These RealID's would have RFID tags, right? Exactly how much information does an RFID tag hold? I thought it was just some big-ass unique number which would then be related to an actual person, animal or product if the correct database was queried. So, for example, a store inventory tag would only match in their own database, and anywhere else it would show up as "not one of ours".
I can see that the ID would also have eyeball compatible info, and probably a mag stripe or barcode, but you'd need physical access to the ID to read those.
Umm, people?? How do we know *any* of that article is true?? Has PJ actually confirmed any of it??
So far as I'm concerned, PJ and anyone else in this country are free to partake of any religion they choose, or indeed to make up something for themselves. As long as it's not blatantly illegal, go for it. According to O'Gara, PJ's a JW. So fricking what?? Sometimes a pair of JWs turns up on my doorstep and I politely turn them away. They seem like nice people, I'm just not interested in their particular message.
So what if PJ's 40, or 60, married or single, with/without kids?? Does that make her a bad person??
IANAL, but it would seem to me that PJ has very good grounds for a libel lawsuit. O'Gara's article has absolutely no reason for existence other than to try to trash PJ's life and reputation. There may in fact be a Pamela Jones living at that address - who's to say it's Groklaw's PJ and not some other Pamela Jones??
Try googling for your own name, sometime. I did, and came up with hundreds of entries, none of which refer to me, including a zoo with my name. According to the zoo info, I'm dead...
I'd bet that you can drive from Maine to California without ever showing your ID to anyone.
....and I don't envision checkpoints every 100 miles so big brother can track our movements.
I think a lot of people here are concerned that with RFID tags, you don't have to actually show your ID. It can be scanned by any conveniently placed tag scanner. So, at some point on your drive from Maine to California you'll need to get gas, food, lodging, etc. Motels generally want to see some ID when you check-in, and the gas pump could have a tag scanner built into it. You may not have to have ID to travel within the US, but there are plenty of opportunities for checkpoints to track your movements.
Using a plane full of passengers as a missile will never happen again.
True enough. But how many politicians are going to risk re-election by saying, "OK, well, them darned terrorists won't try that again. And if they do, you guys can defend yourselves, right??"
Heh... Reminds me of a guy in school who was trying to collect hydrogen over water. The theory was good: take a water bath with a couple of gallons of water, put a gas jar full of water in it with the open end down, generate hydrogen under the open end. Hydrogen bubbles to the top. All is peachy.
All is peachy, except that this genius (high school senior) decided to generate the hydrogen by pushing a pellet of sodium under the gas jar... The resultant explosion launched the gas jar across the room. The shock wave headed in the opposite direction and very neatly separated the circular wall of the glass water bath from the base, allowing several gallons of water and spitting sodium to wash across the desk.
I didn't actually see it happen, but I did see the big glass disk and ring that were once a water bath...
Get an extra PC on the backbone of the network, so it can monitor all the traffic.
Shouldn't be too hard to get a decent machine - just pick up one/some of the sluggards that have been ditched in favour of faster/newer upgrades because they're so stuffed with viruses that they're unusable. Lay down a useful OS and starting kicking butt.
I suppose it would be too tricky to feed them some bogus patches that would do something weird to their copies of the software?? We wouldn't want the bogus patches to get out into the mainstream, after all...
I would certainly see the tax levy as a license to copy any music I wanted. But then, I'm not inthe Netherlands...:)
While we're on the subject of imposing a surcharge at the point of sale for any storage devices that could possibly be used to store pirated works, they'd better also impose the same levy on blank sheets of paper. After all, every single sheet is a pirated copy of that 4 minute blank soundtrack some doofus made.
As I said, at the time when I was looking for multi-arch support, Redhat had just dropped sparc and the onlyt other one I remember was Debian. Saw it, tried it, didn't like it, end of story.
And here I thought Minix was written by Andy Tanenbaum. (notice the NL in that domain?)
