 FanPro D Newsletter May 2005, Otaku in SR4! |
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 May 5 2005, 06:50 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430  |
You know i just had a couple of minutes to think about this.
I've read on a couple of other threads about how SR was using the 80's japanese like theme as the underlying basis. Well guess what? After reading this post, I don't see good ol'Seattle as the gritty city of old. Oh no. With this wireless society with its l33t H4x0rs and technomancers, i see downtown NEO-TOKYO :eek: Go figure The more things change...yada, yada, yada |
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May 5 2005, 07:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 639 Joined: 22-April 02 Member No.: 2,638 |
You're assuming that everything in the PAN contains an active transmitter. Most likely, 99% of your PAN-aware objects are going to be passive, containing the 2070 equivalent of modern day RFID tags (as Eldritch aluded to earlier). RFID tags are tiny, unpowered, non-volatile data stores. They are completely inert until they pass through an RFID scanner. The scanner's low-power EM field gives them just enough energy to broadcast their data. Once they're out of the field, they go inert again. So your PAN would most likely be comprised of, say, 25 RFID tags, powered by a scanner in your commlink, rather than 25 RF transmitters constantly bleating out their data. Turn off your commlink, and you effectively disappear. That is, until you pass through the active scanner located in the entrance of a mall bookstore, for example. Or, you could take the time to rip out the tags from every bit of gear you own. Just a guess. |
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May 5 2005, 08:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 18-April 05 From: France Member No.: 7,343 |
Just think some RFID have a range of 100m ...
worst than "1984" is easily by reached. The bad thind is that were going throug it soon! |
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May 5 2005, 08:47 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
one should take a look at how bluetooth works. unless you tell it to scan it will only listen for traffic and reply if needed (say if a diffrent device sends a scan signal) or send to a known device.
to connect together two bluetooth devices you have to initiate pairing mode, ie tell both about each other. this is done by doing a scan and then enter eitehr a predefined code (for stuff like handsfree ear plugs, and they only go into pairing mode by pressing a button on them) or one that you make up at the moment (for stuff with keypads and similar). a bluetooh enabled poster on the other hand have constant scan going, and when picking up a new device it sends out a push signal that is basicly a text note or a business card. now push this into the future where you have better bandwidth (hell, bluetooth SIG is making noice about going UWB. the same tech that wireless usb will use) and you have matrix2's PAN. take a pic with your digicam, put it in a pocket and then use your comlink to access the pic, write a mail and send it of. and you never attach a single wire. |
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May 5 2005, 09:29 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 9-September 04 Member No.: 6,646 |
Dude, the internet overlays what you actually see?
All new "Hackers" listen up! I have discovered the new 1337 haxxoring ski11z! Hacking specialized in..... SPAM!! Rule the streets as you legally force anyone you don't like within eyesight of you to be bombarded with constantly self opening and propogating useless "advertisements" that completely shut them down! (Hey, if they didn't want to see the ads, they don't have to look @/ be around me.) 8) (And before you laugh, we have them IRL now.) :eek: I don't know, I'm thinking that with a simple action, I can run "Teh Sp4mmin4torz" and give someone oh let's say, ph33r my 1337 h4xxor ski11z! And if I have enough Karma for magic, I can add to this w/ magic spells like the good 'ole Choatic World™ spell! :grinbig: |
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| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
May 6 2005, 12:07 AM
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I think I speak for many others when I say that I hate you.
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May 6 2005, 12:43 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 9-September 04 Member No.: 6,646 |
Who, me? |
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May 6 2005, 01:33 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 661 Joined: 23-March 03 Member No.: 4,322 |
This remind anyone of the laughing man incident in Ghost in the Shell? He was a hacker that hacked peoples eyes so that he didn't exist to them, and the fact that everything is going wireless...
He also hacked peoples eyes to overlay a stick figure face on top of his own so no one could tell what he looked like. |
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May 6 2005, 03:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 338 Joined: 17-September 04 From: Pueblo Sector of Denver Member No.: 6,672 |
I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend to be one of those deaf mutes or should I? :rotfl: |
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May 6 2005, 01:06 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430 |
See what i mean about the neo-tokyo feeling?
