It doesn't violate any rights. Public school officials already have the ability to legally search students for drugs and weapons. They can search the belongings of students(bookbags, etc), as well as their lockers. They can monitor a student and punish them for leaving school grounds at the wrong time or if they arrive on school grounds at the wrong time(if they're caught).
Students don't have many rights in school. This has been the case for awhile, and introducing RFID badges will not change this at all. If anything, it will make the process of monitoring said students easier and less embarassing.
I only wonder about what will be done if large segments of the student body start losing or deliberately discarding their RFID badges. Schools using RFID will have to keep some kind of redundant recordkeeping mechanism afloat that does not rely upon RFID just to deal with those who do not have a badge on any given day.
And, yes, the badge can(and should be) made a part of school dress code.
How many of these CPUs have had any major impact on the desktop market in the US or abroad? I know that EV-6 was originally used for Alphas and later turned up on Athlon platforms, so score one for the Alpha.
The Athlon 64, while nothing terribly new or novel, is causing a major upheaval in the desktop market. It may, and likely will, lead to the mass-adoption of 64-bit OSes and software on PCs everywhere. If people won't be running the software on an Athlon 64, they'll be running it on Tejas. You don't honestly think Intel would have put 64-bit extensions on Tejas without the Athlon 64 in the marketplace, do you?
I gotta give credit where it's due. Firebird was about the only modern browser I could install on the stupid win95a box(p54c-100 mhz, 16 megs of RAM, yech) I patched up for my parents so they could use hotmail at home. IE6 wouldn't install, period, and the IE5 autodownloader/installer wouldn't function . . . I didn't even bother trying Opera.
Sadly, Firebird was still slow as all hell on that machine. Sure beats using Netscape 3 though.
I don't have too much experience with current mobile devices, but I'd say that they need a bit more processing power/memory/etc under the hood before any really good, serious scripting can be done for them. The cell networks also need to become a good bit more reliable(at least in the US). My parents still can't get proper coverage for their cell phone at their home due to geography.
So, while you(and the main article) make some interesting points, I think that it's a bit too early to talk about scripting.
The article also strikes me as being a bit of a propaganda piece.
I've often thought about the impending wave of unemployment that will result from a mass-adoption of robotic automatiion in manufacturing, service, shipping, retail, etc. The only reasonable thing I can think of to do with the unemployed masses is to use them as human billboards. Hell, we're already doing it. We currently sell them shirts and mugs and stickers and all manner of products that help them advertise products, brand names, companies, etc. All that really has to be done is to reverse the flow of money. Pay THEM a salary to promote products aimed at the other 50% of human society that will still have jobs. All of their clothing, food, furniture, entertainment, personal transportation(from skates to skateboards to scooters to cars), and tools can be branded, and they can be used for periodic staged or spontaneous photo-ops. If anything, the market has already shown that "reality" programming can be very popular. Why not "reality" advertising? Who wants to see some damn actor in an ad hawking the latest, coolest thing, when you can see a whole slew of real people making use of these products(and pushing a number of other brands at the same time)?
And, if any of you think this would be demeaning, do you think it would be any worse than working 60-70 hours per week between McDonald's and Burger King?
The only downside to this is that genuinely ugly people will be less useful for these ad campaigns than attractive, fit, and healthy young people. Ugly people, the physically deformed, or older individuals that are not well-trained enough to get jobs will be in some trouble unless they can pitch products or services intended for ugly people with money. I guess they could do before/after ads for plastic surgery clinics.
But, in summary, the one thing that the soon-to-be-unemployed public will WANT is some legislation on the books protecting their right to "take their business elsewhere" if their patron corporation(s) give them a raw deal or stick them with shoddy products. All invididuals making a living by mass-advertising all day and all night should have the right to act as an ad contracter and sign on with the firm(or group of firms) that offers the most attractive line of products to advertise. This would promote competition as corporations/conglomerates/whatever would try to win the hearts and minds of the largest number of the most desireable ad contracters for advertising purposes. Contracts locking contracters into a specific line of products at a fixed salary for too long a time should be outlawed to give contracters more flexibility to work wherever they so choose, and legislation tailored towards giving contractors more leeway when filing greivances against their patrons in court should also be drafted to protect the new contracters of the future.
I still don't think you can take this network seriously when it comes to using it as a tool in the case of emergencies. Case in point: remember the "I told u I was hardcore" guy? The idiot who ODed while chatting on IRC with his buddies and sitting in front of a webcam? Nobody in contact with that individual could trace his whereabouts or do anything to save him, and he expired on cam where everyone could see him.
Unless this network is somehow configured to provide positional data to all computers connected to the network, at least to some limited number of community admins/watchdogs/what have you, it's going to be somewhat useless in emergencies, especially when those experienced emergencies are somehow unwilling or unable to communicate on their own behalf via the network. And providing positional data would likely require GPS devices or something . . . unless some kind of signal triangulation could be done from access points.
