I earned the title of "uber geek" at my office when I used the Mr House [misterhouse.net] web server running in my house to turn off the X10 controlled coffee maker I'd forgotten to turn off. The system turns on my porch light an hour or so before I get off work, and remembers to turn it off at 3am. I also have it turn on my livingroom lights so I never walk into a dark house.
With the number of devices the open source Mister House project can interface with (too many to list) - the "smart home" is only a few weekends worth of work away (and a couple hundred bucks). I'm working on a way that I can use the program to turn on my hoses for watering (no sprinkler system, and since I rent the lot, I can't put one in).
Home automation is a fun hobby for someone like me, but imagine the benifits home automation and internet appliances would have for someone who's physically challenged. This is the main reason I'm working a friend to produce better protocalls and make the control units affordable to the average joe on the street.
from the article, it really sounds like the RIAA needs to go after Microsoft, since in this case if you can't mark a directory/file as shared, his indexing service couldn't index it.
Heck, maybe they should go after them [microsoft] after all, because with out some sort of OS, you can't rip the music and mark it as shared in windoze and his service couldn't index it... even a step further, go after the artist, because if they didn't make the music in the first place, you couldn't rip it, nor mark it as shared in windoze, and his service couldn't index it! Thus goes the "logic" of the RIAA.
That energy would have to be provided by some other means, such as coal and natural gas, et. al, solar, wind, or nuclear.
A friend gave me the idea of floating solar platforms in the middle of the ocean to process the water into usable hydrogen. Simply let them sit out duing the sunlight hours and produce lots of cheap, clean fuel. If a storm comes along, simply drop the whole thing under water to the point that the storm doesn't effect it. The process could be almost completely automated and could be designed to have almost no impact on the sea critters.
I spend approximately 1% of my income on my electric bill.
I spend between 2-8% of my monthy income (net) on my power bill, Probably 2% in the winter, closer to 8% in the summer. Say the end result of the Fusion was that my electic bill ended up being cut in half - that in it self would make up for the COLA "raise" I got this year.
Either you make a LOT more than I do, electric is cheaper where you live, or you use a LOT less electric than I do.
I can think of a ton of advantages a weapon like this would have.
1. Produces excess heat - a much better way to heat your MRE than those stinky chemicial heaters they come with now.
2. Since the power source is always on, put a 110 outlet on the thing for plugging in your electric razor, Xbox or dvd player to watch "FM"s on.
3. It's ability to shoot through smoke/sand/trees/swarms of giant gnats will be reduced somewhat - but remember, so it a balistic weapon. Generally helps to be able to see it if you're gonig to shoot at it. Even thermal optics are not very effective in these situations, regardless of what hollywood says.
4. In addition to warming MREs, toss it in your sack a few minutes before you rack out and your bag will be nice and warm for you. Put the platoon's weapons in the middle of your tent, and you can get rid of the damn pot belly stoves that are a pain to clean.
5. Imagine not having to field strip the entire weapon every day! Just keep the outside clean and your optics clear and you're good to go.
6. Effective range. Most crunchies (infantry types) engage targets at 300Yds or less, simply because that's what the effective range of the weapon is. Have any idea how hard it is to see, much less hit a target with the naked eye at 300yds? Advanced optics would help both situations, but with the greater accuracy and distance of the laser weapon, ground pounders will be able to engage targets at ranges generally reserved for mounted weapons (M240, M2, etc).
7. If this can be done effectivly as a light figher weapon, imagine what a tank could do with them, I wonder if this sort of thing will be the early predisesor (sp?) of the Bolo's HellBore.
8. Of course, looks like it's just a hoax, so this entire post has just been the ramblings of a "old" tanker.
Gotta say, BitTorrent came right through and I got the download in about 4 hours and change.
HOWEVER... Did a fresh install on an older HP Kayak. Didn't see anything for installed hardware. Didn't see or even try to find the lan eth0 - Intel 10/100 Pro. This machine comes with a ISA sound card, and sndconfig doesn't even install. Yes, I probably should install these items seperatly, and I'm sure the RPMs are not too hard to come by, but with a brand new install and older hardware, I'd like to think that I wouldn't need to. Isn't RH trying to be the easy install king?
OTOH - Mandrake 9.1 comes right up, sees the network card, sndconfig kinda pukes on the ISA sound card (old Aztec that worked find in win98SE) - I haven't take a lot of time to play with the settings or look at the card to see if it's got jumpers... but it's much easier.
