That is not the core problem. The issue is that IF the gov claims these tags to be secure (which they will), and your tag gets copied by someone (which, if ever feasible by criminals, can be done wirelessly, so you can't protect yourself unless you start wrapping foil around your wallet. But that would beat the purpose of the RF in RFID) you have very little means left to protect yourself.
And even worse : who will be blamed if your tag is stolen ? You ? The gov ? Certainly not the crooks as they usually get away with everything. My guess is that the new passport will carry a EULA that shifts all responsabilities to the carrier.
India, the worlds largest democracy recently had an all electronic voting. Thats a few hundred million voters. Isn't he USA one of the most educated countries in the world ? The highest distribution of luxury goods ? 99% of the voters has cable TV, whereas in india many voters see a monitor once every 5 years : when they vote.
While this comment is rated funny, I would like to know how feasible it would be to actually use a high end CPU & mobo to heat a reasonable amount of water. I'm not kidding here ! I know that offcourse the main obstacle will be having a big pump and boiler in your office, which kinda beats the purpose of interior decorating, but in terms of heat, would it be possible ?
I have 5 machines, 3 of which are almost constantly running (1 linux server, 1 dual xeon XP, 1 dual 1.8 G5 and 2 older P4s for code testing win95,98,me,200. But these are turned off mostly). That amounts to quite some watt, no ?
in belgium, some 10 years ago, a russian Mig bonkered into a house after the pilot did an emergency jump out some 5000km away above russian territory... Imagine sitting at the table and all of a sudden a warhead plops on your plate. not to mention the secret service eating your guts out 20mins later.
I'm too lazy, otherwise I would google some info about it. No doubt soe karma whore will do it below
I don't want to troll, but honestly, that game looks like shit. If this is supposed to show of the quality of the HL2 engine, well, I'm seriously disappointed.
Look at the screenshots : the player models are rather low-poly. Not realistic at all (look at elbow junctions for instance... ) Not much more accurate than Quake3. The environment is very very very rectangular. Quake2 would approach this level ! The lightning is very ordinary, with polygon edges showing everywhere.
If you compare this to Doom3, well the difference is HUGE... Can anyone else who has betatested confirm that this is HL2 quality ?
computers are very good at doing exactly what you tell them to do.
I would rephrase that as Computers are very good at doing exactly what the developers told them to do when someone told them to do something they had programmed to do under that nomen. Computers suck at everything the developers didn't envision.
In practice, it means computers are awesome at rendering paperclips, and suck at everything else.
I don't really like the design of the device... This shows why apple doesn't rush to market : they redesign and redesign and redesign until it's perfect. The Virgin player looks somewhat a quick & dirty design.
Their portable speakers on the other hand look nifty.
A question that has been puzzling me is : what if there would pop up virusses in linux ? Suppose this is by some unpatched backdoor that compromises a large percentage of linux distros (which are running in the millions now). How fast could the linux community patch all these ? I mean : here on/., most of us do patch asap and keep an eye open for vulneratibilty news, but as the horde of linux users grows, so will the percentage of dumbasses who think that they are safe by simply having linux installed.
Afaik, there is no automated patch system for dummies (aka MacosX software update) that really easily informs and patches with 1-click. Please, don't start on cron scripts and stuff : we are talking windows-to-linux converts here who think that their distro will do all magic automatically for them. These are users that simply check mail, surf web and do OO.o editing. I think the linux community is slowly growing beyond the shape of everyone-knows-someone-who-knows-linux-administrat ion. We should be prepared to help the dummies when/if a serious attack happens.
you mean that, no only this thing is going somewhere, it also has a direction ????
Stop the presses !
oh comeon please. Lucas a had one original idea a long time ago (in a galaxy far away probably) and milked it like no one has ever milked an idea before. I wishi everyone would just stop talking about him, then maybe he'd be forced to poop another idea instead of trampling in previous poop.
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It's hard to protect an office building from a bulldozer attack, but then again, it's pretty hard to sneak around with a bulldozer.
[me pictures someone sneaking tongue-in-cheek with a doze]
rotfl:-)
you just brought some sunshine in my totally boring, rainy and fubar day. Thanks mate.
Your argument against OSX hold against linux/BSD/whatever open source OS. As soon as the number of users reaches critical mass, it becomes "profitable" for virus writes. More so as zombie macines are being used as bulk mailers. And you can bet the farm that in a few years, those zombies will be used for much more stuff than simple spamming. How about al-qaeda brute-forcing entry to a big bank by using 100.000 PCs to crack the password, and then simply start transfering tiny amounts of cash around. It would take days before someone noticed, and by then practically impossible to restore from backup.
