Re: Look Ma no wires! Airport staff arrest passenger for

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Panthera Altaica <> writes:
> His top showed the Transformers film character Optimus Prime holding a
> gun.

Heh.  Me, I think I'd have taken off the shirt and boarded in all my pale, 
hairy glory.  

I think airline travel has largely obsoleted itself for short distances-  
It's a huge pain, especially vs. just taking the train-  the added delays
mean that you aren't saving time if you are going less than 2000 miles or
so.   'round here, I can get a lift to the amtrack station, and as long as 
I'm there within 30 seconds of the train leaving, I'm good-  I can even
buy the ticket on the train, for a reasonable 'real person' surcharge.

O.B. wearable question:

So I got a Xybernaut MAIV (actually I bought it from a guy on the list)  
a neat bit of kit;  I got me one of those cf-> laptop IDE adapters, and it
works pretty good, so long as I keep it plugged into the wall.  

Problem is that it doesn't run off batteries.  It came with 2 batteries...
both had the mac-style status indicatiors (you pressed a button and little
LEDs on the battery lit up to indicate status)  one of the batteries tests
dead no matter how I charge it; but the other tests 100%-  however, when I
plug it in, the MAIV won't power on.

The question here is "is the battery dead even though it reports OK" (it would
be somewhat unsuprising due to the age of the battery)   or "is the pin-out
on the battery connector wrong" -  

so yeah.  what is the pin-out for the MAIV power adapter?  I found
some stuff on Steve Mann's site, but it said the pinout was the same for
battery and power-  on my setup there are only 2 common pins between the 
battery power plug and the wall power plug.  

(I'm fairly certain there aren't shorts in the battery power cable-  
my multimeter doesn't think so, anyhow.)  

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