{"id":2245,"date":"2005-08-29T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2245\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:32:55","slug":"2245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2245","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2005\/08\/28\/cctv_bust\" \/>This<\/a> has got to be the most stupid theif ever. He stole a laptop computer from a store selling closed circuit TV cameras. <\/p>\n<p>People interested in laptops should have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorderls.com\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?t=4045\">here<\/a>. This is a DIY wooden laptop, and looks interesting. I will not be building one though. On the technology front, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooltechzone.com\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;\">this<\/a> is a really cool article on how plasma TV&#8217;s work&#8230; They are sort of a cross between a normal TV and an LCD&#8230; And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inventgeek.com\/Projects\/XeroxShredder\/Page2.aspx\">this<\/a> page shows how to turn an old laserprinter into a shredder.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.09\/pokerbots.html?tw=wn_tophead_7\">this<\/a> page on Wired shows how automated software is being used to change the rules of online poker&#8230; and how the &#8220;bots&#8221; are even playing themselves, colluding on who has which cards to better the odds. Interesting&#8230; Goes to prove that gambling is a tax on stupidity&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Music:<\/h2>\n<p>I have found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omninerd.com\/articles\/articles.php?a\">This<\/a> article showing how the rating for songs works on the iPod shuffle. It details a lot of statistics, which I basically understand&#8230; The shuffle feature on the shuffle picks a new song at random every time, whereas the ipod just shuffles your music when you click the shuffle button&#8230; So on the iPod Shuffle you can actually hear the same song twice since things are really random. And this page goes into the statistics on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be the most stupid theif ever. He stole a laptop computer from a store selling closed circuit TV cameras. People interested in laptops should have a look at here. This is a DIY wooden laptop, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2245\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-2245","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}