And its running in a VM that sits in RAM only. And the PC has a special relay built-in so that if I let go of the dead man's switch the power goes out the VM disappears within 2 seconds LONG before the feds can do anything about it!
Now where is my tin foil hat... it was here just a minute ago. Can't turn the WiFi back on until I have my tin foil hat...
Already done that.... my mother bought a new car in the mid Sixties... about $12000 or very close (if not more) than her salary at the time as a high school teacher.
Today (in Vancouver) teachers make $40-$60k a year... and a new low end car is not that much more than $12000... So cost of ownership went from over 100% to maybe 40-50%.
It doesn't stop there though. The car in the sixties was less safe (steel box, no air bags, no seat belts, no pretty much anything other than motor and 4 wheels), needed to have a winter and summer tune-up (pre-electronic ignition and fuel injection), yearly brake work and lasted maybe 60-80 thousand miles before turning into a pile of rust.
Todays car has probably a 5 year factory warranty and probably will last for 150-200 miles.
The car in the sixties had such poor gas mileage that even given the high cost of gas today the modern car costs less per mile to drive in constant dollars (and is far cheaper when we look at cost per mile as percentage of hourly income.)
The car in the sixties was a pain to drive. Uncomfortable, under powered, poorly designed, bad handling.
Todays entry level cars are pretty peppy and fun to drive AND an incredible value when you look at cost of ownership based on percentage of your salary needed to own and operate.
No more ridicoulous than a farmer running a 60' cultivator instead of hiring a whole lot of people to follow horses pulling a 6' one (at a quarter the speed).
If we still employed the vast majority of our work force to grow things to eat there would be two problems. First not enough food. But second not enough people to do all of the interesting (and not required) jobs that simply didn't exist 100 years ago.
Pretty much anyone in the entertainment industry. Most of the telecommunications people. Vast majority of the health workers. The list goes on and on and on. Jobs that simply didn't exist and simply could NOT exist if we had not eliminated the need for people to work on the farm growing enough food to feed everybody.
A job eliminated through efficiency or automation means a somebody that can hopefully go out and do something else that will in the long term be more valuable to them and society. And that's the real goal. Keep innovating new jobs and services to make everybody better off.
How does this compare to the far higher number of people who lost their homes from the tsunami?
It does show that by far and away the biggest danger in a nuclear accident is people panicking because of the over reaction of the authorities, press, blog-o-sphere and twitterverse.
If you don't think that facial recognition software couple with (lots of ) HD video cameras can't do exactly the same as an RFID chip you are simply smoking something illegal (except maybe in Seattle and Denver sort of.) Just more expensive.
Or simply having hall monitors and school guards just actually watching kids enter and exit...
If you are really worried about privacy I'm not sure how you can not complain about the teacher taking attendance. That is also an invasion of your privacy.
It will be balanced by the first time a student is rescued from a burning school because they knew the exact location of all the students from a laptop accessing the location database conveniently located in the "cloud".
I mean, as long as we are talking Hollywood screen play scenarios here, right:-)
Perhaps. But remember the reason that school boards who distribute the cash are the ones who make that rule. Their concern is that they want to encourage schools to ensure that students attend class. So by tying the funding to attendance it ensures that the school will try and encourage kids to attend. And if $250k will do that cheaper than paying people to run around and do it (i.e. waste time in home room taking attendance) then from the schools perspective that is a win. More money to spend on teachers and more time to spend on teaching.
If you are not worried about FCC regs maybe you could greatly extend the range by redesigning the RFID transponder chip circuit and somehow covertly replacing your targets RFID tag with your special one.
You might be able to help the receiver by adding antennas etc. But that is still limited to receiving what the RFID chip design puts out AND wouldn't usually be anything the FCC would worry about (adding an antenna that is.)
For active RFID chips there are two operative distances. First how close you have to be to the activation loop. Typically (by design) usually this is relatively short. Perhaps 1-2 meters. Second how close the receiver needs to be to get the transmitted signal (from the rfid transponder to the receiver which will then record the activation.) This (again by design) can be relatively long. On the order of 40-50m is not uncommon.
We use an active chip system at our local velodrome. Activation is reasonably reliable to within 30cm (chip on front fork of bike, bike travelling up to 60kph) of the activation loop. And the resulting signal can be received up to 60m away (possibly farther, I couldn't arrange an easy test farther than that.)
One of the minor issues with this is that for some types of systems (e.g. people tracking in buildings, through doorways) you may need to reduce the transmitted power. You only want it to be seen for maybe 2-3 meters. Think in terms of a hallway with many office doors, say at 5m intervals. Each of which has an activation loop and receiver. You don't want any receiver to see the RFID transmission except for the one specific door where the activation occurred. So you need to design the RFID chip transmission to only be readable up to say 2-3 meters. And then design things so that you don't get overlapped areas.
