Wouldn't it be easier to: 1) go through the trouble of taking that tag out/off of whatever it came on. 2) throw it out?
Today, it sure is. Just wait until they start embedding these things within the paper pulp in the cardboard binding of packages and books. It could blend in nicely with the fibers. One could still find the element by looking at the changes of fiber density for what would be an obvious flaw in normal paper. Then, simply excise it with a razor.
But, what if... if... if there were more than one? That is the question.
I agree: just how far is a small paper tag going to transmit?
Perhaps not too far. That's when you turn up the exciter power until a satisfactory response is achieved. High gain directional antennas are wonderful. Aim the antenna to different portions of the house to scan the inventory.
Sounds like a fascinating project. Measure the range of these things and what you can get out of a house.
As for burning out the circuit, I'm not sure if that is possible.
First, place the tag in the microwave for a few seconds. Guaranteed.
Now, you can also assemble a transmitter of much lower power that can concentrate the beam to do the same damage in a brief pulse. Just 10 watts of RF power can do considerable damage to the target, including skin tissue. Did I mention smaller things are very portable? A crude small transmitter like this could fit in a purse.
Well, RF tags won't invade my privacy, so it won't be an issue for me. You know why? Because I'll be interested enough to find them and disable them.
Now, it could be a problem for you! I could drive next to your house on my bike with my palm pilot and antenna to see whatchya got in your house.
I think its a nice ethical gesture for nerds to discuss these issues. If you'd prefer, we could hide the ramifications of technology under the table. It would be a tough, cruel world if we did. Issues of privacy have grave importance.
The following links will direct you to the Liv Tyler nude site. This is only a test.
You would have to set many links to Liv Tyler nude. If you want to see her all nude, you'd have to click here, which would actually be slashdot. Making more links might make Liv Tyler searches return to slashdot.
The games developer Apogee (a.k.a. 3DRealms) even added a clause to its license agreement earlier this year that prevented negative reviews of its product!
This got me thinking. What if I never bought the software or even use it, but entered the house of someone who does use the software. You know, people have friends and like to show stuff off. What if I think that game Apogee made sucked, or if I saw my friend getting half the performance off Oracle than mysql? Could I start shooting off my mouth, or would I be gagged just by entering his private residence?
I do ask a lot of questions when seeing a demo of something I have never seen before. So would just being in the presense of a friend's computer bind me to top security? Do these software licenses require ISO procedures for security guards and access to the perimeters? Could they do any of this legally?
I think its real neat software companies have this sense of power. Too bad I don't share their views. My experience has shown not too many other people respect their values either. Enter the world of "piracy" as they call it. No, not following the letter of a license is not raping and pillaging their employees. Its this kind of arrogance that has turned me away completely from commercial software, supporting their business model, and has me backing freely licensed software.
if your isp does backup mx for you, the spammers will send mail to you there if it doesn't get to you directly
That's the sad part. On the box virtually hosted at the isp, I have mail forwarded to a nonexistant bit bucket/dev/spamtrap. If I plan to take my computer down, say try out a new kernel, or if there are phone line problems, etc., I'll disable the forwarding. At that moment in time, I am guaranteed to see the landslide of spams come rolling in. It is then I know how well ipchains DENY really works.
The best way to deal with spammers is to take them all out back and...
Sounds like that suing relationship may even be done on purpose. Sound crazy? Note that DC gave it up so easily without even a fight and shelled out massive amounts of money for the right to use this "invention?"
This sounds suspiciously like a partner strategy designed for bullying up on competitors. Another company that has bought the patent rights sues DC. No problem, they have friendly talks and work out a win-win situation. You see, DC has been having some problems with giving away its scanner and it being put to other uses. NeoMedia, may find DC a willing partner and help out for a modest fee of $100,000,000 that includes all legal expenses. NeoMedia will now be the legal agressor and go after all the "unauthorized" uses of cuecats in the privacy of people's homes. NeoMedia has to protect its new patent, you know! NeoMedia wins, DC wins.
But that's not all. If and when a case ever does make it to court over those stupid cuecats, DC can claim they have paid $100,000,000 for the right to use this technology and they are fighting a "thief" who is stealing that large sum of money by using a the very useful XOR 8-bit flipping instruction on the CPU to decode. This puts $100,000,000 worth of pressure on the judge to break the arms and legs of any freedom the victim may have. So much for living in a free country, eh?
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I have used yi.org for several months when I started using cable modem in this area found the yi.org domain hosting service to be most reliable. Unfortunately, the cable modem service was'nt an any respect.
