One cannot see the serial numbers on the bills you have in your wallet while it's in your pocket. You have to take them out and show them.
With RFID tags in the bills, all you have to do is walk past a scanner, and they know how much cash you have on you.
You can bet that pickpockets will have scanners built/bought the day before RFID-tagged bills go in to circulation. (Then we'll get to enjoy a long series of laws trying to ban the ownership of RFID scanners).
They're definitely effective for inventory. They'd save countless man-hours. The fun part is, they're 100% as effective for inventory if they can be destroyed/removed at the checkout counter. That's the part the industry doesn't want to happen.
"Granted, Apple has a monopoly on their OS and hardware, but there's a reason for that; they believe that the whole computer should be package, not a bunch of parts."
It may apply, but these days, who knows how long you have to spend in a court room or how much you have to spend on a lawyer to defend yourself with it.
This society has definitely taught me one thing - look out for myself above all other interests.
Maybe it wouldn't have to emit it - it'd be enough if it would just respond with a random number every time it is scanned. You could carry a whole pocket of them - nothing illegal about that.
Indeed. It's not like the grocery stores are going to be planting these things on all of the products. They're going to arrive from the manufacturer that way.
"You will definetly hit traffic on this and any alternate route that you may choose. You could either leave now, or a couple of minutes later...doesn't really matter, you won't be able to make it to the meeting, day care or movie on time anyway."
Hey neighbor, you too must be from the Puget Sound area. Where the traffic report can usually be summarized as "Good" or "Bad" overall.
E&B has, or at least had, a free 7-day trial offer. I didn't pay a dime to them until I wanted to. I wish more games had this (I know some do, but not all)
Planetside ain't bad, but I'm hoping someone comes out with a well-functioning Planetside server program (even if it requires multiple machines), so some much-needed improvements could be made to the game. Such as the ability to actually create bases and then have them destroyed. Mmmm. That'd be sweet.
Now the CD world will get to enjoy what the Tape backup world (that is, the classic 2:1 compression scam - woo hoo, a 200GB tape that can only hold 100GB of data) has enjoyed forever - claims of 1GB CDROMs with little asterisks suggesting that's only for highly compressable data or somesuch nonsense.
I sure am glad that either my ears aren't sensitive enough to notice the differences between MP3 and CD, or that I just don't care enough about the differences. My wallet is happy with me.:)
These same artists that have supposedly declared their albums are the "full picture" allow the radio stations to chop up the album in to individual songs, allow the DJs to chatter during the lead-in and lead-out, and allow the radio stations (or the labels) to censor their lyrics.
Artistic integrity is quite obviously not the prime concern for them.
What I want to know is how many people own an XBox and don't own a computer? I'd bet it's very few. So what if you couldn't make games for the XBox if the Xbox disappeared - you still have that whole PC market to go after, which is really very large.
Sure, I'd be willing to wait while my 1GB (or so) Battlefield directory is uploaded in its entirety to the game server, so it can check its MD5 sum. No problem. I realize that it would only take a few hours on my capped upload cable modem, but what's a few hours when it comes to online playing?!
Of course, the cheaters would just upload pristine directory. So much for that!
I'm Joe Average. If I heard the SIT tones when I was calling someone, I'd hang up. I mean, I've heard it before, it always follows with "This number has been disconnected because the previous owner was a deadbeat" or similar, so why would I stick around to hear that?
I'm sure going to miss these days, where I can just put in my name, address, and credit card info to purchase products online. Having to answer a quiz for every purchase will probably drive me back offline... until the practice is adopted there.
I don't think the consumers will pay, though - and more importantly, I don't think they'll go through the effort to divide the garbage up in to 10+ categories. That's the sort of thing a producer-funded system could handle, though, after the garbage is picked up at the consumer's home.
People who live frugally would still save money, since they live frugally.
Maybe some things could be exempted, like things that could go in to a personal compost bin.
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Not to mention all of the lawyers at the firms SCO claims are violating their license - they're all getting extra money for this, too.
Honest question deserves an honest answer.
One cannot see the serial numbers on the bills you have in your wallet while it's in your pocket. You have to take them out and show them.
With RFID tags in the bills, all you have to do is walk past a scanner, and they know how much cash you have on you.
You can bet that pickpockets will have scanners built/bought the day before RFID-tagged bills go in to circulation. (Then we'll get to enjoy a long series of laws trying to ban the ownership of RFID scanners).
