>Great, you can read the electron state of my brain - in >essence get a picture of what I'm thinking... >but can you translate it into anything useful? Of course, you would just need to have the same device as the owner. (Imagine someone just "thinking" his password or creditcard number) Beside, if someone breaks into your PC, he can only see what you have entered before, but with such a thingy you might get all important data the person remebers). It would also allow a completely new kind of zensorship.
This would be great for pocket-computers or laptops. You wouldn't need a keybord or that strange palm-stick. But it would be VERY easy to redirect the commands and extract your passwords or sth. like this. (You just would have to go near the person and turn your own device on)
(BTW, why dont't you allow XML on./ ? (I know it would be useless, but hey, its cool:-)))
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>Great, you can read the electron state of my brain - in
>essence get a picture of what I'm thinking... >but can you translate it into anything useful?
Of course, you would just need to have the same device as the owner. (Imagine someone just "thinking" his password or creditcard number)
Beside, if someone breaks into your PC, he can only see what you have entered before, but with such a thingy you might get all important data the person remebers).
It would also allow a completely new kind of zensorship.
This would be great for pocket-computers or laptops.
./ ? (I know it would be useless, but hey, its cool :-)))
You wouldn't need a keybord or that strange palm-stick.
But it would be VERY easy to redirect the commands and extract your passwords or sth. like this. (You just would have to go near the person and turn your own device on)
(BTW, why dont't you allow XML on