Wikipedia is rarely considered scholarly material. I'm never allowed to use it for Research Papers unless it's something light. Wikipedia is not the answer to mankind's every question. But it is a good place to start. Don't quote Wikipedia but use it to find the names of the experts in the topic field then quote them or their papers directly.
With an RFID in your library card, and rfids in all the books you could have hours where there is no staff. Enter through a man-trap, you must carry your library card or the inner door won't open.
When you leave, your card is read and all the books are noted and added to your taken out. If there are two cards in the mantrap the outer doors won't open.
Oh, I have thought of a bad hack already - someone hides a stolen card in the mantrap... perhaps on entry the inner door won't open with multiple card rfids present.
Sadly I've just spent the last 5-10 minutes of my life considering them I would have thought there were better things to think of in the last 5 minutes of your life...
Static RAM remembers only as long as it has power. But it does not need an active refresh signal, just power. Flip flops need power to retain their state.
So, pardon me, if I don't object to Customs Agents copying (not "confiscating") data for examination too much — they've been searching through travelers' material possessions since their "service" was introduced...
The difference being that if Mr.Customs agent examines my luggage all that happens is he sees, one time, what my dirty underwear looks like. If Mr.Customs copies my files he has those copies to examine at his leisure for as long as he likes.
Perhaps Customs could spin this as the new "US Government Offsite Backup Program".
You don't get to keep any record of your choices, lest you be able to prove to a third party that you voted in accordance with *their* will and not your own.
How about this: The voting machine interacts with the voter to determine their will, repeating back choices as needed.
Once the vote is finalized it is counted within the machine. It is also printed in a human readable form that the voter should check. The voter then carries it to a ballot box/optical reader where it is counted again. Once inserted in that reader it is saved in a locked box and can be hand counted if need be.
Of course both machines should conform to the highest standards for security. (like or better than the one mentioned above)
Now two electronic counts are available as well as a paper trail.
There is no way to both objectively define sin and objectively test it to determine whether it is truly bad in all cases A person is placed in a box, where they may or may not sin. When we open the box we find that they may or may not have been harmed. The are both harmed and unharmed until we open the box to observe.
The only inherently secure computer is one without a network capabilities. or untrained users that refuse to use virus protection, spy ware detectors and love to click on any bright shiny item they come across.
One place had a check printing computer - completely disconnected from the network just a computer and a laser printer... It got virused..?? I had to un-virus it. Someone wanted the latest technology in screensavers, employed a floppy disk.
They might not have to be so carefully aligned. when you first turn the two projector system on it starts by projecting and detecting a series of dots or patterns first from one projector then the other. As those are detected the system would learn the relative distance and orientation of the two projectors.
Or you could just build two projectors into one unit.
Why aren't they screaming to get more power plants built? Why aren't folks putting up solar panels and selling the excess back to the grid? For what it's worth, many are screaming to get more power plants built. The environmental lobby blocks any attempt. Coal & Gas pollutes, Nuclear is evil mojo (Even though France is doing quite well with it and very safely too), Windmills chop birds and look ugly. And no matter what you want to build some flea or slug lives on the land and your construction will annoy them.
I have a sister in law who's family just put a big photovotalic system in. It would be really nice if the power company would pay you back for all the electricity you make - Here you can only break even so most people only install a system that fills 80% of their needs.
I don't know If I trust PG&E to do it that way - They will probably just declare a power emergency and turn off everyone's AC for an hour or two.
Also, This new thing will not be voluntary, If you build new or remodel much you have to install this thermostat too. No incentives, no choice. Just do it.
I wonder if that means the power company can make "surprise inspections" to see if your thermostat is the "controlled" kind and that you have not tampered with it.
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That's fine until they decide it's the bible readers they want to round up.
Or they just use the camera to also be the sensor for the remote. You want to change channels? don't put tape on the camera!
http://www.serenityphotography.co.uk/Animals%20-%20Pictures%20of%20Birds,%20Animals%20and%20Insects%20from%20Around%20the%20World/thumbs/You%20Looking%20at%20me%20-%20Sheep.jpg
Now how would you find it without looking through a stack of picture books?
(actualy the picture is small and the sheep while oriented to the left may be looking over its shoulder.)
I heard that libraries pay "special prices" for books just because they lend them out.
Tinfoil hats don't read this....
With an RFID in your library card, and rfids in all the books you could have hours where there is no
staff. Enter through a man-trap, you must carry your library card or the inner door won't open.
When you leave, your card is read and all the books are noted and added to your taken out.
If there are two cards in the mantrap the outer doors won't open.
Oh, I have thought of a bad hack already - someone hides a stolen card in the mantrap... perhaps on entry the inner door won't open with multiple card rfids present.
Weren't the cut cables going to Iran, not Pakistan?
Computing at Ludicrous Speed!
Static RAM remembers only as long as it has power. But it does not need an active refresh signal, just power. Flip flops need power to retain their state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_RAM
Dynamic Ram needs both power and an active refresh signal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_RAM
You may be thinking of Flash ram, as is used in thumb drives. This uses electrically erasable programmable read only memory (eeproms)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
That's from those two SUV's driving around on Mars. Opportunity and Spirit.
The difference being that if Mr.Customs agent examines my luggage all that happens is he sees, one time, what my dirty underwear looks like. If Mr.Customs copies my files he has those copies to examine at his leisure for as long as he likes.
Perhaps Customs could spin this as the new "US Government Offsite Backup Program".
Actually He probably meant "Sighted"
Secret Ballot.
You don't get to keep any record of your choices, lest you be able to prove to a third party that you voted in accordance with *their* will and not your own.
How about this:
The voting machine interacts with the voter to determine their will, repeating back choices as needed.
Once the vote is finalized it is counted within the machine. It is also printed in a human readable form
that the voter should check. The voter then carries it to a ballot box/optical reader where it is counted again. Once inserted in that reader it is saved in a locked box and can be hand counted if need be.
Of course both machines should conform to the highest standards for security. (like or better than the one mentioned above)
Now two electronic counts are available as well as a paper trail.
on any bright shiny item they come across.
One place had a check printing computer - completely disconnected from the network just a computer and a laser printer... It got virused..?? I had to un-virus it. Someone wanted the latest technology in screensavers, employed a floppy disk.
I don't suppose you would ask them "How do you know I bought this TV from Best Buy?"
Perhaps this is why Commodore is out of business.
My Dell Latitude L120 has a 3 prong plug for it's power brick, but it also has an all plastic body.
They might not have to be so carefully aligned. when you first turn the two projector system on it starts by projecting and detecting a series of dots or patterns first from one projector then the other. As those are detected the system would learn the relative distance and orientation of the two projectors.
Or you could just build two projectors into one unit.
Or they legislate to make it illegal then send out surprise "inspectors" to catch people.
I have a sister in law who's family just put a big photovotalic system in. It would be really nice if the power company would pay you back for all the electricity you make - Here you can only break even so most people only install a system that fills 80% of their needs.
I don't know If I trust PG&E to do it that way - They will probably just declare a power emergency and turn off everyone's AC for an hour or two.
Also, This new thing will not be voluntary, If you build new or remodel much you have to install this thermostat too. No incentives, no choice. Just do it.
I wonder if that means the power company can make "surprise inspections" to see if your thermostat is the "controlled" kind and that you have not tampered with it.
Remember True democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on "what's for dinner".