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The Best Burglar Alarm In History

Posted by samzenpus on from the suck-it-Edison dept.

Sportsqs writes "When Nikola Tesla got creative with transformers and driver circuits at the turn of the 20th century he probably had no idea that others would have so much fun with his concepts over a hundred years later. One such guy is an Australian named Peter who runs a website called TeslaDownUnder, which showcases all his wacky Tesla ways, or rather electrickery, as Peter calls it." Very cool stuff, I wish I would have had something like this to protect my comic books from my little brother when I was a kid.

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  1. Idle by MrMista_B · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, keep this shit in Idle, or get rid of Idle entirely.

    Please.

    1. Re:Idle by TD-Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I personally found the article interesting and relevant (at least from the description, the links have all been slashdotted), though the image thumbails must go.

    2. Re:Idle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Seriously, keep this shit in Idle, or get rid of Idle entirely.

      Please.

      Lighten up you anal retentive grouch.

    3. Re:Idle by owlnation · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Agreed.

      NO MORE. IDLE.
      NO. MORE. STORIES. LIKE. THIS.

      Please. Editors take a moment to realize you are losing all respect for your readers. This will all end in tears.

    4. Re:Idle by Kagura · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Who runs Slashdot, exactly? I doubt I'm alone in thinking that it's just a tight-knit group of editors.

    5. Re:Idle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      So, rather than just ignoring this story on the main page, you decided that it would be better to click into it, then post a comment about how much you hate these stories.

      Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people these days? Almost no effort to skip over the story, yet you choose to whine like a stepped on dog.

      You're the problem with the internet, frankly. Too many people out there think other peoples' websites should be changed to suit them. As though Slashdot is made just for you, and its owners aren't allowed to post the kinds of stories that they want.

      Jesus Christ.

    6. Re:Idle by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It was probably more an insightful knowledge that people were going to, do, and will continue to bitch about Idle. Never mind that they were told not to go there, not only do they go there anyway, they still have the chutzpah to complain about the place they were told not to go.

      I really just don't get the hostility. I may have a high ID, but that's just because I only registered to go to the 10th anniversary party, I've lurked since 1998, and dudes, this is what Slashdot was created for. For chrissake, if anybody can find some of that early footage of Taco talking about why and how he created slashdot, you'll be enlightened to find that it was supposed to be kind of obscure and somewhat nonsensical. That's why it's called slashdot! It was supposed to sound weird when you had to verbalize the URL! Now in the intervening decade we have all these guys with sticks up their asses trying to pretend like /. is serious business . Granted /. isn't an immature playground like Digg or others, but it's just not 100% serious business like a trade journal or something. Christ.

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    7. Re:Idle by jcr · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Geez, doesn't suck the way /. put a gun to your head and made you click on the story?

      Oh, wait.

      -jcr

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    8. Re:Idle by virgil_disgr4ce · · Score: 5, Insightful

      THANK YOU. I cannot stand this irritating get-off-my-lawnism that seems to think that the only "news for nerds" is gnome-kde flamewars. I mean jesus, people even bitched about the "interesting bash commands/scripts/etc" stories. Come on, if you really hate slashdot that much, start your own site solely for stories about how websites that aren't viewable on lynx are an abomination of nature or whatever it is you people consider "real" news for nerds. Idiots.

      Disclaimer: I am aware that I am metacomplaining! :p

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  2. Must be a slow news day, this is old by John+Sokol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I already seen this site like a year or two ago.
    How can this make slashdot now.

    Tesla's very cool, but there is little new here.

    And how come we are not talking about the shoe that almost hit George Bush instead.

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  3. Slashdotted by Yo-Yo-boy-wonder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How crappy does your server have to be to get slashdotted by a handful of users?

  4. Alarm? by SIR_Taco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't see how this is a burglar alarm.
    Anti-theft device sure, alarm no.

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  5. Slashdit is idle. by LoRdTAW · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea its cool but first its only a time lapse photo. Those sparks aren't arcing at 360 degrees. Every cool Tesla coil photo is time lapsed. Otherwise your just stuck with a single and sometimes dim arc.

    What then hell is going on here? Like others have said is idle being merged with "regular" Slashdot? I turned off idle because of lame and non news items like this. Christ its like Slashdot cant be bothered to look for actual news for nerds or stuff that matters.

    And whats with all the flame bait articles? Its like they enjoy whipping us into a frenzy and then sit back and watch the fire works. Slashdot is rapidly deteriorating into a faux news site that's more (lame) entertainment then actual news.