why, every day during the time that you are at work, Navy military uniforms and that Victoria's Secret lingerie you bought her keep going through the door to the bedroom every 30 minutes.
Or not.
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their primary purpose is not anti-theft, but is inventory tracking and statistical analysis. The RFID tags are there when you BUY the stuff, and can (and will) be used to track you and the items you've purchased after you consider your interaction with the store to be done.
the positive side to widespread RFID chip placements.
Once firmly implanted beneath the scalp, behind the nape of the neck and/or in the palm of the hand, the RFID chip(s) will enable law enforcement agencies to instantly know your location without the need to task satellites or get involved in wasteful car surveillance. They'll no longer need to burst in to make sure you're in the hotel room with your mistress. They'll know you're in there with her. And since they'll instantly know your exact location, they can be much more respectful of your belongings when they break in (with a court order, of course) and rummage through your stuff. They'll know exactly how long they have so they'll be careful.
Now if they just legally abolish these cumbersome doors (that terrorists so often hide behind while plotting their evil deeds), why I'll be glad to have traded any semblance of liberty for perfect security.
In addition, the broadcasters' move has made it necessary for viewers to insert a special user identification card, known as a B-CAS card, into their digital TV sets to watch programs.
The US implementation is going to do away with such a cumbersome step. It will simply require a blood sample to identify your DNA to confirm you are an authorized viewer. Of course, it will also have special retina burning devices to ensure that only the authorized individual can view the product. Visual piracy immediately punished. No appeals!
All audio/video devices will have to be able to broadcast the memory flag. Only individuals who have had the necessary surgery (elective, not typically covered by insurance) will be able to actually view such content. Depending on the decision of the content provider, the content might almost immediately disappear from a person's memory, be a faint memory driving the repurchase of an opportunity to see/hear it again, or could be lodged so firmly in their brain of the end-user that they will have to pay extra to get rid of it.
"Companies are getting bamboozled into this IBM story," says William F. Zachmann, a longtime IBM-watcher and the president of Canopus Research in Duxbury,Mass. "IBM snookers them in by giving them a free operating system, then they pay IBM for overpriced hardware and consulting services."
"IBM's Linux pitch is either stupid or insincere. I think it's a little bit of both. It's not a sensible strategy for IBM in the long run," Zachmann says.
I wonder if we can see any biases in Canopus research?
Tusken Raiders in the vicinity tend to stay far enough away, I'd say the location is servicable. There are also a pool of Huttese looking to invest in spice trading opportunities and other diversions.
It's usually obvious how Microsoft will benefit from an action. It isn't here. Other than controlling the direction of the solution in a way that won't surprise them and taking momentum away from others, what is the advantage to Microsoft in proposing their caller id as opposed to going forward with the solutions already out there?
The cynic in me is incapable of imagining that it is technical superiority that drives them.
about how the major European labels are really putting the squeeze on Apple because they a) fear that they are going to become the dominant online music vendor b) don't want to create another MTV like entity, where the labels provide the content but don't have explicit control over it once it is turned over c) are greedy and stupid and d) don't seem to mind that the online market in Europe is already crowded.
The Sun is a fine periodical that features insightful, well considered, half-naked, intelligent articles on...did I say half-naked? That has nothing to do with it. Why I'd throw out Page 3 right away except they normally have really interesting articles on page 4 that I really want to keep hidden in my desk...I didn't write that. You didn't read that. It never happened.
the inevitable freefall of their stock prices (about ten minutes after the dismissal of the IBM, Redhat, Novell, Autozone etc. cases) is a day that they can continue to use whatever equity is left in their rapidly falling shares to perpetrate asset shifting schemes on the unwitting.
You mean like first responders trying to prevent terrorism? Hmmm?!?
- They hide Old People Sex so I won't go blind while driving down the street (and mask the sound of wrinkly liverspotted skin rubbing on wrinkly liverspotted skin).
And if they're elderly terrorists, plotting while doing it? We'd never know until it was too late!
- They provide us exercise by making us get up to let cats/dogs in/out.
