Do any of the cell companies that serve your area offer "wireless broadband" service? A company I used to work for supplied me with an a Verizon card and it seemed to work well where there was service.
ThosLives Said: What's the point of bringing it up in an election debate?
I would think the point might be a bit clearer for you if we state it this way. "Do you intend to make policy decisions based on superstition and arrogant ignorance?" And to answer another of the questions in this thread, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee raised their hands when asked "who does not believe in evolution" have stated that they do not "believe in" evolution. Their opinions on gravity and on antibiotics vs. exorcism are unestablished. For more on the candidates: http://thefishwars.blogspot.com/2007/05/republican -candidates-and-evolution.html
Lets be clear what we are talking about here. The risk is that with special equipment someone might be able to read the same information that is printed on the card. RFID credit and debit cards have been around for awhile speedpass being an example. And while it is possible to read the information passed between the card and reader with enough effort, you probably hand your credit card to the waiter in a restaurant and don't even think about it. That person walks out of your sight and in some cases steals the information.
The solution is to watch the data and flag suspicious transaction. Most credit card companies now offer a zero liability identity theft policy.
This is a separate issue from the RFID passports raised by some of the other posters. The danger there is not really identity theft, although that's bound to happen as it does today with the paper form. The danger in a remote readable passport is that it can be used as a trigger for an explosive or to target persons of a certain nationality in a crowd. There's no reasonable defense for using RF over a contact coupling to read a passport. There's no added danger in a card that has to touch the reader to be read.
That's actually a fine solution for credit cards as well, although the risks are much less.
Disclaimer: I did write a book on RFID http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rfid/, but other than that I don't have any vested interest in the technology.
Actually this happens every few months in Second Life and it's not like we just started calling it grey goo this weekend. Second life is turning out to be a good simulation of some of the issues we might have to deal with in real life with universal (or at least really flexible) fabricators and the collapse of scarcity economies. The problems, and the responses to issues like the big red rubber balls, rings and springs or even drifting lotus flowers that occaisionally (sometimes accidentally and sometimes maliciously) plague the game are giving us some good insight into what balance of rules and incentives might help control similar problems fifty years from now with atoms instead of bits.
I want to express my support for nerdloving chicks and the geeks who fly long distances (preferably full fare economy or first refundable) to meet them. May I suggest you buy a delicious cookie ($2.00) and a whisky sour ($5.00) and a pillow ($1.00) to rest your head for the flight.
Sure it's somewhat more convenient to be able to just be near an charging station rather than touching it, but I don't see much value in this for laptops and mobile phones over just having a charging pad that uses inductive or capacitive coupling. It would be equally good at reducing cables, doesn't require a huge antenna and is probably safer. The example of an autonomous factory robot recharging makes some sense, but I suspect in most cases a close coupling, charging floor pad or wall plate would be better there too. And there wouldn't be the same problem with large conductive objects moving around near the charging pad as there would be with this near field coupling idea.
"Get them right and I'll take you more seriously." Should be: "Get them right, and I'll take you more seriously."
The comma separates two independent clauses.
What led you to believe that "Proper spelling, grammar, and usage are easy compared to the syntax of a programming language or shell?"
Has all of the millions spent on natural language parsing been a silly misunderstanding? Now tell me, did I use that question mark correctly when quoting you? How would you have done it?
The articles were light (to the point of vacuum) on details about the approach proposed by the company.
From the article: "The system's architecture makes it flexible enough to accommodate evolving policy change," including the importance of "providing public access while protecting privacy and sensitive information." From the sound of that I'm betting its some wonky and ridiculous XML format infected with a sadly pathetic little DRM imp. The fact is that I can read anything if I have a copy of the software that originally viewed/created it and the machine (or an emulation of the machine) on which the software ran. Adding one more format to the mix just means we have to emulate one more machine and keep track of one more piece of software and all the doubtlessly expensive effort which will be spent in conversion is wasted.
