I thought the point of developing biometrics was additive and used as another form/layer of verification, not to stop using all other forms of ID and just use the fingerprint. This idea is doomed to fail: what about handicapped persons?; false reads; the fingerprint signature files from being stolen....? I would rather use a credit card w/ "ask for Id" written in the signature field for all of my transactions.
Finally, who's to say that eventually that this data won't get sold to the federal government by private companies as test data for the TSA/homeland security. Where does the data go when this company goes bankrupt?
Now you get booked before you shop; not if you are a shoplifter.
I suggest that the music industry outsources the work to India/China and this way we Americans can enjoy low, low prices. I can't wait to hear music being sung with a Hindi or Chinese accent.
Burp!
So how does the system compensate when the wheels slip like if the car is on snow -- do the wheels slip and park the car halfway into the space.
Good starts and better marketing are always done in ideal circumstances.
-SB
"...get their products to work better together..."
Isn't this in general what computing/WWW is all about anyway working better together - sheesh!
Now 2,000,000,000 is a nice round number for Sun me thinks.
I wrote a paper last summer about environmental ethics and technology for a sociology graduate class. Environmental ethics and technology? What could be the connection? Our environment and how is becoming overrun with technology for technologies sake. RFID if a fine example of the slow building of a technological mountain that we will not notice until it is too late. The fact is that technology will enframe most people so that they do not notice it anymore -- MTV generation. For example, who remembers life with only 3-channels of UHF programming, or no condensation-trails from jets in the sky? Now there is a generation that knows only 100+ channels of programming. This will happen with RFID in the next 20-30 years and RFID will be everywhere. A new generation will be born that won't know, or care even if you tell them - generation gap.
Most likely congress will ban RFID readers as a criminal device because people will be worried about criminals reading their homes/cars and corporations will worry about bad data being introduced into there systems, so no personal RFID readers/scramblers/decoders/whatever... -- these will be made illegal due to PRIVACY/BUSINESS concerns.
Overall technology needs a gas tank to keep running: coal/gas to power the PC's; RFID and your stuff in a databse to fuel the MBA's !
Even if RFID is only used on money you will still be tracked. The granularity of tracking is increasing at a scary pace - maybe there is a "moore's law" somewhere in here - so where will it end? Most currency in the world will use RFID and some say that there is a U.S. 20 bill that will be cirulating shortly using RFID - so bill #434566 withdrawn at bank #12 by Joe Smith and bill #434566 used to buy CD ABC at music store XYZ.
Story on NPR today and it does seem that the people representing the privacy side are acting nervous and the business side is confident that they will have their way. And finally there is the relentless tide of consumers who don't give a crap and that is another possible way that RFID will become ubiquitous with a 10% discount coupon attached.
You can't sue for Libel, or slander if the information is TRUE. This Mark fellow will lose big and fast and hard and deservingly.
What triggered this post was "how much of it was true" -- Spytap is right. If true, Mark M. is up the creek w/o a lawsuit. If false, well thats not Google's problem.
There were several Nike missile bases in MD one of which I did some exploration in. Now a developer has build and entire subdivision over it and I doubt that the new home-owners know about what lies beneath their gated community.
If you are going to use one of these for a house it is very expensive to remove the lead paint and asbestos insulation on any pipes/walls... but in the 50's men ate lead and smoked asbestos....
I think that refining the internal combustion engines exhaust system to filter out C02 is the solution. Electric cars? No way. Just more problems - battery disposal for one.
Honda'sZLEV is going for -0- emmissions gas cars. So, if would figure that if we could find a way to filter out the C02 from the exhaust then we are on our way to solving the greenhouse emissions problem.
Also, we got ourselves into this mess by using non-renewable sources of hydrocarbons - millions of year old oil from the ground. If we used a renewable source (e.g., hemp-oil/whatever) then the C02 emissions would be balanced with the C02 'locking' that occurs when a plant uses C02 from the air to grow. Burn a gallon of oil plant a crop that uses C02 to grow -- LAW::Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It is conserved.
As we now know the ultimate solution will only occur within a balance of use and renewability. No idea introduced today is going to work for a very, very long time and by then it might be too late to do anything anyway -- Ocean Coveyor Belt
"Twenty-two states in the United States have introduced legislation. VT, HI, ND, MT, MN, IL, VA, NM, CA, AR, KY, MD, WV have passed legislation for support, research, or cultivation." -- Here
I am waiting for the portable balck-hole that one can turn-on and off at a whim. Then you can attach the supermassive body into the inside of the case. When a thief snatches your laptop the black-hold switchs on and the person is crushed at infinitum - thats cool security.
For those concerned about Big Brother tracking you in your car during your commute... do not worry there is no such thing as traffic, tracking, congestion, backups, or accidents.
The words have been removed from the state-owned dictionary and thus all commuting is back to normal.
Not that there is anything wrong with the Great White North (mid-eighties RUSH song is a different story).
