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Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen?
Hogwash McFly writes "My boss gave me one of those USB-powered red LED scrolling displays as a Christmas gift, and while cycling the usual 'I read your emails' and 'ID10T Error' messages will be entertaining for a day or two, I was wondering if it could be put to more constructive uses. The configuration file is plaintext and supports different scroll speeds, flashing, bitmaps, and WAV sounds. The font is defined as 5x5 pixels per character, also stored in plaintext as 5 hex values, one for each vertical line of pixels. A dynamically generated message could prove useful in my day-to-day work on the helpdesk, but are there any interesting uses beyond network notifications and news feeds?"
Two points.
#1: I'm not average. "Average driver" includes 85-year-old grandmas. You think the figure is skewed? Maybe.
#2: Unexpected stops are very rare.
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I take it you're one of those trolls I've heard so much about. If this was a real response, see my other reply in this thread.
Ok. So federal relief to faith-based service organizations, private meetings with energy executives, government owned banks and industry, withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile defense, warrantless wiretapping, executive wartime powers extending to the VP and preemptive war and torture aren't far right?
The list above is so damn long I can forgive you for having amnesia. They are not mere policies of stupid; they're borderline fascist.
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