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NYT on RFID Tags
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Yes, it could be a pain in the ass.
At least at first the smaller chains and indie stores will use these as RFID anti theft.
I'll go out on a limb and say there will be incompatabilities, now if Victoria's Secret leaves thier RFID transmitting and someone goes into Spencer Gifts or the local game store and thier RFID/theft gates are only picking up a transmission as sign of theft, then theres going to be a pain in the ass for retailers and shoppers.
Re:is this really a privacy concern?
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NYT on RFID Tags
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The anti-theft tags are deactivated after you pay, so why wouldn't these?
Imagine the pain the ass a mall full of RFID tags would be, because of course the stores are going to use them as anti-theft to kill two birds with one stone.
Daily Star of Beruit, J-Post, Drudge, BBC, National Review, Global Security, Janes, CNN, Fox, Eagle Butte News, the Nation, MSNBC, North Korean News, and the list goes on.
I pick and figure out my point of view for the world from all these sources.
That said, the mainstream media (CNN, Reuters, ABC, NBC, CBS) do have a slant towards the left. While there are some conservative editorialists at CNN or MSNBC they are religated to 30 hour or 1 hour "crossfire" pieces.
Another slant can be seen because of the way they treat "Conservatives" and the way they treat "Liberal" causes views in interviews or news pieces.
An example from this month
On February 5: While other networks found Colin Powell?s UN presentation moving public opinion toward war, Jennings could only dwell on doubts: ?Many people will believe the Secretary of State today and some will not.? After George Stephanopoulos said even Democrats were ?impressed? with Powell, Jennings tried to rebut: ?Let me add a note of skepticism. Does this mean they were impressed with substance or performance??
Tom Brokaw onLate Night with Conan O'Brien, the NBC News anchor joked that the Bush administration raised the terror alert level to orange for ?high? and are advising American to not congregate in large groups ?because they may be trying to discourage anti-war protests.?
What the hell is that? It's bias.
Anti abortion activists are reported on as if they were mass murderers while terror groups like Hamas are treated as if thier views are acceptable.
That's bias.
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Salon Asks for Help
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Thats why the are tanking.
It's the Internet, why do you need a fancy ass place with SF, NYC, DC?
Content matters, not office digs.
Look at someone like Global Security.org, some of the best technical information on the military this side of Janes. Ran out of a basement and a garage office.
Salon didn't need the fancy digs, they should have slammed the cash into writers and worked out of a little office park in Oakland. Why have a nice office space when for a million dollars they could have set everyone up in the company with video confrencing and T1s.
"It's astounding how often these classes are ignored."
- In my school the "smart kids" were actively discouraged from taking these classes. So I was pushed into bullshit classes and it wasn't until I was a senior that I had schedule choice except taking Drafting. Well that was funner than hell and eventually I switched things around and spent the last two hours of the day down in the Wood Shop. By the middle of the first quarter I was teaching other kids how to use the AST 386 with MiniCAD how to do 3D and hook it to the CAM lathe.
The greatest disservice my High School did was keep people away from shop classes.
The big Desktops out there Windows, Classic Mac, Aqua, KDE, Gnome - of them the only two IMHO that aren't configurable to the point a user gets in trouble are Classic Mac and Aqua.
Classic Mac is a little too static, I much prefer Aqua to anything else.
It's open to tweaking if the inner geek wants to tweak it, but for the normal user/student/professional it's just right. A user can fart around with things in the Dock to the point where they think they are really making themselves a custom computer and they don't crap up the desktop with icons.
They can't stretch out the Dock and make it take up the screen like one can with the Start bar in Windows, nor can they accidently click and move the mouse and have the bar magically go to a side or the top.
Apple did some...dumb things with Aqua as Jef Rankin has pointed out, but for the most part it's the least shitty Desktop out there.
I downloaded and then paid for Kofab last week, as did a couple friends.
I really like it and there are starting to be some really neat Widgets.
PowerMate Battery widget so far is the neatest one. Have a PowerMate, hook it to the Powerbook and use the widget to have the PowerMate tell you how charged the battery is as it sits over on it's CoolPad and recharges.
The United States, Russia, China, India, Israel, Japan and the EU should handle it since they are the ones launching and orbiting objects.
US Space Command does the tracking and while the US/EU/Russia/Eastern Europe have a long history of trust and verification on a number of Arms Treaties so there is no point in bringing anyone else in.
Syria or Upper Volta don't need to be a member of a UN Committee to make decrees on issues they have no practical knowledge of.
The UN puts Syria on Human Rights Committees and Iraq on Disarmament Committees - my faith in the UN has been shaken.
