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OMG WIRELESS EXTENSION CORDS!!! LOL!!!
True ChAoS writes "Using the latest in microwave energy transmission technology, the Wireless Extension Cords (WECs) 'beam' power right where you need it. Broadcasting in the 7.2GHz range, the WECs will not interfere with wireless networks, phones, or Bluetooth components. Be sure to heed all the warnings in the instruction manual; the microwaves used are relatively safe, but you don't want to cook your computer (or coworkers) by mistake." ThinkGeek is also owned by OSTG.
GURLZ HAVE INVADED TACO'S BRAIN!!!
Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Nice to see the lameness filter is still normal.
Flying toasters sighted migrating south for the winter..
-- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
Bubs' Concession Stand has sold wireless extension cords for a long time.
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I think this might be an april fools joke.
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April Fools
Now I can tranfer all of my My Little Pony MPGs from even further away! OMGOMGOMG i'M SO0OOO EXCITED XDXDXDXD 3
the iCopulate, IIRC. And also, IIRC, it was annouced about 12 times.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I think I speak for the majority of /.'ers when I say: ...
Finally, you know how long I've always wanted a wireless house? I mean, now I can have my padded walls without those pesky wall sockets getting in the way.
Now I can power my Rainbow Brite (tm) oven from across the room without a cord! I can't wait until the court order expires and I can tell all the girls at the elementary school!
To think I first saw this on digg earlier today... Pink hurts!!!111oneoneoneeleveneleven(10/9)
I'm modding the article using the new mod options.
I mean, there's nothing in it about ponies!!! In fact it sounds more like news for nerds. =(
Any chance this will be compatible?
I only mod funny =D
I've got one window open here and one window open in a chat.
The conversation there is scintillating by comparison.
It's freaking me out, man.
I wonder if I get like fifty of these and point them all at the guy next door that stole my toolbox if I could get ... um... his wife.
BUBS' CONCES5ION STAND. The number one supplier of wireless extension cords since a few weeks ago or something.
~= scwizard =~
Some slashdotters are just afraid of posting anything at this time I like pink though..
//WR
Disable slashdot_fool.css. If I told you how to do that you wouldn't need google or be a geek, so blah!
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
I remember back in the day when April Fools news stories were discreet and you had to spend a couple of seconds/minutes looking at them to see whether they were fake or not.
Bring back the old days!
Not to say April Fools day sucks, because everyone thinks they're a comedian.
WOW!!!! Is it April Fools already?
OH GOD! WHERE WILL IT END!! I'd have more !s. Damn lameness filter...
What is the airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
Aren't you guys jumping the gun for 4/1/2006? Hopefully that is all that is going on here.
Is it just me, or has slashdot completely missed the point? Didn't April fools used to be about SUBTLEY making up BELIEVEABLE stories to try and trick people?
This pink color scheme isn't even funny and adding "aprilfools" to the articles is just defeating the point.
April fools used to be about clever wit, not just being as stupid as possible.
At least think geek have the vaguely right idea, tho have perhaps got a bit overexcited and again missed the subtlety part.
I suggest implementing protection before installation.
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
Wasn't that the old saying? Something like that anyway.
AF!
You can pay me back next year.
The filesystem is the package manager
Nothing new to see here folks.
Move along.
Sweet Fancy Moses, it's not quite April Fools yet and the internet's going shit-retarded already. Soon Oracle will buy MySQL, Microsoft will aquire Ubuntu, and Theo de Raadt will be seen playing footsies with Steve Jobs at a gay bar in San Francisco. Or something. Why-o-why does the entire internet have to turn into The Onion with such unmitigated predictability each and every year? Waaaaaah.
Even as you read this, your pants are strangling your loins! Aaa!
Bogus product or not, it's less silly than some of the psuedoscience that regularly makes the cut here.
...but somehow, they've managed to make it annoying already.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
wow if this isnt a sales pitch riding on the back of SlashDot...... Has Slashdot sold out?
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Could we fix the tags please. I love the April fools stories, but the tags sort of ruin it. I know they are made so we can search but why not use an anagram instead? Something like "Parol's foil", maybe even do a story on how awesome Parol's latest foil is for tin foil hats.
Tomorrow you can switch all the tags for April fools, but today we should make them so blindly obvious we don't need them pointing out to us.
Hopefully the editors will read this and sort it out.
I like muppets.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/other/looflirpa/tg -logo-tagline.gif
Had to be said.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Indeed, my good chum. Best we go elsewhere, as the editors apparently think today is April 1st.
If you think today is April 1st, chances are I don't much care for you as a person.
Now, had it actually been April 1st, I would have been more touched by the slightly creative april fools pranks. Well, Not that touched. This is weak. Where's the panicking fanbase? A shame, really.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/1upmushroom.shtm l
craziness with Aprils fools
Netcraft is dying- BSD Confirms It!
Study: In Korea, Only The Very Old Use Hanja
Ballmer to Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! a new ad campaign
Script Kiddies considered respectable hackers
Putin: In Soviet Russia, April fool YOU!