It's great to see the National Archives working on this but I would rather see the tax money farmed out in challenge grants to organizations like the Long Now that have a chance in Hell of delivering something useful than pouring money into yet another defense company to ensure that whatever technology we use to store records can be properly sanitized and locked away according to the whims of government and "changing policy." The biggest issue facing us right now is that most of the music, words and images created by our civilization are illegal to preserve. Ridiculous copyright extensions have ensured that the huge mass of data for which no rights owner can be found will simply rot instead of being digitized and stored.
A software emulator can ensure that historic file formats are readable in the future, but Big Media would rather squeeze our history to death before it letting go of the rights.
This is like 1000 fires at the Library in Alexandria. Future generations will curse us for every scrap of information we allow to rot while we squabble.
From a purely statistical perspective, this is incorrect. The sample size is not large enough for any conclusions to be drawn about the frequency of life throughout the universe, or even just the galaxy.
You're right, that's probably the better point to make.
here is one train of thought that life is actually a cosmic imperitive so to speak.
But that's metaphysics, not science. There is a story of a puddle which forms in a hole in some cement. The puddle thinks "ooooo what a nice hole, it fits me perfectly, it must have been made for me. The puddle keeps thinking this right up until the last drop dries up.
My personal opinion is that "life" is just a word with no particular meaning. Some systems appear to be "alive" to us because we are systems evolved to distinguish food, threats and mates. We didn't have to happen, neither did pigs or mastadons or bacteria.
Since we haven't found something we want to call life anywhere other than Earth yet, we are looking at a 0% chance based on past results. But as the stock brokers say, "past results are no indication of future returns."
My personal hope is that we find life all over the place, and more importantly that we find ourselves spread all over the place coming up with inovative ways to keep our winning streak going. I'm hoping there's some self-aware energy pattern directly descended from our earliest, single-celled grandpappy there to watch the final neutron decay, or, having found a way to make its own universe or enter others, outliving the end of this one.
We can just cross-splice astronauts and water bears. Water bears laugh at your puny cosmic rays! (If they laughed, which they don't because they are too tough for that kind of crap.)
SINGAPORE : SingTel has confirmed Pakistan's Internet and cellphone links to the rest of the world have been cut off by a fault in a key submarine cable.
But it has played down reports that millions of people have been affected by the breakdown.
I think we are all taking this the wrong way. SCO is a company that has worked diligently to protect it's hard won Intellectual Property, (whatever that is). I would like to offer up 28 Discworld MUD copper pieces for their entire inventory of IP.
Mr. Cut-Me-Own-Customer's-Throat McBride Dibbler may reach me by carrier fruitbat addressed to Zircephate, Unseen University. Ank Morpork.
It's amazing how Slashdotters regularly jump to the conclusion that sites seek or even want a Slashdotting. This guy posted an idea to his blog, and tried the idea out on another. Whole Lotta Nothing blogged the blogger, and then Cory Doctorow noticed the post and mentioned it on boingboing Doug Nelson noticed this someplace and posted the story to Slashdot, where Cowboy Neal thought it was interesting and shared it with the rest of us. Now Buffington will enjoy a surprise visit by hordes of razorbacked monkeys clicking links and eeeeking their outrage at the crass comercialism of people who do not live in their parent's basement. When Google and the advertisers notice the flood of dry clicks-throughs, Buffington will probably loose his account and get to pay a nice bandwidth charge besides. Where does anyone see the motivation to "pay for the Slashdot link" as one poster implied?
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Software vendors, move along please. Application spam is all used up.
Unless you need failover.
Godwin's Law violation detected in line four. Please report to HR for ontological realignment.
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Do any of the cell companies that serve your area offer "wireless broadband" service? A company I used to work for supplied me with an a Verizon card and it seemed to work well where there was service.
That is a Brilliant question. I'd love to see them commit to an answer.
