A neat trick for old CPU's, chips, bugs, and other insects for detonation purposes, is a stout motor capacitor from an air conditioner and a high voltage DC power supply found from a discarded laserjet. I have seen 480uF capacitors rated at 480 volts actually hold 8KV generated from the drum power supply. Now wire up a dozen of these capacitors to charge two parallel plates.
Arm the bomb. This will take a few minutes. Defective capacitors will report with a large bulge on the side and may jump off the table. Safety glasses, leather gloves and jacket are recommended. Hearing protection is manditory. If everything goes well, a large concentration of potential energy will rest between those two deadly plates.
Now drop the old electronic part or pesky insect between the plates. Observe the complete destruction. Some flying parts from silicon chips may damage surrounding areas. Insects will be completely vaporized and harmless.
Xray radiation during detonation should be minimal unless voltage is increased somewhere around 30KV. Be careful!
Checking the bandwidth on my linux box is easy: [root@attaway net]# cat/proc/net/dev
bytes...packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed eth0:969983909 9086363 0 0 0 0 0 0 460905028 3891362 0 0 0 372044 0 0
That shows me I have received nearly a gigabyte since the last network restart and transmitted almost half that much. My network card has been up for 17 days.
Note that my received bandwidth will be higher than what the cable company sees, due to all the junk DHCP and ARP traffic. Also, I could victimize a neighbor by spoofing a flood ping, causing his outgoing transmit rate skyrocking, while my pings never make it out the cable company's routers. There may be great potential for evil people getting away with sensless abuse.
Re:Completely Explainable...
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Time Travel
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· Score: 2
Its simply too late. I invented the time machine first, went back and made sure the patent office wouldn't give him the patent.
That's why they won't accept patents on perpetual motion, time machines, etc...
Re:replace the switches
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No-click Mouse?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
If your mouse uses those cheap shiny disks directly soldered onto a circuit board, you can replace those disks with those soft, graphite contacts found in some of those cheap soft touch keyboards.
Well, you don't actually replace the disk as it is needed to hold the graphite composite button in place. Pry that disk up, place a thin slice of the graphite pad underneath it. Make sure the graphite composite surface facing the board is carved into a concave shape. This will allow pressure to turn it on-off. Presto--no more click! Just soft pressure!
Agreed. The object is to transfer acustic energy to an object. Resonance will fill an object to its seams. The key is locating the sweet spots with the signal generator. When you hear something rattle, its time to turn up the volume in hopes of hearing the sweet music of something dancing onto the floor.
I have no problem with these restrictions. As long as they pay me for hosting their revenue device in my house and the HDTV has a credit card swiper so I won't be the one billed for their greed.
They may have to pay to introduce that technology into my house. The current crop of pay per view selections seem to lack intelligent content.
The power of denial is the great leverage of communication when they KNOW you have done something. Give them enough suspision, but not enough proof. The social engineering object is to use this opportunity to drive your loud argument into their weakened, desperate state.
Intimidate by the power of denial. When they accuse, use this precious time to illustrate their vulnerability. Be mad, not just pissed off. Twist their logic into epic proportions of insanity. They will either leave you alone, or try to match wits. Always trump their argument with a more grandiose element of insanity and do not let them win. After all, they have been playing rap (or other lame noise) at unhuman levels for an inordinate amount of time. Illustrate the chaos they have created.
But always deny knowledge. In this war, you must fight noise with noise. This is insanity at its best. Replace it with your projection how annoying they are. It will throw them off if they try to make a logical case against you. The resulting communication about noise is sure to be music to the ears of other victims.
Chrome plated revolvers work best as they visually show effective packages of noise cancelling potential energy. You may call this noise canceling technology a catalyst since the potential energy is often not used, but triggers a desired reaction.
Who the hell leaves O-scopes and service monitors on all the time anyway?
Oscilloscopes make patterns that are not just beautiful art, they also convey great troubleshooting information. I used to leave an oscilloscope on to watch the clock signal or an address line on an experimental overclocking project. The output of the clock must be clean and pure, because anything less than a square wave can trigger an earthquake of bad timing on the bus. A debugging must for overclockers.
