Videos and Photos of Army Special Ops, Navy SEALs, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard in Action - Shock and Awe - Military.com Printer Dissatisfaction

A soldier in Iraq called HP to deal with a broken all-in-one printer. He was told he’d have to pay them in order to learn how to fix it. These are [...]

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“One of the stories that came to mind during this program occurred back in the 70s when I was at Talon division of Textron. The corporate big whigs were coming to the home office of our company and our executives wanted everything to look it%u2019s best so they hired some tractor trailers to drive our [...]

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Photo Galleries > Convicted for endangering their computers?
This is a hoot… I used to work with a fellow like this, although I must admit, this is a tad cleaner, because the monitor is not full of cigaret burns, and ashes all over the place. Yep, it used to be just blue in the office. I [...]

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enclosure_protection_water_resistance [InventorsGarage]
I’m slowly adding more material to the wiki every week. Today, I finished off a section on enclosures and protection from hazards, solids, and liquids. Its been a while since I used to run NEMA 4 tests, but holding a fire hose pumping out 65gpm directed at your product does make for a rather [...]

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Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome
Interesting….
Some tasks just do not lend themselves to automation at this time, and this is where Amazon’s Mechanical Turk steps in. Bascially, they offer an API, which connects to their website, where humans solve the problem through microtasks, and report back the information.
Image analysis is one area, as well as transcription, [...]

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YouTube - bookofjoe’s Al Christensen’s Exclusive Port-O-Jet Video
This although off topic for my blog, is just too funny not to post.

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DoD TechMatch: SBIR Opportunity View
Interesting…. but I think they might have shot themselves in the foot a little by leaving out the specs on the body worn computing device. A power budget of 75nj/bit is a little tight, but not excessively so, given the BIONET criteria. What I percieve to be a big power issue [...]

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CNN.com - New rule: Car buyers must be told about ‘black boxes’ - Aug 21, 2006
It seems all this old stuff is now showing up in the news. EDRs have been in some cars for over 10 years, and many cars since around 2000. I guess it takes a while for legislation to catch up [...]

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“http://blogs.sun.com/roller/trackback/bnitz/Weblog/musings_on_airlines_safety”

Open desktop mechanic : Weblog
I often wondered the exact same things about laptop computers, and this was pre-911. Back then, I routinely was running between here and DC, and always had to hassle with various pieces of certain hardware, yet the one thing that sailed right through was my laptop. It never made any sense… [...]

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MSP430 Design Contest

Show us what you’re made of by entering the MSP430 eZ Design Contest. Pit yourself against other top designers from around the world by submitting your design featuring TI’s MSP430 – the world’s lowest power microcontroller.

I’ve played around with this part over the years. The low power aspects make for some very interesting [...]

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