OTOHOH - Mandrake 9.1 will NOT install at all on my old Gateway laptop. Freezes on the main install screen. Where as RH breezes through, but won't even try to find the PCMCIA Network card (Cisco 350 Airnet). Ended up putting WinXP on it, less install time, no headaches - found and installed everything just fine once I put the cisco drivers on it.
So which is better? I hate to say it, but my experiences are leaning towards RH 7.3 and Windoze series stuff. Look like both have some more work to do - IMNVHO.
Thanks for the info. I stand corrected. Used to love the AWM/AWP. The idea of sneaking in, taking a shot, getting a kill then sneaking out again with out being seen really was my thing. Course, that only worked about 10% of the time, the rest of the time I was in a shoot out with the most inaccurate weapon (when shot with out the scope) in the game.
I used to play as BOFH and my girlfriend (who was 10 years younger than I) would play as PFY. Those were they days.
I remember when coverage and quality of signal used to be the deciding factor in a cell phone. Why is it now that the cooler the phones a company offers (T-Mobile) the worse the coverage and quality? Oh, wait - never mind, that's one a given.
I'd be excited to get one of these, but...
1. The thought of recharging my watch really doesn't sit well.
2. It seems to be missing a calculator, GPS and remote - the basic functions ANY good geek watch should have.
5. (3 sir, oh... 3). These don't have service in the states.
I would be sitting behind one of those people in a movie theater. If they are stupid enough to get into that situation you know they are one of those people who leave their cell phones on during movies.:)
I wonder if it would be legal to beat the crap out them before dragging them down to the police station. I bet you'd even get the price of your movie refunded!
How well does this actually work? Wouldn't they just get a new phone number?
From the article
Those who prefer to change their "poisoned" number rather than face punishment incur the fees and inconvenience of switching, and also lose any business their ad might have generated.
So changing the number comes with a pretty high price. Course, I'm "sure" after they get this message, every one goes right in and turns them selves in. I wonder how long it will take before someone figures out how to bypass this.
If you add up the pollution from all the CARS and AIRPLANES
Not to mention all the people farting - that has to add a huge ammount to the polutions level. Maybe we should make another new law to ban Taco Bell...
I won't pretend to understand the science of this, but as I do understand it from the article, it doesn't vibrate the air waves, rather directly vibrates the bones in your ear.
I drove from CO to KS and back yesterday. The main thought on my mind was - what if even car on the road had a WAP configured to talk to every other car on the road, and to look for WAN access to the net - creating a HUGE mobile network. I'd be a LOT less upset by a traffic snarl if I could read/. AND the kids would of been a lot less roudy if they could surf cartoon network on the trip. Heck, could be a neat way to meet that hot blond in the BMW next to you.
I seem to remember hearing this idea before... maybe it was on/.
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Right, that's assuming you have this connection to your desktop. You'll be sharing this bandwidth with several other people (unless you're uber rich) and the pipe will fill up fast with pr0n downloads (even at work).
Hopefully, since this is a new protocal rather than a new hardware change - a firmware upgrade should sufice rather than a retooling (I only STFA). This would make the bandwidth cheap enough, that even @home/attbi/comcast companies could bump the speed up a little and still turn a fair profit. Then I won't have to change my URL and email address AGAIN.
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I earned the title of "uber geek" at my office when I used the Mr House [misterhouse.net] web server running in my house to turn off the X10 controlled coffee maker I'd forgotten to turn off. The system turns on my porch light an hour or so before I get off work, and remembers to turn it off at 3am. I also have it turn on my livingroom lights so I never walk into a dark house.
With the number of devices the open source Mister House project can interface with (too many to list) - the "smart home" is only a few weekends worth of work away (and a couple hundred bucks). I'm working on a way that I can use the program to turn on my hoses for watering (no sprinkler system, and since I rent the lot, I can't put one in).
Home automation is a fun hobby for someone like me, but imagine the benifits home automation and internet appliances would have for someone who's physically challenged. This is the main reason I'm working a friend to produce better protocalls and make the control units affordable to the average joe on the street.
from the article, it really sounds like the RIAA needs to go after Microsoft, since in this case if you can't mark a directory/file as shared, his indexing service couldn't index it.
