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The Best Burglar Alarm In History
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.
I don't see how this is a burglar alarm.
Anti-theft device sure, alarm no.
I say don't drink and drive, you might spill your drink. Before you get behind the wheel just stop and think.
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.
/. 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.
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
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
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.
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Disclaimer: I am aware that I am metacomplaining!
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