If you want to build an RF-ID lab you need some cash to get tags and readers but this would help with the theory.
Re:Shielding RFID against security
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True.. but if using smart shelves the store will know that the item has been removed from the shelf and now is no-longer in range of a scanner... this should cause an alert as that is not normal behaviour.
Most theft is internal so identifying patterns of behaviour could be an effective way of decreasing theft.
The RF elements are the hardest part of this as the power levels are so low, in the US its 4 watts max for the READER, and in Europe its.5 watts. When you consider that the passive tags use the power that the reader puts out you can imagine how sensitive to interference these things are.
The reason the games are cheap is that the space is limited so the complexity is reduced. This will not last for long. 12 months ago the max size was 30kb, its already 64kb and rising. With the addition of elements like SMS, Bluetooth ontop of network availability games will become more complex and therefore cost more to develop. 3D games will be on devices soon (they already are in Japan) and that brings more complexity.
This is the biggest challenge to the Gameboy market as it represents real volume of users. Come a couple of years your TV will interact with the phone via Bluetooth or some other mechanism so you can play full screen if you like.
Mobility represents a huge challange and cost in future, games can become aware not just of who is playing the game, what time it is but also where the player is in real time. Welcome to a virtual world running along side our own.
This will not cost $40,000 to develop, but it will make someone loads of money.
Well if you agree with this you also should agree that they shouldn't be allowed to bundle the.NET framework with the OS as that would be clearly using their monopoly position..... oh its integrated into the OS with XP...
The only just decision would be both in or both out. This way it confirms the MS position and strengthens their play for.NET.
100 Mobile Phones are now network and application enabled with Java. In Europe and Asia these users do want to access the network, and already interactive phone applications are being developed.
This is a problem, and ESPECIALLY in the Far East where mobile use and advanced mobile features is high. Broadband access is also higher in many countries in the Far East.
They are talking here about small server environments rather than Enterprise IMO. This is not done by the sort of people who could size up a Data Warehouse or an SAP solution. I mean do I care about the download speed ?
OS/390, AS400, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX those are what the Enterprise runs on. The Web-site however has a choice. Yes I know that you can run Linux or Windows under SAP if you want to but this was not a comparison that matters to the enterprise.
I mean how many Slashdot geeks have booked holidays there already on the back of this ? And you can bet the MIT and Berkley have already nabbed the best loungers.
And PAYING for everything should be the responsibility of the occupying powers.
Unfortunately US Troops are shooting civilians so its still unclear who is upholding the Law.
I know I'm joing to take a Karma hit but honestly and moronic one-liner like that gets classified as Insightful days after US Troops fire into an unarmed crowd. If that happened in Zimbabwe everyone would condemn the goverment troops, but in Iraq its "reasonable force".
It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible PPC Roadmap talks about 1.8Ghz in the now terms so a slight overclock or a push to development could give the 2GHz. G5 is the BRAND name from Apple not the processor name.
1GHz bus? gimme a break. Intel hasn't yet reached this. Two points impossible INTEL hasn't done 1GHz Bus... so therefore IBM maker of some of the worlds largest super computers couldn't HOPE to match them. The rest of Apples site would say "3 USB Ports" not "Three". Also, Apple have a long standing habit of using Firewire instead of USB 2.0. I take this as one point impossible Beyond the grammar flame.... Apple pioneered the use of USB but went for Firewire as a better technology. All Macs have USB 1.1 ports already. Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? I'm sorry but this sounds like wishful thinking. One more point impossible Bloody hell this really is someone who doesn't understand technology... the PLAYSTATION 2 has Optical Out because the SOUND is better. This is aimed at graphic designers et al who LOVE to annoy offices by playing bizarre CD's at large volume. If a PS2 has it why the hell wouldn't an Apple ?
The rest are indicative of a lack of understanding of how standards like FW400 & 800 interact and the relative costs of such devices and availability (how many video cameras require FW800)
For old machine cool case mods, surely you'd have to go the OTHER way.
I mean get an old PDP-11, gut it and put boards and extensions everywhere, imagine rebuilding the PSU as a set of USB access points, or as a beowulf cluster of Mini-ITX systems:-)
Or put an old IBM Mainframe in the basement, wire up the lights and away you go.
Well I'm English so as a country I hearby give notice that all people in the world who are using English are breaking copyright and all derivative works (including technical specifications and patent applications) are now owned by the UK Goverment.
We are also claiming Charles Babbage and all derivative works that involve computation and concepts of automated computing.
Unfortunately the Iraqi's are now claiming that they invented writing, the Chinese are laying claim to printing and basically everyone on without a 2,000 year+ history is screwed.
