In all seriousness - this is not a rhetorical question. Usually I want this information in the inverse order, not just having a number with no context. What is the value in searching in that direction is their some widespread need I don't know about?
My new passport has rfid. My wife washed it in the washing machine and it killed the chip. I've traveled out of and back into the US twice since then without a single issue. We didn't do it on purpose, but now that I know, I wouldn't hesitate to take a hammer to a new passport. There are many tips on doing this above.
It is still valid. After returning from a long trip I went to bed and my wife did all my laundry from my trip, which included my passport and ipod nano in a shirt pocket. I was traveling again shortly after and tried to find someone who could tell me if it was still valid, but had no luck. I was going from the U.S. to Mexico and just figured I'd see how it went.
The agent tried to scan the chip and when it didn't work, just treated it like an older passport. I've gone out of the country with it again since then and had the same result.
I wouldn't recommend that approach, as is mentioned above, a hammer will do the job. It took me a while to dry out my passport then I had to leave it under a huge stack of books to get the pages flat again. Knowing that people keep them for 10 years makes me think that they must go through all kinds of things like that.
The nano took longer to dry out completely but still works.
I hope events like this (the scanning of the chips) keep getting attention so that something can be done before disabling the chip becomes synonymous with invalidating the document.
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Yeah - I'm not saying you are that way - it's just funny how a lot of people get about child rearing.
My kids will be screwed up in some ways due to my parenting, it's unavoidable. And they will hopefully pick up some positives too - but in the end they will be people with all the good and bad that entails. And a lot of who they are, I believe, will happen regardless of how I behave.
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I am not a big fan of pushing kids too hard. At the same time I don't believe in a laissez-faire type approach to parenting either. I believe it is my responsibility to guide and help them grow. We let them try all kinds of stuff and tell them that if they are willing to work hard enough they can do almost anything.
I am not a perfect parent, but I do my best.
What I find to be a very interesting phenomenon is how many people not only have very strong opinions about parenting but feel that those strong opinions should be observed by everyone. It's odd how often anyone with kids runs into these types of people.
I think you've made a bit of a leap - but you're not the only one so maybe it comes across that way - but it's not as much as I'm envious as unhappy with the current system that makes air travel much more unpleasant than need be and then tries to build an out for anyone in a position to do anything about it. I don't say well off to place myself in opposition due to some judgment of value but simply because I understand the fact that in this country it is money that talks. Allowing this bypass kept that money from talking in my favor. It's not envy - it's being practical.
As someone who stood in line and watched well off folks who could fork up the cash and fly by - rather than forcing the influential to face the stupidity that is the tsa so that maybe something could happen to change it - I can't say I feel too upset for them. I saw a guy sign up for it when I flew last month- people that just forked over the $200, lost their data and never really didn't get to use the service must really be mad.
Africa is a large continent and as well as South Africa is doing, I'm sure that a broad set of solutions are what is required. Internet access itself isn't as important as communication in general - which can take place outside the internet, so I wouldn't focus on that too much.
The ability to communicate and organize is absolutely essential to everything you list in the first paragraph - and measures like this make that possible on the scale necessary.
Fixed wing - solar powered/augmented - that's my guess. I don't know what it will look like in the end but people who are a lot smarter than I am have been working hard on this for a while. The military applications are too obvious for it to be otherwise.
The longer a balloon is up - the farther it is going to travel. Anything to change that will drive up costs. And switch around the comparison - so that it makes economic sense. What's the cost of an ultra-endurance airplane compared to a satellite?
The Vulture program is aiming for an aircraft that can keep a 1,000 lb payload up for at least 5 years - over a designated area 99% of the time. That's further out - but it makes more sense than balloons for quite a few reasons.
Not only that but communication tools are vital to improving the livelihood of Africans. I've been working with an open source tool, Frontline SMS - it's already being used to do some amazing things.
Rather than continuing to send cash and some food, which has thus far not really been much help - we can help build infrastructure that will give people more control over their own lives and the ability to improve their circumstances on their own.
