11th May 2004, 6:20 PM
Wi-fi, at least from what I've read (and keep in mind I could have gotten it wrong), can kinda self-operate. What happens is the various systems linked up to them basically just marks itself as "there", that's where the privacy thing comes in anyway. Essentially, all these wi-fi hubs are constantly sharing data with each other on who's connected to the network. All the software does is request a list of currently connected "GBDSMETHUNT" tagged "computers" linked up (that's just my example of an all too realistic tag name), and it'll present it with that list. I believe the various computer can select to hide themselves from other people on the network though.
Anyway, that's the gist of it from what I've read. Such a system basically self-updates a constant list and becomes a free matchmaking service :D. Well, so long as the connection TO the wi-fi network remains free at any rate... This of course means potential bogging down, but I don't know enough about it to say how bad it could potentially get.
Anyway, that's the gist of it from what I've read. Such a system basically self-updates a constant list and becomes a free matchmaking service :D. Well, so long as the connection TO the wi-fi network remains free at any rate... This of course means potential bogging down, but I don't know enough about it to say how bad it could potentially get.
"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 to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)