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RF-ID wrist bands for kids ($2.99) or "find friends" (free)
This is a really interesting IDea. It would be a useful thing in theme parks and anywhere there are large crowds. What would be neat is kiosks with screens on them. and when you walked up and stood in the little circle in front of the screen it would show you as a dot on a map - and if the tags could be given a group ID - you could see all the other people in your group as dots (they are here) on the map.
It would be neat to also be able to touch the map and set a waypoint for all the people in your group to meet up at.
To add people to your group - you touch add ID - then the person you want to add puts his wrist up to a reader that has a very small proximity reader (so it doesnt add the people walking by mistakenly)
Each band would just have a unique ID.
(although it would be funny to watch the map update the location of your friends while they are riding around on roller coasters.)
When your "customer" is on the hunt for a fix. And you can check the status on the big bust down at the docks - thereby inflating the cost of crack on the spot, thats one degree of separation.
Man runs up to her wearing a trenchcoat. Man opens trench coat - flashing lady with moving images from www.hot-sex.com on LCD screens hiden inside his jacket.
Actually whats funny about this is that yesterday China announced that it was looking for men who seriously want to have a child to try an experiment of installing (?) a womb into a man.
Heard it on the radio yesterday... but cant find a link to it...
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We can call it "My Acquaintance Family of Italian Ancestry"
Another thing I wanted to point out was that I was expressing concern with the idea of a tax specifically.
meaning; that if we realyl want something to be done about this issue - the legislation should stipulate the cost recovery method in a means other than what is traditionally thought of as a tax. Taxes have been written so much and so many times that the tax writers are experts in wording and creating them so as to provide a miriad of loopholes which serve the purpose of siphoning off the money gained from the tax towards uses that are in no way related to the object of the tax in the first place.
Of course in implementation the costs would be exactly a "tax" in that it will be a cost passed onto the consumer (given the cost of hardware at this point - I think we all can afford a little increase in the cost of a component) - however the major difference is that the money collected by this "tax" would be so strictly watched and regulated that maybe something would ACTUALLY GET FUCKING DONE in this country - and the world would start to actually be a better place due to the computer industry rather than in spite of it.
It would be nice if there were a regulatory body that could over see this - but given the tendancy for corruption (ICANN) in computing regulatory bodies - it would be best if we could have some people who know how to actually write shit that works come up with something that has the least chance of being abused.
Remember when Energy Star was actually trying to mean something. When was the last time you saw an Energy star logo as a valid amrketing push.
"Why should they be shouldered with the burden of disposing of YOUR waste properly"
MY waste. You need to re-think your whole frame of reference here. First of all do you know how toxic chip fabs are?
Do you even have any idea how many superfund toxic cleanups there are in silicon valley? Do you know where the most toxic (based on superfund site density) place in the country is.
It is not MY waste. You think that just because i buy a computer from them - that now the toxic product that THEY created is now solely my responsibility? "sorry buddy - to bad you have cancer. You bought the machine - you opened the EULA. Its not our fault that your water table is polluted to the point of being undrinkable" Why is it the responsibilty of any company to be even remotely concerned with the full LIFE CYCLE of a product they create.
You my friend are clearly an idiot if you think that the full life cycle of any product simply ends when a company either sells that product or just decides to no longer support it.
Since you have the view that nobody should care - especially not the companies that made the product in the first place - you should have to live on land that gets the benefit having all this crap dumped onto it.
And yes - I have long though that all container companies should have to be at least partly involved in the responsibility of recycling their products - like coke and pepsi. However the significant difference here is that toxicity factor of the components under discussion - and if you are to naive to notice or even admit the difference - you should refrain from participating.
the only problem with this is that taxes with a purpose for the most part very rarely do the intended job. Look at the lotto's education tax for example.
With all the billions in money the lotto has brought in - our schools in california are dilapidated pieces of shit.
I agree that the companies that make the crap should be responsible for ensuring that they get cleaned up properly - a "tax" (meaning that its actually legislated as a tax) is not the solution.