They're definitely effective for inventory. They'd save countless man-hours. The fun part is, they're 100% as effective for inventory if they can be destroyed/removed at the checkout counter. That's the part the industry doesn't want to happen.
It's not just a little different, it is a lot different. The RFID tags can be read through clothing. Bar codes cannot. Why does nobody on /. get this?
"Granted, Apple has a monopoly on their OS and hardware, but there's a reason for that; they believe that the whole computer should be package, not a bunch of parts."
Funny, so does Microsoft.
It may apply, but these days, who knows how long you have to spend in a court room or how much you have to spend on a lawyer to defend yourself with it.
This society has definitely taught me one thing - look out for myself above all other interests.
Yes, you're right. I'm going to go out RIGHT NOW and vote against business process patents. Yes, because we're a democracy after all!!
/. grossly oversimplified the solution to the "business process patent" problem?
Wait a sec, we're not?
You mean we can't vote against business process patents?
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So you're going to take your 2nd amendment gun rights and shoot people who don't tell you where wires and pipes are? I'm confused.
Maybe it wouldn't have to emit it - it'd be enough if it would just respond with a random number every time it is scanned. You could carry a whole pocket of them - nothing illegal about that.
Indeed. It's not like the grocery stores are going to be planting these things on all of the products. They're going to arrive from the manufacturer that way.
"You will definetly hit traffic on this and any alternate route that you may choose. You could either leave now, or a couple of minutes later...doesn't really matter, you won't be able to make it to the meeting, day care or movie on time anyway."
Hey neighbor, you too must be from the Puget Sound area. Where the traffic report can usually be summarized as "Good" or "Bad" overall.
E&B has, or at least had, a free 7-day trial offer. I didn't pay a dime to them until I wanted to. I wish more games had this (I know some do, but not all)
Planetside ain't bad, but I'm hoping someone comes out with a well-functioning Planetside server program (even if it requires multiple machines), so some much-needed improvements could be made to the game. Such as the ability to actually create bases and then have them destroyed. Mmmm. That'd be sweet.
3. Put the damned headphone jack back in, you crazy Redmond-infected folk! :)
Now the CD world will get to enjoy what the Tape backup world (that is, the classic 2:1 compression scam - woo hoo, a 200GB tape that can only hold 100GB of data) has enjoyed forever - claims of 1GB CDROMs with little asterisks suggesting that's only for highly compressable data or somesuch nonsense.
I sure am glad that either my ears aren't sensitive enough to notice the differences between MP3 and CD, or that I just don't care enough about the differences. My wallet is happy with me. :)
These same artists that have supposedly declared their albums are the "full picture" allow the radio stations to chop up the album in to individual songs, allow the DJs to chatter during the lead-in and lead-out, and allow the radio stations (or the labels) to censor their lyrics.
Artistic integrity is quite obviously not the prime concern for them.
You mean the word "fuck"? Go ahead, you can say it, it's OK.
What I want to know is how many people own an XBox and don't own a computer? I'd bet it's very few. So what if you couldn't make games for the XBox if the Xbox disappeared - you still have that whole PC market to go after, which is really very large.
Find me a single artist (woo hoo) who uses a CRT under $150 for quality reasons.
Sure, I'd be willing to wait while my 1GB (or so) Battlefield directory is uploaded in its entirety to the game server, so it can check its MD5 sum. No problem. I realize that it would only take a few hours on my capped upload cable modem, but what's a few hours when it comes to online playing?!
Of course, the cheaters would just upload pristine directory. So much for that!
The last paperback book I bought was $7, new.
I'm Joe Average. If I heard the SIT tones when I was calling someone, I'd hang up. I mean, I've heard it before, it always follows with "This number has been disconnected because the previous owner was a deadbeat" or similar, so why would I stick around to hear that?
I'm sure going to miss these days, where I can just put in my name, address, and credit card info to purchase products online. Having to answer a quiz for every purchase will probably drive me back offline... until the practice is adopted there.
I don't think the consumers will pay, though - and more importantly, I don't think they'll go through the effort to divide the garbage up in to 10+ categories. That's the sort of thing a producer-funded system could handle, though, after the garbage is picked up at the consumer's home.
People who live frugally would still save money, since they live frugally.
Maybe some things could be exempted, like things that could go in to a personal compost bin.