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.
Say hi to Tux for us!

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 05:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't feel embarrassed - we've all been in bed with your wife.
Re:The strangest place was.. by MarsDefenseMinister · 2004-07-26 06:05 · Score: 2, Funny

That would in the butt, Bob!

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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 pcmills · 2004-07-26 06:51 · Score: 5, Funny

no just port scanned.

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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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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 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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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 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.

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.

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.

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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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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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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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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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 R-66Y · 2004-07-26 08:36 · Score: 2, Funny

That's one of the infinite possibilities, yes.

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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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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

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 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 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. :-)

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

...in the back of a Volkswagen?

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

Sounds like a very uncomfortable place.

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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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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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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 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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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.

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.

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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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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.

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.

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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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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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 punkin · 2004-07-26 07:01 · Score: 5, Funny

"Inside George Bush's head" : 25

Damn, the echoes must be terrible.

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.

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.

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.

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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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 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 steptoe6125 · 2004-07-26 10:47 · Score: 2

that must be 150.00000000000000000000000 mph?

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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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.

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.

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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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 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. :(

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...

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

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!!!

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?

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

Apparently my comment went over your head...

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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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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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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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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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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.)

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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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.

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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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.

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!

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

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

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.

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]

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.

New logo by rumblin'rabbit · 2004-07-26 06:59 · Score: 5, Funny

News for turds. Stuff that splatters.

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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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

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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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: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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Re:Cell Phone Friendly Version by darkith · 2004-07-26 07:29 · Score: 4, Informative

Try:

http://slashdot.org/palm/

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.

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 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 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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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 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 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 nlindstrom · 2004-07-26 14:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Look, it's a bird! No, it's a man! It's ... Captain Obvious!

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 !!

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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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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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.

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)

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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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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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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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.

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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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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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!)

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

From a deep dark... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-26 14:24 · Score: 2, Funny

...basement at the NSA. ;)

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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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

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 :)

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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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

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