Heck, maybe they should go after them [microsoft] after all, because with out some sort of OS, you can't rip the music and mark it as shared in windoze and his service couldn't index it... even a step further, go after the artist, because if they didn't make the music in the first place, you couldn't rip it, nor mark it as shared in windoze, and his service couldn't index it! Thus goes the "logic" of the RIAA.
They would be rather silly investigating the username of daisy_girl_10 in case it was a young girl
I'd try something like that, but imagine the weirdos I'd run into while downloading pr0n.
That energy would have to be provided by some other means, such as coal and natural gas, et. al, solar, wind, or nuclear.
A friend gave me the idea of floating solar platforms in the middle of the ocean to process the water into usable hydrogen. Simply let them sit out duing the sunlight hours and produce lots of cheap, clean fuel. If a storm comes along, simply drop the whole thing under water to the point that the storm doesn't effect it. The process could be almost completely automated and could be designed to have almost no impact on the sea critters.
I've yet to find a serious flaw with his plan.
I spend approximately 1% of my income on my electric bill.
I spend between 2-8% of my monthy income (net) on my power bill, Probably 2% in the winter, closer to 8% in the summer. Say the end result of the Fusion was that my electic bill ended up being cut in half - that in it self would make up for the COLA "raise" I got this year.
Either you make a LOT more than I do, electric is cheaper where you live, or you use a LOT less electric than I do.
With luck they'll keep this quiet until it's really working
/. But since maybe a total of 3 people actually read the articles, never mind.
Kinda late for that since it's already been posted on
Can someone take a guess at who's gonna be crazy enough to want to blow up with that nut?
I'd give it a go, what good is life if you don't expand your horizions a little? (pun only partially intended)
The greatest losses in your life will come from chances you never took. Course, I'd make sure my life insurance covered this and was paid up.
toilet paper tubes in there somewhere too, most likely as part of the exhaust system
::bashes head against wall::
Toilet paper tubes as an exaust system?!?!? Why the hell didn't I think of that
NOW I can finish my own rocket! Thanks!
I can think of a ton of advantages a weapon like this would have.
1. Produces excess heat - a much better way to heat your MRE than those stinky chemicial heaters they come with now.
2. Since the power source is always on, put a 110 outlet on the thing for plugging in your electric razor, Xbox or dvd player to watch "FM"s on.
3. It's ability to shoot through smoke/sand/trees/swarms of giant gnats will be reduced somewhat - but remember, so it a balistic weapon. Generally helps to be able to see it if you're gonig to shoot at it. Even thermal optics are not very effective in these situations, regardless of what hollywood says.
4. In addition to warming MREs, toss it in your sack a few minutes before you rack out and your bag will be nice and warm for you. Put the platoon's weapons in the middle of your tent, and you can get rid of the damn pot belly stoves that are a pain to clean.
5. Imagine not having to field strip the entire weapon every day! Just keep the outside clean and your optics clear and you're good to go.
6. Effective range. Most crunchies (infantry types) engage targets at 300Yds or less, simply because that's what the effective range of the weapon is. Have any idea how hard it is to see, much less hit a target with the naked eye at 300yds? Advanced optics would help both situations, but with the greater accuracy and distance of the laser weapon, ground pounders will be able to engage targets at ranges generally reserved for mounted weapons (M240, M2, etc).
7. If this can be done effectivly as a light figher weapon, imagine what a tank could do with them, I wonder if this sort of thing will be the early predisesor (sp?) of the Bolo's HellBore.
8. Of course, looks like it's just a hoax, so this entire post has just been the ramblings of a "old" tanker.
Gotta say, BitTorrent came right through and I got the download in about 4 hours and change.
HOWEVER... Did a fresh install on an older HP Kayak. Didn't see anything for installed hardware. Didn't see or even try to find the lan eth0 - Intel 10/100 Pro. This machine comes with a ISA sound card, and sndconfig doesn't even install. Yes, I probably should install these items seperatly, and I'm sure the RPMs are not too hard to come by, but with a brand new install and older hardware, I'd like to think that I wouldn't need to. Isn't RH trying to be the easy install king?
OTOH - Mandrake 9.1 comes right up, sees the network card, sndconfig kinda pukes on the ISA sound card (old Aztec that worked find in win98SE) - I haven't take a lot of time to play with the settings or look at the card to see if it's got jumpers... but it's much easier.
OTOHOH - Mandrake 9.1 will NOT install at all on my old Gateway laptop. Freezes on the main install screen. Where as RH breezes through, but won't even try to find the PCMCIA Network card (Cisco 350 Airnet). Ended up putting WinXP on it, less install time, no headaches - found and installed everything just fine once I put the cisco drivers on it.
