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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?"
+1 on that, I can't go 15 minutes on 71 or 271 without hitting a rolling roadblock of retards all driving exactly the same speed side by side.
Here's a hint fucktards, if you're going to travel the same speed just get in line. Not only will you not be blocking those of us who want to travel faster, but you'll gain some aerodynamic advantages and get a bit better mileage.
If there's no one in front of you and the person behind you is coming up fast, move the hell over.
How I wish "Drive Right" was the law in the US like it is in Germany. I'd love to see left lane blockers get some hefty tickets. Then again it would probably go just as unenforced as minimum speed laws. Going after me doing 75 MPH is just so much easier politically than ticketing grandma for piloting her Grand Marquis at 43 MPH in the fast lane.
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
Actually, I do. I tend to turn on the signal about halfway between the time I move past the car on my right and the time I anticipate moving over. Unfortunately, that means there's usually about a car length plus a foot or two between my rear bumper and the front bumper of the car to my right. That's about the time that boy speed racer hits the gas, closes to within six inches of my rear bumper, and jerks to the right.
There's just no winning. A little thought toward helping *everyone* maintain a safe cushion around their vehicle is pooh-poohed by the jerks on the road. And there seems to be an endless supply of jerks.
Not where *I* am in Cali, where the motorcycles seem to go between any lanes they please. You might try weaving between the left 3 lanes for maximum effect - though you'd still fit right in around here.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Always drive as though the car in front of you can stop on a dime. Those who do not are those who end up in multi-car pileups.
Hint: it's entirely possible for the car in front of you to hit an immovable object.
Yes, it's possible – under certain circumstances. As I'll be able to see what's coming, this shouldn't be a problem.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
You're in the habit of over-driving your headlights in an area that features people and garbage cans as driving hazards? Forgive me if I only wish for a police officer to catch you.
Flashlight. Modern invention. Look into it. Has the benefit of actually illuminating where you're walking, without wasting hundreds of watts of energy; serves as a bludgeon and a blinding tool against assailants in a pinch; can be directed into dark corners streetlights miss; they can be used as a help beacon; they can carry a siren; they make everywhere accessible instead of just little pools of light in town; etc.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Actually, because of the way traffic spaces itself at higher speeds, more cars can travel more (total) miles in a given period at lower speeds...
Fascists only need to torture and jail and disappear people with politically damaging power. Like journalists who could reveal that the leaks you swore to find and punish came from your VP's chief of staff. Or, if I were as conspiratorially minded and leftist as you seem to think I am, the sysadmin who ran the email server and knows where all the missing mail went. I have no inside knowledge of the white house, or people following me ready to overthrow anything.
Far-Right is an ambiguous term. It could mean small government, or an incredibly invasive one ready to form an ecclesiastical state. Or it could mean an ultra nationalistic militant one. I don't know which one any given poster means, but I do know that W has tried very hard to prove he does not like the left. So much so, that you can probably pick any one meaning for "far-right" and a passable response could be crafted to demonstrate how the Bush administration was "far-right".
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