...

real strange... quiet, dead city at 3am...

C64 by infinite9 · 2004-07-26 08:19 · Score: 1

I used my commodore 64 from afghanistan. :-D

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First off, it was on my Newton by zaren · 2004-07-26 08:20 · Score: 1

secondly, it was over a wirelss connection...
thirdly, it was at a neighborhood playground.

My kids wanted to go play, so I stuffed my Newt 2100 in my back pocket and shuffled them down. I realized halfway there that I had also stuffed my Orinoco WaveLAN card in another pocket, so I plugged it in (having already installed the Newton wireless software) and tried to make a connection. The playground is surrounded by houses, and I picked up an open base station in one of the houses. None of us wanted to leave the playground after that :)

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from all over the world by chmouel · 2004-07-26 08:20 · Score: 1

from all over the world since the last two years, see :

http://www.chmouel.com/

Middle of the Pacific, Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean by rpdillon · 2004-07-26 08:21 · Score: 1

Spent three years on a ship based out of San Diego, and did three deployments to the middle east. I was reading slashdot almost every day all around the globe on the ship - in 2001 off the coast of Kuwait, in 2003 in Sydney and Townsville, Australia, and in 2004 in Goa, India (there were others, obviously, but those were some interesting ones).

I suppose there are other people that read it from all those places, so its not that strange, but at least I had variety! =)

Now I'm out of the Navy, and I read it at home at my desk, and on the crapper using WiFi and my Zaurus. That's a bit less interesting.

On a beach (200 miles from a land-line) by Burning+Plastic · 2004-07-26 08:21 · Score: 1

Via an Iridium satellite phone... Slow connection, but just good enough to use. we mostly used it for email though as the price was a little steep per minute on the contract we were using...

The beach was in a remte corner of Madagascar and the sat phone was our only reliable link with the outside world - the only other way was by radio which worked on good days but tended to be like a game of chinese whispers with the messag that finally arrived being more than a little garbled...

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Most contorted/unusual network "location"? by skids · 2004-07-26 08:22 · Score: 1

I've read slashdot from a telcom hut on the side of the highway by connecting a laptop to the RS232 of our SONET equipment, and using the non-IP SONET DCC overhead channel to access the HPUX prompt of the embedded system controller in the main SONET shelf 30 miles away. From there I was able to telnet to a Linux box with a globally routed IP address over backup IP channels in our ATM network and fire up lynx.

I'm sure there's got to be folks that can top that, no?

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Re:Most contorted/unusual network "location"? by genner · 2004-07-26 08:54 · Score: 1

I'm sure there's got to be folks that can top that, no?
Not all of us work in the telecom industry.

Quito, Ecuador by Big+G · 2004-07-26 08:23 · Score: 1

but in a city of 2+ million I suppose I am not unique.

Very conventional by userw014 · 2004-07-26 08:26 · Score: 1

I can't really compete with the people who've gone to extremes with cell-phones and SMS, or been on the ops of towers or deep under ground. And there's no point in mentioning the restroom. Anyone who has a wireless laptop and an access point at home will surely have done that.

What I haven't heard mentioned is the back yard, in a adirondack chair or at the picnic table. (I haven't propped the laptop on the kids climbing cube, although I suppose I could have.) I have been just a few feet away from a sandbox tho. (Unfortunately, the wild raspberries didn't show up in the garden until after the sandbox lost it's appeal to the kids.)

Since my access point wasn't working right yesterday, I had to run a wire from the basement out to the picnic table. I suppose I could go sit in among the raspberries, sandbox (and laundry line) this evening, but the weather forcast has boomers in it, and the skies are pretty grey right now.

Sadly, there's also the risk of West Nile virus, as an alternative to lightning bolts and drenching rain.

The only thing that this post proves... by Run4yourlives · 2004-07-26 08:28 · Score: 1

is how much /. fails it's users by not being standards compliant.

Time for a code upgrade! :-)

90 something miles away by charlie763 · 2004-07-26 08:30 · Score: 1

How about Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?

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From a non existing country by uyguremre · 2004-07-26 08:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

I always read /. from Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; which politically does not exist. My country is only recognised by Turkey(which formed this country herself by invading 1/3 of Cyprus Republic soil)

Re:From a non existing country by ArsSineArtificio · 2004-07-26 10:28 · Score: 1

Merhaba Turkler -

I've always wanted to visit Northern Cyprus. There are supposed to be some spectacularly well preserved ruins there.

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Re:From a non existing country by uyguremre · 2004-07-27 05:06 · Score: 1

i dont know if they are well preserved(i am not into archeology much) but yeah there are some well known ruins here like salamis ruins. contact me if you decide to come.my mail is "uyguremre et gmail dot com". in a second thought you can contact me if you are not comming too :)

Maybe this is rather blasphemic.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 08:32 · Score: 1, Funny

...but on christmas eve last year in the church I just *had* to know what had happened in the world so I thanked god for my cellular with GPRS and an opera browser ;-)

http://tdn.peps.dk/

Siem Reap, Cambodia (Angkor Wat) by FatPaulie · 2004-07-26 08:34 · Score: 1

But in a roundabout way. I'd been surfing while in Bangkok, Thailand on my PowerBook and had closed the lid.

3 days later, after trekking through northern Cambodia, and sitting in some shade at a temple in Angkor, I opened up the Powerbook and was able to see 3-day-old Slashdot headlines.

It was strange to be that close to technology at one of the most mystical and spiritual spots on earth.

What's geekier? I'd opened the PowerBook to make a blog entry.

