Hopefully, this pillow allows you to do more than just sleep(1)... like sleep(28,800)
Homer Simpson's high-tech X10'd Halloween Display
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Halloween Roundup
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· Score: 4, Interesting
While
these
halloween decorations are a bit over the top,/.'ers
might find 'em entertaining and worthy of "News for Nerds"
7000 lights along with giant inflatable Pumpkin, Frankenstein, and
Homer Simpson - D'OH.
View with three webcams, control (yes, turn 'em
on/off & inflate/deflate) with X10, send Instant Text Messages
via webcam, view Google Map of surfers, and enjoy or
cuss at the Franken-Homer cursor & Adams Family Music.
Website suggests sending your trick-or-treats to charity... so far,
it has raised over $14,000
for the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Disease.
If you RTFA, it's not clear what actually changed... and in the text, it says "However, assistant commerce secretary John Kneuer, the US official in charge of such matters, also made clear that the US was still determined to keep control of the net's root zone file - at least in the medium-term."
"Only about one part in 30 million of the light we send to the moon is lucky enough to actually strike the targeted reflector. But the reflector is composed of small corner cubes, and for reasons related to the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics, the light returning from each of these small apertures is forced to have a divergence (called diffraction).
In the case of the Apollo reflectors, this divergence is in the neighborhood of 8 arcseconds. This means that the beam returning to the earth has a roughly 15 kilometer (10 mile) footprint when it returns to the earth. We scrape up as much of this as our telescope will allow, but a 3.5 meter aperture will only get about one in 30 million of the returning photons -- coincidentally the same odds of hitting the reflector in the first place."
I.e. 1 out of 30,000,000^2 photon's come back to be captured.
The January/2006 Wired had an article titled
"How Click Fraud
Could Swallow the Internet" that presented a case study of a charter-jet
service victimized by this... turns out it was their competition doing
it to use up their on-line marketing budget.
Google Girl basically stonewalled 'em.
Solar power ain't too strong when you get out to Pluto, so New Horizons carries a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) which contains 24 pounds of plutonium dioxide. No, it's not going to "blow-up" like a Nuke, but super-duper poisonous stuff. This requires White House approval which was recently granted... although one wonders if how much of a formality that was this late in the game.
These christmas lights also do plenty of randomly blinking red, green, and blue lights. They certainly aren't self-aware. I call shens along with parent.
The submitter asks "Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept
rocky performance from popular services?" so I would answer that
with what are the other choices available for the common public?
Yea, there is Google Blogspot... but even the big "G" has had
performance issues in the past. An option for/. readers is to
host a blog on your own site... but that's not realistic
for the average Joe. This stuff is all free, so I think most
people are willing to grin and bear and suffer through some outages.
Plus I don't think the world is going to end if we are unable
to blog for a short while...;-)
P.S. Per my/. username, I did get a chuckle out of this quote from Bloglines - "Bloglines has been busting at the seams like the Incredible Hulk"
and yea, getting angry and transforming into a
Big Green Monster can really
wreck your clothing budget.
Computer is on
> Surf to/.
Page Loads - no recent stories
> Reload 7,512 times
A new story pops up
> Click on the story
Nothing to see here - move along
> Reload 389 times
You see the new story
> Write pithy First Post comment - hit Submit
Comment accepted - 8/8
> Reload page
Your comment is gibberish because you didn't preview it
> Reload page again
Comment moderated to -1 as Troll
> Change race to Elf
Change not accepted - you are now permanently cursed as a Troll.
BTW, the funniest Adsense I saw was on the Hulk'in Lunar Eclipse page where ads were offering Lunar Real Estate for Sale - turns out some company sells "deeds" for land on the moon...;-)
I think "crisis" is a bit sensational, but yea, power is a concern
and it ain't getting any cheaper.
This is certainly not helped by the power consuming (and heat generating)
hot chips from Intel. Note that you have to pay for that "twice"
since for every BTU they consume in electricity, you have to cool it
in a data center. Ironically, Part 1 does not even talk about how the
CPU itself is
a big issue here... maybe they'll cover it in the rest of the series.
Speaking of which, wouldn't it be better for stuff like this to
wait until the series is over before posting on Slashdot?
P.S. The submitter has a nice fishing web site and is holding
about a 12" trout on his main page. Nice catch... but I'd
recommend he go on a
fishing charter
in Seward Alaska if he wants to catch some mongo fish.
This trip was a major slayfest and my brother was
Captain
Crudd who knows how to fish with a beer in his hand.
The writer of the WSJ piece was Glenn Reynolds who is identified as
"a professor of law at the University of Tennessee
but is probably better know for his
InstaPundit.Com Blog.
Interesting piece - Glenn has been published numerous times
in the WSJ and (staying out of politics because people get
overly zealous about this), writes some darn good stuff IMHO.
Slashdot Mirror
Hulk for President!
