This is complete BS. I work for one of the largest RFID companies in the world - we are the exclusive supplier (while there are other brands - all those brands products must be supplied through our company) for the DoD.
I used to think that RFID was "A Bad Thing (TM)" - but now that I work for this company - I see how sensationalist these claims are.
First of all, tags are very susceptable to interfernece. Many tags run on shared frequency with other things. Tags have a small memory space, most tags only have a relational tag ID that must be tied back to a DB that holds the info on the item that the tag is ID'ing. Some tags can carry a list of information about the items the ID - but these tags are active tags (Meaning they are powered by a battery) and are typically very large.
Passive tags, while they can have a small and thin footprint, have very limited range - are interfered with easily and have very limited memory space.
Active tags require antennae, sometimes multiples - have a large footptrint and batteries...
Not something you would inject into a human.
Finally, with regards to "Abuse by car insurance...."
while they may be able to do something like this - it hardly requires RFID. to do this would require a lot more hardware installed on the car than a simple RFID tag that can store meaningful statistics...
They would require the sensors to grab the statistics and write them to the tag. Then, they would need standard reader hardware to poll the tag and read the data - but this is not something that can *only* be done with RFID.
The honest truth about RFID is that its too new to be a threat on the scale that most slashdotters would prefer to believe.
The fact is that the current production plans for RFID are all things that make perfect sense, and would seem to be simple - but arent. Like being able to give location based tracking of large containers of things during shipping....
to track small things anywhere - eg. random people of little impolrtance as they move about in their moundane lives requires so much infrastructure to read the tags, in a sea of interference that has yet to be parted, that its many many years out. Now, if you have a tag with an IPv6 ID as its permanent header, and a backend DB for that tag and can read and route to via 802.11, then that many years gets much much smaller.....
There once was a thing called a Mouse, replaced by that called a Nouse but dont be to smug - it may still have bugs, and again your a geek to your spouse.
What if HavenCo was able to expand their foot-print as to be a launch platform for comercial/private satellite ops - with hosted monitoring and data collection storage to boot!
I wonder what their current status is... lemme check - brb..
looks like they are actively seeking clients. And you seem to be able to host anything there - except child porn.... which is fine for all, except a few members of congress.
anyway - imagine if they begin to offer launch and image procurment, storage and hosting.
actually what ebay probably wants to do with the idea of craigslist is turn it into a geographic front end portal where the transactions of sales of items between local buyers and sellers can scale in the volume of ebay - but retain the small personal local feel of CL.
If you can get the transaction backend of craigslist to be more robust its a good thing. For example I have asked craigs on several occasions to provide multiple ticket catagories, but they resist any such changes, which is just lame - and their seaching tech sucks. If you look at the tix catagory you will see how difficult it is to sort due to the flooding of sports tickets.
so the pros and cons are that you can alleviate the multi-posting for the same items, but you lose a lot of the personal - real local individual feel that craigslist has been so successful in capturing.
well I dont know about on a per file basis, but what might be a better way to do it would be on a partition/folder....
if you store all of your stuff in/videos partition and have this whole partition compressed - you get logical file organization - and all the files you want compressed...
I have an SN45G with 1GB pc 2700, an athlon xp 2100 a 250GB drive and an ATI x800 pro...
I had some considerable problems with it in the very begining having to go through 3 of them before they would actually run (some sort of mobo issue)....
but this new one does *not* appear to have an AGP slot. The SN45G came with a geforce mx onboard - but it sucked ass.
I originally bought this machine for my wife - but I had so many problems with it in the beginning, that it had to be mine because it wouldnt work for her (bad karma or something..) - but now this has been my primary machine for over a year and I am so far more happy with it than any other machine I have ever had.....
now the fully case modded - lit up like a christmas tree gaming box hasnt been touched in almost a year....
but why the hell would they drop the AGP slot???
If *anything* people should be working on a machine with dual AGP slots, jsut as I tried to convince Intel of when I worked there over 5 years ago.
I have switched to firefox for personal browsing on all of my machines. I switched my wife's laptop as well. Just last night I gave a quick training on getting, installing and using firefox to my wife's cousin who just bought a new dell laptop.
I am currently proposing that our company switch to firefox in its standard image for all ~250 employees.
I have not had a single crash, or other inaccessible website - and am running to "test stability" on all my work machines.
If anyone else here on/. is responsible for IT Operations and has got their workplace to switch - what were the compelling reasons stated.
I have so far met with little resistance, aside from being able to delineate the "compelling business reasons" why we want to switch.
So far I have the following reasons, and while they may not be "compelling" to some - I find them to be rather persuasive items:
- Tabbed browsing, allows for more concise and
organized navigation and information management.