ThosLives Said: What's the point of bringing it up in an election debate?
n -candidates-and-evolution.html
I would think the point might be a bit clearer for you if we state it this way. "Do you intend to make policy decisions based on superstition and arrogant ignorance?" And to answer another of the questions in this thread, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee raised their hands when asked "who does not believe in evolution" have stated that they do not "believe in" evolution. Their opinions on gravity and on antibiotics vs. exorcism are unestablished. For more on the candidates: http://thefishwars.blogspot.com/2007/05/republica
Lets be clear what we are talking about here. The risk is that with special equipment someone might be able to read the same information that is printed on the card. RFID credit and debit cards have been around for awhile speedpass being an example. And while it is possible to read the information passed between the card and reader with enough effort, you probably hand your credit card to the waiter in a restaurant and don't even think about it. That person walks out of your sight and in some cases steals the information.
The solution is to watch the data and flag suspicious transaction. Most credit card companies now offer a zero liability identity theft policy.
This is a separate issue from the RFID passports raised by some of the other posters. The danger there is not really identity theft, although that's bound to happen as it does today with the paper form. The danger in a remote readable passport is that it can be used as a trigger for an explosive or to target persons of a certain nationality in a crowd. There's no reasonable defense for using RF over a contact coupling to read a passport. There's no added danger in a card that has to touch the reader to be read.
That's actually a fine solution for credit cards as well, although the risks are much less.
Disclaimer: I did write a book on RFID http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rfid/, but other than that I don't have any vested interest in the technology.
Actually this happens every few months in Second Life and it's not like we just started calling it grey goo this weekend. Second life is turning out to be a good simulation of some of the issues we might have to deal with in real life with universal (or at least really flexible) fabricators and the collapse of scarcity economies. The problems, and the responses to issues like the big red rubber balls, rings and springs or even drifting lotus flowers that occaisionally (sometimes accidentally and sometimes maliciously) plague the game are giving us some good insight into what balance of rules and incentives might help control similar problems fifty years from now with atoms instead of bits.
and that's just my two,
I want to express my support for nerdloving chicks and the geeks who fly long distances (preferably full fare economy or first refundable) to meet them. May I suggest you buy a delicious cookie ($2.00) and a whisky sour ($5.00) and a pillow ($1.00) to rest your head for the flight.
Sure it's somewhat more convenient to be able to just be near an charging station rather than touching it, but I don't see much value in this for laptops and mobile phones over just having a charging pad that uses inductive or capacitive coupling. It would be equally good at reducing cables, doesn't require a huge antenna and is probably safer. The example of an autonomous factory robot recharging makes some sense, but I suspect in most cases a close coupling, charging floor pad or wall plate would be better there too. And there wouldn't be the same problem with large conductive objects moving around near the charging pad as there would be with this near field coupling idea.
"Get them right and I'll take you more seriously."
Should be:
"Get them right, and I'll take you more seriously."
The comma separates two independent clauses.
What led you to believe that "Proper spelling, grammar, and usage are easy compared to the syntax of a programming language or shell?"
Has all of the millions spent on natural language parsing been a silly misunderstanding? Now tell me, did I use that question mark correctly when quoting you? How would you have done it?
IANAL, but this sounds like an appropriate use of eminent domain.
The articles were light (to the point of vacuum) on details about the approach proposed by the company.
From the article: "The system's architecture makes it flexible enough to accommodate evolving policy change," including the importance of "providing public access while protecting privacy and sensitive information." From the sound of that I'm betting its some wonky and ridiculous XML format infected with a sadly pathetic little DRM imp.
The fact is that I can read anything if I have a copy of the software that originally viewed/created it and the machine (or an emulation of the machine) on which the software ran. Adding one more format to the mix just means we have to emulate one more machine and keep track of one more piece of software and all the doubtlessly expensive effort which will be spent in conversion is wasted.
It's great to see the National Archives working on this but I would rather see the tax money farmed out in challenge grants to organizations like the
Long Now that have a chance in Hell of delivering something useful than pouring money into yet another defense company to ensure that whatever technology we use to store records can be properly sanitized and locked away according to the whims of government and "changing policy."
