>I've also never figured out how they can listen to multiple tags at once, the same type of tag is going to be on the same frequency, so don't their transmissions overlap?
As someone who's played with it: yes it can be done, and yes it's hell.
I've personally been to Google Boston and Mountain View and not only was I not searched or even asked if I had a camera, I was told explicitly at Mountain View that photography was permitted outdoors and to please ask first indoors. I was asked not to take pictures in Boston, but again, not searched or asked for camera.
I was at Mountain View about two years ago and at Boston two months ago.
And who is going to protect us from this future exactly? The benevolent, friendly corporations? The honest, efficient government? The diligence of the individual American/World citizen?
And this is why I don't like hte cloud. It's bad enough my facebook account "improves" privacy settings every two weeks with defualts reset to most permissive, I don't need some idiot Zuckerpunching me in the books or email next.
Anyone else notice a problem here? Judging an entire tool with a simplistic value judgment. A book involves learning to read necessarily, while an ebook, computer, or tv are more versatile tools. Sure you can watch trashy TV or play video games (at least a trashy novel is still helping hone reading skills), but you can also watch documentaries or shows that actually involve thinking. A good deal of the non-work time I'm on a computer is reading various news sites and Wikipedia to learn more about the world, just as I used to read an encyclopedia when I was younger.
I laugh even harder at parents who come up with some half baked notion of "screen time", lumping TV and computers in the same category because they both have screens. Unless you're trying to push the point that kids should be outdoors playing instead (which I won't dispute, and in which case you should include books as well), you just come across as an ignorant luddite.
So seriously. Instead of following the hysteria that your children might possibly not grow up exactly like your generation with all its good and bad traits, step back for a moment and look at the way society is going.
Also installing software that promises to parent your children for you is a great way to teach them hacking skills.
Go to lucnh and say nothing of any import is my advice. Me I prefer to get close to those I work with, but then I don't view it as a competition either, and I don't intend to start.
Actually no, not in the United States or EU. Cognac is one of the few AC-style protections that you'll find in America:
""" Cognac’s name is fiercely guarded and protected on multiple levels...Furthermore, Cognac A.O.C. fulfills the requirements under Article 23 of the Agreement of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO)...each member of the WTO has the obligation to protect the geographical indication of wines and spirits by preventing the use of a name for a spirit if that spirit does not originate from the location indicated by the geographical indication. Article 23 is ruthless in terms of protection because it states that a geographic indication cannot be used even in translation or if it is accompanied by “expressions such as ‘kind,’ ‘type,’ ‘style,’ and ‘imitation.” To be sure, the Cognac industry has done everything in its power to make sure that the members of the WTO abide by the rules and protect Cognac from imitations and homonyms. """ --http://www1.american.edu/ted/cognac.htm
Pre 9/11: Plane hijacker: Open the cockpit Pilot: Ok *passengers cower in fear*
Post 9/11: Plane hijacker: Open the cockpit Pilot: I'm sorry, I can't, the door cannot be opened until we are on the ground *passengers storm the hijackers*
It used to be you played real friendly with hijackers in a hostage situation. Now we know better. We didn't need to change a thing to keep 9/11 from happening again. As much as I'm a critic of many of the anti-terror changes, though, some just make sense (bullet-proof cockpit doors so air marhsells can shoot into them, locking the doors during flight, pilots carrying guns, etc)
On a semi-related note, a friend of mine's father is an airplane pilot. A few years ago, he was going through the security checkpoint. So he hands the TSA agent his gun and goes through the procedure. On the other side, the agent hands back his gun, and says "I'm sorry, sir, I need to confiscate your shampoo"..."you do know I'm a pilot right? And you just handed me a loaded gun?"..."I know sir, please don't make it any more ridiculous than it already is"
Don't forget not backed by the warranty or tech support. It's national security if things break and the tech support line the vendor gave you redirects to HappyBurger
What if I could make cognac here in America that was indistinguishable from the genuine stuff? It's the same argument. If I mess up, it reflects badly on France, and likewise, mistakes in the router (don't think of it as a one-off indistinguishability but an ongoing process that could mess up at any time) reflect on Cisco.