Rather the legislation should require the actual companies (like Intel) to start REAL clean-up programs and actually build facilities for reclaiming the toxics in their machines.
An the consumers should get *CREDIT* for returning machines to these facilities. not fucking taxed money that isnt going to do a damn thing in the first place.
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I agree with both. I have been running my P3/800 with 384mb rdram now for about 2.5 years. When i got this machine it was the fastest you could get.
I was working at intel - and all my machines had engineering sample pre-releases of every processor since the introduction of the PII.
I was obsessed with having the fastest machine within five counties.
At the same time I would always say that machines are only going to get so fast - that there will be a point that the user is the bottleneck and that the machine will be doing things just as fast as the user can issue commands - it will be sitting there waiting for the input from the user.
My P3 800 has been great. I no longer need to upgrade - I have a GF2 64mb card - and that is about the only thing that I would *like* to upgrade at this point.
The funny thing is that now that you can get an absolutely awsome machine for about $700.00 I feel less and less compelled to upgrade. I used to salivate over the machines that were so expensive, now I cant find a compelling reason to do anything to my machine at all.
The only upgrading I am doing these days is to Wife v2.0... hopefully this install will be much more stable than the last - and hopefully at a *much* lower TCO.
AVID has always been stupidly overpriced. and we wonder why movies cost so much. They pay out the nose for technologies that are only worth 100th the price the are getting them for.
The only thing is that you assume that they are only associating your age and gender. Which they probably are - for that particular statistical gathering session.
But associating all the other data-bits with all that is just the flip of a switch, say by subpeona? (sp) oh, oops - wrong person. oh - very sorry we forgot to turn that off.
OH - hey mr. homeland security agent. Whats that? you want call tracking info for every client whos name contains the strings "moha" "mad" "al" "ali" - sure no problem. Oh - dont worry I promise i wont tell them that you requested this info...
ya- you know I really dont care if they were to know about my age and gender and what pizza and porn shops I make calls from - what bothers me is giving them the approval to create such a system that can so easily be abused and I would never know about it.
But thats why i refuse to have a cell phone at all.
kinda OT - Is it just me - or are many of you as angry and disgusted with corporate reality these days?
I got my long distance bill from sprint yesterday. I make very few longdistance calls, and my bill was 78.55 - 62 of which was an 11 minute call to the phillipines which I didnt even make. They charged 5.60/minute for that call. but since I couldnt prove to them that I didnt make the call - all they allowed me to do was take 50% off the call.
First of all no phone call to anywhere should be 5.60 per minute.
I am so tired of telecom companies and all of their billing tactics.
What can be done? do we as a nation of millions and millions just sit around as any semblamce of a financially happy and fair existence erodes around us forever?
Are any of you out there as fed up as I am with the way we are gouged for every "service" out there.
Cable, phone, internet, gas, power - you name it and the price fixing monopolistic ways and the insidious support from plastic politicians is totally out of hand. and it seems that the populous is so numb to it that not only have I lost faith in all business - but I am quickly losing faith in people in general?
OT i know - but i would like to hear some of your opinions - are you experiencing the same thing? are enough people experiencing this so that maybe some momentum towards making a change will start?
That said, what in the hell do you need an assault rifle for? Most the anti-gun people are after the insane automatic high-power weapons
What the hell is an assault rifle. I just dont beleive how easily people have latched on to the idea of calling these things *assault weapons* - of course they are assault weapons. That is what is implied by the fact that its a weapon.
The problem is that by using the term assault attached to any weapon it shows that 1) there is an agenda behind what you are talking about due to the fact that you are trying to evoke a certain emotional response (fear based) 2) it shows that you dont really think about what you are saying too deeply otherwise you would realise that one can kill as easily with a.22 small pistol.
The problem is that most anti-gun people are not just after the "insane automatic high-power weapons" - take Gray Davis (CA) for example. He first made it illegal to have any custom (folding for example) stock on an SKS. This made my gun illegal. Then he made the gun illegal all together. All of a sudden this semi automatic, low capacity rifle had become an "assault weapon" when in reality is was less dangerous than any normal handgun in that its a long rifle that is not easily concealed and it has a smaller magazine capacity than handguns (stock magazine - yes you can get larger magazines for them - but those were already illegal). The SKS doesnt use any particularly special ammo either -.762 rather common.
