Comments on: War monument hacking

By: Maks

Maks — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:55:13 +0000

I’m from this city?
And at nigh it looks quit good.
But I hasn’t known that there is an Mob Operator Cell))

By: didier

didier — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:08:59 +0000

have some information on your service

By: Engineer

Engineer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:29:33 +0000

article here

http://englishrussia.com/?p=5489

By: Engineer

Engineer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:27:49 +0000

@pookey

I’m glad you went through all that trouble to do a pseudo-scientific analysis.

In reality, if you had read the article, the entire display consumes 400 watts.

Wanna know how much propane that gets you? With a LHV of 45.8 MJ/kg, 400 watts gets you about 0.009 grams of propane a second. Now, we have no idea how much the original torch burned, but I doubt it was under 0.009 grams/s.

By: Larry Seltzer

Larry Seltzer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:29:48 +0000

How about building it from Macbook batteries? They’re always bursting into flame unprovoked.

By: Tachikoma

Tachikoma — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:42:24 +0000

Fairly shit solution. Ever thought of decorating the War Memorial Wall with cheap shit multi-coloured blinking Christmas lights? It’s kinda like that.

By: Oxin

Oxin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:39:32 +0000

@pookey

I understand your dislike for the term “green”. I have a similar rant regarding “Web 2.0″.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:28:16 +0000

They should have made the transmitter into a ‘top hat’ and stuck it on the statues head, paint it the same colour as the statue. No need for the LEDs.

By: twistedsymphony

twistedsymphony — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:11:15 +0000

“this war monument sponsored by Verizon… it’s the network”

I seriously think that’s tacky as hell and while it’s not my countrymen that the monument is honoring I would feel better if the flame was out as opposed to the statue being used to support some commercialized piece of hardware.

and LEDs seriously? if anything NIXIE tube flames would be far my appropriate.

By: edeion

edeion — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:34:43 +0000

Mixing the old and the new can lead to interesting results. But I guess the cell phone companies were more focused on minimizing the overall cost. They could have thought about using multicolor LEDs to mimic sky’s color, otherwise.

By: Anonymoose

Anonymoose — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:27:33 +0000

I don’t know why everyone’s bitching about the leds being green or not green… they’re clearly red ;).

Rather fitting since they’re in a portion of the former Soviet Republics.

By: Santa Monica Computer Services

Santa Monica Computer Services — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:24:56 +0000

Wow. I, too, thought it was photoshopped. I guess mixing the old with the new is inevitable. Not always pretty, but inevitable.

By: Jancans

Jancans — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:55:24 +0000

bhdn, one goal for they ideology was to make one nation – “homo sovieticus” from countries in USSR. So imho it dosnt make big difirence, how it was called.
By the way, when in Estonia they try to move one monument with graves from center of city to a beter place, Estonia got, I supose first, cyber-war or cyber-terorism if war sounds to loud, all they internet has been stuck for few days.

By: c.cam108

c.cam108 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:28:34 +0000

This must be fake. The LED screen would act as a Faraday cage around the transmitters surely.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:32:11 +0000

Onion style satire, no wonder the “LEDS” really don’t look convincing. In that money does drive things, one could actually see something of this sort being put in place. Oxin; such a solution could use less energy than gas despite the boilerplate rant by pooky. Dank; except for the cities in the US near natural gas production, “towngas” was the fuel burned in vities having gas lighting AKA coalgas.