{"id":9699,"date":"2014-04-03T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-03T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:41:09","slug":"fascinated_by_the_firechat_app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/04\/03\/fascinated_by_the_firechat_app\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinated by the FireChat App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/59291\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, I\u2019ll just tell you. What the hell! I\u2019ve run cross an app on my iPhone called FireChat. Now I\u2019ve done it.  I\u2019ve done it.  It\u2019s a free app.  It is being downloaded like gangbusters because, A, it\u2019s free. But also because it uses a new kind of way to communicate.  Android has it, too.  With iOS 7, Apple introduced something called Multipeer Connectivity.  You do not have to be connected to the Internet in order to use it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s a little bit more complicated than that, but the point that I want to make is, I downloaded it just for the fun of it, and it\u2019s depressing.  You are communicating&#8230; Anybody in the world who downloads the app can post anything to it they want, and it is the bottom of the barrel. It is the most depressing stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You will find out exactly how stupid the people surrounding you are.  Now, the way the Multipeer Connectivity works, if I can explain this correctly (I\u2019m gonna give it a shot), is two iPhones can connect to each other directly via this app without having an Internet connection.  It happens over Wi-Fi and over Bluetooth 4.0.  Now, if one of those two people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id719829352?mt=8&#038;&#038;referrer=click%3Dacf9f185-d3a4-4345-be74-c9a1eb25e2a3\"><img id=\"eZObject_89501\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/FireChatApp.jpg\"\/><\/a>Follow me on this. If one of those two people happens to be connected to the Internet, so is the other one, mobile, by virtue of being connected with the first phone. So you can have a number of people not connected to the Internet in a chain where only one person is, through Multipeer Connectivity.  In this way, for example, if you had a bunch of people flying with you on an airplane, you could connect to them.<\/p>\n<p>You could have a chat with them on this app without being connected to the Internet, as long as you are within 30 feet of each other.  That\u2019s the range that it has. I\u2019m sure they&#8230; I\u2019m not gonna give you my screen name.  I came up with a screen name.  I asked the first time I got on, &#8220;What do you think the average IQ on this app is?&#8221;  It came back, &#8220;Nineteen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fascinating thing technologically.  It\u2019s also fascinating to just read it.  I mean, every other post is obscenity here, obscenity there. It\u2019s the bottom of the barrel.  But that\u2019s just because it\u2019s new.  Here\u2019s the thing about it that makes it intriguing to people.  It makes the device, your iPhone, a transceiver without an Internet connection if you\u2019re within 30 feet of somebody that also has the app.<\/p>\n<p>So you can be on a camping trip, for example &#8212; you could be out in the middle of nowhere &#8212; and still connect to people and chat with them as long as they\u2019re within 30 feet of you. If one of those 30 people or one of those people in your chain happens to be connected to the Internet, then all of you are.  Multipeer Connectivity Protocol is what it\u2019s called, and it\u2019s causing people to download this app left and right. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the developers, there are two places you can go.  You have everybody on nearby, and there will be nobody on it unless one of your friends is within 30 feet of you. So you\u2019re connected to everybody around the world.  Now, the developers are behind the scenes limiting you to, oh, some sort of proximity. (interruption) No, they can\u2019t get in and get your stuff that way.  The hackers can\u2019t get in and get your stuff that way. <\/p>\n<p>They can just connect to your app. They\u2019re not given access to the device.  It\u2019s just a connectivity protocol. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the reason I brought this app up is to draw the distinction between the intellectual left and the hoi polloi left.  You knew I was gonna do that.  You know, I should have followed my gut and not mentioned it. (interruption) Oh, they\u2019re thanking me for mentioning it? <\/p>\n<p>Okay.  Well, folks, I don\u2019t want you to be confused on something here about this app.  You are all connected to the Internet using it right now.  That\u2019s the point.  But using the app on the &#8220;nearby&#8221; tab, that only applies if you have somebody you know who has the app and is within 30 feet of you.  So, Snerdley, if I turned on my phone and fired that app right now, you would show up and I would show up in your &#8220;nearby&#8221; tab.<\/p>\n<p>You could tap on that, and you and I could connect direct phone to phone, not through the Internet.  That\u2019s what Multipeer Connectivity is.  And that\u2019s why it\u2019s private, by the way. If you want, you could have a totally private conversation. Nothing is on the Internet when you connect that way.  There\u2019s all kinds of potential for this, is why this app is exciting to people.  The Multipeer Connectivity Protocol is what it\u2019s called.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  There are loads of Dittoheads out there on FireChat.  I just checked it during the break.  They\u2019re all saying, &#8220;Hey!&#8221; They\u2019re all saying, &#8220;Hi, what\u2019s up.&#8221; They\u2019re all identifying where they\u2019re from and what station they\u2019re listening to, and they\u2019re all across the fruited plain, dominating FireChat.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Oh, I\u2019ll just tell you. What the hell! I\u2019ve run cross an app on my iPhone called FireChat. Now I\u2019ve done it. I\u2019ve done it. It\u2019s a free app. It is being downloaded like gangbusters because, A, it\u2019s free. But also because it uses a new kind of way to communicate. 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