Dig a little deeper into that link you provided, and you'll find this FAQ about Andy Tanenbaum, which includes this info:
Your name is German, you live in The Netherlands, but you write almost as well as a native English speaker. What's the scoop?
My paternal grandfather was born in Chorostkow, currently in Ukraine, historically in Poland, at the time under Austro-Hungarian management. He came to the U.S. in 1914. I was born in New York and grew up in White Plains, NY. I went to Amsterdam as a postdoc and have sort of hung around ever since.
Where did you go to school?
High School: White Plains High School College: M.I.T. Ph.D.: University of California at Berkeley
So yeah, Minix was written by an American who happens to live in Amsterdam.
No, this is how he plans to justify not getting Longhorn out any time soon. "Sorry folks, but the government would let me hire smart foreigners, so we're stuck with the same dumb coders that produced Windows95."
You'll find idiots wherever you look. There are idiots using gentoo as well.
And if the other distros made it so freakin' easy to recompile with weird optimizations, we'd be seeing RedHat Ricers & Debian Ricers, and so on.
The principle reason I started with Gentoo was that (at the time) it was just about the only Linux distro that supported both x86 and sparc. It's kinda nice not to have to switch mental gears when going from one system to another. I can install near enough the exact same packages on both archs and everything goes into the same places in the filesystems. I think the only other distro with the same arch support was Debian, and that looked like it was stagnating somewhat. I might have stayed with Redhat, but they dropped sparc support around v6.2.
I worked for a couple of years on a Help desk at a university computer facility. Probably the worst piece of code I ever saw was supposed to calculate pipe diameters and water flow in a hot-water radiator system. It was partially the programmer's fault, but also partially the professor's fault. They'd started with a simple BASIC program and were told to add bits to expand it.
This particular programmer was jumping in and out of subroutines, using temporary variables to determine what fragments to execute. No big surprise, eventually the program wouldn't get sensible results. I think that's the *only* time I've told someone to flow-chart what he *thought* the program was supposed to do, then toss the source and rewrite it from scratch...
Now you mention it, I do remember something like that in "Asterix in Britain". However, I believe I was vaguely remembering it from
1066 And All That, which was published in 1931, predating Asterix by about 28 years.
I believe I was vaguely remembering it from 1066 And All That, which was published in 1931. It wouldn't be the first time a crappy cartoon stole someone else's material.
Never, ever make a joke about tea to an Englishman. It's on the same level as flag burning in the US.
It's worse than that - the Romans attempted to invade Britain several times, and were only successful when they hit on the idea of landing on a Friday at 4pm, during teatime. The Romans had plenty of time to establish fortifications on the shore before the British warriors returned on the following Monday.
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I can see that the ID would also have eyeball compatible info, and probably a mag stripe or barcode, but you'd need physical access to the ID to read those.
That's only going to weed out the idiots who don't think to follow the officer home from the precinct...
So far as I'm concerned, PJ and anyone else in this country are free to partake of any religion they choose, or indeed to make up something for themselves. As long as it's not blatantly illegal, go for it. According to O'Gara, PJ's a JW. So fricking what?? Sometimes a pair of JWs turns up on my doorstep and I politely turn them away. They seem like nice people, I'm just not interested in their particular message.
So what if PJ's 40, or 60, married or single, with/without kids?? Does that make her a bad person??
IANAL, but it would seem to me that PJ has very good grounds for a libel lawsuit. O'Gara's article has absolutely no reason for existence other than to try to trash PJ's life and reputation. There may in fact be a Pamela Jones living at that address - who's to say it's Groklaw's PJ and not some other Pamela Jones??
Try googling for your own name, sometime. I did, and came up with hundreds of entries, none of which refer to me, including a zoo with my name. According to the zoo info, I'm dead...
I think a lot of people here are concerned that with RFID tags, you don't have to actually show your ID. It can be scanned by any conveniently placed tag scanner. So, at some point on your drive from Maine to California you'll need to get gas, food, lodging, etc. Motels generally want to see some ID when you check-in, and the gas pump could have a tag scanner built into it. You may not have to have ID to travel within the US, but there are plenty of opportunities for checkpoints to track your movements.