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On top of the world by EdMcMan · 2004-07-26 08:34 · Score: 1

One time we had to set up a wireless connection between two high rise buildings. Anyway, our team got done installing our antenna first so I decided to test it while on top of the building (by reading /., what else!)

Endoscopy Suite by Aesculapius · 2004-07-26 08:34 · Score: 2, Interesting

I often check /. prior to performing a colonoscopy on a patient.

Yes, I am a physician. :)

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Internet explorer ... by MySt1k · 2004-07-26 08:36 · Score: 1

i already used internet explorer to read slashdot ... shame on me :)

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You are the nerdiest... by pr0t0 · 2004-07-26 08:37 · Score: 2, Funny

...nerd that ever haunted these nerdy halls!

I've been to my share of strip clubs across the United States, and with the regrettable exception of a club in Akron, Ohio, I have never been tempted to access anything but my bank account at a strip club.

Unless you are a female stripper who worked there, in which case...what are you doing this weekend?

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On an Airplane to Japan. by karmatic · 2004-07-26 08:40 · Score: 1

There was a DMCA-Related thread I wanted to read, so I actually printed out the entire discussion, and took it with me on the plane.

Hey, it works.

Florida Rooftop by CaramelCod · 2004-07-26 08:41 · Score: 1

Last Thursday I was installing a T1 and reading Slashdot on a baking hot Florida roof. I've read via wireless on a Yacht, in a moving car wardriving and the obvious hotel / poolside / backyard scenarios....

...in a genetics lab by DNAna · 2004-07-26 08:44 · Score: 1

I've browsed the site while waiting on gels in a genetics lab where I work.

Crystal Peak during Judgement day by Gary+Destruction · 2004-07-26 08:46 · Score: 1

John Connor and Katherine Brewster managed to get a old laptop and internet connection up despite Skynet's sentience and viral Internet infection. They made a post on slashdot saying,"Wanted: Resistance Soldiers and science geeks."

Mt Fuji Japan and Mohave Desert by jamej · 2004-07-26 08:46 · Score: 1

I used to live in the Mohave and now I live on Mt Fuji. Both places are super cool.

While lost by xrm · 2004-07-26 08:47 · Score: 1

A few years ago I got lost in the forest at night, while looking for someone they called the Swordmaster. So after wandering about for some time, I sat on a patch of yellow flowers. Fired up my browser and while waiting for the maps of Melee Island finished downloading, took a peek at slashdot.

odd mobile devices by Combuchan · 2004-07-26 08:49 · Score: 1

On a seedy Phoenix area bus, in 110 degree weather, on the 80386-powered 13-oz Nokia 9000i Communicator, over a 9600 bps connection provided by VoiceStream now T-Mobile Wireless in the summer of 2000. This I think was just about the cutting edge of accessing the mobile internet from a converged device in the US.

In 2001, I was reading slashdot on a Mitsubishi T250 wireless phone through evil ATT, on a marginally improved 14.4 k CDPD connection.

I didn't know anybody else doing what I was doing at the time, so I guess I'm cool like you all.

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At last! by eugene+ts+wong · 2004-07-26 08:52 · Score: 1

I've been waiting so long to hear that. Look everybody! The editors have admitted it once & for all!!

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Driving on I-80 in Laramie Wyoming by Pontiac · 2004-07-26 08:53 · Score: 1

We were driving down I-80 on our way to Denver.
I was checking the map on the latop as we were passing through Laramie, Wy.
The wireless card poped up and said it found an access point.

Just for fun I poped up Slashdot but we lost the signal about 30 seconds later.
Hit another a few miles down the road but I lost that before I could see if I had internet access.

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The Throne by redog · 2004-07-26 08:59 · Score: 1

with headphones on I can't hear the line of gotta goers beating on the door.

In a fire? by SmurfButcher+Bob · 2004-07-26 09:01 · 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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Where's the strangest place you've ever /.ed? by Stew_Pidbeatch · 2004-07-26 09:01 · Score: 1

That'd be in the ass, Bob.

Oklahoma by raider_red · 2004-07-26 09:02 · Score: 1

I really don't need to say any more...

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Provo, Utah by pvera · 2004-07-26 09:04 · Score: 1

Back in my dot-com days. It was not the end of the world, but sure as hell you could see it from there!

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Slashdot on the iPod by greenmonorail · 2004-07-26 09:05 · Score: 1

I use Pod2Go, a free alternative to the app iPod It. Pod2Go, among other things, pulls RSS feeds and downloads them to my iPod, with no middleman, or middleapp. Fortunately, Slashdot feeds the whole mini article on it homepage, not just a headline. Sweet!

Just last week... by dogbowl · 2004-07-26 09:06 · Score: 1

I was "visiting the facilities" at the Montego Bay Casino in Vegas when my stomach let me know that I would be "in dispose" for a while.

So while I was doing my business, I whipped out my cell phone and pulled up Slashdot. Kinda annoying browsing on such a small screen, but at least I got my tech fix before I went back to the tables!

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Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by TheEvilOverlord · 2004-07-26 09:07 · Score: 1

The tarif I have will my cell phone provider gives me unlimited free SMS messaging, and I've been wondering for a while if there was a way to exploit this as a free transport protocol.

Please enlighten us on how!

