The whole read and write from any reader seems full of security holes. If for no other reason than the neighbors kid wiping out your car's records because-he-can kind of thing.
I just see all kinds of problems in the nuisance arena. Wardriving for RFID's sounds like what the script kiddies will be up to in a few years.
Reading through this thread it would appear that RFID is ripe for the picking for anyone with rudimentary hardware and software skills. There are lots of discussions on RFID theft, tampering, breaking, hacking and phreaking.
If that is true and these little beasties are going to unleashed on us in many forms we are all in for a world of hurt. You will get questioned at Walmart about a faulty tag, your passport will get stollen, there will be a couple of dopplegangers posing as you.
Somebody better come up with a better proposal quick because this is all the warehouse industry is talking about. And now the government wants in on it. You know there will be a Microsoft RFID next year.
Are you sure that this is not that joke I have heard again and again?
Seriously this is terrible. I work in an industrial automation environment and I see PC parts and software creeping in and think that it sucks. Everything is disposable, fragile, and full of bugs. Now we can expect virus's, trojans, malware, adware, bugs, features etc in our cars.
I hope Detroit laughs them out of the building, but I know that they will not. It is most likely going to impress the PHB and accountants that they can save money somewhere and be able use their Outlook calandar in their car to see if the golf game is this after noon or next.
People start refusing to give SS# to ANYONE? People stop storing other peoples SS#? The SS# becomes obsolete? Why does ANY non-finacial institution directly related to a near-term transaction need that info? Why is it not illegal to store that info?
The same goes for CC#'s.
I personally don't think that it is such an inconvience for me to give the info when needed. And when it is needed then they can ask ME for it and I can be shown that it is a one time use and the record of that information is stored WITHOUT the 10 digits that make it repeatable. When they need it again I can be asked for it again. If it were illegal for people to store other people's info then wouldn't identity theft go down?
Amazon.com's on-click purchase is wonderful but it is really that hard to enter 10 digits and then click? Convience is what makes the problem.
How in the hell is getting a physical device considered "electronic distribution". No matter what mechanism put that music on the iPod you have to get that device to the customer some how and that distibution model is not electronic.
The "electronic distribution model" is what Todd Rungren and others have been doing for years. Bands that sell the iso image of a disk that you electronicly download and burn yourself is the "electronic distribution model".
I try not to drink (at least knowingly) beers which would not past the German Purity Law
If it says beer on the label then it should pass. Otherwise it is maybe a "malt beverage" or an "ale" or "barley pop" or "crap" or "whatever". Just not beer.
That is just me though. I am sure that Johney Sixpack would love an eyeopener like this.
$100K to see what very few other mortals have in the course of history is exactly what the new rich would give, that and more I am sure.
When it is common for people to sink well over that into an entertainment room that they use occasionaly or only to brag to the neighbors I am sure that there will be a long line. There are an increasing number of people in the world that have $100K in pocket change. I am sure that there are lots of people who would pay much more than that jut to first.
Now if that line became a public list then we would know who to hit up for the next crazy idea we have.
I used Netscape Server Products in 1997 and they were strong full featured servers which had great GUI interfaces. I am sure that they are even better now.
This is where other comercial products do not typically shine when they are ported to to Linux and if the FOSS group can get this server suite (httpd, news, mail, calendar, proxy, and LDAP) it would be a huge bonus. Ususally when a commercial port comes to Un*x it is a barebones, edit the configs with vi, sort of thing. Not that that is bad mind you. But seriously the GUI's were slick and easy to use.
Plus they were all consistant in how you deploy and use them. If RedHat can take the GUI's and make a Samba and CUPS config editor then the lions share of server config would become uniform.
This OS would almost make sence in an industrial setting where you want the computer to boot up and run one app and run it very well. Not some home market where they are trying to do any assortment of things that the average PHB would never even dream of.
What does "not being networking capable" really mean? Is it just no microsoft networking so no servers like XP home, or no TCP/IP (or any other protocol) and no networking interfaces?
NAT for a home network is actually the best solution to a sloppy OS that seems very popular. If all of the home networks had a direct conection then think hop many more zombie networks would be creating even more problems.
Of the reboots that were done how many could be avoided by knowing how to get out of what caused the lockup? I know that the average user just does a reboot to get the problem solved when ending a task might get them out of a jam.
Try a small distro and make it a print server for your home network. Then make it a SMB server and then maybe a database server or mail server.
Focusing on small facets of the problem will allow you understand the problems at hand.
I also think that some of the full blown distros will have gui's that will trick you into thinking that you understand what is going on (just like Windows) when you rely on good docs and CLI with error messages you get a clear understanding of the fundamentals.
The parent of this post is correct. If the new emerging countries adopt something other than the default then they will have enough clout to sway the countries who want to exchange files with them.
This might also be the way to get XML to become the glue that binds it all togather. I would assume that the emerging countries would use OOo and then if M$O would read and right XML files too...
Can you imagine how long it would take to write that many tapes and then read them back.
That is where this exercise is most amazing to me. The distance is excelent as well but 859 gigabytes writen and read (I assume that they actually did something with the data after they got it) in 17 minutes.