I saw a demo a couple weeks ago by some guys from a communications lab from a local university. They are building a system to provide educational materials via mobile phones - iphone and android right now. They've got grants to get androids on the ground in developing nations. The system can work completely via sms if necessary but an internet connection is better.
There are some exciting things going on in tech in Africa and this is cool to see.
These don't - they stay up for 24 hours. DARPA has people working on fixed wing aircraft that will stay up for months. That's not over engineering - that's much better than this.
I think that phones will become the heart and one will just need to come into the proximity of appropriate accessories to use them - screen, keyboard, etc.
I doubt other things will go away completely but I think the way most people interact with technology will shift. Sure mainframes still exist - but you should see the look on my daughter's face when I tell her computers used to fill entire rooms. Funnier was trying to explain to her that I didn't play video games at her age because we didn't have a console.
So I think it is quite possible that while laptops will still exist in some form that the idea of a 6 pound machine being carried around will seem odd.
some day I'm going to try to explain to my grandkids about how we carried around computers that needed their own bags, that weighed 'pounds!' and they'll laugh at something so absurd.
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I know you are kidding but Singer quotes an expert in the book who thinks Japan will gain a huge amount of influence globally due to the coming importance of robotics.
I watched a documentary as a kid, don't remember the name, that posited that a full out NATO vs. USSR fight in Europe would go nuclear in short order. Their rationale was that due to the maintenance needs and lethality of what was available at the time, that rather quickly one side would start to lose. This would leave the losing side with no option but to go with their last resort.
How should people become involved and participate in steering this kind of thing if not through something like this? Or are you saying it is all inevitable and we should just ignore it?
I think Singer looks at all the sides, and this may be troublesome to people who only want to look at this from a single point of view. But in the end he's providing a ton of necessary information and guiding the reader towards necessary questions.
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In all seriousness - this is not a rhetorical question. Usually I want this information in the inverse order, not just having a number with no context. What is the value in searching in that direction is their some widespread need I don't know about?
My new passport has rfid. My wife washed it in the washing machine and it killed the chip. I've traveled out of and back into the US twice since then without a single issue. We didn't do it on purpose, but now that I know, I wouldn't hesitate to take a hammer to a new passport. There are many tips on doing this above.
It is still valid. After returning from a long trip I went to bed and my wife did all my laundry from my trip, which included my passport and ipod nano in a shirt pocket. I was traveling again shortly after and tried to find someone who could tell me if it was still valid, but had no luck. I was going from the U.S. to Mexico and just figured I'd see how it went.
The agent tried to scan the chip and when it didn't work, just treated it like an older passport. I've gone out of the country with it again since then and had the same result.
I wouldn't recommend that approach, as is mentioned above, a hammer will do the job. It took me a while to dry out my passport then I had to leave it under a huge stack of books to get the pages flat again. Knowing that people keep them for 10 years makes me think that they must go through all kinds of things like that.
The nano took longer to dry out completely but still works.
I hope events like this (the scanning of the chips) keep getting attention so that something can be done before disabling the chip becomes synonymous with invalidating the document.
Yeah - I'm not saying you are that way - it's just funny how a lot of people get about child rearing.
My kids will be screwed up in some ways due to my parenting, it's unavoidable. And they will hopefully pick up some positives too - but in the end they will be people with all the good and bad that entails. And a lot of who they are, I believe, will happen regardless of how I behave.
I am not a big fan of pushing kids too hard. At the same time I don't believe in a laissez-faire type approach to parenting either. I believe it is my responsibility to guide and help them grow. We let them try all kinds of stuff and tell them that if they are willing to work hard enough they can do almost anything.
I am not a perfect parent, but I do my best.
What I find to be a very interesting phenomenon is how many people not only have very strong opinions about parenting but feel that those strong opinions should be observed by everyone. It's odd how often anyone with kids runs into these types of people.
I think you've made a bit of a leap - but you're not the only one so maybe it comes across that way - but it's not as much as I'm envious as unhappy with the current system that makes air travel much more unpleasant than need be and then tries to build an out for anyone in a position to do anything about it. I don't say well off to place myself in opposition due to some judgment of value but simply because I understand the fact that in this country it is money that talks. Allowing this bypass kept that money from talking in my favor. It's not envy - it's being practical.
so if that's "reverse elitist drivel" what do we call your response?
