There is no reason to put an FRID into the cans going into Drink Machines. They serve no purpose that isn't already covered by tried and true technology.
You forget, sir, that the RFID companies would like to make money. Therefore, logical arguments such as yours are thrown out for "LOOK HOW MUCH EASIER IT IS WITH RFID!"
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Awesome. I will be having a party where I burn effigies of Ken, and also lots of booze.
Maybe some hookers.
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I hope Ken loses. He's too cheeky. I just want to smack him. AND, he doesn't even up his running total to an even number, only his one-day totals. What an idiot.
Propaganda is a subclass of persuasive speech. It's distinguished from other kinds of persuasive speech by one major characteristic: it's unconcerned with truth.
Too bad you're wrong. Propaganda has nothing to do with trueness or falseness. Really. Propaganda can be "good", "bad", "true", "false", or anything else. You don't get to make up definitions to words. Linguists and dictionary publishers do.
Propaganda (n): The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
The problem is that the people who would go through the trouble of a test like that are people who consider themselves "audiophiles". If you look in the dictionary under audiophile, it will say something like "Someone who has their head up their ass. They do this because it's quieter in there, and they can hear the difference between a 256 kbit mp3 and a 384 kbit mp3."
But really, you're not going to find joe user taking a test like this. Why bother? He uses the following rubric to choose his codec (varying weights):
1. Is it installed on my computer already? 2. Does it work with my portable player? 3. Do I have to pay anything for it? 4. Does it sound good enough?
Did you actually read the report? It says nothing about how "nasty" the codec sounds, only preference of the people who happened to go to the website, download the software, download all 203 megs of audio, figure it out (not a small feat for your non-computer savvy folks), complete the tests, send it back in...
First, I'm not quite sure that this was an "honest" or fair test... It was conducted over the internet, with no visible control over speaker settings, crappy sound cards, or what have you. Vorbis was tuned to yield the best results. Atrac was not. The tester used a "testing" version of Orbis. This guy is comparing a highly tuned open source codec to something which is commercially available.
Try not to get easily fooled by graphs. The difference between the formats in that report might LOOK big, but it's because they've trickily zoomed in on the "significant" part of the chart.
... Does anyone else think that if your hard drive player is skipping, you've got more problems than your music being interrupted? Don't hard drives hate getting knocked around? Don't heads smash into platters when you bounce them around? Sure, it's got a long-ass skip buffer, but what good is it when the hard drive is trashed from you jumping up and down?
Verizon has taken even more dramatic action to cope with disasters in the past. In 2000, during the Hi Meadow fire near Bailey, the company used helicopters and llamas to transport equipment to the rugged terrain, Weaver said.
Did anyone else notice this? Llamas. And helicopters. Sounds elaborate. Makes me glad I'm not with Verizon.
Newsgroups: alt.current-events.net-abuse Path: ucsbuxb.ucsb. edu!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu !csus.edu!csusac! charnel.e cst.csuchico.edu!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.resto n.ans.net! news.sprintlink. net!news.tyrell.net!ttyt1.tyrell.net!user From: Inside@tyrell.net (Mark Eberra-Network Adm.) Subject: An Open Letter To The Internet From Mark Eberra X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ttyt1.tyrell.net Message-ID: Sender: news@tyrell.net (*) Organization: Inside Connections(tm) Commercial Network Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 00:02:54 GMT Lines: 50
To All Internet Users:
Netiquette is a decaying concept. This is underscored by the fact that millions of new users are joining the internet every month and have no interest in the old ways at all. The new breed of internet users are entrepreneurs, consumers and innovators. They are joining the internet to create new ways of living, thinking and conducting business. While the old timers and those that wish to emulate them are resistant to the change, they must face the fact that they do not control the internet. If this new majority wants commercial activity, then commercial activity will be the order of the day.
Most important is the fact that the internet is an open system. It's very nature makes it a self renewing, self correcting system for perpetual change.
In less than a month the NSF will pull out of the internet and the major corporations like Sprint, MCI and AT&T will take over. In a year or so the usenet system as we know it may not even exist. This change will take place not because of people such as myself , but mainly because of new technology like fiber optic cable and the coming Information Super Highway. In this new world order words like nettique, spam, and flames will not exist. These are exciting times and there is room for everyone on this new frontier. Who knows what awaits us over the next horizon. We all owe it to ourselves to embrace the challenge and explore a brave new world. To do anything less is to deny the purpose of our own existence.
Sincerely
Mark Eberra President The Superior Edge Corporation
I work for a major university, and one of the things we do here is make sure everyone has access to email. We're not on any blacklists, and everyone can send and recieve mail quite well. Before you claim "anecdotal evidence", let's look at the sheer sense of scale I'm talking about.
Let's see where we're at today...
Hmm, 42,600 people on this campus alone (there's 2 others!), and no one's bitching very loudly. We even do pretty decent spam checking.
Don't post to/. again until you've come to your senses.
...you mean we're supposed to give a shit about things that don't affect us? Get real, buddy. I worry about stuff that's important to me, and I'll leave the shit that's important to you and not to me up to you.
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Once locked, the data can still be changed, but you need the special key and whatnot, which means you need to break the encryption. Its not trivial.
You obviously have never heard of DeCSS...:) It would be trivial to crack the key if look to previous commercial encryption systems.
There is no reason to put an FRID into the cans going into Drink Machines. They serve no purpose that isn't already covered by tried and true technology.
