🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Making a smartphone with only a 3.5mm audio jack.
Charging and file transfers must be done through it.
IPod shuffle clone?
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@Tsaukpaetra Jesus christ every time I try to come up with a stupid idea there's someone that actually did it.
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Making a smartphone with only a 3.5mm audio jack.
Charging and file transfers must be done through it.
My graphical calculator (TI-83?) had a 3.5mm plug for its data connections.
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@PleegWat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
My graphical calculator (TI-83?) had a 3.5mm plug for its data connections.
That's how blood glucose meters work, too.
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@PleegWat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Making a smartphone with only a 3.5mm audio jack.
Charging and file transfers must be done through it.
My graphical calculator (TI-83?) had a 3.5mm plug for its data connections.
And now I close the circle: someone made a wav player for the Ti83+ that played audio through said jack!
There was also work done on enabling networking and external data storage.
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@FrostCat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The ship can't dock. How do you propose to get the containers off of it? Those things require large cranes.
The artist likely doesn't. Then again, she is a Brit...
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The artist likely doesn't.
That's true. But then she's got to figure out how to get back to England from wherever she was.
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@PleegWat My CASIO calculator had one, but it was a 2.5mm plug.
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Charging and file transfers must be done through it.
Don't know about charging, but I'm working with the solution that quite successfully uses audio jack for data transfer (not the audio data at that).
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't know about charging, but I'm working with the solution that quite successfully uses audio jack for data transfer (not the audio data at that).
It'd be relatively simple to charge over the audio jack, since audio and data transfer are both relatively mainly low-current AC operations. A bulk DC flow could be directed to charging by suitable circuitry.
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More information on the shipping company's bankruptcy. Looks like creditors had one ship seized in the US before the rest of them were protected by the courts. Estimated $14B of stock on ~40 ships worldwide.
"The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) said, at least for now, it believes all marooned ships, worldwide, have enough fuel, and enough food and water for their crews, but Hanjin is asking crews to conserve. "
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@obeselymorbid
i had an RC Helicopter that used this:
http://www.dx.com/en/p/walkera-mtc-01-rc-magic-cube-multifunctional-converter-controller-w-ubs-charger-black-154435
connected to a smartphone instead of a controller
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@Jarry said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid
i had an RC Helicopter that used this:
http://www.dx.com/en/p/walkera-mtc-01-rc-magic-cube-multifunctional-converter-controller-w-ubs-charger-black-154435
connected to a smartphone instead of a controllerJust make sure your volume is maxed out, right?
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@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't know about charging, but I'm working with the solution that quite successfully uses audio jack for data transfer (not the audio data at that).
It'd be relatively simple to charge over the audio jack, since audio and data transfer are both relatively mainly low-current AC operations. A bulk DC flow could be directed to charging by suitable circuitry.
Indeed. That's what once made one of my physics experiments a bit wonky until we figured it out: It's an experiment to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of electrons by shooting said electrons through a magnetic field, thus that the resulting beam (made visible by the electrons colliding with gas) comes to a circle. It's usually quite a sharp-edged beam.
We had kind of a half-moon instead. 'twas a bit of a headscratcher until we figured out that our supposedly stabilized power supply delivering the current for the magnetic field wasn't as stabilized as advertised, instead sporting a superpositioned sine-wave on top of the DC. Which in turn caused a fluctuating magnetic field which in turn delivered a range of radii instead of a single radius.
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@Rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't know about charging, but I'm working with the solution that quite successfully uses audio jack for data transfer (not the audio data at that).
It'd be relatively simple to charge over the audio jack, since audio and data transfer are both relatively mainly low-current AC operations. A bulk DC flow could be directed to charging by suitable circuitry.
Indeed. That's what once made one of my physics experiments a bit wonky until we figured it out: It's an experiment to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of electrons by shooting said electrons through a magnetic field, thus that the resulting beam (made visible by the electrons colliding with gas) comes to a circle. It's usually quite a sharp-edged beam.
We had kind of a half-moon instead. 'twas a bit of a headscratcher until we figured out that our supposedly stabilized power supply delivering the current for the magnetic field wasn't as stabilized as advertised, instead sporting a superpositioned sine-wave on top of the DC. Which in turn caused a fluctuating magnetic field which in turn delivered a range of radii instead of a single radius.
