i don't really know about this one. be prepared for this response to kind of go all over the place (as that's how my mind works)
i can remember in the wake of the 9-11 attacks, someone asked a similar question of the taliban. reporters found a guy willing to talk to them and asked them something along the lines of 'hey, you got any plans to make a nuclear weapon?' and the taliban guy replied "dood, we can't even make GLASS. nevermind a nuclear weapon". then he called him an infidel and made that high pitched warcry. haha just kidding.
but nuclear weapons. plans for it are all over the internet, am i right? you'd think that if someone were going to do it, they would have done it by now. if someone were going to light one off, they probably would have done it by now. the way i tend to deal with this fear is to just assume it will never happen. and if i am proven wrong, well, i won't have all that much time to lament my incorrect prediction, will i?
i can remember some shitty television version of "timecop" where some guy went back to try and get hitler the plans for the bomb, and it was on a laptop, and the timecops were like "oh snap, they've got plans for the bomb". i think it takes more than just a laptop and some plans to pull it together.
maybe if we are lucky doc brown will trade some terrorists a suitcase full of old pinball parts for delorean modifications. wooord.
---- when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious shit
yeah! i've been waiting for this badboy for a while now. not that i'm actually adept at tinkering, but that's the whole idea, i guess, right?
for the meantime, i've been reading nuts and volts magazine while running the elliptical thing at the gym. its so funny, because everyone else is reading fitness magazines, and i'm lookin at inductor related schematics. wtf?
What I don't like about this article is that the police were lauding this setup as "absolutely brilliant" (or whatever the quote was).
I know slashdotters are pretty innovative, but the general population hears about something like this and they are flabbergasted that someone would piece two or three easy-to-purchase-and-set-up pieces of technology together to solve a problem.
a while back my roommates, who are somewhat "fratty", were throwing a keg party at my house. I was certainly not interested in attending, but what i was more interested in was not having drunken fratboys entering my room and doing god-knows-what in there. I had actually planned on setting up a webcam that would snag pictures, and another program that would check the light intensity of those pictures. if the light intensity changed drastically between any two snags, i would have the program send an email to my phone telling me someone went into my room. then i'd call my roommates from my girlfriends place and say "hey get the fuck out of my room"
i didn't go through with it because it would only validate my paranoia, but whatever.
little tiny cameras can be used all over the place. I know that "hardware hacking for geeks" has a camera antenna for a car that can be remote controlled. i always thought cars should come standard with 8 cameras positioned around the rim of the roof, so that in case of a collision, all 8 cameras could snap a picture on impact to discern exactly what went down in the surrounding areas of the accident.
insurance companies would probably eat that up.
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dude, where's my sig?
When I was in college, my hard drive failed, and the guy across the way pointed me toward Minuet as a fully functional tool to use ftp, telnet, and whatever else right off a floppy drive. it turned out to work quite well for the three days, alleiviating a serious internet jonesing fit.
it even had a semi-capable graphical browser.
needless to say, there are tons of old dos utilities that you can throw on a dos boot disk and utilize without the need for a hard drive, if all you do is browse the web (sans caching) and send email.
http://www.eiu.edu/~philos/retro/dos/internet.htm
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i heard the same guys who did this study also revealed:
"guns don't kill people, i do"
ok wait maybe that wasn't that funny.
i don't really know about this one. be prepared for this response to kind of go all over the place (as that's how my mind works)
i can remember in the wake of the 9-11 attacks, someone asked a similar question of the taliban. reporters found a guy willing to talk to them and asked them something along the lines of 'hey, you got any plans to make a nuclear weapon?' and the taliban guy replied "dood, we can't even make GLASS. nevermind a nuclear weapon". then he called him an infidel and made that high pitched warcry. haha just kidding.
but nuclear weapons. plans for it are all over the internet, am i right? you'd think that if someone were going to do it, they would have done it by now. if someone were going to light one off, they probably would have done it by now. the way i tend to deal with this fear is to just assume it will never happen. and if i am proven wrong, well, i won't have all that much time to lament my incorrect prediction, will i?
i can remember some shitty television version of "timecop" where some guy went back to try and get hitler the plans for the bomb, and it was on a laptop, and the timecops were like "oh snap, they've got plans for the bomb". i think it takes more than just a laptop and some plans to pull it together.
maybe if we are lucky doc brown will trade some terrorists a suitcase full of old pinball parts for delorean modifications. wooord.
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when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious shit
yeah!
i've been waiting for this badboy for a while now. not that i'm actually adept at tinkering, but that's the whole idea, i guess, right?
for the meantime, i've been reading nuts and volts magazine while running the elliptical thing at the gym. its so funny, because everyone else is reading fitness magazines, and i'm lookin at inductor related schematics. wtf?
yeah i went to RPI.
What I don't like about this article is that the police were lauding this setup as "absolutely brilliant" (or whatever the quote was). I know slashdotters are pretty innovative, but the general population hears about something like this and they are flabbergasted that someone would piece two or three easy-to-purchase-and-set-up pieces of technology together to solve a problem. a while back my roommates, who are somewhat "fratty", were throwing a keg party at my house. I was certainly not interested in attending, but what i was more interested in was not having drunken fratboys entering my room and doing god-knows-what in there. I had actually planned on setting up a webcam that would snag pictures, and another program that would check the light intensity of those pictures. if the light intensity changed drastically between any two snags, i would have the program send an email to my phone telling me someone went into my room. then i'd call my roommates from my girlfriends place and say "hey get the fuck out of my room" i didn't go through with it because it would only validate my paranoia, but whatever. little tiny cameras can be used all over the place. I know that "hardware hacking for geeks" has a camera antenna for a car that can be remote controlled. i always thought cars should come standard with 8 cameras positioned around the rim of the roof, so that in case of a collision, all 8 cameras could snap a picture on impact to discern exactly what went down in the surrounding areas of the accident. insurance companies would probably eat that up. ------ dude, where's my sig?
you have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.
michael crichton? try philip k dick.
When I was in college, my hard drive failed, and the guy across the way pointed me toward Minuet as a fully functional tool to use ftp, telnet, and whatever else right off a floppy drive. it turned out to work quite well for the three days, alleiviating a serious internet jonesing fit. it even had a semi-capable graphical browser. needless to say, there are tons of old dos utilities that you can throw on a dos boot disk and utilize without the need for a hard drive, if all you do is browse the web (sans caching) and send email. http://www.eiu.edu/~philos/retro/dos/internet.htm