Another place to use the scope is on the address lines, where beautiful patterns can be observed. You can detect when certain subroutines are being entered. Its like watching your system's behavior in a fractal sort of way. Its the visual equivalent of leaving a floating input of an amplifier laying across the motherboard.
I'd strongly recommend owning a scope. Unlike a voltmeter, a scope provides a detailed visual of intermittent problems. Very handy for troubleshooting hard to find problems in your car, for instance. Loose connections always show up with a characteristic noise, undetectable on a voltmeter.
Eliminating bass can be much simpler than that with just an amplifier, speakers, and a... signal generator: position the speakers against the dorm wall where the source originates. Set the amplifier for test purposes at medium volume. Slowly calibrate the signal generator to achieve resonance of the walls. This is determined when picture frames rattle off the walls. Once this point is determined, maximize amplifier output. The resonant energy building within the walls will then be transparently delivered to the client in what can be described as a non-maskable interrupt.
What can be described after that is guaranteed to be silence. Except for breakage of items in the host's bookshelves, etc... Slight profanity may be also side effect. Use with caution and deny any knowledge when questioned.
It may have a warning on the jewel box and the booklet, but often CD's are innocently left on the desk.
Wouldn't it be an opportunity for sabotage to leave the bare CD in the server room for some techie to slide it in while troubleshooting something? I can see the phone lines start to flash...
Re:Have artists ever been compensated for their mu
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Web Radio and the RIAA
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· Score: 4, Funny
The money went to artists? I thought it went to lobbying efforts.
I have one of these 1.6 gallon marvels. One flush will completely cycle the most colorful dumps every time. The large capacity toilets just don't flush right compared to this and often require another flush.
Perhaps you could take your anti-capitalist rhetoric elsewhere, comrade. If you had any decency...
Nice personal attack, McCarthy; unfortunately, you have failed to address maintenance issues. Your argument is quite patriotic making assumptions about character issues and supporting these assumptions with unrelated obvious facts about the disaster. An ad hominem argument if I saw one. You see, I am in maintenance. Coincidently, I once was offered a job as a telecommunications technician at the WTC ten years ago. The salary was less than half of what I make now. So I felt compelled to share my experience with how buildings are maintained.
I get to see what budget cuts can do to safety. Am I insensitive or anti-captialist? I am often told by management I am the best at what I do. Ethics are recognized by those in the field, but they do have a fixed budget.
Also, I might add my dad acting as a dance instructor for Aurthur Murray was at the Hyatt Regency here in Kansas City when the catwalks collapsed. He saw many people crushed. Oh, the fire system on the catwalks were operational: the dance floor had a foot of water and blood. If the WTC had that much water in their buildings, the combustibles might not have had a chance to create a high speed, high temperature blast.
Its easy to believe thoroughly engineered structures can survive on a fixed budget. Hope you feel safe while the mouths of maintenance personel are squelched from your condemning patriotic speech. I'm sorry my experiences do not qualify as decent.
Well, this was the World Trade Center. They had to cut all costs, including maintenance, to please investors. I'm sure the executives and managers enjoyed their yearly bonus for cost savings.
It would be a interesting way for someone to terrorize a victim. Rather than borrow your jetliner with all your family aboard, the thrifty terrorist can hijack your net connection and send lovely disturbing emails to important people. Your family will miss you for a few days while things are sorted out. Score +1 for the terrorist.
Perhaps in the future when we are more educated from information attacks, bad information will no longer be a threat or a crime.
Ineed it does say that and wondering why my watch somehow missed the automagic daylight savings feature. Fellow cow-orkers volunteered to help figger out my watch and now it is twenty minutes behind. Next time I will save the instructions.
I have a watch that sets itself to the second at 1am every morning; unfortunately, when daylight savings time changes, I don't know how to set the damn thing.
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A neat trick for old CPU's, chips, bugs, and other insects for detonation purposes, is a stout motor capacitor from an air conditioner and a high voltage DC power supply found from a discarded laserjet. I have seen 480uF capacitors rated at 480 volts actually hold 8KV generated from the drum power supply. Now wire up a dozen of these capacitors to charge two parallel plates.