But what if a non-US bit of IBM did the work ? Take Hurlsey in the UK where the MQSeries and CICS work is done, I dare say there are other areas with enough talent in IBM to do this work.
So if the code was added by IBM but at an IBM subsiduary outside of the US would the same rules apply ?
And the number of Linux purposed Transmeta systems out there ? Or Server based systems ? Transmeta is aiming at the notebook market where Linux is pretty much unheard of, then at the lower-scale where again the majority of systems are not Linux.
I have no doubt the guy is brilliant, but isn't it a bit strange given the markets Transmeta aimed at that they wanted lots of Linux development.
Trying not to be overly cynical here is a bit difficult. When Transmeta needed publicity they hired Linus which gave them un-rivaled, and often uncritical, coverage in the US which certainly will have helped in fund-raising. The initial visions and hype have not lived up to their expectations, and especially in the low power end of the market where ARM processors continue to dominate.
Now that Transmeta are trying to move into a more corporate sphere there is less demand for a posterboy like Linus.
Its great that Linus is dedicated to the Linux kernel full time, but how much of this is leaving through dedication (for a year) and how much is a result of disappointment at Transmeta not living up to its hype.
The UK's Air Traffic Control Centre at Swanwick also runs on AIX.... there are also military systems in the UK and the US based on AIX. So lets put it this way:
On the one side we have major goverment organisations (some armed), commercial organisations (some huge) & IBM who have put "hundreds of millions" into AIX.
These organisations have lawyers and contracts up to the hilt, they review every major procurement decision and check the licenses. Not only are SCO saying that IBM are wrong they are saying that each of these companies can't read a license agreement either.
Anyone who has dealt with the shipping industry, in paticular oil, knows that this isn't new. For instance
You are an American company using a Danish shipping company to move oil from Saudi Arabia to France. While the ship is in the middle of the Med you have an offer for the oil-tanker to sell in mid-shipment (this does happen) from a British company.
If there is any problem with the shipment, where do you sue ?
The answer is that this is agreed in the contract in advance, so you elect which country the case will be heard in. This isn't any different here as its the location of the individual not the actual hardware that matters when talking about end-vendor litigation. And the individual (or corporation) elects their designate country. For corporations this is limited to one of the traders, the base where the ship is registered or the source and destination ports.
For servers I can't see it being much else but the location of the individual as they are the only person involved in the transactions.
Shipping Law is much more complex as it deals with corporations who have more lawyers. This is IMO (IANAL) the worst case that could happen for the internet and only when large companies are involved. For individuals there is a very simple test
The nearest policeman is where the law applies. That means that the US can shut down the server if they want to, and the European police can arrest you for what was on it.
Except I don't drive it, I have a chauffer who does it for me, there are also lots of other people who share the same chauffer:-)
Great, more cr*p in the atmosphere...
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Sure it mentions Hybrids in there but we all know that it is the "luxury" cars driving these changes, larger power-supplies will require more power to charge, which in turn requires more fuel.
So excuse me if I don't "welcome" this so someone can have an even louder stereo while pumping even more chemicals into the atmosphere. So we can have 110v power supplies so... so what ? So a "busy exec" can have an even large mobile office ? So Ted and Rhona in the back can have a Playstation 2 each ?
I would say that goverments should be introducing regulations to reduce fuel emissions... but somehow in the country where this will be plonked into Canyenero style SUVs I doubt that the Oil President will concern himself with more fuel being used.
Normally reviews are cluttered with screenshots or useless information about how a product actually functions and is better than another product. Or even worse where they talk about limitations that a paticular product has over something else and recommend a best fit.
This review was exactly what you want, very little useful information, a claim around it being better without really explaining the short-falls of other options, and a killer feature of recognising menus, which is clearly the most important element of a suite of products that aims to present a user-focused simple desktop solution.
I applaud the Slashdot editors for doing away with reviews that leave us informed or challenged and have instead opted for reviews based just on opinions of someone only a few grades above Joe Sixpack.
This is truly a change for the better on Slashdot and I look forwards to the Windows Server 2003 review where it tells me that installing IIS6.0 was a breeze.
In the 1950s the population contributed less taxes than business. Today businesses contribute massively less in comparison with the people.
If you think taxes are really lower you are missing a clue.
Sun's biggest problem is...
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They are probably the worlds most innovative software company....
And they don't know it. Or if they do they don't know how to capitalise on it. Cracking products, cracking ideas that are at the very edge, but very little go-to-market.
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If you want to build an RF-ID lab you need some cash to get tags and readers but this would help with the theory.
True.. but if using smart shelves the store will know that the item has been removed from the shelf and now is no-longer in range of a scanner... this should cause an alert as that is not normal behaviour.
.5 watts. When you consider that the passive tags use the power that the reader puts out you can imagine how sensitive to interference these things are.
