phreakmonkey - Slashdot User

Comment Re:8th Amendment (Score 4, Funny) 428

by phreakmonkey on Friday February 04, 2011 @11:55AM (#35104004) Attached to: Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control

Not conference calls! Anything but that! Isn't it bad enough that they're in jail? Now they're being subjected to conference calls. That is surely a violatin of an inmate's rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

I thought the same thing! I imagined this tough, tattoo-decorated guy on his smuggled cellphone, hunching down behind the cot so as not to be obvious...

[Boop-beep!]
"Hello, who just joined?"
"Uhh, this is Tommy 'The Blade', on the call..."

Comment Re:Energy Drinks (Score 1) 500

by phreakmonkey on Sunday November 07, 2010 @06:25PM (#34157260) Attached to: I drink too much...

Any kidney stones yet? If you aren't also working out, you might want to look up the side effects of drinking all those energy drinks.

Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 14, 2009 @05:52PM from the i-for-one dept.

likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."

Comment Re:Where'd you get a compatible handset? (Score 2, Funny) 622

by phreakmonkey on Thursday May 28, 2009 @05:06PM (#28130165) Attached to: 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web

You expected someone who goes by the moniker "phreakmonkey" to throw away an old telephone?

Comment Re:2 modems, 4 cans, 2 strings.... (Score 1) 622

by phreakmonkey on Thursday May 28, 2009 @04:59PM (#28130063) Attached to: 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web

That is a fantastic idea! Now to find another acoustic modem that will run in "Answer" mode. (This one will only do "Originate".)

45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web 622

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:33PM from the cool-wooden-case dept.

EdIII writes with this awesome snippet from Hack a Day: "'[phreakmonkey] got his hands on a great piece of old tech. It's a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem. He recieved it in 1989 and recently decided to see if it would actually work. It took some digging to find a proper D25 adapter and even then the original serial adapter wasn't working because the oscillator depends on the serial voltage. He dials in and connects at 300baud. Then logs into a remote system and fires up lynx to load Wikipedia. Lucky for [phreakmonkey] they managed to decide on a modulation standard in 1962. It's still amazing to see this machine working 45 years later.' Although impractical for surfing the Internet today, there is something truly cool about getting a 45-year old modem to work with modern technology. The question I have, is what is the oldest working piece of equipment fellow Slashdotters have out there? I'm afraid as far back as I can go is a Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 2 Graphics card on a server still in use at my house which only puts me at about 14 years."

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