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  1. Wear gloves? on Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 0

    I'm waiting for a car that can be steered with your teeth! Then we wouldn't need car keys, all we need to do is sink our teeth into a steering wheel and the onboard computer will authenticate. It could check for alcohol too, or maybe even brush our teeth as we drive; thus eliminating those pesky doctors. People that don't have any teeth left will obviously pay for their crimes, forever lecturing to children on the need to correctly maintane their teeth.

    But by golly, s/teeth/hands/ or s/teeth/eyes/

  2. Rubbing alcohol and the DUI. on Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 0

    I hear rubbing alcohol makes a greater disinfectant and shine than Armor-All. And what with the prospect of RFID in every product or particle we buy, it's only a matter of time that the steering wheel automatically confesses and pays an implied DUI ticket on your behalf. UCC Redemption is the only way...

  3. I applaud Chuck E. Cheese. More! on Chuck E. Cheese 2.0 · · Score: 0

    I've found it to be one of the few remaining wholesome entertainment palaces for children. Remind you all, "Chuck E. Cheese" is an account held subscribing to the Linux mascott-themed game Tux Racer. Jokes aside, part of the fun in visiting "Chuck E. Cheese" is to see how bad the on-screen party entertainment and employees realy are. I mean, that job has really gotta suck and it is only bearable when paying customers point-out the obvious just as they step on the stage and sing annoying songs to hyperactive children spilling food and rubbing snot over every inch of the table. They clean it all up...without a tip other than "bye". Muah ha ha ha! Anyone have any similar fassion to share on their exploits, other than poking fun at the especially gifted children?

  4. Aluminum is verry low melting point. Here is how. on Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard · · Score: 0

    You can do it with no more than USD 10.00 in materials cost; charcoal briquettes, an old coffee can (crucible), a coat-hangar, a sack of stomped aluminum soda cans, fire logs, fire kindling to get it going, and a reversed cannister vacuum machine or leif blower. Aluminum is quite an amazing metal; it's only disability is being brittle. Aeroplane engines are the first ever to use aluminum, obviously because it is strong enough and lightweight; but consider the first predicament whereas the combustion is a thousand or so degrees greater than the melting point of the aluminum block! It's all in the cooling design. Most cars use aluminum engine blocks now, although ask anyone and they'll prefer steel engine blocks any day for reliability purposes.

    To the sandcasting! First, it is good to decide what you may want to sandcast with your aluminum soda cans; let's make a coin! You will enjoy the feeling of a coin, whereas should be worth no less than the soda cans redemption value; a 26 cent peice? Carve an indentation into a small peice of wood, or make a mold from ceramic. It is easire to just get a peice of wood, a drill, a 1-inch wide drill bit, and just drill a cigar shape deep enough into the wood block. You can cut your coins on a metal saw; aluminum slugs, as some food vending machine personell fear.

    First, lay a foundation of charcoal briquettes covering the surface area of the bottom of the tin coffee can (we'll call it a crucible). I suggest you make the foundation of two layers of charcoal briquettes. Second, put a hole in the lip of the crucible that can be used to hold with a coat-hanger; put the crucible ontop the briquettes. Third, stack the fire wood logs around the crucible so also to help guid and support the can when it is being tampered with. Fourth, momentarily lift the crucible up to throw the lit fire kindling in there and then replace the crucible; get the briquettes burning; billow with your lungs or somthing at the heap just to give enough air movement to get the fire going. Fourth, put crushed can in there and point the reversed vacuum or blower at the base of the fire; it must get about 2500 degrees Fahrenheit to easily poor; keep an eye on that first soda can that if it deforms into a puddle you can add as much to the matter as you need. Fifth, when you are ready to poor into your mold, attach the coat hanger carefully to the lip and direct the pooring action with a nearby stick or somthing other than your bare hands.

    There you have it. Just don't earn yourself a Darwin award. When I was up at Yosemit last year in the eighth Month of the Year of Our Lord two-thousand-and-four, I had done all this without a reverse vacuum/blower and using storage lids in the hands of three slave children; they were shortly liberated by their mothers when they returned to see a glowing red fireball in a firepit that couldn't be approached within three feet. Just one note: keep foreign matter like marshmallows out of the crucible or you'll be liable to splatter.

