exactly. Israel Has it, I'm sure most of Europe has that. it's been that way for well over half a century, get REAL. how else are you counted as a citizen? given a voting right? accepted to schools, and government benefits? accepted to work and fill out the tax forms?
The idea that frightens Americans is not being tagged - come on, the idea of a society with no tagging of who's a member is as rediculous as saying you don't need to release memory when you program. Memory leaks anyone? when we are talking about a country, you are facing problems of population density calculations, which effect infrastructure development, housing, roads, schools, fire stations, everything. you have to keep track, otherwise you break into chaos and people are born and die without anyone taking care of it.
What I think Americans are afraid is the fact that the big brother(s) -NSA, CIA, FBI, whoever, are crossing the information. well ofcourse they are, and have been for years, and they will continue to do it efficiently with or without national ID. it's their JOB. it MAY make their job a little easier, but not by much really.
I appreciate the anarchistic spirit, but it's kinda impossible to maintain a nation and an economy without numbers and tags, or you end up back in the good old wild west. the fact it's not happening is because the system already exists. the fact you are not carrying an ID card in your pocket does not mean you were not assigned one and cross-linked in all the government databases.
me Jewish, though not religious. non authoritive answer follows:
the letters of god's name, yod-heh-vav-heh, which is a very unique form of of the verb "be" used nowhere else in our language of Hebrew, are supposed to signify "Eheye Asher Eheye" as god said to Moses - "I am who I am". this ubiquitous being doesn't NEED a name since he IS everything (roughly:)
so anyway, those 3 letters became holy with time, dropped into names of people god sees as blessed or favoured. Avram becomes Avraham (Abraham), Saray becomes Sarah, and on it goes into other names, Jonathan (Yehonatan - god has given), John (Yochanan, God has pardoned), Jededaya (Yedid-Yah, the friend of god), and so on.
in practice, although the "real name of God" is supposedly encrypted in the Zohar (book of the Kabalah), people do not utter the name YHVH (be it Yeh-ho-VAH or YAH-weh we are not sure), and anywhere it's written in the bible or a prey, it is read as Adonai (My Lord) or HaShem (The Name). the word for God in Hebrew, btw, is El but often also the plural form Elohim, which appears a lot in the bible (which is one of many hints to bible researchers to claim Israelites were not always monotheistic), Observant jews avoid even saying Elohim and many times say Elokim instead.
to some up - yod, heh and vav are sorta holy and problematic when used in a word denoting god. vav is the vowel for "oh", so the way I see it they write g-d like they say Elokim instead of Elohim. makes sense when you write in Hebrew, no f---ing clue why they do it in English as well.
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This is IT?
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* We see IT in fight rings?
* IT gets a spot in a Holywood movie?
* they teach an ape to use one?
* the black market of stolen Gingers forces Kamen to license the technology?
* people complain it's a city-street safety hazard?
* people complain it makes them lazy and we should all go back to walking? (I say it was ofcourse a mistake coming down from the trees in the first place)
* we get a weatherproof one?
* someone will model a battle-bot after IT?
really nice, but I'm not waiting at the edge of my seat to get one:)
encryption algorithem aside, what about the practicality of obtaining the key?
the way I see it you need a source that transmits obscene amounts of random numbers, it has to be fast enough to flood the adversery (drown him with numbers:), and it has to be easely available to both parties, that may be far in different corners of the world. If you're a government willing to keep an international OC-12 of random bytes for the occasional encrypted Email, it's fine, but what about the little guy? OK, so we need it on a sattelite like the article sugests, now the little guy needs the hardware to pick it up from the sattelite, this is a bit more expensive than compiling GnuPG.
Now I'll make another huge assumption. Even if the part of getting the sattelite transmission was solved and is real cheap, who sends up sattelites to space? usually governments or really big corporations. Do we trust them to use a real random engine? it's in their interest to have access to our messages. In fast the 24 GPS sattelites are owned by the US, they made it very clear that if a war ever breaks where the US army can use a blackout for its advantage, they change the signals and maybe even sattelite paths of that system so only their equipment stays tuned.
I say it's much simpler to build a 50 cent real random generator chip to be installed on every motherboard and PDA for use with our current style cryptosystems ("assume not enough computer power").
now THAT is a cute chalange. a tiny ADC sampling a noisy crude resistor or some other phenomenon. the white noise of radio reception when opening up to a wide band of frequency. to recreate that stream of numbers you have to record an unknown amount of radio noise within an unknown frequency range at the very same physical place as the original recorded stream and the same magnetic interference.
this is an attempt o liven up the GSM standard for a bit longer. Motorolla (and probably Qualcomm) are working on T1-speed for CDMA. I no fscking clue what to do with all that bandwidth in one tiny phone, or even when hooked to a palm pilot. one thing is for sure, it will be fun to use it on laptops... a Crusoe webpad comes to mind... maybe ones that fold to the size of a palm...
maybe I'm completely overdoing it but here is a rational: that iSmell supposedly can synthesize an infinite numbr of smells, I don't suppose you just choose one of 40 or 50. hence I assume that it has a changable capsule of various scents or chemicals that needs changing once in a while, and it contains a few dozen tiny cells of chemicals it can use to mix smells as dictated by the program (website, game, whatever).
Can it be hacked to produce a gas that is dangerous? are iSmell making sure that capsule has passed all cross-mixing tests of chemical reactions between the different matterials and is indeed safe? just an idea...
other than that, iSmell is not a new thing, I think even Slashdot gave them an item or two few months back. I don't want one at home, but going to an arcade to drive a sportscar simulator, smell the burning rubber and overheating engine would be fun.
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exactly. Israel Has it, I'm sure most of Europe has that. it's been that way for well over half a century, get REAL. how else are you counted as a citizen? given a voting right? accepted to schools, and government benefits? accepted to work and fill out the tax forms?
