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Want To Work Without Prying Eyes? Try Wearing a Body Sock
Nerval's Lobster writes The "Compubody Sock," which anyone with knitting skills can make at home, is a giant sock-hoodie-bag in which you place your laptop or tablet, along with your head and hands, giving you total privacy while freaking out anyone who happens to be sitting next to you. Designer Becky Stern told Forbes' Kashmir Hill that the Sock was meant more as commentary on privacy and device addiction; even so, considering how NSA employees reportedly drape themselves in hoods in order to thwart hidden cameras while typing in passwords, it's not outside the realm of possibility that an ultra-paranoid someone could find a practical use for a body sock. But that paranoid android better have expert knitting skills: putting together the Sock necessitates a whole lot of steps ("Purl 5, purl 2 together, purl 1, turn the work," etc.). Your other option, of course, is to simply avoid working on sensitive stuff in public.
privacy screen guard.
Get one.
Anyone who has yarn, needles, and experience knitting.
/.ers are knitters? Seems like this is aimed at the wrong audience...
How many
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
Aldous Huxley
Yoga pants. Given the typical /.er most normal people would run screaming from the room, the rest will gouge their eyes out.
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tinfoil threads in this fabric? Otherwise radio waves could still leak through. Just asking...
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Why knit something when you can make something out of heavy cloth; with a simple pattern, *anyone* can put something together in a few minutes (longer if you want it to be "just so."). I made a denim hoodie jacket, complete with zipper, in junior high, for cryin' out loud.
I wore that jacket for over ten years before it wore out...
If you want to look like a fucking raving lunatic.
This article is a pile of bull-knit
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
Aldous Huxley
For knitting with lead wire to protect yourself from brain reading satellites and superman.
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The ultimate in freetard attire.
It had better be washable. If you catch my drift.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Nobody knits from scratch anymore. First you get the GoodHood Framework, spend a few days learning how it works and trying the samples. Then you realize it depends on the Backpurl and Emblazon knitting frameworks , so you Google for those and realize you can only get it in pink but you need the red version. Oh, but you can go back one point release on the GoodHood framework and then pink will work ok, even if it looks like shit.
Then you need to have Needles 2.0 to stitch it all together, but your knitting room is outfitted with Needles 1.5 that your still using for another unfinished knitting masterpiece. Damn! You realize you're going to need to create a whole new knitting room just for this project.... and now you're already delayed. ..
I'd like to get some sort of hood (rigid or not) which I could put over my head and computer monitor. I like to watch movies on my computer, and doing so with any ambient light causes distracting reflections.
I had to wait until 1 AM on a Friday night to start watching Iron Man 3, just so I wouldn't see the reflection of my own face, lit by the lights in the adjoining kitchen. When I watch a movie or TV show with a dark atmosphere (X-Files, BSG), the reflection is so bad I can't see half of what's going on. Moving my desk isn't an option, because there just isn't anywhere else to put it besides the dining room. Turning off all the lights isn't an option either, because of my wife.
Since it's been pretty well established that Nerval's Lobster is Slashdot/Dice employee Nick Kolakowski linking to his own stuff, can we please have him post these things directly under his own name instead of pretending like he's a community member going through the approval process?
I've knitted cozies for my collection of handguns.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"A man wears that body sock in public, people know he's not afraid of anything." --Wash
But when I make mine it will be crochet. :-p
The conservatives were right, Sharia law has infested IT!
Table-ized A.I.
Like getting your head chopped off -- no way to see it coming.
And you should also wipe the keypad after entering the password so the heat sig doesn't show up, btw.
That said, I can still read your key usage by the sounds reflecting off your piano tie.
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I'm sure that's just GREAT for thermals...
(HOLY OMFG! The captcha is "convect"...WTF ESP???)
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Here's the original post on Sternlab (from 2008). The "Ski Mask for Eating a Sandwich" is awesome. I think I need one of those first!
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a youtube comments section scrolling - forever.
...Are you fucking kidding me? If there's a shark, /. just jumped it.
I'll need to be able to get my weiner in there also. For unspecified reasons.
Apparently employees at Apple are required to don something similar when working on "top secret" projects....
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There was an episode of the UFO TV series (1969-1970) named "Destruction". The naval personnel wore something similar to conceal their identities .
It needs one extra opening ...
But the whole point of being an exhibitionist is working on sensitive stuff in public. At least for one flavor. Of exhibitionists. You get my point.
Who would even be caught dead wearing something like that?
Great to wear if you want to mugged by a passing thug.