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Originally Posted by vincent_richter
Nope, just insanely cheap, as any good researcher should be (I believe the more common term is "frugal")! Why pick up a $20 cable that requires further effort to map, when DB9s can easily be salvaged and have thoroughly mapped pinouts? 
Seems a little like buying a mugger the knife he uses to rob you.
If you can take the end device out of the equation, but still deliver the expected result, think of how surprised the subject will be when they get face-slapped out of the ether!  |
Unfortunately there doesn't exist any means to generate force at a remote location without a mechanism to provide that force. So unless you come up with a way to circumvent the laws of physics you're going to have to settle for having a physical object on the other end to deliver the blow.