I work for a company that is -- or was -- piloting RFID with Wal-Mart. The issue that we faced wasn't the RFID tags, nor was it the software - it was the horrible hit rate we were getting on the pallet license plates through the RFID portals.
This was a couple years ago, so I don't know if we are in any better shape with the hardware now - but it really, really sucked in late '05, badly enough that we didn't make much headway with the Wal-Mart initiative.
We're still messing around with RFID, AFAIK, but on a much more scaled back initiative.
IDK about identity theft, but you should read the comment that "heather" left on the CA blog about "managemyhome.com," another Sears web site. Apparently all you need is a name, address, and phone number and you can log on as that person and view purchase history from Sears for, what I would surmise, is the big ticket items like refrigideezers and washers.
You also have to determine whether anyone without a clearance had access to the material.
And what do they do in that case?
We could tell you, etc., etc., etc.
All seriousness aside, I'm sure that it depends on a number of things: the clearance that the spilled material had, the audience that was exposed, whether anyone actually did access it ("having" access is not the same as actually accessing it) among other things.
In any case, I would surmise that the reaction would be anything from a strong suggestion to forget and a recitation of the penalties for disclosure to something more energetic. I am only too glad that I don't even have the ability to get unauthorized access to such material.
I've never seen well-timed lights, in any American city I've lived in or visited, on either side of the continent.
Ahem, I beg to differ. Ocean City, MD has some of the best timed lights I've seen. Sitting at a red light you can watch them flick, flick, flick green all the way down Coastal Highway, and you can go many blocks before you start seeing them flick yellow/red, yellow/red, yellow/red in your rear view mirror.
There's no modification for the absence of cross traffic but these engineers did the timing very well.
Of course, nothing will help you on a Saturday afternoon when the rentals are both emptying and filling and the traffic is more or less quadrupled in the town. However, during the balance of the week it generally only takes you about 4 or 5 red light 'cycles' to drive from, say, 100th street down to the inlet -- if driving is your cup of tea.
I would agree with you except that I still think that some technology needs to happen to overcome the oceanic barriers. With the exception of the Bering Strait, the continents are, for the intent of power distribution, effectively isolated. And the Bering Strait is no picnic to fish a wire across either, if I'm not mistaken.
Once the technology barriers were overcome, connecting the continents through the Bering Strait would effectively connect everywhere save Greenland and Australia/Antarctica.
Would a global cartel decide to go ahead and do that, I could see terrorists with wet dreams about incapacitating the "Bering Strait Interconnect."
A solution is a global energy grid. Sure, it may be daytime in the US right now, but it's night-time in India.
And if the electric companies have any sense at all, a "global energy grid" should be keeping them up at night. If I were a betting man, I'd say within the next couple hundred years we could see feasibility studies on a global grid.
Not to belabor the obvious, but this quote, when contrasted with all the comments I've seen, shows that there is also an 'asymptotic decaying exponential' number of people who actually RTFA.
I haven't clicked on the PopSci link but I do have the Aptera site bookmarked, and am actively campaigning the wife to buy one. My employer has a solar farm on site. I wonder whether with a little sweet talking I can wheedle a spare 120V output?
"The high pressure tanks have been developed using a similar technology as those used in natural gas vehicles and by firefighters. All are produced with carbon fiber over plastic.
The tanks that MDI puts in its vehicles are similar to those already in use in natural gas busses in Germany and also other countries."
My son has a 300 bar paintball tank. Carbon fibers. Much safer than steel and it takes some nasty knocks on the speedball field.
I've done better than visit a museum; I used to work at what was once Lucent Microelectronics in Allentown PA where, before they tore it down to make way for a ball stadium, they had wafer fabs and even a crystal growing installation onsite.
The best part of that job was signing up for being a chaperone for "Take your Daughter to Work Day" (it was still daughters only then) and herding the kids around to the different areas. We watched the ingots growing and being cut into wafers, polished, kerfed, and then later donned bunny suits to go into the clean rooms.
Way cool for someone who normally just spends his time driving a keyboard.
Some people even have different Books. And if you don't agree with them, they will fly airplanes into your buildings. Sadly true. I can only hope that karma is a bitch.
Then what good is the Bible? Is it a history book? A science book? A how-to book? Or merely another work of fiction? This is precisely why strict constructionists (those who believe in the exact wording of the Bible to define their faith) will never get any serious traction. Let's take it a step further: which Bible should you believe? The King James version? The New International version? Douay-Rheims? How about the versions in Greek, or better still, in the original Aramaic?
