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Wrong motivation (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday August 24, @05:02PM (#10060938)
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Pictures of Arnold? Would've been done quicker if they were looking for pictures of Natalie Portman.
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Lose their heads? (Score:3, Funny)
by lothar97 (768215) * <owen&smigelski,org>
on Tuesday August 24, @05:02PM (#10060942)
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Did the losers have their heads blown off?
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DF for wifi (Score:3, Interesting)
by quelrods (521005) * <quelrodNO@SPAMyahoo.com>
on Tuesday August 24, @05:02PM (#10060945)
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Are there any other similar DF events like this with wifi? I did
amateur radio DF some years back and it is certainly entertaining. |
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Re:DF for wifi (Score:5, Interesting)
by carbolic (616993) *
on Tuesday August 24, @05:22PM (#10061129)
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Yes! There's several, of what I call, AP Games using wireless access
points. NZWireless in New Zealand performed a treasure hunt in their
home town. My pals and I designed a capture the flag game where you
drive around the city trying to find an access point. And the
traditional foxhunt (or RunningMan) where you seek to find a single AP
moving around in an erratic fashion. I prefer using a car since I live
in L.A. and don't walk.
In Chapter 11 of my book, Wi-Fi Toys, I describe some of these
DF-based AP games in great detail. I love it how these guys are
breaking the rules with traditional wireless.
Instead of using access points for boring Internet access, these guys are going extreme and creating a giant video game.
--
carbolic
Wi-Fi Toys [wifi-toys.com]
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True to the original (Score:3, Insightful)
by Nos. (179609) <andrew_kerr@@@iamnos...ca>
on Tuesday August 24, @05:04PM (#10060964)
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I like the Watchguard story which, true to the book, counts the
chapters down to. Of course the actual find in this case was hidden
very well. Nice contest. |
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Pshaw! (Score:5, Funny)
by b!arg (622192)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:07PM (#10060988)
(Last Journal: Monday May 31, @01:50AM)
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I can do the running man for an hour no problem. Try doing the Macarena
for that long though! Your head will explode. Oh wait... |
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Not bad. (Score:4, Interesting)
by James Turpin (789479)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:08PM (#10061003)
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From the article:
Contest designer Frank Thornton of Blackthorn Systems has added
a technological wrinkle or two to this year's contest. The Running Man
Web page has a secret message on it, which will require cryptographic
and puzzle-solving skills to decode. Competitors can't run around the
hotel simply asking everyone, "Are you the Running Man?" Instead, they
have to decode the message and say it to the Running Man. The first
team to do so wins.
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- Re:Not bad. by Metallic Matty (Score:2) Tuesday August 24, @05:13PM
- Re:Not bad. by name773 (Score:1) Tuesday August 24, @06:11PM
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So there's a room full of ubergeeks, then.. (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday August 24, @05:10PM (#10061023)
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DJ in the corner starts spinning electronica, adding to the chaos. Near
the Scavenger Hunt table, a brown-haired, bearded guy bellows, "I need
six people to dogpile on me right now!" He lays on the carpet on his
back, limbs spread
This is the defcon form of entertainment? I'll pass
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Defcon + Running? (Score:4, Funny)
by Aerog (324274)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:13PM (#10061044)
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For a second there I saw Running and Defcon in the same sentence and thought "Here's an idea that's doomed to success".
Then I read the description and realized the paramedics might not be so busy after all....
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That's nothing... (Score:5, Interesting)
by Rorschach1 (174480)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:15PM (#10061069)
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People have been doing radio direction finding as a sport for decades.
I learned a lot from weekend transmitter hunts - we'd have one team
hide somewhere in the general vicinity of the city (had to be heard
from the starting point), transmit a signal on the 2 meter band, and
the rest of the teams would hunt them down.
Sometimes
it would be a tiny unattended transmitter. One of our favorite tricks
was to bury the whole thing and use a 1/4 wave brass rod as an antenna,
and insert it into a dry weed in a vacant lot. Still, a good team
starting 10 miles away could often find it in 30 minutes.
We got
a lot of weird looks driving around town with big home-built quad or
yagi antennas hanging out the window, but there's no better way to
learn practical RDF stills. And I'm still using those skills - Sunday
evening I was out DFing an ELT signal from a crashed plane. Most search
and rescue folks do this infrequently, and have a textbook education in
how to triangulate the source of a signal, but there's no substitute
for practice. I can hunt down a transmitter using a handheld scanner
and omnidirectional antenna faster than most of them can do it with an
expensive DF unit.
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- Re:That's nothing... by JVert (Score:1) Tuesday August 24, @05:27PM
Re:That's nothing... (Score:5, Interesting)
by josecanuc (91)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:31PM (#10061178)
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Its official name is "Radio Direction Finding", but goes by several
nicknames like "foxhunting", "transmitter hunting", or "t-hunting".
The "home base" of RDF information is the "Homing In" website at http://members.aol.com/homingin/
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author of that site has written a very good book explaining various
techniques and containing plans for building various kinds of
directional antennas.
Most T-Hunters are amateur radio operators
(http://www.arrl.org), but that's not a requirement, since you aren't
transmitting anything while hunting.
It's great fun. Use the
ARRL website to search for any Amateur Radio clubs in your area and go
to a meeting (usually boring, but some have good presentations) and ask
about T-hunting in your area. If nobody knows, poke around and see if
anyone there has done it in the past and is interested in starting it
up again. Usually all it takes is knowledge that someone else is
interested to get the whole group going. |
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Warning: Spoiler alert! (Score:5, Funny)
by lpangelrob2 (721920)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:17PM (#10061093)
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The article as a whole is an entertaining read, so I preface this post with a spoiler alert...
doo bee do...
