The government uses the SSN like your teachers in school used your name at the top of the paper, to uniquely identify you. It will be one more section of the form you fill out when you put your information into this system.
US Military pretty much does this with their Common Access Cards (CAC). It doubles as our government ID card and stores certificates that are used to identify individuals on government sites. I like that system as it allows me to remember a simple master password (a PIN) and the passwords are stored somewhere secure.
Not sure how useful this system would be if people continue to use passwords like 'password.' Combining this with KeePass or something similar would be nice.
Well dolphins and a few other animals do 1/2 their brains at a time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep#Species_exhibiting_USWS).
Just because a feature is "better" does not guarantee something will come along with it and prosper. Evolution works along the lines of "good enough" and so far this particular feature has not caught on in a species capable of taking over from humans.
Let me take you back to a time before devices started using micro-USB and there were proprietary charging cables for everything. In my family we had 2 - 3 Nintendo Gameboys, 5 - 6 cellphones (some were backup phones that we had upgraded), a GPS, and all of them had their own unique cable, wonderful little snowflakes they were.
Want to a few of these on a trip? Well, first lets go find the damn cables and make sure we pack the right ones, since there is no way to walk into a store and get one if you forget, not to mention the all the bag space they take up. Now lets spend 10 - 15 minutes playing the matching game when you want to charge one of them.
Sure it seems like hyperbole these days since their are only really 2 standards, USB and the Lightning, but for all of us that lived through that time Apple's refusal to adopt USB brings back a lot of frustrated memories. Yes, I understand there are multiple USB connectors, but for most people they tend to only use the "standard" and micro connectors and even that only matters for one end of the cable, the other can be any other USB connector.
There is a whole spectrum of "reality" in games. On one end you have GTA where pretty much anything goes, then you pass COD and BF where depending on settings you get punished for friendly fire and such, to games like Americas Army and the actual training simulators we use. No one is going to make GTA their first serious choice for a training simulator. The software we actually use is not only much more rigid in terms of rules and physics, but also much better suited for training as they have the ability to create and load specific scenarios whereas the others are strictly games with a limited set of "missions" setup by the developers, mainly aimed at amusement and hardly qualifying as training material.
Not to mention that even if the connection is up, the bandwidth is probably slow since management is trying to save money, so what used to open just about instantly now takes a good 5 minutes to download first.
It is pretty much the standard "Use as intended or warranty is void" you get with any product.
Compare Google Glass to a lawnmower. As long as you use it as intended and don't modify it in any way the manufacturer has to maintain some responsibility for damages caused by it if it malfunctions. If, however, you modify it, say by removing all the safety features, and it goes on to chop your hand off, the fault is on you.
While not nearly as dangerous as the lawnmower, Google Glass is still a delicate piece of electronics that you are going to put right next to your eyes. If someone decides they want to completely rewrite the software from scratch and end up blowing a capacitor and get a load full of glass and plastic in their eye they will have no one to blame but themselves.
Not to mention hardware costs for prototypes if you work with anything but pure software. Due to their small run size, prototypes can get very expensive.
I am constantly hitting the 3.3 MB RAM cap on my 32 bit machine at work just having the applications I need to do my job open at the same time. Combined with the fact that the hard drive is fully encrypted makes using it for swap space extremely expensive. I would kill someone for a 64 bit machine at times just for the increased RAM space.
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If you didn't want me to encrypt everything maybe you should not have spied on everything that wasn't encrypted...
The government uses the SSN like your teachers in school used your name at the top of the paper, to uniquely identify you. It will be one more section of the form you fill out when you put your information into this system.
US Military pretty much does this with their Common Access Cards (CAC). It doubles as our government ID card and stores certificates that are used to identify individuals on government sites. I like that system as it allows me to remember a simple master password (a PIN) and the passwords are stored somewhere secure.
Not sure how useful this system would be if people continue to use passwords like 'password.' Combining this with KeePass or something similar would be nice.
Well dolphins and a few other animals do 1/2 their brains at a time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep#Species_exhibiting_USWS). Just because a feature is "better" does not guarantee something will come along with it and prosper. Evolution works along the lines of "good enough" and so far this particular feature has not caught on in a species capable of taking over from humans.
Let me take you back to a time before devices started using micro-USB and there were proprietary charging cables for everything. In my family we had 2 - 3 Nintendo Gameboys, 5 - 6 cellphones (some were backup phones that we had upgraded), a GPS, and all of them had their own unique cable, wonderful little snowflakes they were. Want to a few of these on a trip? Well, first lets go find the damn cables and make sure we pack the right ones, since there is no way to walk into a store and get one if you forget, not to mention the all the bag space they take up. Now lets spend 10 - 15 minutes playing the matching game when you want to charge one of them. Sure it seems like hyperbole these days since their are only really 2 standards, USB and the Lightning, but for all of us that lived through that time Apple's refusal to adopt USB brings back a lot of frustrated memories. Yes, I understand there are multiple USB connectors, but for most people they tend to only use the "standard" and micro connectors and even that only matters for one end of the cable, the other can be any other USB connector.
There is a whole spectrum of "reality" in games. On one end you have GTA where pretty much anything goes, then you pass COD and BF where depending on settings you get punished for friendly fire and such, to games like Americas Army and the actual training simulators we use. No one is going to make GTA their first serious choice for a training simulator. The software we actually use is not only much more rigid in terms of rules and physics, but also much better suited for training as they have the ability to create and load specific scenarios whereas the others are strictly games with a limited set of "missions" setup by the developers, mainly aimed at amusement and hardly qualifying as training material.
Not to mention that even if the connection is up, the bandwidth is probably slow since management is trying to save money, so what used to open just about instantly now takes a good 5 minutes to download first.
It is pretty much the standard "Use as intended or warranty is void" you get with any product. Compare Google Glass to a lawnmower. As long as you use it as intended and don't modify it in any way the manufacturer has to maintain some responsibility for damages caused by it if it malfunctions. If, however, you modify it, say by removing all the safety features, and it goes on to chop your hand off, the fault is on you. While not nearly as dangerous as the lawnmower, Google Glass is still a delicate piece of electronics that you are going to put right next to your eyes. If someone decides they want to completely rewrite the software from scratch and end up blowing a capacitor and get a load full of glass and plastic in their eye they will have no one to blame but themselves.
Not to mention hardware costs for prototypes if you work with anything but pure software. Due to their small run size, prototypes can get very expensive.
I am constantly hitting the 3.3 MB RAM cap on my 32 bit machine at work just having the applications I need to do my job open at the same time. Combined with the fact that the hard drive is fully encrypted makes using it for swap space extremely expensive. I would kill someone for a 64 bit machine at times just for the increased RAM space.