Grandma. She doesn't have this "broadband" thing you speak of, and she lives out on a farm. So I'll burn a few movies for her and bring them along with me on my next visit.
Besides, the long run isn't here quite yet. So long as there is a gap, big, small, or otherwise, there will most likely be a company of appropriate size trying to capitalize on it.
Ngggggshhshseehahhad! I can't take it, I have to reply!
AOL vital? Email and stock tickers through AOL vital! Now, I do believe I've heard everything! It's one thing to celebrate the Mom and Pop ISP's that filled the dialup service needs for millions of people, but celebrating AOL users as valiant is comparable to celebrating underarm bacteria for helping drive home the hygeine issue.
I only WISH the AOL users back in the 90's were at the tip of the spear! A awl pike actually.
you think they suck? Imagine a government sponsored cable modem service. Corporations aren't the best - they get worse as they get larger actually. But they are most definately more effective at providing service than the government is.
But granted, there should be a cap on the size of a corporation.
And then there is you, who misses the point that stating that we were on the road to socialism was a correction to the grandparent stating we were going for communism - never in a million years in the US. Fascism, definately, communism, hell no.
Then what do you do, you compare drinking wine and eating cheese to the fire department. You're worse than the first guy. Got ahold of a hot-word and just went nuts with it, didncha! Yah, silly-willy slashdot fwame-thwower... yes you are...
even assuming that people are going to call every time there is a problem.
I don't see why they wouldn't. We're running a voip based call center - all they had to do was connect their notebook with our service, download a soft-phone and dial the number on the support page. What could possible prevent them from doing this? We even provide Email-accessible support for SMTP/IMAP issues...
Except for one thing - the revenue the city generates isn't *directly* tied to the performance of the network. So the desire to operate the network smoothly isn't driven by a swift kick to the government coffers like it is for a company.
An organization whose financial well-being is immediately effected by problems with the network is more well suited to handle something as complicated as this. Incentive is everything.
Socialism - we've been on the road to socialism. And a lot of it has been good. But comparing the fire department with wireless access is a bit much, don't you think?
They don't have to... if a critical mass of people end up with an easy, logical way to decide if their rep's actions don't match their speeches, it won't be something they can ignore and stay in office.
Personally, I'm working on political tracking software which summarizes the decisions made by a representative for the lay-person. It retrieves information about bills and resolutions and tells you what your politician voted. Look at the bill, decide if you like it or not, grade it. Then, at the end of the politicians term, print a report which tells you whether or not to vote for them.
The US security would have gunned down the people around the suspicious traveler and missed him entirely.
Besides, the flight attendents for Delta pass out weapons during the flight. They come by with a cart full of aluminum soda cans which make very effective shanks. Just flatten the center of the can, give it a twist and voila! A metal cutting edge.You can even serrate it with a diamond hole puncher:
It's not that I'm pointing it out for political correctness; rather, there exist a group of people in India called Indians. I can't pretend to know the reasons your collegues prefer Indian - I guess it's cause Native American is surrounded by empty placating gestures. But Native or even American make more sense to me than Indian.
And at least "American Indian" is a little more clear. Compare the Bureau of Indian Affairs versus Bureau of American Indian Affairs.
But, while you're ranting, what does the "C" in NAACP stand for?
Not a valid counterexample - there isn't a country called Colorinia with which to confuse the name, while there is an India. The point wasn't the PC argument magnet you seemed to be attracted too - the point is stale terminology not updated to do negligence and apathy.
It has nothing to do with offensive terms - to paraphrase Frank Zappa - they're words. People offend, not words. The point is they're not Indian.
Were you responsible for accounting? Are you aware of the complete lack of accounting oversight on the contract they had in 1998 to assess the condition of all facilities? In other words, they permitted the contractor to operate with little regard to the burn rate. It was only when the invoices started piling up that work was stopped and people started paying attention.
I point this particular one out because BIA is responsible for Native trust receivables. And yet they cannot manage the spending on a contract they issued!
