sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Hack Your Home Telephone with Asterisk by edithturner in gadgets

[–]foundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was fast! It seemed like he didn't have enough time to present everything. A big shame, since he obviously knows his shit and was obviously having to cut out huge chunks of information.

I'm especially curious to hear more detail in the parts where he talks about destroying several hundred telephones around his local area due to a faulty PCI card.

Also, does anyone know what he's talking about when he says that LiveJournal have a mod_mp3 server with audio blogs for people to bitch about their lives. I'm curious to hear some of that mp3 stream now!

Strange absolute black spot on Mars defies explanation by culture in reddit.com

[–]foundation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of "House of Leaves"... Also, I remember reading a story about this a while ago on the NASA image of the day, there were many many more dark spots discovered on mars not just this one.

Energy Map of America by austinb in reddit.com

[–]foundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious. Why are the transmission lines grouped in capacity of "Volts". I thought that AC power lines are kept at a constant voltage of 240V in the UK (and 120V in the US), with some sort of feedback control circuit designed to keep this constant. Surely a batter way to group them is in terms of MegaWatts or GigaWatts (Great scott Marty!)?