Thank you! Right now, people are using SSN as a form of Authentication!! That's insane! It's a trivially weak, centralized, government-issued authentication mechanism that can never be revoked.
If we switch to smart cards, nothing changes except that we have a strong, centralized, government-issued authentication mechanism that CAN be revoked if stolen.
In short, we lose nothing by goign to government-issued smart cards. We gain a LOT of PERSONAL security.
Being required to carry a card like this at all times is an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT problem, and 90% of slashdot confuses the two. These cards are good for everyone.
If that is the case, then that is illegal. If there is evidence of it someone will probably sue them under anti-trust laws. Also, I would expect insurance start-ups to appear eventually.
Your idea seams plausable. But lacking evidence, it is just a theory.
If I owned an insurance company and saw a significant reduction in costs (many $20k savings per year), and my competitors did not change their prices, I would lower my prices to increase my customer base, thereby stealing customers from the competition. This would give me the same profit margin as before, but I would be making much more money overall.
I've noticed cynicism is often used to create the illusion of intelligence...
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And if a medical doctor "respects" these religous wishes, he does a disservice to everyone except Darwin.
Honestly, why does our society value "respect" for certain types of mental disorders? You can call something "relgion," but it is as much a hallucination as pink elephants. There is nothing respectable about that.
Your solution to government criminalization of things that should not be illegal is to make it more difficult for the government to enforce the law?
You're fixing the wrong problem there, buddy.
ID cards are already required for most things. I can't get license plates without showing my social security card. Anyone could duplicate that stupid piece of paper with its non-secret number. I would love it if the government issued me a smartcard so that my identity could be verified with a PKI that can NOT be forged.
Identification is already required, it is just in a very stupid form. A single smartcard ID system would not remove any of my rights, and it would make life easier and more secure for everyone.
The compulsory requiremnt of ID cards to walk down the street is an entirely different subject. Don't confuse the two.
Perhaps that's a small school thing? I've never had a prof refuse to hear an argument over a score. Though, if your book defined, say, floating point as X, and IEEE defines floating point as Y, and the test is meant to cover the book, your prof should mark you wrong. CS is about computing/in general/, not about some specific implementations of a computer (no matter how popular).
If YOU had been to a serious university recently, you would have realized that education programs are FAR different from engineering/science programs. At the school I attended, 2/3 of the students who start in the college of engineering don't make it all the way through. In fact, there is official effort to pressure people to quit engineering their freshman year by front-loading hard classes and showing no mercy when grading.
Teaching someone to babysit a group of seven-year-olds is entirely different than educating engineers and scientists. Putting them into the same category and making generalizations about colleges based on that is just plain wrong.
For the curious, I got my BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State (the second largest school in the country) in 2005. Yes, it is a public school.
That 266MHz statement is only true when every other instruction is hitting a new address in RAM. In reality, you are likely to be hitting the disk a lot, too. Then you'll have less than 1MHz performance:-)
I won't deny the jackass claim. My post was blunt and insensitive. But based on the topic at hand, it was accurate. The words I used to describe your character were supported by my post, and were not overtly offensive, unlike the word "jackass." Fortunately, as you pointed out, you can rectify these personal flaws. There is no cure for being a jackass.
I have but three serious perturbations: people who stand in the way of scientific progress, the use of logical fallacies, and carnies (you know, circus folk. very small hands. smell like cabbage.)
With that in mind, I only now noticed your sig. Your violation of my first personal peeve is somewhat rectified by your support of my second. If I had seen it earlier, I may have formed my reply using more flowery prose. You have been added to my "friends" list. Unless, of course, you are a carnie.
Besides, this is the internet. Civil discourse hasn't been here since the early 1990s.
Just in case you weren't awayre: You are an underinformed, paranoid reactionary.
You don't know what nanotech means. You don't know the first thing about medicine or biochemistry. You should not participate in a discussion on either. As it is used here, nanotech==chemistry. If this scares you, then you should be afraid of all medicine.
