How far are you broadcasting in the first place? If its like 10 feet who cares?
Ten feet is huge though. I figure a good distance is between one and three inches. Anything beyond that and a digital pickpocket could just walk around with a RFID reader in a briefcase and collect passport information.
My ATM card now has a RFID chip in it for use at gas pumps and cash registers and the like. I don't see what's preventing a digital pickpocket from stealing my card information while my card is in my pocket. Anyone bold enough to bump into me and steal my wallet is bold enough to bump me with a briefcase and steal my card number. I wouldn't even know that my information was stolen until I saw my bank statement.
If you're going to go so far as to require some actual activity on the part of the RFID tag holder why use a passive device? Instead of RFID tags your passport could just as easily have a chip that needs to be placed in physical contact with the appropriate reader to work.
Please don't mod this as flamebait or troll. I'm not alone. This just happens to be my point of view and I believe that if cures and treatments may be found from such research I will support it wholly until the day I die.
The people who thing cloning is moraly wrong get to scream from their rooftops that it's evil and wrong. You have to make excuses and say that it "happens to be" your point of view.
It's your opinion / moral belief and there's no reason to appologise for holding that belief.
From TFA: "Grand Theft Auto appears to be about shooting cops and hookers, but it's actually a game of exploration and freedom."
It is? Because I thought it was about shooting cops and hookers. If you want to boil it down to what it "actually" is then it's an adventure, or perhaps an escape.
I agree with this point fully. And to all of those who say that there are phones that are bigger than PDAs, I don't want my phone to be as big as a PDA. A phone that big loses functionality as a little thing that I can stick in my pocket, and really looks kind of silly to talk on.
Not that I don't think that PDAs have imense potential to be the multifaceted devices of the future (or today), but the trend among phones is to get ever smaller and I figure the ideal PDA would have about the viewing area of a paperback book.
Yes, perhaps slashdot posts some of the more inane stories, but that's simply because reporting on science news is not slashdot's job. In fact it's extremely rare that slashdot does any actual reporting. Generally a slashdot article is twenty words long and is simply a commentary on some reporting that someone else has done. On top of it all slashdot's overall mission has nothing to do with only giving us the hard scientific facts (if there truly are such things, especialy in recent discoveries) it's here to help inform us what is going on in the nerdy world. And I would further venture to state that the point of slashdot (and the appeal) has little to nothing to do with the stories and everything to do with the commentary. If the article is based on good science the discussion will reflect that, and if it is based on factless bullshit the discussion will have twenty wonderful counterarguments within two hours. So in a way it's better that incorrect articles get posted on slashdot so that we as a community have the opportunity to read them within the context of the expertese of our peers as opposed to the front page of the science section of our local newspaper where we may begin to believe that there's life on Venus.
ICQ didn't manage to pull it off, and neither Yahoo Messenger or Microsoft's Messenger have the community required. What's going to happen to AOL IM if AOL goes the way of Compuserv or Prodigy? As a college student I'm a member of a sort of new AIM generation, I've been there from the beginning, I use AIM far more than the phone, I know people who have computers seemingly devoted to AIM and MP3's. I know that if AIM suddenly lost support, or (I shudder to think) became a pay service, people could easily go to a different chat program but I see the exact same thing happening with AIM that happened with Napster. Sure I can use Kazaa, Morpheus, Audiogalaxy, or any of a multitude of other programs to steal my music, but it's nothing like the days of Napster when everything was in one place. There is substantial advantage to having a single community unified by the piece of software it uses.
God, how can you all be so insanely dense. It's obviously not hate speach, it's prophecy. An evil presence coming from the south east??? How can you not see.
Sauron is Bin Laden, Gandalf is Dick Cheney (remember how he disapeared for a bit... just like the balrog thing), Aragorn is Colin Powell, Frodo is George Bush, Helms Deep is Iraq.
It's all so obvious. Though I'm not sure how we're going to get the giant eagles to help us in the final battle against Bin Laden's forces.
The way I see it it still comes down to the games. If the games are great and a gamecube becomes a standard instalation into everybody's household (see PSX, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo Entertainment System) the fact that you can get one preinstaled into your DVD player (or who knows what in the future) will be great. But if Nintendo produces games that are overly kiddy (N64) or perhaps pulls a Sega then it won't matter at all how many other companies feel like marketing it in their product. Nobody is going to buy a Gamecube/Microwaive if the fun games are on the PS2.
Though I do think it's a great idea and I'd love to see it take off. The gamecube/washing machine should really help take the dull off of doing my laundry.