Going back to brewing up some cognac in my bathtub now.
Stand tall and proud. The sole purpose of these horrible machines is to reinforce the idea that we are subjects, not citizens, and consumers, not producers. Resist them. Big, small, average, female, intersex, whatever you are, stand proud against this filth and hope that some day Americans will once again care more about freedom than fighting a few terrorists and a lot of shadows.
Exactly. The culture of a language is as or more important than the language itself. Indeed, the culture shapes the language (but of course, to a degree, the language shapes the culture).
Java itself isn't a very good language, but it's the hordes of incompetent Java programmers who make it such a terrible choice for everything. This goes back to the Python paradox: companies want Python programmers to write Java for them.
I will say this in Java's favor, however: It's a language where the smartest can't write code that confuses the dumbest, and where the dumbest can't write code that does too much damage.
Simply put, the kind of people who learn a language out of interest than out of wanting to get a job tend to be better programmers on average. (This was written awhile ago, when Python had little use outside the FOSS community. Now that Python is looking like it may someday replace Java, perhaps the Haskell Paradox is a better term).
Anyway, perhaps the same issue is at play here. Perhaps the people who use PHP tend to be less aware of security or more apathetic toward it, and thus there is a two way feedback between language and programmer (the last time I used Visual Basic the compiler was as full of holes as a piece of swiss cheese and Microsoft wanted me to pay $100 each to report counterexample bugs, but that was 6.0, back in middle school)
But you need four iPod touches to equal an iPad. The iPad is a better deal, especially when you consider the gas saved by not needing to go to the hardware store for a roll of a duct tape.
Slashdot Mirror
Not the Anarchist's Cookbook. Rife with inaccuracies and dangerous, or so my chemist friends tell me.
"prior"
>I've also never figured out how they can listen to multiple tags at once, the same type of tag is going to be on the same frequency, so don't their transmissions overlap?
As someone who's played with it: yes it can be done, and yes it's hell.
Especially if people are smart and turn on their phone, say, 10 mins/day to allow for tracking. The battery would last a long time.
I've personally been to Google Boston and Mountain View and not only was I not searched or even asked if I had a camera, I was told explicitly at Mountain View that photography was permitted outdoors and to please ask first indoors. I was asked not to take pictures in Boston, but again, not searched or asked for camera.
I was at Mountain View about two years ago and at Boston two months ago.
It's like how if "The Pirate Bay" were called "The Linux ISO Bay" it might have fared better in court.
And who is going to protect us from this future exactly? The benevolent, friendly corporations? The honest, efficient government? The diligence of the individual American/World citizen?
And this is why I don't like hte cloud. It's bad enough my facebook account "improves" privacy settings every two weeks with defualts reset to most permissive, I don't need some idiot Zuckerpunching me in the books or email next.
Software pirates did WTC.
It's the TFA we don't read, not the comment we reply to...you must be new here;)
Of course if you didn't sign it away, you retain copyright over what existed before you joined.
Mindshare and pressshare are magical things.
Repeat after me:
TV BAD
BOOK GOOD
COMPUTER BAD
EBOOK BAD
Anyone else notice a problem here? Judging an entire tool with a simplistic value judgment. A book involves learning to read necessarily, while an ebook, computer, or tv are more versatile tools. Sure you can watch trashy TV or play video games (at least a trashy novel is still helping hone reading skills), but you can also watch documentaries or shows that actually involve thinking. A good deal of the non-work time I'm on a computer is reading various news sites and Wikipedia to learn more about the world, just as I used to read an encyclopedia when I was younger.
I laugh even harder at parents who come up with some half baked notion of "screen time", lumping TV and computers in the same category because they both have screens. Unless you're trying to push the point that kids should be outdoors playing instead (which I won't dispute, and in which case you should include books as well), you just come across as an ignorant luddite.
So seriously. Instead of following the hysteria that your children might possibly not grow up exactly like your generation with all its good and bad traits, step back for a moment and look at the way society is going.
Also installing software that promises to parent your children for you is a great way to teach them hacking skills.
Go to lucnh and say nothing of any import is my advice. Me I prefer to get close to those I work with, but then I don't view it as a competition either, and I don't intend to start.
