Depending on what gas in the air causes the reaction, it's probably the oxygen or nitrogen.
If the reactant is oxygen or nitrogen just place the dvd player in an open box with a piece of dry ice or another source of CO2. The CO2 is heaver than air so if you don't disturb it, the CO2 will stay in the box. If it's not O2 or N, bolt the box to the ceiling and fill it with helium.
All I want to know is will it fry the cell phone of thoes people who can't seem to STFU in the restaurant. Perhaps a hand held version of this could be wielded by ushers in movie theaters.
Buy 2 KVMs and use one for the keyboard-video-monitor. Open up the second one and buy some panel mount 1/8" audio jacks or whatever will match your cables. Cut off the mini-DIN and DB-15 jacks, LABEL THE WIRES, then solder in the new jacks.
...Watchfire has announced a $3.7 Million lawsuit against Slashdot and Jason Lefkowitz. Citing the DMCA, Watchfire explained that the defendants violated copyright by making available to the public, parts of thiar copyrighted EULA.
and it was free,
I made it my self. Forget about trying to put a filter over the ventilation holes. There are too many cracks and leaks. Open up the power supply and turn the fan around. Don't just reverse the polarity, turn the whole thing around. You will also need to reverse any other case fans you may have. I also had to cut off and turn over a fan on the processor because of its position relative to some ventilation holes in the PSU. The next thing is to make a filter box to hand on the back of the power supply. I used an 2" x 2" x 6" cardboard box. Then I cut out the faces and hot glued in some panels of open-cell foam. Now you have a positive-pressure case with a filtered air supply. This means that not only will you not suck in a dust, but none can leak in from any of the cracks.
I vacuum the panels around once a mouth for 10 sec. and there is NO dust in the PC. This also will solve the problem of dust and hair getting sucked into the A drive. The only thing you need to worry about is making the filter box large enough so you don't over heat the PC. My 2x2x6 box is big enough. I also made clips out of soft wire and hot glue so the whole thing snaps onto the back of the PC.
should I use an unmoral/unjust law to do good work?
It seems to me that a conspicuous, public refusal to invoke the DMCA even if it will result in a loss, sends a clear message that the law is so bad that we who are victims of the law refuse to use it on our enemies.
Analogy:
If you where a soldier advancing on an enemy base and you fought your way to a group of guns loaded with chemical warheads that had been shelling you all day. Would you turn the guns around and use them on the enemy? Or would you consider chemical weapons so bad that you would destroy them, even if it means that you would loose less troops when you make an assault on the enemy base?
You can get the X-in-one kits from a lot of places. I just got a 50-in-one at HobbyTron. You might also want to get a set of reenforced jumpers (like Jameco part# 126324, 126341 and 126359 ) because the wires that come with the kits get all bent up and split. I can almost smell the fried LEDs from when I was 15, ah the memories.
What's the problem with a CNC control program that only runs in DOS? I'm not going to put my sweet-ass expencive gaming pc out in the shop and I don't want to have to be walking back and forth from my garage and my room all the time. I sure ain't going to be shelling out $300 bucks for XP and the hardware I need to run it when a $50, 8 year old, 386 with a mono monitor will work fine. I don't know anything about porting a program from DOS to Win but I assume it rquires you to rewright a lot of code and put in all the GUI crap. I'm glad he spent his time making a DOS version.
Well, it'd be risky if they started copy protecting any music that is popular amoung the geek population...
They'll get around to that in a few years. The kind of people that listen to that Kenny G shit probably won't have any idea about the DRM issus. This will allow them to get an "install base" for this copy protection and then they can go to congras and say "look at all these millions of people whe are ok with it".
(2)(a) Invite geeks to come and use your machines to code/test on. You could rope them off in a corner and put in vending machines so guests can come in and feed the geeks and observe them in thair natural habitat, like a petting zoo..:)
It's nit-picking, I know, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Not like a fusion plant, that has all those problems radioactive waste is generating. (And the waste from fusion plants is not even useable for building ammunition like the uran is)
You are mistaking fusion with fission. Nuclear fission (breaking apart) is what we use now in the power plants. Nuclear fusion (coming together) is what we are experimenting with and are just getting to work for very short times in experiential reactors. Fusion takes 2 small atoms like H and He and forces them together. It does not use highly radioactive fuel (U-23x), nor does it produce waste with a 10,000 year half life.