This worries me. Mainly because a while ago I was wondering why my shower curtain sucked inward. Honestly at the time I contemplated the thermal theory. But I figured if it was the hot air thing then why wasn't the hot air just expanding and the shower curtain pushing outward. Anyhow if it was thermal than my shower curtain would have been sucked in sort of a half cylander with a vent at the bottom. as opposed to just the sphere it seems to. Well now I know... Wierd.
Man there are problems involved with people digging and hitting power lines and water mains now, imagine the sheer terror caused by hitting a liquid nitrogen line.
I can see the newscast now Two men frozen to death while digging in their back yards, power to the city is out until the liquid nitrogen pipe can be fixed
I love the concept of superconductors, but I kind of wonder about the feasability of mag-lev and power lines and the like without high Tc Superconductors.
The adults are going to know something's up when a little girl comes up to them with two barbie dolls and asks them which one they prefer, this may be the reason for the 50-50 split.
So what evidence do you have for the fact that adults picked the black barbie about 50% of the time and not 90-100% because they all wanted to feel politically correct. Second why did adults pick the barbie in the lavander dress most often when she was black?
(a) like the lavender dress Exactly my point, adults were more likely to see through the skin color in the equally attractive barbies and pick the one in the prettier dress.
(b) I find white women more attractive than black women (which has nothing to do with racial preference), In a sense that was probably the point of the study, "Do people view whites more attractive than blacks."
(c) I'm only 8 years old (in the case of the children) and I have no preference in women.
Ever hear of the Oedipus complex? I actually think that little kids would prefer the barbie that looked most like their mother (thus white or black). Anyhow 8 year olds do have crushes on girls (or boys) and thus sexual preferences.
Not necessarily because I'd personally oppose it (which I probably would) but because I know what it's like to try and get sensetive subjects tought in school. For example try teaching someone kids about sex, and safe sex or the dangers of drugs.
I'm sorry to say that the odds against your dream being realized are pretty high.
Amazing how you can restrict the showing of violent video games and violent movies to children but you can't stop them from getting the guns to actually kill people.
No one out there can prove that video games lead to violent actions. But I'm pretty sure I can prove that there are a lot of deaths that never would have happened if kids couldn't get a hold of guns. (Not really things like Columbine but more of things like kids shooting themselves and their friends because they find daddy's gun stored in his dresser drawer, or someone who gets angry and kills another person in a heat of the moment thing [note speed and effectiveness of guns])
Look maybe some companies are adding blood to their games because it sells but no more than other companies are adding 'boobies'. But if you think about it it's no different than the motion picture industry and last time I checked you can advertize a rated R movie on TV.
But that's not even my main point. Look at games like HalfLife, Quake, MetalGear Solid, and a tremendous number of others. These are fun games, and they are not marketed to seven year olds their target audience is 18-21. And they aren't even exceedingly bloody. I remember a time right after your well mentioned Mortal Kombat came out that games were made bloodier just for the sake of being bloodier and they didn't sell.
Even look at today's top selling fighting games. They are not based on Fatalities or the intricate ways that people rip eachother appart. For example look at Bushido Blade (a great game in my opinion). Its main selling point was the fact that there were huge interactive levels and tons of different weapon combinations to choose from.
My final point is a rating of M is an umbrella rating, just like an R rating for a movie. A movie can be rated R for swearing, drug use, nudity, violence, or something called adult themes (which really means complex plot). Video games can be rated M for many of the same reasons. Why should we stop the marketing of a game like Ultima Online, Everquest, or Asherton's call because it was rated M (I was going to say Final Fantasy 9 but apparant that got a T). Or how about Fallout or Myth, the list of great games goes on and on.
(oh and as a PS Nintendo rapidly discovered that they really couldn't make cutsey games... look at the failure of the N64.)
Ok look here's my basic reasoning as to why people will be very slow to accept micropayment stuff. You simply don't get a tangable object. When I buy a CD I get a CD, printed label, jewl case, booklet thing possibly with lyrics, and all of the little objects that come with a CD. When I buy a comic book I get a comic. I can pick up that flimsy paper object and open to any page at any time. I can lend it to my friends. I can't do that with internet comics. I mean I could have a friend come over and read someone's comic but what happens when I want to show someone Cerebus (thousands of pages of "phonebooks") or the Sandman Collection? Maybe if instead of HTML you got some kind of a program... that might be a bit better. Then I don't have to wory about my connection being up or forgetting my password (thing about that is I could always copy it and send it to my friends... sort of defeating the purpose). [Then again for 25 cents I'm sure people wouldn't mind just paying... hell if MP3's were like 25 cents each maybe people would be willing to pay for them to...]
You know you're ignoring the fact that there is either missing time between 3 and 4:40 (depending on what homework done means) or 4:40 and 6:00...
and if food includes eating at a computer (which I've been known to do) there is missing time between 6:00 and 6:30...