My thought regarding the bible -- worth exactly what you pay for it -- is that it IS the inspired word of God, but that God gave that word to relatively uneducated (albeit contemporary) men. They very well may have had a "vision" that told them what to write in Genesis, but to avoid their dying of old age while the vision unreeled, God sped up the film a little. Therefore, there was some 'creative license' taken with the vision, which is why the writer said the world was created in 7 days. It probably wasn't created in 168 solar hours.
After all, even Bryan himself said during the REAL Scopes trial, "I believe everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there; some of the Bible is given illustratively. For instance: 'Ye are the salt of the earth.' I would not insist that man was actually salt, or that he had flesh of salt, but it is used in the sense of salt as saving God's people."
So back to your original question: the answer is "Yes, the Bible is all of these things, written through the lens of the contemporary writers of the day."
should read the story of these two amazing machines. There's a lot that's wrong with NASA but there's so much that's right, too -- and this is proof positive.
I'm honestly wondering if I can safely believe that any Windows machine I come across with problems ISN'T on Storm or one of the other botnets. The POS Gateway that I'm trying to disinfect is a classic example of one that I'm sure isn't on a botnet.
Because, and only because, I refuse to hook it to a network while I'm trying to de-worm it.;)
I've only ever gotten mod points once. I figured they were just stingy with them. How often do they come up for most people? Mine come up every few weeks or so, although I usually don't have time to use them. Ditto with mine - it would be an odd month when I didn't get mod points at least twice.
Learn and be very proficient in one (or more) esoteric skill(s), even if the demand for it is very low.
Amen to that. I was laid off in '02 with just such a skillset. Was hired by a larger firm 12 weeks later. This was at the peak of the tech worker bust.
Now I'm pretty much the only person who can help with our current project which involves my skillset quite heavily. I figure I'm good for about 3 more years minimum here, and then I start getting ready.
But the bottom line is to never, ever become complacent. If they decided to can me tomorrow, I would still be able to get work somewhere.
I can just see 'cell phone douchebag' flying all over the place without even painted lines to tell him where to go.
And you really think that the painted lines help the cell phone douchebags?
Trust me, I'd much prefer to have three dimensions. If I change my flight level then there's practically zero chance of intersecting with idiots at another flight level. Remember "The Wrath of Khan."
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I work for a company that is -- or was -- piloting RFID with Wal-Mart. The issue that we faced wasn't the RFID tags, nor was it the software - it was the horrible hit rate we were getting on the pallet license plates through the RFID portals.
This was a couple years ago, so I don't know if we are in any better shape with the hardware now - but it really, really sucked in late '05, badly enough that we didn't make much headway with the Wal-Mart initiative.
We're still messing around with RFID, AFAIK, but on a much more scaled back initiative.
IDK about identity theft, but you should read the comment that "heather" left on the CA blog about "managemyhome.com," another Sears web site. Apparently all you need is a name, address, and phone number and you can log on as that person and view purchase history from Sears for, what I would surmise, is the big ticket items like refrigideezers and washers.
Now that's almost criminal.
We could tell you, etc., etc., etc.
All seriousness aside, I'm sure that it depends on a number of things: the clearance that the spilled material had, the audience that was exposed, whether anyone actually did access it ("having" access is not the same as actually accessing it) among other things.
In any case, I would surmise that the reaction would be anything from a strong suggestion to forget and a recitation of the penalties for disclosure to something more energetic. I am only too glad that I don't even have the ability to get unauthorized access to such material.
ITYM "ironic."
Ahem, I beg to differ. Ocean City, MD has some of the best timed lights I've seen. Sitting at a red light you can watch them flick, flick, flick green all the way down Coastal Highway, and you can go many blocks before you start seeing them flick yellow/red, yellow/red, yellow/red in your rear view mirror.
There's no modification for the absence of cross traffic but these engineers did the timing very well.
Of course, nothing will help you on a Saturday afternoon when the rentals are both emptying and filling and the traffic is more or less quadrupled in the town. However, during the balance of the week it generally only takes you about 4 or 5 red light 'cycles' to drive from, say, 100th street down to the inlet -- if driving is your cup of tea.
I would agree with you except that I still think that some technology needs to happen to overcome the oceanic barriers. With the exception of the Bering Strait, the continents are, for the intent of power distribution, effectively isolated. And the Bering Strait is no picnic to fish a wire across either, if I'm not mistaken.