Also, weapons can be made from the depleted U from fission plants. They put it in the tip of tank shells because we can't make it fly any faster so we make it heaver. (U is around 10% heaver than Pb). It will not work for a nuclear weapon, but it can be refined and converted into stuff the that can make one.
Speaking of cheap home electronic devices, how about wedging one into an Lego RCX unit or maybe another small box. I could see the geeks at HiTechnic putting one of these in a box of bricks and you could have like 16 inputs or outputs.
Thank goodness they are outlining some safety standards for there displays. I sure wouldn't want to zoom in on a pixilated 3D model and have a nipple poke me in the eye.
I doubt that. We have more than one shuttle and the crew could have stayed on the ISS for a while without new supplies. OTOH, NASA might have needed a reason to force the much-needed safety upgrades, but that gets into serious tin-foil hat territory.
I once used a screw driver and pliers to pull out each and every one of thoes metal connectors out of the plastic 'U' frame, filed, bent, and reinserted them. (I'm not kidding).
Think of it like this: Say you bought a car and it came with a EULA that said you where only allowed to go 50mph, so the speedometer only went from 0-50. However the car was capable of going 100mph with no modifications apart from pushing the gas pedal a little further down. Let's also say that the manufacture of the car also sold another model that was exactly like the one you bought, except that its' speedometer went form 0-100. Of corse the 'faster' model cost an extra $5000 In other words, they sell a product capable of doing something and then say I'm not allowed to it.
I'd like to see the car company try to enforce this EULA that says I can't drive 100mph in my 'economy' model. When I buy something, I have the legal and moral right to use that product to its' full capacity, then modify it and use it some more!
IBM backs up their talk about not charging for their patents by donating software to open source. Until microsoft puts their money where their mouth is, they just lost a huge chunk of credibility.
It might be a bit off topic, but I wonder if these companies are able to get a tax right-off when they donate these patents. It seems like this could be a nice tax loophole for them, get a patent, hype its' value, then make a tax-deductable donation.
But when you steel a physical copy from the store, it can no longer be purchsed by someone eles. Thus, there is concrete, measurable loss. OTOH, copying something does not deminish thair abaility to sell the CD to someone eles. I know that it would deminish thair ability to sell it to me, but what if I would have never bought it in the first place, or what if I like the band and decide to buy more of thair CD?
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Depending on what gas in the air causes the reaction, it's probably the oxygen or nitrogen.
If the reactant is oxygen or nitrogen just place the dvd player in an open box with a piece of dry ice or another source of CO2. The CO2 is heaver than air so if you don't disturb it, the CO2 will stay in the box. If it's not O2 or N, bolt the box to the ceiling and fill it with helium.
All I want to know is will it fry the cell phone of thoes people who can't seem to STFU in the restaurant. Perhaps a hand held version of this could be wielded by ushers in movie theaters.
Buy 2 KVMs and use one for the keyboard-video-monitor. Open up the second one and buy some panel mount 1/8" audio jacks or whatever will match your cables. Cut off the mini-DIN and DB-15 jacks, LABEL THE WIRES, then solder in the new jacks.
...Watchfire has announced a $3.7 Million lawsuit against Slashdot and Jason Lefkowitz. Citing the DMCA, Watchfire explained that the defendants violated copyright by making available to the public, parts of thiar copyrighted EULA.
True, I may be running a little hotter than if it was the proper way around, but I'm not seriously overclocking so it's not really a problem.
I made it my self. Forget about trying to put a filter over the ventilation holes. There are too many cracks and leaks. Open up the power supply and turn the fan around. Don't just reverse the polarity, turn the whole thing around. You will also need to reverse any other case fans you may have. I also had to cut off and turn over a fan on the processor because of its position relative to some ventilation holes in the PSU. The next thing is to make a filter box to hand on the back of the power supply. I used an 2" x 2" x 6" cardboard box. Then I cut out the faces and hot glued in some panels of open-cell foam. Now you have a positive-pressure case with a filtered air supply. This means that not only will you not suck in a dust, but none can leak in from any of the cracks.
I vacuum the panels around once a mouth for 10 sec. and there is NO dust in the PC. This also will solve the problem of dust and hair getting sucked into the A drive. The only thing you need to worry about is making the filter box large enough so you don't over heat the PC. My 2x2x6 box is big enough. I also made clips out of soft wire and hot glue so the whole thing snaps onto the back of the PC.