I wouldn't scrutanize....
What are you talking about I broke the second law of thermodynamics yesterday... You should have seen it... all the clutter on the floor of my room got up and moved to it's proper place... it was incredible... Just like Fantasia... sorry just screwing around
Sounds great... Humm that'd mean since I'm a student and I make humm lets see 0 dollars per year 1/10th of my income is lets see... that'd be uhh... $0 per ticket... WOOHOO I CAN DRIVE AS FAST AS I WANT!!!!!!!
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A bit tough when someone just got a shiny new metal knee joint.
I'd be more worried about an over reliance on RFID tags causing lazyness.
Ten feet is huge though. I figure a good distance is between one and three inches. Anything beyond that and a digital pickpocket could just walk around with a RFID reader in a briefcase and collect passport information.
My ATM card now has a RFID chip in it for use at gas pumps and cash registers and the like. I don't see what's preventing a digital pickpocket from stealing my card information while my card is in my pocket. Anyone bold enough to bump into me and steal my wallet is bold enough to bump me with a briefcase and steal my card number. I wouldn't even know that my information was stolen until I saw my bank statement.
If you're going to go so far as to require some actual activity on the part of the RFID tag holder why use a passive device? Instead of RFID tags your passport could just as easily have a chip that needs to be placed in physical contact with the appropriate reader to work.
The people who thing cloning is moraly wrong get to scream from their rooftops that it's evil and wrong. You have to make excuses and say that it "happens to be" your point of view.
It's your opinion / moral belief and there's no reason to appologise for holding that belief.
Nah, to truly humiliate Thompson would be to get a picture of him pre-ordering GTA4.
So, what would happen if I were to say:
I vote for Kerry (or better yet, Gore)
but if he doesn't win, I vote for Bush?
From TFA: "Grand Theft Auto appears to be about shooting cops and hookers, but it's actually a game of exploration and freedom."
It is? Because I thought it was about shooting cops and hookers. If you want to boil it down to what it "actually" is then it's an adventure, or perhaps an escape.
Not that I don't think that PDAs have imense potential to be the multifaceted devices of the future (or today), but the trend among phones is to get ever smaller and I figure the ideal PDA would have about the viewing area of a paperback book.
So, does anyone know of somewhere that I can say, hear, the speach. I mean it is a speach.
No no, I think that 'drive some cider together' would be cocidering. Concidering on the other hand means to make fake cider.
Yes, perhaps slashdot posts some of the more inane stories, but that's simply because reporting on science news is not slashdot's job. In fact it's extremely rare that slashdot does any actual reporting. Generally a slashdot article is twenty words long and is simply a commentary on some reporting that someone else has done. On top of it all slashdot's overall mission has nothing to do with only giving us the hard scientific facts (if there truly are such things, especialy in recent discoveries) it's here to help inform us what is going on in the nerdy world. And I would further venture to state that the point of slashdot (and the appeal) has little to nothing to do with the stories and everything to do with the commentary. If the article is based on good science the discussion will reflect that, and if it is based on factless bullshit the discussion will have twenty wonderful counterarguments within two hours. So in a way it's better that incorrect articles get posted on slashdot so that we as a community have the opportunity to read them within the context of the expertese of our peers as opposed to the front page of the science section of our local newspaper where we may begin to believe that there's life on Venus.
ICQ didn't manage to pull it off, and neither Yahoo Messenger or Microsoft's Messenger have the community required. What's going to happen to AOL IM if AOL goes the way of Compuserv or Prodigy? As a college student I'm a member of a sort of new AIM generation, I've been there from the beginning, I use AIM far more than the phone, I know people who have computers seemingly devoted to AIM and MP3's. I know that if AIM suddenly lost support, or (I shudder to think) became a pay service, people could easily go to a different chat program but I see the exact same thing happening with AIM that happened with Napster. Sure I can use Kazaa, Morpheus, Audiogalaxy, or any of a multitude of other programs to steal my music, but it's nothing like the days of Napster when everything was in one place. There is substantial advantage to having a single community unified by the piece of software it uses.
Sauron is Bin Laden, Gandalf is Dick Cheney (remember how he disapeared for a bit... just like the balrog thing), Aragorn is Colin Powell, Frodo is George Bush, Helms Deep is Iraq.
It's all so obvious. Though I'm not sure how we're going to get the giant eagles to help us in the final battle against Bin Laden's forces.
Though I do think it's a great idea and I'd love to see it take off. The gamecube/washing machine should really help take the dull off of doing my laundry.
