On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:06:01AM -0800, "J.Jasper" <jsjasper at attbi.com> wrote: > Matthew Hunter wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:56:21AM -0800, "J.Jasper" <jsjasper at attbi.com> wrote: > > > Matthew Hunter wrote: > > > > The obvious way would be to understand how psionics are being > > > > used as an analog, rather than to directly map them. > > > > Remember, what Dragaera calls "psionics", we call "cell > > > > phones"... > > > Daymar would disagree. His skill at psionics was a key plot point in > > > Jhereg. > > Read about how police want (and in some places, already have) the > > capability to trace the location of any given cell phone at any > > given time? > Accessing someone's memory is not equivalent to listening in on a cell > phone call. My communications over a cell line may be tapped, but > hacking into my brain is still (thankfully) in the realm of science > fiction. Yes, but extracting information from an unwilling participant is a lot easier to portray on screen than constant, pervasive psionic communication. They are different problems. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp