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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 8 Jun 2010 04:57 On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:49:07 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: >FaceTime > >H.264 AAC SIP STUN TURN ICE RTP SRTP > >Awesome, so many initialisms. But Stun? Do you really want that on a >front-facing camera? What if it goes off accidentally? Calling Charlie Stross... sounds like an instance of BASILISK STARE being released into the wild to me. Come to think of it, Retina, TURN and ICE sound like some sort of countermeasures too. Cheers - Jaimie -- "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
From: Jim on 8 Jun 2010 05:03 On 2010-06-08, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:49:07 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) > wrote: > >>FaceTime >> >>H.264 AAC SIP STUN TURN ICE RTP SRTP >> >>Awesome, so many initialisms. But Stun? Do you really want that on a >>front-facing camera? What if it goes off accidentally? > > Calling Charlie Stross... sounds like an instance of BASILISK STARE > being released into the wild to me. Come to think of it, Retina, TURN > and ICE sound like some sort of countermeasures too. "ICE - Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics" (c/o William Gibson) Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 8 Jun 2010 05:04 On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:03:46 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >On 2010-06-08, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:49:07 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) >> wrote: >> >>>FaceTime >>> >>>H.264 AAC SIP STUN TURN ICE RTP SRTP >>> >>>Awesome, so many initialisms. But Stun? Do you really want that on a >>>front-facing camera? What if it goes off accidentally? >> >> Calling Charlie Stross... sounds like an instance of BASILISK STARE >> being released into the wild to me. Come to think of it, Retina, TURN >> and ICE sound like some sort of countermeasures too. > >"ICE - Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics" (c/o William Gibson) Eep - Neuromancer was released 26 years ago! I feel old. Cheers - Jaimie -- Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere
From: Jim on 8 Jun 2010 05:08 On 2010-06-08, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >>> Calling Charlie Stross... sounds like an instance of BASILISK STARE >>> being released into the wild to me. Come to think of it, Retina, TURN >>> and ICE sound like some sort of countermeasures too. >> >>"ICE - Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics" (c/o William Gibson) > > Eep - Neuromancer was released 26 years ago! I feel old. And to my shame I've still not read it. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Pd on 8 Jun 2010 05:25
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-08, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >>> Calling Charlie Stross... sounds like an instance of BASILISK STARE > >>> being released into the wild to me. Come to think of it, Retina, TURN > >>> and ICE sound like some sort of countermeasures too. > >> > >>"ICE - Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics" (c/o William Gibson) > > > > Eep - Neuromancer was released 26 years ago! I feel old. > > And to my shame I've still not read it. You're an embarrassment to SF nerds everywhere, Jim. Get with the programme, it's a damn good read and the possible future still holds up pretty well I think. -- Pd |