We're comparing it to GitS and the game isn't even out yet. In preparation for SR4 I think I'll grab my CyberGeneration book and read up on the rules. :| |
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May 6 2005, 02:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 138 Joined: 1-September 02 From: France Member No.: 3,208 |
Agreed. It's a local nowawadays term, doesn't render well in a cyberpunk/sf game. |
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May 6 2005, 06:23 PM
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Avatar of Mediocrity Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 725 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle, WA (err, UCAS) Member No.: 277 |
Stop saying that word. |
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May 6 2005, 06:24 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
preparation! preparation preparation!
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May 6 2005, 08:33 PM
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Slacker Extraordinaire Group: Retired Admins Posts: 337 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Ashburn, VA Member No.: 997 |
I've never read Transhuman Space, or seen Ghost in the Shell, but this all sounds incredibly similar to a networking scheme I've been writing up for a d20 Modern game I was planning to run (and release online). I may have to rewrite to make sure things aren't excessively similar.
I'm not happy with the continued existence of Otaku in any form, but I'm definitely happy with the direction the matrix has gone. |
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May 9 2005, 12:47 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,362 Joined: 3-October 03 From: Poway, San Diego County, CA, USA Member No.: 5,676 |
Actually, this Matrix stuff should probably already have existed by 2065, although having everyone equipped with it in a world of such poverty seems pretty far-fetched.
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May 9 2005, 12:58 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
i think that the word everyone is used to cover anyone that counts. ie, any middle-class wage slave on up.
basicly if your low income or below then having a PAN enabled comlink will be a achivement, just like having a high-end computer is to some people today. |
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May 9 2005, 02:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430 |
CyberGeneration CyberGeneration CyberGeneration CyberGeneration
Its just so fun to say. :P |
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| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
May 9 2005, 06:17 PM
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Say it once more and Candyma... Cyber... will appear.
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May 9 2005, 06:52 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Crimsondude and other writers accept implicitly that CyberGeneration can notice and manipulate unwary Name-givers who invoke its Name too often. Your humble scribe finds this unlikely, for CyberGeneration CyberGeneration has not demonstrated clairvoyant powers of this CyberGeneration description, certainly not on those CyberGeneration whom Cybergeneration has not CyberGeneration already marked. Assuming such CyberGeneration were true, the effects of CyberGeneration's CyberGeneration's CYBERGENERATION'S manipulation would become evident to an CYBERGENERATION observer. CYBERGENERATION To date no such CYBERGENERATION has surfaced, despite the CYBERGENERATION diligent inquiry of one CYBERGENERATION who only desires to CYBERGENERATION the CYBERGENERATION of the CYBERGENERATION Library of CYBERGENERATION, and hopes that CYBERGENERATION superiors will CYBERGENERATION him with CYBERGENERATION and CYBERGENERATION CYBERGENERATION CYBERGENERATION
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May 9 2005, 09:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 778 Joined: 6-April 05 Member No.: 7,298 |
Apparently Nebis has renamed himself CyberGeneration (or vice versa). This Nebis not be a CyberGeneration Nebis. Ah CyberGeneration. Nebis. Nebis, too.
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| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
May 9 2005, 09:32 PM
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Well, further proof that the line between genius and madness is a thin one indeed.
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May 9 2005, 09:37 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
The line of "just not getting it" and having no idea what CyberGeneration is... Is apparently much, much wider... :( |
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| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
May 9 2005, 10:01 PM
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Oh, no. it's just that I've seen Ellery do this before, and it usually requires someone to give the case a good swift kick to reset it.
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May 9 2005, 11:59 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
speaking of things i'm not keen on trying...
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| Guest_Crimsondude 2.0_* |
May 10 2005, 12:57 AM
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Guests |
Yeah, God only knows what defenses need to be bypassed. Rebooting Deus would probably be easier.
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