  5. No wonder there. Check out this video! on Filling Up On Algae · · Score: 0

    The parent post should not have been moderated--at all! All comments on fuel research, the reactions of those powerful people that can control economies, is not offtopic. Consider back even to the Year 1997, when the following video footage was captured. Oil speculation is forecasted, alternatives need not full attention when everyone on the face of the earth is scrambling to secure those blessings of God.

    Here it is, Caspian Sea Oil Pipeline runs through Afghanistan.

  6. It will be economically viable soon. on Filling Up On Algae · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I once worked for a cattle rancher, picking up free grain from bear breweries. Next to the grain, there were always barrels of cooking oil waiting to be picked up. All these free resources need to have someone payed to pick it up, and we were always picking it up for free. Being a tight load balance between a 200 gallon water reservoir and 8 barrels of spent grain, it's not an option to fit that diesel Ford F250 truck with a filtration system and biodiesel reservoir. It's just too much space, and the gross weight of the truck was already about 4,000 pounds. If the bed was just longer, it would all work out.

    Seriously, there are all these fuel solutions that don't compare well enough to the ease and general dissatisfaction with today's cars and trucks. Dedicating any more weight and complex mechanisms to the carriage is not helping such. There is a solution I like to see, and that is the less obvious compact electric bicycles with the wheel-drum motor system. They are an excellent ballance of design, and only is a quick replacement of the wheels on a bicycle and fitting a place on the bicycle frame for the batteries. See what I mean, compare this picture of three electric bicycles. Anything that starts looking complex, expensive, or such is most likely to attract those heal-clicking Polic Officers to demand a registration fee and license. By the way, the bicycle on the left is what will change the world, because it isn't a overly obtrusive solution to an original bicycle.

  7. old-world chemists (alchemists) on Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard · · Score: 1, Informative
    Not to detract, but there has been sparse evidence and documentation of the Kings and Queens around the Years 1100 had their crowns casted in aluminum. I can't find the documentation at the moment, but in this dire circumstance of quoting from memory doesn't prevail the certain names of those royal families, I quote from a google'd source,

    HOW ALUMINIUM WAS DISCOVERED
    The art of pottery making was developed in northern Iraq about 5300 B.C. The clay used for making the best pottery consisted largely of a hydrated silicate of aluminium. Certain other aluminium compounds such as "alums" were widely used by the Egyptians and Babylonians as early as 2000 B.C. In vegetable dyes, various chemical processes and for medicinal purposes. But it was generally known as the "metal of clay" and for thousands of years could not be separated by any known method from its link with other elements.

    In historical terms aluminium is a relatively new metal which was isolated early in the 19th century. In 1782 the great French chemist, Lavoisier, said it was the oxide of an unknown metal. This opinion was repeated by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1808, and Sir Humphrey gave it the name "aluminum" which he felt sounded more scientific than "metal of clay". His spelling is still used in North America but elsewhere in the world the spelling "aluminium", following the suggestion of Henri Sainte-Clair Deville, is used. In 1809 Davy fused iron in contact with alumina in an electric arc to produce an iron aluminium alloy; for a split instant, before it joined the iron, aluminium existed in its free metallic state for perhaps the first time since the world was formed.

    In 1825 H.C. Oerstedt, a Dane, produced a tiny sample of aluminium in the laboratory by chemical means. Twenty years later the German scientist, Frederick Wohler, produced aluminium lumps as big as pinheads. In 1854 Sainte-Clair Deville had made improvements in Wohler's method and produced aluminium globules the size of marbles. He was encouraged by Napoleon lll to produce aluminium commercially and at the Paris exhibition in 1855 aluminium bars were exhibited next to the crown jewels. It was not until 31 years later, however, that an economical way of commercial production was discovered.

