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Seeing as this piece recasts the removal of the headphone jack as a chapter in a cyberpunk dystopian narrative, surely you can form a scrappy band of resistance
by njloof 10y ago
Seeing as this piece recasts the removal of the headphone jack as a chapter in a cyberpunk dystopian narrative, surely you can form a scrappy band of resistance fighters that will smash the tyrant through some sort of Bluetooth signal.
- throwanem 10y agoNot necessarily even a signal. You can't jam a wire.
- etatoby 10y agoThat's pretty scary. I can see everybody walking around with their AirPods tucked in their ears, ripe for a cyber-terrorist to unfold an antenna on top of a building, hack into the AirPods' firmware, and send an infrasound to knock the entire population out, or a loud whine to take out their hearing, or a barely audible sequence of subliminal messages. Welcome to the future.
- glenra 10y agoAn Airpod that could generate really loud infrasound would probably have amazing bass response, but I'm pretty sure that's not what was invented here. And subliminal messages don't work, so...why would we care if somebody put them in our audiostream? A "loud whine to take out hearing" is at least theoretically possible, except that many people are listening to that already - I think they call it music. :-)