this would be pretty cool if it were a touch screen, and you could alter the stats shown, and the view/layout from the touch screen. heck, i'd buy one if it did that. fully customizable, multi-view, touch-screen operated system monitor? screw it, i'm gunna stick with watching syslog on the spare monitor...
I don't follow these biometics threads too often. Is there some kind of risk involved, in having some bit of information on a driver's license, that proves you are the person to whom it was issued? As far as I'm concerned, this is bad if its not your license, and good if it is. I for one, have had my license turned down because I cut my hair; denied services because my apperance changed enough over the course of five years, for people to be unsure that I was who I calmed to be.
Yes, people will forge this stuff, and there will still be theft of information, and this stuff getting sold, but is there any NEW danger to having this sort of information included with your picture, height, and weight?
I will, unless somebody can show me a downside to this, welcome it. I will never be anonymous, but I still manage to lead a private life, and I think that a large amount of this overreaction, is due to people not realising that these are two very different concepts.
I will never wear gloves in public because I am affraid somebody might know what my fingerprints look like.
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everybody should have this, and use it as often as possible, perticularly where it shouldn't be used
how long do you think they will continue if they get flooded with false reports, or claims that things like downloads.com are pirates...
a 10% drop in sales is obviously due to internet file swapping! the economics downturn of 2001 could not possibly effect music sales! you're crazy for thinking music sales wouldn't go UP when people go unemployed!
1. I would think that we should support what ever technology get us to our goals, and abandon this MacArthyist view of 'all or nothing.'
2. Most people, I believe, will initially support a mixed system more openly than a homogenous system consisting entirely of alien componants.
3 You will find that people are more likely to adopt principles of your belief struture if you have a well thought out plan that weens people away from the less desireble behaviors.
4. Money will only get you in the door, votes carry you over the distance; things need to look like a good move for politicians to appear to support publically before any kind of lobbying will be sucessful.
5. Remember, the actual merits don't matter as much as the spin.
        "By not changing channels now you agree to pay for the service(s) and/or product(s) described in the following program(s)."
        Would this not be a form of opt-out?
        Glad I don't fall asleep with the T.V. on if opt-out is a valid option for advertisers.
you can tie the thing to an atm card, which should allow you to manage that sort of thing.
also when you get your speedpass it comes with a number that is unique to it, so if there are weird charges, you can talk to your bank and also deactivate that specific speedpass, and start using a spare. as such, emulating would do no good, since mobile wouldn't be able to bill a number which is not attached to an account.
if you wanted to get sneaky (which is both immoral and illegal), use a credit card number generator to give mobile a number and have it shipped some where other than your house (that way when the feds come looking for you, you'll have an extra 45 minutes to make peace with you gods before they kill you in a hail of bullets for ccf).
but anybody who would do that sort of thing deserves what they get, and would already have thought about this...
yeah, it occured to me that they could track my purchases. heaven forbid mobile discovers that i buy gas, or mcdonalds discovers that i eat food.
speedpass is a convenience item, that is linked to one of your four credit cards. it gives you the knowledge that if you can start your car up, you can get enough gas to make it home (since the little speedpass thing attaches to your key chain).
besides, if you wanted to get paranoid, you'd think about how each speedpass reacts to a certain radio transmittion by emmitting a unique string of numbers, which could theoretically allow speedpass carriers to be covertly tracked by government agencies whom have access to satelites...
so i had a speedpass a while back when i worked for mobile. it was very conventient, i filled up when i left work.
one day i very carefully used some fingernail clippers to open one of those suckers up and remove the glass 'pill' inside. i put it onto a peice of duct tape, which i then folded over. finally, i ripped a small section of my jacket cuff open, and stapled in the speedpass peice of duct tape. after mending the jacket i could then just put my hand up to the speedpass pump tranceiver and get gas.
the thing worked beutifully until i took a spill and broke the speedpass bits. but it was very nice to have that there, very low profile.