You forget, sir, that the RFID companies would like to make money. Therefore, logical arguments such as yours are thrown out for "LOOK HOW MUCH EASIER IT IS WITH RFID!"
Hey, why don't we go take some pictures of the Army coffins arriving at Dover AFB?
How it feels to jump around on the face of the moon with 1/5th (or whatever) the gravity? Jeez, have some imagination, guy.
Stop whining and get cable.
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Just use the pill!
You mean loose, of course.
Awesome. I will be having a party where I burn effigies of Ken, and also lots of booze.
Maybe some hookers.
I hope Ken loses. He's too cheeky. I just want to smack him. AND, he doesn't even up his running total to an even number, only his one-day totals. What an idiot.
Oxford has never heard of secure services. C'mon, do people still run IMAP over a plaintext connection? If you are guilty of this, you are an idiot.
nice!
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' replaces a letter
...
What does ' replace in
John's bike
Jill's bike
3M's new product?
Take THAT bad-natured grammar naziry!
Benefits. As in, "Health Insurance" in the US, retirement savings, dental, that sort of thing...
What the hell is "bang for buck"? The ability to store more "!"'s per dollar than any other solution from any other "manufactuer"?
Jeez, mac people really are dangerous.
Propaganda is a subclass of persuasive speech. It's distinguished from other kinds of persuasive speech by one major characteristic: it's unconcerned with truth.
Too bad you're wrong. Propaganda has nothing to do with trueness or falseness. Really. Propaganda can be "good", "bad", "true", "false", or anything else. You don't get to make up definitions to words. Linguists and dictionary publishers do.
Propaganda (n): The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
The problem is that the people who would go through the trouble of a test like that are people who consider themselves "audiophiles". If you look in the dictionary under audiophile, it will say something like "Someone who has their head up their ass. They do this because it's quieter in there, and they can hear the difference between a 256 kbit mp3 and a 384 kbit mp3."
But really, you're not going to find joe user taking a test like this. Why bother? He uses the following rubric to choose his codec (varying weights):
1. Is it installed on my computer already?
2. Does it work with my portable player?
3. Do I have to pay anything for it?
4. Does it sound good enough?
Did you actually read the report? It says nothing about how "nasty" the codec sounds, only preference of the people who happened to go to the website, download the software, download all 203 megs of audio, figure it out (not a small feat for your non-computer savvy folks), complete the tests, send it back in ...
First, I'm not quite sure that this was an "honest" or fair test... It was conducted over the internet, with no visible control over speaker settings, crappy sound cards, or what have you. Vorbis was tuned to yield the best results. Atrac was not. The tester used a "testing" version of Orbis. This guy is comparing a highly tuned open source codec to something which is commercially available.
Try not to get easily fooled by graphs. The difference between the formats in that report might LOOK big, but it's because they've trickily zoomed in on the "significant" part of the chart.
... Does anyone else think that if your hard drive player is skipping, you've got more problems than your music being interrupted? Don't hard drives hate getting knocked around? Don't heads smash into platters when you bounce them around? Sure, it's got a long-ass skip buffer, but what good is it when the hard drive is trashed from you jumping up and down?
Verizon has taken even more dramatic action to cope with disasters in the past. In 2000, during the Hi Meadow fire near Bailey, the company used helicopters and llamas to transport equipment to the rugged terrain, Weaver said.
Did anyone else notice this? Llamas. And helicopters. Sounds elaborate. Makes me glad I'm not with Verizon.
Since it is ruled legal, and they are able, does that confer some responsibility to them?
Ahh! Since we CAN read their email, now we HAVE to read their email (to make sure they are not terrorists/hax0rz/kidtouchers)...
I can think of a few users whose email I would definately not want to read.
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To All Internet Users:
Netiquette is a decaying concept. This is underscored by the fact that
millions of new users are joining the internet every month and have no
interest in the old ways at all. The new breed of internet users are
entrepreneurs, consumers and innovators. They are joining the internet
to create new ways of living, thinking and conducting business. While
the old timers and those that wish to emulate them are resistant to the
change, they must face the fact that they do not control the internet.
If this new majority wants commercial activity, then commercial
activity will be the order of the day
Most important is the fact that the internet is an open system. It's
very nature makes it a self renewing, self correcting system for
perpetual change.
In less than a month the NSF will pull out of the internet and the
major corporations like Sprint, MCI and AT&T will take over. In a year
or so the usenet system as we know it may not even exist. This change
will take place not because of people such as myself , but mainly
because of new technology like fiber optic cable and the coming
Information Super Highway. In this new world order words like
nettique, spam, and flames will not exist. These are exciting times and
there is room for everyone on this new frontier. Who knows what awaits
us over the next horizon. We all owe it to ourselves to embrace the
challenge and explore a brave new world. To do anything less is to
deny the purpose of our own existence.
Sincerely
Mark Eberra
President
The Superior Edge Corporation
No it doesn't. That website summarizes the informational equivalent of a steaming pile of dog shit.
I work for a major university, and one of the things we do here is make sure everyone has access to email. We're not on any blacklists, and everyone can send and recieve mail quite well. Before you claim "anecdotal evidence", let's look at the sheer sense of scale I'm talking about.
/. again until you've come to your senses.
Let's see where we're at today...
Hmm, 42,600 people on this campus alone (there's 2 others!), and no one's bitching very loudly. We even do pretty decent spam checking.
Don't post to
...you mean we're supposed to give a shit about things that don't affect us? Get real, buddy. I worry about stuff that's important to me, and I'll leave the shit that's important to you and not to me up to you.