Konnichi-wa by NG+Resonance · 2004-07-26 09:08 · Score: 1

I'd have to say the strangest place I've read Slashdot from was Yokkaichi City in Japan at around 2:00 AM two weeks ago. Not too exotic compared to some people around here. (Tibet, Antarctica... *envious*)

I'm using 28k dial-up... now that's remote! by EmbeddedJanitor · 2004-07-26 09:08 · Score: 2, Insightful

In internet it isn't geography, but bandwidth that makes you remote.

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Re:I'm using 28k dial-up... now that's remote! by TClevenger · 2004-07-26 10:21 · Score: 3, Interesting

I used to read Slashdot from my laptop on board Metrolink (Southern California's commuter rail), using a Nextel i1000 phone and their old-school packet data (9,600 bps tops.)
The best part? Using jigdo to assemble Debian ISO's at about 750 characters per second over the same connection. Where we worked the bandwidth Nazis were 'making examples' out of some people for downloading large files, so I actually assembled the ISO's of all of the CD's for Debian Woody for the Alpha, and Debian Potato for the i386, mostly over slow connections. Needless to say, it slowed down my Slashdot browsing significantly.
BTW, when you have a slow connection that drops frequently, jigdo is a lifesaver. I would download for the 1.5 hour train ride each direction at 9,600 bps, then go home and resume downloading over my 26,400 bps dialup connection. Only when I was working late did I dare connect to download through the WAN, and then only for a few minutes a day.

read from work by drkat · 2004-07-26 09:10 · Score: 1

i read from work at an auto dealership :) cant wait to get back in the comp field.

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An a Mango Tree by krimzn · 2004-07-26 09:11 · Score: 1

About 75' up a mango tree on the Big island of Hawaii. That area is about 20 miles from any power or phone lines.

Modded Informative? by cft_128 · 2004-07-26 09:12 · Score: 1

Maybe a bit too informative.

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This post is coming... by huntybunz · 2004-07-26 09:17 · Score: 1

...from inside your house!! Run!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, RUN!!!

Boise, Idaho!!! by eLoco · 2004-07-26 09:19 · Score: 1

Okay, I guess it's not that strange...

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Re:Boise, Idaho!!! by gone.fishing · 2004-07-26 13:24 · Score: 1

I've been there. Boise ID is plenty strange.
Re:Boise, Idaho!!! by fishdan · 2004-07-27 02:33 · Score: 1

Hmmm, I always "knew" that ID was the symbol for Idaho, but it never really registered till I saw it here on /. Now whenever I write getId() in code somewhere, I'm going to think silently "get Idaho."
thanx

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on a ski field by raarky · 2004-07-26 09:26 · Score: 1

On coronet peak using an ipaq with wireless jacket a couple of years ago.
We hooked up a huge 802.11b wlan covering most of the field for an endurance ski race called (at the time) the HP50k.
The net connection was supplied from queenstown via yagi, which was a good distance away (10+ kms) .

It made the many chair lift rides a lot less boring :)

research lab by Goeland86 · 2004-07-26 09:26 · Score: 1

I'm reading this lengthy thread from a pharmaceutical company research lab, near LA. And, yes, even though it's win2k I still had the guts to call the computer department and demand firefox be installed on my workstation. I'm glad I did though. I get to visit sites the other don't because of IE security flaws ;)

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China by Forezt · 2004-07-26 09:26 · Score: 1

I visited Slashdot from a series of internet cafes all over China, from Beijing to Shanghai to Chongqing.

Seismic Ship by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 09:28 · Score: 1, Interesting

I work on a seismic ship and read /. daily from all over the open ocean where ever the ship takes me.

ok, I'll try by _damnit_ · 2004-07-26 09:30 · Score: 5, Funny

In a strip bar. There's always at least one lady who doesn't do it for you. So I pulled out my... G1000 pda phone and surfed over to see what the poll on /. was. BTW the dancer was not happy that I'd still given her a dollar but completely ignored her. Oh well.

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Re:ok, I'll try by The+Grassy+Knoll · 2004-07-26 19:38 · Score: 1, Funny

I've got mod points at the moment, but can't choose which one to apply here. Can we have a (-1 Nerd) moderation option, please?

.

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Interstate by Luckster7 · 2004-07-26 09:33 · Score: 1

Driving 80MPH between San Fran and LA on the I5 using my Sprint PCS card. The laptop sits nicely on the steering wheel. I wonder if that violates that new law stating you can't have a screen visable from the drivers seat. "Honest officer, I was looking up directions on maps.yahoo.com. There's an exemption for mapping!".

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On the bus? by pi42 · 2004-07-26 09:34 · Score: 1

I've read and posted a good amount when connected via Bluetooth to my GPRS-enabled phone while riding in various motor vehicles.

I suppose it's becoming more commonplace, but it still always feels l33t to me..

Under the Atlantic by AllynM · 2004-07-26 09:37 · Score: 2, Interesting

well, this is the extremely long way around, but it did happen...

while i was out at sea, the wife once saw something on slashdot that she figured i would like. she included a snip of the article in a familygram (these are hand-written messages, mailed out to the submarine base). these messages are then transmitted out to the submarine fleet, where each sub grabs their respective messages, prints them, and passes the messages out to the crew.

so, i have (very indirectly) read slashdot from somewhere under the Atlantic.

replying... is a different issue entirely.

wait a second, 'transmitted out to the submarine fleet', hrm, it appears my wife /.'d most of the Navy. i'll have to congratulate her on that one.

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On the most isolated piece of land on this planet by This+Nick+Is+Taken · 2004-07-26 09:37 · Score: 1

... an island with 3000 inhabitants, 33% of which are stone statues: Easter Island, 2000 km from the nearest island (Pitcairn Islands), and 4000 km from mainland South America.

Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by Foresto · 2004-07-26 09:41 · Score: 1

"Google can trasform regular HTML pages into WML pages."

It can? How?

Not too strange: by karniv0re · 2004-07-26 09:41 · Score: 1

I started reading /. on a regular basis when I was stationed in Kosovo with the Army. But now I frequently read it with Lynx through an SSH connection to my OpenBSD web server at work, so it looks like I'm actually working.

3200m up in the himalayas by jovetoo · 2004-07-26 09:50 · Score: 1

Sitting under a tree in the snow with a laptop and a wireless node, connected @ 1mbit to the city 40km away, where I was connected with a dialup that barely got 14k4.

Proof and pictures.

Blackberry by Gondola · 2004-07-26 09:51 · Score: 1

I'd like to read it from my Blackberry, but last time I tried, it didn't work :(

Re:at the strip club by IamSorrow · 2004-07-26 09:53 · Score: 1

Did you happen to notice the naked women around you?

Very very far by Feanturi · 2004-07-26 09:56 · Score: 1

I read slashdot from somewhere in the deep black pit of my crushed soul. No idea how far it is to the surface but it's several thousand miles at least.

Doesn't every body... by Baikala · 2004-07-26 09:56 · Score: 1

... live in a basement with broadband?

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Arent you spoiling it? by revco_38 · 2004-07-26 09:58 · Score: 1

Isnt that what geeks like? Being the only ones who get certain jokes? Next you'l be giving us full explainations for tinfoil hats, mother russia and overlords!

Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by josh3736 · 2004-07-26 10:07 · Score: 1

Point your WAP browser to www.466453.com. (466453 = GOOGLE)

It kinda works like T9 input, press each number for a letter only once.

The results usually are regular HTML pages. When you click on them, Google will transform the pages to WML pages with varying levels of success.

/.'ing while driving... by ONU+CS+Geek · 2004-07-26 10:07 · Score: 1

I usually read slashdot while on the road. I've got my cell hooked up to my laptop, and dial in on the 1xRTT network.

Frills? None, but streaming digitally imported on my laptop sure beats listening to the CB in the van :)

Ian

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Re:/.'ing while driving... by Baloo+Ursidae · 2004-07-26 19:17 · Score: 1

Congratulations, I pre-emptively nominate you for a Darwin award.

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Worried... by phorm · 2004-07-26 10:08 · Score: 1

Yes, but people will become a bit worried when they hear you giggling on the can whilst reading a recent "+5 Funny" comment.

Heeeheehee *frrrrttt* hehehe *frappp*

Or you could be reading the YRO section and crying....

Re:On a 747 37,000 feet up. by charliekowalchuk · 2004-07-26 10:13 · Score: 1

who knew?

Potty by CovertPenguins · 2004-07-26 10:16 · Score: 1

I've read /. from my Zaurus on the toilet.

Sea trials in the North Sea by crimbil · 2004-07-26 10:17 · Score: 1

One of my stranger jobs was setting up IT on new, unfinished cruise ships. This one was behind in their schedule so I was obliged to go on sea trials. Nothing more fun than sailing around looking for 8 meter seas so we can get buffetted by waves for 8 hours straight. There's a reason they call it the slam test. But, I did get some video of waves crashing over the helipad in the bow - 75 feet above sea level.

some come here to sit and think....... by flyneye · 2004-07-26 10:19 · Score: 1

Ok,as unglamorous as previous posts this may be;I have read /. from my etherneted loo whilst havin a poo.often kept an ancient toshiba 486 laptop plugged in there(battery wasnt sufficient for 5 min) and used lynx on a debian install.
worked good as any oatmeal could.

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In denial by krazo · 2004-07-26 10:21 · Score: 1

I like to read Slashdot in the midst of depression while riding a wave of self-loathing and drifting further and further from reality.

Chances are much better than 50-50 by lcsjk · 2004-07-26 10:25 · Score: 1

Regardless of your woman or the actual location of penguins, your chances are still very high.

Re:Chances are much better than 50-50 by mattyrobinson69 · 2004-07-26 10:40 · Score: 1

when posting the post which i posted, i considered saying something along the lines of "i expect somebody to say your a twat anyway", but i didn't think i'd bother.

You sir, are a bollock. (singular)

Anywhere I want to... by |>>? · 2004-07-26 10:33 · Score: 1

Whilst doing the World Solar Challenge last year I set-up my 2m satellite dish every night and caught up with stuff that matters. Some articles and photos can be found in a variety of places. (Unfortunately, linmagau.org is no longer, but the article is still available.)

Today I'm here: S2752'30" - E15116'25"

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Mt. Everest by konrd · 2004-07-26 10:33 · Score: 1

I once read slashdot from camp 4 on Mt. Everest. It was printed out down in base camp and delivered by sherpas.

Standards compliant Slashdot? by Lord+Bitman · 2004-07-26 10:34 · Score: 1

what ever happened to that standards compliant version of the slashdot page that was on ALA? Did the editors just decide "Oh, that's nice enough to link to, but not nice enough to impliment"?

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living in a 4wd by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 10:38 · Score: 1, Interesting

I am a unix sys admin for a large rural ISP and I live in my 4wd where i camp every night and when I get the time, I war drive around town and surf the airwaves. I have a generator that keeps me going in the wilderness but there is no GPRS network out here yet !

I should also mention that I am not doing this because of any down turn in the economy or below standard wages, I enjoy it.