IMHO, the real evil on the net still has to rise. The virii and script kddies you see today are just the scouts of the first reconaissance divisions of the army of the black lord.
I'm surprised we haven't seen those microdrives in camcorders yet. I wonder why?
A full miniDV tape is 30GB worth. Microdrives are still stuck at 6GB. Additionally, an mp3 player has a very low disk access frequency, which reduces the risks of physical damage while reading/writing. A camcorder on the other hand, is CONSTANTLY accessing the disk.
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At 500 (or 200 or whatever >100) ton, the trouble is no longer in the engine, but in the brakes.
I want to see you stop a 200ton vehicle driving 70mph.
On a more serious note (to gove moderators a headsplitting choice between funny & insightfull), i though there were no modifications at all : it even has the Apple logo instead of an HP one... A true homerun for apple
can you imagine what this would do for servers ? Not to speak the backbone infrastructure.
I guess this stuff will be either for broadcast (TV-over-IP), for P2P to the provider (i.e. one or 2 hops away) or just sit there waiting for the bottleneck to unstop.
With USB2, its feasible, but I surely wouldn't boot off a USB1 device unless realy no other options are available. Or the machine has so much ram, I barely acces my swap.
I recall my previous employer buying one of the first, SINGLE SPEED CDI-writers (when CD-rom was nonexistant due to lack of players in PCs) 15 years ago or some...I Think the price was around 7500$ or somthing like that. Slow as hell, tons of failures and 20$ per blank disc. Fortunately, pr0n images were usualy black&white dithered RLE BMPs at 5K or so:-)
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That is not the core problem. The issue is that IF the gov claims these tags to be secure (which they will), and your tag gets copied by someone (which, if ever feasible by criminals, can be done wirelessly, so you can't protect yourself unless you start wrapping foil around your wallet. But that would beat the purpose of the RF in RFID) you have very little means left to protect yourself.
And even worse : who will be blamed if your tag is stolen ? You ? The gov ? Certainly not the crooks as they usually get away with everything. My guess is that the new passport will carry a EULA that shifts all responsabilities to the carrier.
being a bit dyslectic, I read Hannu K. Hari as Haiku-something, so I skipped it right away. Don't ask how I got here
India, the worlds largest democracy recently had an all electronic voting. Thats a few hundred million voters. Isn't he USA one of the most educated countries in the world ? The highest distribution of luxury goods ? 99% of the voters has cable TV, whereas in india many voters see a monitor once every 5 years : when they vote.
While this comment is rated funny, I would like to know how feasible it would be to actually use a high end CPU & mobo to heat a reasonable amount of water. I'm not kidding here ! I know that offcourse the main obstacle will be having a big pump and boiler in your office, which kinda beats the purpose of interior decorating, but in terms of heat, would it be possible ? I have 5 machines, 3 of which are almost constantly running (1 linux server, 1 dual xeon XP, 1 dual 1.8 G5 and 2 older P4s for code testing win95,98,me,200. But these are turned off mostly). That amounts to quite some watt, no ?
in belgium, some 10 years ago, a russian Mig bonkered into a house after the pilot did an emergency jump out some 5000km away above russian territory... Imagine sitting at the table and all of a sudden a warhead plops on your plate. not to mention the secret service eating your guts out 20mins later.
I'm too lazy, otherwise I would google some info about it. No doubt soe karma whore will do it below
you don't get it do you ? He doesn't claim that at 120, you'll look like 30...
:-)
His point : take enough pills, and by 2030 you'll look like someone who is 120
I don't want to troll, but honestly, that game looks like shit. If this is supposed to show of the quality of the HL2 engine, well, I'm seriously disappointed.
Look at the screenshots : the player models are rather low-poly. Not realistic at all (look at elbow junctions for instance... ) Not much more accurate than Quake3. The environment is very very very rectangular. Quake2 would approach this level ! The lightning is very ordinary, with polygon edges showing everywhere.
If you compare this to Doom3, well the difference is HUGE... Can anyone else who has betatested confirm that this is HL2 quality ?
computers are very good at doing exactly what you tell them to do.
I would rephrase that as Computers are very good at doing exactly what the developers told them to do when someone told them to do something they had programmed to do under that nomen. Computers suck at everything the developers didn't envision.
In practice, it means computers are awesome at rendering paperclips, and suck at everything else.
undying :-)
I don't really like the design of the device... This shows why apple doesn't rush to market : they redesign and redesign and redesign until it's perfect. The Virgin player looks somewhat a quick & dirty design.