I dont necessarily think that every citizen should be entitled to have a full arsenal of military grade hardware in his possesion - but most guns are just normal guns and are closely related to hunting weapons (rifles anyway) but are loosely lumped into the "assault weapon" category for no other reason than they look more menacing than your average hunting rifle.
What would make more sense than just flatly outlawing these weapons would be to develop better bullets - and bullet tracking systems.
Consumer level bullets should be sold with laser etched bar coding on every casing. The casings should not be reusable. The slug should contain an RFID chip emedded into them that contains the same ID # as the casing. When you buy bullets - the bullets are registered to whomever bought them. Guns should be sold with bio-metric triggers. Only the registered owner can shoot the weapon. All police issued guns should have a small digital camera on the end of them which takes two photos ever time you pull the trigger, one when the trigger is half pressed - and then another after the round is discharged. (some guns are trying to do this already - but I am sure they are geting some opposition)
Now, dont jump to quickly at this one - think about it. It can be done, it should be done, and it would alleviate a lot of the concern we have with guns. That doesnt mean that if you have trackable "smart-bullets" that any and all guns should be sold - there should still be controls.
It's just that there is not enough thought being put into this issue on both sides of the fence. Both groups can come to a common solution that makes sense for humanity in general.
We can have our right to bear arms AND be responsible on how we do this.
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RF-ID wrist bands for kids ($2.99) or "find friends" (free)
This is a really interesting IDea. It would be a useful thing in theme parks and anywhere there are large crowds. What would be neat is kiosks with screens on them. and when you walked up and stood in the little circle in front of the screen it would show you as a dot on a map - and if the tags could be given a group ID - you could see all the other people in your group as dots (they are here) on the map.
It would be neat to also be able to touch the map and set a waypoint for all the people in your group to meet up at.
To add people to your group - you touch add ID - then the person you want to add puts his wrist up to a reader that has a very small proximity reader (so it doesnt add the people walking by mistakenly)
Each band would just have a unique ID.
(although it would be funny to watch the map update the location of your friends while they are riding around on roller coasters.)
Oxygen.
When your "customer" is on the hunt for a fix.
And you can check the status on the big bust down at the docks - thereby inflating the cost of crack on the spot, thats one degree of separation.
Lady walking her dog in the park.
Man runs up to her wearing a trenchcoat. Man opens trench coat - flashing lady with moving images from www.hot-sex.com on LCD screens hiden inside his jacket.
Lady screams.
Man runs away into the bushes.
Actually whats funny about this is that yesterday China announced that it was looking for men who seriously want to have a child to try an experiment of installing (?) a womb into a man.
Heard it on the radio yesterday... but cant find a link to it...
We can call it "My Acquaintance Family of Italian Ancestry"
I actually was getting a few (three total) SMB windows popup spams on a vanilla XP box i ahd running. I killed the service pronto.
This tactic made me so angry that i'd probably be in shackles now had that spammer been within any damagable distance at the time.
"294-unit Beowulf claster..."
GAHH! Finally a story where the beowolf cluster is an actual part of the story and you misspell it!
Another thing I wanted to point out was that I was expressing concern with the idea of a tax specifically.
meaning; that if we realyl want something to be done about this issue - the legislation should stipulate the cost recovery method in a means other than what is traditionally thought of as a tax. Taxes have been written so much and so many times that the tax writers are experts in wording and creating them so as to provide a miriad of loopholes which serve the purpose of siphoning off the money gained from the tax towards uses that are in no way related to the object of the tax in the first place.
Of course in implementation the costs would be exactly a "tax" in that it will be a cost passed onto the consumer (given the cost of hardware at this point - I think we all can afford a little increase in the cost of a component) - however the major difference is that the money collected by this "tax" would be so strictly watched and regulated that maybe something would ACTUALLY GET FUCKING DONE in this country - and the world would start to actually be a better place due to the computer industry rather than in spite of it.