If an America hunk of junk hits a Cosmos ROSAT or a Russian paint fleck takes out a Shuttle, thats between the countries that launch, not Qatar and East Timor.
Actually, the tech advancements during the Second World War were for the most part NOT from spying*.
As early as 1938 governments and scientists stopped publishing papers.
The Anglo-American atomic projects did not gain from anything the Germans or Japanese did from 1939-1945, nor did the Germans or Japanese gain from the Anglo-American projects with the exception of knowing something big was going on because papers stopped being published.
The "doom of death from war" did accelerate the spending on infrastructure in the US, but the basic knowledge of how to start a pile, the physics and chemistry behind the bomb were already known. All the war did was open government coffers and gave money to so things already known were mass produced.
* - The Soviet Union did make great strides from spying.
I used to run OS X on a 1997 G3 tower day to day, and now that box is a web/file/MUSH server. Just throw some ram at the iBook. I've got a 400 G3 Powerbook here with 10.2.4 and it runs great.
The white iBooks all run OS X well, but the AlPowerbook 12" will do better.
During the Second World War journals weren't publishing advances in nuclear physics or chemistry because everything was being classified, yet it was a period of rapid technology advancements.
The Apple laptops, eMac and iMacs don't have upgradable video cards.
The towers however have a 4x AGP bus and 4 PCI card slots.
While the iMacs can't take extra internal hard disks, Firewire kind of eliminates that problem, my 17" iMac has 3 80GB drives in external cases in addition to my 20GB iPod and a 30GB portable drive.
Ben and Jerry's isn't a nice friendly company any longer.
It's a division of Unilever
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/710694.stm While everything over at Benjerry.com makes you think all is happy and hippy in Vermont, the whole thing is a division of a Anglo-Dutch multinational.
I'd take the Apple II for word processing if it spell-checked and printed to a laser.
No fan and they run for decades.
I know of some K-12s that use them for 1-3 keyboarding and little games and the computers have run since the day they were installed. Expect when the janitors unplug them without turning them off in the summer when it comes time to clean the rooms.
If I buy a P4 Dell tomarrow and plug it in, will it be running in 2013?
An Apple II or a 386 AST will run non-stop for 10, 15, 20 years.
Because theres some jackass with an office and a budget, and if he doesn't spend like a madman he'll be "downsized" or "demoted".
So he's got to spend and Microsoft loves these guys, they ramp out new software so these people can pay them money and get paid themselves.
And if the guy with the budget doesn't want to upgrade from Win 2K to XP, then third-party vendors get into the act, with bug fixes that are in the new version that only works with XP or 2000 Server.
If NT 4 SP6 or the rumored SP7 had USB support loads of places would have sat there and eventually the users would have figured it out.
I don't consider good credit as a job requirement for working in the finance industry.
I'm sure that Ken Lay and the board of Enron all had stellar credit. I'm sure some fucknut down at Smith Barney who was getting paid to hype crap stocks also had great credit.
Credit History doesn't matter, it's knowledge of the subject that matters.
Say Bob the Shitty-Credit loan officer was 21 met a great girl, put a ring on credit, something happened ring got lost and he had to declare bankruptcy or his credit got hosed. Now he's a smart guy, knows how things work.
You going to deny him employment in his field because he's got crap credit?
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Yes, it could be a pain in the ass.
At least at first the smaller chains and indie stores will use these as RFID anti theft.
I'll go out on a limb and say there will be incompatabilities, now if Victoria's Secret leaves thier RFID transmitting and someone goes into Spencer Gifts or the local game store and thier RFID/theft gates are only picking up a transmission as sign of theft, then theres going to be a pain in the ass for retailers and shoppers.
The anti-theft tags are deactivated after you pay, so why wouldn't these?
Imagine the pain the ass a mall full of RFID tags would be, because of course the stores are going to use them as anti-theft to kill two birds with one stone.
I've got Ha'aretz bookmarked, along with the english paper out of Cairo.
:)
I think the Post's coverage is getting worse.
The Star is a good paper, but one can tell the stories that Assad has ghostwritten
The NK News is as good of news source as the Onion if one is looking for real events.
I used to have a African news source bookmarked but I've miss placed it. Do a look for news on Zim or the Congo.
I get my news from everywhere.
Daily Star of Beruit, J-Post, Drudge, BBC, National Review, Global Security, Janes, CNN, Fox, Eagle Butte News, the Nation, MSNBC, North Korean News, and the list goes on.
I pick and figure out my point of view for the world from all these sources.
That said, the mainstream media (CNN, Reuters, ABC, NBC, CBS) do have a slant towards the left. While there are some conservative editorialists at CNN or MSNBC they are religated to 30 hour or 1 hour "crossfire" pieces.
