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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
They’re on the job! #2 - Action commenced at 15.50GMT. Weight: 151KG.
They’re on the job! #3 - Action commenced at 15.13GMT. Weight: 151KG.
They’re on the job! #4 - Action commenced at 19.14GMT. Weight: 151KG.
and later...
They’re on the job! #5 - Action commenced at 09.33GMT. Weight: 152KG.
Where did those extra 2.2 pounds come from? 4 times in and they are already experimenting with sex toys?! I just don't know what to say as a virgin, unmarried slashdotter.
I guess the only fitting comment is "pics or it didn't happen"
This has a very, very high likelihood of being an advertisement for the pads he links to. Such a pity that advertising agencies have destroyed my ability to believe things :-(
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I hope they aren't /. users.
Wait, they can't be, they are having sex ;) n/m.....
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
The sex detection part is some fairly trivial signal processing. You need a band pass filter with a passband of about 0.5-3 Hz (at a guess; better numbers exist, but I haven't tried googling them). Then you need to detect extended signal within that band; there are a variety of options for this, any of which are likely to work.
Heh, here I was wondering if you could identify different positions from the spectrum, and apparently everyone else is already been thinking about it in those terms. For once, sex comes up on Slashdot in a way that's hilarious rather than creepy.
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10 Hz?! I must be doing it wrong. Are you sure you aren't programming an epileptic fit detector?
2+ minute span? Now I *know* I'm doing it wrong...
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Unfortunately, we are also intelligent-people centric, and intelligent people tend to use internationally recognized units whose ratios actually make sense.
Do you really need to divide a foot into inches all that much? You know that's the *only* part of the US system that uses 12 right?
Are there 12 feet in a yard? No? You mean you're suddenly dealing with 3/2, 3/3, 3/4, 3/6? Huh.
How many yards are there in a mile? 12? 24? What? 1760? That doesn't even make sense. How is that related to the glorious "everything is divisible by the factors of 12" scheme? The factors of 1760 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 16, 20, 22, 32, 40, 44, 55, 80, 88, 110, 160, 176, 220, 352, 440, 880, and 1760.
So, to compare:
Metric:
1 centimeter
10 centimeters = 1 decimeter
10 decimeters = 1 meter
1000 meters = 1 kilometer
Imperial:
1 inch
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
1760 yards = 1 mile
Yeah. Awesome.
Dividing is much easier in metric than imperial. If you have 7 meters and you want to divide by 3, you get 2.33 meters. Someone well acquainted with normal math can do that in his head. if you have 7 feet and you want to divide by 3, you have to awkwardly do it manually - take 2 feet and you have 1 foot left, divide that by 3, that's 4 inches. People who do architecture all their lives can do it, but normal people, and calculators, can't.
Also, 7 kilometers / 3 = 2 km, 333m and 7 meters / 3 = 2 m, 333mm, but:
7 miles / 3 = 2 miles, 1760 feet
7 feet / 3 = 2 feet, 4 inches
7 inches / 3 = 2 inches, 21/64 of an inch (that is how imperial nails and screwdrivers work...)
Once you think about it, metric makes a lot more sense in every way.
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