You're not alone by May+Kasahara · 2004-07-26 10:41 · Score: 1

I've done that before as well :)

Cross Country Train & National Monuments by Joe+U · 2004-07-26 10:46 · Score: 1

A few strange ones on trains.

1. Crossing the rockies on the Empire Builder. Barely got a cell signal, but it worked.
2. Crossing the desert on the SouthWest Chief.

Both in a nice private room with an outlet and a poorly aging Dell Inspiron 7000.

Also Mt. Rushmore and later Devil's Tower. Was using the GPS for trip navigation, had the cell plugged in too, so, figured I would see what's new...

All at 9600 bps. Fun.

Maybe not the coolest, but still kinda fun: by Mac+Degger · 2004-07-26 10:54 · Score: 1

I'm prez. of the student management for my flat, which means I get all the keys. So on sunny days I every so often sit on top of the building (20 stories high), looking over the city. My room is on the top floor, so I sometimes look around the net on my Tungsten 3 connected to my PC via a USB bluetooth dongle slung ou the window :)

Hey, /I/ think it's pretty neat :)

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Everywhere by Natales · 2004-07-26 10:56 · Score: 1

I read Slashdot everywhere I go. The most weird thing is the timing. I did it one day in Punta Arenas, in the Chilean Patagonia, and the next day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the next day and a half in Stockholm, Sweeden... across the world in 4 days...

apple store.... by David_Bloom · 2004-07-26 10:57 · Score: 1

i'm reading slashdot at an apple store right now :)

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The Ohio Renaissance Festival... by ShadowBlasko · 2004-07-26 11:02 · Score: 1

Sitting upstairs in my booth...

Just seems, wrong somehow.

Although, We are planning a Renaissance Lan Party this year, now that our AC is more stable and it is no longer dangerous to plug in.

*that* is wrong. *lol*

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A moving train? by kurtras · 2004-07-26 11:09 · Score: 1

Nothing special, really, just an iPaq via Bluetooth to an SE T68i, then GPRS out to the Internet.

But I have read /. a few times going from Baltimore to New York (or vice-versa) via Amtrak. It is only marginally more difficult to maintain a steady GPRS connection at up to 200 kph than when standing still.

-Kurt

Tokyo Japan by LinuxCowboy · 2004-07-26 11:12 · Score: 1

I am reading /. from Tokyo, Japan. My room at the Emperial Hotel has free high speed access. It is great! Now, if I could only get one of the micro laptops they sell here!!

From the middle of nowhere by jamiguet · 2004-07-26 11:14 · Score: 1

That is In Birmingham... West Midlands..

http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/

So that you guys can check what I am talking about.

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Speaking of Japan... by Big+Sean+O · 2004-07-26 11:16 · Score: 1

I've read Slashdot:

At a free computer in Narita Airport (waiting for a connecting flight). Apparently there was free WiFi too, but I didn't bring my laptop.
On my honeymoon in Spain (I remember reading it in Grenada because there was an internet cafe across the street from the hotel).
in Internet Cafes in London (near Swiss Cottage) and Paris (near the Latin Quarter).
the coolest place I didn't read Slashdot was Guam (again, I didn't bring my laptop). I've been to other cool places (like Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Hungary) but that was in the pre-WWW darkness...

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Re:Speaking of Japan... by raju1kabir · 2004-07-27 02:58 · Score: 1

At a free computer in Narita Airport (waiting for a connecting flight). Apparently there was free WiFi too, but I didn't bring my laptop.

No free wifi as far as I can tell - on various layovers (most recently a couple months ago, but who knows what may have changed) I've prowled the place with stumbler running and every AP I get on requires a subscription.

Strangest thing is that there are free computers and must-pay computers scattered around the transit area, and often people will be using the must-pay computers while the free computers sit idle.

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Redmond, WA by Hutchizon · 2004-07-26 11:17 · Score: 1

We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will be adapted to serve us.

Top of the mountain .... by really? · 2004-07-26 11:24 · Score: 1

Outside hot spring - rotenburo - somewhere high in the Japanese Alps, in a MAJOR blizzard. Rock101, the Vancouver radio station I had been listening to, went dead, and I was wondering whether the problem was my wireless connection ... turned out the problem was at their end.

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Smithsonian by DCMonkey · 2004-07-26 11:37 · Score: 1

From the Smithsonian in DC on the Internet terminals at the end of the computer history display. There were no keyboards but cut n paste via the mouse was still enabled so I assembled a URL (or search term, can't remember which) from the available letters.

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stone town, zanzibar by snow_man · 2004-07-26 11:49 · Score: 1

...whilst sitting on the roof of a building drinking too many ginandtonics.

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KFOR Main, Kosovo by BudaDude · 2004-07-26 11:50 · Score: 1

I used to do a lot of work at the main KFOR base in Kosovo (Film City in Pristine), and could only get a connection via a Bluetooth connection to my Nokia 6210i, dialing in to my Hungarian ISP.

It wasn't a zippy connection, but it worked well enough. Cell phone connections are EXCELLENT in the Balkans. (Americans have no idea how good cell phones can be...)

I have also used this method to connect from the Macedonia/Serbia border (where you can wait up to 9 hours to get though), and all over Bosnia and Croatia.