I think you misspelled "fee"
True enough. But how many politicians are going to risk re-election by saying, "OK, well, them darned terrorists won't try that again. And if they do, you guys can defend yourselves, right??"
All is peachy, except that this genius (high school senior) decided to generate the hydrogen by pushing a pellet of sodium under the gas jar... The resultant explosion launched the gas jar across the room. The shock wave headed in the opposite direction and very neatly separated the circular wall of the glass water bath from the base, allowing several gallons of water and spitting sodium to wash across the desk.
I didn't actually see it happen, but I did see the big glass disk and ring that were once a water bath...
Shouldn't be too hard to get a decent machine - just pick up one/some of the sluggards that have been ditched in favour of faster/newer upgrades because they're so stuffed with viruses that they're unusable. Lay down a useful OS and starting kicking butt.
I suppose it would be too tricky to feed them some bogus patches that would do something weird to their copies of the software?? We wouldn't want the bogus patches to get out into the mainstream, after all...
Sorry, that was meant for the GP post. Wrong window...
That was exhorbitant, right??
That's what I was intending, though I suppose it ought to have blank music staves to count as an illegal copy of that silent soundtrack.
Frozen or not, if a chunk of insulating foam can damage a wing enough to trash it, think of the amount of damage a solid chunk of ice could do...
While we're on the subject of imposing a surcharge at the point of sale for any storage devices that could possibly be used to store pirated works, they'd better also impose the same levy on blank sheets of paper. After all, every single sheet is a pirated copy of that 4 minute blank soundtrack some doofus made.
As I said, at the time when I was looking for multi-arch support, Redhat had just dropped sparc and the onlyt other one I remember was Debian. Saw it, tried it, didn't like it, end of story.
Sorry, that was a bit of overkill. I shouldn't post on 4 hours sleep in 30... :)
Dig a little deeper into that link you provided, and you'll find this FAQ about Andy Tanenbaum, which includes this info:
So yeah, Minix was written by an American who happens to live in Amsterdam.
No, this is how he plans to justify not getting Longhorn out any time soon. "Sorry folks, but the government would let me hire smart foreigners, so we're stuck with the same dumb coders that produced Windows95."
And if the other distros made it so freakin' easy to recompile with weird optimizations, we'd be seeing RedHat Ricers & Debian Ricers, and so on.
The principle reason I started with Gentoo was that (at the time) it was just about the only Linux distro that supported both x86 and sparc. It's kinda nice not to have to switch mental gears when going from one system to another. I can install near enough the exact same packages on both archs and everything goes into the same places in the filesystems. I think the only other distro with the same arch support was Debian, and that looked like it was stagnating somewhat. I might have stayed with Redhat, but they dropped sparc support around v6.2.
This particular programmer was jumping in and out of subroutines, using temporary variables to determine what fragments to execute. No big surprise, eventually the program wouldn't get sensible results. I think that's the *only* time I've told someone to flow-chart what he *thought* the program was supposed to do, then toss the source and rewrite it from scratch...
Now you mention it, I do remember something like that in "Asterix in Britain". However, I believe I was vaguely remembering it from 1066 And All That, which was published in 1931, predating Asterix by about 28 years.
I believe I was vaguely remembering it from 1066 And All That, which was published in 1931. It wouldn't be the first time a crappy cartoon stole someone else's material.
It's worse than that - the Romans attempted to invade Britain several times, and were only successful when they hit on the idea of landing on a Friday at 4pm, during teatime. The Romans had plenty of time to establish fortifications on the shore before the British warriors returned on the following Monday.
That's probably the smartest comment I've seen all day... :)
Oh, I dunno... In this article he uses "Linux" much more often than to "GNU/Linux". Didn't that used to be a major sticking point for him??