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Phil Schuman - 19 Apr 2005 06:39 GMT

geesh... it's bad when you have to learn about technology from TV and CSI.
But in doing some searching about Toothing (bluetooth messaging for sex),
it appears you have to direct a message to each receiver in the area,
vs a local broadcast to all listening devices...
which seemed to be implied in tonights episode.

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Ashley Pride - 19 Apr 2005 09:36 GMT

> geesh... it's bad when you have to learn about technology from TV and

CSI.

> But in doing some searching about Toothing (bluetooth messaging for sex),
> it appears you have to direct a message to each receiver in the area,
> vs a local broadcast to all listening devices...
> which seemed to be implied in tonights episode.

Its all bollocks - search google for toothing hoax

Ash.

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Phil Schuman - 19 Apr 2005 13:10 GMT

> > geesh... it's bad when you have to learn about technology from TV and
> CSI.
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>
> Its all bollocks - search google for toothing hoax

here's the description of the hoax - at least about the sex part -
http://www.thetriforce.com/newblog/?p=53

here's some info on sending the Bluetooth (bluejack) message -
http://www.bluejacked.com/howto.html

compare Bluetooth RF vs 802.11 RF
http://www.mobileinfo.com/bluetooth/bluetooth-vs-wlan.htm

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David Chesler - 19 Apr 2005 14:33 GMT

> hoax

Glad to hear that it's no easier fulfilling the Prime Directive as a
20-something than when I was a youth. There is some justice in the
world, although apparently there is more casual fellatio as well.
Can't have it all.

Dang, though, I wish I'd realized all I had to do was be rich and fit
and beautiful and in South Beach, and have a beautiful woman introduce
me to other beautiful women, and I could have gotten some without ever
leaving the bar. I guess I shouldn't have been judging bars by the
quality of the video games.

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J. Clarke - 19 Apr 2005 14:15 GMT

>> hoax
>
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> leaving the bar. I guess I shouldn't have been judging bars by the
> quality of the video games.

Actually, WingChicks (or more precisely "Wingwomen") is real
<http://wingwomen.com/>. Using one doesn't guarantee that you'll get laid
but it does help your chances--I remember a discussion one time in which
one of the women present described the phenomenon as "the chick seal of
approval".

That probably wasn't a bar though--more likely a club specializing in that
sort of thing, and a relatively mild one compared to Hellfire or Paddles in
New York.

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J. Clarke - 19 Apr 2005 09:44 GMT

> geesh... it's bad when you have to learn about technology from TV and CSI.
> But in doing some searching about Toothing (bluetooth messaging for sex),
> it appears you have to direct a message to each receiver in the area,
> vs a local broadcast to all listening devices...
> which seemed to be implied in tonights episode.

Uh, did you notice that they claimed to increase the Bluetooth range of a
Blackberry to a mile by sticking a slightly bigger antenna on it? Google
"bluesniper" to get a look at what a real setup to get a mile out of
Bluetooth looks like.

While CSI is more accurate, technologically speaking, than, say, Star Trek,
take everything you see with a dose of salt.

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Clark W. Griswold, Jr. - 19 Apr 2005 14:35 GMT

>geesh... it's bad when you have to learn about technology from TV and CSI.
>But in doing some searching about Toothing (bluetooth messaging for sex),
>it appears you have to direct a message to each receiver in the area,
>vs a local broadcast to all listening devices...
>which seemed to be implied in tonights episode.

Futhermore, the person who started the stories about "toothing" admitted it was
all a hoax. He had a great quote:

"I suppose its possibl;e that toothing could occur, but the odds are about the
same as writing a note asking someone to sleep with you, attaching it to a brick
and thowing it out on a crowded dance floor. It isn't going to happen."

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Maria Vitale - 24 Apr 2005 21:13 GMT

I really couldn't care less is it is a hoax. Poetic justice
would be if Delko were to come down with a nice STD
as a result of his encounter with UP4ANYTHING.

>>geesh... it's bad when you have to learn about technology from TV and CSI.
>>But in doing some searching about Toothing (bluetooth messaging for sex),
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> brick
> and thowing it out on a crowded dance floor. It isn't going to happen."

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