I've long felt that cell phones should be nothing more than links to your home(*). I already pay $50/month for unlimited phone calling at home, so why should I pay again? I would do this, but instead of Skype, just use my regular phone. Makes perfect sense to me. In fact I'd say the cell phone comanies should support this feature.
Oh...right...they're out to make as much money as they can. Darn.
(* and I should be able to listen to my MP3 collection at home through my cell phone:)
I first learned about Dvorak from some magazine like Byte back in the late 70's. I bought a keyboard with nothing but pins sticking out the back, moved the keys around into the Dvorak layout, wired it by hand soldering wires to make the matrix in the proper order, wired that to a keyboard encoder chip, and mounted it in a box. That went via a parallel port to my Altair 8800 computer. I'm not a touch typist but I did find that I could type a lot faster and with less movement.
This concludes today's Ancient History of Microprocessors lesson.
anyone else like me fear having anything nuclear in my lap?
Not really.
Back around 1976 I got my first LCD digital watch. It had a backlight behind the LCD that let you see it in the dark. The little "pouch" contained tritium which excited the phosphor and it glowed continuously. No radiation escapes, but they did ask you to recycle it properly and not just throw it away.
They stopped making them though (hmmmm, was that just after three mile island...?)
How long will it be before the NSA/FBI/CIA forces a law demanding everyone working with the technology to provide for court-ordered wire^H^H^H^H photon-tapping?
[for those who don't get the joke, it's impossible to non-destructively intercept the connection, but that won't stop them from passing the law]
This is going to happen, so let some entrepreneur start now.
We need wallets, and passport sleeves, with a wire mesh woven in to make a "Faraday cage" to block RF from going in or out. This lets our RFID tags in our credit cards or whatever readable only when we want them to be.
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Oh...right...they're out to make as much money as they can. Darn.
(* and I should be able to listen to my MP3 collection at home through my cell phone :)
I first learned about Dvorak from some magazine like Byte back in the late 70's. I bought a keyboard with nothing but pins sticking out the back, moved the keys around into the Dvorak layout, wired it by hand soldering wires to make the matrix in the proper order, wired that to a keyboard encoder chip, and mounted it in a box. That went via a parallel port to my Altair 8800 computer. I'm not a touch typist but I did find that I could type a lot faster and with less movement. This concludes today's Ancient History of Microprocessors lesson.
Gee, a case that actually consumes more power than the computer inside!
--J
Not really.
Back around 1976 I got my first LCD digital watch. It had a backlight behind the LCD that let you see it in the dark. The little "pouch" contained tritium which excited the phosphor and it glowed continuously. No radiation escapes, but they did ask you to recycle it properly and not just throw it away.
They stopped making them though (hmmmm, was that just after three mile island...?)
[for those who don't get the joke, it's impossible to non-destructively intercept the connection, but that won't stop them from passing the law]
This is going to happen, so let some entrepreneur start now. We need wallets, and passport sleeves, with a wire mesh woven in to make a "Faraday cage" to block RF from going in or out. This lets our RFID tags in our credit cards or whatever readable only when we want them to be.