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Tapping the Alpha Geek Noosphere with EtherPeg

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amuse-themselves-to-death dept.

tadghin writes "Rob Flickenger has an amazing take on what's happening in the wireless noosphere at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. Rob used EtherPeg, a great Mac OS X hack that lets you see the GIFs and JPEGs flying around on the local network, to key off on an amazing visual commentary on what people were doing during Steven Johnson's keynote."

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  1. Censorship! by -brazil- · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not going to believe that that half-covered image in the first screenshot was the only piece of Pr0n to come up!

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    The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
    --Henry Kissinger

  2. Ohhh the possibilities by coryboehne · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder what you would see with this in the average office, as the day starts I'm sure you'd get alot of /. , MSN , Yahoo , New York Times, then at lunch MapQuest maps , the occasional general interest website, then as the day closes down movie sites, more news, and of course later in the evening you can see what the cleaning crews are doing, looking at porn of course!

    1. Re:Ohhh the possibilities by proj_2501 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, the only time I caught the cleaning guys on my machine at work, they were looking at stock exchanges. I logged in remotely and popped xeyes up all over the place. That was fun :)

    2. Re:Ohhh the possibilities by Grape+Shasta · · Score: 3, Funny

      So, let me get this straight... you're running an OS advanced enough to allow you to log in remotely, to see what someone else is doing, and to mess with their desktop... but you haven't figured out how to keep the janitors out yet?

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      "I am a cipher, a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce" -Jimmy James
  3. Windows equivalent? by russx2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone know if there's a windows port/equivalent of this software? Definitely sounds interesting to have a play with.

    I live in a Uni hall so this could effectively be what I've always been looking for - a free, dynamic, porn screensaver. Bonus :-)

    1. Re:Windows equivalent? by ChiPHeaD23 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sounds real interesting especially if you live in a coed dorm. You just KNOW girls are having pillowfights in their rooms and have their webcams on, right?

      At least 90% of porn would have you think so :P