That's awesome. Here's to hoping a cheap capacitor was sufficient to remedy the problem?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't know about charging, but I'm working with the solution that quite successfully uses audio jack for data transfer (not the audio data at that).
It'd be relatively simple to charge over the audio jack, since audio and data transfer are both relatively mainly low-current AC operations. A bulk DC flow could be directed to charging by suitable circuitry.
Indeed. That's what once made one of my physics experiments a bit wonky until we figured it out: It's an experiment to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of electrons by shooting said electrons through a magnetic field, thus that the resulting beam (made visible by the electrons colliding with gas) comes to a circle. It's usually quite a sharp-edged beam.
We had kind of a half-moon instead. 'twas a bit of a headscratcher until we figured out that our supposedly stabilized power supply delivering the current for the magnetic field wasn't as stabilized as advertised, instead sporting a superpositioned sine-wave on top of the DC. Which in turn caused a fluctuating magnetic field which in turn delivered a range of radii instead of a single radius.
That's awesome. Here's to hoping a cheap capacitor was sufficient to remedy the problem?
Naw, we weren't allowed to open them up and opted for exchanging it to a known good one.
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@Rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't know about charging, but I'm working with the solution that quite successfully uses audio jack for data transfer (not the audio data at that).
It'd be relatively simple to charge over the audio jack, since audio and data transfer are both relatively mainly low-current AC operations. A bulk DC flow could be directed to charging by suitable circuitry.
Indeed. That's what once made one of my physics experiments a bit wonky until we figured it out: It's an experiment to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of electrons by shooting said electrons through a magnetic field, thus that the resulting beam (made visible by the electrons colliding with gas) comes to a circle. It's usually quite a sharp-edged beam.
We had kind of a half-moon instead. 'twas a bit of a headscratcher until we figured out that our supposedly stabilized power supply delivering the current for the magnetic field wasn't as stabilized as advertised, instead sporting a superpositioned sine-wave on top of the DC. Which in turn caused a fluctuating magnetic field which in turn delivered a range of radii instead of a single radius.
That's awesome. Here's to hoping a cheap capacitor was sufficient to remedy the problem?
Naw, we weren't allowed to open them up and opted for exchanging it to a known good one.
Lucky to have such resources...
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@Rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't know about charging, but I'm working with the solution that quite successfully uses audio jack for data transfer (not the audio data at that).
It'd be relatively simple to charge over the audio jack, since audio and data transfer are both relatively mainly low-current AC operations. A bulk DC flow could be directed to charging by suitable circuitry.
Indeed. That's what once made one of my physics experiments a bit wonky until we figured it out: It's an experiment to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of electrons by shooting said electrons through a magnetic field, thus that the resulting beam (made visible by the electrons colliding with gas) comes to a circle. It's usually quite a sharp-edged beam.
We had kind of a half-moon instead. 'twas a bit of a headscratcher until we figured out that our supposedly stabilized power supply delivering the current for the magnetic field wasn't as stabilized as advertised, instead sporting a superpositioned sine-wave on top of the DC. Which in turn caused a fluctuating magnetic field which in turn delivered a range of radii instead of a single radius.
That's awesome. Here's to hoping a cheap capacitor was sufficient to remedy the problem?
Naw, we weren't allowed to open them up and opted for exchanging it to a known good one.
Not necessary to open it. A sufficiently large capacitor across the output terminals would have done the job. However, depending on the frequency of the sine wave, sufficiently large might have been quite large.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
However, depending on the frequency of the sine wave, sufficiently large might have been quite large.
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@Rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Naw, we weren't allowed to open them up
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@Jarry said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
i had an RC Helicopter
Did you crash it due to a sudden incoming call?
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Do we have a terrible political cartoons thread?
I like how Hillary is tracking her lies on a dedicated bar chart screen.
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@cartman82 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I like how Hillary is tracking her lies on a dedicated bar chart screen.
Don't you know? It's not a political cartoon if you don't slap the reader in the face with labels on literally everything.
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@aliceif It started making a bit more sense once I remembered you do school grading backwards.
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@Maciejasjmj Mother's response works either way, but the child willingly disclosing his Eins does make much more sense if the grades are reversed.
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@aliceif It started making a bit more sense once I remembered you do school grading backwards.
Except for the last two years of some school types which use a 0 to 15 scale where higher is better ...
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@Maciejasjmj
That way it is open to extension towards the worse...
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@Zecc
"I got an A in English!"
