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@TimeBandit Actually, I typed it.
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@Akko said in Internet of shit:
A tank going 120 km/h would be fun (in the Dwarf Fortress sense) right up until the first bend XD
Well, there’s always the case of the Leopard that did 80 km/h backwards …
During hot-weather testing of a prototype in the 1960s in Italy, test equipment in the engine compartment failed and jammed the brake system, which was discovered when the tank crested a 150-meter hill. It came to a halt after 1.3 km, having made jumps of up to 40 meters along the way.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Yes, the German Wiki entry clearly states it's only in former West German states. The Two Plus Four Agreement apparently didn't allow to put up these signs in former East German states until 1995 (no idea why)
Probably to hamper the inevitable NATO advance towards Russia in any way possible, no matter how minor.
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@cvi said in Internet of shit:
Vista shipped a decade ago and already had -perhaps less reliable- speech recognition
Much, much less reliable.
Incidentally, Windows 10 still has the same speech recognition program, and I'm pretty sure it still uses the same engine and not the Cortana one.
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@anonymous234 said in Internet of shit:
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
Vista shipped a decade ago and already had -perhaps less reliable- speech recognition
Much, much less reliable.
Incidentally, Windows 10 still has the same speech recognition program, and I'm pretty sure it still uses the same engine and not the Cortana one.
I'm still working on finding time to create my SAPI 6 voice module....
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@anonymous234
MS propably licensed it for unlimited installations from L&H for €50. I know my previous employer pulled something like that during the Bubble.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@Akko said in Internet of shit:
A tank going 120 km/h would be fun (in the Dwarf Fortress sense) right up until the first bend XD
Well, there’s always the case of the Leopard that did 80 km/h backwards …
During hot-weather testing of a prototype in the 1960s in Italy, test equipment in the engine compartment failed and jammed the brake system, which was discovered when the tank crested a 150-meter hill. It came to a halt after 1.3 km, having made jumps of up to 40 meters along the way.
Having worked at KMW (the manufacturer of, among others, the Leopard 2) for a while that seems like something that could happen today as well. Let's just say I've seen a fair share of "That shouldn't have happened!"s ^^"
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@Luhmann said in Internet of shit:
propably
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
inevitable
Seriously? All those Dwarf Fortress references to "fun" and you miss THIS one?
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@ben_lubar I know nothing at all about Dwarf Fortress other than the references made to it on here, so yes, I probably miss a lot of opportunities to make jokes about it.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@ben_lubar I know nothing at all about Dwarf Fortress other than the references made to it on here, so yes, I probably miss a lot of opportunities to make jokes about it.
It was inevitable.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
Tanks don’t do 120 km/h (well, not unless you take the governors off and don’t care about engine and transmission life, anyway).
What if you turned the turret around and fired backward repeatedly? It should work, according to the interactive documentary Grand Theft Auto III.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@ben_lubar I know almost nothing at all about Dwarf Fortress
other thanbut infinitely more than I want to, due to the references made to it on hereFTFM
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
Tanks don’t do 120 km/h (well, not unless you take the governors off and don’t care about engine and transmission life, anyway).
What if you turned the turret around and fired backward repeatedly?
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@Gurth yeah just replace the current barrel with a rotary setup in the same caliber and accelerate the feed
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
Tanks don’t do 120 km/h
Meet the Soviet Antonov A-40:
An experimental contraption that was abandoned after a single test during WWII. Citing from a local source that I can't find in English:
The tow plane (a four-engine bomber TB-3) and the glider KT took off successfully, but owing to the large mass of the glider, the process was straining the TB-3 engines at 130 km/h. The craft barely reached a height of 40 metres. An attempt to accelerate to 140 km/h was not successful. The contraption started to lose altitude and the engine cooling systems started to overheat. The TB-3 pilot decided to turn to the nearest airfield and ditch the glider. The A-40, piloted by the famous Soviet experimental glider pilot Sergei Anokhin, landed succesfully.
The constructors noted that the design was successful, but more powerful towing aircraft was needed.
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@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@Akko said in Internet of shit:
A tank going 120 km/h would be fun (in the Dwarf Fortress sense) right up until the first bend
A tank going 120 km/h would demonstrate fun regard for the bend too.
Probably moreso if it was this behemoth from Red Alert 2:
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@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
Tanks don’t do 120 km/h
Meet the Soviet Antonov A-40:
True, there is that, but this is a glider carrying a tank, not a tank moving under its own power.
The closest to come to 120 km/h is probably one of J. Walter Christie’s wheel-and-track designs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQmD6YsVCE
But this also isn’t a tank, it’s an experimental chassis to show what Christie’s ideas for long-travel tank suspension could achieve. (He was very bad at developing things to a state where the military actually found it useful.)
