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03 Apr 02:49

Champagne Gun

Kingofthesofas

for when your money gun just isn't enough to get the party going.

You've already got the celebration going with a little bubbly. Crank the party up another notch with the Champagne Gun. This ridiculous contraption is part machine gun, part Super Soaker,...

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31 Mar 12:42

Triton Underwater Artificial Gills

Kingofthesofas

on the subject of this I found someone online that made my points about why it is BS quite well with data to back them up https://np.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/4av9xw/triton_allows_you_to_breathe_underwater_100k_in/d13so58

We can already breathe underwater. But it requires that we strap a heavy tank on our backs and go through training. The Triton Underwater Artificial Gills are light, arrive assembled,...

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31 Mar 12:33

Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10

by Frederic Lardinois
Kingofthesofas

I can already predict the Dan Jones response, by why run Ubuntu on Windows when you can just run Ubuntu.... That being said for those of us in the windows world this will add some pretty cool functionality.

O92A2868 Here is an announcement from Microsoft Build you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft today announced that it is bringing the GNU project’s Bash shell to Windows. Bash (Bourne Again SHell) has long been a standard on OS X and many Linux distribution systems, while the default terminal for developers on Windows is Microsoft’s own PowerShell. More importantly than bringing… Read More
23 Mar 14:25

You’re clear to plug in and start testing

Kingofthesofas

WEB SURFING TIME!!!

23 Mar 00:06

Panasonic shows how its robotic suits ease your burden

by Jon Fingas
Kingofthesofas

I really hope that by the time I get really old they can just build me a robot body.

If you ask Panasonic, the future is full of wearable robotic assistants... lots of them. The Japanese tech giant has posted a video highlighting all the exoskeletons and service robots it's working on, and it's clear that the company wants to bring b...
11 Mar 16:49

In response to his friend's outrage at the new GHOSTBUSTERS trailer...

by MRTIM
Kingofthesofas

Also add to this "ruining my childhood" Really was transformers so important that a mediocre movie about it ruins all your childhood experiences.


04 Mar 15:40

It’s not working!

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

My friend who is Vietnamese got this error one day http://i.imgur.com/uFH6CS6.png we still joke about error level "ASIA"

03 Mar 15:57

First 'Ghostbusters' trailer introduces the brand-new Ghostbusting team

by Meredith Woerner
Kingofthesofas

yes this is a good remake!

The very first trailer for the brand-new "Ghostbuster" movie has dropped. And this team certainly isn't afraid of no ghost, ectoplasm or Internet backlash. 

Directed by Paul Feig of "Bridesmaids," the new team of Ghostbusters is made up of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie...

26 Feb 20:29

You can’t write code without knowing how to log

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

at ATT WiFi Services they had that exact plan with their mobile WiFi hotspots which seemed like a great idea I am sure at the time when they had only a few hundred locations. When I got there and they had over 50,000 locations it was a little more problematic. I remember one time they did something that made them start spamming 80 errors per minute.... on every node... every error generating an email.... to our exchange servers..... They basically DDoS'd our whole email system and network with it.

23 Feb 04:50

Those little phrases that foretell a world of problems…

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

agile, so your scope can creep forever and there is no hope of hitting the deadlines.

Strip-Les-mauvaises-phrases-(650-final)(english)

19 Feb 19:09

Tim Cook’s response to the FBI

by sharhalakis
Kingofthesofas

pretty much how I feel about it.

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… and then everyone’s else …

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Read the Customer Letter

16 Feb 20:36

Babylon 5 ships by Adam Burch

by Igor Tkac
Kingofthesofas

yes I loved the ships in BAB5

Babylon 5 art by our friend Adam Burch. Babylon 5 Starfury Concepts based on drawings by Steve Burg.








Keywords: babylon 5 star fury concept based on steve burgs drawings 3d models by adam burch hangar b productions raider spaceship illustration render
05 Feb 19:28

Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin

Kingofthesofas

pretty much how I felt too

18 Jan 15:56

Amazon Prime Air: Drones to carry 5lb packages over 10 miles in 30 minutes

by Cyrus Farivar
Kingofthesofas

The fact that this is really happening really makes me happy. Also wish me luck in my new business as a sky pirate hijacking amazon drones.

(credit: Amazon)

In an interview with Yahoo News, Amazon has revealed a little more about its forthcoming drone-based delivery system. Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president for global public policy, said that the company has very specific targets for "Prime Air."

"So Prime Air is a future delivery service that will get packages to customers within 30 minutes of them ordering it online at Amazon.com," he told Yahoo News. "The goals we’ve set for ourselves are: The range has to be over 10 miles. These things will weigh about 55 pounds each, but they’ll be able to deliver parcels that weigh up to five pounds. It turns out that the vast majority of the things we sell at Amazon weigh less than five pounds."