Now that I'm back in Seattle, I just go to my local coffee shop! ;-)

- Christian
Seattle, WA

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On the can, in Japan, at my girlfriend's place by Jesterboy · 2004-07-26 12:02 · Score: 1

I suppose the weirdest place I've ever read slashdot was a year ago, when I was on exchange to Japan. I had my cheap yet spiffy, internet-capable AU cell phone. I would usually play with it in the bathroom since I always had it on me, and would frequently visit slashdot. That was a lot of fun; a long headline would take up the entire screen, so reading articles would take forever, but it was a way to get American/geek news wherever I was.

This includes whenever I happened to be in my girlfriend's room (quite often; she had a much better setup than I did ^_^), and nature called.

How's that? I think I managed to do 3 of the most popular slashdot answers at the same time; 1) girlfriend's place, 2) foreign country, 3) bathroom. ^_^

Uhh... Norway.. by BeyondALL · 2004-07-26 12:04 · Score: 1

As I live in Norway I kind of feel I'm in a strange place everytime I reade /.

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Funniest comments in a while by sublimespot · 2004-07-26 12:09 · Score: 1

A few of the comment threads on this one are the funniest I've seen on /. ever. Usually after reading the funny comments, I feel like throwing eggs or tomatoes. Bravo

In jail by LS · 2004-07-26 12:14 · Score: 1

I've read Slashdot in a 100 year old jail cell in the middle of the mojave desert. Mind you, my father bought an old jail in Vidal, CA, and converted it to a Winter home. There are two cells that are converted into bedrooms, and my brother installed a terminal in the cell with a satellite connection.

LS

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AIDS researcher! by FiReaNGeL · 2004-07-26 12:32 · Score: 1

With a thread this long, probably no one will read this, but anyway ;) Weirdest place I accessed Slashdot, a level 3 bioconfinment laboratory; there's nothing better than getting your news fix for the day to kill time while HIV-1 is wasting some CD4+ :)

Started a blog about my job. Not much right now; I promise I'll post more in a few days ;)

http://thescientistblog.blogspot.com/

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While flying a Cessna by muonzoo · 2004-07-26 12:54 · Score: 1

Around 3000' AGL near northern Washington state, from the left front seat of a Cessna 172 over GPRS. Flightplan on the left side, /. on the right.

Re:While flying a Cessna by muonzoo · 2004-07-27 17:28 · Score: 1

I thought it was illegal (and stupid!) to operate electronic equipment while flying...

No, there are rules about commercial flight operations and airlines tend to ban electronics in-flight; however, private pilots use computers of one fashion or another quite frequently. One of the oldest and trusted names in Aviation Charts, Jeppesen sells a product called FlightMap IFR that is intended to be run on a laptop, connected to a GPS to track flight progress along your planned route.

There are a large number of electronic devices that are in use in a typical (high end) aircraft. The rules are different for the people on an airliner; it has to do with liability and assumption of risk vs education and control over the 'systems'.

JC Penny? by RenQuanta · 2004-07-26 12:56 · Score: 2, Interesting

Not sure if it qualifies as wierd but right now I'm reading Slashdot in the middle of JC Penny as my wife shops for clothes.

For extra geek points, I'rn able to do this by way of my HP iPaq 2215 PocketPC, which has a Bluetooth link with my Motorola V600 phone, which in turn has a GPRS Internet link with AT&T

(of course it took me 15 minutes to write this silly post with the damned hand writing recognition software!)

Back seat of a helicopter by Kalewa · 2004-07-26 13:12 · Score: 1

Via cell. Yes I was made fun of. Yes I took pictures, and posted them online.

Next time I want to play MS Flight Simulator during the flight. And simulate the flight, while I'm flying it.

Um, here is one you won't here... by burns210 · 2004-07-26 13:15 · Score: 1

Given the audience, this my qualify....

I read slashdot at my girlfriend's house.

kentucky fried slashdot by skittixch · 2004-07-26 13:38 · Score: 2, Interesting

Just today, my friend and I were wardriving and came upon an unsecure wireless network called "KFC" puzzled, we looked around and noticed a large kfc across the street. after the initial shock of a wifi network in a kfc, we sat in the parking lot, and among other nerdy things, read some slashdot

I'm in Kazakhstan by AndyBarrow · 2004-07-26 14:18 · Score: 1

Atyrau, to be exact, at the top of the Caspian sea. Slashdot is my home page.

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From a deep dark... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 14:24 · Score: 2, Funny

...basement at the NSA. ;)

BIAP by jascat · 2004-07-26 14:43 · Score: 1

Baghdad International Airport. I was there from November of last year to March of this year. Good time and /. was there for me (most of the time).

Pictures? No worries, try... by leonbrooks · 2004-07-26 15:03 · Score: 1

...this. Currently pitch black, 9AM, -13degC and 90km/h winds. Brrrrrrrrr.

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Re:Pictures? No worries, try... by mattyrobinson69 · 2004-07-27 01:04 · Score: 1

thanks for that. i was hoping for something with a penguin in it, that i could use as a desktop wallpaper. ah well, never mind.

Did I say brrrrrrrrr? by leonbrooks · 2004-07-26 15:05 · Score: 1

Yes, it does get colder there.

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High plains of Victoria, Australia by NeuralAbyss · 2004-07-26 15:08 · Score: 1

High plains of Victoria (near Falls Creek), via GRPS on a mobile phone. Damn it was slow.. but it was a break from the hiking.

in class by shirleysmith · 2004-07-26 15:11 · Score: 1

always in class, its better than sleeping

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At a Microsoft trade show... by leonbrooks · 2004-07-26 15:18 · Score: 1

...and left the terminal showing a /. article on whatever Microsoft's faux pas of the month was. In Mozilla (this was a couple of years back else it would've been FireFox).