    On February 23, 1886, a 22-year-old American, Charles Martin Hall, worked out the basic electrolytic process still in use today. Hall had begun his experiments while still a student at Oberlin College, Ohio. He achieved his success, after graduation, with home-made apparatus in the family wood shed. He separated aluminium from the oxygen with which it is chemically combined in nature by passing an electric current through a solution of cryolite and alumina.

    Almost simultaneously, Paul L.T. Heroult arrived at the same process in France. However, he did not at first recognise its importance. He worked along another line in the development of aluminium alloys. In 1888 the German chemist, Karl Joseph Bayer, was issued a German patent for an improved process for making Bayer aluminium oxide (alumina). The foundation of the aluminium age was complete. The Bayer & Hall-Heroult processes freed the world's most plentiful and versatile structural element for the use of man.


    Certainly, without the speculation I tried to reference towards old-world chemists forging aluminum merchandise for a Royal prices, according to today's public records it may date to no less than 150 years of use; clearly a far contraction from the 900 more years I uncovered in a College Library's religious manuscripts.
  8. Not a bad investment, titanium is great. on Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard · · Score: 0

    It's properties are no less difficult than aluminum, but it is being used much more. The medical industry uses it most for reinforcing the skeleton when there is a break; it isn't rejected as eagerly as say a steel plate in the head :D.

    Honestly, I think silver and aluminum are the most amazing metals I have ever worked with. What with silver sitting in water, it cures. And aluminum being plentiful for sandcasting use.

    Counting a nearby titanium purchaser and reseller, it looks as if the American steel industry disintegrated and was replaced by the only last prospect of more valuable metal arts. Ask any career steelmill worker that was layed off, to compare Chinese steel to American steel, and the first thing you'll hear is a French verb followed by "quality" and a sucking noise. Perhaps it is always meant to be; America can't be a leader in an industry for long and must pioneer ahead; now it's titanium, soon that'll move overseas and we'll know when to dump stock if somthing in the market starts to stink.

  9. Titanium is a pain to weld or melt in the house. on Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard · · Score: 5, Informative

    Needs about 1,668 degrees Celsius to melt. That's all they can do with it...sell it. I can vouch for one thing, more jewelry is being made of titanium. Strange choice, but consider that 1,000 years ago aluminum was a hundred times more valuable than gold. I melt aluminum into ingots to save when I complete a mold for a tool I need to build. That's the only way to be certain somthing is made in America today, it seems. More power to Our Kazakhstan neighbors.

  10. Are you Joe King or joking, lefty? on Mouse Uses RFID Instead of Batteries · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RFID is not a means of identifying things. RFID is marketing lingo intended to deceive the people that this is actually a repeater. Attaching any document or device to any particle or man doesn't change the truth of the matter. RFID is not sufficient as a power source, and tends to passively convey information when it is within range of a station attempting to actuate the mechanism within the RFID capsule.

    In a slightyly offtopic forum, the Commissioner of Social Security is responsible for delegating to officers the purpose of a Social Security account Number; whereas none has been apportioned for "identification" by said Commissioner. At the least, the paper bearing the SSN is not notarized.

    RFID is a mechanism to evade actual law; it is a negative averment; existing only as a suggestion for those unwarranted searches just to evade the actual delegated powers in an extra-constitutional sense. Looking to the Constitution for the united States of America, all matters extra-constitutional are reserved to the States and to the people as though they are mutually co-existing ontop of the dejure (e)state. Can you say "a State within a state"? Law "officers" therefore to be be within the extra-constitutional bounds of the 10th amendment must be either established by that State or the people of this state.

    The use of RFID by foreign agents, them be-having without an oath to the constituency, are tresspassers and are within their own liability as will those targeted people by them may forgive or correct with deadly precision.

  11. Posting from a Windows XP workstation. on Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use · · Score: 0

    Greets.