- No active X support - preventing high-risk items
from malicious code execution and browser
hijacks.
- Free site license (ish)
- Zero Pop-Ups.
I think in just a few short months, we will officially have the company on firefox - I would hope that they would have ver 1.0 out by then....
so its less of a beta product in the minds of executive staff....
This will prove how much of a bumbling group of incompetant morons work at NASA. The fact that nasa has made almost zero progress in the last 25 years with regards to opening up space as a more affordable frontier is laughable. Contempable even.
The amount of corruption and coverup that takes place within all arms of NASA is a reflection of the incompetance and idiocy that is now the symbol for America at all levels.
Hopefully in the event that SpaceShipOne is not sabotaged into failure, we will see a renewal of space interest - and a cleaning of house at all levels of government where responsibility for oppressed civil space programs reside.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charmin' motherfuckin' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?
I signed up in 1997 also.... and it was 10 then. It went to 4 - then to 6. New accounts were then only available with 4. Now 100.... but its slow as heck.
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The issue I have is not the belief in God, but the Belief in a perversion of God.
Without going into the infinite flame war which is religion - the main problem is that Bush and his belief in God is that of an external anthropomorphized embodiment of a God in Man's image - rather than God as a principle of creation underlying all things as thought and intelligence does.
The God principle gives justification and validity to all existence - not the freewill choices to abuse power to dominate other expressions of consciousness.
For, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Lets imagine that we have built an AI that is able to autonomously move about in a given area, our lab.
We wantto train the AI how to identify objects, people and items that it "sees" with its digital camera. One way to do this is build a really extensive algorythym which will analyze the visual data, and "think" associations and discern information about the seen object.
Aditionally, we can use cues to provide contextual information about objects thatthe AI will see from a backend source which does notrequire processing locally on the AIs part to identify.
If our lab environment had objects which had 2d barcodes on them - the AI could see an object, see its 2d barcod tag and instantly retrieve info about the visualized subject.
We could still employ the AI code for calculating #D space as it moves about - but it can then be provided with contextual information about the objects it sees. as it learns, it can learn to associate 2d barcodes with object shapes, so that in the future when it encounters them - it only really need to recall the semacpde 2d barcode on the object to pull contextual information again on that same - or similar object. Ideally - it should also be able to write information to the backend DB to update semacodes and relate them... memories if you will.
Sorry wrong. We have now, have had for some years - and will have forevermore space based rail guns.
There is a famous video that was taken from the space shuttle that was analyzed which showed a foreign object fly close to the earth from off camera (outer space) which was then fired upon by a satellite which was equipped with rail guns. The object - then made a 14G 90 degree turn.
Rail guns fire projectiles at ~18K MPH - yet were unable to hit the object seen in the video...
ok, so assuming that one gets a 1Gb email acount, even if the files size limits are rather small (~10mb), given that they are going to allow for more open access policies by supporting, explicitly, more user friendly browsers (Mozilla, etc...)
How difficult will it be to create a torrent storage app that uses emailing of mass files, for example;
Say you have an account with pop access; you have a bot that watches the email account for emails sent with specific commands - if you upload a bunch of files (say.rar chops) of an iso/app etc, you can have these attachements stored in various directories, with specific subject names detailing the attachment.
Leech1 sends you an email requesting App-set-1. The file monitor then parses Leech request - and auto forwards the emails with the appropriate attachment to the Leech account.
All at internal google speeds.
The Leech can then DL the attachements at leasure - or, just ahve his mail app open and receiving as they arrive.
Amazing. At some point, Google could have copies of every new document or content produced, all for the cost of hosting. They would, by default, become the next Library of Congress.
the implications for this with AI are even bigger - the thing is that if you can search by shape - then you need a system with a camera that can "see" shapes - then get information about them in its database.
think the targetting system on robocop.
additionally you can use it in forensic scene analysis - scan a photo into this and have it analyze all the shapes and data....
then you can later seach for sites or scenes by description.... and reverse.
I, for one, welcome the Skynet overlord enabling step in software development.
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I remember the last VHS VCR I bought in Seattle in 1996, I got the cheapest model for 119.00
I remember the latest DVD player I bought in San Jose @ Target in 2004, I got the cheapest model for 39.99
The DVD player I got plays VCD DVD MP3 JPG and some other things I dont use it for...
This is complete BS. I work for one of the largest RFID companies in the world - we are the exclusive supplier (while there are other brands - all those brands products must be supplied through our company) for the DoD.
I used to think that RFID was "A Bad Thing (TM)" - but now that I work for this company - I see how sensationalist these claims are.
