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Research Projects You Should Know About

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the listen-up dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Here is a look at 10 current IT and network research projects, from active cookies to faster wireless LANs to the latest anti-phishing schemes, that could be making their way out of labs and into companies and homes soon." Still no virtual sandwich I see.

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  1. Huh. by darkhitman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those are the ones that weren't censored out, I assume. The real list goes something like this: 1- Virtual pr0n 2- More of the above 3- See one and two 4- Identity-theft wizard 5- 1,2,3.

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  2. Here's a cool one by slashbob22 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Sharing Wi-Fi with your neighbors" - Sign me up for my Doctorate. I've been doing research into this for years. So far I have determined that it works fairly well.

    I RTFA and I don't believe this is anything new; it is essentially a software based SLA with your neighbors. Frankly, I have been doing this with neighbors for a while now, albeit I do know them well.

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    1. Re:Here's a cool one by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 2, Funny
      Sharing Wi-Fi with your neighbors

      I may as well.

      After all, they've been sharing theirs with me for months now---thanks to AirSnort and them thinking a good password is their dog's name follwed by a "1".

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  3. Already done... by kihjin · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the ten research projects is "Human beings that live in computers."

    Interesting idea, but not original: /. started this in 1997.

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  4. Active cookies? by beavis88 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That one sounds like it's straight out of 1999. Quick, someone register a .com and call the VC firms!

  5. Politicks by crazyjeremy · · Score: 4, Funny
    #8 is "Human beings that live in computers".... it says
    Politicians could one day determine the results of elections before they take place
    Isn't that already how it is now? At least in Florida...
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  6. Virtual Sandwich by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Here is the virtual sandwich for everyone who knows that the summary is misleading.

  7. Fighting spam zombies from outer space by MonkeyBot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit, I read this article and I am VERY concerned. Are the spam zombies actually FROM outer space, or am I supposed to fight them from outer space? If they're FROM outer space, then at least I know where to look (you know, up towards space...I hijack the SETI satellites or something). If I'm just supposed to fight them from outer space, then where the hell do I need to start looking for them? I mean, outer space is a big battleground.
    Can someone please clarify? I can only hope that they choose to face us on our home turf...but then again, spam zombies can't be hard to beat up. They're made of friggin' spam, and they move pretty slow. Furthermore, if we have to fight them FROM outer space, and they're not coming here, why are we fighting them in the first place? Isn't that more of an attack on the spam zombies? I have no beef with the spam zombies. Well, maybe some highly processed beef...