.....snip..... They always swipe the EDLs through what I assume is a magcard reader. Now that could just be a charade of some sort....more snip....
Interesting...
I just invented a dual card reader and a method and system to compare and contrast the information contained via the magnetic bits, the RFID data download AND one or more of a multitude of data base systems for various law enforcement, border protection and marketing reasons.
One claim is a mag card reader with an embedded or nearby RFID sensor connected to a communication device as simple as a wire or as interesting as a multiplexed set of acoustic, IR and RF links digital and or analog to communicate with or without a multiplexing device duplicate and or parcel out data to a multitude of data bases near and far. The multitude of data bases can be isolated from each other to compartmentalize data and queries as needed by policy or law.
Another claim is to add a status indicator to the reader or in proximity of the indicator to indicate to the operator a result of one or more of the comparisons or look up requests.
Another claim is to add a status indicator far from and invisible to the individual or operator so that additional actions can be undertaken in an automated way up to but not inclusive of thermonuclear war.
Another claim is that the card reader is linked to a sensitive podium or doorway RFID reader and facial recognition system including bio-information from digital measurements of weight (load cell), facial hair, height, clothing style, gate, limb and bone length rations that further confirm and or identify the individual or group.
Another claim is related to the group (gaggle) dynamics where a group can be identified by a one or more RFID tag sets. Should a group converge or diverge to surround or obtain a measure of tactical advantage security can be invoked to disperse or channelize the opponents into a killing/ control zone. Another claim is the use of RFID tags with and without ground based readers to target individuals from a distance with rockets, mines or other lethal and non lethal weapons.
Why not skip school and have a friend carry her ID around... is that so hard for teachers to actually take attendance? Social problems CANNOT be solved with technology solutions... such as voting machines.
This is almost foolproof. If the reason to carry it is attendance and they take attendance without it to prove that the student is gaming the system proves that the system does not need RFID dog tags. In my day teachers assigned seats and a glance at the empty seats was all that was needed to do a head count.
Other teaching points like participation in class, actively taking notes and social interactions with others are scored in schools and having an RFID cattle tag does not help the teacher make notes for these topics.
The key issue extends well beyond the school. Shops and other businesses can install readers and then when something goes amiss can file a subpoena duces tecum for the ID to real person mapping. Guilty by association... "walked in the door with ten individuals in grey hoodies" one of them stole a stick of gum. Failed to show up at the movies (parental destination control)... Daughter got preggers, name all male associated friends and random encounters.
Readers are getting less and less visible. There is no prohibition on reader technology. While Google got in trouble driving about with a radio sniffer merchants are less likely to be taken to task because the "victim" walks through their doors. Not just the school RFID but any and all other tags in clothing, shoes, jackets, wallets, passports etc become an issue. Leave the school id behind and the set of all other ID tags still make you a marketing or other target. Yes a spoofed ID set is possible.... short of the expensive challenge and response strong encryption tools.
A picture did make the local news. It looked like a loony toon (tm) version of a bomb. Fuses from an old fuse panel, a coiled bit of wire scavenged from a ESD strap and a Timex watch hot glued to a goth wrist band.
Very much the cartoon and in that regard clearly art.
Sadly a real device could be tiny and fit under and behind the X-ray shadow of a modern oversize watch that is so popular at K-mart (or any of a hundred+ things). I have seen such things on Bond movies and seen parts at RS. I suspect small is hard to get right the first time but easy the next 100 times which scares me.
I can see an annual process where they request bids to maintain a document system and one bidder far away on a coast near the Pacific Ocean complained that their bids were not being correctly considered.
This is no different than code portability. sizeof(something) differs so 64 bit OSs are excluded. ANSII C is not C++, FORTRAN 66 is not FORTRAN 77 is not FORTRAN 90. If the OS does not support vfork() it is toast and rejected. Folks writing open bids where exactly one vendor can qualify understand this. Since quality engineers that write quality RFPs that are all inclusive and fair are rare or unemployed this never happens.
