On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:59:18AM -0700, Gerry Creager wrote: > Lux, James P wrote: > > On 4/28/09 5:14 AM, "Prentice Bisbal" <prent...@ias.edu> wrote: > >> My favorite characteristic of these urban legends is that anyone smart > >> enough to pull off a trick like this is probably already making enough > >> money that they don't need to steal electricity. > >> > > But I read it on the internets, and I don't have to know how it works, just > > follow the E-Z step by step instructions in the Youtube video. > > > > And as for the source for the copper wire, you just wait til it's daytime, > > and steal it from the streetlight system like everyone else does. > > What's worse is when it appears in the IEEE Transactions, and I spend a > year and $4k to build the antenna I couldn't prove mathematically (I > assumed the authors' calculus fu was better than mine). It didn't work > on paper when I tried... and it didn't work in practice with all the > same hardware save the 2 gm of unobtainium.
Yeah; let us know when you find a good source for that... -- David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
