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RFID + Dart gun = DartMail!
breon.halling writes "Snail mail? Too slow. Email? Too much spam. So what's left? DartMail! Tony Tang and Eric Pattison from the University of Calgary introduce a new (well, new as of January 2003) method of transferring files and possibly shooting your eye out. Using RFID and a toy dart gun, 'DartMail lets people physically shoot electronic information at others.' Be sure to check out the movie, too!"
That will even work without the RFID. Just wrap a piece of paper around the potato and bombs away.
It's the battle of the minds, and everyone's unarmed.
The thing is, this isn't even that useful.
This is like shooting an arrow with a message that says: "Go to the post office and pick up your mail."
The ratio of people to cake is too big
As opposed to posting on Slashdot bitching about how someone else spends their time? ;)
Do you actually have to ask? This IS "news for nerds", remember... If you can't see the appeal in having an excuse to combine geeky electronics + launching ballistic projectiles at "friends", then maybe you're on the wrong forum...
We're updating the old Tannenbaum comment, right?
668: Neighbour of the Beast
"Bullet manufacturing" isn't some centralized industrial setup. I have a friend who loads his own rounds in his garage (brass casing + powder + bullet + pull lever = round).
What you're suggesting is something akin to requiring every compiler to embed a serial number in every executable it generates so we can track virus writers. Easily circumvented by writing your own linker, or opening up a hex editor.
-- Hamster
And as the IT tech, we quit fixing the machines because it cost the division too much, and then you, the student, would bitch that the machines were broken and out of date.
Yeah...real smart dumbass.