Tuesday, July 10, 2007

#554 Totinos WiFi

It always amazes me how many radio frequencies are out there. And how every day we are subjected to bombardment from same.
I think it’s making us crazy.
I was looking at an FCC bandwidth poster and it’s incredible how many frequencies are constantly coursing through our bodies. It kind of makes you wonder.
Ever notice how quiet it is when the power goes out? Part of that is the absence of the 60-cycle hum, which is the ambient noise produced by power lines.
No power, no hum. No hum in your ears and no radiation shooting through your cells, possibly damaging DNA and creating a host of modern ailments like hypertension, ADHD, and peanut allergies.
Those things you never heard about before the advent of ubiquitous power lines and radio broadcasts.
The newest radio frequency on the scene is WiFi. WiFi allows strangers to harvest the info on the internet from any location close to a WiFi node.
WiFi broadcasts at almost exactly the same frequency as your microwave. Don’t believe it? Next time you’re in the supermarket coffee shop and your laptop malfunctions and starts setting off nearby popcorn bags drop me an email.
I wonder about the superhero Daredevil. Daredevil is a Marvel Comic book hero who is blind but whose secret power is that he navigates by radar. Microwaves.
I always worried that he would stand out in a crowd, even if he was in his secret identity, because he would be setting off popcorn bags and accidentally killing people with pacemakers.
Now he could totally disable a coffee shop with WiFi interference as well.
Espresso heads from B&B to Starbucks kicked off the internet in the middle of vital research projects and MySpace ego uploads.
But here’s a cool thing. Since WiFi and microwave ovens are on the same frequency, an enterprising young vandal-nerd could have some serious fun.
They could hack into someone else’s microwave and wreak havoc. Dude, you could, like, drive by someone’s house and blow up their pizza.
Crazy?
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
America ya gotta love it

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