Arm the bomb. This will take a few minutes. Defective capacitors will report with a large bulge on the side and may jump off the table. Safety glasses, leather gloves and jacket are recommended. Hearing protection is manditory. If everything goes well, a large concentration of potential energy will rest between those two deadly plates.
Now drop the old electronic part or pesky insect between the plates. Observe the complete destruction. Some flying parts from silicon chips may damage surrounding areas. Insects will be completely vaporized and harmless.
Xray radiation during detonation should be minimal unless voltage is increased somewhere around 30KV. Be careful!
Checking the bandwidth on my linux box is easy:
/proc/net/dev ...packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
[root@attaway net]# cat
bytes
eth0:969983909 9086363 0 0 0 0 0 0 460905028 3891362 0 0 0 372044 0 0
That shows me I have received nearly a gigabyte since the last network restart and transmitted almost half that much. My network card has been up for 17 days.
Note that my received bandwidth will be higher than what the cable company sees, due to all the junk DHCP and ARP traffic. Also, I could victimize a neighbor by spoofing a flood ping, causing his outgoing transmit rate skyrocking, while my pings never make it out the cable company's routers. There may be great potential for evil people getting away with sensless abuse.
Its simply too late. I invented the time machine first, went back and made sure the patent office wouldn't give him the patent.
That's why they won't accept patents on perpetual motion, time machines, etc...
If your mouse uses those cheap shiny disks directly soldered onto a circuit board, you can replace those disks with those soft, graphite contacts found in some of those cheap soft touch keyboards.
Well, you don't actually replace the disk as it is needed to hold the graphite composite button in place. Pry that disk up, place a thin slice of the graphite pad underneath it. Make sure the graphite composite surface facing the board is carved into a concave shape. This will allow pressure to turn it on-off. Presto--no more click! Just soft pressure!
Agreed. The object is to transfer acustic energy to an object. Resonance will fill an object to its seams. The key is locating the sweet spots with the signal generator. When you hear something rattle, its time to turn up the volume in hopes of hearing the sweet music of something dancing onto the floor.
I have no problem with these restrictions. As long as they pay me for hosting their revenue device in my house and the HDTV has a credit card swiper so I won't be the one billed for their greed.
They may have to pay to introduce that technology into my house. The current crop of pay per view selections seem to lack intelligent content.
uh oh... You just had to reveal they were Scientologists... Now we are all in trouble! Let the picketing wars begin!
No one would suspect a thing!
The power of denial is the great leverage of communication when they KNOW you have done something. Give them enough suspision, but not enough proof. The social engineering object is to use this opportunity to drive your loud argument into their weakened, desperate state.
Intimidate by the power of denial. When they accuse, use this precious time to illustrate their vulnerability. Be mad, not just pissed off. Twist their logic into epic proportions of insanity. They will either leave you alone, or try to match wits. Always trump their argument with a more grandiose element of insanity and do not let them win. After all, they have been playing rap (or other lame noise) at unhuman levels for an inordinate amount of time. Illustrate the chaos they have created.
But always deny knowledge. In this war, you must fight noise with noise. This is insanity at its best. Replace it with your projection how annoying they are. It will throw them off if they try to make a logical case against you. The resulting communication about noise is sure to be music to the ears of other victims.
Chrome plated revolvers work best as they visually show effective packages of noise cancelling potential energy. You may call this noise canceling technology a catalyst since the potential energy is often not used, but triggers a desired reaction.
Who the hell leaves O-scopes and service monitors on all the time anyway?
Oscilloscopes make patterns that are not just beautiful art, they also convey great troubleshooting information. I used to leave an oscilloscope on to watch the clock signal or an address line on an experimental overclocking project. The output of the clock must be clean and pure, because anything less than a square wave can trigger an earthquake of bad timing on the bus. A debugging must for overclockers.
Another place to use the scope is on the address lines, where beautiful patterns can be observed. You can detect when certain subroutines are being entered. Its like watching your system's behavior in a fractal sort of way. Its the visual equivalent of leaving a floating input of an amplifier laying across the motherboard.
