Is the sniper rifle really necessary?! Unless you're planning on eliminating the cell phone user so they never discover the hack. Otherwise, wouldn't a stand-alone scope do just as well, and get you into a lot less trouble from law enforcement?
Even though it's been said... if you actually read you'll see the following:
The BlueSniper "rifle," created by John Hering and colleagues at Flexilis as a proof-of-concept device, resembles a rifle. It has a vision scope and a yagi antenna with a cable that runs to a Bluetooth-enabled laptop or PDA in a backpack. Aiming the rifle from an 11th-floor window of the Aladdin hotel at a taxi stand across the street in Las Vegas, Hering and colleagues were able to collect phone books from 300 Bluetooth devices.
Now why someone thought it necessary to call it a 'sniper rifle' when they submitted the article is beyond me since it's at the very least misleading.
It actually makes a lot of sense, no? The device resembles a rifle- not just out of some "cool" factor, but because use of the device requires aim, and the rifle form is suitable. It also has metaphorical relation to the rifle, in that it's a "weapon of attack", so to speak. Further, insofar as the attack is a long range attack from a concealed location, i
I modded the parent interesting because this might be an appropiate name to be used for these types of devices. Would you have this in mind before metamodding, please?
BTW, I think it should be something like 1/3 interesting, 2/3 funny, thanks.
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It actually makes a lot of sense, no? The device resembles a rifle- not just out of some "cool" factor, but because use of the device requires aim, and the rifle form is suitable. It also has metaphorical relation to the rifle, in that it's a "weapon of attack", so to speak. Further, insofar as the attack is a long range attack from a concealed location, i
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I thank you.
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BTW, I think it should be something like 1/3 interesting, 2/3 funny, thanks.