Another slant can be seen because of the way they treat "Conservatives" and the way they treat "Liberal" causes views in interviews or news pieces.
An example from this month
On February 5: While other networks found Colin Powell?s UN presentation moving public opinion toward war, Jennings could only dwell on doubts: ?Many people will believe the Secretary of State today and some will not.? After George Stephanopoulos said even Democrats were ?impressed? with Powell, Jennings tried to rebut: ?Let me add a note of skepticism. Does this mean they were impressed with substance or performance??
Tom Brokaw onLate Night with Conan O'Brien, the NBC News anchor joked that the Bush administration raised the terror alert level to orange for ?high? and are advising American to not congregate in large groups ?because they may be trying to discourage anti-war protests.?
What the hell is that? It's bias.
Anti abortion activists are reported on as if they were mass murderers while terror groups like Hamas are treated as if thier views are acceptable.
That's bias.
Thats why the are tanking.
It's the Internet, why do you need a fancy ass place with SF, NYC, DC?
Content matters, not office digs.
Look at someone like Global Security.org, some of the best technical information on the military this side of Janes. Ran out of a basement and a garage office.
Salon didn't need the fancy digs, they should have slammed the cash into writers and worked out of a little office park in Oakland. Why have a nice office space when for a million dollars they could have set everyone up in the company with video confrencing and T1s.
Why not buy all those tapes and CDs then?
Because I've ended up buying all the Led Zeppelin albums 3 times. Led Zeppelin through In Through the Out Door and Coda 3 frickin' times.
I was an idiot for buying stuff on tape, and then buying the first release on CD (before it was remastered).
Now I have a box of old tapes and two 300 disk changers full of CDs I've bought.
Not cause I'm a music thief...
I couldn't handle the bullshit a 17 year old chick would dish out.
I couldn't handle it then and I'm less tolerant now.
6. Take more automotive, welding and shop classes
"It's astounding how often these classes are ignored."
- In my school the "smart kids" were actively discouraged from taking these classes. So I was pushed into bullshit classes and it wasn't until I was a senior that I had schedule choice except taking Drafting. Well that was funner than hell and eventually I switched things around and spent the last two hours of the day down in the Wood Shop. By the middle of the first quarter I was teaching other kids how to use the AST 386 with MiniCAD how to do 3D and hook it to the CAM lathe.
The greatest disservice my High School did was keep people away from shop classes.
1. Get in shape - I started lifting weights too late in life and ended up hurting myself.
2. Invest in Intel, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco - 100 bucks in each company
3. Learn spanish
4. When you have that desire to drive 120 mph out on Highway 212 - don't, there might be a South Dakota Highway Patrolman there in the dark
5. Take more math classes
6. Take more automotive, welding and shop classes
7. Work to get out of high school in 3 years.
8. Girls come and go, don't get to wound up in a 17 year old chick
9. Don't buy a bunch of tapes or CDs now, Napster will come along someday
Yes, keep it like Aqua.
The big Desktops out there Windows, Classic Mac, Aqua, KDE, Gnome - of them the only two IMHO that aren't configurable to the point a user gets in trouble are Classic Mac and Aqua.
Classic Mac is a little too static, I much prefer Aqua to anything else.
It's open to tweaking if the inner geek wants to tweak it, but for the normal user/student/professional it's just right. A user can fart around with things in the Dock to the point where they think they are really making themselves a custom computer and they don't crap up the desktop with icons.
They can't stretch out the Dock and make it take up the screen like one can with the Start bar in Windows, nor can they accidently click and move the mouse and have the bar magically go to a side or the top.
Apple did some...dumb things with Aqua as Jef Rankin has pointed out, but for the most part it's the least shitty Desktop out there.
I downloaded and then paid for Kofab last week, as did a couple friends.
I really like it and there are starting to be some really neat Widgets.
PowerMate Battery widget so far is the neatest one. Have a PowerMate, hook it to the Powerbook and use the widget to have the PowerMate tell you how charged the battery is as it sits over on it's CoolPad and recharges.
Cool stuff.
Smallpox was taken care of, mostly.
The UN defended South Korea from 1950-now, but since the mid 50s it has been the US doing the work there except for the negotiations.
The UN screwed up Somalia and Bosnia.
The UN talks about things while people die and are critical of nations when they do act.
This is NOT an issue for the UN.
The United States, Russia, China, India, Israel, Japan and the EU should handle it since they are the ones launching and orbiting objects.
US Space Command does the tracking and while the US/EU/Russia/Eastern Europe have a long history of trust and verification on a number of Arms Treaties so there is no point in bringing anyone else in.