My old ISP eager to get my business back, offered me my old static IP and fixed up my dns MX records so mail gets routed to my home box. If my home computer is ever down for any reason, my virtually hosted account at the ISP gets the mail instead. I could say I have redundant mail servers.
As an added bonus of having the mailserver on my own computer, I can block any spam network for good immediately and for good. Since the IP address is logged, I just ipchain the whole class-c network of the problem site. That puts an end to spam nonsense quick. To the spammer, my site appears to be down. I now get about one spam a week, compared to dozens a day.
Actually, if you read the phiosophy section of the GNU website, and then look at how RMS behaves in public
I have been to speeches given by Richard. What is this "conspiracy" again? A control freak? Where does this come from?
I have a simplistic view of this world? I agree with your statement freedom isn't an absolute. I just like my software to be free. It just so happens that the GPL is the kind of freedom I like. I like to hack it and be a part of the community that does the same. Other licenses do not offer me the same protections.
Your other arguments going into my house to eat my food without my permission is silly.
When you state "Those are the freedoms RMS wants us to have, but you have to realize that if we accept these freedoms, we have to give other freedoms away." is basically stating what RMS has been preaching all along. And then you state RMS is "taking away something that was there naturally?"
Is it your view of the world simplistic as you suggest mine is or is it quoting RMS to your needs?
So you like public domain and BSD licenses I guess? I'm guessing you have no problem with people like Bill Gates taking your work, modifying it for the better, and not giving back what they have learned? RMS has worked through the years to make a license possible that keeps your work free, not locked up to return as a proprietary extension. Its private dirivative works designed for vendor lock in that people find troublesome. The GPL prevents this.
I guess you never heard RMS relate his experience with a Xerox printer have you? The GPL license was born from that.
Not if you bounce it to the server who made the connection to your sendmail server. That IP address is known and logged in your mail header. It could be the actual sender or a misconfigured relay.
Regardless of which it really is, I bounce it back to postmaster and abuse at that address seconds after the connection is made in hopes an alert person at that computer just might need some help preventing a disaster. Its a courtesy. In case that fails, I protect myself from further spam from that network by setting an ipchains entry blocking that class-c network. That guarantees me I won't be getting any more spam from them in the future.
It sounds like the SDMI is attempting politics at advancing itself to big brother. Imagine the future if it has its way:
All audible recordings must be recorded with a SDMI licensed recorder with an approved SDMI serial number registered to the owner's legal name and address. Recording technology is considered a munition and subject to export treaties and content may not be distributed to countries under embargo.
I'm sure there would be provisions for recording class notes with a non-approved recorder. They would have no problem with 8-bit 8KHz recording.
You mentioned the ability to reverse engineer a product of a manufacturer who spent millions of dollars to develop their product. The only problem is that most of these devices in the consumer world can easily be developed by any engineering student for a senior project. The integrated circuits, the pre-built pick up modules for players, the movie playing software, etc, --all has been written by those who have done it as a hobby and have made it available for free.
It appears to me the so called millions of dollars of development manufacturers claim for their product, was to design it in such a way to promote vendor lock in and maximum marketability with their partners. This is good business sense, but is it fair to deny consumers the ability to hack the product they purchased to rebuild or redesign it in such a way to be compatible with other household products? I see the patent system and so called "license agreements" attempting to convince us we do not have certain rights as curious humans who want our tools to adapt to our own needs. What we have is corporate dictatorship. They will order us what we can or can't do if we purchase their product. Is this fair? I think its patently absurd to support their notions.
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Why are courts are allowing an organization to be sued that is to protect our personal mailboxes? I think there should be a countersuit to set a precident for all the damages done --and punative damages for the loss of sanity too.
I'm also running test8 too. Its been a while since I played with devel kernels, but there was a warm fuzzy feeling seeing it was so close. There are many new toys in the code to play with. Its been only running for a few days, but no bugs seen around here.
When I had ISDN, I programmed the box to only allow calls with numbers in it. It worked. If the caller could not deliver a valid number with the connection, they got a rapid busy tone.
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Wouldn't it be easier to: 1) go through the trouble of taking that tag out/off of whatever it came on. 2) throw it out?
Today, it sure is. Just wait until they start embedding these things within the paper pulp in the cardboard binding of packages and books. It could blend in nicely with the fibers. One could still find the element by looking at the changes of fiber density for what would be an obvious flaw in normal paper. Then, simply excise it with a razor.
But, what if... if... if there were more than one? That is the question.