Once the technology barriers were overcome, connecting the continents through the Bering Strait would effectively connect everywhere save Greenland and Australia/Antarctica.
Would a global cartel decide to go ahead and do that, I could see terrorists with wet dreams about incapacitating the "Bering Strait Interconnect."
And if the electric companies have any sense at all, a "global energy grid" should be keeping them up at night. If I were a betting man, I'd say within the next couple hundred years we could see feasibility studies on a global grid.
Not to belabor the obvious, but this quote, when contrasted with all the comments I've seen, shows that there is also an 'asymptotic decaying exponential' number of people who actually RTFA.
I haven't clicked on the PopSci link but I do have the Aptera site bookmarked, and am actively campaigning the wife to buy one. My employer has a solar farm on site. I wonder whether with a little sweet talking I can wheedle a spare 120V output?
I normally don't respond to trolls but come on - De gustibus non disputandum est, bro.
I would have hired him. These young whippersnapper programmers thinking that they are all that. What's wrong with 3GLs anyway?
At the end of the day, it's all ones and zeros.
"The high pressure tanks have been developed using a similar technology as those used in natural gas vehicles and by firefighters. All are produced with carbon fiber over plastic.
The tanks that MDI puts in its vehicles are similar to those already in use in natural gas busses in Germany and also other countries."
My son has a 300 bar paintball tank. Carbon fibers. Much safer than steel and it takes some nasty knocks on the speedball field.
I've done better than visit a museum; I used to work at what was once Lucent Microelectronics in Allentown PA where, before they tore it down to make way for a ball stadium, they had wafer fabs and even a crystal growing installation onsite.
The best part of that job was signing up for being a chaperone for "Take your Daughter to Work Day" (it was still daughters only then) and herding the kids around to the different areas. We watched the ingots growing and being cut into wafers, polished, kerfed, and then later donned bunny suits to go into the clean rooms.
Way cool for someone who normally just spends his time driving a keyboard.
My thought regarding the bible -- worth exactly what you pay for it -- is that it IS the inspired word of God, but that God gave that word to relatively uneducated (albeit contemporary) men. They very well may have had a "vision" that told them what to write in Genesis, but to avoid their dying of old age while the vision unreeled, God sped up the film a little. Therefore, there was some 'creative license' taken with the vision, which is why the writer said the world was created in 7 days. It probably wasn't created in 168 solar hours.
After all, even Bryan himself said during the REAL Scopes trial, "I believe everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there; some of the Bible is given illustratively. For instance: 'Ye are the salt of the earth.' I would not insist that man was actually salt, or that he had flesh of salt, but it is used in the sense of salt as saving God's people."
So back to your original question: the answer is "Yes, the Bible is all of these things, written through the lens of the contemporary writers of the day."
should read the story of these two amazing machines. There's a lot that's wrong with NASA but there's so much that's right, too -- and this is proof positive.
Because, and only because, I refuse to hook it to a network while I'm trying to de-worm it.
when you need him? Bring us Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang! Now THERE's a flying car.
Yep, Robert Heinlein had those sealant bags] in his novels many a year ago.
ISTR he also write a (short) story where someone sat on a leak to plug it. Froze his butt cheek right up, it did, till the rescue team arrived.
If I get a song stuck in my head and I can't get it out, will I have to pay them each time it runs through?
They should be rubbing their hands in glee thinking of the fortune they'll make on "It's a Small World."
Learn and be very proficient in one (or more) esoteric skill(s), even if the demand for it is very low.
Amen to that. I was laid off in '02 with just such a skillset. Was hired by a larger firm 12 weeks later. This was at the peak of the tech worker bust.
Now I'm pretty much the only person who can help with our current project which involves my skillset quite heavily. I figure I'm good for about 3 more years minimum here, and then I start getting ready.
But the bottom line is to never, ever become complacent. If they decided to can me tomorrow, I would still be able to get work somewhere.
I can just see 'cell phone douchebag' flying all over the place without even painted lines to tell him where to go.
And you really think that the painted lines help the cell phone douchebags?
Trust me, I'd much prefer to have three dimensions. If I change my flight level then there's practically zero chance of intersecting with idiots at another flight level. Remember "The Wrath of Khan."
And it does nothing to restore any confidence in their systems or management.
ITYM "Confidance."
What sort of a dick rides a bike without a helmet?
They call that sort of dick "organ donor."
Well then the "common man" should get what he gets. It's not our job to babysit him.
At the risk of being modded offtopic, it's attitudes like this that foment the creation of the Storm worm botnet.