Not knocking the technology involved, which I'm sure is very spiffy and all, but this is dumb. Anyone who really wants a fake ID will still be able to get one by buying it from an unscrupulous state employee. Only now of course, since the ID being purchased will be one considered "nearly impossible to counterfeit" the item in question will be above suspicion. The only thing this really does is weaken an already weak system.
I think it has a great deal to do with the fact that none of the items mentioned in the list will ever "go gold" as such, and will therefore never really -- which is maybe to say *enforceably* -- go through the feature feeeze/bug fix period that immediately proceeds that event. There's no real financial motivation to ever take it out of beta ( like, say, shipping product ), and there are plenty or reasons - like those mentioned by the poster - not to.
In the process they have completely ignored the fact that they have created a method of forging credit cards that requires no expertise or special tools.
Not to mention that the device allows me to forge credit cards one-off right in front of a store clerk without causing as much as a raised eyebrow...
Re:Symptomatic of historical revisionism
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Mieville freely amits that he rips off culture:
"My attitude to this sort of stuff is entirely piratical and philistine. I plunder myths or whatever but without any respect for their symbolic heritage." -- China Meiville
I seriously doubt that he has no issues doing the same for historical events.
The man steals and other people's cultures and histories, takes them completely out of context, and uses them for his own ends...and I think that that is totally in keeping with the way he writes...
full quote is at: http://runagate-rampant.netfirms.com/books/an notat ions/perdido_street_station.shtml
This thing would leave you completely at the mercy of anyone who happened upon you while using it -- even if I was in a locked room, I'd be too paranoid about being helpless, effectively blind and deaf, to pay any attention whatsoever to the person I was talking to..
Y'know, I only really clicked through to the comments on this article for the mom jokes...and while that one was damn good, they are otherwise quite sparse. It can't just be me who considers the mom joke to be the height of humor...Can it?...Anyone?
All this reccomendation (favourites, what have you) stuff is based on Baysian algorithms, right?
So...if I watch lots of "Girls Gone Wild" videos, I'm gonna end up with a bunch of WWF(E, whatever) and monster truck stuff recorded `cause that's what everyone else who watched those videos liked, statistically, yes?
This happens to me with Amazon all the time -- I'm a big fan of Michael Moore but I'm really not interested in comics/graphic novels as a whole. Yet I get the reccomendations every time I buy a comic and until I "convince" the engine that I'm not interested by rating all the other comics it reccomends as zeros, or whatever...IIRC there is a way to tell the engine not to consider a particular purchase when calculating you reccomendations, but I never can find it when I'm looking...
Re:Um, you've never lived in New York, have you?
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Unless the store is literally within 4 blocks
I have been wracking my brain, and I cannot think of a place in Manhattan where you are more than 4 blocks from a grocey store.
More to the point, this service is really not in the best position. I'll use it, but I'm probably atypical. Almost every grocery store in Manhattan will deliver -- You can go, get your cart, wander around, squeeze the canteloupes, make impulse purchases, then when you check out, you just say "deliver this to 234 W 71st St. Apt 1A." Walk home without your 150 pounds of groceries, and still have them in about 60 to 90 minutes. Best of both worlds.
I'm aware that the "people like physicality when purchasing" argument is a pretty tired one, but I think it applies to food, particularly.
So if a cable goes bad, they'd just switch to a good one at the endpoints, I suppose.
Actually, I doubt that. Traditional fiber is pretty fragile. It is generally laid in (at the very least) a conduit that protects it from casual breaks. IMO, something that smacks into a conduit with enough force to break one fiber will -- chances are -- break all of `em.
It is possible to splice fiber and/or repair breaks, it just takes a specially trained person with very expensive equipment.
they lay like 2 dozen cables when they only need one, just so they don't have to go digging again
Going OT here -- I read recently that at least one company was laying their fiber in chambered conduits, meaning that, in addition to laying more than they need, if they need more fiber in a given conduit, they just attach a vacuum to one end and suck a new fibre bundle through. Throught that that was pretty slick.
I will have enough bandwidth when I get transfer rates comprable to the those on my motherboard.
Once it no longer matters where the physical components of my computer are. Once my processor is rented cycles in Korea, my RAM is in orbit, and my storage media is distributed in 10K chunks all over the former Soviet Union, and there is no noticable performance hit. Then I'll have enough bandwidth.
Actually, I would disagree about the Congress thing. The best place for one well-informed person to make a difference is not in Congress making the laws -- or arguing against them -- but in the judiciary, shooting them down.
Slashdot Mirror
Look for the yellow cap:
y Id=1832301
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
Available from about a week before to a week after Passover, at least here ( NYC ).
For areas without a large Jewish community...yer fucked.
Did we export the culture of human irresponsibility along with the rest of our culture, or is this human nature?
in case it hadn't already been pointed out
http://catandgirl.com/view.php?loc=131
I should point out that the ideas behind my statements did not originate with me, but rather with articles like by Bruce Schneier.
Not knocking the technology involved, which I'm sure is very spiffy and all, but this is dumb.
