Isn't there a single hard-hearted individual out there that is willing to speak out "against the whales?"
Frankly, I'm all for the sonar. If it saves a few lives (Well, at least lives on -my- side), to hell with the whales.
Whales are -animals-. That doesn't mean I advocate going about and randomly slaying them, but put your views in perspective. This sonar isn't going to be in action all the time, only when there is the possibility that there is an enemy submarine nearby.
Personally, I don't feel like being nuked by an off-shore sub, just because we didn't want to deafen some wet mammals.
Genetically engineered decaf-coffee plants cross-breed with normal coffee plants creating a half-strength coffee plant. Then half of that... then half of that. They're trying to wean us off our coffee people!
We've got to do something! I'd lead the effort, but for some reason, I just don't have any energy today...
Yeah, but let's see you get multiple people with it at once. You'd need a heck of a long mouse cord for that. And what about all the cordless mice? Are they exempt from the "Danger" status?
It is only a matter of time before they are declared a choking hazard to those "Under the age of 4, or really, really stupid people."
Come now, certainly at least a few of you slashdotters out there have read Ender's game. Everyone knows that children make the most skillful and deadly military leaders. It is just one of those known facts.
Money wins. 'Tis the way of the world. Occasionally the little guys will win a victory, but if you go back and look at the situation 6 months after the fact, 9 times out of 10 the situation will have reversed. Mr. Forum for Canadian Businesses is screwed.
I especially liked how the article said that anyone who thinks of "Canadian" thinks of beer. Personally, I think of "Aboot".
The article stated: "...but already it is clear that it has an apparently puzzling combination of modern and ancient features."
Sort of like that hoax however many years ago where they just slapped an ape jaw on a human skull? In the article it even said "The jaw was found later" Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Wow, I'm glad they discovered this. I mean, finding red and green objects is -So- difficult in this world. Without these coins, we would probably never be able to test our eyesight.
Is it just me, or does getting to the front page of Slashdot involve adding certain statements to articles.
"And that's what I think about Australian jumping elephants... oh and: Linux, Open Source, and Microsoft Sucks"
"Open Source" science was practiced long before "Open Source" programming. In fact, it was the rule, rather than the exception until just recently. Bonding science to the corporate marketplace, while extremely profitable, also leads to a great deal of "Re-inventing the wheel". Hopefully this is the beginning of a trend back toward a detached scientific community.
Now, supposing I download myself a scientific document that uses this font. I, being a non-scientific type would not have this font. Does this mean I would end up with a bunch of ASCII 1-beginning of lowercase scrambled sentances?
Knowing my luck they'll figure out the meaning of life mathematically, and I won't have the font to understand it.
I wonder if they had the death trigger program (See earlier article) set up just in case one of them choked something while trying to eat on their backs.
One of them mentions in the article something about viewing it as a personal challenge. Yeah, every morning I wake up and say "I think I'll lie in bed for 3 months. Why? Because it's there."
I have worked extensively in Biometrics. So I'll start addressing some of the concerns shown in prior posts.
1. I'll be blinded if I look into lasers.
Well... yes, you will be blinded if you look into lasers. Luckily, lasers are not used in Iris Scanning. Iris scanning uses cameras to take close up photographs of your eyes. If you're afraid of that... well, people -did- once believe that cameras stole your soul...
2. Someone will mug me in a dark alley, and instead of taking my wallet, they'll take my eyes!
That's possible. (Unpleasent certainly, but possible)... however, despite the fact that you'll be blind, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that your accounts are secure, because Iris Scanning doesn't work with dead eyes. Iris scans measure the dilation of the pupil, and don't verify unless the dilation is changing (Which is happening constantly in a living eye)
3. Someone will hack the database, and steal my information! Then what am I going to do?
Well, if someone hacked a credit card DB, they could go on a spending spree. If someone hacked a biometrics DB, they'd know what your iris patterns looked like. They could, I suppose, trade patterns with you, but then all you would have to do is say "My name is " and the next time the dude made a transaction using your profile they'd know where he was. Unless of course he hacked -every- biometrics DB and then you'd have a situation like "The Net". Real life imitates fiction?
4. Someone will hack the database and make contacts of my eyes!
This would be a truly impressive feat. There are several hundred reference points on the iris, and not even both eyes on a person are the same. Not to mention they'd have to figure out some way to make the pupil dilate. Anyone who can put that kind of information onto a contact would make more money in industry than hacking into normal people's biometrics.
5. I wear contacts. Will this affect things?
Nope, contacts and glasses are ignored by the system. Sunglasses generally have to be removed though.
6. Is it worth the cost?
Probably not. But at least some of the other concerns aren't valid.
7. Is this the first step to Big Brother?
Not the first. But it would certainly help. I personally removed all records of myself out of the database before leaving the job. (No sense in being careless)
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't there a single hard-hearted individual out there that is willing to speak out "against the whales?"
Frankly, I'm all for the sonar. If it saves a few lives (Well, at least lives on -my- side), to hell with the whales.
Whales are -animals-. That doesn't mean I advocate going about and randomly slaying them, but put your views in perspective. This sonar isn't going to be in action all the time, only when there is the possibility that there is an enemy submarine nearby.
Personally, I don't feel like being nuked by an off-shore sub, just because we didn't want to deafen some wet mammals.
I can see it now.
Genetically engineered decaf-coffee plants cross-breed with normal coffee plants creating a half-strength coffee plant. Then half of that... then half of that. They're trying to wean us off our coffee people!
We've got to do something! I'd lead the effort, but for some reason, I just don't have any energy today...
