just think of all the gadjets (both real and fake that people will buy... jammers, readers, signal modification kits.
Every beggar will NEED to know who is walkin' by with a pocket full of $20s.
Every shopaholic's spouse will want to know when they're trying to sneak their purchases into the house.
All of us w/ lead-foil in our hats will want to be able to disable or alter the signal (without making the big black mark that we saw on the $20s last week).
A sharp circuit designer could have a field day. I will probably be trying to pass old modem cards as anti-RFID protection kits, just wear one around your neck and the government will never know what you're doing
I like the comparision of Gates to Carnegie. I had always kinda lumped him him with Edision, founder of a technology company that used "hardball" business tactics to assume ownership of the I.P. of the (workers|indentured servants) and squelch the competition. The earlier comparison to Carnegie is interesting too, tho. Will M$ prosper post-Gates the way that G.E. has?
...what some people wanna do with cars, tho. Use them as generators plugged into the grid when you're at home. Of course they don't mean fossil fueled cars - which makes it a pretty clean idea, I've often thought that a family of four could live in some of the cars I see going down the road, myabe they could use the power plant of that monster to alleviate some of the coal consumption at the big power plant.
ZAP.com, maker of the Zappy electric scooter-http://www.zapworld.com/ , used to sell a bicycle/motor/battery that used regenerative braking to extend the charge of the battery. I suppose that if you had two of them and one REALLY strong rider you might be able to keep a fresh battery for the other rider, or to run your game boy when you got home. But the manufactur's concept was to plug it into the wall. I guess if you have good balance you could even throw yer zap bike on a set of rollers and juice up a 24v. battery, or a pair of 12s, or a whole gang of 1.5v a-cubes.
My kid is rarely lost in the woods. But there have been several occasions where it would have been worth $400 to be able to know instantly where they were. And not just my kids, what's good for the goose and all that... One for every member of the family... I have absolutley no qualms about the wife and kids being able to track my whereabouts. I would even pay the $400 for them to be able to do so. But there would need to be a family plan priceing program and it needs to have two way communications not just a pager...
The lock is anfeature that was obviously thought up by a parent that has purcahsed mutliple watches, pagers, text books, etc.
I don't see any way that this device could be construed as the enactment of an irrational law.
I don't see any feature of the device that would limit it to use on children by parents, either. It would seem to be that any kid w/ $400 & $35/mo. could just as easily use this to track their wayward parent. Earl could use it to track his gal.
Until you have a government agency using it there isn't an issue of law. Unless you're proposing legislation to prohibit employers from compelling employees to carry this type of pager - I guess there would be no reason to make those lockable... we'll just fire you if you take it off. Trucking companies already put tracking devices in the trucks, putting a tracking device in a pager doesn't seem to be much different, just lighter (of course the Qualcomm unit has a little terminal and provides two-way communication).
I think it's a novel device. I am also quite annoyed by childless "parent consultants" with advice on what parents aught to do, think or feel and an unwillingness to implement what they propose.
As to Kevin's upbringing: I intend to, and have, implemented a better methodology of child rearing than my parents did. This is easily quantifiable by the achievements of my progeny compared to my humble accomplishments.
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yes, sed & awk & ksh use the regEx engine...
but so does perl and even that c# crap^H^H^H^Hstuff
just think of all the gadjets (both real and fake that people will buy... jammers, readers, signal modification kits.
Every beggar will NEED to know who is walkin' by with a pocket full of $20s.
Every shopaholic's spouse will want to know when they're trying to sneak their purchases into the house.
All of us w/ lead-foil in our hats will want to be able to disable or alter the signal (without making the big black mark that we saw on the $20s last week).
A sharp circuit designer could have a field day. I will probably be trying to pass old modem cards as anti-RFID protection kits, just wear one around your neck and the government will never know what you're doing
I like the comparision of Gates to Carnegie. I had always kinda lumped him him with Edision, founder of a technology company that used "hardball" business tactics to assume ownership of the I.P. of the (workers|indentured servants) and squelch the competition.
The earlier comparison to Carnegie is interesting too, tho. Will M$ prosper post-Gates the way that G.E. has?
CP/M on steriods
I do all my charity works anonymously... I've never build anything as big as the MaxDork tho.
Nor for his (& Mellon's) culpability in the Johnstown flood...
http://www.johnstownpa.com/History/hist19.html
"too" delicous, but yes... ironic just the same. I await in inevitable poetic justice with baited breath
...what some people wanna do with cars, tho. Use them as generators plugged into the grid when you're at home. Of course they don't mean fossil fueled cars - which makes it a pretty clean idea, I've often thought that a family of four could live in some of the cars I see going down the road, myabe they could use the power plant of that monster to alleviate some of the coal consumption at the big power plant.
ZAP.com, maker of the Zappy electric scooter-http://www.zapworld.com/ , used to sell a bicycle/motor/battery that used regenerative braking to extend the charge of the battery. I suppose that if you had two of them and one REALLY strong rider you might be able to keep a fresh battery for the other rider, or to run your game boy when you got home. But the manufactur's concept was to plug it into the wall. I guess if you have good balance you could even throw yer zap bike on a set of rollers and juice up a 24v. battery, or a pair of 12s, or a whole gang of 1.5v a-cubes.
My kid is rarely lost in the woods. But there have been several occasions where it would have been worth $400 to be able to know instantly where they were. And not just my kids, what's good for the goose and all that... One for every member of the family... I have absolutley no qualms about the wife and kids being able to track my whereabouts. I would even pay the $400 for them to be able to do so. But there would need to be a family plan priceing program and it needs to have two way communications not just a pager...
The lock is anfeature that was obviously thought up by a parent that has purcahsed mutliple watches, pagers, text books, etc.
I don't see any way that this device could be construed as the enactment of an irrational law.
I don't see any feature of the device that would limit it to use on children by parents, either. It would seem to be that any kid w/ $400 & $35/mo. could just as easily use this to track their wayward parent. Earl could use it to track his gal.
Until you have a government agency using it there isn't an issue of law. Unless you're proposing legislation to prohibit employers from compelling employees to carry this type of pager - I guess there would be no reason to make those lockable... we'll just fire you if you take it off. Trucking companies already put tracking devices in the trucks, putting a tracking device in a pager doesn't seem to be much different, just lighter (of course the Qualcomm unit has a little terminal and provides two-way communication).
I think it's a novel device. I am also quite annoyed by childless "parent consultants" with advice on what parents aught to do, think or feel and an unwillingness to implement what they propose.
As to Kevin's upbringing: I intend to, and have, implemented a better methodology of child rearing than my parents did. This is easily quantifiable by the achievements of my progeny compared to my humble accomplishments.
Usually I convert it to a MobileDoc and stick it in my palm, but... YES! YES! YES! I do it all the time, ain't this boogie a mess