Well, if the states roll over and issue these things, just toss your new card in the microwave for a few seconds. My guess is the RFID tag won't hold up for long.
"What's that you say, Officer? My card doesn't scan? Well, you don't say. Isn't that funny?"
Doesn't help with the inevitable abuses that aggragation of data will cause, but at least nobody can scan your driver's license from 20 feet away without your consent.
Keeping the ID inside something like a anti-static bag may work as well, which is what they give you with the EZ-Pass/Fastlane toll tags if you want to inhibit scanning without permanently frying your card.
Ok, now I have to play the role of Physics Dork, even though I know better.
Flipping through one of those "Technology of Star Wars" books in the bookstore, it was implied that the "blasters" were kind of like a plasma weapon... plasma is formed from some sort of chemical reaction, and then the charge is propelled (electromagnetically? electrostatically? both?) out the end of the weapon. Thus explaining the appearance and the apparent damage.
You could deflect a charged plasma with a field of the same charge, or bend it in a magnetic field.
Except I doubt that you could generate enough plasma at a high enough temperature inside a hand-held device to cause much damage at any range. Especially with air between you and the target.
A type of laser exists that burns hydrogen and fluorine gases (!!!) as the lasing medium and excitation method. That will generate a whole lot of very hot gas as HF is formed (!!!!) and I suppose you could acclerate that... 6000 degree fluoride ions will certainly do a lot of damage if the density is high enough.
But yeah, it's just a movie.
And I liked the Ewok movies when I was a kid. Taped them off NBC, ran the tapes until they fell apart.;)
Ok, lame to follow up to myself, but I had to play with it. Slow day at the office.;)
Get yourself a copy of http://www.imdb.com/chart/index.html (maybe with wget) and feed it into:
for NAME in $(grep title/tt index.html | sed -e 's/^.*\/\"\>//' -e 's/ (200.*//' -e 's///g' | awk -F"," '{print $2.$1".MPG"}') do echo "MPAA suck it and die" > $NAME done
Produces a bunch of files named after the weekend top 10 box office movie titles:
echo "The MPAA can go fuck themselves" > foofile for NAME in "XFiles Usher TheMatrix StarWars someothermovietitles..." do cp foofile/web/server/htdocs/movies/$NAME.MPG cp foofile/web/server/htdocs/MP3s/$NAME_soundtrack.mp3 ... done
Or your preferred Perl/Python/whatever equivalent.
I'm sure you could parse a nice list of titles out of www.IMBb.com/nowplaying to feed into the list. Left as an excercise to the reader.
Bonus points: Make your domain and server contact emails (which they will probably use) feed into either a) spam traps, b) Directly and automatically follow up to./ posts.
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This conceptually sounds exactly like IRIX's 4Dwm "Extra Desks: Desktop Overview" widget, which has been around for years now.
I made a quick screenshot: http://www.bithose.com/gallery/comp_s gi/irixdesks
It might not be as "pretty" but it's totally functional - you can drag and drop windows between any arbitrary number of desktops; mousing over a window outline shows the name of the window; you can reposition windows on another desktop, etc.
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Well, if the states roll over and issue these things, just toss your new card in the microwave for a few seconds. My guess is the RFID tag won't hold up for long.
"What's that you say, Officer? My card doesn't scan? Well, you don't say. Isn't that funny?"
Doesn't help with the inevitable abuses that aggragation of data will cause, but at least nobody can scan your driver's license from 20 feet away without your consent.
Keeping the ID inside something like a anti-static bag may work as well, which is what they give you with the EZ-Pass/Fastlane toll tags if you want to inhibit scanning without permanently frying your card.
Or do you return 127.0.0.1 for everything?
Flipping through one of those "Technology of Star Wars" books in the bookstore, it was implied that the "blasters" were kind of like a plasma weapon... plasma is formed from some sort of chemical reaction, and then the charge is propelled (electromagnetically? electrostatically? both?) out the end of the weapon. Thus explaining the appearance and the apparent damage.
You could deflect a charged plasma with a field of the same charge, or bend it in a magnetic field.
Except I doubt that you could generate enough plasma at a high enough temperature inside a hand-held device to cause much damage at any range. Especially with air between you and the target.
A type of laser exists that burns hydrogen and fluorine gases (!!!) as the lasing medium and excitation method. That will generate a whole lot of very hot gas as HF is formed (!!!!) and I suppose you could acclerate that... 6000 degree fluoride ions will certainly do a lot of damage if the density is high enough.
But yeah, it's just a movie.
And I liked the Ewok movies when I was a kid. Taped them off NBC, ran the tapes until they fell apart. ;)
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Get yourself a copy of http://www.imdb.com/chart/index.html (maybe with wget) and feed it into:Produces a bunch of files named after the weekend top 10 box office movie titles:Of course, now imbd will change their site and make my shell hackery blow up.
This conceptually sounds exactly like IRIX's 4Dwm "Extra Desks: Desktop Overview" widget, which has been around for years now.
s gi/irixdesks
I made a quick screenshot:
http://www.bithose.com/gallery/comp_
It might not be as "pretty" but it's totally functional - you can drag and drop windows between any arbitrary number of desktops; mousing over a window outline shows the name of the window; you can reposition windows on another desktop, etc.