So which is better? I hate to say it, but my experiences are leaning towards RH 7.3 and Windoze series stuff. Look like both have some more work to do - IMNVHO.
Thanks for the info. I stand corrected. Used to love the AWM/AWP. The idea of sneaking in, taking a shot, getting a kill then sneaking out again with out being seen really was my thing. Course, that only worked about 10% of the time, the rest of the time I was in a shoot out with the most inaccurate weapon (when shot with out the scope) in the game.
I used to play as BOFH and my girlfriend (who was 10 years younger than I) would play as PFY. Those were they days.
isn't that the AWP? It's been years since I've played, but I can't seem to remember a AWM.
I remember when coverage and quality of signal used to be the deciding factor in a cell phone. Why is it now that the cooler the phones a company offers (T-Mobile) the worse the coverage and quality? Oh, wait - never mind, that's one a given.
I'd be excited to get one of these, but...
1. The thought of recharging my watch really doesn't sit well.
2. It seems to be missing a calculator, GPS and remote - the basic functions ANY good geek watch should have.
5. (3 sir, oh... 3). These don't have service in the states.
why do they not just put these cell phone numbers into "411", or post them on internet forums,
/.
Better yet, just post the number on
John: Why don't you answer your phone anymore?
Joe : It got slashdotted last week.
I would be sitting behind one of those people in a movie theater. If they are stupid enough to get into that situation you know they are one of those people who leave their cell phones on during movies. :)
I wonder if it would be legal to beat the crap out them before dragging them down to the police station. I bet you'd even get the price of your movie refunded!
How well does this actually work? Wouldn't they just get a new phone number?
From the article
Those who prefer to change their "poisoned" number rather than face punishment incur the fees and inconvenience of switching, and also lose any business their ad might have generated.
So changing the number comes with a pretty high price. Course, I'm "sure" after they get this message, every one goes right in and turns them selves in. I wonder how long it will take before someone figures out how to bypass this.
If you add up the pollution from all the CARS and AIRPLANES
Not to mention all the people farting - that has to add a huge ammount to the polutions level. Maybe we should make another new law to ban Taco Bell...
Hmmm... Maybe it's time to let Mr. Burns block out the sun in Springfield... just might help a little.
One truly harrowing noise is that of a baby crying, played backward, and combined with another tone
Does anyone happen to have heard this one?
Well that one time when my child was possessed...
http://www.atcsd.com/tl_hss.html has some more detail on how it works.
I won't pretend to understand the science of this, but as I do understand it from the article, it doesn't vibrate the air waves, rather directly vibrates the bones in your ear.
I drove from CO to KS and back yesterday. The main thought on my mind was - what if even car on the road had a WAP configured to talk to every other car on the road, and to look for WAN access to the net - creating a HUGE mobile network. I'd be a LOT less upset by a traffic snarl if I could read /. AND the kids would of been a lot less roudy if they could surf cartoon network on the trip. Heck, could be a neat way to meet that hot blond in the BMW next to you.
/.
I seem to remember hearing this idea before... maybe it was on
Right, that's assuming you have this connection to your desktop. You'll be sharing this bandwidth with several other people (unless you're uber rich) and the pipe will fill up fast with pr0n downloads (even at work).
Hopefully, since this is a new protocal rather than a new hardware change - a firmware upgrade should sufice rather than a retooling (I only STFA). This would make the bandwidth cheap enough, that even @home/attbi/comcast companies could bump the speed up a little and still turn a fair profit. Then I won't have to change my URL and email address AGAIN.
Can the TiVO stream live tv from my home network to my PC at work so I don't miss SouthPark?
NO? Then I'll just continue using my ATI All in Wonder card as a TiVO type device.
Kind of sad that I have to pay $75 a month for the 4 channels I watch 3 times a week. At least my kids will get some use out of it while they visit.
OTOH, I really like my RioVolt MP3 Player. Maybe I'll pick up one of the higher end models on clearance somewhere.
Do you want your kids bashing ceiling tiles with their head for money?!
You mean to say that people can get PAID for this? Man, my kids are going to be out next week and I'll be rich.
It's the missing ????!
1. Have kids
2. Make kids bash ceiling tiles with heads for money...
3. Profit!
4. Upgrade NES to SNES.
WOOHOO!