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The iPod Gets WiFi, Sort Of

Posted by michael on from the wozniak-too-busy-speaking-at-conferences dept.

thecounterfeit writes "Engadget has a story on Pocketster Pro, a new application that lets you add WiFi to the iPod. The catch? You have to connect it to a Pocket PC with both USB Host capability and WiFi first, but once it's up and running you can wirelessly swap tunes with any other similarly equipped iPods."

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  1. In a related story by YankeeInExile · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a related story, an iPod can carry 490 passengers from New York to Sydney, Australia. The catch? You have to put it inside a Boeing 747 ....

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    1. Re:In a related story by System.out.println() · · Score: 3, Funny

      this is Slashdot. I think I speak for most of the people here when I say "Priorities? wtf?"

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    2. Re:In a related story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
      What the hell is wrong with you people? George Bush has asked Congress for the power to suspend the presidential elections and you people can only talk about iPods? Get some priorities for fuck's sake!

      As long as Apple gets a G5 Powerbook out before next summer I couldn't care less. Democracy is an illusion anyway, but Macs are a way of life.

    3. Re:In a related story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      erm... that's "In Soviet Russia, the iPod listens to YOU!",
      followed by
      I got sued by the RIAA you Insensitive CLOD!

  2. Quick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    somebody ping the RIAA!

    1. Re:Quick by sploo22 · · Score: 4, Funny
      PING www.riaa.com (68.163.90.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
      From 68.163.93.162 icmp_seq=1 Destination monopoly unreachable
      From 68.163.93.162 icmp_seq=2 Destination monopoly unreachable
      From 68.163.93.162 icmp_seq=3 Destination monopoly unreachable
      From 68.163.93.162 icmp_seq=4 Destination monopoly unreachable

      Control-C
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  3. This is too fucked up. by JessLeah · · Score: 4, Funny

    The thing only works with Pocket PCs? How ironic is that? Apple's latest brainchild, co-opted by Windows CE hackers, to do something so geeky that only Unix nerds would want to do it... my head is spinning. Part of me says "Wow, this is cool", but an equally large part says "EW, Windows!"... I'm so lost and confused.

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    1. Re:This is too fucked up. by 0racle · · Score: 5, Funny

      Unix nerds would alreay be doing it with a very small shell script.

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    2. Re:This is too fucked up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      a vegan who votes for Pat Buchanan?

    3. Re:This is too fucked up. by babbage · · Score: 2, Funny
      Unix nerds would alreay be doing it with a very small shell script.

      ...and that's why they never seem to have girlfriends... :-)

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  4. The catch? by yawhcihw · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll be clubbed to death by any Apple evangelist who sees you doing this...

    1. Re:The catch? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      That's fine, Apple users hit like girls.

  5. Newton... by Rgb465 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too bad the Apple Newton didn't come with WiFi... ;)

  6. Obligatory comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these wireless iPods piggybacking on a PocketPC!

  7. Heresy by supercytro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple products working with Microsoft products? What vile heresy is this?

  8. I Have Something Even Cooler... by bfg9000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it's called, uh.. a radio. You guys should try it. It cost me like a tenth of what my iPod cost me, and already has some sort of integrated wifi. I've listened to like a million songs and didn't pay for ANY of them! I don't know how Kazaa is gonna survive in the face of this new technology. I just hope it stays underground, otherwise Microsoft or someone will buy it all up and ruin it.

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  9. Re:Forget file-swapping by pyrrhonist · · Score: 3, Funny
    you accept this "knock" which lets him browse your songs, and you can browse his as well. you swap a couple of songs and move along, perhaps w/o knowing who you just exchanged songs with.

    Then you play one of the MP3s which you got off his ipod, which exploits a buffer overrun in the ipod's MP3 codec. When the bus passes by a WiFi hotspot the exploit's embedded P2P server connects to thousands of users worldwide. As you step off the bus, you get a "knock" on the back of the head from the RIAA's jack-booted shock troops who arrest you for being a terrorist.

    But it's fucking cool!

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  10. Re:The odds... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 3, Funny
    What are the odds that 2 out of the 14 people who actually buy and use this device will be in range of each other.

    100%... When I put them all in a room and shoot them.

    - Apple Lover

  11. This is about as elegant as... by LightningBolt! · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is about as elegant as adding WiFi to your lawnmower... by running over a PocketPC with the lawnmower.

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