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Great work Watson! You have solved another baffleing mystery.
Now for our next mystery: Why do the users of/. like computers so much and why do they like them in odd proportions and colors? Why do they like to read about them and then discuss them? And then after they discuss them they like to complain about the software that is / is not installed on them, and the features that they should or should not have?
And with MythTv I am hoping that I can grab the music (that much is trivial) and somehow get the text descriptions that come up with the song.
This has been available for quite a while so I don't understand all the fuss overthe leagal speculations. I bet it was a simple "these things are not selling like hotcakes and the support team costs us a bundle" rpoblem.
Whatever anybody says about the price one thing is for sure. There is no PC on the planet that will hold its value better than a Mac.
Take a look at a 1 year old Dell or IBM anything even servers and then take a look at a 1 year old Mac. The PC will be at least 50% less and the Mac will have dropped about $100.
After a year the PC becomes worthless and the Mac still has a good value. 2 yr old iMacs are still worth quite a bit of their original price, especially if they have the SuperDrive. How much is a 2 year old Dell worth?
When ever a person asks about buying a PC vs. a Mac that is the first thing I try to explane to them.
The long-term savings that you would have in electricity, cooling and space would start to eat away at your initial savings quickly.
This thing has one case, one power supply and uses power efficent processors to boot. They claim that the system uses only 1500 watts at peak vs. 100 - 200 watts per PC. 96 PC's (or 48 SMP PC's) would take up a whole room and be a cableing nightmare.
Isn't that the whole point of OpenSource? Expose your bugs to the world and let them help you fix them.
It may not be ready for prime time today, but in 6 months or so I bet it is. This is the most needed FOSS project yet (IMHO). Anything that keeps me from having to maintane an Exchange server is awesome in book.
Or lack there of. I was imagining one of those SGI deskside Onyx servers when I read the post but these are just wide full towers that pack 96 processors. Quite nice. I am sure the movie industry is all over these babys. The 12 unit is around the size of a Sun pizza box.
How do the Transmeta CPU's do in fp computations? That is obviously the metric to note. I wonder how long it would take to render a movie? Is the USB USB 2? No firewire though.
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Unless I am really mistaken this is a feature that would require leaving the sandbox and decreasing the security Firefox has come to be proud of.
Glimpse and locate are enough and they should not be run from the browser but a seperate GUI if a GUI is what the user wants.
The easy way around this is for the public to trust and use only charactor based ATM's and let the banking industry figure it out themselves.
Honestly why would there be any need to have pretty colrs and hourglass and icons and crap for these devices anyway.
The whole read and write from any reader seems full of security holes. If for no other reason than the neighbors kid wiping out your car's records because-he-can kind of thing.
I just see all kinds of problems in the nuisance arena. Wardriving for RFID's sounds like what the script kiddies will be up to in a few years.
Reading through this thread it would appear that RFID is ripe for the picking for anyone with rudimentary hardware and software skills. There are lots of discussions on RFID theft, tampering, breaking, hacking and phreaking.
If that is true and these little beasties are going to unleashed on us in many forms we are all in for a world of hurt. You will get questioned at Walmart about a faulty tag, your passport will get stollen, there will be a couple of dopplegangers posing as you.
Somebody better come up with a better proposal quick because this is all the warehouse industry is talking about. And now the government wants in on it. You know there will be a Microsoft RFID next year.
It would only work if the person was logged in and had access to the USB ports (which I understand some places are locking down now).
I don't believe that you can get a program to run at the login splash screen.
So shame on them for leaving their computer logged in.
Are you sure that this is not that joke I have heard again and again?
Seriously this is terrible. I work in an industrial automation environment and I see PC parts and software creeping in and think that it sucks. Everything is disposable, fragile, and full of bugs. Now we can expect virus's, trojans, malware, adware, bugs, features etc in our cars.
I hope Detroit laughs them out of the building, but I know that they will not. It is most likely going to impress the PHB and accountants that they can save money somewhere and be able use their Outlook calandar in their car to see if the golf game is this after noon or next.
People start refusing to give SS# to ANYONE?
People stop storing other peoples SS#?
The SS# becomes obsolete?
Why does ANY non-finacial institution directly related to a near-term transaction need that info?
Why is it not illegal to store that info?
The same goes for CC#'s.
I personally don't think that it is such an inconvience for me to give the info when needed. And when it is needed then they can ask ME for it and I can be shown that it is a one time use and the record of that information is stored WITHOUT the 10 digits that make it repeatable. When they need it again I can be asked for it again. If it were illegal for people to store other people's info then wouldn't identity theft go down?
Amazon.com's on-click purchase is wonderful but it is really that hard to enter 10 digits and then click? Convience is what makes the problem.
How in the hell is getting a physical device considered "electronic distribution". No matter what mechanism put that music on the iPod you have to get that device to the customer some how and that distibution model is not electronic.
The "electronic distribution model" is what Todd Rungren and others have been doing for years. Bands that sell the iso image of a disk that you electronicly download and burn yourself is the "electronic distribution model".
With a big enough screen couldn't the NewtonOS be put on that bugger?