mutant means that there is some kind of mutation. it does not mean exposed to radition. being exposed to radiation does not mean will something mutate. lastly mutant most assuredly does not mean sterile. pick the word that you actually mean, not the one that will get more people to read an article. the first word in/.'s subtitle is "news," not "sensationalism."
if this were something new, maybe i'd care. apple will not port OSX to intel; their users wouldn't forgive them. mac people are, to be frank, stuck-up. there is no room in the world of macintosh for "the rest of us."
i wonder if bill gates and teddy kenedy are old drinking buddies or something, cause the last bit of poll rigging i saw with this kinda stink to it was when jack went to the white house.
i'm very interested in this "trusted clock." what do they mean by trusted clock? do people not trust their clocks now? mines never given me any troubles, but maybe other people are having trouble. i think i want to get this DRMOS so that i won't have to worry about ever not trusting my clock. i'd hate to have to use three clocks in a voting system just to know the time. this idea is a god sent!
not that its the first to do it either, but that been done since the first non-beta release of aqua (front end of Macintosh OS X). my IM app infact will pan windows with unviewed messages in and out of transparency, its pretty cool. in fact all around, darwin/mach is pretty cool.
so the idea is that if software engineers have to be licenced, then when i want to do some softwaredesign, i must pay somebody a shit load of money to wave a wand over my haed and say "you are a enjinear now!."
forgive me, but forcing people to need a licence to write anything was something a brought up a long time ago because i thought it was rediculous. now people are seriously saying that we should licence speech?
the idea of a standard repository would not be a terrible idea. iw ould love to see something like this, but heres is how i would want it done:
1. no BS membership, knowledge should be free. its not like they will have paid people for the knowledge, so i can't be expected to pay either, not even if the payment is in the form of my email address being sold.
2. it needs to be set up properly. cross-referncing language specifics stuff with fundimental concepts, and rudimentary ideas.
3. easy to navigate on any browser. those who do not have J. Q. Webmater's favorite browser should not be excluded. remember lots of blind people rely on text browsers.
4. it must be maitained. on a volenteer basis (so that it can never be shut down with any ease), people should maintain the information contained. its no goodif its not up to date.
5. it must play music from my favorite early 80's video game while i'm at the page, but only when i'm in a good mood.
my gut says this is another really cool idea that will either never happen, or be perverted along the way for the sake of money.
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i think this is one of the best 'gutting of the $product' i've ever seen. it denotes at least a small amount of research, and the color coding legends were a very cool idea. i'd love to see this kinda well thought out gutting done more often.
why i use grub.
i used to use LILO, but after forgetting to run lilo after a compile one time too many i started to ask around. grub doesn't have to be run after every little change i make to my kernel. grub has a very simple selection method. it understands ext2fs, and will autocomplete if you want to search for some kernel in the bash-like shell. i can edit the menu file with easy, and even from the bootloader its self.
in a word, options. with grub i can push kernel arguments without going through the pain of hitting tab, typing out the kernel name, hoping that i rmembered to rerun/sbin/lilo, and then doing kernel arguments. grub makes it easy, and elegent.unless you have no good kernels, its hard to fuck yourself with grub.
try it, tell me i'm wrong. please, i have a feeling, that if you are willing to be objective about it, you will see where grub supercedes lilo. at least give it a try, theres a reason that many of the big name distros either are changing over to grub, or already have.
you need to address two things before you continue to complain:
one - the name of the series is STAR TREK, as in to TREK across the STARs. the very name implies exploration.
two - the last time they tried getting creative, we ended up with voyager and DS9. i really hope that they can remain UNcreative, because it means that the writers will mature, and the series has a shot at not sucking a whole bunch...
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new approach? what about there old approach? they kept me from pirating their music already by placing it well below my "crap tolerance threshold."
this would be pretty cool if it were a touch screen, and you could alter the stats shown, and the view/layout from the touch screen. heck, i'd buy one if it did that. fully customizable, multi-view, touch-screen operated system monitor? screw it, i'm gunna stick with watching syslog on the spare monitor...