"You won't need it anymore!"
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Dachshund.
;)
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@Zecc Wow, that was an exceptional fail on Google's part.
Was it the
'ne
that tripped it up? I never heard it used as a contraction ofeine
, but still... (Also, not like I hear that much German in general outside Wolfenstein :P)
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@Onyx Probably "brauchste" which is a colloquial contraction of "brauchst du".
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@aliceif see, that's what I get from knowing most of the German I do (which is very little) from random bits I hear spoken somewhere: I had no idea that was supposed to be a colloquialism, sounded A-OK to me
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@Luhmann That's like 7 words in total, and 3 complete sentences during the whole thing. I don't count that as "listening to German". If I were, I'd think Germans are the most positive nation in the world.
Filed under: Ja, ja, ja
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@Onyx said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Ja, ja, ja
And "Im Arsch" is the second most popular expression.
That said ... real Germans seem to drop the Arsch word into about every other sentence ...
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Teledilonics!
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@Luhmann didn't we have a whole thread about that product already? Or are there now multiple ones with the same "report all the things!" thing?
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@Luhmann I'm not the target audience for dildos, be it regular or internet-connected ones, but I can't really see what the fuss is about.
Why would I care if the dildo-maker knows how often I fuck myself?
If they gather data on settings such as intensity, presumably they will use this data to improve their products.Anyway, I fail to see how this could be used for evil even in the case this data accidentally leaks.
My guess is someone just saw an opportunity to sue and is already creating a shopping list in anticipation of settlement millions.
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Anyway, I fail to see how this could be used for evil even in the case this data accidentally leaks.
Well, I presume if it turned out the thing gets used during work hours, it could get someone fired.
Or if you're some anti-gay and male politician.
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@cartman82 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Do we have a terrible political cartoons thread?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/17624/the-inflamed-political-trollery-thread
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
it could get someone fired
Funny, I just recently had to review code of conduct rules and there wasn't one stating you shall not fuck yourself with a dildo (purple or otherwise) while working.
There were a ton of rules about sexual conduct, such as e.g. not displaying suggestive material, but if this behaviour would only be discovered by some private data leaking into the open, presumably one was doing it discreetly enough not to be a problem.@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
anti-gay
I can see some embarrassment opportunities there, but is being anti-gay and using dildos incompatible?
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Funny, I just recently had to review code of conduct rules and there wasn't one stating you shall not fuck yourself with a dildo (purple or otherwise) while working.
Hm, didn't know that. So many possibilities missed...
Although I imagine doing it outside lunch hours would still fall under wasting time on the clock.
@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I can see some embarrassment opportunities there, but is being anti-gay and using dildos incompatible?
I suppose not, never been or done either. But a newspaper front page saying that $famous_moral_preacher rams various things into various orifices could very well be a career finisher.
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Funny, I just recently had to review code of conduct rules and there wasn't one stating you shall not fuck yourself with a dildo (purple or otherwise) while working.
There were a ton of rules about sexual conduct, such as e.g. not displaying suggestive material, but if this behaviour would only be discovered by some private data leaking into the open, presumably one was doing it discreetly enough not to be a problem."According to Legal," Izzy explained, "there is no
tube sock
policy in the employee handbook. Apparently, you could store awall
-plug the size of your fist on your desk, and not get into any trouble."
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
doing it outside lunch hours would still fall under wasting time on the clock
Multi-tasking, dude.
@aliceif said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Toying Around - The Daily WTF
I love that story.
Alistair noticed that one particular machine was downloading gigabytes and gigabytes of documentaries from the Internet. For this, there most certainly was an entry in the employee handbook. Alistair passed the information up the chain, and Derek was fingered as the culprit.
But they are way too serious with punishment in that company.
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@Onyx said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Zecc Wow, that was an exceptional fail on Google's part.
Was it the
'ne
that tripped it up? I never heard it used as a contraction ofeine
, but still... (Also, not like I hear that much German in general outside Wolfenstein :P)The
'ne
did trip it up, but Google actually correctly translated it to say that he got a "one" (you'll note on his paper, that's a 1 in the red circle). The equivalent grade in US schools would be an A. "Brauchste" also tripped it up.edit: also I think "hab" is slang for "haben ich". @aliceif?
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@aliceif you're unlikable now, apparently
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@Onyx said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@aliceif you're unlikable
Aren't we all?
Filed under: or is it just me