But above all else, to your own elf be true!
Actually no, not in the United States or EU. Cognac is one of the few AC-style protections that you'll find in America:
"""
Cognac’s name is fiercely guarded and protected on multiple levels...Furthermore, Cognac A.O.C. fulfills the requirements under Article 23 of the Agreement of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO)...each member of the WTO has the obligation to protect the geographical indication of wines and spirits by preventing the use of a name for a spirit if that spirit does not originate from the location indicated by the geographical indication. Article 23 is ruthless in terms of protection because it states that a geographic indication cannot be used even in translation or if it is accompanied by “expressions such as ‘kind,’ ‘type,’ ‘style,’ and ‘imitation.” To be sure, the Cognac industry has done everything in its power to make sure that the members of the WTO abide by the rules and protect Cognac from imitations and homonyms.
"""
--http://www1.american.edu/ted/cognac.htm
Pre 9/11:
Plane hijacker: Open the cockpit
Pilot: Ok
*passengers cower in fear*
Post 9/11:
Plane hijacker: Open the cockpit
Pilot: I'm sorry, I can't, the door cannot be opened until we are on the ground
*passengers storm the hijackers*
It used to be you played real friendly with hijackers in a hostage situation. Now we know better. We didn't need to change a thing to keep 9/11 from happening again. As much as I'm a critic of many of the anti-terror changes, though, some just make sense (bullet-proof cockpit doors so air marhsells can shoot into them, locking the doors during flight, pilots carrying guns, etc)
On a semi-related note, a friend of mine's father is an airplane pilot. A few years ago, he was going through the security checkpoint. So he hands the TSA agent his gun and goes through the procedure. On the other side, the agent hands back his gun, and says "I'm sorry, sir, I need to confiscate your shampoo"..."you do know I'm a pilot right? And you just handed me a loaded gun?"..."I know sir, please don't make it any more ridiculous than it already is"
Don't forget not backed by the warranty or tech support. It's national security if things break and the tech support line the vendor gave you redirects to HappyBurger
What if I could make cognac here in America that was indistinguishable from the genuine stuff? It's the same argument. If I mess up, it reflects badly on France, and likewise, mistakes in the router (don't think of it as a one-off indistinguishability but an ongoing process that could mess up at any time) reflect on Cisco.
Going back to brewing up some cognac in my bathtub now.
But I'll defend to minor inconvenience their right to offer it.
Did you by chance rape and murder a young girl in 1990? If not, why haven't you denied it?
Stand tall and proud. The sole purpose of these horrible machines is to reinforce the idea that we are subjects, not citizens, and consumers, not producers. Resist them. Big, small, average, female, intersex, whatever you are, stand proud against this filth and hope that some day Americans will once again care more about freedom than fighting a few terrorists and a lot of shadows.
Exactly. The culture of a language is as or more important than the language itself. Indeed, the culture shapes the language (but of course, to a degree, the language shapes the culture).
Java itself isn't a very good language, but it's the hordes of incompetent Java programmers who make it such a terrible choice for everything. This goes back to the Python paradox: companies want Python programmers to write Java for them.
I will say this in Java's favor, however: It's a language where the smartest can't write code that confuses the dumbest, and where the dumbest can't write code that does too much damage.
If you haven't heard of it, the python paradox is an interesting read: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Simply put, the kind of people who learn a language out of interest than out of wanting to get a job tend to be better programmers on average. (This was written awhile ago, when Python had little use outside the FOSS community. Now that Python is looking like it may someday replace Java, perhaps the Haskell Paradox is a better term).
Anyway, perhaps the same issue is at play here. Perhaps the people who use PHP tend to be less aware of security or more apathetic toward it, and thus there is a two way feedback between language and programmer (the last time I used Visual Basic the compiler was as full of holes as a piece of swiss cheese and Microsoft wanted me to pay $100 each to report counterexample bugs, but that was 6.0, back in middle school)
But you need four iPod touches to equal an iPad. The iPad is a better deal, especially when you consider the gas saved by not needing to go to the hardware store for a roll of a duct tape.