I don't follow these biometics threads too often. Is there some kind of risk involved, in having some bit of information on a driver's license, that proves you are the person to whom it was issued? As far as I'm concerned, this is bad if its not your license, and good if it is. I for one, have had my license turned down because I cut my hair; denied services because my apperance changed enough over the course of five years, for people to be unsure that I was who I calmed to be.
Yes, people will forge this stuff, and there will still be theft of information, and this stuff getting sold, but is there any NEW danger to having this sort of information included with your picture, height, and weight?
I will, unless somebody can show me a downside to this, welcome it. I will never be anonymous, but I still manage to lead a private life, and I think that a large amount of this overreaction, is due to people not realising that these are two very different concepts.
I will never wear gloves in public because I am affraid somebody might know what my fingerprints look like.
everybody should have this, and use it as often as possible, perticularly where it shouldn't be used
how long do you think they will continue if they get flooded with false reports, or claims that things like downloads.com are pirates...
a 10% drop in sales is obviously due to internet file swapping! the economics downturn of 2001 could not possibly effect music sales! you're crazy for thinking music sales wouldn't go UP when people go unemployed!
Ok, Open Source is nice and all, but:
1. I would think that we should support what ever technology get us to our goals, and abandon this MacArthyist view of 'all or nothing.'
2. Most people, I believe, will initially support a mixed system more openly than a homogenous system consisting entirely of alien componants.
3 You will find that people are more likely to adopt principles of your belief struture if you have a well thought out plan that weens people away from the less desireble behaviors.
4. Money will only get you in the door, votes carry you over the distance; things need to look like a good move for politicians to appear to support publically before any kind of lobbying will be sucessful.
5. Remember, the actual merits don't matter as much as the spin.
        Would this not be a form of opt-out?
        Glad I don't fall asleep with the T.V. on if opt-out is a valid option for advertisers.
does any body have a link to the original document? or has it only been quoted, and not actually published verbatem?
the bbc article has some insights that many of the other lack, a good read.
you can tie the thing to an atm card, which should allow you to manage that sort of thing.
also when you get your speedpass it comes with a number that is unique to it, so if there are weird charges, you can talk to your bank and also deactivate that specific speedpass, and start using a spare. as such, emulating would do no good, since mobile wouldn't be able to bill a number which is not attached to an account.
if you wanted to get sneaky (which is both immoral and illegal), use a credit card number generator to give mobile a number and have it shipped some where other than your house (that way when the feds come looking for you, you'll have an extra 45 minutes to make peace with you gods before they kill you in a hail of bullets for ccf).
but anybody who would do that sort of thing deserves what they get, and would already have thought about this...
yeah, it occured to me that they could track my purchases. heaven forbid mobile discovers that i buy gas, or mcdonalds discovers that i eat food.
speedpass is a convenience item, that is linked to one of your four credit cards. it gives you the knowledge that if you can start your car up, you can get enough gas to make it home (since the little speedpass thing attaches to your key chain).
besides, if you wanted to get paranoid, you'd think about how each speedpass reacts to a certain radio transmittion by emmitting a unique string of numbers, which could theoretically allow speedpass carriers to be covertly tracked by government agencies whom have access to satelites...
so i had a speedpass a while back when i worked for mobile. it was very conventient, i filled up when i left work.
one day i very carefully used some fingernail clippers to open one of those suckers up and remove the glass 'pill' inside. i put it onto a peice of duct tape, which i then folded over. finally, i ripped a small section of my jacket cuff open, and stapled in the speedpass peice of duct tape. after mending the jacket i could then just put my hand up to the speedpass pump tranceiver and get gas.
the thing worked beutifully until i took a spill and broke the speedpass bits. but it was very nice to have that there, very low profile.