As someone who stood in line and watched well off folks who could fork up the cash and fly by - rather than forcing the influential to face the stupidity that is the tsa so that maybe something could happen to change it - I can't say I feel too upset for them. I saw a guy sign up for it when I flew last month- people that just forked over the $200, lost their data and never really didn't get to use the service must really be mad.
Thanks for the info. My issue is probably due to the fact that I'm a long time Fedora user - integers seem sufficient for us.
1. Create Account with social site
2. Put name and password on app
3. Wait for it to be leaked and abused
4. Profit!
No need to get a job - this is like money in the bank.
Africa is a large continent and as well as South Africa is doing, I'm sure that a broad set of solutions are what is required. Internet access itself isn't as important as communication in general - which can take place outside the internet, so I wouldn't focus on that too much.
The ability to communicate and organize is absolutely essential to everything you list in the first paragraph - and measures like this make that possible on the scale necessary.
I'd say that's a low estimate - if you consider family pets to be 'people' it would be much higher. :)
So basically what you are telling us is that Google ad sense has payed you almost nothing?
Fixed wing - solar powered/augmented - that's my guess. I don't know what it will look like in the end but people who are a lot smarter than I am have been working hard on this for a while. The military applications are too obvious for it to be otherwise.
The longer a balloon is up - the farther it is going to travel. Anything to change that will drive up costs. And switch around the comparison - so that it makes economic sense. What's the cost of an ultra-endurance airplane compared to a satellite?
The Vulture program is aiming for an aircraft that can keep a 1,000 lb payload up for at least 5 years - over a designated area 99% of the time. That's further out - but it makes more sense than balloons for quite a few reasons.
Not only that but communication tools are vital to improving the livelihood of Africans. I've been working with an open source tool, Frontline SMS - it's already being used to do some amazing things.
Rather than continuing to send cash and some food, which has thus far not really been much help - we can help build infrastructure that will give people more control over their own lives and the ability to improve their circumstances on their own.
I saw a demo a couple weeks ago by some guys from a communications lab from a local university. They are building a system to provide educational materials via mobile phones - iphone and android right now. They've got grants to get androids on the ground in developing nations. The system can work completely via sms if necessary but an internet connection is better.
There are some exciting things going on in tech in Africa and this is cool to see.
These don't - they stay up for 24 hours. DARPA has people working on fixed wing aircraft that will stay up for months. That's not over engineering - that's much better than this.
to fill the gap until we get UAVs that can stay up for extended periods of time.
that is my point.
I think that phones will become the heart and one will just need to come into the proximity of appropriate accessories to use them - screen, keyboard, etc.
I doubt other things will go away completely but I think the way most people interact with technology will shift. Sure mainframes still exist - but you should see the look on my daughter's face when I tell her computers used to fill entire rooms. Funnier was trying to explain to her that I didn't play video games at her age because we didn't have a console.
So I think it is quite possible that while laptops will still exist in some form that the idea of a 6 pound machine being carried around will seem odd.
some day I'm going to try to explain to my grandkids about how we carried around computers that needed their own bags, that weighed 'pounds!' and they'll laugh at something so absurd.
I know you are kidding but Singer quotes an expert in the book who thinks Japan will gain a huge amount of influence globally due to the coming importance of robotics.
This particular show didn't lean either way other than to propose that it would be inevitable and relatively quick - I think less than a month.
I watched a documentary as a kid, don't remember the name, that posited that a full out NATO vs. USSR fight in Europe would go nuclear in short order. Their rationale was that due to the maintenance needs and lethality of what was available at the time, that rather quickly one side would start to lose. This would leave the losing side with no option but to go with their last resort.
How should people become involved and participate in steering this kind of thing if not through something like this? Or are you saying it is all inevitable and we should just ignore it?
I think Singer looks at all the sides, and this may be troublesome to people who only want to look at this from a single point of view. But in the end he's providing a ton of necessary information and guiding the reader towards necessary questions.