It would be nice if there were a regulatory body that could over see this - but given the tendancy for corruption (ICANN) in computing regulatory bodies - it would be best if we could have some people who know how to actually write shit that works come up with something that has the least chance of being abused.
Remember when Energy Star was actually trying to mean something. When was the last time you saw an Energy star logo as a valid amrketing push.
"Why should they be shouldered with the burden of disposing of YOUR waste properly"
MY waste. You need to re-think your whole frame of reference here. First of all do you know how toxic chip fabs are?
Do you even have any idea how many superfund toxic cleanups there are in silicon valley? Do you know where the most toxic (based on superfund site density) place in the country is.
It is not MY waste. You think that just because i buy a computer from them - that now the toxic product that THEY created is now solely my responsibility? "sorry buddy - to bad you have cancer. You bought the machine - you opened the EULA. Its not our fault that your water table is polluted to the point of being undrinkable" Why is it the responsibilty of any company to be even remotely concerned with the full LIFE CYCLE of a product they create.
You my friend are clearly an idiot if you think that the full life cycle of any product simply ends when a company either sells that product or just decides to no longer support it.
Since you have the view that nobody should care - especially not the companies that made the product in the first place - you should have to live on land that gets the benefit having all this crap dumped onto it.
And yes - I have long though that all container companies should have to be at least partly involved in the responsibility of recycling their products - like coke and pepsi. However the significant difference here is that toxicity factor of the components under discussion - and if you are to naive to notice or even admit the difference - you should refrain from participating.
thankyouverymuch.
Bush to Saddam: "Dude, you're getting a DELL!!"
the only problem with this is that taxes with a purpose for the most part very rarely do the intended job. Look at the lotto's education tax for example.
With all the billions in money the lotto has brought in - our schools in california are dilapidated pieces of shit.
I agree that the companies that make the crap should be responsible for ensuring that they get cleaned up properly - a "tax" (meaning that its actually legislated as a tax) is not the solution.
Rather the legislation should require the actual companies (like Intel) to start REAL clean-up programs and actually build facilities for reclaiming the toxics in their machines.
An the consumers should get *CREDIT* for returning machines to these facilities. not fucking taxed money that isnt going to do a damn thing in the first place.
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These people are crazy.
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Lets email the shit out of them.
Anyone have an site I can get their warez from?
I agree with both. I have been running my P3/800 with 384mb rdram now for about 2.5 years. When i got this machine it was the fastest you could get.
I was working at intel - and all my machines had engineering sample pre-releases of every processor since the introduction of the PII.
I was obsessed with having the fastest machine within five counties.
At the same time I would always say that machines are only going to get so fast - that there will be a point that the user is the bottleneck and that the machine will be doing things just as fast as the user can issue commands - it will be sitting there waiting for the input from the user.
My P3 800 has been great. I no longer need to upgrade - I have a GF2 64mb card - and that is about the only thing that I would *like* to upgrade at this point.
The funny thing is that now that you can get an absolutely awsome machine for about $700.00 I feel less and less compelled to upgrade. I used to salivate over the machines that were so expensive, now I cant find a compelling reason to do anything to my machine at all.
The only upgrading I am doing these days is to Wife v2.0... hopefully this install will be much more stable than the last - and hopefully at a *much* lower TCO.
hehe.
I want this:
Pets.com Incredible Talking Sock Puppet *Retail New $16.50 5+ $15.00
From Package2you.com
AVID has always been stupidly overpriced. and we wonder why movies cost so much. They pay out the nose for technologies that are only worth 100th the price the are getting them for.
you should email this info to the evisa people.
with the links etc....
The only thing is that you assume that they are only associating your age and gender. Which they probably are - for that particular statistical gathering session.
But associating all the other data-bits with all that is just the flip of a switch, say by subpeona? (sp) oh, oops - wrong person. oh - very sorry we forgot to turn that off.