I once had a boss that could not cope with a text file that did to end in.txt. As stupid as he was... he was the boss. For a hardware company interested in big iron sales this is folly, but hey they sold the HPC related business.
Contact your bureau of weights and measures also interstate commerce.
Their contract implies a measured service but not how the service is measured. Measures are the purvue of weights and measures and I've service crosses state and international boundaries
As a minimum this is perhaps enough to break a contract but an attorney would know. If there is no alternate service Monopoly money rules come to play.
Do count start and stop bits and also ECC overhead and also give attention to binary and decimal counting tricks. Research central office equipment, they may be pulling numbers from hardware with "confidential" manuals that may or may not be under NDA causing your contact to stonewall what should be a transparent contract clause.
Look back in time to the publication of the book "The Bell Curve". The publication of the book almost caused riots in the street.
So here we go.... But classification based on bias born in bigotry.
Troubling,,,,, sadly there is no Native American classification. Perhaps there is an attempt to preserve clusters of "Code talkers" by relegating them back to the reservation. In this area they do understand statistical curves.
On first read I wanted to say: "yes please" then noted that hand sets would be years out. So good thing my provider contract is so far out.
Then my brother called from the storm zone in NJ. The cell coverage was fragile and he noted that most towers in his area were down for want of battery power and no mains to recharge them.
We need ethecical rules to limit calls to a short period and text only.
We need more durable towers. We need "storm modes" that conserve batteries automagically and log a location that can be sent with ease via text.
Stucco needs a way to stick to the wood frame. The common solution is to staple hardware cloth (galvanized steel screen) or galvanized expanded metal to the frame. Like plaster it is possible to use wood lath but that in uncommon. Chicken wire on lath works too but the thin wire is not durable. Plaster and cement both have a high water content and attenuate a lot of RF. This foundation is important when a vapor barrier is used to wrap a home. Your building code may mandate differences.
To some extent the wire permits thinner and quicker application of the stucco --$$$--.
Further investigation will likely explain this better, but two possibilities are: Your microwave is slightly defective, or the interference is actually coming from the power cord, which the microwave is parasitically coupled to as an antenna. All sorts of electronics introduce noise on the power lines in your house, that's why they make fancy surge protectors with "filtered" outlets that reduce said noise from entering other devices.
+1 and note that the microwaves may be very well shielded but the power supply less so. Bluetooth also operates at such a low power level that Bluetooth signals are easy to confuse and interrupt.
The topic at hand involves damaging power levels. Reducing damaging levels to "noise" is a lot easier than reducing the signal to invisible levels.
Doesn't a faraday cage only work for the frequency for which it was designed? I'm thinking here that you can still fry the electronics inside a cage by operating at a frequency that the cage isn't designed for.
A cage not so much. The doors, connectors and other access points more so. Any gap or hole presents a window for difraction of "waves" to pass. Some act like frosted glass making the image fuzzy, some refect energy, some absorb energy, some redistribute the energy (conduct it away).
A copper wire window screen passes most light (electromagnetic radiation) but reflects or absorbs most radio frequency energy.
Cages can be made from mosquito screen, chicken wire, expanded metal all do have frequency responses but faraday cages cover a very wide radio frequency spectrum. So wide is the coverage that this is all but a non issue.
If the expanded metal mesh that the stucco is trowed onto overlaps correctly the house is nearly opaque to RF. Use Al or Cu screen to support insulation in the roof and tie the walls and roof together and your "hat" is complete.
Do not forget that doors and windows allow electromagnetic energy to pass.
Aluminized mirrors are also good shields. That geek with mirrors on the walls and ceiling was on to something.
The little thing is a hoot and a holler... I have a couple and may grab some more.
Watchers on the ARM front should keep an eye out for an upgrade to the Pandaboard family. The OMAP 5 seems to be alive and running on a board with no name.
If the authorities take it in their own hands to humiliate and punish the "johns" it leaves the door open for damages. A high profile exec could see is finances crushed and for some it is BIG bucks.
Someone will pay, some shield laws exist but not from willful illegal acts.