    I'm on a job, posting this from a Windows XP system I am hired to fix. Things aren't looking food from this perspective. I do solemnly attest, there is spyware and stealth IRC servers that can't be manually removed and are not detected by the proper utilities financed by Microsoft and the popular anti-virus software megacorporations. I see this is a positive light to advertize a platform for using true Linux systems (say no to root-boot of Linspire). All I can do is correct the situation with a certain well-tuned software firewall, and help the client contend with competing rogue applications for CPU cycles. I've seen a 2.5GHz Celeron system with 700+ megabytes of RAM get dragged to equal productivity of worprocessing as my lively 386 50MHz computer and MS-DOS/Microsoft Works.

    The Microsoft front is a joke; it's the most profittable too, sad that I say.

  12. 3dfx Voodoo5 6k no different from a 3dlabs Wildcat on Four GPU Motherboard · · Score: 0

    3Dfx was going for framerate, and was a great design. 3DLabs has been designing full-length adaptors for its entire charter; whereas its last actual desktop product before acquisition by Creative Labs was the full-length (~14inch passively cooled 3DLabs Oxygen RPM. All these designs are great, but their sole problem is being implemented when fabrication technology was not as good as it is now. 3Dfx, if it survived, could have shrunk its adaptor down to the size of its Voodoo3 reference board and sport a multiple-core IC of no less than six VSA-100 chips; that would be a great thing to own, even today. Software built with the Glide API has been used in speciality arcade machines, and to date is visually stunning compared to the recent technology from ATI and nVidia. Call me a masochist, but you can run Doom3 (without the added pipeline cruft) on no less than a Voodoo2 graphics accelerator (SLI recommended). Much was specialized by Quantum3D in their Heavy Metal graphics clusters and Obsidian line (X24 is the bomb).

    So much great technology from twenty years ago can be re-implemented today and it'll sell again because it is good. We don't need faster hardware, but uptime and stability and compact dimensions. I want a 386 PDA, some other people want a Commodore 64 or PDP11 wrist-watch. These are original technologies made in the United States, not exported for manufacture oversees. Doesn't anyone remember the glory days when all these foreign countries were duplicating the Motorolla Z80? It breaks my heart that all the technologies today have been pushed overseas. I'ld rather go the Amish route just to be certain that all the furniture, tools, food, carriages, medicine, and whatnot is all non-corporate made in America without the United States (Title 28, Sec 3002, 15(b)).

    The corporate States in these de-jure states of this country are causing such a ruckus; wanting quick-profits moreso than all-Americans to break-even to keep the work here.

  13. Western office of Justice, guffah. on Vigilante Hackers use Old West Tactics for Justice · · Score: 0

    The procfs, the /dev/random, and the SIGHUP.

    PS: An office is not justice; an office is a momentary duty performed on your behalf as a mercenary (for hire/bought/payed).

  14. And to think of a disaster and its effect... on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 0

    ...on World populations; all the concentrated centers of population are devestated by tidal wave threats, earthquakes, and storms; they're on the front of the ocean and its tectonic plates; the atmosphere is desirable, but time conceals the history of soil. Nothing built for dense occupation by hu-man(s?) has once ever held together from any natural phenomenon. The sparse population inland is the god-loving, peace/love/groovy agriculture and horticulture type that are most likely to be killed first; they reap and sell the fat of the land to the people densly populating the favorited areas, and terrorists or foreign-militaries strategize on spiking the food-source of the greater population.

    I'm here in southern California, and the refuge I see from any disaster whether political or natural; get my ass into the Sea of Cortez with enough weaponry, equipment, food, and live off the fish and iguanas: get as far away from the hell of starvation as possible, those densly populated areas. It takes no less than three acres of non-irrigated precision-farmed land to sustain a single one-hundred-and-fifty pound man and that is cutting it close for the lard-asses I see today.

  15. Me tooo!!1!one!! on Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor · · Score: 0

    I participate in Slashdot forums because all the moderators love me; so much, they put the muslim Burka moderation on all my posts; My thoughts must put to print must be art, because all of you are obviously not worthy to see them.

  16. When will NASA be ticketed for littering in space? on No Billboards in Space · · Score: 0

    We can't keep any double-standards. What is with people that think just because the letters N-A-S-A all line up in serial that it constitutes immunity from litter laws?

