A few years ago, I was at a helicopter convention and one of the exhibitors was a manufacturer of "FLIR" systems for police dept. etc. http://www.flir.com/imaging/
They had a system set-up on a pedestal to show off its capabilities. The sales guy would put a plastic bag over his hand and place it in front of the camera, and volla, there is his hand on the screen!
Myself and my friend Benny then started to play around with it and it didn't take long for us to notice that it had the same effect on synthetic clothing! Any as it had a great zoom we could check out the cute girls from all over the hall;-)
We got a nice crowd around the stand before the sales guy figured out what we were uo to!
Once again, the Irish Goverment proves that they don't have a clue!!
Was listening to RTE new on the way home this evening, and it seems that the Irish Goverment wanted it to be self-financing and expected it to work on more "commerical" research to fund its self! They don't seem to understand the whole consept of long term R+D. Sad day for Ireland:-(
While I'm pissed at losing some cash, I'm more pissed off that "chimp head" has another four years to screw up the world. I do not think that you Americans fully understand what the consequences this result will have!
That's the end of my rant, I'm off now to drown my sorrows in the pub...
HOW do Defense/Military Contractors get MONEY in all of this? Please tell. Were not shipping weapons, the only thing that we could use that they produce would be some high grade parts and rocket engines.
While the whole thing is still pie in the sky, IF the funding is approved I would guess that a the likes of General Electric, Boeing and Honeywell would get a nice fat slice.
This is just a guess on my part, so feel free to correct me if it doesn't pan out like this;-)
First, calling W names will get you nowhere. If you are going to attack the person, go after him for his policies.
I was not name calling, just stating the fact that "W" has a face that resembles a chimp and second I was not trying to get anywhere. I happy where I am now thank you;-)
As for the politics, I will leave that to the people of the US of A. I will only quote the saying "You may have different clowns, but the Circus is the same"
Personally, while I would love to see mankind returning to the moon and then to Mars, I question the motivation of GWB (aka Chimp Face)
Maybe I'm just cynical, but to me it's just another huge pork-barrel into which to dump the US taxpayers money to feed greedy defense/military contractors. Gotta keep the old economy moving;-)
It how has got to a point that watching T.V. is no longer a pleasure. With Sky, the main thing that pisses me off is that they synchronize the ad breaks across all channels. My solution is to hit the mute button as soon as they start! They are a little less annoying when you can't hear them;-)
A quick search on http://www.google.com/search?q=RFID+tags+jamming&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
yields a interesting paper , http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/JuelsRivestSzydl o-TheBlockerTag.pdf
The Blocker Tag: Selective Blocking of RFID Tags for Consumer Privacy Lots of good info, including..
1.3 The Faraday Cage approach. An RFID tag may be shielded from scrutiny using what is known as a Faraday Cage-- a container made of metal mesh or foil that is impenetrable by radio signals
1. A method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of:
assigning each member of said group a URL of the form "name.subdomain.domain"; and
assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form "name@subdomain.domain;"
wherein the "name" portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the same and unique for each particular one of said members such that an only difference between said URL and said e-mail address for said member is that in said URL the "@" symbol of the e-mail address is replaced with a "." and wherein said "subdomain" portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the same for all members of said group.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said members of said group comprise members of a licensed profession
IANAPL, but from the above, it appears that the patent only applys to "Licensed professionals" i.e drbob@doctors.com url: drbob.doctors.com.
and the patent does not apply to me, as the only licence I have is for driving:-)
Slashdot Mirror
p()rn sites included!
Anyone seen a good new site in '05?
For some informative information on this "rare" event have a looko n_mercury_venus_saturn.html?2362005/
at http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/conjuncti
You are right, its not a bad as it's sounds ..
It's worse!
I'm assuming here that you tell them what they are drinking!
: ;-)
Remember the number one rule of 'shrooms
YOU are responsible for the physical and mental health of the people you share them with
but I've wasted more time than I should've as it is.
That was what the Nun said in the end!
I wasn't! and come to thing of it it was my english homework ;-)
Language was never my strong point!