Most theft is internal so identifying patterns of behaviour could be an effective way of decreasing theft.
The RF elements are the hardest part of this as the power levels are so low, in the US its 4 watts max for the READER, and in Europe its
The reason the games are cheap is that the space is limited so the complexity is reduced. This will not last for long. 12 months ago the max size was 30kb, its already 64kb and rising. With the addition of elements like SMS, Bluetooth ontop of network availability games will become more complex and therefore cost more to develop. 3D games will be on devices soon (they already are in Japan) and that brings more complexity.
This is the biggest challenge to the Gameboy market as it represents real volume of users. Come a couple of years your TV will interact with the phone via Bluetooth or some other mechanism so you can play full screen if you like.
Mobility represents a huge challange and cost in future, games can become aware not just of who is playing the game, what time it is but also where the player is in real time. Welcome to a virtual world running along side our own.
This will not cost $40,000 to develop, but it will make someone loads of money.
Well if you agree with this you also should agree that they shouldn't be allowed to bundle the
The only just decision would be both in or both out. This way it confirms the MS position and strengthens their play for
100 Mobile Phones are now network and application enabled with Java. In Europe and Asia these users do want to access the network, and already interactive phone applications are being developed.
This is a problem, and ESPECIALLY in the Far East where mobile use and advanced mobile features is high. Broadband access is also higher in many countries in the Far East.
They are talking here about small server environments rather than Enterprise IMO. This is not done by the sort of people who could size up a Data Warehouse or an SAP solution. I mean do I care about the download speed ?
OS/390, AS400, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX those are what the Enterprise runs on. The Web-site however has a choice. Yes I know that you can run Linux or Windows under SAP if you want to but this was not a comparison that matters to the enterprise.
I mean how many Slashdot geeks have booked holidays there already on the back of this ? And you can bet the MIT and Berkley have already nabbed the best loungers.
hopefully they can stop the continued attacks on US forces and restore order in general
It is the responsibility of the occupying power to restore order. And right now the US Troops are killing more civilians than anyone else.
And PAYING for everything should be the responsibility of the occupying powers.
Unfortunately US Troops are shooting civilians so its still unclear who is upholding the Law.
I know I'm joing to take a Karma hit but honestly and moronic one-liner like that gets classified as Insightful days after US Troops fire into an unarmed crowd. If that happened in Zimbabwe everyone would condemn the goverment troops, but in Iraq its "reasonable force".
It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible
PPC Roadmap talks about 1.8Ghz in the now terms so a slight overclock or a push to development could give the 2GHz. G5 is the BRAND name from Apple not the processor name.
1GHz bus? gimme a break. Intel hasn't yet reached this. Two points impossible
INTEL hasn't done 1GHz Bus... so therefore IBM maker of some of the worlds largest super computers couldn't HOPE to match them.
The rest of Apples site would say "3 USB Ports" not "Three". Also, Apple have a long standing habit of using Firewire instead of USB 2.0. I take this as one point impossible
Beyond the grammar flame.... Apple pioneered the use of USB but went for Firewire as a better technology. All Macs have USB 1.1 ports already.
Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? I'm sorry but this sounds like wishful thinking. One more point impossible
Bloody hell this really is someone who doesn't understand technology... the PLAYSTATION 2 has Optical Out because the SOUND is better. This is aimed at graphic designers et al who LOVE to annoy offices by playing bizarre CD's at large volume. If a PS2 has it why the hell wouldn't an Apple ?
The rest are indicative of a lack of understanding of how standards like FW400 & 800 interact and the relative costs of such devices and availability (how many video cameras require FW800)
Ummm isn't it a bit sad that a C64 can handle a minor slashdotting better than many commercial sites ?
No its like taking an old grandfather clock that doesn't work and putting a smaller clock behind the face.
I've worked on a PDP-11 and it might be old but it certainly wasn't clockwork (didn't work like clockwork either
For old machine cool case mods, surely you'd have to go the OTHER way.
I mean get an old PDP-11, gut it and put boards and extensions everywhere, imagine rebuilding the PSU as a set of USB access points, or as a beowulf cluster of Mini-ITX systems
Or put an old IBM Mainframe in the basement, wire up the lights and away you go.
Well I'm English so as a country I hearby give notice that all people in the world who are using English are breaking copyright and all derivative works (including technical specifications and patent applications) are now owned by the UK Goverment.
We are also claiming Charles Babbage and all derivative works that involve computation and concepts of automated computing.
Unfortunately the Iraqi's are now claiming that they invented writing, the Chinese are laying claim to printing and basically everyone on without a 2,000 year+ history is screwed.