The alternative is more proper - you don't put the wolves in charge of the hen house - The Native nations must be in charge of their own resources' receivables in order to prevent theft by the federal government. And that will never happen. And what happens when they create another revenue stream (i.e., casinos)? Our government representatives and lobbyists run a shell game on them and take their money.
Expenditures related to building facilities for the indians aren't where the rubber hits the road - it's revenue. Sure there can be contractor fraud, but that's nothing compared to fraud in the cash supply side.
"However, as noted, the exceptions to Godwin's Law include the invocation of the Hitler comparison in a positivist manner that does not have a normative dimension." - wikipedia
judicial impartiality is guaranteed by the lifetime nature of the appointment - the only thing the executive could hold over an appointee is their job. In the Supreme Court, than cannot happen. Perhaps the State court systems could appoint them, but it would be more dicey if the legislative branch had the authority.
Anyone who has a glimmer of hope about this, forget it. Here's a little summary of a comparable establishment, the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I was astonished, but wikipedia is strangely neutral about their existence:
But here is some of the truth behind them. They were established to placate the Native population and to ensure that they are permanently marginalized.
they are incompetent and their existence is a keep-your-enemies-closer solution to future American-Native American relations. Just ask anyone who has contracted with them.
You know the what if Microsoft built cars joke? Here's the equivalent BIA joke:
Lastly, note that the name of the agency still reflects an old way of thinking - It ain't the Bureau of Native American Affiars, a symptom of what little regard is given to the North American Natives.
A Civil Liberties appointee will bear some painful resemblences and be used more for turning to the population and placating them about the administration rather than speaking on behalf of the population to the President.
Tell me, if cell phones weren't as abundant and a considerable effort had to be made to turn them into a reliable detonator, would you consider them low tech then? I ask because your argument sounds strangely like "uncomplicated" and not "low tech". Using a cellular rf transceiver attached to the POTS and detonated remotely sounds pretty high tech to me.
Once rfid becomes commonplace, it will become a useful option. That's not to say that there will be a documented unclassified event to point to, but isn't the whole point of counterterrorism to reduce the useful options?
Are you sure it hasn't? There are hundreds of bombings in populated cafe's, shopping plazas and buses to look over. I would bet all of my karma that a few of them had rf triggers that detonated when mobile phones transmitting in the vicinity got abundant enough.
I'd believe your logic more if the town you speak of is Baghdad.
I was alway of the opinion that if managers in larger corporations had more effective intranet indexes they would be excreting masonry objects from their posterior orifices. Development teams and internal projects publish a lot of intersting and sensitive stuff - test data sets with real customer information, log's with ssn's embedded in them, project contact and role information that any wardriver would love to have.
I bet the infosec departments are about to pop some champaigne corks over this one...
yes. inductance slows electrons down and electrical traces can't touch each other so they have to be drawn around each other - laser light beans can pass through one another with no interference. So the traces can be more direct and hence faster. Finally, the scale of components in a processor has gotten small enough that individual traces are interfering with one another inductively and on a quantum level - these don't happen with light.
it won't be overkill when it's out of the early adoption phase. And it will be perfect for assassinating someone and making it look like collateral damage bombing instead. just wait until the person goes by AND the count of other detected rfid's is high as well.
But you can count how many people are in the area and crowds attract political bombers too..... while (victims.size() 100) {
victims.mergeAndPrune(scanForVictims()); } trigger();....
Judging from this thread, you just might be starting a new Internet/Slashdot tradition of using the ID 46465456456489715678984 when referring to RFID privacy issues. I hope you chose the number wisely, it may be around for a while!
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Grandma. She doesn't have this "broadband" thing you speak of, and she lives out on a farm. So I'll burn a few movies for her and bring them along with me on my next visit.
Besides, the long run isn't here quite yet. So long as there is a gap, big, small, or otherwise, there will most likely be a company of appropriate size trying to capitalize on it.