And how will Amazon deal with drone haters with shotguns? Misener isn't worried. "I suppose they could shoot at trucks, too," he said. "We want to make the deliveries. And we believe that these Prime Air drones will be as normal as seeing a delivery truck driving down the street someday. So the novelty will wear off."

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05 Jan 22:10

The Childhood of a Coder – a certain sense of satisfaction

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

oh man I remember the joy of cleaning those rollers off. It is one of the most satisfying things if you mouse was glitching around and to do that and fix it.

21 Dec 15:17

Secret Code Found in Juniper’s Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors

by Kim Zetter
Kingofthesofas

See when stuff like this happens my tin foil hat looks pretty good on my head.

Secret Code Found in Juniper’s Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors

Suspicious code found in Juniper's firewall software underscores why governments shouldn't be allowed to install their own backdoors in software.

The post Secret Code Found in Juniper’s Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors appeared first on WIRED.











16 Dec 20:28

Nocturnal Ideas

by boulet
Kingofthesofas

I can relate so much. Although often I solve complicated problems in my sleep and they turn out to be really solid solutions later. My brain is a weird place.


15 Dec 21:37

listening to the windows admin try to explain Kerberos

Kingofthesofas

Don't even get me started on kerberos tolken bloat

14 Dec 18:07

Lunch

Kingofthesofas

the real question is if Dan Jones would deep fry it.

I'm trying to be healthier, so after I eat this brick of cheese, I'll have a spoonful of grease-soaked vegetables.
08 Dec 19:36

No reboot

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

this is all good until you find a windows server with 3 years of uptime. WHY YOU NO REBOOT FOR UPDATES!!!!!

01 Dec 17:55

Live migration

by sharhalakis
Kingofthesofas

having just done like 50+ live migrations today alone there is still a part of me that is amazed it works at all.

by @davetapley

01 Dec 02:47

Fire Ants

Kingofthesofas

fire ants are my eternal enemy I wage an un-ending war of genocide against them that will never end.

Here in the entomology department, we have a simple two-step formula for answering any question: (1) ants are cool, and (2) we forgot the question because we were thinking about ants.
18 Nov 16:47

bill: fyprogramming: How it feels to study Computer Science -...

Kingofthesofas

my life summed up

09 Nov 14:51

Every single vendor who approaches you at a conference with their sales pitch

Kingofthesofas

also everytime I go into bestbuy

30 Oct 14:10

Returning from a tech expo

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

Went to Dell world last week this was pretty much the result. Although Dell paid for us to come so it was their money wasted.

22 Oct 19:36

Why Marty and the Doc might not arrive after all

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

I feel like this point is often overlooked. Does moving through a wormhole or teleporting or moving through time somehow get rid of your inertia and if it does how are you not turned into a splat on the wall.

I think about nightcrawler sometimes, what happened if he teleported while flying in an airplane going 400 mph, does he then land on the ground wherever he jumped too going 400 mph... if that was true then just transporting him at greater than ~30 mph would negate his abilities. Also if for some reason it did not result in that then what has happened to the kinetic energy of the 400 mph when he lands in the new spot....

Maybe I just think about these things too much.

19 Oct 14:14

Overthinking

Kingofthesofas

this is pretty much my response to most "modern society is screwed up because..." posts. I think people have been messed up since there were people to think about it. I bet there were a bunch of romans sitting around talking about how modern roman life had screwed them up and the greeks really had it figured out.

On the other hand, it took us embarrassingly long to clue in to the lung cancer/cigarette thing, so I guess the real lesson is "figuring out which ideas are true is hard."
09 Oct 13:24

Keyboard Problems

Kingofthesofas

I had the weirdest issue of my life a few months ago. At seemingly random times my mouse would stop working and whenever I moved it I would get a strange beeping noise. I tried different mice, different ports, upgrading/downgrading video/mouse/usb drivers I even completely re-imaged the system all with no luck. I thought maybe it had to do with my 4k monitor so I even tried it with various different imports/cables for it still no luck. Finally I tried replacing the HDMI cable on my other monitor just for kicks and BOOM no more problems. I could use that cable on any monitor and get the same issues. I can honestly only guess at why or how an HDMI cable can cause that issue but it stands as one of the weirder issues I have ever seen.

In the future, a group of resistance fighters send me back in time with instructions to find the Skynet prototype and try to upgrade it.
02 Oct 16:50

Skarp Laser Razor

Kingofthesofas

I want this to actually work it would be amazing I waste so much money on razors and my hair is so think and hard to cut.

No matter what brand or kind of razor you use, it uses the same metal blades as every other one on the market. Except for the Skarp Laser Razor, that...

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29 Sep 16:32

The childhood of a coder : playing video games with a friend

by CommitStrip
Kingofthesofas

I was that friend way too many times as a kid.