To be honest, I think this anti-tobacco policy probably runs afoul of Federal anti-discrimination law......
Yes and other laws as well. If I recall the original article indicated that it was a cost saving measure. i.e. the Insurance company was able to make a lower bid based on the non-smoking status.
Next is where it gets ugly. There is an active invasion into the lives of the employee, testing and more perhaps.
Now the insurance agent comments that employees over the age of 50 count 4x more in a pool of employees than a 24 year old. A manager, executive, HR gets wind of this and reorganizes groups so the 50+ staff is in a project then that project gets cut and a new project staffed with 24 year old kids is expanded and takes over the recently discovered functions of the group that was eliminated.
With a wink and a nod perhaps a whisper there is a cost saver bonus awarded and the job force has more unemployed. Productive workers out of productive jobs and forced into some no income status.
Of all the things that Obama Care has wrong the way it attempts to level the playing field is a good thing for voters over 40. They are the ones that will have retirement pushed to 70 and I bet the insurance guy will be able to answer the question... are they 4x, 5x, 10x more expensive to insure. They will be unemployed or uninsured at work if "management" can see a way to gain a $$ or two.
Helmets are a good thing but there is no need for extreme helmets for many folk.
I have taken some bad falls as have friends and I can tell ya that helmets are a good thing.
Stated slightly differently helmets are a tax, there are no helmet hooks or racks at work. Heck it is hard to get a decent coat hook in California on a rainy day.
Work places MUST wake up and provide places and hooks for employees... gone are the days when an engineer worked 24/7 and only needed a dark box in the corner to nap in (I kid you not).
Women in high heals need sensible shoes to walk and drive in. Again the work place makes this a PITFA... to be sensible.
Winter is at hand fellow workers, Demand worthy coat hooks and places to keep sensible outside shoes in the work place.
I very gently opened the link and found that it kept changing. At best it seems to be a suggestion that perhaps maybe the cat has whiskers that wiggle. As long as I look gently on a windy day the whiskers could be wiggling because it was alive or the wind was blowing.
Even the Google ads kept changing. I think Google could be a cat killer if the quantum bits was a Google search engine.
Someone needs to compare the energy of these quakes with the energy released by eating a bowl of Texas Chili with Beans.
Just because there is gurgling and burbling does not mean that there is distress at depth.
The earth is a living moving thing and quakes simply reflect that motion. So far no one has shown these quakes to be a problem. So far.
For those that are history buffs in the late 70s or early 80s there was an annual report from Halliburton with acres and acres of high pressure pumps fracking a well. The total horse power of the pumps was some a million +.
Still a million horsepower is a butterfly sneeze in the world of earthquakes that mater.
A patent in this case is rather specific and is unlikely to have been implemented and not grafted into a real product.
Rummage about your old notes and old email and find where this "invention" was first discussed and published.
Note that git was developed as a reaction to someone stepping on the cash flow of bitkeeper and friends. A Git2 that works differently is possible....
To me this is a normal and obvious extension of a unique hash lookup table. It can be done at the end of a network link a fiber channel or any local or long distance data link including voice.
Hello Bob, get me the file 123456BobIsYourUncle and send it via FedX, USP, USPS... taxi, pneumatic tube. i.e. Lookup a unique ID and deliver it.
I have the bad feeling in the pit of my gut that trolls are applying for patents after reading journals, listening to convention talks, procedings of, mining text books and even fraternity file cabinets full of class notes.
If my gut feeling is founded, this is theft, plagerism and fraud. It is compounded by the misuse of the law.... and when it can be shown true the bad boys need to be cleaned out and flushed into a dark hole with no cell reception.
Universities that have not allowed the likes of Google to digitize their thesis files and more as needed to establish the truth.
Yes, these people clearly had no choice but to kill a human being because they watched a video.
Not quite. Many had not seen the video only heard second, third... hand that it was "bad".
Like lash/dot when all the content spins on something not said in the original slashdot post or original reference that may or may not have check-able facts.
