Slashdot Mirror


User: MichaelSmith

MichaelSmith's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
11,670
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 11,670

  1. Re:Related: POW radio on Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And now imagine that radio would have been digital back then ...

    Yeah I worry about future post holocaust scenarios. All the information you need is on wikipedia but you don't have access to it anymore. Maybe there won't be many new books at all.

  2. Re:It's just a battery, not a telegraph on Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials · · Score: 1

    I thought also you could look into generating power from wind or water generators. And given the expense of making wire, a crude radio transmitter and receiver might be feasible.

  3. Re:Related: POW radio on Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials · · Score: 1

    Ha! They actually used bits of string.

  4. Re:Cave-talk. on Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials · · Score: 1

    That show is still on here and I noticed that they never explain how TV works. Unlike the car where you push it with your legs.

  5. Re:Next up: a computer on Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials · · Score: 2, Interesting
  6. Re:Does anyone else smell Y2K hysteria here? on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who are you, the owner of rackspace?

  7. Re:Delaying the inevitable on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    How long are they going to keep this up for? Jeez.

    Yes, but this at least gives people an extra month to make sure everything is ready to go.

    But we are nowhere near that. We are not even starting.

  8. Re:Somebody translate, please... on Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter · · Score: 1

    No, Arnold can't run again.

    Without a time machine I suppose.

  9. Re:Computer illiterate? on Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter · · Score: 1

    Is the sky blue? (checks) Yes it is!

  10. Libya on Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I am surprised that the Japanese guy in the tutu isn't banned by Sharia law.

  11. Re:What???? on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    Believe me its not, but then I hated ketamine too.

  12. Re:What defines import? on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    If I access my data over the Internet while in Australia, does that fall under the same "import" restrictions?

    When it comes to downloading its only CP which seems to be illegal here. People have been charged with possession, not importation when caught with that material.

  13. Re:Expectation of privacy on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't risk my freedom on those assumptions. If I had to take my porn collection across an Australian border I would transfer it with scp.

  14. Re:ok, i'll be dumb enough to ask on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    I have porn on my laptop and the times I have traveled with it I have moved it all off but of course the content remains on the HDD and traces in the browser cache, etc. So it may be difficult to delete your entire porn collection and you may forget as well.

  15. Re:What???? on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 5, Funny

    After sampling each one, their customs officer will tell you which ones are illegal.

    They are welcome to my epilepsy medication but I don't think they will enjoy not being able to stand up for the next twelve hours.

  16. Re:Lithium? on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    First off, charging a 22kWh car battery via photovoltaic is akin to filling the hoover dam with a drinking straw. It's can't be done. Check your physics.

    You must mean directly charging from PV cells attached to the car. I mean building PV power stations and feeding the power into the grid, then charging cars. 80% of my country is ideal for PV solar power collection. Flat, dry and hot.

  17. Re:Logistics, logistics, logistics... on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Brings to mind bushwalking in a remote part of my state. I stuffed up by not taking enough water containers. The walk out happened to be on a cool day. The walk back was at 40C. Two thirds of the way back I was seriously dehydrating. I walked into a shallow lake and drank because I had to. I didn't consider boiling the water. In the future I will.

    Gastric infections in the outback are pretty hellish. I struggled to a camping ground and collapsed near a good water tank. I spent the next two of three days (memory is hazy) pouring water through my system. In one end and out the other.

  18. Re:Lithium? on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Everyone is watching Israel, Denmark and Australia very closely.

    WTF? There is nothing happening here except oil and coal extraction and offers of fellatio to US politicians and car makers. If we had an interest in photo voltaic energy and subsidies for non-IC cars then I would see your point, but we don't.

  19. Re:Kinf Theives? on Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick · · Score: 1

    If they can't do that is it okay of they send you a recording of The Eagles?

  20. Re:Doubt it on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 1

    Yea, and Google Video wasn't discontinued or anything.

    In 2009, Google ended the ability for users to upload videos to Google Videos.

  21. Re:Atmosphere on International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space · · Score: 1

    Unless the space suit is at or near 1 atmosphere of pressure itself. I thought modern space suits operated at about 80% of an atmosphere of pressure anyway?

    No, that would make them unusable. You need the pressure as low as possible which means pure oxygen.

  22. Re:Atmosphere on International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space · · Score: 1

    The apollo 1 fire happened at two atmospheres pure oxygen. This is absolutely insane. Five PSI O2 is perfectly safe.

  23. Re:Atmosphere on International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Operating at 5psi makes eva much easier. Lunary surface EVAs would not really have been possible on the moon if the crew had to decompress for three hours every day. They were busy enough anyway.

  24. Re:Atmosphere on International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Besides the point though, as people have done Everest without oxygen anyways, right?

    Only acclimatising for a long time. The natural atmosphere at that altitude is only marginally survivable. If you dump the atmosphere from a 747 at 30000 feet most people would die quickly.

  25. Re:In Communist China... on International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space · · Score: 1

    Its actually a reasonable question. The rebel alliance in Star Wars would have been better off without the docking adapters which allowed the imperial storm troopers to walk right into their spacecraft.