mutant means that there is some kind of mutation. it does not mean exposed to radition. being exposed to radiation does not mean will something mutate. lastly mutant most assuredly does not mean sterile. pick the word that you actually mean, not the one that will get more people to read an article. the first word in /.'s subtitle is "news," not "sensationalism."
lets lay yellow journalism to rest...
if this were something new, maybe i'd care. apple will not port OSX to intel; their users wouldn't forgive them. mac people are, to be frank, stuck-up. there is no room in the world of macintosh for "the rest of us."
maybe they should rename the article, "Scientist take yet another grainy-ass picture of something in outter space, rest of world uninterested."
i wonder if bill gates and teddy kenedy are old drinking buddies or something, cause the last bit of poll rigging i saw with this kinda stink to it was when jack went to the white house.
i'm very interested in this "trusted clock." what do they mean by trusted clock? do people not trust their clocks now? mines never given me any troubles, but maybe other people are having trouble. i think i want to get this DRMOS so that i won't have to worry about ever not trusting my clock. i'd hate to have to use three clocks in a voting system just to know the time. this idea is a god sent!
not that its the first to do it either, but that been done since the first non-beta release of aqua (front end of Macintosh OS X). my IM app infact will pan windows with unviewed messages in and out of transparency, its pretty cool. in fact all around, darwin/mach is pretty cool.
so the idea is that if software engineers have to be licenced, then when i want to do some softwaredesign, i must pay somebody a shit load of money to wave a wand over my haed and say "you are a enjinear now!."
forgive me, but forcing people to need a licence to write anything was something a brought up a long time ago because i thought it was rediculous. now people are seriously saying that we should licence speech?
the idea of a standard repository would not be a terrible idea. iw ould love to see something like this, but heres is how i would want it done:
1. no BS membership, knowledge should be free. its not like they will have paid people for the knowledge, so i can't be expected to pay either, not even if the payment is in the form of my email address being sold.
2. it needs to be set up properly. cross-referncing language specifics stuff with fundimental concepts, and rudimentary ideas.
3. easy to navigate on any browser. those who do not have J. Q. Webmater's favorite browser should not be excluded. remember lots of blind people rely on text browsers.
4. it must be maitained. on a volenteer basis (so that it can never be shut down with any ease), people should maintain the information contained. its no goodif its not up to date.
5. it must play music from my favorite early 80's video game while i'm at the page, but only when i'm in a good mood.
my gut says this is another really cool idea that will either never happen, or be perverted along the way for the sake of money.
we saw this article sept 15.
i think this is one of the best 'gutting of the $product' i've ever seen. it denotes at least a small amount of research, and the color coding legends were a very cool idea. i'd love to see this kinda well thought out gutting done more often.
good job!
why i use grub.
/sbin/lilo, and then doing kernel arguments. grub makes it easy, and elegent.unless you have no good kernels, its hard to fuck yourself with grub.
i used to use LILO, but after forgetting to run lilo after a compile one time too many i started to ask around. grub doesn't have to be run after every little change i make to my kernel. grub has a very simple selection method. it understands ext2fs, and will autocomplete if you want to search for some kernel in the bash-like shell. i can edit the menu file with easy, and even from the bootloader its self.
in a word, options. with grub i can push kernel arguments without going through the pain of hitting tab, typing out the kernel name, hoping that i rmembered to rerun
try it, tell me i'm wrong. please, i have a feeling, that if you are willing to be objective about it, you will see where grub supercedes lilo. at least give it a try, theres a reason that many of the big name distros either are changing over to grub, or already have.
how the hell did they get you to wear that grey thing on TNG? i hope you got a lot of cash for that.
your an idiot.
yeah, thats how it works, very convinient. never really thought about it from a security stand-point.
you need to address two things before you continue to complain:
one - the name of the series is STAR TREK, as in to TREK across the STARs. the very name implies exploration.
two - the last time they tried getting creative, we ended up with voyager and DS9. i really hope that they can remain UNcreative, because it means that the writers will mature, and the series has a shot at not sucking a whole bunch...