Actually, most of the data they want to track on homeless people would be similar to data already available to the Secret Service/CIA/FBI/any PI worth his/her salt in regards to other citizens that have homes. The exception would be the health information.
I see major problems with collecting and distributing health data on these homeless-to-be-tracked unless they sign some kind of proper consent form. Otherwise you're probably violating some kind of doctor/patient priveledge or somethin or other.
1). This would allow the solar/wind generation to be handled on remote farms, hydrogen could be produced there and trucked to homes like fuel oil is in the northeast still.
2). This would amount to complete removal from the grid so blackouts wouldn't be a concern. You'd lose power if the hydrogen distribution system of choice was out of whack for so long that you missed a refill on your fuel cell.
The idea would be to make them hydrogen fuel cells. You'd use inconsistant power sources(wind, solar) to generate electricity for the purpose of electrolysis. Split water into its component parts and you've got a nice and(somewhat) stable way to store all that energy you've converted into electricity via solar/wind generators without using expensive batteries, or at least not so many. Then distribute the hydrogen to fuel-cell owners and let them burn off hydrogen to produce local electricty on demand.
Of course there's going to be a lot of loss due to all the conversion steps(wind->electricity->hydrogen->electricity->me chanical energy) but it wouldn't be so bad once all the infrastructure necessary was in place.
The only concern I'd have is building a working facility to use electricity to seperate water that's reliant upon the inconsistant power levels that solar and wind generators would provide. This would almost seem to be more useful for solar facilities. Sunlight is a bit more predictable than wind, or so I would think.
Um, anyone know what happened to polar-solar.com? Was that a hoax or did they just go belly-up due to lack of interest?
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This post just reinforces my opinion that all the best posts start at -1, or go to -1 very quickly.
Up with trolls! I want to be ON TEH SPOKE too.
If we named it Blue Gene Roddenberry, would it write, direct, and produce a show for us better than Enterprise or Voyager?
Sadly, by attempting to bait-and-switch us, you STILL do mention Jews(once).
So sorry.
Also, I doubt that you have a clitoris.
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It doesn't violate any rights. Public school officials already have the ability to legally search students for drugs and weapons. They can search the belongings of students(bookbags, etc), as well as their lockers. They can monitor a student and punish them for leaving school grounds at the wrong time or if they arrive on school grounds at the wrong time(if they're caught).
Students don't have many rights in school. This has been the case for awhile, and introducing RFID badges will not change this at all. If anything, it will make the process of monitoring said students easier and less embarassing.
I only wonder about what will be done if large segments of the student body start losing or deliberately discarding their RFID badges. Schools using RFID will have to keep some kind of redundant recordkeeping mechanism afloat that does not rely upon RFID just to deal with those who do not have a badge on any given day.
And, yes, the badge can(and should be) made a part of school dress code.
I didn't know they were Republicans.
Do you think they can beat Stuart Little in a general election?
How many of these CPUs have had any major impact on the desktop market in the US or abroad? I know that EV-6 was originally used for Alphas and later turned up on Athlon platforms, so score one for the Alpha.
The Athlon 64, while nothing terribly new or novel, is causing a major upheaval in the desktop market. It may, and likely will, lead to the mass-adoption of 64-bit OSes and software on PCs everywhere. If people won't be running the software on an Athlon 64, they'll be running it on Tejas. You don't honestly think Intel would have put 64-bit extensions on Tejas without the Athlon 64 in the marketplace, do you?
Didn't any of you moderators watch Back to the Future 2? jeez. No sense of humor at all on these guys.
Mod parent up +1-5 funny.
The only reason why MS could settle this case is that Be agreed to the terms of the settlement.
It's no more sad that MS could settle this case for a "paltry" $23 mil than it is that Be would actually accept that settlement.
Hmm, I'll give that a shot. Thanks!
I gotta give credit where it's due. Firebird was about the only modern browser I could install on the stupid win95a box(p54c-100 mhz, 16 megs of RAM, yech) I patched up for my parents so they could use hotmail at home. IE6 wouldn't install, period, and the IE5 autodownloader/installer wouldn't function . . . I didn't even bother trying Opera.
Sadly, Firebird was still slow as all hell on that machine. Sure beats using Netscape 3 though.
I don't have too much experience with current mobile devices, but I'd say that they need a bit more processing power/memory/etc under the hood before any really good, serious scripting can be done for them. The cell networks also need to become a good bit more reliable(at least in the US). My parents still can't get proper coverage for their cell phone at their home due to geography.
So, while you(and the main article) make some interesting points, I think that it's a bit too early to talk about scripting.
The article also strikes me as being a bit of a propaganda piece.