Standing front and center in the crowd, Dara, the
young lady who photographed Renderman, reaches into her purse and pulls
out a pocketbook. She unzips the pocketbook and pulls out a Zaurus
handheld running Linux. The pocketbook is lined with a Lay's potato
chip bag, the aluminum in the bag dampening the radio signal by about 7
or 8 dBm. She holds up the Zaurus, and sure enough -- it shows up on
nearby wireless laptops as the real RunningMan AP.
I therefore submit proof that contrary to popular belief, women do use Linux!
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Easy (Score:5, Funny)
by xsupergr0verx (758121)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:19PM (#10061111)
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Competitors can't run around the hotel simply asking everyone, "Are you the Running Man?"
Yeah, they first have to translate it to Klingon in order for the nerds to compete with each other.
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Who will be the first litigant? (Score:5, Interesting)
by Speare (84249)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:25PM (#10061147)
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Who will be the first to threaten a gratuitous
infringement/trademark lawsuit? Stephen King (aka Richard Bachman) for
the story title, "The Running Man," or Arnold Schwarzenegger who played
the main character of the screen adaptation?
By the way, read the print version of the story. The last page
of the book is a very interesting parallel to the September 11 attacks
of New York. You know, the attack that "nobody could have foreseen." |
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Triumph (Score:3, Funny)
by Lunchy (696022)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:39PM (#10061243)
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This reminded me of Triumph talking to the "super nerd"...
"Pretend you've just run 10 feet"
There must have been a whole lotta heavy breathing. ;)
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I'm a bit confused. (Score:3, Funny)
by goofyheadedpunk (807517) <goofy(underscore ... )punk(at)msn(dot>
on Tuesday August 24, @05:40PM (#10061254)
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Oddest three lines in the whole article:
A bare-chested, twenty-something young man strides into the
room, wearing nothing except swimming trunks made of aluminum foil. He
presents himself to the Scavenger Hunt judges, posing gingerly. He
looks distinctly uncomfortable.
Was this just random, or what?
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104 degrees (Score:1)
by 4r0g (467711)
on Tuesday August 24, @06:34PM (#10061713)
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First I thought Fscking degrees. Then Freakin'. Then I remembered that I can set my timezone to this ./ thingie but still it does not convert these strange units to ones used in most parts of the world. Oh well, have to resort to the google calculator [google.com]...
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I'm amazed (Score:5, Funny)
by EvilStein (414640) <{jnichols} {at} {pbp.net}>
on Tuesday August 24, @07:11PM (#10062072)
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... that while all of the geeks ran off, that a few other attendees
didn't lurk around Dara, seeing as how there was now a whole lot less
competition.
"Hey, forget this game. Let's go for the chicks!"
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Re:for the uninitated... (Score:4, Informative)
by coolsva (786215)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:15PM (#10061070)
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AP = Access point
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Re:for the uninitated... (Score:3, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday August 24, @05:20PM (#10061117)
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The "AP" in question is not the Assocated press, but an Apache Web Server. The "Apache Web Server" in question is not a web server, but an access point.
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Re:I don't understand this. (Score:2, Funny)
by Don'tTreadOnMe (686201)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:30PM (#10061175)
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Sorry but this all seems to be pretty stupid ? I think so, too?
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Re:for the uninitated... (Score:2, Informative)
by Guano_Jim (157555)
on Tuesday August 24, @05:31PM (#10061179)
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Ok, that would officially make me a dumbass masquerading as a know-it-all. Please mod down appropriately.
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Armor Piercing? (Score:1)
by cyrax777 (633996)
on Tuesday August 24, @06:18PM (#10061577)
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as in AP ammo?
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Re:I don't understand this. (Score:1)
by satoshi1 (794000) <satoshi1&gmail,com>
on Tuesday August 24, @07:06PM (#10062034)
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The point is to have fun using technology in ways it was never intended to be used.
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Re:7 or 8 dbm? (Score:1)
by HighWizard (91134)
on Wednesday August 25, @11:11AM (#10068318)
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Actually, if you took the time the time to read the article and then do a little check on the contest organizers [worldwidewardrive.org] you would see that your theory is flawed:
Lets extrapolate the data (we'll make it easier on you and your limited brain capacity, only looking at two of them):
1) Chris Hurley:
A quick google search with the term, "Chris Hurley", Wardriving turns up many useful results. I'll use his short bio [oreillynet.com] at oreilly to prove my point -
"Chris Hurley is a Principal Information Security Engineer working
in Washington DC on vulnerability assessments, penetration testing,
forensics, and incident response on both wired and wireless networks.
He is the organizer of the WorldWide WarDrive and has been the subject
of several interviews and stories regarding the WWWD. Chris is a
primary organizer of DefCon and the DefCon WarDriving Contest."
2) Frank Thornton:
We'll use the same method to find information on Frank Thornton, since it has proven to be useful. -
From Oreilly: "Frank
Thornton runs his own consulting firm, Blackthorn Systems and as a
detective and forensics expert has investigated over 100 homicides and
thousands of other crime scenes."
Perhaps it's just me, but from these two gentleman alone, it seems as though they are more than just "computer nerds talking out of their ass".
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