Oh for crying out loud.... The R-Pi is perhaps the best $35 computer out there. Sure it might have some constraints but heck textbooks are copyright for ever.
Multiple ABI and API. Multiple programming languages. Opportunity for improvements abound.
Yes it lacks this and that but it takes ten min to reflash a SD card to load a homework task, to load a new OS, to load a new ABI of the same OS.
It is like making bread, did you clear the field, till the field, did you gather native grass seeds, did you harvest, thresh, winnow, mill, the flower. Did you start the fire with a match or wait for nature to flash a bolt of lightening and give you fire. Did you culture your own strain of natural yeast.
The R-Pi may be the best teaching tool for computer science in the last 50+ years.
In a year, in two years who knows. But it is cool to live in the future.
I don't know what the Android process is like, but I can say that the iOS process is really slick. At this point, Apple has it down to a science. The update was trivial to install, didn't take too long, and was easily configured on first boot. The 5.1 update process (which was the first delta update, so it was only ~50 MB instead of 700+) was especially fast.
And the download pre-cached by the time I was prompted to update. I did not see a no thank you button. Yes I could have dismissed it but there was a single clickable option. Then there was a list of application updates that continues.
They did make it easy... by removing choice and options. Other than maps -- no complaints.
And whether things are on paper or not wasn't one of the things she considered. What she considered was whether the law says you have a right to a secret ballot and decided that you don't and never have had such a right.
This one's definitely going up for appeal.
Yes appeal.... this will rattle in the courts for a while.
I think there are at least three levels of law here: county, state, federal. Any of which might be trumped by the constitution of the state and then the federal constitution.
If any of these layers of law specifies a secret ballot then linking barcode to an individual is illegal. This can be further complicated by voting place rules. For example if the charter of the proctors of the election specify privacy and the ballots violate that directive they can declare the ballot results null and void. Another court battle might follow if that happens but that is another issue. If the law or regulation is legal then a null and void return may well stand.
If the ballots are serialized to help verify that they are official ballots and that is the only aspect of the markings then like serial numbers on currency they are not identifying and potentially punitive or discriminatory.
Back to voting place directives. If voting machines have side shields curtains specified there is an explicit/implicit issue of privacy. If the voting law and regulations exclude media, reporters, cameras and other rules to establish a bubble of privacy linking a voter to a serialized ballot would invalidate the ballot process and perhaps mandate criminal prosecution.
My most recent paper ballot was a punch paper hanging chad thing. But the process required that I place the ballot in a sleeve that hid my hanging chads from prying eyes. i.e. the rules mandate privacy.
It gets interesting if the rules for the serialized ballots have a like wrapper of privacy. The sealed box for example is opaque cardboard ballot boxes in contrast to clear fish bowls....
Another issue is fundamental dishonesty and violation of sworn office. If the process presents one set of values but via a side door process violates those same values there is dishonesty and at the least once the left hand -- right hand conflict had been discovered the responsible parties perhaps with a mandate from the courts must resolve it. And the voters can toss the lying bags of poo out. If the elections are honest that is.
The ruling is interesting. It gives a green light to those that would knock down the privacy curtains and open the gates to abuse. Laws can plug this now obvious gaping hole. Let us hope that bad minded fools not zero day exploit this.
Craft some crafty letters to the gaming companies with deep pockets and request (later demand) improved and alternate interfaces.
In reality there are limits to what they can do but constructive requests could make you the co-inventor of a rich patent.
Always quietly send the same info to two companies so you have collaboration of your ideal. It only gets interesting if both run (to the patent office) with the idea.
Slashdot Mirror
.....snip..... They always swipe the EDLs through what I assume is a magcard reader. Now that could just be a charade of some sort ....more snip....
Interesting...
I just invented a dual card reader and a method and system to compare and contrast
the information contained via the magnetic bits, the RFID data download AND one or more of
a multitude of data base systems for various law enforcement, border protection and marketing reasons.