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Not exactly a place, but... by philoticjane · 2004-07-26 15:33 · Score: 2, Funny

I once read /. during foreplay.
I think I'm the only one here who can say that.
Now I feel really dirty.

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Most interesting place ... by CrazyP · 2004-07-26 15:55 · Score: 1

I've ever read slashdot was while in the bathroom using wireless! Thats all I got, sorry.

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Gulangyu, China by Froomb · 2004-07-26 16:03 · Score: 1

An island off of Xiamen on the southeast coast of China. Great scenery, amazing seafood, welcoming women. And where am I? Huddled in my obscure hotel room (broadband!) puzzling via slashdot over a beowolf cluster of clods profiting in the Russian way . . .

Strange place indeed by berniematt · 2004-07-26 16:08 · Score: 2, Interesting

I am currently reading /. from inside an ambulance. The high levels of WiFi access in the city allow me to do my web browsing from almost anywhere while I am at work.

Instead of doing usual things during down-time, like read, watch television/movies, etc, I sometimes go on the internet and do things like read /. or other informative sites.

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Persian Gulf by gandalf23atwork · 2004-07-26 16:53 · Score: 2, Interesting

Oddest placed I've read Slashdot from was a fracboat in the Persian Gulf, just outside of Abu Dhabi, while tied up to an oil rig.

Also read it from the airport in Amsterdam (Schipol?), the aeropuerto in Bogota, Internet cafes all over western Europe and in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. And once I borrowed my little cousin's Sidekick and read Slashdot whilst taking (leaving?) a crap in the woods.

hmmm...on second thought, that does beat out the boat in the gulf as the oddest place I've read Slashdot.

-Gandalf23@work

Maybe I should keep my mouth shut, by Xilo · 2004-07-26 17:02 · Score: 1

for I'll be deemed an insensitive, lying trollclod.

Naw, I'm on the laptop that I gave my girlfriend, in her basement, posting via Lynx over telnet through a .. actually, TWO servers I have accounts on. It's not powerful enough to run a normal browser, and I've been too lazy to download Lynx for Win, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it quite this way.

Oh yeah, and her house is on th^H^H a moon.. of Saturn. (Might as well make it worthwhile if noone's going to believe me.)

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Off the coast of Africa by Gunark · 2004-07-26 17:15 · Score: 3, Interesting

I spent two weeks over Christmas reading Slashdot from the rooftop of a building on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands off the western coast of Morocco. It was one of the few nearby places I could get a reliable wireless signal.

Really nice to be looking out at a moonlit volcano while reading inane Slashdot comments :)

Well... by Craig+Ringer · 2004-07-26 17:26 · Score: 1

... at least there's plenty of room.

Near Balad, Iraq by NastyGnat · 2004-07-26 17:34 · Score: 1

Some of the KBR folks here appreciate the job we're doing over here and let us borrow their high speed internet hookup. Then again they also appreciate how I come over and fix their PCs when they break ;)

Most of the military crap here runs though websense and blocks all the good stuff during the peak times of the day. Not to mention the chain of command is making NO effort to get us our own internet.

As Mack said though there are an abundance of satellite connections as well as an abundance of morons who don't understand that their wireless router is running wide open AND without an administrator password.

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I've read it... by xpeeblix · 2004-07-26 17:52 · Score: 1

..from an iPaq,
I've read it selling cheap crack.
I've read it in a stall,
I've read it standing tall.
I've read it left to right,
I've read it very uptight.
So I admitted it there and then,
I do read Slashdot, Sam I am.

Good Lord! by josh3736 · 2004-07-26 18:10 · Score: 1

And then we wonder why we don't get laid...

mutronix by Mutronix · 2004-07-26 18:17 · Score: 1

i'm reading it from Siberia :)

it sounds funny, but.. by Mutronix · 2004-07-26 18:25 · Score: 1

i have never posted before. long time reading.. and no posts.

Cable Landing Station, Singapore by Bapu · 2004-07-26 19:06 · Score: 1

The best place I've read slashdot was in the NOC at the cable landing station in Singapore where the undersea cables from other parts of Asia arrive. They have really good connectivity there.

On paper? In the super market? by yason · 2004-07-26 19:33 · Score: 1

Goes a bit indirect, but...

I don't have internet at home, so I occasionally print out copies of interesting articles on dead trees at work and read them home when I have more time. And just like regular laptops, the trees seem to survive my toilet, too. (That's probably because they're already dead.)

Now, I often reuse the pages for writing down shopping lists so I've more than once found myself diverted to reading an article (or a piece of it, rather..) in the super market when I was supposed to check the list for any remaining unpicked items.

Another one by dolmen.fr · 2004-07-26 21:01 · Score: 1

I read Slashdot in Paris, at the Peugeot showroom at the Champs-Élysées.

As the kiosk had no keyboard, I had to :
- find a way to launch Internet Explorer window with an address bar
- find a way to launch CharMap to type characters (there was no right button on the mouse to just copy chars from web pages)

Zheleznogorsk, Russia by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 21:14 · Score: 1, Interesting

A closed city, even today. It's an amazing place built on orders from Stalin.

A tree! (not a dead one) by Tirs · 2004-07-26 21:58 · Score: 1

Upon reading the article I took my laptop with wireless card and climbed to a tree in my garden. Now I'm sitting here and writing this from the top. Does it count as a "strange place"?

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Re:Well... by supersandra · 2004-07-26 22:34 · Score: 1

You'd need to be hard-wired though... I can't think of a wifi signal strong enough to get through his skull.

