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 Aug 24 2008, 04:49 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 932 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orlando, Florida Member No.: 1,042  |
Does a datajack give wireless DNI control of the commlink, or not?
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Aug 24 2008, 04:56 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,973 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Fairfax, VA Member No.: 13,526 |
Pretty much everything has a wireless link, so buying a datajack, since it's hardwared into your brain, should allow you DNI of your wireless commlink. It's one of the things that should make a superb chokepoint for connecting all your cyberware to your commlink.
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Aug 24 2008, 05:22 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
It also allows for a great HARDWIRED connection! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Aug 24 2008, 05:46 PM
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Cybernetic Blood Mage Group: Members Posts: 3,472 Joined: 11-March 06 From: Northeastern Wyoming Member No.: 8,361 |
Not to mention being able to run 'knowsofts....
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Aug 24 2008, 06:44 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 10-August 08 Member No.: 16,224 |
let's not forget that it ties together that ever-so-popular retro look... man I gotta remember to pick up some shutter-shade sunglasses (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Aug 24 2008, 08:21 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Just saw those for sale the other day at an open-air market. I told the seller, "The '80s called, they're asking for their fashion back."
"They're coming back into fashion!" |
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Aug 24 2008, 08:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 932 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orlando, Florida Member No.: 1,042 |
Does anyone have a page reference on that?
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Aug 24 2008, 11:10 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 4-March 08 From: Blighty Member No.: 15,736 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 24 2008, 09:21 PM)  Just saw those for sale the other day at an open-air market. I told the seller, "The '80s called, they're asking for their fashion back." "They're coming back into fashion!" Who gives a frag about how old fashioned they are? They don't fall off, they don't wash away and they don't transmit high power signals into the most sensitive organ in your body just because that's the only way to get it that far in. Datajacks, they're just better. 'Trodes are for newbs and paranoid mages. |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:14 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,973 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Fairfax, VA Member No.: 13,526 |
QUOTE (Zen Shooter01 @ Aug 24 2008, 04:35 PM) Does anyone have a page reference on that? SR4 BBB pg 330 and 331. 330 states that most cyberware includes a DNI and a wireless link. That means you can connect to the datajack straight from your brain, and then subscribe it to your commlink, and communicate to your commlink wirelessly through your datajack. |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:17 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,629 Joined: 14-December 06 Member No.: 10,361 |
Agree. Trodes are for pussies.
man up and get a hole drilled in your skull. |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:18 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (Heath Robinson @ Aug 24 2008, 06:10 PM) Datajacks, they're just better. 'Trodes are for newbs and paranoid mages. And Adept Hackers using AR! Scary buggers, them! |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:23 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,973 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Fairfax, VA Member No.: 13,526 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 24 2008, 06:18 PM) And Adept Hackers using AR! Scary buggers, them! Bah. Hackers without datajacks are lame. Mostly because mechanically, they ARE just better. |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:34 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
QUOTE (Zen Shooter01 @ Aug 24 2008, 06:49 PM) Does a datajack give wireless DNI control of the commlink, or not? That's not the problem. Per Unwired, a Datajack gives an intruder direct access to any implant equipped with DNI. |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:37 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Oh, I swear by Datajacks. And my group has encountered numerous problems from lacking Datajacks. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
'Course, the one guy that has one, the Gnome Hacker, goes into VR, they just dropped him in a dumpster and were surprised when he suddenly suffered Dumpshock when a bum started taking everything he could off the "sleeping" body. |
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Aug 24 2008, 11:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 343 Joined: 30-January 06 Member No.: 8,212 |
Your gnome hacker needs a troll with one of those camping frame backpacks. Just tie the gnome to the pack, and tie the pack onto the troll.
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Aug 24 2008, 11:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 305 Joined: 15-January 08 From: Milwaukee, WI Member No.: 15,298 |
Or just get him a papoose!
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Aug 25 2008, 12:06 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
That would be nice.
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Aug 27 2008, 08:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 11-May 08 From: In a small, padded room inside my head. Member No.: 15,968 |
Or one of those bundles used to hold babies while they breast feed. That would be something to see. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
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Aug 27 2008, 09:21 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 2-September 07 From: In the AGS, underwater Member No.: 13,049 |
I equip the datajacks my characters use with a skinlink too. Now that's connectivity! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Aug 27 2008, 09:53 AM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
You can equip every implant with Skinlink per Augmentation and main book.
Still, given the rule from Unwired, a Datajack is just a liability now. |
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Aug 27 2008, 09:59 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 5-September 05 From: LAX, UCAS Member No.: 7,687 |
Yeah, that's a rule that needs some axing
*goes to hunt down fire axe* |
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Aug 27 2008, 11:17 AM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
What rule from Unwired? I have the book I just dont remember any rules about datajack though i havn't read cover to cover.
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Aug 27 2008, 11:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 24-July 08 From: Resonance Realms, behind the 2nd Star Member No.: 16,162 |
Every Datajack allows access to all your cyberware implants. So a hacker, who gets access to your datajack gets a chance to access every one of your cybernetic implants. (Yes, over DNI, so you get to hack the Diagnostic RFIDs AND control the Cyberarm)
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Aug 27 2008, 01:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 30-October 07 From: Sadly, NE Member No.: 13,962 |
But with your datajack broadcasting over skinlink only, you'd be safe, right?
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Aug 27 2008, 01:32 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
No, it just takes the intruder 'longer' to reach the datajack.
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