And the plastic carrier bag my shopping comes in when I walk out the shop? That's advertising space on my personal property, but if I can't be bothered repacking it in my own personal bag, I don't sue the shop over it.
also planted a Web bug -- a special code for identifying the Internet addresses of viewers of a document -- in a phony news posting at the site.
According to Larholm, the information gleaned will enable antispam activists to "reveal the identities and actions of yet more spammers."
So now they're going to get "identities and actions" of a few more spammers, and hordes of Wired and Slashdot readers.... sounds less than entirely useful.
I think newspapers expect their archives to be real revenue generators in the future. ISTR journalists/columnists getting annoyed a few years ago when these archives started to appear, as they weren't getting paid any extra money for having their work effectively republished, but I suppose any such legal arguments have been resolved one way or another by now.
I've got a Freeview (Digital TV via aerial) box, and so I don't want a PVR that only records analogue signals, as my reception is a bit fuzzy on a couple of channels.
The SKY Digibox would be great, except that I don't want cable TV.
So I'm holding out for the first PVR I can find that lets me record from the digital TV while watching another channel.
Well I hadn't heard that MS was planning to replace the file system, so there was some news for me, even if it was only the final line, which says:
most likely produce problems for multi-boot systems
Which would severely reduce the number of people installing Linux as a second OS, because suddenly they'd need a completely separate PC. Now there's a happy accident for Microsoft.
A lock on the sleeve must first be opened with a key, and then the charge is built up by holding down a button inside one of the sleeves.
I interpret that as meaning that once the charge is built up, it's armed until discharged, not that the wearer must have the presence of mind and manual dexterity to trigger the charge whilst being grabbed from behind and thrown about.
I expect there's a whole lot of care got to be taken.
Ok, woman turns on jacket and walks through dark carpark to her car...
She can't allow any of the electrified material to contact her bag whilst taking out her keys, and has to discharge it before sitting down in her car.
Shoulder bags and scarves are probably out anyway, and you don't want to be wearing it while walking your dog, or small child, in case they leap up and touch the jacket. Take care when holding metal railings in carpark staircases. Do not brush against elevator walls.
The induction-based power-recharging method... functions without requiring any physical connection between the power source and the implant.
So they're not going to be implanting these while you're not looking, unless they can also talk you into recharging it yourself later.
The overall ickiness of having something inserted, plus of course the overtones of nazi tatoos will stop this being mandatory for a very very long time.
It's the biometric id cards/credit cards/mobile phones that'll be the really useful peasant-tracking devices. They don't need RFID implants.
Besides - there'd only be a market in back-street surgeons/hackers to take them out again. This wouldn't be a terribly effective way of tracking criminal types (it would be fine for ordinary citizens of course, but then they're easy enough to find at the moment anyway).
Personally, I find Sony have the nicest remote to put on your coffee table. Slim, pretty, learning, easy to set up. Mini LCD display is customisable. No combination buttons, but that's not a feature I cry over.
Take a look at the
RMVZ950T
Slashdot Mirror
Best accessed with telnet, of course.
I think newspapers expect their archives to be real revenue generators in the future. ISTR journalists/columnists getting annoyed a few years ago when these archives started to appear, as they weren't getting paid any extra money for having their work effectively republished, but I suppose any such legal arguments have been resolved one way or another by now.
It's not uncommon.
The SKY Digibox would be great, except that I don't want cable TV.
So I'm holding out for the first PVR I can find that lets me record from the digital TV while watching another channel.
Looks like I'm in for quite a wait.
Which would severely reduce the number of people installing Linux as a second OS, because suddenly they'd need a completely separate PC. Now there's a happy accident for Microsoft.
I don't think you'll ever get anyone marketing gloves that let you climb walls (Oh, the lawsuits), but self-made versions should be quite popular.
You'd have to be careful where you put them down, and taking them out of your pocket might be quite tricky, but it sounds like great fun to me.
UK credit card companies say they intend to implement the same thing.
Ok, woman turns on jacket and walks through dark carpark to her car...
She can't allow any of the electrified material to contact her bag whilst taking out her keys, and has to discharge it before sitting down in her car.
Shoulder bags and scarves are probably out anyway, and you don't want to be wearing it while walking your dog, or small child, in case they leap up and touch the jacket. Take care when holding metal railings in carpark staircases. Do not brush against elevator walls.
This is going to need a very good disclaimer.
So they're not going to be implanting these while you're not looking, unless they can also talk you into recharging it yourself later.
The overall ickiness of having something inserted, plus of course the overtones of nazi tatoos will stop this being mandatory for a very very long time.
It's the biometric id cards/credit cards/mobile phones that'll be the really useful peasant-tracking devices. They don't need RFID implants.
Besides - there'd only be a market in back-street surgeons/hackers to take them out again. This wouldn't be a terribly effective way of tracking criminal types (it would be fine for ordinary citizens of course, but then they're easy enough to find at the moment anyway).
Personally, I find Sony have the nicest remote to put on your coffee table. Slim, pretty, learning, easy to set up. Mini LCD display is customisable. No combination buttons, but that's not a feature I cry over. Take a look at the RMVZ950T
Will the MPs actually be the ones who decide how far this goes?
Anyone remember when all these encryption and data tracking laws were first proposed by the Conservative Government? Labour denounced them.
Strangely enough, as soon as they get in power, the laws get passed anyway.
I personally suspect a shadowy grey suit tapped the various MPs on the shoulders and said "no, you WILL pass this law"...
Go back and watch "Yes Prime Minister" again if you think the MPs are really running the country.