Re:The problem of nerve impulse conduction
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Technically, swelling around the nerve causes it. And this swelling can be caused by an infection OR by a blow to the neck. I know someone who wiped out skiing and had the same effect as someone else I know who had Bell's Palsy.
The donation from godaddy came out of which department within the company? If I had to guess, I would say it came our of Marketing... not that there's anything wrong with that.
For-profit companies don't donate out of alturism.
It isn't the antenna technology that makes long range reading very difficult. If you want to use phrases like "bursh up," you had better back it up.
If you could transmit power in "beams" we wouldn't need elctrical wires, would we?
RFID uses a magnetic field to induce a current in a coil, which charges a capacitor that powers a tranceiver. Please explain how you can create a "beam" of magnet field that could induce a current a mile away.
RC vehicles have been around for ages. To me, the only interesting question is: HOW is it controlled? How are the commands authenticated? concealed? transmitted (and jammed?) What happens when the signal is lost? What happens when bogus signals are received?
The information security is all that really matters.
If I were designing it, I would use a directional antenna to a satelite using RSA-type signed commands. This would be over a key-shifting or OTP encrypted link. As a backup, I would use a laser ink to a blimp or baloon.
"Having encryption will do nothing to save you from this sort of snooping."
That's a bold statement. It is also a wrong statement. There has never been any documented case of anyone in the history of the world breaking 1024 bit RSA.
I don't think you quite grasp how big a number 2^4096 really is.
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Thank you! Right now, people are using SSN as a form of Authentication!! That's insane! It's a trivially weak, centralized, government-issued authentication mechanism that can never be revoked.
If we switch to smart cards, nothing changes except that we have a strong, centralized, government-issued authentication mechanism that CAN be revoked if stolen.
In short, we lose nothing by goign to government-issued smart cards. We gain a LOT of PERSONAL security.
Being required to carry a card like this at all times is an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT problem, and 90% of slashdot confuses the two. These cards are good for everyone.
Hm. A truely malevolent society wouldn't be ambitious enough to earn the money needed to fund a war.
But, have you ever asked someone on antidepressants if he cares about civil rights violations?
If that is the case, then that is illegal. If there is evidence of it someone will probably sue them under anti-trust laws. Also, I would expect insurance start-ups to appear eventually.
Your idea seams plausable. But lacking evidence, it is just a theory.
If I owned an insurance company and saw a significant reduction in costs (many $20k savings per year), and my competitors did not change their prices, I would lower my prices to increase my customer base, thereby stealing customers from the competition. This would give me the same profit margin as before, but I would be making much more money overall.
I've noticed cynicism is often used to create the illusion of intelligence...
And if a medical doctor "respects" these religous wishes, he does a disservice to everyone except Darwin.
Honestly, why does our society value "respect" for certain types of mental disorders? You can call something "relgion," but it is as much a hallucination as pink elephants. There is nothing respectable about that.
Wow. You are suggesting that because there always were rambling homeless people, we shouldn't try to stop that?
Wow.
More, happier people == societal progress
Decreasing the number of suicides == societal progress.
That's not hard to understand.
Your solution to government criminalization of things that should not be illegal is to make it more difficult for the government to enforce the law?
You're fixing the wrong problem there, buddy.
ID cards are already required for most things. I can't get license plates without showing my social security card. Anyone could duplicate that stupid piece of paper with its non-secret number.
I would love it if the government issued me a smartcard so that my identity could be verified with a PKI that can NOT be forged.
Identification is already required, it is just in a very stupid form. A single smartcard ID system would not remove any of my rights, and it would make life easier and more secure for everyone.
The compulsory requiremnt of ID cards to walk down the street is an entirely different subject. Don't confuse the two.
Perhaps that's a small school thing? I've never had a prof refuse to hear an argument over a score. Though, if your book defined, say, floating point as X, and IEEE defines floating point as Y, and the test is meant to cover the book, your prof should mark you wrong. CS is about computing /in general/, not about some specific implementations of a computer (no matter how popular).