The idea that frightens Americans is not being tagged - come on, the idea of a society with no tagging of who's a member is as rediculous as saying you don't need to release memory when you program. Memory leaks anyone? when we are talking about a country, you are facing problems of population density calculations, which effect infrastructure development, housing, roads, schools, fire stations, everything. you have to keep track, otherwise you break into chaos and people are born and die without anyone taking care of it.
What I think Americans are afraid is the fact that the big brother(s) -NSA, CIA, FBI, whoever, are crossing the information. well ofcourse they are, and have been for years, and they will continue to do it efficiently with or without national ID. it's their JOB. it MAY make their job a little easier, but not by much really.
I appreciate the anarchistic spirit, but it's kinda impossible to maintain a nation and an economy without numbers and tags, or you end up back in the good old wild west. the fact it's not happening is because the system already exists. the fact you are not carrying an ID card in your pocket does not mean you were not assigned one and cross-linked in all the government databases.
me Jewish, though not religious. non authoritive answer follows:
:)
the letters of god's name, yod-heh-vav-heh, which is a very unique form of of the verb "be" used nowhere else in our language of Hebrew, are supposed to signify "Eheye Asher Eheye" as god said to Moses - "I am who I am". this ubiquitous being doesn't NEED a name since he IS everything (roughly
so anyway, those 3 letters became holy with time, dropped into names of people god sees as blessed or favoured. Avram becomes Avraham (Abraham), Saray becomes Sarah, and on it goes into other names, Jonathan (Yehonatan - god has given), John (Yochanan, God has pardoned), Jededaya (Yedid-Yah, the friend of god), and so on.
in practice, although the "real name of God" is supposedly encrypted in the Zohar (book of the Kabalah), people do not utter the name YHVH (be it Yeh-ho-VAH or YAH-weh we are not sure), and anywhere it's written in the bible or a prey, it is read as Adonai (My Lord) or HaShem (The Name). the word for God in Hebrew, btw, is El but often also the plural form Elohim, which appears a lot in the bible (which is one of many hints to bible researchers to claim Israelites were not always monotheistic), Observant jews avoid even saying Elohim and many times say Elokim instead.
to some up - yod, heh and vav are sorta holy and problematic when used in a word denoting god. vav is the vowel for "oh", so the way I see it they write g-d like they say Elokim instead of Elohim. makes sense when you write in Hebrew, no f---ing clue why they do it in English as well.
* We see IT in fight rings?
:)
* IT gets a spot in a Holywood movie?
* they teach an ape to use one?
* the black market of stolen Gingers forces Kamen to license the technology?
* people complain it's a city-street safety hazard?
* people complain it makes them lazy and we should all go back to walking? (I say it was ofcourse a mistake coming down from the trees in the first place)
* we get a weatherproof one?
* someone will model a battle-bot after IT?
really nice, but I'm not waiting at the edge of my seat to get one
big.us.dick.us
:)
and I guess we'll see a bunch of companies choosing latin-sounding names for the better looking domain name.
now stay away or I'll give you lup.us
he can always do a carear move... some of those expert tasters make six figures and more.
encryption algorithem aside, what about the practicality of obtaining the key?
:), and it has to be easely available to both parties, that may be far in different corners of the world. If you're a government willing to keep an international OC-12 of random bytes for the occasional encrypted Email, it's fine, but what about the little guy? OK, so we need it on a sattelite like the article sugests, now the little guy needs the hardware to pick it up from the sattelite, this is a bit more expensive than compiling GnuPG.
the way I see it you need a source that transmits obscene amounts of random numbers, it has to be fast enough to flood the adversery (drown him with numbers
Now I'll make another huge assumption. Even if the part of getting the sattelite transmission was solved and is real cheap, who sends up sattelites to space? usually governments or really big corporations. Do we trust them to use a real random engine? it's in their interest to have access to our messages. In fast the 24 GPS sattelites are owned by the US, they made it very clear that if a war ever breaks where the US army can use a blackout for its advantage, they change the signals and maybe even sattelite paths of that system so only their equipment stays tuned.
I say it's much simpler to build a 50 cent real random generator chip to be installed on every motherboard and PDA for use with our current style cryptosystems ("assume not enough computer power").
now THAT is a cute chalange. a tiny ADC sampling a noisy crude resistor or some other phenomenon. the white noise of radio reception when opening up to a wide band of frequency. to recreate that stream of numbers you have to record an unknown amount of radio noise within an unknown frequency range at the very same physical place as the original recorded stream and the same magnetic interference.
this is an attempt o liven up the GSM standard for a bit longer. Motorolla (and probably Qualcomm) are working on T1-speed for CDMA. I no fscking clue what to do with all that bandwidth in one tiny phone, or even when hooked to a palm pilot. one thing is for sure, it will be fun to use it on laptops... a Crusoe webpad comes to mind... maybe ones that fold to the size of a palm...
:-)
nahh, that's way to futuristic
maybe I'm completely overdoing it but here is a rational: that iSmell supposedly can synthesize an infinite numbr of smells, I don't suppose you just choose one of 40 or 50. hence I assume that it has a changable capsule of various scents or chemicals that needs changing once in a while, and it contains a few dozen tiny cells of chemicals it can use to mix smells as dictated by the program (website, game, whatever).
Can it be hacked to produce a gas that is dangerous? are iSmell making sure that capsule has passed all cross-mixing tests of chemical reactions between the different matterials and is indeed safe? just an idea...
other than that, iSmell is not a new thing, I think even Slashdot gave them an item or two few months back. I don't want one at home, but going to an arcade to drive a sportscar simulator, smell the burning rubber and overheating engine would be fun.