Our company was aquired by Thomson some time ago. Working for the parent company here in the US there have been corporate meetings I have attended where it is stated very clearly that Thomson is globalizing. Making intelectual property out of any/all DB's is good for there buisness model, but bad for us. Oh, and the president of Thomson said, "our goal is to eliminate all paper based books". So, if they eliminate books and copyright all the DB's then they pretty much owns us.
No, this would be quote from John Maynard Keynes. And any talk done in this forum will be using his form of economic theory -- Keynesian Ecomonics. So, no it is not a nillist quote as you say, but a comment on long-term economic cirumstances.
Do us a favor and don't get swept-up in the technology outsourcing fever -- in the long run it will not matter. And that is the point of the original statement. That tech outsourcing will piss some off, but to be protectionist about technology will make the IT market worse off.
Just think of it as an open source job market. You do like open source don't you?
That's right an Ohio man found a camera behind the mirror in a Marriot bathroom after he killed a small "bug" on the lamp - no bug it was a camera-eye.
So, now Marriott can have a wireless video system in their bathrooms instead of X-10 et al.,... connect it to the www and what a $$$ generating engine that could be.
Links to this story:
Voyer news story
And the original one that was pulled from KNS -Hmmmmm...:
original story
If anyone lives Knoxville and is willing to rent a room for the night could be interesting - extra credit will be given!
... some plain text and some cipher text. If any one can deduce the way your n-time(n >= 1) pad then forget the patent. One the other hand, if your n-time pad is unbreakable expect some time to pass before all of the best cryptoanalists have had a wack at breaking it. Then after that expect the NSA to come knocking at your door and telling you what your rights are for disseminating the n-time pad. This happend to IBM with their "Lucifer" encryption scheme known as DES - or Triple-DES now. Finally, does your code eat much processor time if it does then it will also be limited in use even after passing rigorus testing. Check out AES/Rijndael on google - uses 50k of memory VERY important for cell/PDA application....
That is all.
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I thought the point of developing biometrics was additive and used as another form/layer of verification, not to stop using all other forms of ID and just use the fingerprint. This idea is doomed to fail: what about handicapped persons?; false reads; the fingerprint signature files from being stolen....? I would rather use a credit card w/ "ask for Id" written in the signature field for all of my transactions.
Finally, who's to say that eventually that this data won't get sold to the federal government by private companies as test data for the TSA/homeland security. Where does the data go when this company goes bankrupt?
Now you get booked before you shop; not if you are a shoplifter.
Ohhh, it's Sith. I thought it was Revenge of the Shit.
They could have called it pussydog linuts.
Could one convince some college libraries to buy a subcription e.g., lexus-nexus?
I suggest that the music industry outsources the work to India/China and this way we Americans can enjoy low, low prices. I can't wait to hear music being sung with a Hindi or Chinese accent. Burp!
So how does the system compensate when the wheels slip like if the car is on snow -- do the wheels slip and park the car halfway into the space. Good starts and better marketing are always done in ideal circumstances. -SB
Whew, I though that said, "California Girls Dieblond Over... ". I was getting a little concerned.
When they outlaw b00bies then only the outlaws with have b00bies.
=-)
Well we're all in trouble when the drum solo stops; the bass solo begins!
Actually it would be -M$, since they lost some dough.
"...get their products to work better together..." Isn't this in general what computing/WWW is all about anyway working better together - sheesh! Now 2,000,000,000 is a nice round number for Sun me thinks.
I wrote a paper last summer about environmental ethics and technology for a sociology graduate class. Environmental ethics and technology? What could be the connection? Our environment and how is becoming overrun with technology for technologies sake. RFID if a fine example of the slow building of a technological mountain that we will not notice until it is too late. The fact is that technology will enframe most people so that they do not notice it anymore -- MTV generation. For example, who remembers life with only 3-channels of UHF programming, or no condensation-trails from jets in the sky? Now there is a generation that knows only 100+ channels of programming. This will happen with RFID in the next 20-30 years and RFID will be everywhere. A new generation will be born that won't know, or care even if you tell them - generation gap.
Most likely congress will ban RFID readers as a criminal device because people will be worried about criminals reading their homes/cars and corporations will worry about bad data being introduced into there systems, so no personal RFID readers/scramblers/decoders/whatever... -- these will be made illegal due to PRIVACY/BUSINESS concerns.
Overall technology needs a gas tank to keep running: coal/gas to power the PC's; RFID and your stuff in a databse to fuel the MBA's !
Even if RFID is only used on money you will still be tracked. The granularity of tracking is increasing at a scary pace - maybe there is a "moore's law" somewhere in here - so where will it end? Most currency in the world will use RFID and some say that there is a U.S. 20 bill that will be cirulating shortly using RFID - so bill #434566 withdrawn at bank #12 by Joe Smith and bill #434566 used to buy CD ABC at music store XYZ.