"Hello 911? I just tried to toast some bread, and the toaster grew an arm and stabbed me in the face!"
Migrating south... for winter... in April?
Everyone knows toasters migrate north in April!
What do they teach in these schools?
Greenwich. Mean. Time.
It was much more fun when you had to think twice about whether or not a posting was an April Fools prank. For the last few years it's been just idiotic.
At least, that's what I'm imagining him saying...
How long before a story is posted with the summary "Title says it all!"?
The latest Slashdot meme.
Could you imagine the action shots that could be faked for this thing?
- Pointing the "transmitter" and "receiver" through a fish tank.
- "Cooking" co-workers through cubicle walls
- Powering my microwave with microwaves!
- Seeing how many metal surfaces you could bounce the microwaves off of and still power your Xbox.
- Turning on fluorescent lights in your neighbor's house.
Maybe I missed it, but did anyone see a power rating (at least estimated for a particular distance)? I somehow doubt it will power a Rainbow Bright.
Please tag as "sterilization".
I can't even make out the text on half the screen.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
OMG TGS!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html
for chrissakes this isn't just obvious; it's fucking lame. the pink burns
*giggle*
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It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
It actually makes me a little bit sad for the first few posts of April 1st. I tend to be one of those idealistic people that just really want to believe people (until they give me reason not to), and so I hear about all these cool techs and stuff and then, I figure out that they're all not real. *sigh* I used to try that on a friend of mine though -- tell them a bunch of potentially-real-sounding things that turned out not to be true, and then tell them a true-but-not-real-sounding thing, and they'd just sit there, trying to decide whether it was true or not.
Man, when y'all told me (I think it was last year) about those playable two-headed Ogres for WOW, I thought it was so cool... then I figured it out... *sigh*
That whole laughs last==thinks slowest thing and all.
I was a bit annoyed because I wanted to buy those wireless extension cords. Damn them!
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
If I get a girl and put her in between two of these things I can make that superherpmutantgirl I've aways wanted. Now all I need is the girl.
...damn.
Mind you, it's April 1 in Europe, I think.
Never mind the wireless extension cords, I wanted the 1Up Mushroom. I nearly tried ordering one, but it was actually the wireless extension cords that gave the joke away.
... can we call this technology Wi-Fry?
They could have also added a warning to warn users about tripping over the extension cords. I almost died falling down the basement stairs.
1. The thinkgeek stuff is april fools of the thinkgeek part.
2. The OMG!!! LOL!!!! stuff is, along with the pink color, part of the april fools joke from the last "article".
cowboy neil likes pink.
So, one question that the ThinkGeek site does not address is whether or not these units are Point-to-Point only, or if I can have multiple power satellite units talking to the main power access point, all being fed power at the same time?
Point-to-Point, or Point-to-Multipoint?
-- Nathan
P.S. -- Just play along, everybody. Okay?
Not African toasters, they could do it.
The problem with quotes on the internet, is that nobody bothers to check their veracity. -- Abraham Lincoln
Wow! Now we can also steal neighbours power!
IM me, I'm like so bummed about this. My mom's making me clean up the mess and like it wasn't even my fault.
"Using the latest in microwave energy transmission technology,
awesome.
Cheers dude.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
This must be an April Fools posts, there's no typos!
IT'S FUNNYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! No more caps because it said so.
I think it is very US-centric that these appliances only work at 115V.
115V is for wimps. 100V is for even deeper wimps, and 100V 50Hz and 100V 60Hz in one country is for confused wimps.
What would _really_ be cool is one of this gizmos you can hook up directly to 400KV hyper-grid power lines. With bamboo poles.
Maybe it can already but so far no one has lived long enough to say so.
But I'm having trouble with my girlfriend. She just wants to play video games all day, sit in front of the computer, and make sure I know the latest football scores. Bleh! What a bore. Can't she do something useful?
This product is another hi-tech release that will change our lives : Chinese Made Neural Video Headset
if you've got a Bubs' in your neighborhood, but for use guys stuck out in the boondocks it's nice to finally be able to get them online.
Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins. Check 'em out @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
Because I'm pretty sure they like, you know, don't frackin migrate!!! LOL!
it can supply an infinate amount of power!!!
So, all of you using Cold Fusion can now make the switch to an Environmentaly Safe source of power!
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
WOW **AWESOME** April Fool guys! NOT!
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Not by this story, mind you, but I saw an ad for the iZilla earlier on Slashdot and for a good 30 seconds had to stare in disbelief before I figured out that it was April Fools.
I mean, it's actually plausible that someone would try to sell something that stupid for an iPod and the people would snap it up.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I 3 April Fool's Day.
/. Even the ads are funny.
It's like Christmas on
A "Try AOL" ad??
now THAT is funny.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
"Hey, mister? Who's Rainbow Brite?"
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I know it's April Fools, but this story is no joke.