First of all, tags are very susceptable to interfernece. Many tags run on shared frequency with other things. Tags have a small memory space, most tags only have a relational tag ID that must be tied back to a DB that holds the info on the item that the tag is ID'ing. Some tags can carry a list of information about the items the ID - but these tags are active tags (Meaning they are powered by a battery) and are typically very large.
Passive tags, while they can have a small and thin footprint, have very limited range - are interfered with easily and have very limited memory space.
Active tags require antennae, sometimes multiples - have a large footptrint and batteries...
Not something you would inject into a human.
Finally, with regards to "Abuse by car insurance...."
while they may be able to do something like this - it hardly requires RFID. to do this would require a lot more hardware installed on the car than a simple RFID tag that can store meaningful statistics...
They would require the sensors to grab the statistics and write them to the tag. Then, they would need standard reader hardware to poll the tag and read the data - but this is not something that can *only* be done with RFID.
The honest truth about RFID is that its too new to be a threat on the scale that most slashdotters would prefer to believe.
The fact is that the current production plans for RFID are all things that make perfect sense, and would seem to be simple - but arent. Like being able to give location based tracking of large containers of things during shipping....
to track small things anywhere - eg. random people of little impolrtance as they move about in their moundane lives requires so much infrastructure to read the tags, in a sea of interference that has yet to be parted, that its many many years out.
Now, if you have a tag with an IPv6 ID as its permanent header, and a backend DB for that tag and can read and route to via 802.11, then that many years gets much much smaller.....
There once was a thing called a Mouse,
replaced by that called a Nouse
but dont be to smug -
it may still have bugs,
and again your a geek to your spouse.
This brings up a very interesting idea: Havenco.
What if HavenCo was able to expand their foot-print as to be a launch platform for comercial/private satellite ops - with hosted monitoring and data collection storage to boot!
I wonder what their current status is... lemme check - brb..
looks like they are actively seeking clients. And you seem to be able to host anything there - except child porn.... which is fine for all, except a few members of congress.
anyway - imagine if they begin to offer launch and image procurment, storage and hosting.
ya- prolly not till 2036....
Otherwise known as the "National Sex Offenders Registry"
actually the term we use is NOCMONKEY.
So in Internet Capitalism "Devices use bandwidth" in Internet Communism - it the other way around.
Not recommended - didn't you ever see weird science!
actually what ebay probably wants to do with the idea of craigslist is turn it into a geographic front end portal where the transactions of sales of items between local buyers and sellers can scale in the volume of ebay - but retain the small personal local feel of CL.
If you can get the transaction backend of craigslist to be more robust its a good thing. For example I have asked craigs on several occasions to provide multiple ticket catagories, but they resist any such changes, which is just lame - and their seaching tech sucks. If you look at the tix catagory you will see how difficult it is to sort due to the flooding of sports tickets.
so the pros and cons are that you can alleviate the multi-posting for the same items, but you lose a lot of the personal - real local individual feel that craigslist has been so successful in capturing.
well I dont know about on a per file basis, but what might be a better way to do it would be on a partition/folder....
/videos partition and have this whole partition compressed - you get logical file organization - and all the files you want compressed...
if you store all of your stuff in
AGP????
I have an SN45G with 1GB pc 2700, an athlon xp 2100 a 250GB drive and an ATI x800 pro...
I had some considerable problems with it in the very begining having to go through 3 of them before they would actually run (some sort of mobo issue)....
but this new one does *not* appear to have an AGP slot. The SN45G came with a geforce mx onboard - but it sucked ass.
I originally bought this machine for my wife - but I had so many problems with it in the beginning, that it had to be mine because it wouldnt work for her (bad karma or something..) - but now this has been my primary machine for over a year and I am so far more happy with it than any other machine I have ever had.....
now the fully case modded - lit up like a christmas tree gaming box hasnt been touched in almost a year....
but why the hell would they drop the AGP slot???
If *anything* people should be working on a machine with dual AGP slots, jsut as I tried to convince Intel of when I worked there over 5 years ago.
I have switched to firefox for personal browsing on all of my machines. I switched my wife's laptop as well. Just last night I gave a quick training on getting, installing and using firefox to my wife's cousin who just bought a new dell laptop.
/. is responsible for IT Operations and has got their workplace to switch - what were the compelling reasons stated.
I am currently proposing that our company switch to firefox in its standard image for all ~250 employees.
I have not had a single crash, or other inaccessible website - and am running to "test stability" on all my work machines.
If anyone else here on
I have so far met with little resistance, aside from being able to delineate the "compelling business reasons" why we want to switch.
So far I have the following reasons, and while they may not be "compelling" to some - I find them to be rather persuasive items:
- Tabbed browsing, allows for more concise and
organized navigation and information management.
- No active X support - preventing high-risk items
from malicious code execution and browser
hijacks.
- Free site license (ish)
- Zero Pop-Ups.