Anyone who really wants a fake ID will still be able to get one by buying it from an unscrupulous state employee.
Only now of course, since the ID being purchased will be one considered "nearly impossible to counterfeit" the item in question will be above suspicion.
The only thing this really does is weaken an already weak system.
Mods: Not insightful. Funny. It's a quote from Clerks: http://www.atlyrics.com/quotes/c/clerks.html
Unless quoting movies requires insight...
I think it has a great deal to do with the fact that none of the items mentioned in the list will ever "go gold" as such, and will therefore never really -- which is maybe to say *enforceably* -- go through the feature feeeze/bug fix period that immediately proceeds that event. There's no real financial motivation to ever take it out of beta ( like, say, shipping product ), and there are plenty or reasons - like those mentioned by the poster - not to.
In the process they have completely ignored the fact that they have created a method of forging credit cards that requires no expertise or special tools.
Not to mention that the device allows me to forge credit cards one-off right in front of a store clerk without causing as much as a raised eyebrow...
Mieville freely amits that he rips off culture:
n notat ions/perdido_street_station.shtml
"My attitude to this sort of stuff is entirely piratical and philistine. I plunder myths or whatever but without any respect for their symbolic heritage." -- China Meiville
I seriously doubt that he has no issues doing the same for historical events.
The man steals and other people's cultures and histories, takes them completely out of context, and uses them for his own ends...and I think that that is totally in keeping with the way he writes...
full quote is at:
http://runagate-rampant.netfirms.com/books/a
This thing would leave you completely at the mercy of anyone who happened upon you while using it -- even if I was in a locked room, I'd be too paranoid about being helpless, effectively blind and deaf, to pay any attention whatsoever to the person I was talking to..
*Duh*....because it's *shiny*.
Y'know, I only really clicked through to the comments on this article for the mom jokes...and while that one was damn good, they are otherwise quite sparse. It can't just be me who considers the mom joke to be the height of humor...Can it?...Anyone?
All this reccomendation (favourites, what have you) stuff is based on Baysian algorithms, right?
So...if I watch lots of "Girls Gone Wild" videos, I'm gonna end up with a bunch of WWF(E, whatever) and monster truck stuff recorded `cause that's what everyone else who watched those videos liked, statistically, yes?
This happens to me with Amazon all the time -- I'm a big fan of Michael Moore but I'm really not interested in comics/graphic novels as a whole. Yet I get the reccomendations every time I buy a comic and until I "convince" the engine that I'm not interested by rating all the other comics it reccomends as zeros, or whatever...IIRC there is a way to tell the engine not to consider a particular purchase when calculating you reccomendations, but I never can find it when I'm looking...
Unless the store is literally within 4 blocks
I have been wracking my brain, and I cannot think of a place in Manhattan where you are more than 4 blocks from a grocey store.
More to the point, this service is really not in the best position. I'll use it, but I'm probably atypical. Almost every grocery store in Manhattan will deliver -- You can go, get your cart, wander around, squeeze the canteloupes, make impulse purchases, then when you check out, you just say "deliver this to 234 W 71st St. Apt 1A." Walk home without your 150 pounds of groceries, and still have them in about 60 to 90 minutes. Best of both worlds.
I'm aware that the "people like physicality when purchasing" argument is a pretty tired one, but I think it applies to food, particularly.
So if a cable goes bad, they'd just switch to a good one at the endpoints, I suppose.
Actually, I doubt that. Traditional fiber is pretty fragile. It is generally laid in (at the very least) a conduit that protects it from casual breaks. IMO, something that smacks into a conduit with enough force to break one fiber will -- chances are -- break all of `em.
It is possible to splice fiber and/or repair breaks, it just takes a specially trained person with very expensive equipment.
they lay like 2 dozen cables when they only need one, just so they don't have to go digging again
Going OT here -- I read recently that at least one company was laying their fiber in chambered conduits, meaning that, in addition to laying more than they need, if they need more fiber in a given conduit, they just attach a vacuum to one end and suck a new fibre bundle through. Throught that that was pretty slick.
Sound Familiar?
"See, the system works, just ask Claus von Bulow" -- Bart Simpson ...couldn't help myself...
Katz? Is that you?
Complete with Latin spell check and roman numeral support in Excel, I suppose...
>high-profile enough to get them headlines
I think you mean persecute...the FBI doesn't prosecute anyone, they just arrest, gather evidence, etc.
I will have enough bandwidth when I get transfer rates comprable to the those on my motherboard.
Once it no longer matters where the physical components of my computer are. Once my processor is rented cycles in Korea, my RAM is in orbit, and my storage media is distributed in 10K chunks all over the former Soviet Union, and there is no noticable performance hit. Then I'll have enough bandwidth.
Actually, I would disagree about the Congress thing. The best place for one well-informed person to make a difference is not in Congress making the laws -- or arguing against them -- but in the judiciary, shooting them down.
I have always wanted to do Star Wars, so that at some point, even if it was slightly contrived, I'd get to shout "We've lost Porkins!"
2.2795138888888888888888888888889 e - 10 furlongs/fortnight, I believe.