This worries me. Mainly because a while ago I was wondering why my shower curtain sucked inward. Honestly at the time I contemplated the thermal theory. But I figured if it was the hot air thing then why wasn't the hot air just expanding and the shower curtain pushing outward. Anyhow if it was thermal than my shower curtain would have been sucked in sort of a half cylander with a vent at the bottom. as opposed to just the sphere it seems to. Well now I know... Wierd.
I can see the newscast now Two men frozen to death while digging in their back yards, power to the city is out until the liquid nitrogen pipe can be fixed
I love the concept of superconductors, but I kind of wonder about the feasability of mag-lev and power lines and the like without high Tc Superconductors.
Oh my, I can just see it now. "Your honor the napster users seem to be getting around the block by using a language they call leet hackzor."
So what evidence do you have for the fact that adults picked the black barbie about 50% of the time and not 90-100% because they all wanted to feel politically correct. Second why did adults pick the barbie in the lavander dress most often when she was black?
(a) like the lavender dress Exactly my point, adults were more likely to see through the skin color in the equally attractive barbies and pick the one in the prettier dress.
(b) I find white women more attractive than black women (which has nothing to do with racial preference), In a sense that was probably the point of the study, "Do people view whites more attractive than blacks."
(c) I'm only 8 years old (in the case of the children) and I have no preference in women. Ever hear of the Oedipus complex? I actually think that little kids would prefer the barbie that looked most like their mother (thus white or black). Anyhow 8 year olds do have crushes on girls (or boys) and thus sexual preferences.
I'm sorry to say that the odds against your dream being realized are pretty high.
No one out there can prove that video games lead to violent actions. But I'm pretty sure I can prove that there are a lot of deaths that never would have happened if kids couldn't get a hold of guns. (Not really things like Columbine but more of things like kids shooting themselves and their friends because they find daddy's gun stored in his dresser drawer, or someone who gets angry and kills another person in a heat of the moment thing [note speed and effectiveness of guns])
Look maybe some companies are adding blood to their games because it sells but no more than other companies are adding 'boobies'. But if you think about it it's no different than the motion picture industry and last time I checked you can advertize a rated R movie on TV. But that's not even my main point. Look at games like HalfLife, Quake, MetalGear Solid, and a tremendous number of others. These are fun games, and they are not marketed to seven year olds their target audience is 18-21. And they aren't even exceedingly bloody. I remember a time right after your well mentioned Mortal Kombat came out that games were made bloodier just for the sake of being bloodier and they didn't sell. Even look at today's top selling fighting games. They are not based on Fatalities or the intricate ways that people rip eachother appart. For example look at Bushido Blade (a great game in my opinion). Its main selling point was the fact that there were huge interactive levels and tons of different weapon combinations to choose from. My final point is a rating of M is an umbrella rating, just like an R rating for a movie. A movie can be rated R for swearing, drug use, nudity, violence, or something called adult themes (which really means complex plot). Video games can be rated M for many of the same reasons. Why should we stop the marketing of a game like Ultima Online, Everquest, or Asherton's call because it was rated M (I was going to say Final Fantasy 9 but apparant that got a T). Or how about Fallout or Myth, the list of great games goes on and on. (oh and as a PS Nintendo rapidly discovered that they really couldn't make cutsey games... look at the failure of the N64.)
Ok look here's my basic reasoning as to why people will be very slow to accept micropayment stuff. You simply don't get a tangable object. When I buy a CD I get a CD, printed label, jewl case, booklet thing possibly with lyrics, and all of the little objects that come with a CD. When I buy a comic book I get a comic. I can pick up that flimsy paper object and open to any page at any time. I can lend it to my friends. I can't do that with internet comics. I mean I could have a friend come over and read someone's comic but what happens when I want to show someone Cerebus (thousands of pages of "phonebooks") or the Sandman Collection? Maybe if instead of HTML you got some kind of a program... that might be a bit better. Then I don't have to wory about my connection being up or forgetting my password (thing about that is I could always copy it and send it to my friends... sort of defeating the purpose). [Then again for 25 cents I'm sure people wouldn't mind just paying... hell if MP3's were like 25 cents each maybe people would be willing to pay for them to...]
You know you're ignoring the fact that there is either missing time between 3 and 4:40 (depending on what homework done means) or 4:40 and 6:00... and if food includes eating at a computer (which I've been known to do) there is missing time between 6:00 and 6:30... I wouldn't scrutanize....
What are you talking about I broke the second law of thermodynamics yesterday... You should have seen it... all the clutter on the floor of my room got up and moved to it's proper place... it was incredible... Just like Fantasia... sorry just screwing around
Sounds great... Humm that'd mean since I'm a student and I make humm lets see 0 dollars per year 1/10th of my income is lets see... that'd be uhh... $0 per ticket... WOOHOO I CAN DRIVE AS FAST AS I WANT!!!!!!!