    All are equally under the law, or no?

  17. Distributed ID is never good. One reason. on OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn · · Score: -1

    When your ID auth is stolen, the thief now has access everywhere you've been.

    On a side note, why in God the Father's Holy name of Our master the first in Christ; do You think your one name consists of two or three words to distinguish from others? This UNITE EVERYTHING crowd is the cause for the ussurpation of the original-estates. Everyone wants United States this/that, the verry cause of a one-world government derived from that New World Order. It's chaos, and you know what; the lying sacks of shit sell you a false duplicate of their ID to get your vote to them, and they (3) Profit off creating solutions to the chaos that originated from their lies.

    If you want ID, let it be on a per-city/per-town/per-server basis. Stop all this national ID craze. I don't want ID for Louisiana: France in America.

  18. What would Count Olaf do? on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: -1

    I don't aspire to fictional movies, yet there are some that are quite industrious in conveying morality and hidden messages. I recently revieved "Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events." I thought it was someone accurate. To the point; Count Olaf is always killing another and assuming their I-dentification as well as id-entification after compeling a guardianship patent on three children that have become heirs to a wealth of properties. Count Olaf is no more than an Actor, trying to mimick roles which he can only roughly comprehend, but he focuses enough on law that he may merge from a mere Actor to a Benefactor to gain trust to the wealth the children can't yet control. As well, He is always assuming that which he covets: character, manners, clothing, and near same face and limb aspects.

    What I find a fear is that a social engineer, inspired by Count Olaf, to arrive at a movie rental store; with a fake duplicate thumb from an imposing record, and rent all the most horrid titles that could constitute a lack of moral character and conflict of interest thus voiding one's career with a company of people.

    Sadly, it's already being done: you are the victim. Each and every one of the movies you are renting are actually built to move or modify your intelect and influence it to the detriment of another. A paradigm shift has occured, and we can see the thieves hide behind the guise of the RIAA and MPAA. Those two corporations are setup to regulate technology for our benefit, but clearly the people in charge are having a conflict of interests that is not part of the charter. Sun Tzu's lessons come to mind.

  19. Not crazy. on RFID Bracelets to Track Inmates in L.A. County · · Score: -1


    Or am I crazy?
    Yes.


    Do you suppose committing suicide by hanging from one's trousers to the ceiling is crazy? Obviously, when someone has no ideas on escape they will kill themselves; but when technology pushes new prisoners into the cell, there emerges new ideas from this new kind of prisoner. After all, there are prisoners being thrown into a cell that attained such cunning to have been stolen away just yet.

    Worse, every legislator is effectually incriminating us all for the dereliction of others. What was once considered a mistake is now a crime; such as assuming a Social Security Number was identification, when clearly on the obverse it is stated not identification. Surely, forgiveness will keep those repentant tresspassers from being shackled with others of worse actions, but with every passing day I fear that the right of forgiveness is being burried by the corporate codes.

  20. Stop your fraud. War this/that: it's all a lie. on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: -1

    The only safeguard to this country, America, from being ussurped by its inferiors was common-law sense. Why do you entrust your law in the hands of those bankers devoid and bankrupt to morality?

    This ussurpation on those arab countries is all justified. This video is your proof.

    I'm swamped to read any other works of art and science outside the realm of common-law, energy, and networked computer software system administration; yet Sun Tzu does come to mind to have a few shadows of quotes impress upon my soul in the midst of War. I quote Sun Tzu, to wit; "All warfare is based on deception" as well "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

    There you have it. United States of America, being subservient and inferior to "America" because it is of America; is not to be trusted in any reports. I remember reading a couple military reports for the alleged Vietnam War in which a number of towns were massacred by the misplaced artillery; the deception erected along the basis of "area has been cleansed of opposition" no less.

    And I think the anti-war people are no different than the the proponents to war. DON'T TRUST ANYTHING ANY MILITARY SAYS. ALL MILITARY PRODUCES ENOUGH TRUTH TO GAIN TRUST TO COVER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF LIES. Whoever said the oxymoron "Civil War" has ever concluded; did not the proponents to war not constitutionally declare peace?

