Re: Olympia - my spy reports back....

Dave <jrzoyrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Lionel <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:44:39 +0000 (UTC), abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter
Corlett) wrote:

Lionel <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
With a single, RGB LED blinking on the front panel, labelled "Threat
Level". I should build one.

Don't forget to make it click like a geiger counter as well.

Ooh!
<scribbles on notepad>

With the average frequency increasing as the lusers get nearer and
nearer to the power switches/connectors.

The HP 48 calculator contains an IR LED and detector, intended to allow
wireless data transfer between two HP 48 calculators or some
peripherals. The detector was intentionally limited at the request of
educators who were afraid that students would use HP 48s to communicate
during tests, so it can detect an IR emitter only up to maybe six inches
away.

It's trivial to write a machine language program that turns on the LED
and checks whether the detector picks up reflected IR.

Somehow my own HP 48 sees occasional spurious reflections (off the
inside of the port cover?) such that when I run a program that just sits
in a loop and clicks the speaker whenever it sees an reflection, it
actually does sound about like a Geiger counter, including going to
continuous rapid clicking whenever it gets near enough to something to
make the reflections constant.

Once at a former orkplace a certain PHB was going on about the perils of
nuclear power or somesuch. So I pull out my HP 48, activate the "geiger
counter" program, walk up to him so he can hear the clicking as I wave
my HP 48 around, then wave it close enough to him to make it click
rapidly. I mutter something about "They must not have closed Trojan[1]
soon enough" and as I head out the door, he starts spluttering "What?
WHAT?" while my friends in the room giggle.

[1] The nearest nuclear power plant, by then decommissioned.

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