It seems to me that a conspicuous, public refusal to invoke the DMCA even if it will result in a loss, sends a clear message that the law is so bad that we who are victims of the law refuse to use it on our enemies.
Analogy:
If you where a soldier advancing on an enemy base and you fought your way to a group of guns loaded with chemical warheads that had been shelling you all day. Would you turn the guns around and use them on the enemy? Or would you consider chemical weapons so bad that you would destroy them, even if it means that you would loose less troops when you make an assault on the enemy base?
+1 funny
You use the backups and put the originels in a safe.
A bit OT, but that reminded me of this site I ran accros a while a go with neet Lego machine tools.
You clod,
What's the problem with a CNC control program that only runs in DOS? I'm not going to put my sweet-ass expencive gaming pc out in the shop and I don't want to have to be walking back and forth from my garage and my room all the time. I sure ain't going to be shelling out $300 bucks for XP and the hardware I need to run it when a $50, 8 year old, 386 with a mono monitor will work fine. I don't know anything about porting a program from DOS to Win but I assume it rquires you to rewright a lot of code and put in all the GUI crap. I'm glad he spent his time making a DOS version.
They'll get around to that in a few years. The kind of people that listen to that Kenny G shit probably won't have any idea about the DRM issus. This will allow them to get an "install base" for this copy protection and then they can go to congras and say "look at all these millions of people whe are ok with it".
(2)(a) Invite geeks to come and use your machines to code/test on. You could rope them off in a corner and put in vending machines so guests can come in and feed the geeks and observe them in thair natural habitat, like a petting zoo. .:)
Not like a fusion plant, that has all those problems radioactive waste is generating. (And the waste from fusion plants is not even useable for building ammunition like the uran is)
You are mistaking fusion with fission. Nuclear fission (breaking apart) is what we use now in the power plants. Nuclear fusion (coming together) is what we are experimenting with and are just getting to work for very short times in experiential reactors. Fusion takes 2 small atoms like H and He and forces them together. It does not use highly radioactive fuel (U-23x), nor does it produce waste with a 10,000 year half life.
Also, weapons can be made from the depleted U from fission plants. They put it in the tip of tank shells because we can't make it fly any faster so we make it heaver. (U is around 10% heaver than Pb). It will not work for a nuclear weapon, but it can be refined and converted into stuff the that can make one.
Speaking of cheap home electronic devices, how about wedging one into an Lego RCX unit or maybe another small box. I could see the geeks at HiTechnic putting one of these in a box of bricks and you could have like 16 inputs or outputs.
I'd like to remind everyone that the assholes at PanIP are suing them and they are fighting back, please support them.
Thank goodness they are outlining some safety standards for there displays. I sure wouldn't want to zoom in on a pixilated 3D model and have a nipple poke me in the eye.
I doubt that. We have more than one shuttle and the crew could have stayed on the ISS for a while without new supplies. OTOH, NASA might have needed a reason to force the much-needed safety upgrades, but that gets into serious tin-foil hat territory.
I once used a screw driver and pliers to pull out each and every one of thoes metal connectors out of the plastic 'U' frame, filed, bent, and reinserted them. (I'm not kidding).
Think of it like this:
Say you bought a car and it came with a EULA that said you where only allowed to go 50mph, so the speedometer only went from 0-50. However the car was capable of going 100mph with no modifications apart from pushing the gas pedal a little further down. Let's also say that the manufacture of the car also sold another model that was exactly like the one you bought, except that its' speedometer went form 0-100. Of corse the 'faster' model cost an extra $5000 In other words, they sell a product capable of doing something and then say I'm not allowed to it.
I'd like to see the car company try to enforce this EULA that says I can't drive 100mph in my 'economy' model. When I buy something, I have the legal and moral right to use that product to its' full capacity, then modify it and use it some more!
Ask Slashdot http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/29/16 55222
EULA DB http://la.shano.org/index.html
It might be a bit off topic, but I wonder if these companies are able to get a tax right-off when they donate these patents. It seems like this could be a nice tax loophole for them, get a patent, hype its' value, then make a tax-deductable donation.
But when you steel a physical copy from the store, it can no longer be purchsed by someone eles. Thus, there is concrete, measurable loss. OTOH, copying something does not deminish thair abaility to sell the CD to someone eles. I know that it would deminish thair ability to sell it to me, but what if I would have never bought it in the first place, or what if I like the band and decide to buy more of thair CD?
Thank you for that
(+1 Funny, +1 Insightful)