Unless you meant some partially effective way of finding the APs like SNMP or fingerprinting the hardware. More like a waste of time. Anyone could setup an OpenAP and fiddle with the tcp/ip stack to make it appear as if it's not a real AP. If you're really paranoid and have a lot of space to cover, you can hook them up at different locations up to RS-232 ports and dump whatever they spit out to a central server for processing.
I'm more inclined to trust a radio detection method than trusting IP based solutions.
Someone pirated an idea.. Didn't do a terribly amazing job with it.. Released it and either made some money or gained a shard of publicity in the small circle of 2D fighter developers..
uh.. Great.
Don't we have some heavy science to deal with now?
When a bit of story telling gets popular, marginally interesting people tend to glom onto it in an effort to promote their own thoughts using the story as a vessel.
Can we just assume for a minute that George Lucas is correct about the power of myth? There are really a finite number of themes and stories to be told, because really as humans we don't have much beyond the small cache of stories we find compelling to see in a movie theater, and the cache of movies that hollywood churns out is even a smaller subset of that.
Also, isn't the overanalization of things like the Matrix a little dangerous? If you give creedence to the spiritual and intellectual properties of this movie and give it value above and beyond it's pure entertainment qualities, doesn't that open the door for the validation of critical analysis and admit that there's more than meets the eye?
The more you try to read into something, the more likely you're going to see what you want to see.
I just like bullet-time kung-fu and things blowing up. I don't feel any violent urges after seeing Reloaded, Neo isn't Christ, and I still have a firm grip on my reality filteres to allow me to know what's spiritually meaningful, and what's 2 hours of entertainment.
There's no law about fudging benchmarks on a third party application.
While this isn't a huge suprise, I am happy that there are smart folks out there who spend time to uncover this kind of information. Kudos to you for your efforts!
Videocard Benchmarks are about as believable as the the 'World's Best Grampa' award.
You could tag each grape, and then monitor them for quality and choose only the best ones for making wine, while also making sure nobody removes them from the vine without authorization.
You could then track the grape through the wine making process, and once they're crushed all down you could gather up all the RFID/computer chips at the bottom of the barrel, and go through the process again.
Rockstar is quickly getting to the point I was with Aphex Twin about 5 years ago. I'd buy anything he did no matter what the quality was. However, Rockstar has got to keep up the momentum so that they don't enter their 'Druqs' and '26 mixes for cash' phase... 'State of Emergency' was kind of sluffy.
I really get sick of seeing this commentary in the headline. Can't you guys just post the story and be done with it? The arbitrary slanted comments like 'Should I cancel my order?' or 'Wow, Microsoft did it again!' or 'Well, Linux won again, who would have guessed it!' are most likely accompanied with shit-eating grins of self satisfaction knowing that the world is safe once again for your point of view.
Mod me down, but I'm really growing tired of the lack of objectivity.
You ever think that Apple might do the right thing, fess up to the problem and fix it for free to anyone who's effected?
Had you read my post and checked out the FrontierLabs mp3 player, you'd have seen that it supports flash ram up to 1gb. Although I only have a 512 meg card myself. I suspect that if each of us went for a jog, I'd be the one who'd make it home with functional music.:)
Curious question indeed. Microsoft really could hit a home-run with a 'sanctioned' Xbox Media Player, but it's highly unlikely and would probably be feature-bare (SMB? XBMSP? XBMS? Shoutcast Streams?) compared to mod-chip dependent equivalants.
I'd rather use XBMP any day compared to Windows Media Player. I can trust that my viewing habits aren't being monitored and sold off to marketing firms and that software quality will generally go up.
There's an obvious cabal that thwarts unrestricted media management, be it through artifically inflated CD-R/DVD-R costs, MP3 players that don't ship with larger than 128 megs of storage space (Of course, present company excluded...
It just doesn't suprise me nobody has an 'all-in-one' box yet.
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Really the worst thing I've ever heard of involved the Sims. Someone bragged about building a bathroom with a phone and a toilet, replacing the door with a wall when their Sim went to relieve himself, and the Sim would just try to phone for pizzas because he was so hungry.. But the pizza guy couldn't deliver.
Behavior like this will just get people back to good old stealth machination that makes people wonder if their lives are just terrible or if some sinister force is at work.
Why is it nobody has harnessed the MMORPG model to get humans to do something useful. Like parsing, culling data or inputting data to get 'money' in the game.
If somebody would just come up with the right setup, they could get the 'Matrix' harness developed to use
people as the engine for their business model.
Marketing people could test new music out in Virtual 'Bars' to see what people like, You could capture all the conversations and find out who's drinking coke and who's drinking pepsi..
And the instant gratification as you talk to someone in a virtual bar and a passer-by auspiciously mentions that the new poster on the wall can be purchased online at the following URL..