The biggest issue facing us right now is that most of the music, words and images created by our civilization are illegal to preserve. Ridiculous copyright extensions have ensured that the huge mass of data for which no rights owner can be found will simply rot instead of being digitized and stored.
A software emulator can ensure that historic file formats are readable in the future, but Big Media would rather squeeze our history to death before it letting go of the rights.
This is like 1000 fires at the Library in Alexandria. Future generations will curse us for every scrap of information we allow to rot while we squabble.
From a purely statistical perspective, this is incorrect. The sample size is not large enough for any conclusions to be drawn about the frequency of life throughout the universe, or even just the galaxy.
You're right, that's probably the better point to make.
here is one train of thought that life is actually a cosmic imperitive so to speak.
But that's metaphysics, not science.
There is a story of a puddle which forms in a hole in some cement. The puddle thinks "ooooo what a nice hole, it fits me perfectly, it must have been made for me. The puddle keeps thinking this right up until the last drop dries up.
My personal opinion is that "life" is just a word with no particular meaning. Some systems appear to be "alive" to us because we are systems evolved to distinguish food, threats and mates. We didn't have to happen, neither did pigs or mastadons or bacteria.
Since we haven't found something we want to call
life anywhere other than Earth yet, we are looking at a 0% chance based on past results. But as the stock brokers say, "past results are no indication of future returns."
My personal hope is that we find life all over the place, and more importantly that we find ourselves spread all over the place coming up with inovative ways to keep our winning streak going. I'm hoping there's some self-aware energy pattern directly descended from our earliest, single-celled grandpappy there to watch the final neutron decay, or, having found a way to make its own universe or enter others, outliving the end of this one.
Let's get to work!
This isn't flamebait! It's an honest (and sane) opinion.
We can just cross-splice astronauts and water bears. Water bears laugh at your puny cosmic rays! (If they laughed, which they don't because they are too tough for that kind of crap.)
SINGAPORE : SingTel has confirmed Pakistan's Internet and cellphone links to the rest of the world have been cut off by a fault in a key submarine cable.
But it has played down reports that millions of people have been affected by the breakdown.
Today is beer day
Tomorrow is 1's day
and Saturday is Mojoday.
Maybe we can invite those 1 million zombies to the shindig. Yow!
I think we are all taking this the wrong way. SCO is a company that has worked diligently to protect it's hard won Intellectual Property, (whatever that is). I would like to offer up 28 Discworld MUD copper pieces for their entire inventory of IP.
Mr. Cut-Me-Own-Customer's-Throat McBride Dibbler may reach me by carrier fruitbat addressed to Zircephate, Unseen University. Ank Morpork.
It's amazing how Slashdotters regularly jump to the conclusion that sites seek or even want a Slashdotting. This guy posted an idea to his blog, and tried the idea out on another. Whole Lotta Nothing blogged the blogger, and then Cory Doctorow noticed the post and mentioned it on boingboing Doug Nelson noticed this someplace and posted the story to Slashdot, where Cowboy Neal thought it was interesting and shared it with the rest of us. Now Buffington will enjoy a surprise visit by hordes of razorbacked monkeys clicking links and eeeeking their outrage at the crass comercialism of people who do not live in their parent's basement.
When Google and the advertisers notice the flood of dry clicks-throughs, Buffington will probably loose his account and get to pay a nice bandwidth charge besides. Where does anyone see the motivation to "pay for the Slashdot link" as one poster implied?
That nifty dataglove I linked in rebuttal to your statement... uses a Dvorak layout.
That's a much repeated falsehood.
Besides, everyone knows that all real geeks chord.
Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik
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Professional Experience:
Programmer/Trainer, Pacific Gas and Electric, 1987-1997
System Analyst, Northrop Corporation, 1985-1987
Senior Programmer, Commonwealth Edison, 1977-1985.
So Vote Geek in 2004!