I'd strongly recommend owning a scope. Unlike a voltmeter, a scope provides a detailed visual of intermittent problems. Very handy for troubleshooting hard to find problems in your car, for instance. Loose connections always show up with a characteristic noise, undetectable on a voltmeter.
Eliminating bass can be much simpler than that with just an amplifier, speakers, and a... signal generator: position the speakers against the dorm wall where the source originates. Set the amplifier for test purposes at medium volume. Slowly calibrate the signal generator to achieve resonance of the walls. This is determined when picture frames rattle off the walls. Once this point is determined, maximize amplifier output. The resonant energy building within the walls will then be transparently delivered to the client in what can be described as a non-maskable interrupt.
What can be described after that is guaranteed to be silence. Except for breakage of items in the host's bookshelves, etc... Slight profanity may be also side effect. Use with caution and deny any knowledge when questioned.
It may have a warning on the jewel box and the booklet, but often CD's are innocently left on the desk.
Wouldn't it be an opportunity for sabotage to leave the bare CD in the server room for some techie to slide it in while troubleshooting something? I can see the phone lines start to flash...
The money went to artists? I thought it went to lobbying efforts.
Haven't you heard? DVORAK pens are much better.
No one has patented the idea yet so knock yourself out.
I have one of these 1.6 gallon marvels. One flush will completely cycle the most colorful dumps every time. The large capacity toilets just don't flush right compared to this and often require another flush.
Poor dog... what's wrong with taking care of business just before a shower?
Perhaps you could take your anti-capitalist rhetoric elsewhere, comrade. If you had any decency...
Nice personal attack, McCarthy; unfortunately, you have failed to address maintenance issues. Your argument is quite patriotic making assumptions about character issues and supporting these assumptions with unrelated obvious facts about the disaster. An ad hominem argument if I saw one. You see, I am in maintenance. Coincidently, I once was offered a job as a telecommunications technician at the WTC ten years ago. The salary was less than half of what I make now. So I felt compelled to share my experience with how buildings are maintained.
I get to see what budget cuts can do to safety. Am I insensitive or anti-captialist? I am often told by management I am the best at what I do. Ethics are recognized by those in the field, but they do have a fixed budget.
Also, I might add my dad acting as a dance instructor for Aurthur Murray was at the Hyatt Regency here in Kansas City when the catwalks collapsed. He saw many people crushed. Oh, the fire system on the catwalks were operational: the dance floor had a foot of water and blood. If the WTC had that much water in their buildings, the combustibles might not have had a chance to create a high speed, high temperature blast.
Its easy to believe thoroughly engineered structures can survive on a fixed budget. Hope you feel safe while the mouths of maintenance personel are squelched from your condemning patriotic speech. I'm sorry my experiences do not qualify as decent.
Well, this was the World Trade Center. They had to cut all costs, including maintenance, to please investors. I'm sure the executives and managers enjoyed their yearly bonus for cost savings.
Insurance and tax payers will pick up the rest.
And remember, everytime you buy a movie, a starving lobbiest from Hollywood will thank you.
They are working on a better offer we can't refuse.
It would be a interesting way for someone to terrorize a victim. Rather than borrow your jetliner with all your family aboard, the thrifty terrorist can hijack your net connection and send lovely disturbing emails to important people. Your family will miss you for a few days while things are sorted out. Score +1 for the terrorist.
Perhaps in the future when we are more educated from information attacks, bad information will no longer be a threat or a crime.
What is wrong with directories and "everything is a file?" Is there something better? Simpler? More powerful?
Everything else seems to be a sugar coated version of above. Linux is simply the beginning of Life As We Know It.
even adjusts itself to daylight savings.
Ineed it does say that and wondering why my watch somehow missed the automagic daylight savings feature. Fellow cow-orkers volunteered to help figger out my watch and now it is twenty minutes behind. Next time I will save the instructions.
I have a watch that sets itself to the second at 1am every morning; unfortunately, when daylight savings time changes, I don't know how to set the damn thing.