Rocks! ROCKS!!!
You had Rocks!
I had to make do with dirt! And I had to share -that- with my entire neighborhood.
Yeah, but let's see you get multiple people with it at once. You'd need a heck of a long mouse cord for that. And what about all the cordless mice? Are they exempt from the "Danger" status?
It is only a matter of time before they are declared a choking hazard to those "Under the age of 4, or really, really stupid people."
D'mmit! Was that the Berkeley Lab?
I bought my "Lead to Gold" recipe from there!
I knew it was too good to be true...
Yet another "Get Rich Quick" scheme fades into a "Fade into Poverty" failure...
Being a computer programmer makes one a geek.
Being able to write code, read schematic diagrams, and solder religates one to the status of UBER-geek.
Of course, there are several tiers in between these thresholds, but they are not relevant to the current discussion.
ThereIsNoSporkNeo, SuedoUBERGeek
Come now, certainly at least a few of you slashdotters out there have read Ender's game. Everyone knows that children make the most skillful and deadly military leaders. It is just one of those known facts.
Money wins. 'Tis the way of the world. Occasionally the little guys will win a victory, but if you go back and look at the situation 6 months after the fact, 9 times out of 10 the situation will have reversed. Mr. Forum for Canadian Businesses is screwed.
I especially liked how the article said that anyone who thinks of "Canadian" thinks of beer. Personally, I think of "Aboot".
The article stated:
"...but already it is clear that it has an apparently puzzling combination of modern and ancient features."
Sort of like that hoax however many years ago where they just slapped an ape jaw on a human skull?
In the article it even said "The jaw was found later"
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
ThereIsNoSporkNeo... The Paranoid
Wow, I'm glad they discovered this. I mean, finding red and green objects is -So- difficult in this world. Without these coins, we would probably never be able to test our eyesight.
Is it just me or is there no sense to this?
Is it just me, or does getting to the front page of Slashdot involve adding certain statements to articles.
"And that's what I think about Australian jumping elephants... oh and:
Linux, Open Source, and Microsoft Sucks"
"Open Source" science was practiced long before "Open Source" programming. In fact, it was the rule, rather than the exception until just recently. Bonding science to the corporate marketplace, while extremely profitable, also leads to a great deal of "Re-inventing the wheel". Hopefully this is the beginning of a trend back toward a detached scientific community.
Now, supposing I download myself a scientific document that uses this font. I, being a non-scientific type would not have this font. Does this mean I would end up with a bunch of ASCII 1-beginning of lowercase scrambled sentances?
Knowing my luck they'll figure out the meaning of life mathematically, and I won't have the font to understand it.
Finally! A direct alcohol application system! No more waiting for your slow digestive system. I wonder if they can set this up in an IV system...
As Barney, the perpetual drunkard of the Simpsons would say "JUST TAP IT TO MY VEINS"
Great. As if my load-up time isn't long enough, now I've got to wait for my machine to get its morning cup of Joe.
I wonder if it'll need another one if it goes into sleep mode...
On the plus side, it could be a great cost-effective method of overclocking.
One Ring to Rule Them All
One Ring to Find Them
One Movie to bring them all
And to their seats Bind them
... it needs something about the producers hauling away bags of cash... but that's more in the vein of 'The Hobbit' then the LOTR Trilogy.
Here's hoping they stick to the book's storyplot.
I wonder if they had the death trigger program (See earlier article) set up just in case one of them choked something while trying to eat on their backs.
One of them mentions in the article something about viewing it as a personal challenge. Yeah, every morning I wake up and say "I think I'll lie in bed for 3 months. Why? Because it's there."
I have worked extensively in Biometrics. So I'll start addressing some of the concerns shown in prior posts.
1. I'll be blinded if I look into lasers.
Well... yes, you will be blinded if you look into lasers. Luckily, lasers are not used in Iris Scanning. Iris scanning uses cameras to take close up photographs of your eyes. If you're afraid of that... well, people -did- once believe that cameras stole your soul...
2. Someone will mug me in a dark alley, and instead of taking my wallet, they'll take my eyes!
That's possible. (Unpleasent certainly, but possible)... however, despite the fact that you'll be blind, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that your accounts are secure, because Iris Scanning doesn't work with dead eyes. Iris scans measure the dilation of the pupil, and don't verify unless the dilation is changing (Which is happening constantly in a living eye)
3. Someone will hack the database, and steal my information! Then what am I going to do?
Well, if someone hacked a credit card DB, they could go on a spending spree. If someone hacked a biometrics DB, they'd know what your iris patterns looked like. They could, I suppose, trade patterns with you, but then all you would have to do is say "My name is " and the next time the dude made a transaction using your profile they'd know where he was. Unless of course he hacked -every- biometrics DB and then you'd have a situation like "The Net". Real life imitates fiction?
4. Someone will hack the database and make contacts of my eyes!
This would be a truly impressive feat. There are several hundred reference points on the iris, and not even both eyes on a person are the same. Not to mention they'd have to figure out some way to make the pupil dilate. Anyone who can put that kind of information onto a contact would make more money in industry than hacking into normal people's biometrics.
5. I wear contacts. Will this affect things?
Nope, contacts and glasses are ignored by the system. Sunglasses generally have to be removed though.
6. Is it worth the cost?
Probably not. But at least some of the other concerns aren't valid.
7. Is this the first step to Big Brother?
Not the first. But it would certainly help. I personally removed all records of myself out of the database before leaving the job. (No sense in being careless)
And Remember. ThereIsNoSporkNeo.