The Best Burglar Alarm In History

Sportsqs writes "When Nikola Tesla got creative with transformers and driver circuits at the turn of the 20th century he probably had no idea that others would have so much fun with his concepts over a hundred years later. One such guy is an Australian named Peter who runs a website called TeslaDownUnder, which showcases all his wacky Tesla ways, or rather electrickery, as Peter calls it." Very cool stuff, I wish I would have had something like this to protect my comic books from my little brother when I was a kid.

Re:Slashdit is idle.

[girlintraining]

Slashdot is rapidly deteriorating into a faux news site that's more (lame) entertainment then actual news.

No, management has simply determined a need to draw more readers to the site and so they've started creating one-off episodes that aren't part of the regular plotline to draw them in. Or as us BSG regulars call this phenomenon "Season 3". Don't worry, when the submitter's strike is over, things will improve. They already tried the webisode thing (aka Geeks in Space), and then quietly buried it.

Don't panic - everything is going according to plan.

LOLbrothers

[Anonymous Coward]

Very cool stuff, I wish I would have had something like this to protect my comic books from my little brother when I was a kid.

Faraday Cage bro be stealin' ur comic buks.

MagnaVolt?

[uniquename72]

Links are slashdotted -- is it anything like this [youtube.com]?

Re:Slashdit is idle.

[enos]

Time lapse is a video where the frames are shot much slower than they're played back. Speeding up the world, essentially.

This is a regular long exposure. Single frame. Looking at the EXIF data on the original JPEG, the summary's image was a 31 second exposure. Hence why the driver is a bit blurry (he twitched a bit).

Re:Idle

[carlzum]

Slashdot is owned by SourceForge, Inc (formerly VA Linux), an Internet media company that owns several sites like Linux.com, Freshmeat, and Thinkgeek. It's a publicly traded company with a CEO [forbes.com], SEC filings [nasdaq.com], and NASDAQ ticker symbol [nasdaq.com]. SourceForge doesn't seem like a heartless corporation to me, they've done a lot of great things for the open source community and have generally stuck to their values, but as a public company they need to satisfy their investors (as seen in a recent management change [bizjournals.com]).

Re:Idle

[Kagura]

Wow, thanks for the good info. Here's a quote from the article that you already linked:

SourceForge also said it "intends to take aggressive steps" to accelerate the growth of its core Internet properties: Slashdot, SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek.

"These sites represent a truly unique set of Internet assets and there is more we can be doing to make them better and more engaging for our users," said Neumeister. "We are focused on aggressively pursuing our plans for each of these sites and making opportunistic investments that will enable us to reach our objectives faster."

Thanks.

Hope you like prison

[Wee]

And someone with a pacemaker would bump up against your car accidentally while his shoes were wet, and possibly die. You get sued, all your possessions/savings are forfeit, and then you are (rightly) sent to prison.

That's if the "parking enforcement" person (you know, that guy who is just there to do his job making sure people don't park like self-absorbed asshats) gets a shock doesn't get you arrested first. Assuming something he touched was conductive, I guess. And he wasn't wearing gloves. And he made a good ground elsewhere. And stuff.

Not a good plan, I think. Better would be to park where you can't get a ticket, perhaps?

-B