Their portable speakers on the other hand look nifty.
A question that has been puzzling me is : what if there would pop up virusses in linux ? Suppose this is by some unpatched backdoor that compromises a large percentage of linux distros (which are running in the millions now). How fast could the linux community patch all these ? I mean : here on /., most of us do patch asap and keep an eye open for vulneratibilty news, but as the horde of linux users grows, so will the percentage of dumbasses who think that they are safe by simply having linux installed.
t ion. We should be prepared to help the dummies when/if a serious attack happens.
Afaik, there is no automated patch system for dummies (aka MacosX software update) that really easily informs and patches with 1-click. Please, don't start on cron scripts and stuff : we are talking windows-to-linux converts here who think that their distro will do all magic automatically for them. These are users that simply check mail, surf web and do OO.o editing. I think the linux community is slowly growing beyond the shape of everyone-knows-someone-who-knows-linux-administra
/me is shocked !
you mean that, no only this thing is going somewhere, it also has a direction ????
Stop the presses !
oh comeon please. Lucas a had one original idea a long time ago (in a galaxy far away probably) and milked it like no one has ever milked an idea before. I wishi everyone would just stop talking about him, then maybe he'd be forced to poop another idea instead of trampling in previous poop.
It's hard to protect an office building from a bulldozer attack, but then again, it's pretty hard to sneak around with a bulldozer.
:-)
[me pictures someone sneaking tongue-in-cheek with a doze]
rotfl
you just brought some sunshine in my totally boring, rainy and fubar day. Thanks mate.
Personally, no OS is secure. Period.
Your argument against OSX hold against linux/BSD/whatever open source OS. As soon as the number of users reaches critical mass, it becomes "profitable" for virus writes. More so as zombie macines are being used as bulk mailers. And you can bet the farm that in a few years, those zombies will be used for much more stuff than simple spamming. How about al-qaeda brute-forcing entry to a big bank by using 100.000 PCs to crack the password, and then simply start transfering tiny amounts of cash around. It would take days before someone noticed, and by then practically impossible to restore from backup.
IMHO, the real evil on the net still has to rise. The virii and script kddies you see today are just the scouts of the first reconaissance divisions of the army of the black lord.
well, now we have three> posts that are offtopic, three that are jokes and only one that is remotely ontopic :-)
Seems that you tilted the balance in the wrong direction
weird : after importing as Full DV with iMovie, i have about 30GB worth of clips.... how come ?
I'm surprised we haven't seen those microdrives in camcorders yet. I wonder why?
A full miniDV tape is 30GB worth. Microdrives are still stuck at 6GB. Additionally, an mp3 player has a very low disk access frequency, which reduces the risks of physical damage while reading/writing. A camcorder on the other hand, is CONSTANTLY accessing the disk.
At 500 (or 200 or whatever >100) ton, the trouble is no longer in the engine, but in the brakes.
I want to see you stop a 200ton vehicle driving 70mph.
Whoah boy, watch out with that inertia, will ya ?
Will it play unreal then ?????
On a more serious note (to gove moderators a headsplitting choice between funny & insightfull), i though there were no modifications at all : it even has the Apple logo instead of an HP one... A true homerun for apple
that, my dear friend, is what the sun-walkers out there call a woman
don't touch it, don't feed it, don't talk to it. If you stop washing yourself & brushing your teeth, it's supposed to go away by itself.
dunno if this matters, but you have all slahsdotters sympathy. We're standing right behind you like one geek. Let us know how it turns out.
can you imagine what this would do for servers ? Not to speak the backbone infrastructure.
I guess this stuff will be either for broadcast (TV-over-IP), for P2P to the provider (i.e. one or 2 hops away) or just sit there waiting for the bottleneck to unstop.
With USB2, its feasible, but I surely wouldn't boot off a USB1 device unless realy no other options are available. Or the machine has so much ram, I barely acces my swap.
what are these "women" and "Toothbrushes" you speak of ?
300 ? cheapskate !
:-)
I recall my previous employer buying one of the first, SINGLE SPEED CDI-writers (when CD-rom was nonexistant due to lack of players in PCs) 15 years ago or some...I Think the price was around 7500$ or somthing like that. Slow as hell, tons of failures and 20$ per blank disc. Fortunately, pr0n images were usualy black&white dithered RLE BMPs at 5K or so
ehm, and the editors job in all this is what ? Sit and pick his nose ?