But what if a non-US bit of IBM did the work ? Take Hurlsey in the UK where the MQSeries and CICS work is done, I dare say there are other areas with enough talent in IBM to do this work.
So if the code was added by IBM but at an IBM subsiduary outside of the US would the same rules apply ?
And the number of Linux purposed Transmeta systems out there ? Or Server based systems ? Transmeta is aiming at the notebook market where Linux is pretty much unheard of, then at the lower-scale where again the majority of systems are not Linux.
I have no doubt the guy is brilliant, but isn't it a bit strange given the markets Transmeta aimed at that they wanted lots of Linux development.
Trying not to be overly cynical here is a bit difficult. When Transmeta needed publicity they hired Linus which gave them un-rivaled, and often uncritical, coverage in the US which certainly will have helped in fund-raising. The initial visions and hype have not lived up to their expectations, and especially in the low power end of the market where ARM processors continue to dominate.
Now that Transmeta are trying to move into a more corporate sphere there is less demand for a posterboy like Linus.
Its great that Linus is dedicated to the Linux kernel full time, but how much of this is leaving through dedication (for a year) and how much is a result of disappointment at Transmeta not living up to its hype.
"Look the Indians are running away... let chase the Indians"
"Ha ha we will be victorious and defeat Sitting Bull"
"Where the F**K did they all come from".
SCO have run over the first hill and found nobody there, they are now running into the dead-end canyon.
Or there is the other reason, the IBM Lawyers are laughing so much then can only string a paragraph together at the moment.
The UK's Air Traffic Control Centre at Swanwick also runs on AIX.... there are also military systems in the UK and the US based on AIX. So lets put it this way
On the one side we have major goverment organisations (some armed), commercial organisations (some huge) & IBM who have put "hundreds of millions" into AIX.
These organisations have lawyers and contracts up to the hilt, they review every major procurement decision and check the licenses. Not only are SCO saying that IBM are wrong they are saying that each of these companies can't read a license agreement either.
SCO are extremely burnt toast on this one.
Anyone who has dealt with the shipping industry, in paticular oil, knows that this isn't new. For instance
You are an American company using a Danish shipping company to move oil from Saudi Arabia to France. While the ship is in the middle of the Med you have an offer for the oil-tanker to sell in mid-shipment (this does happen) from a British company.
If there is any problem with the shipment, where do you sue ?
The answer is that this is agreed in the contract in advance, so you elect which country the case will be heard in. This isn't any different here as its the location of the individual not the actual hardware that matters when talking about end-vendor litigation. And the individual (or corporation) elects their designate country. For corporations this is limited to one of the traders, the base where the ship is registered or the source and destination ports.
For servers I can't see it being much else but the location of the individual as they are the only person involved in the transactions.
Shipping Law is much more complex as it deals with corporations who have more lawyers. This is IMO (IANAL) the worst case that could happen for the internet and only when large companies are involved. For individuals there is a very simple test
The nearest policeman is where the law applies. That means that the US can shut down the server if they want to, and the European police can arrest you for what was on it.
Except I don't drive it, I have a chauffer who does it for me, there are also lots of other people who share the same chauffer
Sure it mentions Hybrids in there but we all know that it is the "luxury" cars driving these changes, larger power-supplies will require more power to charge, which in turn requires more fuel.
So excuse me if I don't "welcome" this so someone can have an even louder stereo while pumping even more chemicals into the atmosphere. So we can have 110v power supplies so... so what ? So a "busy exec" can have an even large mobile office ? So Ted and Rhona in the back can have a Playstation 2 each ?
I would say that goverments should be introducing regulations to reduce fuel emissions... but somehow in the country where this will be plonked into Canyenero style SUVs I doubt that the Oil President will concern himself with more fuel being used.
Normally reviews are cluttered with screenshots or useless information about how a product actually functions and is better than another product. Or even worse where they talk about limitations that a paticular product has over something else and recommend a best fit.
This review was exactly what you want, very little useful information, a claim around it being better without really explaining the short-falls of other options, and a killer feature of recognising menus, which is clearly the most important element of a suite of products that aims to present a user-focused simple desktop solution.
I applaud the Slashdot editors for doing away with reviews that leave us informed or challenged and have instead opted for reviews based just on opinions of someone only a few grades above Joe Sixpack.
This is truly a change for the better on Slashdot and I look forwards to the Windows Server 2003 review where it tells me that installing IIS6.0 was a breeze.
In the 1950s the population contributed less taxes than business. Today businesses contribute massively less in comparison with the people.
If you think taxes are really lower you are missing a clue.
They are probably the worlds most innovative software company....
And they don't know it. Or if they do they don't know how to capitalise on it. Cracking products, cracking ideas that are at the very edge, but very little go-to-market.