Pet doors did away with that years ago. Oh, and terrorists tend to exercise...oh, never mind.
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their primary purpose is not anti-theft, but is inventory tracking and statistical analysis. The RFID tags are there when you BUY the stuff, and can (and will) be used to track you and the items you've purchased after you consider your interaction with the store to be done.
Once firmly implanted beneath the scalp, behind the nape of the neck and/or in the palm of the hand, the RFID chip(s) will enable law enforcement agencies to instantly know your location without the need to task satellites or get involved in wasteful car surveillance. They'll no longer need to burst in to make sure you're in the hotel room with your mistress. They'll know you're in there with her. And since they'll instantly know your exact location, they can be much more respectful of your belongings when they break in (with a court order, of course) and rummage through your stuff. They'll know exactly how long they have so they'll be careful.
Now if they just legally abolish these cumbersome doors (that terrorists so often hide behind while plotting their evil deeds), why I'll be glad to have traded any semblance of liberty for perfect security.
Thank you, Big Brother.
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Gordon Lightfoot
Rush
Celine Dion
Why do I need this again?
While the building is on fire.
I should have watched the beginning of the episode. I would have recorded it, but ...
The US implementation is going to do away with such a cumbersome step. It will simply require a blood sample to identify your DNA to confirm you are an authorized viewer. Of course, it will also have special retina burning devices to ensure that only the authorized individual can view the product. Visual piracy immediately punished. No appeals!
Congrats!
All audio/video devices will have to be able to broadcast the memory flag. Only individuals who have had the necessary surgery (elective, not typically covered by insurance) will be able to actually view such content. Depending on the decision of the content provider, the content might almost immediately disappear from a person's memory, be a faint memory driving the repurchase of an opportunity to see/hear it again, or could be lodged so firmly in their brain of the end-user that they will have to pay extra to get rid of it.
I'm not going to be satisfied until I get my flying car. I've given up on the personal jet pack, but I'm not backing down on the flying car.
"IBM's Linux pitch is either stupid or insincere. I think it's a little bit of both. It's not a sensible strategy for IBM in the long run," Zachmann says.
I wonder if we can see any biases in Canopus research?
And a close Sarlac pit.
"Oh, my retinas! MY RETINAS!"
I'm shuddering at the thought.
Then you're not doing it correctly.
The cynic in me is incapable of imagining that it is technical superiority that drives them.
Did anybody else think feta and/or goats and recoil?
that he is the Beast? Is it Armageddon already and nobody told me?
He stopped playing basketball to make sure he didn't damage his hands. Isn't he still risking hand injuries with that sort of rule?
about how the major European labels are really putting the squeeze on Apple because they a) fear that they are going to become the dominant online music vendor b) don't want to create another MTV like entity, where the labels provide the content but don't have explicit control over it once it is turned over c) are greedy and stupid and d) don't seem to mind that the online market in Europe is already crowded.
I want other people to be MY piece of furniture.
The Sun is a fine periodical that features insightful, well considered, half-naked, intelligent articles on ...did I say half-naked? That has nothing to do with it. Why I'd throw out Page 3 right away except they normally have really interesting articles on page 4 that I really want to keep hidden in my desk ...I didn't write that. You didn't read that. It never happened.
Not only would you never have to "get up", but you'd actually be cooling your own computer by your sloth.
the inevitable freefall of their stock prices (about ten minutes after the dismissal of the IBM, Redhat, Novell, Autozone etc. cases) is a day that they can continue to use whatever equity is left in their rapidly falling shares to perpetrate asset shifting schemes on the unwitting.
Darl, just step away from my computer. I can write the review on my own, thank you.
Go back to the basement.
You mean like first responders trying to prevent terrorism? Hmmm?!?
- They hide Old People Sex so I won't go blind while driving down the street (and mask the sound of wrinkly liverspotted skin rubbing on wrinkly liverspotted skin).
And if they're elderly terrorists, plotting while doing it? We'd never know until it was too late!
- They provide us exercise by making us get up to let cats/dogs in/out.
Pet doors did away with that years ago. Oh, and terrorists tend to exercise...oh, never mind.