Beer and Bluetooth 124
juxter writes "The BBC is reporting on a London bar which has installed a Bluetooth and WiFi access point. Owners of camera phones can wirelessly send their pictures to an overhead screen and web based gallery - The system runs the LocustWorld Linux based MeshAP which has been extended to drive bluetooth devices as well. Hopefully this will encourage more UK premises to deploy free hot spots."
Great news (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Great news (Score:3, Funny)
Rus
Re:Great news (Score:1)
yay (Score:2, Funny)
Amendment (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Amendment (Score:2)
The alcohol is simply a catalyst for pr0n.
Supporting arguments: beer + chicks = pr0n
Also, consider girl A. Girl A observes ugly guy B. Girl A consumes beverages. Girl A thinks guy B is attractive enough to go home with.
Similarly, Guy A with ugly Girl B. The collorary holds.
So, there is still only one thing that advances technology: pr0n.
Re:One Step Above... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:One Step Above... (Score:2)
LoB
Ain't thinking... (Score:5, Funny)
After that gets old...no, I don't want to think about it. They'd better enclose the bathroom with a grounded wire mesh shell.
Re:Ain't thinking... (Score:1)
Just use the tinfoil toilet paper.
Wont help (Score:1)
Nick Powers
Re:Ain't thinking... (Score:1)
My teeth are a bit yellow... (Score:1)
Great danger! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great danger? Not (Score:1)
http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/29343.html
Just be nice to the geek boss though.
Whole New Meanings (Score:5, Funny)
This really does give a whole new meaning to CAMRA [camra.org.uk]
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Re:I would be the first... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poor John Major's kid... (Score:1)
Web based gallery (Score:5, Interesting)
For a good web gallery app try coppermine [chezgreg.net].
Re:Web based gallery (Score:1)
http://gallery.menalto.com/
Save time (Score:2, Funny)
Pub offers snaps and shots? (Score:2, Funny)
ok the UK has it, why not BW3 here in the States? (Score:2, Troll)
Yay, now just bring it to the States in OUR bars and I will be thrilled.
Re:ok the UK has it, why not BW3 here in the State (Score:4, Informative)
The Foundry Ale Works [foundryaleworks.com], a local brewpub, partnered with Telerama [telerama.com] to provide wireless access. The access has been free for the last few months as a trial period, but next month they'll start charging. Telerama has wired up a lot of hotspots around Pittsburgh, including several cafes and restaurants.
The first time I used the Foundry's wireless access, I helped the cute bartender study for an exam. The next time I came by with co-workers, she bought us a round of beers. This wireless thing just might take off after all.
Upskirt? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Upskirt? (Score:3, Funny)
It's more likely there will be pictures of people getting drunk and fighting each other.
And yes I do live in London.
Re:Upskirt? (Score:2)
Rus
Re:Upskirt? (Score:3, Flamebait)
Re:Upskirt? (Score:2)
Sure, you could argue that this should be no problem for a bunch of adults. But after a few weeks of up-skirt photos and goatse uploads, the place will start looking like Hooters - no women except for the employeees.
Re:Upskirt? (Score:1)
Re:Upskirt? (Score:1)
One (Score:2)
Re:One (Score:2)
Re:One (Score:2)
Thank goodness for technology... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thank goodness for technology... (Score:2)
ObLink:
How many would it take? [howmanywouldittake.com]
Re:Thank goodness for technology... (Score:1, Funny)
Dude1: Dude, she was a Wookie, and you know it.
Dude2: She wasn't that bad.
Dude1: LOOK.
Dude2: Point taken. You should have stopped me.
Re:Thank goodness for technology... (Score:1)
Re:Thank goodness for technology... (Score:1)
WiFi Image Capture (Score:4, Interesting)
My company currently runs their WiFi with no WEP encryption at all and I figured it would be a dramatic way to show the higher ups how easy it is to steal info from a wireless network.
Re:WiFi Image Capture (Score:2)
There is another application, also not specifically for wireless called driftnet that will grab images off the network and show them in a window. Kinda neat, in a scrapbook-collage sort of way.
Re:WiFi Image Capture (Score:1)
Re:WiFi Image Capture (Score:4, Informative)
You are thinking of Driftnet [ex-parrot.com]. And this is not limited to wireless networks without WEP. Once you have the WEP key (trivial if you work at the origanization, slightly less than trivial if not), you still receive all packets travelling across the network. Much like a hub, which will also work with Driftnet. Certain cable networks allow you to see peers within your local segment too.
Driftnet by itself is slightly limited display-wise. It does have a basic realtime image viewer, but I've found that plugging it into xscreensaver [jwz.org] is much more enjoyable.
Re:WiFi Image Capture (Score:1)
If youve got a HUB && GNU/Linux @ work -- you MUST have a look at driftnet.
I turned it off after i saw the pics of a butch-cross dresser in period costumes. brrrr.
Re:WiFi Image Capture (Score:2)
Anyone know where to find a Windows version of this?
Let's get it over with (Score:5, Funny)
When I can see if my dog is out eating poop in the back yard across her webcam toting, pringles can antenna/802.11b utility collar, all from the comforts of my fridge mounted display, I'll be in good shape.