OH - hey mr. homeland security agent. Whats that? you want call tracking info for every client whos name contains the strings "moha" "mad" "al" "ali" - sure no problem. Oh - dont worry I promise i wont tell them that you requested this info...
ya- you know I really dont care if they were to know about my age and gender and what pizza and porn shops I make calls from - what bothers me is giving them the approval to create such a system that can so easily be abused and I would never know about it.
But thats why i refuse to have a cell phone at all.
(_*_) Can you hear me now!! Good.
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kinda OT - Is it just me - or are many of you as angry and disgusted with corporate reality these days?
I got my long distance bill from sprint yesterday. I make very few longdistance calls, and my bill was 78.55 - 62 of which was an 11 minute call to the phillipines which I didnt even make. They charged 5.60/minute for that call. but since I couldnt prove to them that I didnt make the call - all they allowed me to do was take 50% off the call.
First of all no phone call to anywhere should be 5.60 per minute.
I am so tired of telecom companies and all of their billing tactics.
What can be done? do we as a nation of millions and millions just sit around as any semblamce of a financially happy and fair existence erodes around us forever?
Are any of you out there as fed up as I am with the way we are gouged for every "service" out there.
Cable, phone, internet, gas, power - you name it and the price fixing monopolistic ways and the insidious support from plastic politicians is totally out of hand. and it seems that the populous is so numb to it that not only have I lost faith in all business - but I am quickly losing faith in people in general?
OT i know - but i would like to hear some of your opinions - are you experiencing the same thing? are enough people experiencing this so that maybe some momentum towards making a change will start?
Good thing I dont live in Antarctica! Ill stay here in good 'ol safe US of A! Keep them quarks south of the equator.
OWWW!!! My Spleen!!!
That said, what in the hell do you need an assault rifle for? Most the anti-gun people are after the insane automatic high-power weapons
.22 small pistol.
.762 rather common.
What the hell is an assault rifle. I just dont beleive how easily people have latched on to the idea of calling these things *assault weapons* - of course they are assault weapons. That is what is implied by the fact that its a weapon.
The problem is that by using the term assault attached to any weapon it shows that 1) there is an agenda behind what you are talking about due to the fact that you are trying to evoke a certain emotional response (fear based) 2) it shows that you dont really think about what you are saying too deeply otherwise you would realise that one can kill as easily with a
The problem is that most anti-gun people are not just after the "insane automatic high-power weapons" - take Gray Davis (CA) for example. He first made it illegal to have any custom (folding for example) stock on an SKS. This made my gun illegal. Then he made the gun illegal all together. All of a sudden this semi automatic, low capacity rifle had become an "assault weapon" when in reality is was less dangerous than any normal handgun in that its a long rifle that is not easily concealed and it has a smaller magazine capacity than handguns (stock magazine - yes you can get larger magazines for them - but those were already illegal). The SKS doesnt use any particularly special ammo either -
I dont necessarily think that every citizen should be entitled to have a full arsenal of military grade hardware in his possesion - but most guns are just normal guns and are closely related to hunting weapons (rifles anyway) but are loosely lumped into the "assault weapon" category for no other reason than they look more menacing than your average hunting rifle.
What would make more sense than just flatly outlawing these weapons would be to develop better bullets - and bullet tracking systems.
Consumer level bullets should be sold with laser etched bar coding on every casing. The casings should not be reusable. The slug should contain an RFID chip emedded into them that contains the same ID # as the casing. When you buy bullets - the bullets are registered to whomever bought them. Guns should be sold with bio-metric triggers. Only the registered owner can shoot the weapon. All police issued guns should have a small digital camera on the end of them which takes two photos ever time you pull the trigger, one when the trigger is half pressed - and then another after the round is discharged. (some guns are trying to do this already - but I am sure they are geting some opposition)
Now, dont jump to quickly at this one - think about it. It can be done, it should be done, and it would alleviate a lot of the concern we have with guns. That doesnt mean that if you have trackable "smart-bullets" that any and all guns should be sold - there should still be controls.
It's just that there is not enough thought being put into this issue on both sides of the fence. Both groups can come to a common solution that makes sense for humanity in general.
We can have our right to bear arms AND be responsible on how we do this.