Have you been to Chicago lately? It is a war zone!
Ngggggshhshseehahhad! I can't take it, I have to reply!
AOL vital? Email and stock tickers through AOL vital! Now, I do believe I've heard everything! It's one thing to celebrate the Mom and Pop ISP's that filled the dialup service needs for millions of people, but celebrating AOL users as valiant is comparable to celebrating underarm bacteria for helping drive home the hygeine issue.
I only WISH the AOL users back in the 90's were at the tip of the spear! A awl pike actually.
you think they suck? Imagine a government sponsored cable modem service. Corporations aren't the best - they get worse as they get larger actually. But they are most definately more effective at providing service than the government is.
But granted, there should be a cap on the size of a corporation.
And then there is you, who misses the point that stating that we were on the road to socialism was a correction to the grandparent stating we were going for communism - never in a million years in the US. Fascism, definately, communism, hell no.
Then what do you do, you compare drinking wine and eating cheese to the fire department. You're worse than the first guy. Got ahold of a hot-word and just went nuts with it, didncha! Yah, silly-willy slashdot fwame-thwower... yes you are...
Go back and read.
even assuming that people are going to call every time there is a problem.
...
I don't see why they wouldn't. We're running a voip based call center - all they had to do was connect their notebook with our service, download a soft-phone and dial the number on the support page. What could possible prevent them from doing this? We even provide Email-accessible support for SMTP/IMAP issues
- HP Support, St. Cloud, Florida
Except for one thing - the revenue the city generates isn't *directly* tied to the performance of the network. So the desire to operate the network smoothly isn't driven by a swift kick to the government coffers like it is for a company.
An organization whose financial well-being is immediately effected by problems with the network is more well suited to handle something as complicated as this. Incentive is everything.
Socialism - we've been on the road to socialism. And a lot of it has been good. But comparing the fire department with wireless access is a bit much, don't you think?
They don't have to... if a critical mass of people end up with an easy, logical way to decide if their rep's actions don't match their speeches, it won't be something they can ignore and stay in office.
Personally, I'm working on political tracking software which summarizes the decisions made by a representative for the lay-person. It retrieves information about bills and resolutions and tells you what your politician voted. Look at the bill, decide if you like it or not, grade it. Then, at the end of the politicians term, print a report which tells you whether or not to vote for them.
Sound good? Care to help?
No no, this happened in the US, not in the UK.
The US security would have gunned down the people around the suspicious traveler and missed him entirely.
Besides, the flight attendents for Delta pass out weapons during the flight. They come by with a cart full of aluminum soda cans which make very effective shanks. Just flatten the center of the can, give it a twist and voila! A metal cutting edge.You can even serrate it with a diamond hole puncher:
http://www.onlineriver.com/doorway/holepunchworld
Because it wasn't supposed to be a year until the release. And yet they are having problems as severe as these?
Unless the folder he's trying to copy to is in his file cabinet, I'd say its a sign of mediocrity to come.
It's not that I'm pointing it out for political correctness; rather, there exist a group of people in India called Indians. I can't pretend to know the reasons your collegues prefer Indian - I guess it's cause Native American is surrounded by empty placating gestures. But Native or even American make more sense to me than Indian.
And at least "American Indian" is a little more clear. Compare the Bureau of Indian Affairs versus Bureau of American Indian Affairs.
But, while you're ranting, what does the "C" in NAACP stand for?
Not a valid counterexample - there isn't a country called Colorinia with which to confuse the name, while there is an India. The point wasn't the PC argument magnet you seemed to be attracted too - the point is stale terminology not updated to do negligence and apathy.
It has nothing to do with offensive terms - to paraphrase Frank Zappa - they're words. People offend, not words. The point is they're not Indian.
Were you responsible for accounting? Are you aware of the complete lack of accounting oversight on the contract they had in 1998 to assess the condition of all facilities? In other words, they permitted the contractor to operate with little regard to the burn rate. It was only when the invoices started piling up that work was stopped and people started paying attention.
I point this particular one out because BIA is responsible for Native trust receivables. And yet they cannot manage the spending on a contract they issued!
The alternative is more proper - you don't put the wolves in charge of the hen house - The Native nations must be in charge of their own resources' receivables in order to prevent theft by the federal government. And that will never happen. And what happens when they create another revenue stream (i.e., casinos)? Our government representatives and lobbyists run a shell game on them and take their money.
Expenditures related to building facilities for the indians aren't where the rubber hits the road - it's revenue. Sure there can be contractor fraud, but that's nothing compared to fraud in the cash supply side.
"However, as noted, the exceptions to Godwin's Law include the invocation of the Hitler comparison in a positivist manner that does not have a normative dimension." - wikipedia
nope, it was a legitimate comparison.
judicial impartiality is guaranteed by the lifetime nature of the appointment - the only thing the executive could hold over an appointee is their job. In the Supreme Court, than cannot happen. Perhaps the State court systems could appoint them, but it would be more dicey if the legislative branch had the authority.
Anyone who has a glimmer of hope about this, forget it. Here's a little summary of a comparable establishment, the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I was astonished, but wikipedia is strangely neutral about their existence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Indian_Aff
But here is some of the truth behind them. They were established to placate the Native population and to ensure that they are permanently marginalized.
They have stolen revenue from them,
http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/bia.
they are incompetent and their existence is a keep-your-enemies-closer solution to future American-Native American relations. Just ask anyone who has contracted with them.
You know the what if Microsoft built cars joke? Here's the equivalent BIA joke:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0304/S00127.htm
Lastly, note that the name of the agency still reflects an old way of thinking - It ain't the Bureau of Native American Affiars, a symptom of what little regard is given to the North American Natives.
A Civil Liberties appointee will bear some painful resemblences and be used more for turning to the population and placating them about the administration rather than speaking on behalf of the population to the President.
This is business-as-usual.
(I consider a cellphone as a detonator low tech.)
Tell me, if cell phones weren't as abundant and a considerable effort had to be made to turn them into a reliable detonator, would you consider them low tech then? I ask because your argument sounds strangely like "uncomplicated" and not "low tech". Using a cellular rf transceiver attached to the POTS and detonated remotely sounds pretty high tech to me.
Once rfid becomes commonplace, it will become a useful option. That's not to say that there will be a documented unclassified event to point to, but isn't the whole point of counterterrorism to reduce the useful options?
Are you sure it hasn't? There are hundreds of bombings in populated cafe's, shopping plazas and buses to look over. I would bet all of my karma that a few of them had rf triggers that detonated when mobile phones transmitting in the vicinity got abundant enough.
I'd believe your logic more if the town you speak of is Baghdad.
I was alway of the opinion that if managers in larger corporations had more effective intranet indexes they would be excreting masonry objects from their posterior orifices. Development teams and internal projects publish a lot of intersting and sensitive stuff - test data sets with real customer information, log's with ssn's embedded in them, project contact and role information that any wardriver would love to have.
I bet the infosec departments are about to pop some champaigne corks over this one...
yes. inductance slows electrons down and electrical traces can't touch each other so they have to be drawn around each other - laser light beans can pass through one another with no interference. So the traces can be more direct and hence faster. Finally, the scale of components in a processor has gotten small enough that individual traces are interfering with one another inductively and on a quantum level - these don't happen with light.
it won't be overkill when it's out of the early adoption phase. And it will be perfect for assassinating someone and making it look like collateral damage bombing instead. just wait until the person goes by AND the count of other detected rfid's is high as well.
But you can count how many people are in the area and crowds attract political bombers too. .... ....
while (victims.size() 100) {
victims.mergeAndPrune(scanForVictims());
}
trigger();
Judging from this thread, you just might be starting a new Internet/Slashdot tradition of using the ID 46465456456489715678984 when referring to RFID privacy issues. I hope you chose the number wisely, it may be around for a while!