The information transmitted doesn't appear to uniquely identify you in way. The p3 info does. That's an important difference. I think there comes a point at which all this paranoia is a little silly. We may have passed it long ago. I realize that "it's a slippery slope" (I hate shrink wrapped expressions:P), but where on it do we presently stand? If I become indifferent to the transmission of video driver info without my knowledge/permission, can my social security number be next? Somehow I doubt it; In this case however, they appear to have been attempting to act in good faith. They screwed up. This isn't an intentional invasion of privacy.
Furthermore, as they have stated that this is taking place in past versions (and after this, almost certianly will in future ones), it seems to me that you have the right not to run the software (as stated by many others). Give ID a break. Their approach to development has been rather revolutionary, and they have continuously set the standard for perfomance in 3d games.
I personally have been identified by shrinks as "gifted disabled". As a youth, I would forget what my mother and other close family members looked like on a regular basis. I didn't know what I looked like until I was about 13 (mirrors troubled me, and it didn't feel strange for me to simply avoid them). I have a deeply associative memory, and will make what others precieve to be unbelivable non-sequiters on a regular basis. I can trace out the sequence of thoughts which led me to my new topic, verbally if necessary; When I do so, I'm often met with laughter or blank stares. Walking and handwriting are severely inconsistent for me. I will never write the same letter the same way twice. I was once told by a friend who was attempting to immitate the stride of his various friends that he couldn't quite pin mine down. He asked me if I did it on purpose. I have a deep and irrational fear of the unknown, and a penchant for control. I am 21 and have a mild fear of the dark. I'm known to 'know' things without understanding why clearly. For instance, ten years ago, I won a contest in which hopefulls were to guess the number of candies in a 4 ft tall cylinder (it's shape was curved to make it more difficult). I was within 20 (4,712 I think). It took me less than 30 seconds to produce my guess, I don't know clearly how I did it. I have an eidetic memory for the most ecclectic things although I have forgotten the names of most of my friends and girlfriends. I have yet to identify any easy method by which I might determine what I'm liable to recall and what I won't. These symptoms are almost all consistent with autism.
Based on the iq exams I took for disability elligibility for college, I have an IQ of about 144, even though there were easily identifiable catagories in which I performed substantially below average, and others in which I performed flawlessly.
Anyway. I've thought of myself as being mildly autistic for many years now.
at least in California. I heard this morning on NPR that a bill passed senate making it illegal for employers in California to read employees email. It passed without opposition. After noticing this ask slashdot question, I tried to find more details pretaining to the bill and have been unable to do so... I would hence take this information with a grain of salt. FYI, enough employees have sued over these kinds of privacy issues to scare MY company into making a policy of email privacy. We're even a little touchy about proxy statistics.
Anyway, hope the information comes in handy. If anyone knows where I can get information about this bill, I'd love to hear from you.
The fastest we were able to get the thing to go was 1200 baud bi-directional, 2400 baud sustained, 9600 burst. The devices we were making weren't exactly cheap either. I'm not sure I remember the exact laws governing the use of power lines for data communication, but I seem to remember that the frequency band available for widespread broadcast of data over power lines is extremely narrow. Localized communication was a little more loosely regulated, if I recall properly. I can't help but think that there either have been or will be regulatory issues if their going to live up to these kinds of promises. If i'm not mistaken, you can also buy a power line based analog device from radio shack for turning a power outlet into a telephone extension cord.
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It was in Popular Mechanics some time ago and has been demonstrated at various conventions. Unless they decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars developing and showing off one of these animals just for a prank. I doubt it.
Incidently, it can also behave like a monkey, a cat, and one other non-dog animal.
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The information transmitted doesn't appear to uniquely identify you in way. The p3 info does. That's an important difference. I think there comes a point at which all this paranoia is a little silly. We may have passed it long ago. I realize that "it's a slippery slope" (I hate shrink wrapped expressions :P), but where on it do we presently stand? If I become indifferent to the transmission of video driver info without my knowledge/permission, can my social security number be next? Somehow I doubt it; In this case however, they appear to have been attempting to act in good faith. They screwed up. This isn't an intentional invasion of privacy.
Furthermore, as they have stated that this is taking place in past versions (and after this, almost certianly will in future ones), it seems to me that you have the right not to run the software (as stated by many others). Give ID a break. Their approach to development has been rather revolutionary, and they have continuously set the standard for perfomance in 3d games.
Sincerely,
Ryan Taylor
I personally have been identified by shrinks as "gifted disabled". As a youth, I would forget what my mother and other close family members looked like on a regular basis. I didn't know what I looked like until I was about 13 (mirrors troubled me, and it didn't feel strange for me to simply avoid them). I have a deeply associative memory, and will make what others precieve to be unbelivable non-sequiters on a regular basis. I can trace out the sequence of thoughts which led me to my new topic, verbally if necessary; When I do so, I'm often met with laughter or blank stares. Walking and handwriting are severely inconsistent for me. I will never write the same letter the same way twice. I was once told by a friend who was attempting to immitate the stride of his various friends that he couldn't quite pin mine down. He asked me if I did it on purpose. I have a deep and irrational fear of the unknown, and a penchant for control. I am 21 and have a mild fear of the dark. I'm known to 'know' things without understanding why clearly. For instance, ten years ago, I won a contest in which hopefulls were to guess the number of candies in a 4 ft tall cylinder (it's shape was curved to make it more difficult). I was within 20 (4,712 I think). It took me less than 30 seconds to produce my guess, I don't know clearly how I did it. I have an eidetic memory for the most ecclectic things although I have forgotten the names of most of my friends and girlfriends. I have yet to identify any easy method by which I might determine what I'm liable to recall and what I won't. These symptoms are almost all consistent with autism.
Based on the iq exams I took for disability elligibility for college, I have an IQ of about 144, even though there were easily identifiable catagories in which I performed substantially below average, and others in which I performed flawlessly.
Anyway. I've thought of myself as being mildly autistic for many years now.
at least in California. I heard this morning on NPR that a bill passed senate making it illegal for employers in California to read employees email. It passed without opposition. After noticing this ask slashdot question, I tried to find more details pretaining to the bill and have been unable to do so... I would hence take this information with a grain of salt. FYI, enough employees have sued over these kinds of privacy issues to scare MY company into making a policy of email privacy. We're even a little touchy about proxy statistics.
Anyway, hope the information comes in handy. If anyone knows where I can get information about this bill, I'd love to hear from you.
Ryan Taylor
Applications Developer, Schulze Mfg.
They are using IIS 4.0:
"HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:07:56 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 87"
I wonder when corporations will get it through their skulls that IIS simply doesn't cut it.
The fastest we were able to get the thing to go was 1200 baud bi-directional, 2400 baud sustained, 9600 burst. The devices we were making weren't exactly cheap either. I'm not sure I remember the exact laws governing the use of power lines for data communication, but I seem to remember that the frequency band available for widespread broadcast of data over power lines is extremely narrow. Localized communication was a little more loosely regulated, if I recall properly. I can't help but think that there either have been or will be regulatory issues if their going to live up to these kinds of promises. If i'm not mistaken, you can also buy a power line based analog device from radio shack for turning a power outlet into a telephone extension cord.
It was in Popular Mechanics some time ago and has been demonstrated at various conventions. Unless they decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars developing and showing off one of these animals just for a prank. I doubt it.
Incidently, it can also behave like a monkey, a cat, and one other non-dog animal.