But I would not mess with a phone. With Bleutooth who needs it anyway?
I try not to drink (at least knowingly) beers which would not past the German Purity Law
If it says beer on the label then it should pass.
Otherwise it is maybe a "malt beverage" or an "ale" or "barley pop" or "crap" or "whatever". Just not beer.
That is just me though. I am sure that Johney Sixpack would love an eyeopener like this.
$100K to see what very few other mortals have in the course of history is exactly what the new rich would give, that and more I am sure.
When it is common for people to sink well over that into an entertainment room that they use occasionaly or only to brag to the neighbors I am sure that there will be a long line. There are an increasing number of people in the world that have $100K in pocket change. I am sure that there are lots of people who would pay much more than that jut to first.
Now if that line became a public list then we would know who to hit up for the next crazy idea we have.
I used Netscape Server Products in 1997 and they were strong full featured servers which had great GUI interfaces. I am sure that they are even better now.
This is where other comercial products do not typically shine when they are ported to to Linux and if the FOSS group can get this server suite (httpd, news, mail, calendar, proxy, and LDAP) it would be a huge bonus.
Ususally when a commercial port comes to Un*x it is a barebones, edit the configs with vi, sort of thing. Not that that is bad mind you. But seriously the GUI's were slick and easy to use.
Plus they were all consistant in how you deploy and use them. If RedHat can take the GUI's and make a Samba and CUPS config editor then the lions share of server config would become uniform.
I think that if anyone were to stand-in for the Open Source movement #44. Richard Stallman might do.
This OS would almost make sence in an industrial setting where you want the computer to boot up and run one app and run it very well. Not some home market where they are trying to do any assortment of things that the average PHB would never even dream of.
What does "not being networking capable" really mean? Is it just no microsoft networking so no servers like XP home, or no TCP/IP (or any other protocol) and no networking interfaces?
NAT for a home network is actually the best solution to a sloppy OS that seems very popular. If all of the home networks had a direct conection then think hop many more zombie networks would be creating even more problems.
Of the reboots that were done how many could be avoided by knowing how to get out of what caused the lockup? I know that the average user just does a reboot to get the problem solved when ending a task might get them out of a jam.
Try a small distro and make it a print server for your home network. Then make it a SMB server and then maybe a database server or mail server.
Focusing on small facets of the problem will allow you understand the problems at hand.
I also think that some of the full blown distros will have gui's that will trick you into thinking that you understand what is going on (just like Windows) when you rely on good docs and CLI with error messages you get a clear understanding of the fundamentals.
The parent of this post is correct. If the new emerging countries adopt something other than the default then they will have enough clout to sway the countries who want to exchange files with them.
This might also be the way to get XML to become the glue that binds it all togather. I would assume that the emerging countries would use OOo and then if M$O would read and right XML files too...
Can you imagine how long it would take to write that many tapes and then read them back.
That is where this exercise is most amazing to me. The distance is excelent as well but 859 gigabytes writen and read (I assume that they actually did something with the data after they got it) in 17 minutes.
Great work Watson! You have solved another baffleing mystery.
/. like computers so much and why do they like them in odd proportions and colors? Why do they like to read about them and then discuss them? And then after they discuss them they like to complain about the software that is / is not installed on them, and the features that they should or should not have?
Now for our next mystery: Why do the users of
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And with MythTv I am hoping that I can grab the music (that much is trivial) and somehow get the text descriptions that come up with the song.
This has been available for quite a while so I don't understand all the fuss overthe leagal speculations. I bet it was a simple "these things are not selling like hotcakes and the support team costs us a bundle" rpoblem.
Whatever anybody says about the price one thing is for sure. There is no PC on the planet that will hold its value better than a Mac.
Take a look at a 1 year old Dell or IBM anything even servers and then take a look at a 1 year old Mac. The PC will be at least 50% less and the Mac will have dropped about $100.
After a year the PC becomes worthless and the Mac still has a good value. 2 yr old iMacs are still worth quite a bit of their original price, especially if they have the SuperDrive. How much is a 2 year old Dell worth?
When ever a person asks about buying a PC vs. a Mac that is the first thing I try to explane to them.
The long-term savings that you would have in electricity, cooling and space would start to eat away at your initial savings quickly.
This thing has one case, one power supply and uses power efficent processors to boot. They claim that the system uses only 1500 watts at peak vs. 100 - 200 watts per PC. 96 PC's (or 48 SMP PC's) would take up a whole room and be a cableing nightmare.
Elegance comes at a price.
Isn't that the whole point of OpenSource? Expose your bugs to the world and let them help you fix them.
It may not be ready for prime time today, but in 6 months or so I bet it is. This is the most needed FOSS project yet (IMHO). Anything that keeps me from having to maintane an Exchange server is awesome in book.
Or lack there of. I was imagining one of those SGI deskside Onyx servers when I read the post but these are just wide full towers that pack 96 processors. Quite nice. I am sure the movie industry is all over these babys. The 12 unit is around the size of a Sun pizza box.
How do the Transmeta CPU's do in fp computations? That is obviously the metric to note. I wonder how long it would take to render a movie? Is the USB USB 2? No firewire though.