Syria or Upper Volta don't need to be a member of a UN Committee to make decrees on issues they have no practical knowledge of.
The UN puts Syria on Human Rights Committees and Iraq on Disarmament Committees - my faith in the UN has been shaken.
If an America hunk of junk hits a Cosmos ROSAT or a Russian paint fleck takes out a Shuttle, thats between the countries that launch, not Qatar and East Timor.
I grew up on the Reservation and went K-12 at Cheyenne-Eagle Butte in Eagle Butte South Dakota.
We had one of those Quiz Bowl teams where we went on the radio and competed against other school's geeks.
In the afternoons in High School they read off the announcments and always put sports scores at the end.
When they'd read our almost always asskicking victory scores, you could hear people cheering all over the high school.
Eagle Butte 230 Timber Lake 40 would get cheers
That didn't happen with any event or sport.
Actually, the tech advancements during the Second World War were for the most part NOT from spying*.
As early as 1938 governments and scientists stopped publishing papers.
The Anglo-American atomic projects did not gain from anything the Germans or Japanese did from 1939-1945, nor did the Germans or Japanese gain from the Anglo-American projects with the exception of knowing something big was going on because papers stopped being published.
The "doom of death from war" did accelerate the spending on infrastructure in the US, but the basic knowledge of how to start a pile, the physics and chemistry behind the bomb were already known. All the war did was open government coffers and gave money to so things already known were mass produced.
* - The Soviet Union did make great strides from spying.
The 12" is running an 867 and it's more than fast enough for day to day computing.
I use an 800 iMac for Final Cut Pro.
Actually, iBooks do pretty well with OS X.
I used to run OS X on a 1997 G3 tower day to day, and now that box is a web/file/MUSH server. Just throw some ram at the iBook. I've got a 400 G3 Powerbook here with 10.2.4 and it runs great.
The white iBooks all run OS X well, but the AlPowerbook 12" will do better.
Does it?
During the Second World War journals weren't publishing advances in nuclear physics or chemistry because everything was being classified, yet it was a period of rapid technology advancements.
Depends how much MS will pay me.
I've got a PC with XP sitting here, right next to my TiBook, 17" iMac, CRT iMac, G3 Powerbook, OS X Servers...
I'm sensable, I use my PC for the same things my GameCube and PS2 are for...games.
The Apple laptops, eMac and iMacs don't have upgradable video cards.
The towers however have a 4x AGP bus and 4 PCI card slots.
While the iMacs can't take extra internal hard disks, Firewire kind of eliminates that problem, my 17" iMac has 3 80GB drives in external cases in addition to my 20GB iPod and a 30GB portable drive.
Ben and Jerry's isn't a nice friendly company any longer.
It's a division of Unilever
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/710694.stm
While everything over at Benjerry.com makes you think all is happy and hippy in Vermont, the whole thing is a division of a Anglo-Dutch multinational.
I agree.
In March of 2002 I re-read TTT and listened to the book on CD while I drove cross-country.
I personally feel that TTT was the weakest of the books and I think that the changes made in the film were all for the better.
I'd take the Apple II for word processing if it spell-checked and printed to a laser.
No fan and they run for decades.
I know of some K-12s that use them for 1-3 keyboarding and little games and the computers have run since the day they were installed. Expect when the janitors unplug them without turning them off in the summer when it comes time to clean the rooms.
If I buy a P4 Dell tomarrow and plug it in, will it be running in 2013?
An Apple II or a 386 AST will run non-stop for 10, 15, 20 years.
Because theres some jackass with an office and a budget, and if he doesn't spend like a madman he'll be "downsized" or "demoted".
So he's got to spend and Microsoft loves these guys, they ramp out new software so these people can pay them money and get paid themselves.
And if the guy with the budget doesn't want to upgrade from Win 2K to XP, then third-party vendors get into the act, with bug fixes that are in the new version that only works with XP or 2000 Server.
If NT 4 SP6 or the rumored SP7 had USB support loads of places would have sat there and eventually the users would have figured it out.
I don't consider good credit as a job requirement for working in the finance industry.
I'm sure that Ken Lay and the board of Enron all had stellar credit. I'm sure some fucknut down at Smith Barney who was getting paid to hype crap stocks also had great credit.
Credit History doesn't matter, it's knowledge of the subject that matters.
Say Bob the Shitty-Credit loan officer was 21 met a great girl, put a ring on credit, something happened ring got lost and he had to declare bankruptcy or his credit got hosed. Now he's a smart guy, knows how things work.
You going to deny him employment in his field because he's got crap credit?