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I'm more inclined to trust a radio detection method than trusting IP based solutions.
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Shows signal strength too so you can do the James Bond homing-in-on-the-signal-with-gun-drawn type stuff.
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uh.. Great.
Don't we have some heavy science to deal with now?
BY HEAVY SCIENCE, I MEAN, THIS STORY IS FLUFF
AS IN, A WASTE OF TIME
Yes. -n
I didn't think of that.. This could spawn new types of cheats.
* The 'sit around and wheeze behind a box' evasion technique.
* Cellular Phone + Binoculars 'ghosting'
* 'Throw up from being winded' diversion
What suckers are going to play the hostages?
Will shooting them out of spite lose you points?
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Cheers for the effort, although I think you'll still get people bunny-jumping.
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These ones go to eleven.
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I guess I'll be spending a little time downtown. -n
Can we just assume for a minute that George Lucas is correct about the power of myth? There are really a finite number of themes and stories to be told, because really as humans we don't have much beyond the small cache of stories we find compelling to see in a movie theater, and the cache of movies that hollywood churns out is even a smaller subset of that.
So, while people can expulse such gems as From Davey and Goliath to Homer and Ned Humorous(?) Matrix Fan Fiction, it would appear that these people are smart enough to take an idea and run with it, but not to come up with something original.
Also, isn't the overanalization of things like the Matrix a little dangerous? If you give creedence to the spiritual and intellectual properties of this movie and give it value above and beyond it's pure entertainment qualities, doesn't that open the door for the validation of critical analysis and admit that there's more than meets the eye?
The more you try to read into something, the more likely you're going to see what you want to see.
I just like bullet-time kung-fu and things blowing up. I don't feel any violent urges after seeing Reloaded, Neo isn't Christ, and I still have a firm grip on my reality filteres to allow me to know what's spiritually meaningful, and what's 2 hours of entertainment.
- Keep your windows open at night, close them first thing in the morning.
- Don't cook with your oven range (Probably not a problem for most slashdot readers)
- Keep doors shut to isolate heat transition from room to room
- Turn off all PDP-11's in the house.
If you need an air conditioner and can afford to keep it on all the time, ignore previously mentioned solutions and just keep it cranked.However, angels will cry, baby jesus will be vexed, and your PG&E bill will be orbital.
While this isn't a huge suprise, I am happy that there are smart folks out there who spend time to uncover this kind of information. Kudos to you for your efforts!
Videocard Benchmarks are about as believable as the the 'World's Best Grampa' award.
-n
No longer having to field 3 phone calls a day from the 2 people who own gamecubes.
Fortune is a really boring game. I hope they spice it up with some new cookie files!
You could then track the grape through the wine making process, and once they're crushed all down you could gather up all the RFID/computer chips at the bottom of the barrel, and go through the process again.
Oh, no wait. That's a terrible idea.
Rockstar is quickly getting to the point I was with Aphex Twin about 5 years ago. I'd buy anything he did no matter what the quality was. However, Rockstar has got to keep up the momentum so that they don't enter their 'Druqs' and '26 mixes for cash' phase... 'State of Emergency' was kind of sluffy.
EHEH!
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Well, duh. They didn't have tinfoil hats 200 years ago.
Does it really seem healthy to be constantly bombarded with gigabits of data?
Any tinfoil hat people out there that do tailoring? -n
I always forget who's hands they originally modeled controller on? Paul Bunion or Shaq? -n
You ever think that Apple might do the right thing, fess up to the problem and fix it for free to anyone who's effected?
Had you read my post and checked out the FrontierLabs mp3 player, you'd have seen that it supports flash ram up to 1gb. Although I only have a 512 meg card myself. :)
I suspect that if each of us went for a jog, I'd be the one who'd make it home with functional music.
I'd rather use XBMP any day compared to Windows Media Player. I can trust that my viewing habits aren't being monitored and sold off to marketing firms and that software quality will generally go up.
There's an obvious cabal that thwarts unrestricted media management, be it through artifically inflated CD-R/DVD-R costs, MP3 players that don't ship with larger than 128 megs of storage space (Of course, present company excluded...
It just doesn't suprise me nobody has an 'all-in-one' box yet.
Quite sad really.
Behavior like this will just get people back to good old stealth machination that makes people wonder if their lives are just terrible or if some sinister force is at work.
If somebody would just come up with the right setup, they could get the 'Matrix' harness developed to use people as the engine for their business model.
Marketing people could test new music out in Virtual 'Bars' to see what people like, You could capture all the conversations and find out who's drinking coke and who's drinking pepsi..
And the instant gratification as you talk to someone in a virtual bar and a passer-by auspiciously mentions that the new poster on the wall can be purchased online at the following URL..
-n