It was bad enough that I had to be in school most of the day, then they wanted me to bring some work home!
I found out early that if you just refused to do it, most teachers would give up!
I remember one Nun in 1st class who got very "agatated' and started to foam around the mouth 'cause I woun't do my homework for her.
A few years ago, I was at a helicopter convention and one of the exhibitors was a manufacturer of "FLIR" systems for police dept. etc.
;-)
http://www.flir.com/imaging/
They had a system set-up on a pedestal to show off its capabilities.
The sales guy would put a plastic bag over his hand and place it in front of the camera, and volla, there is his hand on the screen!
Myself and my friend Benny then started to play around with it and it didn't take long for us to notice that it had the same effect on synthetic clothing! Any as it had a great zoom we could check out the cute girls from all over the hall
We got a nice crowd around the stand before the sales guy figured out what we were uo to!
or for the terminal impaired ..
System Profiler -> Hardware -> Power
Battery Information:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 4438
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 1262
Amperage (mA): -1726
Voltage (mV): 10921
Cycle Count: 22
but I'm sure it will take some market share from other subscription based services like http://www.listen.com/ for example.
iTunes is a different market, for different people.
Hey Steve, that you?
http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html
;-)
Some great photos.
Make your own panoramic
Once again, the Irish Goverment proves that they don't have a clue!!
:-(
Was listening to RTE new on the way home this evening, and it
seems that the Irish Goverment wanted it to be self-financing and expected it to work on more "commerical" research to fund its self!
They don't seem to understand the whole consept of long term R+D.
Sad day for Ireland
FP?
I had a 100 euro on Kerry (@6-5!)
...
While I'm pissed at losing some cash, I'm more pissed off that
"chimp head" has another four years to screw up the world.
I do not think that you Americans fully understand what the consequences this result will have!
That's the end of my rant, I'm off now to drown my sorrows in the pub
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QED!
HOW do Defense/Military Contractors get MONEY in all of this? Please tell. Were not shipping weapons, the only thing that we could use that they produce would be some high grade parts and rocket engines.
;-)
While the whole thing is still pie in the sky, IF the funding is approved I would guess that a the likes of General Electric, Boeing and Honeywell would get a nice fat slice.
This is just a guess on my part, so feel free to correct me if it doesn't pan out like this
First, calling W names will get you nowhere. If you are going to attack the person, go after him for his policies.
;-)
I was not name calling, just stating the fact that "W" has a face that resembles a chimp
and second I was not trying to get anywhere. I happy where I am now thank you
As for the politics, I will leave that to the people of the US of A.
I will only quote the saying "You may have different clowns, but the Circus is the same"
Thank you and do have a nice day.
Personally, while I would love to see mankind returning to the moon and then to Mars, I question the motivation of GWB (aka Chimp Face)
;-)
Maybe I'm just cynical, but to me it's just another huge pork-barrel into which to dump the US taxpayers money to feed greedy defense/military contractors.
Gotta keep the old economy moving
Turn it off!!
;-)
It how has got to a point that watching T.V. is no longer a pleasure.
With Sky, the main thing that pisses me off is that they synchronize the ad breaks across all channels.
My solution is to hit the mute button as soon as they start!
They are a little less annoying when you can't hear them
but its still 57 channels of crap!
A quick search on http://www.google.com/search?q=RFID+tags+jamming&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
l o-TheBlockerTag.pdf
..
yields a interesting paper , http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/JuelsRivestSzyd
The Blocker Tag: Selective Blocking of RFID Tags for Consumer Privacy
Lots of good info, including
1.3 The Faraday Cage approach. An RFID tag may be shielded from scrutiny using what is known as a Faraday Cage-- a container made of metal mesh or foil that is impenetrable by radio signals
never mind the hats, get a tinfoil suite!
IANAPL, but from the above, it appears that the patent only applys to "Licensed professionals" i.e drbob@doctors.com url: drbob.doctors.com
and the patent does not apply to me, as the only licence I have is for driving
Try here!
That may be the case if the chip was not turned on!