What are you.... chicken?
If YOU had been to a serious university recently, you would have realized that education programs are FAR different from engineering/science programs. At the school I attended, 2/3 of the students who start in the college of engineering don't make it all the way through. In fact, there is official effort to pressure people to quit engineering their freshman year by front-loading hard classes and showing no mercy when grading.
Teaching someone to babysit a group of seven-year-olds is entirely different than educating engineers and scientists. Putting them into the same category and making generalizations about colleges based on that is just plain wrong.
For the curious, I got my BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State (the second largest school in the country) in 2005. Yes, it is a public school.
That 266MHz statement is only true when every other instruction is hitting a new address in RAM. In reality, you are likely to be hitting the disk a lot, too. Then you'll have less than 1MHz performance :-)
I won't deny the jackass claim. My post was blunt and insensitive. But based on the topic at hand, it was accurate. The words I used to describe your character were supported by my post, and were not overtly offensive, unlike the word "jackass." Fortunately, as you pointed out, you can rectify these personal flaws. There is no cure for being a jackass.
I have but three serious perturbations: people who stand in the way of scientific progress, the use of logical fallacies, and carnies (you know, circus folk. very small hands. smell like cabbage.)
With that in mind, I only now noticed your sig. Your violation of my first personal peeve is somewhat rectified by your support of my second. If I had seen it earlier, I may have formed my reply using more flowery prose. You have been added to my "friends" list. Unless, of course, you are a carnie.
Besides, this is the internet. Civil discourse hasn't been here since the early 1990s.
Just in case you weren't awayre: You are an underinformed, paranoid reactionary.
You don't know what nanotech means. You don't know the first thing about medicine or biochemistry. You should not participate in a discussion on either. As it is used here, nanotech==chemistry. If this scares you, then you should be afraid of all medicine.
Technically, swelling around the nerve causes it. And this swelling can be caused by an infection OR by a blow to the neck. I know someone who wiped out skiing and had the same effect as someone else I know who had Bell's Palsy.
This is slashdot. It's safe to say "iff" here.
A blow to the neck can already cause paralysis of the face. Goole Bell's Palsy if you are interested.
Companies don't "feel." They are groups that exist only to serve the interests of thier owners. This interest is nearly always to maximize profit.
Wow - to the moderator: How is that flamebait? Log in as AC to defend yourself, because I think your moderation is completely unfounded.
The donation from godaddy came out of which department within the company? If I had to guess, I would say it came our of Marketing... not that there's anything wrong with that.
For-profit companies don't donate out of alturism.
It isn't the antenna technology that makes long range reading very difficult. If you want to use phrases like "bursh up," you had better back it up.
If you could transmit power in "beams" we wouldn't need elctrical wires, would we?
RFID uses a magnetic field to induce a current in a coil, which charges a capacitor that powers a tranceiver. Please explain how you can create a "beam" of magnet field that could induce a current a mile away.
Or maybe you should "brush up."
The basics of RFID technology say there won't be a RFID-Sniper.
You just don't get it, do you?
RFID readers are both POWER SOURCES and radio trancievers.
Because bluetooth devices have thier own power source, they are totally different.
Can you cite where it says RFID transmits lots of information? Because it is my understanding that this works EXACTLY like EZPass...
I don't think any crypto can be proven safe. Your point is made, however impractical it may be.
RC vehicles have been around for ages. To me, the only interesting question is: HOW is it controlled? How are the commands authenticated? concealed? transmitted (and jammed?) What happens when the signal is lost? What happens when bogus signals are received?
The information security is all that really matters.
If I were designing it, I would use a directional antenna to a satelite using RSA-type signed commands. This would be over a key-shifting or OTP encrypted link. As a backup, I would use a laser ink to a blimp or baloon.
"Having encryption will do nothing to save you from this sort of snooping."
That's a bold statement. It is also a wrong statement. There has never been any documented case of anyone in the history of the world breaking 1024 bit RSA.
I don't think you quite grasp how big a number 2^4096 really is.