I'm more of a steakhouse/deep dish pizza place guy myself.
We have that too, here in Chicago. And not just boring old steak and pizza either... Bottomless meat pits like Fogo de Chao and a vast assortment of pizza in various varieties...
The company I work for also does some RFID contracts. All paranoia aside, another use we saw (and $diety I wish we thought of it first) was to place RFID tags on pills that had the encoded consumption instructions on them. Then, sell certain consumers readers that allowed them to hold the bottle next to the reader, and it would synthesize the dosage, timing, etc. into something they could understand.
Not all people (think the visually impared, illiterate, non-english speaking, etc) can read the bottles, and some computer assistance can certainly help with the medication...
...like a drug/medicine, and we (the US) were some small, third world country, we could just nationalize the patent, rendering it null and void and in our public domain.
That said, we are far more powerful than a third world country, but we won't...
It would be great if the three branches of government decided to end a significant portion of these stupid IP lawsuits for the public good...
The evil that it does bring is in the form of anti-Free networking, where Linux boxes are used to form cheap routers and gateways, without a Cisco(R)-Symantec(R) licensed monitoring system, your access to the larger internet may be limited by your upstream provider, ala Verisign certs.
My "upstream provider" would be fired in a heartbeat. If I was high enough to be on a peer agreement, in would come the army of lawyers.
What would be a really effective punishment is if all the SSL providers issued a CRL with Verisign's CAs on it.
Their stupid "trust" campaign would quickly crash to the ground when every browser threw up a security warning, VPN clients were rejected, wire transfers were rejected, and secure mail was flagged.
Then, after ICANN revokes their right to be a root server and a registrar, and no revenue comes in from their CA services, they die off like SCO is going to...
He will also point to the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot 13 people dead. Both boys were fans of the video game Doom, which has been used to train US soldiers in lethal combat.
IAXM (I *AM* Ex-Military), and I don't seem to remember combat training for shooting floating eyeballs and zombies with RPGs...
Strangely, shooting a gun required things like using sights rather than just pointing in the right (compass) direction... Ah the old days...
The interesting thing is that I have not received a single spam to the specific email address I supplied. So right now, I see it more like an econimic problem than a privacy problem.
Having several (~10) domains myself, I would agree that my whois contact email recieves little or no spam directly attributable to the domain registration.
However, where I *DO* see spam is the "generic" addresses at my domains: 'sales', 'info', 'webmaster', etc. I can't really see a dictionary attack on the DNS system (some of my domain names are pretty long) and some of them are not in search engines (yet)... The only logical thing I can think of is the Registry's domain list itself is somehow exploitable...
Having been to rural parts of Wisconsin puts shame to my home of Chicago with regards to the night sky.
There is nothing, however, I assure you, like being out in the middle of the open ocean. The entire sky is covered in stars. (Spent a good deal of time in the Navy, and we don't like advertising our boats at night.)
After all, if they could lock away Mitnick (sp?) for over 5 years for downloading a few files, why can't they lock away a virus author or spammer for operating without a permit?
Simple.
Money.
Mitnick's foes' lawyers claimed billions of dollars (that's laywer dollars, not real dollars, of course) of damage to the people padding the politician's pockets.
When spam gets there, we could count on the jack-booted thugs raiding a place or two in the night. Unfortunately, the spammers are getting richer, and trying to make laws that favor them...
I wrote my own financial DB- not pretty, but it handles a few things I haven't seen seemlessly implemented in _ANY_ financial program, commercial or otherwise:
Multiple currencies: If I get a receipt in CHF or EUR, I want to put _that_ number in and calculate the balance (or exchange rate, pick one) appropriately
Multiple dates: If I do a transfer from one bank to another, there is an issue date (when I do it), a transaction date (when it actually occurs) and a reconcile date (when I see the money). Most programs will change both transactions if you change one. Using sets of dates allows keeping of the referential integrity as well as multiplicity...
Statment Balance Date: I can run a query (yeah, it's just a GROUP BY statement, but can the big boys do it?) that tells me my balance each month. Sounds simple, but what if you screw up putting in a date- you can check each month's statement to find what month is now unreconciled
Ad-hoc Queries:If all I want is the data, a wizard sucks compared to a few SQL statements. Did Quicken come up with an ODBC driver to their proprietary format?
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We have that too, here in Chicago. And not just boring old steak and pizza either... Bottomless meat pits like Fogo de Chao and a vast assortment of pizza in various varieties...
Note to self: do not post to /. before breakfast
Not all people (think the visually impared, illiterate, non-english speaking, etc) can read the bottles, and some computer assistance can certainly help with the medication...
My current edition of How To Be An Evil Dictator left this method of killing out.
:(
But does your truck run for 30 years without refueling?
Not really *OUT* of business, they just reduced the customer base to S&M clientelle...
Windows thinks (at least on w2K) that Solitare is a *PROTECTED FILE* and, thus, happily repairs it, permissions be damned.
The saying goes: "The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than theory"
That said, we are far more powerful than a third world country, but we won't...
It would be great if the three branches of government decided to end a significant portion of these stupid IP lawsuits for the public good...
My "upstream provider" would be fired in a heartbeat. If I was high enough to be on a peer agreement, in would come the army of lawyers.
Try www.scotties.com - there are some nav buttons at the bottom that WITH the click-to-play installed that display anyway.
See how their "trust" campain would work then...
Don't forget lawyer fees and court costs in there, as well!
Their stupid "trust" campaign would quickly crash to the ground when every browser threw up a security warning, VPN clients were rejected, wire transfers were rejected, and secure mail was flagged.
Then, after ICANN revokes their right to be a root server and a registrar, and no revenue comes in from their CA services, they die off like SCO is going to...
IAXM (I *AM* Ex-Military), and I don't seem to remember combat training for shooting floating eyeballs and zombies with RPGs...
Strangely, shooting a gun required things like using sights rather than just pointing in the right (compass) direction... Ah the old days...
We know not this 'reboot Linux'!
Having several (~10) domains myself, I would agree that my whois contact email recieves little or no spam directly attributable to the domain registration.
However, where I *DO* see spam is the "generic" addresses at my domains: 'sales', 'info', 'webmaster', etc. I can't really see a dictionary attack on the DNS system (some of my domain names are pretty long) and some of them are not in search engines (yet)... The only logical thing I can think of is the Registry's domain list itself is somehow exploitable...
Holding an officer position in my firm, I (and others) made sure MSFT wasn't in our 401K portfolio....
What is with the lights at the top of Alaska? I thought there was nothing up there... Nuclear missle bases, maybe? Soviet spy stations? ;)
There is nothing, however, I assure you, like being out in the middle of the open ocean. The entire sky is covered in stars. (Spent a good deal of time in the Navy, and we don't like advertising our boats at night.)
"Voice Privacy Not Active!
Simple.
Money.
Mitnick's foes' lawyers claimed billions of dollars (that's laywer dollars, not real dollars, of course) of damage to the people padding the politician's pockets.
When spam gets there, we could count on the jack-booted thugs raiding a place or two in the night. Unfortunately, the spammers are getting richer, and trying to make laws that favor them...
Does this work? Seriously? I would think a slew of delayed checks, payment challenges, and the likes would result.
I am, of course, all for confusing and adulterating the big-brother databases, I just question how much additional pain this creates.