I think in just a few short months, we will officially have the company on firefox - I would hope that they would have ver 1.0 out by then....
so its less of a beta product in the minds of executive staff....
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The trash some people try to sell.....
This will prove how much of a bumbling group of incompetant morons work at NASA. The fact that nasa has made almost zero progress in the last 25 years with regards to opening up space as a more affordable frontier is laughable. Contempable even.
The amount of corruption and coverup that takes place within all arms of NASA is a reflection of the incompetance and idiocy that is now the symbol for America at all levels.
Hopefully in the event that SpaceShipOne is not sabotaged into failure, we will see a renewal of space interest - and a cleaning of house at all levels of government where responsibility for oppressed civil space programs reside.
(yes you fools it IS a conspiracy)
Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charmin' motherfuckin' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?
cluster-xfs?
cluster-fxs ?
yup!
I signed up in 1997 also.... and it was 10 then. It went to 4 - then to 6. New accounts were then only available with 4. Now 100.... but its slow as heck.
Cybertraffic.com is currently looking for a motivated web analyst to help with its online presence in an effort to streamline our businesses core competancies which make us the leader in the online e-cyber commerce space.
A qualified webmaster/administrator with the following skills is required:
-guru level knowledge of Linux, apache mod perl cgi etc...
-a fundamental understanding of the internet http and tcp/ip
- a BA in civil engineering with at least 5 years experience on either a city planning commision, police force or crossing guard experience at a minimum.
The issue I have is not the belief in God, but the Belief in a perversion of God.
Without going into the infinite flame war which is religion - the main problem is that Bush and his belief in God is that of an external anthropomorphized embodiment of a God in Man's image - rather than God as a principle of creation underlying all things as thought and intelligence does.
The God principle gives justification and validity to all existence - not the freewill choices to abuse power to dominate other expressions of consciousness.
For, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Lets imagine that we have built an AI that is able to autonomously move about in a given area, our lab.
We wantto train the AI how to identify objects, people and items that it "sees" with its digital camera. One way to do this is build a really extensive algorythym which will analyze the visual data, and "think" associations and discern information about the seen object.
Aditionally, we can use cues to provide contextual information about objects thatthe AI will see from a backend source which does notrequire processing locally on the AIs part to identify.
If our lab environment had objects which had 2d barcodes on them - the AI could see an object, see its 2d barcod tag and instantly retrieve info about the visualized subject.
We could still employ the AI code for calculating #D space as it moves about - but it can then be provided with contextual information about the objects it sees. as it learns, it can learn to associate 2d barcodes with object shapes, so that in the future when it encounters them - it only really need to recall the semacpde 2d barcode on the object to pull contextual information again on that same - or similar object. Ideally - it should also be able to write information to the backend DB to update semacodes and relate them... memories if you will.
Every time I try to ID this one song, it fails.
I can remember what its called, just that its by a guy named John Cage - and is about 4 and a half minutes long...
Sorry wrong. We have now, have had for some years - and will have forevermore space based rail guns.
There is a famous video that was taken from the space shuttle that was analyzed which showed a foreign object fly close to the earth from off camera (outer space) which was then fired upon by a satellite which was equipped with rail guns. The object - then made a 14G 90 degree turn.
Rail guns fire projectiles at ~18K MPH - yet were unable to hit the object seen in the video...
I am googling for it now - can't find it yet.
ok, so assuming that one gets a 1Gb email acount, even if the files size limits are rather small (~10mb), given that they are going to allow for more open access policies by supporting, explicitly, more user friendly browsers (Mozilla, etc...)
.rar chops) of an iso/app etc, you can have these attachements stored in various directories, with specific subject names detailing the attachment.
How difficult will it be to create a torrent storage app that uses emailing of mass files, for example;
Say you have an account with pop access; you have a bot that watches the email account for emails sent with specific commands - if you upload a bunch of files (say
Leech1 sends you an email requesting App-set-1. The file monitor then parses Leech request - and auto forwards the emails with the appropriate attachment to the Leech account.
All at internal google speeds.
The Leech can then DL the attachements at leasure - or, just ahve his mail app open and receiving as they arrive.
Amazing. At some point, Google could have copies of every new document or content produced, all for the cost of hosting. They would, by default, become the next Library of Congress.
You spelled Eschelon and Carnivore incorrectly.
the implications for this with AI are even bigger - the thing is that if you can search by shape - then you need a system with a camera that can "see" shapes - then get information about them in its database.
think the targetting system on robocop.
additionally you can use it in forensic scene analysis - scan a photo into this and have it analyze all the shapes and data....
then you can later seach for sites or scenes by description.... and reverse.
I, for one, welcome the Skynet overlord enabling step in software development.