One way to change a bunch of the stylistic queues would be to convert your message to another language and back using Google Translate. Depending on the intermediate language(s) and possibly using different translators should neutralize some things.
It can also mean that the support for the Snoods is very high in the 201 places where they where voted in and very low elsewhere so their (for sake of argument > 51% there and 49% respectively). The Whelks on the other hand had exactly 49.7 in all seats.
Of course this is exactly why the Whelks want to gerrymander. Get the Snoods all bunched up in a small number of seats so that you can then (with your overall support) carry a larger number of seats.
The moral of the story is that the party with the broadest support will carry more seats. You don't want to have very large numbers in one race if that means you have (proportionally to your opponent) less in other seats.
These are an animated comic with a Dilbert like take on corporate life for a big Pharma Corp. If you don't know what 5S or Silo's are you just haven't lived!
Well the ITU and ISO did design an internet... and it was simply politely ignored by the implementors of what we now call the Internet.
Other than governance the ITU/ISO model is one of top down design by committee. Compared to the IETF practice of bottom up implementation and design using RFC's and demonstrable code.
The former model led to X.400 (possibly the best known example, but not the only one) for Email. Pretty much non-implementable in full and with little inter-operability between the implementations that did get done. It died a quick (although very expensive) death.
While the IETF model has problems. They have managed to get the Internet to where it is today. Handing it over to the ITU/ISO would probably not be in the best interest of anyone.
"Lack of Multiple Windows = Memory Overload for Complex Tasks
One of the worst aspects of Windows 8 for power users is that the product's very name has become a misnomer. "Windows" no longer supports multiple windows on the screen. Win8 does have an option to temporarily show a second area in a small part of the screen, but none of our test users were able to make this work. Also, the main UI restricts users to a single window, so the product ought to be renamed "Microsoft Window."
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And its running in a VM that sits in RAM only. And the PC has a special relay built-in so that if I let go of the dead man's switch the power goes out the VM disappears within 2 seconds LONG before the feds can do anything about it!
Now where is my tin foil hat... it was here just a minute ago. Can't turn the WiFi back on until I have my tin foil hat...
No, you are the only one that is creeped out about it. The rest of us are just fine with the idea.
Seriously, some of my data stays at home. Most can live anywhere...
Already done that.... my mother bought a new car in the mid Sixties... about $12000 or very close (if not more) than her salary at the time as a high school teacher.
Today (in Vancouver) teachers make $40-$60k a year... and a new low end car is not that much more than $12000... So cost of ownership went from over 100% to maybe 40-50%.
It doesn't stop there though. The car in the sixties was less safe (steel box, no air bags, no seat belts, no pretty much anything other than motor and 4 wheels), needed to have a winter and summer tune-up (pre-electronic ignition and fuel injection), yearly brake work and lasted maybe 60-80 thousand miles before turning into a pile of rust.
Todays car has probably a 5 year factory warranty and probably will last for 150-200 miles.
The car in the sixties had such poor gas mileage that even given the high cost of gas today the modern car costs less per mile to drive in constant dollars (and is far cheaper when we look at cost per mile as percentage of hourly income.)
The car in the sixties was a pain to drive. Uncomfortable, under powered, poorly designed, bad handling.
Todays entry level cars are pretty peppy and fun to drive AND an incredible value when you look at cost of ownership based on percentage of your salary needed to own and operate.
The vast majority of the Fortune 500 companies ARE owned by people... via pension plans and mutual funds.
No more ridicoulous than a farmer running a 60' cultivator instead of hiring a whole lot of people to follow horses pulling a 6' one (at a quarter the speed).
If we still employed the vast majority of our work force to grow things to eat there would be two problems. First not enough food. But second not enough people to do all of the interesting (and not required) jobs that simply didn't exist 100 years ago.
Pretty much anyone in the entertainment industry. Most of the telecommunications people. Vast majority of the health workers. The list goes on and on and on. Jobs that simply didn't exist and simply could NOT exist if we had not eliminated the need for people to work on the farm growing enough food to feed everybody.
A job eliminated through efficiency or automation means a somebody that can hopefully go out and do something else that will in the long term be more valuable to them and society. And that's the real goal. Keep innovating new jobs and services to make everybody better off.
How does this compare to the far higher number of people who lost their homes from the tsunami?
It does show that by far and away the biggest danger in a nuclear accident is people panicking because of the over reaction of the authorities, press, blog-o-sphere and twitterverse.
Correct, just not as large.
They don't own the smartphone market, they just own the profits from the smartphone market.
Their share price is ridiculously low.
If you don't think that facial recognition software couple with (lots of ) HD video cameras can't do exactly the same as an RFID chip you are simply smoking something illegal (except maybe in Seattle and Denver sort of.) Just more expensive.
Or simply having hall monitors and school guards just actually watching kids enter and exit...