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@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@Akko said in Internet of shit:
A tank going 120 km/h would be fun (in the Dwarf Fortress sense) right up until the first bend
A tank going 120 km/h would demonstrate fun regard for the bend too.
Probably moreso if it was this behemoth from Red Alert 2:
THE INSTRUMENT OF DOOM!
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@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
Probably moreso if it was this behemoth from Red Alert 2:
[zoom]
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[enhance]
“This handle has not purpose in life. Is just there for show. I'm not kidding you”
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I couldn't find an article in English about it, but apparently thousands of networks have been compromised in Switzerland because of a flaw in a smart power plug:
http://www.tagesanzeiger.newsnet.ch/sonntagszeitung/die-spione-in-der-steckdose/story/14967478
(original article in German)EDIT: Google Translate works pretty well on the German article:
Almeroth discovered in the source code of the software logins and passwords of two developers. And that the devices were constantly sending signals to a website that is for sale today.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@Akko said in Internet of shit:
A tank going 120 km/h would be fun (in the Dwarf Fortress sense) right up until the first bend
A tank going 120 km/h would demonstrate fun regard for the bend too.
Probably moreso if it was this behemoth from Red Alert 2:
THE INSTRUMENT OF DOOM!
Nah, that’s this:
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@Akko said in Internet of shit:
A tank going 120 km/h would be fun (in the Dwarf Fortress sense) right up until the first bend
A tank going 120 km/h would demonstrate fun regard for the bend too.
Probably moreso if it was this behemoth from Red Alert 2:
THE INSTRUMENT OF DOOM!
Nah, that’s this:
Fuck that planet in particular.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
sending signals to a website that is for sale today.
This is why I'm having such trouble with my temperature probe I'm building. It takes a lot more effort than I realized to serve up a configuration page while staying connected as a bridge using a microcontroller...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
This handle has not purpose in life
Destroy Handle
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724211(v=vs.85).aspx
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@LB_ said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
This handle has not purpose in life
Destroy Handle
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724211(v=vs.85).aspx
That's the one! I blame a linker error.
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@Tsaukpaetra MSDN moved the location of the link around (again) while you posted?
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An electromagnetically locked beer fridge that can be opened via WiFi?
No problems here, deploy to production!
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@izzion OTOH, it contains Bud Light, so it's not like anyone will really want it to open.
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Articles like this are why nobody takes computer security seriously. 100% breathless speculation, 0% demonstrated problems.
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Articles like this are why nobody takes computer security seriously. 100% breathless speculation, 0% demonstrated problems.
If you follow the link, supposedly they're going to do an actual demo (of something...it's not terribly detailed) on Saturday at Defcon.
Ridealong Adventures—Critical Issues with Police Body Cameras
Saturday at 12:00 in Track 3
45 minutes | Demo, Tool, ExploitThe threat seems pretty significant. Both for destruction / tampering of the videos or for infecting the computers that later connect to them.
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@boomzilla
Still a bad article, since they're reporting (repeating) an abstract of an upcoming talk without any indication (like, oh, future tense?) of the fact that it's an upcoming thing. I shouldn't have to follow down a potential linktrap to figure out that this is effectively promotional material for a talk.
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@izzion this is where I point out you were reading something on a site called "boing boing."
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@boomzilla
Technically I was following a /. link trap, from an even more breathless "the world is going to end" meta-summary.Ok, that's not helping my cause either, disregard...
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My toilet had crashed:
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Too bad it's a urinal. Otherwise it would have been the perfect illustration of the title of this thread.
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@Zerosquare If you take the little thing off the drain it works fine.
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@M_Adams +1 for Green Bay insult. (Former CEO of a former employer is a rabid Packers fan. I lived/worked in Seahawks territory at the time, and there was heated rivalry between him and our site.)
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@M_Adams +1 for Green Bay insult. (Former CEO of a former employer is a rabid Packers fan. I lived/worked in Seahawks territory at the time, and there was heated rivalry between him and our site.)
My boss is a Packer fan, sent it to him and he actually spewed his coffee all over his desk and nearly required CPR from chocking while laughing.
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@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
The gas station by my house "upgraded" their pumps last year to ones with screens that play GSTV. The first ones of those I saw had a mute button that would mute the TV until your transaction was done. No such luck on these, you have to hear their programming.
The worst part is all 12 pumps are just slightly out of sync with each other. I would guess a tenth of a second or two. It is super annoying.
No fucking clue why anyone would watch GSTV. It is probably streamed with Flash.
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