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Underwater? by zonix · 2004-07-27 00:35 · Score: 1

And underwater too, perhaps??

z

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Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa by MooFu · 2004-07-27 00:37 · Score: 1

Documentation! :) Spread the word man, this idea is awesome. Would you be so kind as to post your perl somewhere?

China by knisa · 2004-07-27 01:00 · Score: 1

I've read /. from internet cafes in Bejing, Xian, and Guilin, as well as an electronic order kiosk I got creative with in a restaurant in Miami (or WPB, I don't remember which).

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good on ya??????? by NerdyNewsfan · 2004-07-27 01:19 · Score: 1

"Good on ya" hey bud, you an Aussie?

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in the CBD by DMJC-L · 2004-07-27 01:56 · Score: 1

11:00pm grenfell street adelaide, on a thursday during linux.conf.au using citylan to access the net.

Am i reading /. too much?? by Jasmina · 2004-07-27 04:34 · Score: 1

im reading from my cubicle at work, which is probably a common /. reading place. So my phone rings, and instead of saygin "Jasmina speaking" i say "SLASHDOT". There is a 5 sec pause, and the sales guy says "uhhh hello", and it was only at that point that i realize that my greeting was a little out of the ordinary.

In a minibus on the M1 by amembleton · 2004-07-27 04:40 · Score: 1

I think it was back in March, I was on my way down to London in a minibus. I was browsing BBC Technology pages from my WAP phone cos I was bored. A mate of mine has a Sony Erricsson P900, he's also a /.er. So we were reading /. via GPRS from his phone!

Its a shame there's no WAP version of /.

sitting on the floor... by AC_Axe9_WC · 2004-07-27 05:53 · Score: 1

Most interesting place...

Right now, half naked, sititng on the flood of my kitchen, while talking to a girl in Labrador (Canada) A guy in Dehli(India) And a kid in England.
My place isn't interesting, but it illistrates the power, and wonder of the internet.

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Xbox by dolson · 2004-07-27 11:09 · Score: 1

Yup, I read /. on my Xbox using that linksBox or whatever it's called.

Greetings from slashdotter heaven! by ringmaster_j · 2004-07-27 17:03 · Score: 2, Interesting

Great question!

I'm sitting in an internet cafe in the slums of Bangkok (stop laughing! It's accualy called Krung Thep). I am from canada (and they think i'm slow...eh?) but have been volunteering here for a month. They have more internet cafes per capita in the slums of thailand than on the main street of Toronto (read: the biggest city, in the most wired country). But they're all 56kbps, my ADSL will seem like T3 when I get back. I'll install my new Wi-Fi PCMCIA 2 card that I bought for aprx. $25 canadian as soon as I get home.

To all you slashdotters, Thailand is the PLACE for (cheap) technology. They have a place called IT MALL, where I bought my Wi-Fi card, that sells everything for horibly (which in my books means good) cheap. They also have a 5 story mall called Pan Tip plaza, all it sells is pirated DVDs, software, and electronics.

I AM WRITING FROM SLASHDOTTER HEAVEN

everywhere by itzdandy · 2004-07-27 18:31 · Score: 1

I have read slashdot from the following:

many USA States, mostly Montana

via 19.2k uplink on a plane runway waiting for go to take off.

In greenland, yeah that greenland

Faroa Islands

Denmark, Sweden, Norway, but NOT FINLAND

UK and Scottland, and France.

Estonia...how many people have checked /. from Estonia!

at a stop light, in the mall, many airports, LA, the beach in LA(hermosa).

on a mountain at a hangliding point.

Remote... by Jorkapp · 2004-07-29 11:51 · Score: 1

I read /. from Canadian Forces Base Connaught. I only had 10 minutes, and I spent them all on /. - mostly because I had mod points and metamod privilages at the same time. I had to wait another hour in line to get another 10 minutes to check my email.

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How about a fiery fox... by leonbrooks · 2004-07-29 12:55 · Score: 1

...burying a blue "e" and wearing a disdainful look?

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Here's a variant, incoming-only message splitter by Denium · 2004-07-29 16:06 · Score: 1

If anyone here is looking for something similar -- just chopping up incoming mails so they don't hit the 160-character limit -- I've hacked up a perl script to do it.

It doesn't do the "request-and-send-on" functionality that the parent has (kudos to the original poster, very clever) but if you're just looking for chopping up e-mails it's useful. I use it as the recipient of my cron monitoring jobs.

Tested with qmail, could probably easily be adapted to other MTAs. http://www.quickfire.org/smschop-0.01.tar.gz

With my cell phone by GQuon · 2004-07-31 07:09 · Score: 1

I'm presently connecting with my old Palm IIIx, using the IR interface to my Nokia 5210 phone.
For quick reading, I use slashdot.org/palm. That link, I can even read with just my phone's wap function, but if I want to read more comments, and reply, I fire up EudoraWeb on my Palm.
I also have a portable keyboard for my Palm IIIx, without which it would be a pain to write this long comment. Unfortunately, I can't use the keyboard and stay online at the same time (i'd have to use Grafitti for that), so now it's time to go online and preview this comment.
Hey! Now using Gratitti. I have broadband in my room, but the big honkinq PCs aren't here, so IP over IR and radio waves it is.

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Blackberry by krinsh · 2004-08-05 06:14 · Score: 1

I once sent all the day's slashdot headlines to a coworker's Blackberry so he could read them on the subway headed back to work from a meeting...

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