Story on NPR today and it does seem that the people representing the privacy side are acting nervous and the business side is confident that they will have their way. And finally there is the relentless tide of consumers who don't give a crap and that is another possible way that RFID will become ubiquitous with a 10% discount coupon attached.
Just some random notes on RFID.
You can't sue for Libel, or slander if the information is TRUE. This Mark fellow will lose big and fast and hard and deservingly.
What triggered this post was "how much of it was true" -- Spytap is right. If true, Mark M. is up the creek w/o a lawsuit. If false, well thats not Google's problem.
Oh ya, kill the messenger (Google) after he dies of a heart attack to bring you the best information possible; that always works.
There were several Nike missile bases in MD one of which I did some exploration in. Now a developer has build and entire subdivision over it and I doubt that the new home-owners know about what lies beneath their gated community.
If you are going to use one of these for a house it is very expensive to remove the lead paint and asbestos insulation on any pipes/walls... but in the 50's men ate lead and smoked asbestos....
Well this should really stimulate the economy.
Nice specs and those are some older tech eh?
I think that refining the internal combustion engines exhaust system to filter out C02 is the solution. Electric cars?
No way. Just more problems - battery disposal for one.
Honda'sZLEV is going for -0- emmissions gas cars. So, if would figure that if we could find a way to filter out the C02 from the exhaust then we are on our way to solving the greenhouse emissions problem.
Also, we got ourselves into this mess by using non-renewable sources of hydrocarbons - millions of year old oil from the ground. If we used a renewable source (e.g., hemp-oil/whatever) then the C02 emissions would be balanced with the C02 'locking' that occurs when a plant uses C02 from the air to grow. Burn a gallon of oil plant a crop that uses C02 to grow -- LAW::Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It is conserved.
As we now know the ultimate solution will only occur within a balance of use and renewability. No idea introduced today is going to work for a very, very long time and by then it might be too late to do anything anyway -- Ocean Coveyor Belt
"Twenty-two states in the United States have introduced legislation. VT, HI, ND, MT, MN, IL, VA, NM, CA, AR, KY, MD, WV have passed legislation for support, research, or cultivation." -- Here
Oh, by the way the Whitehouse wants your oil. -SB
I am waiting for the portable balck-hole that one can turn-on and off at a whim. Then you can attach the supermassive body into the inside of the case. When a thief snatches your laptop the black-hold switchs on and the person is crushed at infinitum - thats cool security.
The wait is almost over....!
For those concerned about Big Brother tracking you in your car during your commute... do not worry there is no such thing as traffic, tracking, congestion, backups, or accidents.
The words have been removed from the state-owned dictionary and thus all commuting is back to normal.
The wait will be over shortly; thanks for...!
Today Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ-NMS:MSFT)(MSFT) has undisputabley declared that indeed the chixen does come before the egg...
Not that there is anything wrong with the Great White North (mid-eighties RUSH song is a different story). Our company was aquired by Thomson some time ago. Working for the parent company here in the US there have been corporate meetings I have attended where it is stated very clearly that Thomson is globalizing. Making intelectual property out of any/all DB's is good for there buisness model, but bad for us. Oh, and the president of Thomson said, "our goal is to eliminate all paper based books". So, if they eliminate books and copyright all the DB's then they pretty much owns us.
No, this would be quote from John Maynard Keynes. And any talk done in this forum will be using his form of economic theory -- Keynesian Ecomonics. So, no it is not a nillist quote as you say, but a comment on long-term economic cirumstances. Do us a favor and don't get swept-up in the technology outsourcing fever -- in the long run it will not matter. And that is the point of the original statement. That tech outsourcing will piss some off, but to be protectionist about technology will make the IT market worse off. Just think of it as an open source job market. You do like open source don't you?
In the long term we are all dead.
That's right an Ohio man found a camera behind the mirror in a Marriot bathroom after he killed a small "bug" on the lamp - no bug it was a camera-eye. So, now Marriott can have a wireless video system in their bathrooms instead of X-10 et al., ... connect it to the www and what a $$$ generating engine that could be.
Links to this story:
Voyer news story
And the original one that was pulled from KNS -Hmmmmm...:
original story
If anyone lives Knoxville and is willing to rent a room for the night could be interesting - extra credit will be given!
... some plain text and some cipher text. If any one can deduce the way your n-time(n >= 1) pad then forget the patent. One the other hand, if your n-time pad is unbreakable expect some time to pass before all of the best cryptoanalists have had a wack at breaking it. Then after that expect the NSA to come knocking at your door and telling you what your rights are for disseminating the n-time pad. This happend to IBM with their "Lucifer" encryption scheme known as DES - or Triple-DES now. Finally, does your code eat much processor time if it does then it will also be limited in use even after passing rigorus testing. Check out AES/Rijndael on google - uses 50k of memory VERY important for cell/PDA application.... That is all. SittingBull