Dan Tentler

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Commented on Photo: 4Chan's finest invention (SFW!)
The same thing happened to me. I had a discussion a while ago with someone that called me a bitter old man of the internet - so I changed my twitter avatar to dr farnsworth. Everyone complained on twitter that...
Commented on Power On Self Test: Aw, Crap.
PAGING JODIE FOSTER. JODIE FOSTER, YOU'RE NEEDED ON THE COLLIDER CORE FLOOR!...
Commented on Alaska job fair uses Cory Doctorow/XKCD cosplayer for ads?
http://flickr.com/photos/vissago/439977272/ heh...
Commented on Help me get reliable WiFi over 280ft
You'll need a few things 1) a router/bridge at home that allows for an external antenna 2) a router/bridge at work that allows for an antenna 3) antennas for each. I'd suggest either two panels, or two 15 degree yagi...
Commented on Wooster Collective: "Street Art At It's Best"
Awesome. I love finding stuff like this out and about. I take LOTS of pictures, but now I'll have to keep my eye out for more of this type of cleverness!...
Commented on Collective intelligence spontaneously arises among ARG players -- paper from I Love Bees creator
That game was *FUN* The next version was 'meh' by comparison. The tricky part about blindly going into those games is you have to realize there is an irc channel of fanboys (roughly 30-50 deep) that do nothing all day...
Commented on Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
i wannit! I think it would be a good idea to make a jacket with those lights peppered all over. It would take more power, but thats just perfect for, say, making the back of the jacket a giant solar...
Commented on Library of Congress sells itself out to Microsoft for a mere $3 mil
Wonderful. Wanna hack the goverment? Bring a usb stick to one of the kiosks. Make sure its a u3 drive so the machine recognizes it as a cdrom and can run autorun.inf. Someone needs to show these cretins that security...
Commented on Swedish couple fined for naming their child "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclll mmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116"
hahahaha rad! I love it! 3ric from the defcon crowd would be proud. He had his name legally changed to 3ric to screw with character input fields to show the government they need to be more careful. I've heard stories!...
Commented on Li'l J: hit me up on my mufuggin MySpace.
and if you got anything to say, you can say it to ... uh.... me! bahahahahahaha genius!...
Commented on Fine news
Congratulations Cory! Thats awesome! I'll have to shake your hand if I catch you at etech this year!...
Commented on Some Flickr users wary of a MSFT takeover
I saw the microsoft buyout buzz in the blagotubes and the first thing I thought of was my ~6300 some odd photos on flickr. As far as I've read so far, there isnt any new news.. so I'm not sweating...
Commented on ETech 2008 conference schedule
I'll see you guys there :) I'm talking to Gearfuse.com and Wired magazine to go as press. I was there last year, it was a blast! I've also signed up to speak at a BoF about 'reality hacking' (modified version...
Commented on Mass-produced gun as olde worlde heirloom
Heh, That gun normally costs like 9-10 grand. I'd flinch at the pricetag. but that thing can accurately be described the same way the SMG was described by the halo developers after halo 2 came out. "its a bullet hose,...
Commented on Jonathan Coulton on Writing <i>Portal</i>'s End Theme
I'll probably get hammered for it, but I dont care :P www.thaumatocracy.com/portalsong.mp3...
Commented on HOWTO Change the PRINTER READY message on your HP printer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vissago/484482898/ I've been doing this for years :) People in cube farm get a kick out of it. I wrote a shellscript that executed the command, and piped a random line from a txt file into it, and it would...
Commented on Rule 34: <I>Portal</I> Edition
I absolutely agree. I got to play it through in ~2 hours at a friends house lastnight and I too was beaming. *AWESOME* game. If there was some way, some how, that I could take valve out for beers -...
Commented on StupidFilter: Bayesian filtering for "stupidity"
Heh, anybody that has spend their fair share of time on irc can tell you that a majority of the occourences of 'LOL' are postfix or prefix for something inanely stupid - but this, unfortunately has only been my experience....
Commented on Modern phrenologists "predict" terrorism with biometrics
Something tells me that this is going to catch kids playing video games, people watching movies, and others who will be in a situation where their facial expressions change while on camera. one minute you're eating a denver omlette^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ playing...
Commented on MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with "fake bomb"
I love it. The folks at the airport clearly dont hold any kind of mastery for 1) the english language or 2) current events. I understand they think by saying "Improvised electronic Device" they're trying to say IED - which...
Commented on MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with "fake bomb"
I love it. The folks at the airport clearly dont hold any kind of mastery for 1) the english language or 2) current events. I understand they think by saying "Improvised electronic Device" they're trying to say IED - which...
Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
I dig it! Nice, clean, easy to read. Keep up the good work, fellas!...

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consacepo commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
I confess to not reading all of the comments but several of the initial comments mentioned the large font size. Maybe it was changed already, but on FF/Linux it is now one size too small to be comfortably readable. Alas . . . consacepo...
Flashback commented on Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
So many experts in one place.. grab a coffee it's a long post! I am the original inventor of the Flashback anticamera system which I sold during the early days of speed cameras in the early 90's {Gatso MK1's which were film cameras with doppler-shift radar modules inside). My system used profesional photographic slave-flash guns (Haminax), which fired a custom xenon strobe light straight into the perspex numberplate which had blacked out sides to trap the light in the plate. The result was that the plate was massively over-exposed and all 'they' got was a white sqaure. End result? Home...
u62 commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
I feel like an old man, all nostalgic and weepy eyed for this design...
tunni56 commented on Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
Hi Flashback. I think I spoke to you (or a collegue perhaps)and saw a very impressive demo of 'flasback' at motorcycle show in London about 10 yrs ago? I think it was at the old London Arena docklands. I've been trying to buy one of those systems ever since and am still looking for one!!!! Reading your post I now know why you stopped selling them! Has speed camera tehnology changed now so that the old 'flashback' would no longer work? If they still work do you know where I might source one from? ..or do you have a circuit...
Roy Trumbull commented on Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
There was a product made by 3M that was in the form of a screen that reflected light only on axis. Thus a talent working in front of a screen with a projection on it would appear to be in the image and studio lights wouldn't wash it out. Often wondered what became of that product. There is a very old circuit called a relaxation oscillator. It is what drives the blinking light in a smoke detector while drawing little battery current. Wonder how that would work with an LED?...

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