They should do ads for Metamucil when tehy're done with their flight and they attempt to return to a normal diet/gastrointestinal pattern.
woops, grievances not greivances
I've often thought about the impending wave of unemployment that will result from a mass-adoption of robotic automatiion in manufacturing, service, shipping, retail, etc. The only reasonable thing I can think of to do with the unemployed masses is to use them as human billboards. Hell, we're already doing it. We currently sell them shirts and mugs and stickers and all manner of products that help them advertise products, brand names, companies, etc. All that really has to be done is to reverse the flow of money. Pay THEM a salary to promote products aimed at the other 50% of human society that will still have jobs. All of their clothing, food, furniture, entertainment, personal transportation(from skates to skateboards to scooters to cars), and tools can be branded, and they can be used for periodic staged or spontaneous photo-ops. If anything, the market has already shown that "reality" programming can be very popular. Why not "reality" advertising? Who wants to see some damn actor in an ad hawking the latest, coolest thing, when you can see a whole slew of real people making use of these products(and pushing a number of other brands at the same time)?
And, if any of you think this would be demeaning, do you think it would be any worse than working 60-70 hours per week between McDonald's and Burger King?
The only downside to this is that genuinely ugly people will be less useful for these ad campaigns than attractive, fit, and healthy young people. Ugly people, the physically deformed, or older individuals that are not well-trained enough to get jobs will be in some trouble unless they can pitch products or services intended for ugly people with money. I guess they could do before/after ads for plastic surgery clinics.
But, in summary, the one thing that the soon-to-be-unemployed public will WANT is some legislation on the books protecting their right to "take their business elsewhere" if their patron corporation(s) give them a raw deal or stick them with shoddy products. All invididuals making a living by mass-advertising all day and all night should have the right to act as an ad contracter and sign on with the firm(or group of firms) that offers the most attractive line of products to advertise. This would promote competition as corporations/conglomerates/whatever would try to win the hearts and minds of the largest number of the most desireable ad contracters for advertising purposes. Contracts locking contracters into a specific line of products at a fixed salary for too long a time should be outlawed to give contracters more flexibility to work wherever they so choose, and legislation tailored towards giving contractors more leeway when filing greivances against their patrons in court should also be drafted to protect the new contracters of the future.
I still don't think you can take this network seriously when it comes to using it as a tool in the case of emergencies. Case in point: remember the "I told u I was hardcore" guy? The idiot who ODed while chatting on IRC with his buddies and sitting in front of a webcam? Nobody in contact with that individual could trace his whereabouts or do anything to save him, and he expired on cam where everyone could see him.
Unless this network is somehow configured to provide positional data to all computers connected to the network, at least to some limited number of community admins/watchdogs/what have you, it's going to be somewhat useless in emergencies, especially when those experienced emergencies are somehow unwilling or unable to communicate on their own behalf via the network. And providing positional data would likely require GPS devices or something . . . unless some kind of signal triangulation could be done from access points.
You, sir/madame, are one of the reasons why I browse at -1. Bravo.
Something about robots and diplomats just don't mix right.
Pardon me while I go watch Ghost in the Shell . . . oooh geisha bots. hax0r
Actually, most of the data they want to track on homeless people would be similar to data already available to the Secret Service/CIA/FBI/any PI worth his/her salt in regards to other citizens that have homes. The exception would be the health information.
I see major problems with collecting and distributing health data on these homeless-to-be-tracked unless they sign some kind of proper consent form. Otherwise you're probably violating some kind of doctor/patient priveledge or somethin or other.
Chavez did give away a lot of free housing in Venezuela for awhile. And, as you well know, everyone wants to be like them!
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woop late on this reply but:
two main reasons
1). This would allow the solar/wind generation to be handled on remote farms, hydrogen could be produced there and trucked to homes like fuel oil is in the northeast still.
2). This would amount to complete removal from the grid so blackouts wouldn't be a concern. You'd lose power if the hydrogen distribution system of choice was out of whack for so long that you missed a refill on your fuel cell.
The idea would be to make them hydrogen fuel cells. You'd use inconsistant power sources(wind, solar) to generate electricity for the purpose of electrolysis. Split water into its component parts and you've got a nice and(somewhat) stable way to store all that energy you've converted into electricity via solar/wind generators without using expensive batteries, or at least not so many. Then distribute the hydrogen to fuel-cell owners and let them burn off hydrogen to produce local electricty on demand.
e chanical energy) but it wouldn't be so bad once all the infrastructure necessary was in place.
Of course there's going to be a lot of loss due to all the conversion steps(wind->electricity->hydrogen->electricity->m
The only concern I'd have is building a working facility to use electricity to seperate water that's reliant upon the inconsistant power levels that solar and wind generators would provide. This would almost seem to be more useful for solar facilities. Sunlight is a bit more predictable than wind, or so I would think.
Um, anyone know what happened to polar-solar.com? Was that a hoax or did they just go belly-up due to lack of interest?
Hell, why not put a sensor web in a major metropolitan sewer system? Who knows what you'd turn up . . .
Pizza time!!!
All movies bow to Lesko's Revenge. It is the greatest!
Sounds better than "Olds for nerds". People would think this site to be an Oldsmobile site anyway.
No way! Then you run the risk of Paramount taking William Shatner out of drydock.
And they'll shoot more "extra" footage that is really really really dull.