... ;-)
Vote here for the SMASHING Big Green Guy because you don't want to make him angry - you wouldn't like him when he is angry
Hopefully, this pillow allows you to do more than just sleep(1) ... like sleep(28,800)
While these halloween decorations are a bit over the top, /.'ers
might find 'em entertaining and worthy of "News for Nerds"
... so far,
it has raised over $14,000
for the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Disease.
7000 lights along with giant inflatable Pumpkin, Frankenstein, and Homer Simpson - D'OH. View with three webcams, control (yes, turn 'em on/off & inflate/deflate) with X10, send Instant Text Messages via webcam, view Google Map of surfers, and enjoy or cuss at the Franken-Homer cursor & Adams Family Music.
Website suggests sending your trick-or-treats to charity
I've got a mish-mash of Hulk Stuff up on my site - will these type of people threaten a lawsuit against me ... or just SMASH?!?
P.S. Satire is protected speech - doesn't that apply here in the Barney case?
If you RTFA, it's not clear what actually changed ... and in the text, it says "However, assistant commerce secretary John Kneuer, the US official in charge of such matters, also made clear that the US was still determined to keep control of the net's root zone file - at least in the medium-term."
Go SMASH 'em Shawn!
"Only about one part in 30 million of the light we send to the moon is lucky enough to actually strike the targeted reflector. But the reflector is composed of small corner cubes, and for reasons related to the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics, the light returning from each of these small apertures is forced to have a divergence (called diffraction).
In the case of the Apollo reflectors, this divergence is in the neighborhood of 8 arcseconds. This means that the beam returning to the earth has a roughly 15 kilometer (10 mile) footprint when it returns to the earth. We scrape up as much of this as our telescope will allow, but a 3.5 meter aperture will only get about one in 30 million of the returning photons -- coincidentally the same odds of hitting the reflector in the first place."
I.e. 1 out of 30,000,000^2 photon's come back to be captured.
Well done Improv'ers ...
'Nuff said!
What is the EU going to do about this little pink guy?
"Hulk Smashdot" is quite acceptable to me per my username ...
I rank 'em right up there with the spyware guys - send all the rats to this site
The January/2006 Wired had an article titled "How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet" that presented a case study of a charter-jet service victimized by this ... turns out it was their competition doing
it to use up their on-line marketing budget.
Google Girl basically stonewalled 'em.
Solar power ain't too strong when you get out to Pluto, so New Horizons carries a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) which contains 24 pounds of plutonium dioxide. No, it's not going to "blow-up" like a Nuke, but super-duper poisonous stuff. This requires White House approval which was recently granted ... although one wonders if how much of a formality that was this late in the game.
Hulk not like it too much either.
Hulk SMASH Puny Human LA Weekly!
These christmas lights also do plenty of randomly blinking red, green, and blue lights. They certainly aren't self-aware. I call shens along with parent.
Yea, there is Google Blogspot ... but even the big "G" has had
performance issues in the past. An option for /. readers is to
host a blog on your own site ... but that's not realistic
for the average Joe. This stuff is all free, so I think most
people are willing to grin and bear and suffer through some outages.
Plus I don't think the world is going to end if we are unable
to blog for a short while ... ;-)
P.S. Per my /. username, I did get a chuckle out of this quote from Bloglines - "Bloglines has been busting at the seams like the Incredible Hulk"
and yea, getting angry and transforming into a
Big Green Monster can really
wreck your clothing budget.
BAH, Puny Human Cape Man not strongest.
Hulk is strongest!
Hulk SMASH Superman in shuffleboard games at retirement home.
Computer is on /.
> Surf to
Page Loads - no recent stories
> Reload 7,512 times
A new story pops up
> Click on the story
Nothing to see here - move along
> Reload 389 times
You see the new story
> Write pithy First Post comment - hit Submit
Comment accepted - 8/8
> Reload page
Your comment is gibberish because you didn't preview it
> Reload page again
Comment moderated to -1 as Troll
> Change race to Elf
Change not accepted - you are now permanently cursed as a Troll.
BTW, the funniest Adsense I saw was on the Hulk'in Lunar Eclipse page where ads were offering Lunar Real Estate for Sale - turns out some company sells "deeds" for land on the moon ... ;-)
As George Romero showed in Dawn of the Dead zombies are dead ... but they keep coming back to life. Kinda like the inflateable Frankenstein that web surfers keep trying to kill.
P.S. The submitter has a nice fishing web site and is holding about a 12" trout on his main page. Nice catch ... but I'd
recommend he go on a
fishing charter
in Seward Alaska if he wants to catch some mongo fish.
This trip was a major slayfest and my brother was
Captain
Crudd who knows how to fish with a beer in his hand.
Hulk'in Halloween Display/Webcam is up
Big Green Monster sighted
HULK's Halloween decorations webcam is up!