    To take away the ability to make war will only tempt the wicked to hide the war under another premise. One day, a man killing a man will be re-written to mean a farmer cutting grass; as equate in the Holy Bible.

    Was United States ever at peace?

    How can a "Federal" corporation known as "United States" make war without the state it was chartered within Columbia? Easy explanation; read the commercial codes; the adversary is redefined as a festering bottle of milk or spoiled bread, and the cost to pay a "person" to move the expired goods is about the same cost to fund that person aka "U.S. Army."

    Most posts on Slashdot are yet to discern between "United States" and "United States of America" for fucking crying-out-loud.

    Can someone respond, mod me up, or check my posting history for all the goods I have presented to this God-damned forum of vipers and asps?

  21. Send all the "regular people" back to Britain. on RFID Bracelets to Track Inmates in L.A. County · · Score: -1

    RFID is a misleading abbreviation. When I read it, I think it means Remote Federalized ID.

    Ask yourselves how one little plot of land can hold so much power over the greater peace of this country. Now, ask yourselves how one little "White" house on a gated and military fortified estate can be occupied by one family chosen to dictate to the greater peace of this country how to live.

    In a world of equality there are no prisons.

    A friend of mine said to me:
    Send rapists to whorehouses with a prepaid account,
    Castrate child molesters,
    Cut fingers on thieves (including rapists of children and women),
    and kill them that steal people into slavery (excluding bonded servants, naturally).

    I seem to have no recollection, scriptural or common-law, to be able to refute such words.

  22. Aback thee, vile temptress! on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: -1

    A little pussy never hurt anyone. It is wrong to compare two different, completely unrelated projects. Internet Explorer was derived from a once limited webbrowser (MOSAIC), and is now suited as an interface between host operating systems over a network; I believe its fault is trying to accomplish this similarly as a VNC and a webbrowser. Opera is an interpreter with added secure and authentication protocols for remote access.

    It is best to enumerate and project the needful requirements for "web browsing", then let the developers meet those requirements. I've counted no less than thirty web applications actively used and half of those are merely HTML interpreters; each one is concentrating its adherance to a specific standard or purpose while others are building from an originally limited design. My favorite implementation is the Dillo webbrowser, but I've modified it with my own interface to span multiple dillo tabs in a window and implemented downloading interface directly to GNU wget. The original author of Dillo hasn't implemented other protocols yet, and I think its useful as it is now; small, quick, easy; for PDA or desktop use.

    A little diversity never hurt anyone; everyone is a winner, because we simply choose not to lose. I, for one, welcome these pussified overlords!

  23. Re:Human Blood? on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: -1

    God created man either male or female. Plural form for man is men.

    Ancestrally, "human" is the descendant of the Amen-Ra: sun-worshippers. When a prayer is concluded, that's why everyone says "amen" or "all men".

    Amen to that, brother!

  24. You can't triangulate point-to-point. on Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions? · · Score: -1

    I learned this technique of communication in my infancy; focus a beam of light to someone else and signal in morse code. None but the targeted receiver you painted with the signal can receive your broadcast signal. Compared with wireless network access; the tranceiver you are directing signal onto is a gateway or router that can only transpond omni-directional. Your signals are focused and don't cover a wide area. RDF can be used for the tranceiver utilized to to paint another tranceiver, and that's as good as it gets. It's that omni-directional wise-ass that is causing all the problem--oh I wanna get that scumbag. Har!

  25. Dissident? Har, har, har! on Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions? · · Score: -1

    According to law, a "civilian" is someone that neither attacks or defends. Explain to me the meaning of "Civil War" and a wicked justification for enslaving a populous by declaring "Civil War." Otherwise, a Citizen has a duty to protect his state, not a State within a state.

    On a similar train of thought, crackers (not hackers) do NOT exist. If software allows someone to replace the default webpage, then obviously they were given permittance; I suggest static webpages to remedy the situation badly-written software distributing authority to others you did not intend.