Gallery (Score:3, Funny)
Rus
LocustWorld (Score:2)
Rus
Don't drink and surf! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:look out (Score:1)
School Disco (Score:1, Interesting)
Would it be a Beerowolf cluster? (Score:2)
Mmm, great. (Score:5, Insightful)
Thanks, but no thanks. Pubs, IMHO, are for beer and conversation. I find them pleasant precisely because I'm not plugged in, wired up and in constant electronic communication with the world and its dog.
That said, the Progress bar is already pretty loud and flashy, and has little in the way of decent beer, so there's little to lose.
Re:Mmm, great. (Score:5, Interesting)
I agree. Unfortunately most city centre landlords think they are for drinking lager and 'listening' to deafening chart / dance music.
Bring back the pub with a TV (sound down) in the corner where the loudest thing is the barmans shirt and it takes you longer to pick a beer than decide wether to nudge!
Re:Mmm, great. (Score:1)
Re:Mmm, great. (Score:2)
Another benefit is that the older clientelle can demand the younguns read out on screen info - like scores, news headlines etc... Great for knackering an intimate moment!
Snooker is particularly good on a sound down TV. Quietly hypnotic
Re:Mmm, great. (Score:1)
Pubs are for chilling out/relaxing because the week has been shitty!
Re:Mmm, great. (Score:2)
Surely it's more for the *ahem*Merchant Bankers*ahem*
Re:Mmm, great. (Score:2)
Hmmmm (Score:4, Funny)
--K.
Re:Hmmmm (Score:1)
I wonder (Score:3, Redundant)
Beer and bluetooth (Score:1)
(Geek is drinking a beer, and a girl comes up to him for some reason)
Girl: Hello...
Geek (who has been drinking, so is tipsy.. plus he's been looking at a lot of porno before coming to the pub): Hey baby.. how about I plug my input device into your USB port and upload my data to your harddrive?
Girl: O_O Bastard! (girl slaps geek, throws his beer on him. this causes display screen to go crazy) *ERROR ERRO
New bar games galore! (Score:5, Interesting)
"Am I Drunk or Not?" - you take a picture of yourself/friend/stranger and post it. In true reality TV style, the whole bar votes on whether the pictur-ee is a) as drunk as they think they are, b) drunker, or c) not drunk enough. Much hilarity and yelling ensues!
"Shot Shots" - take a picture of a shot of something, put into the picture rotation. Whenever it comes up, everybody drinks one
"Hot Shots" - variation, but with a picture of a particularly attractive patron. Assuming there are some. The chance of "hot" being "hot" decreases as the night goes on
"Who's ____ is that?" - take a picture of a random body part of someone
any more ideas?
Re:New bar games galore! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:New bar games galore! (Score:1)
Voting on the best pic (Score:5, Insightful)
The Prophet Margin
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yep, she's nekkid (Score:1)
Oh, those sweater puppies are most definately real! Makes you proud to be American...
The Prophet Margin
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As if it wasn't easy enough... (Score:1)
It's a conspiracy.
Seriously, though... (Score:1)
which place you'd like to hang out and toss
back a few beers??
pubs with free access points. It'd just be
a bonus if the place you like to hang out at
would do this.
I mean, the internet and beer just BELONG together! haha
WiFi & Beer (Score:1)
Re:WiFi & Beer (Score:2)
Ordering Beer.... (Score:1)
Blue teeth are one thing in a bar... just don't want to see the other blue parts that might be hiding out in a bar late at night.
Karaoke just aint good enough any more... (Score:1)
Is it really a free hotspot? (Score:2, Insightful)
Bluetooth beer monitoring (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bluetooth beer monitoring (Score:2)
I think it would be far better to have a computerized tap station where you swipe your smartcard or iButton and get your drink and get billed at the same time. The Bartenders Unions might not like that and there's no cute wait
Re:Bluetooth beer monitoring (Score:1)
That would be appaling for the quality of the beer. Better off having a waitress system whereby you can order drinks from your table (perhaps with 10% service charge) and have them brought to you...
Re:Bluetooth beer monitoring (Score:1)
Like beer-tapping gone horibly wrong. Start hitting your buddy's refill buzzer when he's draining the lizard! Wait, I'm seeing a drinking game here...
Hm. (Score:2)
Does anyone know if this customer-based web-enabled bluetooth solution set new paradigms for the 21st century?
- A.P.
maybe i am missing the point (Score:1)
besides does anyone really want to risk lookin up from your pint to see teh goatse.cx ? yes i'm talking
fyi =) (Score:1)
from the article: Controlled Entropy Ventures is seeking investors to expand the lounge into different markets. The company says it expects to expand overseas in London.
i dunno about the wi-fi stuff tho. if this is the same company it may be jumping the gun a bit. afterall, the press love buzzwords like that.
Bluetooth Developer Kit? (Score:3, Interesting)
name (Score:2)
I like the fact it is called the Progess Bar.
Right up there with the excellent band My Computer.
Its down in my old haunt of Tufnell Park, will suggest it for the next Lonix meeting (a change from hacking the wifi at Wagamama anyway).
haha (Score:2)
Man, some intersting stuff is bound to appear on the screen.
Beer and Bluetooth? (Score:2)