If you are really worried about privacy I'm not sure how you can not complain about the teacher taking attendance. That is also an invasion of your privacy.
Hollywood is on the phone, they want their screenplay back!
It will be balanced by the first time a student is rescued from a burning school because they knew the exact location of all the students from a laptop accessing the location database conveniently located in the "cloud".
I mean, as long as we are talking Hollywood screen play scenarios here, right :-)
Actually modern RFID tags can and do have active storage.
Perhaps. But remember the reason that school boards who distribute the cash are the ones who make that rule. Their concern is that they want to encourage schools to ensure that students attend class. So by tying the funding to attendance it ensures that the school will try and encourage kids to attend. And if $250k will do that cheaper than paying people to run around and do it (i.e. waste time in home room taking attendance) then from the schools perspective that is a win. More money to spend on teachers and more time to spend on teaching.
Once you know the RFID chip family you just buy the prototyping kit from Digikey. Usually those are very cheap ($100).
If you are not worried about FCC regs maybe you could greatly extend the range by redesigning the RFID transponder chip circuit and somehow covertly replacing your targets RFID tag with your special one.
You might be able to help the receiver by adding antennas etc. But that is still limited to receiving what the RFID chip design puts out AND wouldn't usually be anything the FCC would worry about (adding an antenna that is.)
For active RFID chips there are two operative distances. First how close you have to be to the activation loop. Typically (by design) usually this is relatively short. Perhaps 1-2 meters. Second how close the receiver needs to be to get the transmitted signal (from the rfid transponder to the receiver which will then record the activation.) This (again by design) can be relatively long. On the order of 40-50m is not uncommon.
We use an active chip system at our local velodrome. Activation is reasonably reliable to within 30cm (chip on front fork of bike, bike travelling up to 60kph) of the activation loop. And the resulting signal can be received up to 60m away (possibly farther, I couldn't arrange an easy test farther than that.)
One of the minor issues with this is that for some types of systems (e.g. people tracking in buildings, through doorways) you may need to reduce the transmitted power. You only want it to be seen for maybe 2-3 meters. Think in terms of a hallway with many office doors, say at 5m intervals. Each of which has an activation loop and receiver. You don't want any receiver to see the RFID transmission except for the one specific door where the activation occurred. So you need to design the RFID chip transmission to only be readable up to say 2-3 meters. And then design things so that you don't get overlapped areas.
One way to change a bunch of the stylistic queues would be to convert your message to another language and back using Google Translate. Depending on the intermediate language(s) and possibly using different translators should neutralize some things.
Haven't bought a Real(TM) book in over three years now!
I simply ran out of room for more physical books (just under 10,000 paperback novels...)
Reading on an eReader is just as good and the epub files take up far less room.
Technical documents (PDF's) are reasonably OK as well on a full sized table (aka iPad).
So all GMO's from non-corporate sources are safe? And yes there are lots of GMO's being developed in universities.
It can also mean that the support for the Snoods is very high in the 201 places where they where voted in and very low elsewhere so their (for sake of argument > 51% there and 49% respectively). The Whelks on the other hand had exactly 49.7 in all seats.
Of course this is exactly why the Whelks want to gerrymander. Get the Snoods all bunched up in a small number of seats so that you can then (with your overall support) carry a larger number of seats.
The moral of the story is that the party with the broadest support will carry more seats. You don't want to have very large numbers in one race if that means you have (proportionally to your opponent) less in other seats.
Do YouTube animated comics count? http://www.youtube.com/user/ZombieSymmetry?feature=g-high-u
These are an animated comic with a Dilbert like take on corporate life for a big Pharma Corp. If you don't know what 5S or Silo's are you just haven't lived!
At some point carrying and swapping three times as many magazines gets a bit cumbersome.
I'm less likely to get shot on purpose in Canada (600 for 300+million population).
Well the ITU and ISO did design an internet... and it was simply politely ignored by the implementors of what we now call the Internet.
Other than governance the ITU/ISO model is one of top down design by committee. Compared to the IETF practice of bottom up implementation and design using RFC's and demonstrable code.
The former model led to X.400 (possibly the best known example, but not the only one) for Email. Pretty much non-implementable in full and with little inter-operability between the implementations that did get done. It died a quick (although very expensive) death.
While the IETF model has problems. They have managed to get the Internet to where it is today. Handing it over to the ITU/ISO would probably not be in the best interest of anyone.
Is it true that you cannot have multiple Windows open in Windows 8?
That would seem to be a deal breaker for a lot of people.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html
"Lack of Multiple Windows = Memory Overload for Complex Tasks
One of the worst aspects of Windows 8 for power users is that the product's very name has become a misnomer. "Windows" no longer supports multiple windows on the screen. Win8 does have an option to temporarily show a second area in a small part of the screen, but none of our test users were able to make this work. Also, the main UI restricts users to a single window, so the product ought to be renamed "Microsoft Window."