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CoasterMatt 11-30-2009 08:58 AM
A Washing Machine has A Twitter Account
 
http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/?q=node/3610

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This video demonstrates how an enterprising hacker created a Twitter account for his washing machine. When a load of laundry is done, the machine's Twitter account is updated to reflect this completed status.

A lot of effort for a little gained is okay in my book if it has that "cool" factor. But here's where it gets scary:

The washing machine has 555 followers.

More than five hundred people are watching the status of one man's washing machine, waiting to find out when his laundry has completed its spin around the agitator.
:D

Kevy Baby 11-30-2009 09:09 AM
Reminds me of the coffee maker web cam which predated the internet (well, technically not, but the internet that Al Gore invented)

JWBear 11-30-2009 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 307633)
Reminds me of the coffee maker web cam which predated the internet (well, technically not, but the internet that Al Gore invented)
You do know that he never made such a claim, right?

Kevy Baby 11-30-2009 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 307640)
You do know that he never made such a claim, right?
You seriously went there? Wow.

For the record, no Al Gore did not claim to invent the internet. The exact comment he made in a 1999 Wolf Blitzer interview was "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

No, this is not a claim to have invented the internet. He was simply, albeit quite awkwardly, trying to imply that he played a significant role in bringing the internet to the masses. It was simply campaign rhetoric - something both sides are guilty of.

But it could easily be interpreted that Al Gore is claiming MUCH more responsibility for the evolution of the internet than he actually deserved.

But seriously?

SacTown Chronic 11-30-2009 08:21 PM
You know what AL Gore will get credit for someday? Killing ManBearPig.


There, I said it. One day Al Gore will capture and kill ManBearPig.

Jazzman 11-30-2009 08:27 PM
But they just found a bunch of emails proving that ManBearPig is a hoax.

SacTown Chronic 11-30-2009 08:41 PM
Well if Gore didn't invent the internet then the internet doesn't exist. Without the internet, all e-mails are fake because e-mail doesn't exist. So any e-mails showing that ManBearPig is a hoax are obviously a hoax. Proving, without a doubt, that ManBearPig exists.

JWBear 11-30-2009 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 307730)
You seriously went there? Wow.

For the record, no Al Gore did not claim to invent the internet. The exact comment he made in a 1999 Wolf Blitzer interview was "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

No, this is not a claim to have invented the internet. He was simply, albeit quite awkwardly, trying to imply that he played a significant role in bringing the internet to the masses. It was simply campaign rhetoric - something both sides are guilty of.

But it could easily be interpreted that Al Gore is claiming MUCH more responsibility for the evolution of the internet than he actually deserved.

But seriously?
Um... But he did play a significant roll. The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991

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Often referred to as the Gore Bill, it was created and introduced by then Senator Albert Gore, Jr.
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Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser, the commercial Internet's technological springboard. 'If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn't have happened,' Andreessen says of Gore's bill, 'at least, not until years later.'
Yes, seriously.

BarTopDancer 11-30-2009 08:52 PM
OHNOEZ!!!11!!11!!!1 Al Gore didn't invent the interwebs?!?!?!?

But my motherz brotherz neighborz daughterz babysitter swears that he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I read it in an email on the interwebs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And everything on the interwebs is trueeeeeeeee.

Next thing you'll tell me is NYE will be alcohol & bacon free>!!>>>!>!>!>!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

alphabassettgrrl 11-30-2009 10:04 PM
My dad was so proud of himself the day he found the coffee-maker webcam.

Kevy Baby 11-30-2009 10:28 PM
How did he feel when it went away?

lashbear 11-30-2009 10:51 PM
Well, I for one am a tad disappointed.

alphabassettgrrl 11-30-2009 10:59 PM
Don't know. The internets kind of moved on, and my dad died in 1996.

Kevy Baby 11-30-2009 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by lashbear (Post 307768)
Well, I for one am a tad disappointed.
Why are you disappointed in Tad?

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Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl (Post 307770)
Don't know. The internets kind of moved on, and my dad died in 1996.
Er, um, well...


(Sorry)

lashbear 11-30-2009 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 307773)
Why are you disappointed in Tad?
Er, um, well...


(Sorry)

:p

Kevy Baby 12-01-2009 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by lashbear (Post 307768)
Well, I for one am a tad disappointed.
When did you change your name to Tad?

lashbear 12-01-2009 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 307804)
When did you change your name to Tad?
Er, um, well...


(Sorry)


...boy, I'm being called out left, right, and centre !! :p

alphabassettgrrl 12-01-2009 07:59 PM
No worries here!

I don't remember the last time I tried to find the coffeepot cam. It started to get too easy to find things once you put in "voyeur" to the search engines. :)

Kevy Baby 12-01-2009 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by lashbear (Post 307888)
...boy, I'm being called out left, right, and centre !! :p
Maybe you should change your number

alphabassettgrrl 12-14-2009 11:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 307765)
How did he feel when it went away?
I've been thinking about this (which just proves I have no life) and I think my dad would have been delighted and astounded at what the internet has become. I think the coffee pot cam was an example rather than a final goal.

I think my dad would have been having a blast.

Gn2Dlnd 12-16-2009 12:48 PM
You know, a delicious baked cheese krisp has recently gotten its own Twitter account, as well. I mean, what could a delicious baked cheese krisp possibly have on its mind?

SacTown Chronic 12-16-2009 01:17 PM
That delicious baked cheese krisp has its mind on its money and its money on its mind.

Kevy Baby 12-16-2009 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd (Post 309280)
You know, a delicious baked cheese krisp has recently gotten its own Twitter account, as well. I mean, what could a delicious baked cheese krisp possibly have on its mind?
That would be Thinkrisps with an "s" at the end.

BTW: could you swing down to Santa Ana (right off the 55 at MacArthur) the next time you deliver to Miss Bobbies? I can never seem to get away anymore to purchase :(

lashbear 12-16-2009 04:54 PM
and if you could swing by Sydney.........

Gn2Dlnd 12-17-2009 03:01 AM
Would that I could.


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