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"I can't access my email!"
"Your email can't access you, either, Mr. President."
"I can't use AIM!! Damn it, what's going on here?! Launch the nukes!"
"Sir, do you realize you just launched several ICBM's with warheads full of grain? I thought I told those damn farmers to stay out of our website.."
I'll bet you could hack the phones to relay a different GPS coordinate than they're located at. Imagine prank calling someone and they do a trace, only to see that you're somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...
It will probably turn out that we're bombing camp grounds or something. Camp grounds, dirt roads, small runways...I don't see much of a need to take away our civil liberties. Life goes on, even without the WTC, and the people involved. Why should we all be less free? Might that have been bin Laden's real goal?
How long before martial law is the norm? What will 'martial law' be like then? I've noticed instead of what don't we have the right to do, we now ask what do we have the right to do in the past century. Even under the strictest rules, if you want to bomb something, you're going to bomb something. Its up to intelligence agencies and police forces to find out who wants to bomb what, and then stop them. Laws are like fences. They sit there and hope to deter would-be criminals. But there isn't anything stopping someone who isn't deterred from breaking that law...We should just make bombs illegal. That would have about as much effect.
I remember my first erector set. It was a rusty, moldy, parts-missing-aplenty kit that I found in my closet from my brothers' years. I didn't like them, actually. Legos were much, much better. You couldn't die from cutting yourself while playing with legos, unless you were just stupid.
Maybe some day cutting a fiber line would yield deadly results. Imagine accidently digging through a fiber line only to be cut in half by the power of the beam. That would rule! As if being electrocuted to death wasn't enough, soon we can be killed by data...I can see where the 'freak accident causes supergenius to be born' movies are going to come from..
*nix OSes for a collection of people that have enough trouble keeping Windows boxen secure would be like putting a blind man in charge of watching security cameras to make sure no one is trying to get in. Or putting someone that is quadrapalegic in the position of a life guard...
If I bought an ICBM silo for a house, I'd be forced to become some sort of superhero.
No, seriously. You'd wake up one morning and realize that the world's population has dropped by more than 2/3rds. Wouldn't have to worry about adding any ambient lighting to the silo part...should be glowing already. You could make the world's largest spiral staircase...Or world's bounciest trampoline/indoor skydiving adventure!
And alas their attempts to free software fail as Microsoft swoops in and displays proudly their new EULA for Notepad, in which they considered free software..Microsoft annexes Germany..Italy and MS Germany make an alliance...
What if the universe were to wrap around itself, and we were actually staring at our backs? If there were some ultra-ultra-mega-super-densely packed gravity well or something in the center of our universe, we'd be going, "Man..thats an old ass.." but we'd be staring at our own and stuff.
I reside in a nice niche of the wired along with my wife, Chisa. I never have to mow the lawn or do menial work, because we'll be too busy screwing and stuff.
I used to have a shitty $50 scanner and I could pick up people all in my neighborhood who had anything less than a 900MHz phone. Pretty interesting conversations, including one regarding Slashdot. I live in a pretty small town (Norris, TN) near Knoxville. The funny part was that the people I heard were like, rednecks. They were like, try dubyahdubyahdubya dawt slashdot dawt org, seeh if yewh can read that page! Aside from the usual teenage sex, death threats, and political arguments, not much was to be heard over Norris' airwaves. Yeah, I know you don't really OWN them so to speak, but if they took away your right to listen in on radiowaves that went into your property, you could be arrested for looking at your neighbor in his yard.
You know, this would be wonderful. Now all the l33t h4x0rz don't need to buy a $200 radio scanner to know that the FBI is coming to take them down for cracking that zip file full of pr0n the night before. Think about it. You could tune in to your neighbor's cordless phone and listen to them battle it out. You could tune in to the chick down the street and listen to her steamy tales of PK on UO/EQ/AO. All in the privacy of your own home! But, then again, where would the limit be? If there were no frequency limit, you could listen to about anything! I suspect that the whole thing of ownership of radiowaves would come up (but their radio waves cross into MY property, I'm ENTITLED to listen in on the phonesex going on next door...). I suspect a move to phones that are corded, with a double-shielded cord. Or a phone that uses 256bit encryptation.
Once we get past the Streetfighter-esque title, we need to realize that static electricity is much more mysterious than most people think. When you remember that everything that occurs in everyday life has electrons, its easy to see where you can pick up spare electrons from objects. Also, the charge in your left leg might be much more or less than your hand. So it really is possible to collect a really large static charge, and discharge it (electrons seem to pull each other like water pouring or something). This, and a combination of cheap electronics, leads to some pissed-off users. Static electricity is a fact of life. I agree hotsyncing a palm shouldn't 0wn your computer/ports or anything like that, but if you decide to leave your computer on 24/7 with the cradle plugged in, something is BOUND to happen after a while. Taking into consideration a shitty motherboard, shoddy cradle, and negative karma, the motherboard or cradle can take just enough damage to make something happen when a major electrical change occurs.