One claim is a mag card reader with an embedded or nearby RFID sensor connected to a communication device
as simple as a wire or as interesting as a multiplexed set of acoustic, IR and RF links digital and or analog to communicate
with or without a multiplexing device duplicate and or parcel out data to a multitude of data bases near and far. The multitude
of data bases can be isolated from each other to compartmentalize data and queries as needed by policy or law.
Another claim is to add a status indicator to the reader or in proximity of the indicator to indicate to the operator a result
of one or more of the comparisons or look up requests.
Another claim is to add a status indicator far from and invisible to the individual or operator so that additional actions
can be undertaken in an automated way up to but not inclusive of thermonuclear war.
Another claim is that the card reader is linked to a sensitive podium or doorway RFID reader and facial recognition
system including bio-information from digital measurements of weight (load cell), facial hair, height, clothing style,
gate, limb and bone length rations that further confirm and or identify the individual or group.
Another claim is related to the group (gaggle) dynamics where a group can be identified by a one or
more RFID tag sets. Should a group converge or diverge to surround or obtain a measure of tactical
advantage security can be invoked to disperse or channelize the opponents into a killing/ control zone.
Another claim is the use of RFID tags with and without ground based readers to target individuals
from a distance with rockets, mines or other lethal and non lethal weapons.
Why not skip school and have a friend carry her ID around... is that so hard for teachers to actually take attendance? Social problems CANNOT be solved with technology solutions... such as voting machines.
This is almost foolproof.
If the reason to carry it is attendance and they take attendance without it
to prove that the student is gaming the system proves that the system
does not need RFID dog tags. In my day teachers assigned seats and
a glance at the empty seats was all that was needed to do a head count.
Other teaching points like participation in class, actively taking notes and
social interactions with others are scored in schools and having an RFID
cattle tag does not help the teacher make notes for these topics.
The key issue extends well beyond the school. Shops and other businesses can
install readers and then when something goes amiss can file a subpoena duces tecum
for the ID to real person mapping. Guilty by association... "walked in the door with ten
individuals in grey hoodies" one of them stole a stick of gum. Failed to show up at
the movies (parental destination control)... Daughter got preggers, name all male associated
friends and random encounters.
Readers are getting less and less visible. There is no prohibition on reader technology.
While Google got in trouble driving about with a radio sniffer merchants are less likely
to be taken to task because the "victim" walks through their doors. Not just the school RFID
but any and all other tags in clothing, shoes, jackets, wallets, passports etc become an issue.
Leave the school id behind and the set of all other ID tags still make you a marketing or
other target. Yes a spoofed ID set is possible.... short of the expensive challenge and
response strong encryption tools.
data base.
A picture did make the local news. It looked like a loony toon (tm) version of a bomb. Fuses from an old fuse panel, a coiled bit of wire scavenged from a ESD strap and a Timex watch hot glued to a goth wrist band.
Very much the cartoon and in that regard clearly art.
Sadly a real device could be tiny and fit under and behind the X-ray shadow
of a modern oversize watch that is so popular at K-mart (or any of a hundred+
things). I have seen such things on Bond movies and seen parts at RS. I suspect
small is hard to get right the first time but easy the next 100 times which scares me.
Without a list of bugs this is bogus..
I can see an annual process where they request
bids to maintain a document system and one bidder
far away on a coast near the Pacific Ocean complained
that their bids were not being correctly considered.
This is no different than code portability. sizeof(something) differs
so 64 bit OSs are excluded. ANSII C is not C++, FORTRAN 66 is not FORTRAN 77 is not FORTRAN 90.
If the OS does not support vfork() it is toast and rejected. Folks writing open bids where exactly
one vendor can qualify understand this. Since quality engineers that write quality RFPs that are
all inclusive and fair are rare or unemployed this never happens.
I once had a boss that could not cope with a text file that did to end in .txt. As stupid as he was ... he was the boss.
For a hardware company interested in big iron sales this is folly, but hey they sold the HPC related business.
Contact your bureau of weights and measures also interstate commerce.
Their contract implies a measured service but not how the service is measured.