I was on site fixing someone's DSL when the lady asked me if there was any solution to her problem.
What problems?, I ask.
All those cables that go into the computer box, she replies.
I tell her that wireless routers are available and that I could purchase one for her.
No, no, she tells me, I meant those big blacks ones that plug into the wall, they really limit my ability to move the computer around.
My jaw drops to the floor. I tell her that they haven't made much progress in the last few years on Wireless Power Cords, it's been a tough problem to crack.
I watch the wheels in her head turn and she tells me: Well, maybe in a few years they will have figured it out, just look at my cell phone, it doesn't have any wires.
Of course, I tell her, the best and the brightest are studying day and night.
thinkgeek should watch out... i have no doubt there are already several patents covreing wireless power... p.s. I HOPE YOUR PONY GETS HIT BY A CAR
Get your torrents...
quit trying to be so attractive to everyone.
what the heck is wrong with the webmasters mind?
turn off the pink!
Sure, consumer-grade wireless dozens-of-watts-or-more power transfer is too hazardous to be useful, but in certain industries this can be real.
A few years back, there was a project to use microwaves to transfer power from solar-power-collecting satellites to receiving antennas on earth.
RFID tags are a low-power version of power transfer, as were the crystal radio sets our great-great grandfathers used nearly a century ago.
In space, mirrors or lasers can send light to solar cells that are otherwise not illuminated.
As I said, niche market.
As an April Fools joke though, I got a chuckle out of it. Not as practical as EtherKiller, but what the heck.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I know this is a big day for you.
I may be bad with names, but I'll never forget your IP address
Does this mean those Mario 1 up mushrooms from thinkgeek are fake too. Fuck that, I want one.
APRIL FOOLS!
sic
Seriously unless your on DVI LCD , ping on gray looks like utter crud
Get a clue on web design or at least color logic.
Gee.. how about a traditional 1983 green 0x00FF00 on black combo?
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Seriously, you think the slashdort crowd care? They are rolling in millions of $$$
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
My girlfriend: "Well I would read it if it was pink"... then again she isn't afraid of computers :)
... what about clients to a tech help desk, then? :-)
When I first saw this article title, I thought it was about leads you could use to extend your wireless connection.
Thinking about it, wouldn't that be a great idea? If your wireless network doesn't reach quite far enough - say you want to get wireless in the garden - you just run a really long extension lead from your laptop to the wireless router, and bingo, a network connection. We just need a name for them, maybe wifi network leads or something.
Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
Wasn't wireless electricity something Nicola Tesla pursued actively? I beleive it is part of what motivated the discovery of the Tesla coil... I'm glad to see once more one of his dreams coming true!!!
But now I think these efforts to bring slashdot to the new masses is goign a bit too far. I don't mind the change of color and new kinds of news items but please at least keep the tone and writing style consistent with what made slashdot a success.
CowboyNeal, thank you for the moderation points, but as long as such is apparently endorsed by lack of any action or statement I must elect not to participate in anyway with Slashdot and its seemingly tacit approval of this slight (to put it mildly) against both me and other members of my race. Indeed, for me this posting's continued presence (for many hours now) may well be Slashdot's nadir.
/.'s Psychic-in-Residence: Psychic to the Geeks
They posted these to their site a couple days early, and I honestly fell for it.
I got all excited and everything.
I had a prototype, but the batteries in the receiver wouldn't last long enough.
The whores get mad when the sluts give it away for free.
You know what's really sad . . . I actually have a friend (a girl, just like me) who declared that someday she wanted one of those invisible cords that would beam power to her laptop so she didn't have to plug it in. She said this in a room full of fellow students and our thesis advisor. *Headdesk*
No. The rest of us are bright enough to realize that the best thing you can do is not respond. Mod it down to where it is not seen by many people, and then go about life. Giving a response simply encourages idiots to post, simple as that.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
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Gandhi did not ignore the British; he walked to the sea and made salt. Martin Niemoeller* did not ignore the Nazis; he preached against them. Martin Luther King, Jr. did not ignore segregation; he marched to Selma and Washington. Nelson Mandela did not ignore apartheid; he chose to act, and waited only by being jailed. Was each of them not "bright enough?"
On the other hand, Gandhi died for his beliefs. So did King. Niemoeller spent the remainder of WWII in a concentration camp, personally banished there by Hitler. Mandela sat in jail for many, many years. Yes, maybe one must be brave not to be "bright enough," not turn one's eyes, and hope certain things simply vanish on their own.
* You have likely heard Niemoeller's words. They are:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
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/.'s Psychic-in-Residence: Psychic to the Geeks
Hate to break this to you. This is Slashdot, not the real world. It is largely a bunch of wankers. The best place for these folks is Slashdot. They won't do any harm in the real world while they are here.
And, if you believe what you just posted, you would not throw up your hands and refuse to moderate. You can't even bother moderating, as no one will stand beside you and moderate people like this down? It proves you just like to hear yourself type.
Go wank somewhere else.