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I've had a Mondex card for 3 years now, its my student ID card for my Uni. Originally it was a smartcard which could be charged up (ie, out money on) in any of the university payphones, which was convenient. Now it can be charged in special mondex points around campus, and its also used to register unix passwords and gain access to computer labs.
But it was considerably less powerful. It was an old car battery and the coils from an large, old TV.
It wasnt directional, and you needed it fairly close to the device you were disrupting. I made it after a discussion about the music on the radio on out school bus. We didnt like it and the driver wouldnt turn it off, so I said to my friends 'I bet I could make something that'd stop those speakers remotely' and they didnt believe me so I made it.
Never did try it out on the bus tho.
I'd be interested as to the thickness of metal that this device works thru, as most equipement is shielded, and medical equipment more so. And given all this worry about cellphones causing cancer I'd be interested as to any lasting effects on anyone in the way. The operators of MRI Scanners are exposed to both strong magnetic fields and high frequency RF, and direction sense and memory are rumoured to be affected (Known as 'Mag Lag'). AFAIK theres no proven data on this.
thats why I said 'current nanotech devices'. That dust that everyone was so excited about was called nanotech, I dont believe that the definition is as simple as 'of the order of 10^-9m'
When these things become more common (or people are trained how to use SI units:) we'll be able to classify them better.
I'd say this is sub-nano. not really more than a neat chemical trick. Interfacing it with current nanotech devices would be like fitting a toy car motor to a monster truck.
I've considered making a switchmode powersupply to sit on a car battery. You need to know how many watthours your battery holds, then you simply divide by your powersupply wattage to get a rough figure.
just because the bible is wrong doesnt mean that god didnt create the universe. maybe she just pressed the big, red powerswitch in the sky, or perhaps, (if you believe the cyclic universe theory) we were just rebooted.
The report I saw on the BBC News, said that the intelligence (ability to form memories) was increased by changing the activities of ion channels in the brain.
Normally when two nerve cells feel like joining (forming a memory, according to the news) they brush together, and one sends chemicals to the other. If an ion channel is open at the correct point a connection is made, but otherwise its not.
The GE'd mice have permanently open ion channels. This is supposed to improve memory formation. The quesions I ask are:
If a memory is recorded for EVERYTHING wont you run out of neurons to interlink?
Will the reliability of the memory suffer, like happens with some memory enhancing drugs, which increase recall, but decrease accuracy.
How many of these mice are epileptic, would it be possible with all these ion channels open for 'wires to get crossed' or something?
There are of course the moral and ethical arguements too:) I'll leave that to nicer people
I've been waiting for a while to get DVD. If I had room I'd have got a standalone decoder, I've not got a builtin PC one mainly because of the drivers issues involved.
I'll have to look around the shops around christmas time, might have some present requests:)
imagine a real-time map of the 'net with load shown as a colour... every time a site is mentioned on slashdot, it starts getting redder thru to black, then cools again...
neat, i dont even need to make it, i can imagine it
It all depends on your definition of fragmentation. I'd say that if they started from the same code base and split into/n/ code bases, that is fragmentation, ie splitting. It doesnt mean its good/bad/indifferent, its merely a statement
If thats the case, my computer is going to be a workstation. I really want to move beyond 32bit, with the security of having a fair idea of the architecture.
I think Larry Wall made a slight chemical mistake there. I quote:
That's TNT, trinitrotoluene, frequently confused with dynamite. But it takes a detonator to get TNT to explode. You can take pure TNT and hit it with a hammer, and nothing will happen. Don't try this with dynamite. It will ruin your day, if not your hammer.
Dynamite is TNT soaked into a special kind of clay (I cant spell the name, it sounds german like "keiselghur" or something), TNT itself is very unstable.
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Hmm... needs some work... any legal eagles?
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I've had a Mondex card for 3 years now, its my student ID card for my Uni. Originally it was a smartcard which could be charged up (ie, out money on) in any of the university payphones, which was convenient. Now it can be charged in special mondex points around campus, and its also used to register unix passwords and gain access to computer labs.
Some info here:The University of Exeter Mondex Project
But it was considerably less powerful. It was an old car battery and the coils from an large, old TV.
It wasnt directional, and you needed it fairly close to the device you were disrupting. I made it after a discussion about the music on the radio on out school bus. We didnt like it and the driver wouldnt turn it off, so I said to my friends 'I bet I could make something that'd stop those speakers remotely' and they didnt believe me so I made it.
