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DefCon WiFi Shootout Winner Announced
devn2k writes "At the first annual WiFi Shootout at DefCon in Las Vegas, Adversarial Science Lab won the contest to shoot a wireless signal across the Nevada desert, with a distance of 35.2196 miles. The antenna was built from metal poles, window screen mesh, cardboard, duct tape, and aluminum foil! According to the official contest page, the antenna was designed the night before the contest, its component parts were purchased for $98 at Home Depot, and the next day it was built completely from scratch in the desert, on the side of the mountain, in the rain."
Damn, I guess for US$98 you *can* change the weather :).
You forgot to add "...while walking uphill, in a blinding snowstorm..." followed by the obligatory "... and we liked it!".
it was built completely from scratch in the desert, on the side of the mountain, in the rain.
Why buy $98 worth of equipment at Home Depot and take the trouble of making tinfoil emitters when you can just dance to get rain in the desert?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Nobody expects the Adversarial Science Lab! Our main construction material is Metal Poles!
Metal poles and Window Screen Mesh!
Two construction materials! Our Two Weapons are Metal Poles, Window Screen Mesh, and Cardboard!
Our Three Main Construction Materials are Metal Poles, Window Screen Mesh, Cardboard! And Duct Tape!
Among our CHIEF building materials are such diverse materials as Metal Poles, Window Screen Mesh, Cardboard, Duct Tape, and Aluminum Foil!
Oh, bother. I'll come again.
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
Notice that the shape of the winning antenna is a pyramid? There are a lot of theories regarding electromagnetism and the pyramid shape, including a bunch on how the ancient egyptians figured out how to utilize these electromagnetic properties, which is (supposedly) why the pyramids were built that way.
If you want to get kooky, it can also point to the extra terrestrial origins of ancient egyptian civilization.
That makes perfect sense! The aliens, feeling like outsiders in this new place, built gigantic 802.11 antennas to download porn and MP3s from their home planet.
If it wasn't for the unacceptably long ping times, they would still be with us today.
Easy!
You eat the muffin, stick the bubble gum over your rear end and fart until you have a nice big bubble full of explosive gas. You then poke the bit of thread into the bubble to act as a fuse. Done and ready to light.
NASA scientists make fun of Slashdot users for unit conversion errors...
it was 9 million friggin' degrees all weekend
Farrenheight or centigrade?
People (ahem) were flashing the firmware on their Senao cards to enable them to go up to 249 milliwatt. The entire area was bathed in 801.11 frequencies. Shit, I felt my hair stand up.
It was funny to see a thousand black-clad geeks waving their WiFi antennas in the air, trying to get a signal. If you didn't know better you would have thought it was some kind of dildo festival.