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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.
One thing about this story confuses me: Why is samzenpus allowed to post stories outside of Idle?
If you look at the (very sparse) editor comments whenever Slashdot's recent changes are mentioned, there's been a strong implication that they're doing these sorts of things to satisfy their bosses, not because they want to. Remember how idle was rolled-out with the slogan "Never go to idle.slashdot.org". I'd guess that the suits smelled money and told them to start moving things toward blatant me-too-ism in hopes of greater profitability.
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.
Darken down, you anally loose and cheerful ray of sunshine!
While my day job is as a Computer Progammer Analyst, my love is researching everything else in my lab (with funding preferably). Tesla was a Slashdotter in that he did his thing without buying into the conventional wisdom of the time. He unfortunately trusted Thomas Edison, a man who was neither a scientist nor an original thinker and one who makes Bill Gates look like Mother Theresa. Why do you think the movie studios moved to Hollywood, CA?
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I am currently working on several products that will replace current measuring instruments that use nuclear technology. Thanks to what may appear to be worthless patents filed by Tesla regarding resonance in solid bodies, I am having success beyond what I could have imagined.
It's unfortunate that someone with so much to offer is now regarded as a marginal creator of useless technology.
The next time someone promises $10,000 to increase the effiency of your DC Dynamos, kick him in the
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
Slashdot is owned by SourceForge, Inc (formerly VA Linux), an Internet media company that owns several sites like Linux.com, Freshmeat, and Thinkgeek. It's a publicly traded company with a CEO, SEC filings, and NASDAQ ticker symbol. SourceForge doesn't seem like a heartless corporation to me, they've done a lot of great things for the open source community and have generally stuck to their values, but as a public company they need to satisfy their investors (as seen in a recent management change).
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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