Never did try it out on the bus tho.
I'd be interested as to the thickness of metal that this device works thru, as most equipement is shielded, and medical equipment more so. And given all this worry about cellphones causing cancer I'd be interested as to any lasting effects on anyone in the way. The operators of MRI Scanners are exposed to both strong magnetic fields and high frequency RF, and direction sense and memory are rumoured to be affected (Known as 'Mag Lag'). AFAIK theres no proven data on this.
thats why I said 'current nanotech devices'. That dust that everyone was so excited about was called nanotech, I dont believe that the definition is as simple as 'of the order of 10^-9m'
:) we'll be able to classify them better.
When these things become more common (or people are trained how to use SI units
or treble bluff, quadruple blu...
Received SIGSEGV -- core dumped
I'd say this is sub-nano. not really more than a neat chemical trick. Interfacing it with current nanotech devices would be like fitting a toy car motor to a monster truck.
Other than hard cash of course :)
I dont see Sony championing Open Source at all, but I'd like a minidisk sized storage medium for my films etc.
Hopefully they wouldnt screw this hypothetical new format up like they did with the MD.
You'll have the source,
./configure --disable-all-those-silly-addons
In Last week's NewScientist
I've considered making a switchmode powersupply to sit on a car battery. You need to know how many watthours your battery holds, then you simply divide by your powersupply wattage to get a rough figure.
SPDIF is a fairly common digital output for PC cards. Even the old AWE32 had one (only for midi iirc).
Dolby Digital/AC3 output on a card is something I'd happily kill for, as I'm making an AC3 amp at the moment.
when I last used it it didnt use a separate GUI lib, ie, it had its own. That'd be hard to change to GTK/QT
This'd apply to other organs, as appears to have happened in kansas, namely the brain
(ooh, wasnt that vicious)
just because the bible is wrong doesnt mean that god didnt create the universe. maybe she just pressed the big, red powerswitch in the sky, or perhaps, (if you believe the cyclic universe theory) we were just rebooted.
Good uptime whatever way you look at it
The report I saw on the BBC News, said that the intelligence (ability to form memories) was increased by changing the activities of ion channels in the brain.
:) I'll leave that to nicer people
Normally when two nerve cells feel like joining (forming a memory, according to the news) they brush together, and one sends chemicals to the other. If an ion channel is open at the correct point a connection is made, but otherwise its not.
The GE'd mice have permanently open ion channels. This is supposed to improve memory formation. The quesions I ask are:
If a memory is recorded for EVERYTHING wont you run out of neurons to interlink?
Will the reliability of the memory suffer, like happens with some memory enhancing drugs, which increase recall, but decrease accuracy.
How many of these mice are epileptic, would it be possible with all these ion channels open for 'wires to get crossed' or something?
There are of course the moral and ethical arguements too
I've been waiting for a while to get DVD. If I had room I'd have got a standalone decoder, I've not got a builtin PC one mainly because of the drivers issues involved.
:)
I'll have to look around the shops around christmas time, might have some present requests
imagine a real-time map of the 'net with load shown as a colour... every time a site is mentioned on slashdot, it starts getting redder thru to black, then cools again...
neat, i dont even need to make it, i can imagine it
CyberGeography mirrored: here and here
and thus not liked by certain *BSD types?
I have yet to build a box that didnt boot dos. Your point?
I have decided to retry freebsd tho'
It all depends on your definition of fragmentation. I'd say that if they started from the same code base and split into /n/ code bases, that is fragmentation, ie splitting. It doesnt mean its good/bad/indifferent, its merely a statement
If thats the case, my computer is going to be a workstation. I really want to move beyond 32bit, with the security of having a fair idea of the architecture.
I know what you're trying to say, but just because we get beoweenies spamming every time doesnt mean its shit.
ack, the perils of early morning posting :/
nitroglycerine
I think Larry Wall made a slight chemical mistake there. I quote:
That's TNT, trinitrotoluene, frequently confused with dynamite. But it takes a detonator to get TNT to explode. You can take pure TNT and hit it with a hammer, and nothing will happen. Don't try this with dynamite. It will ruin your day, if not your hammer.Dynamite is TNT soaked into a special kind of clay (I cant spell the name, it sounds german like "keiselghur" or something), TNT itself is very unstable.