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... "I can't access my email!" "Your email can't access you, either, Mr. President." "I can't use AIM!! Damn it, what's going on here?! Launch the nukes!" "Sir, do you realize you just launched several ICBM's with warheads full of grain? I thought I told those damn farmers to stay out of our website.."
I'll bet you could hack the phones to relay a different GPS coordinate than they're located at. Imagine prank calling someone and they do a trace, only to see that you're somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...
It will probably turn out that we're bombing camp grounds or something. Camp grounds, dirt roads, small runways...I don't see much of a need to take away our civil liberties. Life goes on, even without the WTC, and the people involved. Why should we all be less free? Might that have been bin Laden's real goal?
How long before martial law is the norm? What will 'martial law' be like then? I've noticed instead of what don't we have the right to do, we now ask what do we have the right to do in the past century. Even under the strictest rules, if you want to bomb something, you're going to bomb something. Its up to intelligence agencies and police forces to find out who wants to bomb what, and then stop them. Laws are like fences. They sit there and hope to deter would-be criminals. But there isn't anything stopping someone who isn't deterred from breaking that law...We should just make bombs illegal. That would have about as much effect.
I remember my first erector set. It was a rusty, moldy, parts-missing-aplenty kit that I found in my closet from my brothers' years. I didn't like them, actually. Legos were much, much better. You couldn't die from cutting yourself while playing with legos, unless you were just stupid.
Maybe some day cutting a fiber line would yield deadly results. Imagine accidently digging through a fiber line only to be cut in half by the power of the beam. That would rule! As if being electrocuted to death wasn't enough, soon we can be killed by data...I can see where the 'freak accident causes supergenius to be born' movies are going to come from..
*nix OSes for a collection of people that have enough trouble keeping Windows boxen secure would be like putting a blind man in charge of watching security cameras to make sure no one is trying to get in. Or putting someone that is quadrapalegic in the position of a life guard...
If I bought an ICBM silo for a house, I'd be forced to become some sort of superhero. No, seriously. You'd wake up one morning and realize that the world's population has dropped by more than 2/3rds. Wouldn't have to worry about adding any ambient lighting to the silo part...should be glowing already. You could make the world's largest spiral staircase...Or world's bounciest trampoline/indoor skydiving adventure!
And alas their attempts to free software fail as Microsoft swoops in and displays proudly their new EULA for Notepad, in which they considered free software..Microsoft annexes Germany..Italy and MS Germany make an alliance...
What if the universe were to wrap around itself, and we were actually staring at our backs? If there were some ultra-ultra-mega-super-densely packed gravity well or something in the center of our universe, we'd be going, "Man..thats an old ass.." but we'd be staring at our own and stuff.
I reside in a nice niche of the wired along with my wife, Chisa. I never have to mow the lawn or do menial work, because we'll be too busy screwing and stuff.
I used to have a shitty $50 scanner and I could pick up people all in my neighborhood who had anything less than a 900MHz phone. Pretty interesting conversations, including one regarding Slashdot. I live in a pretty small town (Norris, TN) near Knoxville. The funny part was that the people I heard were like, rednecks. They were like, try dubyahdubyahdubya dawt slashdot dawt org, seeh if yewh can read that page! Aside from the usual teenage sex, death threats, and political arguments, not much was to be heard over Norris' airwaves. Yeah, I know you don't really OWN them so to speak, but if they took away your right to listen in on radiowaves that went into your property, you could be arrested for looking at your neighbor in his yard.
You know, this would be wonderful. Now all the l33t h4x0rz don't need to buy a $200 radio scanner to know that the FBI is coming to take them down for cracking that zip file full of pr0n the night before. Think about it. You could tune in to your neighbor's cordless phone and listen to them battle it out. You could tune in to the chick down the street and listen to her steamy tales of PK on UO/EQ/AO. All in the privacy of your own home! But, then again, where would the limit be? If there were no frequency limit, you could listen to about anything! I suspect that the whole thing of ownership of radiowaves would come up (but their radio waves cross into MY property, I'm ENTITLED to listen in on the phonesex going on next door...). I suspect a move to phones that are corded, with a double-shielded cord. Or a phone that uses 256bit encryptation.
Once we get past the Streetfighter-esque title, we need to realize that static electricity is much more mysterious than most people think. When you remember that everything that occurs in everyday life has electrons, its easy to see where you can pick up spare electrons from objects. Also, the charge in your left leg might be much more or less than your hand. So it really is possible to collect a really large static charge, and discharge it (electrons seem to pull each other like water pouring or something). This, and a combination of cheap electronics, leads to some pissed-off users. Static electricity is a fact of life. I agree hotsyncing a palm shouldn't 0wn your computer/ports or anything like that, but if you decide to leave your computer on 24/7 with the cradle plugged in, something is BOUND to happen after a while. Taking into consideration a shitty motherboard, shoddy cradle, and negative karma, the motherboard or cradle can take just enough damage to make something happen when a major electrical change occurs.