Measures are the purvue of weights and measures and I've service crosses state and international boundaries
As a minimum this is perhaps enough to break a contract but an attorney would know.
If there is no alternate service Monopoly money rules come to play.
Do count start and stop bits and also ECC overhead and also give attention to binary and decimal counting tricks.
Research central office equipment, they may be pulling numbers from hardware with "confidential" manuals that
may or may not be under NDA causing your contact to stonewall what should be a transparent contract clause.
Look back in time to the publication of the book "The Bell Curve".
The publication of the book almost caused riots in the street.
So here we go.... But classification based on bias born in bigotry.
Troubling,,,,, sadly there is no Native American classification. Perhaps
there is an attempt to preserve clusters of "Code talkers" by relegating them
back to the reservation. In this area they do understand statistical curves.
On first read I wanted to say: "yes please" then noted that hand sets would be years out.
So good thing my provider contract is so far out.
Then my brother called from the storm zone in NJ. The cell coverage was
fragile and he noted that most towers in his area were down for want of
battery power and no mains to recharge them.
We need ethecical rules to limit calls to a short period and text only.
We need more durable towers. We need "storm modes" that conserve batteries automagically
and log a location that can be sent with ease via text.
Many dentists decry fluoride because
it is so effective at reducing the need
for dentists the same applies here...
The smart solution is to make phones smart enough to
not use data except from designated WiFi resources.
Stucco needs a way to stick to the wood frame. The common solution
is to staple hardware cloth (galvanized steel screen) or galvanized expanded metal
to the frame. Like plaster it is possible to use wood lath but that in uncommon.
Chicken wire on lath works too but the thin wire is not durable. Plaster and cement both
have a high water content and attenuate a lot of RF. This foundation is important
when a vapor barrier is used to wrap a home. Your building code may mandate
differences.
To some extent the wire permits thinner and quicker application of the stucco --$$$--.
Further investigation will likely explain this better, but two possibilities are: Your microwave is slightly defective, or the interference is actually coming from the power cord, which the microwave is parasitically coupled to as an antenna. All sorts of electronics introduce noise on the power lines in your house, that's why they make fancy surge protectors with "filtered" outlets that reduce said noise from entering other devices.
+1 and note that the microwaves may be very well shielded but the power supply less so.
Bluetooth also operates at such a low power level that Bluetooth signals are easy to confuse
and interrupt.
The topic at hand involves damaging power levels. Reducing damaging levels to "noise" is
a lot easier than reducing the signal to invisible levels.
Another serious question:
Doesn't a faraday cage only work for the frequency for which it was designed? I'm thinking here that you can still fry the electronics inside a cage by operating at a frequency that the cage isn't designed for.
A cage not so much. The doors, connectors and other access points more so.
Any gap or hole presents a window for difraction of "waves" to pass. Some act like
frosted glass making the image fuzzy, some refect energy, some absorb energy, some
redistribute the energy (conduct it away).
A copper wire window screen passes most light (electromagnetic radiation) but reflects
or absorbs most radio frequency energy.
Cages can be made from mosquito screen, chicken wire, expanded metal
all do have frequency responses but faraday cages cover a very wide
radio frequency spectrum. So wide is the coverage that this is all but a non issue.
I need a tinfoil house!
It is called a stucco house.
If the expanded metal mesh that the stucco is trowed onto overlaps
correctly the house is nearly opaque to RF. Use Al or Cu screen
to support insulation in the roof and tie the walls and roof together
and your "hat" is complete.
Do not forget that doors and windows allow electromagnetic energy to pass.
Aluminized mirrors are also good shields. That geek with mirrors on the walls
and ceiling was on to something.
By George I will have another...
The little thing is a hoot and a holler...
I have a couple and may grab some more.
Watchers on the ARM front should keep an eye out for an upgrade to the Pandaboard family.
The OMAP 5 seems to be alive and running on a board with no name.
This appears to be extra legal punishment.
If the authorities take it in their own hands to humiliate and punish the "johns"
it leaves the door open for damages. A high profile exec could see is finances
crushed and for some it is BIG bucks.