I agree: just how far is a small paper tag going to transmit?
Perhaps not too far. That's when you turn up the exciter power until a satisfactory response is achieved. High gain directional antennas are wonderful. Aim the antenna to different portions of the house to scan the inventory.
Sounds like a fascinating project. Measure the range of these things and what you can get out of a house.
As for burning out the circuit, I'm not sure if that is possible.
First, place the tag in the microwave for a few seconds. Guaranteed.
Now, you can also assemble a transmitter of much lower power that can concentrate the beam to do the same damage in a brief pulse. Just 10 watts of RF power can do considerable damage to the target, including skin tissue. Did I mention smaller things are very portable? A crude small transmitter like this could fit in a purse.
Well, RF tags won't invade my privacy, so it won't be an issue for me. You know why? Because I'll be interested enough to find them and disable them.
Now, it could be a problem for you! I could drive next to your house on my bike with my palm pilot and antenna to see whatchya got in your house.
I think its a nice ethical gesture for nerds to discuss these issues. If you'd prefer, we could hide the ramifications of technology under the table. It would be a tough, cruel world if we did. Issues of privacy have grave importance.
The following links will direct you to the Liv Tyler nude site. This is only a test.
You would have to set many links to Liv Tyler nude. If you want to see her all nude, you'd have to click here, which would actually be slashdot. Making more links might make Liv Tyler searches return to slashdot.
The games developer Apogee (a.k.a. 3DRealms) even added a clause to its license agreement earlier this year that prevented negative reviews of its product!
This got me thinking. What if I never bought the software or even use it, but entered the house of someone who does use the software. You know, people have friends and like to show stuff off. What if I think that game Apogee made sucked, or if I saw my friend getting half the performance off Oracle than mysql? Could I start shooting off my mouth, or would I be gagged just by entering his private residence?
I do ask a lot of questions when seeing a demo of something I have never seen before. So would just being in the presense of a friend's computer bind me to top security? Do these software licenses require ISO procedures for security guards and access to the perimeters? Could they do any of this legally?
I think its real neat software companies have this sense of power. Too bad I don't share their views. My experience has shown not too many other people respect their values either. Enter the world of "piracy" as they call it. No, not following the letter of a license is not raping and pillaging their employees. Its this kind of arrogance that has turned me away completely from commercial software, supporting their business model, and has me backing freely licensed software.
if your isp does backup mx for you, the spammers will send mail to you there if it doesn't get to you directly
/dev/spamtrap. If I plan to take my computer down, say try out a new kernel, or if there are phone line problems, etc., I'll disable the forwarding. At that moment in time, I am guaranteed to see the landslide of spams come rolling in. It is then I know how well ipchains DENY really works.
That's the sad part. On the box virtually hosted at the isp, I have mail forwarded to a nonexistant bit bucket
The best way to deal with spammers is to take them all out back and...
Here's my conspiracy theory:
Sounds like that suing relationship may even be done on purpose. Sound crazy? Note that DC gave it up so easily without even a fight and shelled out massive amounts of money for the right to use this "invention?"
This sounds suspiciously like a partner strategy designed for bullying up on competitors. Another company that has bought the patent rights sues DC. No problem, they have friendly talks and work out a win-win situation. You see, DC has been having some problems with giving away its scanner and it being put to other uses. NeoMedia, may find DC a willing partner and help out for a modest fee of $100,000,000 that includes all legal expenses. NeoMedia will now be the legal agressor and go after all the "unauthorized" uses of cuecats in the privacy of people's homes. NeoMedia has to protect its new patent, you know! NeoMedia wins, DC wins.
But that's not all. If and when a case ever does make it to court over those stupid cuecats, DC can claim they have paid $100,000,000 for the right to use this technology and they are fighting a "thief" who is stealing that large sum of money by using a the very useful XOR 8-bit flipping instruction on the CPU to decode. This puts $100,000,000 worth of pressure on the judge to break the arms and legs of any freedom the victim may have. So much for living in a free country, eh?
This conspiracy theory was brought to you free of charge. Distribute and mangle freely.
I have used yi.org for several months when I started using cable modem in this area found the yi.org domain hosting service to be most reliable. Unfortunately, the cable modem service was'nt an any respect.
My old ISP eager to get my business back, offered me my old static IP and fixed up my dns MX records so mail gets routed to my home box. If my home computer is ever down for any reason, my virtually hosted account at the ISP gets the mail instead. I could say I have redundant mail servers.
