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He's also talking about *convenience*. By delivering several high-quality HD formatted movies and other content on a hard drive or other flexible media (remember he isn't locked into hard disks yet) he is making it easy to obtain a suite of movies or customizable content (Season 1 of Seinfeld, please.)

If this delivery method is combined with a PVR like TiVo, you can get a bunch of movies that look great on a 65 inch wide screen HDTV. And you only have to order once.

Pirates will always be in the picture, but if it's very convenient, the masses will choose high quality simplicity for their big screen fetish.

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I was there - holding the Nokia out in front of me. TechTV was there filming the test from both sides. It will appear on The Screen Savers at some point.

We used a high gain, 19dBi, panel antenna attached to a Linksys Class 1 Bluetooth adapter - picture.

Using this equipment, last week we transferred a few pictures from 3300 feet (1 km). This week we bluesnarfed from about 5300 feet (1.08 miles).

The whole point of these experiments is to show that Bluetooth can go a lot further than previously suspected. Witness the 55.1 mile link using 30 mw wifi.

Lack of details is because it's in Wired News. Look for a writeup on www.wifi-toys.com later today.

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Humphrey is totally in the field with his Tom's Hardware write-ups. Remember when he was the pilot Warflying over LA?

Later that day, I talked to the fed who got nabbed in that spot the fed video. He was running Kismet when he got called up. Others around him whispered "He can't be a fed, he's running Kismet". Don't be fooled. I think some of these fed types dig technology as much as any hacker.

The Bluesniper rifle by the guys at Flexilis is so cool - I built the bluetooth gear for them from the kits on my bluedriving.com site. And I had a chance to look through the scope at DefCon, but didn't get to bluesnipe anyone with it yet.

The Shmoo Group has another rad wireless sniper rifle they showed at DefCon. (I think the Flexilis guys got the bag on Shmoo this time for walking in the first day carrying the rifle.) Check out Shmoo's build-it instructions: LINK

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These two rifles are very similar - it's what's hooked up to them that matters. The Shmoo group used a Wi-Fi system with a 27 dB amplifier, while the Flexilis group used a Class 1 Bluetooth USB adapter modded with a cable and bluedriving software. (Note: I put together the wireless hardware used on the the Bluesniper rifle.)

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