Someone will pay, some shield laws exist but not from willful illegal acts.
.
To be honest, I think this anti-tobacco policy probably runs afoul of Federal anti-discrimination law. .....
Yes and other laws as well.
If I recall the original article indicated that it was a cost
saving measure. i.e. the Insurance company was able
to make a lower bid based on the non-smoking status.
Next is where it gets ugly. There is an active invasion into the lives of
the employee, testing and more perhaps.
Now the insurance agent comments that employees over the age
of 50 count 4x more in a pool of employees than a 24 year old.
A manager, executive, HR gets wind of this and reorganizes groups
so the 50+ staff is in a project then that project gets cut and
a new project staffed with 24 year old kids is expanded and
takes over the recently discovered functions of the group that was
eliminated.
With a wink and a nod perhaps a whisper there is a cost saver bonus
awarded and the job force has more unemployed. Productive workers
out of productive jobs and forced into some no income status.
Of all the things that Obama Care has wrong the way it attempts to
level the playing field is a good thing for voters over 40. They are
the ones that will have retirement pushed to 70 and I bet the insurance
guy will be able to answer the question... are they 4x, 5x, 10x more
expensive to insure. They will be unemployed or uninsured at work
if "management" can see a way to gain a $$ or two.
Helmets are a good thing but there is no need
for extreme helmets for many folk.
I have taken some bad falls as have friends and I can tell ya that helmets
are a good thing.
Stated slightly differently helmets are a tax, there are no helmet hooks or
racks at work. Heck it is hard to get a decent coat hook in California on
a rainy day.
Work places MUST wake up and provide places and hooks for employees...
gone are the days when an engineer worked 24/7 and only needed a dark
box in the corner to nap in (I kid you not).
Women in high heals need sensible shoes to walk and drive in. Again the ... to be sensible.
work place makes this a PITFA
Winter is at hand fellow workers, Demand worthy coat hooks and places to
keep sensible outside shoes in the work place.
I very gently opened the link and found that
it kept changing. At best it seems to be a
suggestion that perhaps maybe the cat has
whiskers that wiggle. As long as I look gently
on a windy day the whiskers could be wiggling because
it was alive or the wind was blowing.
Even the Google ads kept changing.
I think Google could be a cat killer if the
quantum bits was a Google search engine.
Someone needs to compare the energy of
these quakes with the energy released by
eating a bowl of Texas Chili with Beans.
Just because there is gurgling and burbling
does not mean that there is distress at depth.
The earth is a living moving thing and quakes
simply reflect that motion. So far no one has
shown these quakes to be a problem. So far.
For those that are history buffs in the late 70s or early
80s there was an annual report from Halliburton with
acres and acres of high pressure pumps fracking
a well. The total horse power of the pumps was
some a million +.
Still a million horsepower is a butterfly sneeze
in the world of earthquakes that mater.
A patent in this case is rather specific and
is unlikely to have been implemented and not grafted into
a real product.
Rummage about your old notes and old email and find
where this "invention" was first discussed and published.
Note that git was developed as a reaction to someone stepping on ....
the cash flow of bitkeeper and friends. A Git2 that works differently
is possible
To me this is a normal and obvious extension of a unique hash lookup
table. It can be done at the end of a network link a fiber channel
or any local or long distance data link including voice.
Hello Bob, get me the file 123456BobIsYourUncle and send it via FedX, USP, USPS ... taxi,
pneumatic tube. i.e. Lookup a unique ID and deliver it.
I have the bad feeling in the pit of my gut that trolls are applying for patents
after reading journals, listening to convention talks, procedings of, mining text books
and even fraternity file cabinets full of class notes.
If my gut feeling is founded, this is theft, plagerism and fraud. It is compounded
by the misuse of the law.... and when it can be shown true the bad boys need
to be cleaned out and flushed into a dark hole with no cell reception.
Universities that have not allowed the likes of Google to digitize their
thesis files and more as needed to establish the truth.