As an added bonus of having the mailserver on my own computer, I can block any spam network for good immediately and for good. Since the IP address is logged, I just ipchain the whole class-c network of the problem site. That puts an end to spam nonsense quick. To the spammer, my site appears to be down. I now get about one spam a week, compared to dozens a day.
Actually, if you read the phiosophy section of the GNU website, and then look at how RMS behaves in public
I have been to speeches given by Richard. What is this "conspiracy" again? A control freak? Where does this come from?
I have a simplistic view of this world? I agree with your statement freedom isn't an absolute. I just like my software to be free. It just so happens that the GPL is the kind of freedom I like. I like to hack it and be a part of the community that does the same. Other licenses do not offer me the same protections.
Your other arguments going into my house to eat my food without my permission is silly.
When you state "Those are the freedoms RMS wants us to have, but you have to realize that if we accept these freedoms, we have to give other freedoms away." is basically stating what RMS has been preaching all along. And then you state RMS is "taking away something that was there naturally?"
Is it your view of the world simplistic as you suggest mine is or is it quoting RMS to your needs?
So you like public domain and BSD licenses I guess? I'm guessing you have no problem with people like Bill Gates taking your work, modifying it for the better, and not giving back what they have learned? RMS has worked through the years to make a license possible that keeps your work free, not locked up to return as a proprietary extension. Its private dirivative works designed for vendor lock in that people find troublesome. The GPL prevents this.
I guess you never heard RMS relate his experience with a Xerox printer have you? The GPL license was born from that.
But dont you see, that RMS wants to dominate the world too?
Nice conspiracy. No, RMS wants us to have what was taken away. Freedom is the opposite of domination. Do I need to repeat that?
Bill Gates ate my balls.
I'm waiting for my letter. How about you?
I liked the ad enough to set it as the root image on my gnome desktop. Its too absurd to be truth, but funny. Kind of like Mr. Gates' video testimony.
I prefer to think of it as evolution in action. 'nuff said.
Not if you bounce it to the server who made the connection to your sendmail server. That IP address is known and logged in your mail header. It could be the actual sender or a misconfigured relay.
Regardless of which it really is, I bounce it back to postmaster and abuse at that address seconds after the connection is made in hopes an alert person at that computer just might need some help preventing a disaster. Its a courtesy. In case that fails, I protect myself from further spam from that network by setting an ipchains entry blocking that class-c network. That guarantees me I won't be getting any more spam from them in the future.
I just think Bush is most likely to fight for our freedoms,... complete, and unabridged.
He's honest allright. And he's the man who states there ought to be limits to freedoms. Good luck!
It sounds like the SDMI is attempting politics at advancing itself to big brother. Imagine the future if it has its way:
All audible recordings must be recorded with a SDMI licensed recorder with an approved SDMI serial number registered to the owner's legal name and address. Recording technology is considered a munition and subject to export treaties and content may not be distributed to countries under embargo.
I'm sure there would be provisions for recording class notes with a non-approved recorder. They would have no problem with 8-bit 8KHz recording.
You mentioned the ability to reverse engineer a product of a manufacturer who spent millions of dollars to develop their product. The only problem is that most of these devices in the consumer world can easily be developed by any engineering student for a senior project. The integrated circuits, the pre-built pick up modules for players, the movie playing software, etc, --all has been written by those who have done it as a hobby and have made it available for free.
It appears to me the so called millions of dollars of development manufacturers claim for their product, was to design it in such a way to promote vendor lock in and maximum marketability with their partners. This is good business sense, but is it fair to deny consumers the ability to hack the product they purchased to rebuild or redesign it in such a way to be compatible with other household products? I see the patent system and so called "license agreements" attempting to convince us we do not have certain rights as curious humans who want our tools to adapt to our own needs. What we have is corporate dictatorship. They will order us what we can or can't do if we purchase their product. Is this fair? I think its patently absurd to support their notions.
Why are courts are allowing an organization to be sued that is to protect our personal mailboxes? I think there should be a countersuit to set a precident for all the damages done --and punative damages for the loss of sanity too.
tarballs rule! They aren't a package, they are a state of mind.
C..C...Can't we all just get along and rejoice over my new Linux box?
I'm also running test8 too. Its been a while since I played with devel kernels, but there was a warm fuzzy feeling seeing it was so close. There are many new toys in the code to play with. Its been only running for a few days, but no bugs seen around here.
When I had ISDN, I programmed the box to only allow calls with numbers in it. It worked. If the caller could not deliver a valid number with the connection, they got a rapid busy tone.