Yes, these people clearly had no choice but to kill a human being because they watched a video.
Not quite.
Many had not seen the video only heard second, third... hand that it was "bad".
Like lash/dot when all the content spins on something not said
in the original slashdot post or original reference that may or may
not have check-able facts.
Oh for crying out loud....
The R-Pi is perhaps the best $35 computer out there.
Sure it might have some constraints but heck textbooks are copyright for ever.
Multiple ABI and API.
Multiple programming languages.
Opportunity for improvements abound.
Yes it lacks this and that but
it takes ten min to reflash a SD card to
load a homework task, to load a new OS,
to load a new ABI of the same OS.
It is like making bread, did you clear the field,
till the field, did you gather native grass seeds, did you harvest,
thresh, winnow, mill, the flower. Did you start the
fire with a match or wait for nature to flash a bolt
of lightening and give you fire. Did you culture your
own strain of natural yeast.
The R-Pi may be the best teaching tool for computer science
in the last 50+ years.
In a year, in two years who knows.
But it is cool to live in the future.
.....
I don't know what the Android process is like, but I can say that the iOS process is really slick. At this point, Apple has it down to a science. The update was trivial to install, didn't take too long, and was easily configured on first boot. The 5.1 update process (which was the first delta update, so it was only ~50 MB instead of 700+) was especially fast.
And the download pre-cached by the time I was prompted to update.
I did not see a no thank you button. Yes I could have dismissed it
but there was a single clickable option. Then there was a list
of application updates that continues.
They did make it easy... by removing choice and options.
Other than maps -- no complaints.
The barcodes ARE on paper.
And whether things are on paper or not wasn't one of the things she considered. What she considered was whether the law says you have a right to a secret ballot and decided that you don't and never have had such a right.
This one's definitely going up for appeal.
Yes appeal.... this will rattle in the courts for a while.
I think there are at least three levels of law here: county, state, federal.
Any of which might be trumped by the constitution of the state and then
the federal constitution.
If any of these layers of law specifies a secret ballot then linking barcode
to an individual is illegal. This can be further complicated by voting place
rules. For example if the charter of the proctors of the election specify
privacy and the ballots violate that directive they can declare the ballot results
null and void. Another court battle might follow if that happens but that
is another issue. If the law or regulation is legal then a null and void
return may well stand.
If the ballots are serialized to help verify that they are official ballots
and that is the only aspect of the markings then like serial numbers
on currency they are not identifying and potentially punitive or
discriminatory.
Back to voting place directives. If voting machines have side shields
curtains specified there is an explicit/implicit issue of privacy. If the
voting law and regulations exclude media, reporters, cameras and other
rules to establish a bubble of privacy linking a voter to a serialized ballot
would invalidate the ballot process and perhaps mandate criminal prosecution.
My most recent paper ballot was a punch paper hanging chad thing.
But the process required that I place the ballot in a sleeve that hid
my hanging chads from prying eyes. i.e. the rules mandate privacy.
It gets interesting if the rules for the serialized ballots have a like
wrapper of privacy. The sealed box for example is opaque cardboard
ballot boxes in contrast to clear fish bowls....
Another issue is fundamental dishonesty and violation of sworn office.
If the process presents one set of values but via a side door process
violates those same values there is dishonesty and at the least once
the left hand -- right hand conflict had been discovered the responsible
parties perhaps with a mandate from the courts must resolve it. And
the voters can toss the lying bags of poo out. If the elections are honest
that is.
The ruling is interesting. It gives a green light to those that would knock
down the privacy curtains and open the gates to abuse. Laws can
plug this now obvious gaping hole. Let us hope that bad minded fools
not zero day exploit this.
Craft some crafty letters to the gaming companies with
deep pockets and request (later demand) improved
and alternate interfaces.
In reality there are limits to what they can do but
constructive requests could make you the co-inventor
of a rich patent.
Always quietly send the same info to two companies so
you have collaboration of your ideal. It only gets
interesting if both run (to the patent office) with the idea.