I would be very pleased if physical laws prevented RFIDs being manufactured in microscopic sizes, but I suspect that this is not the case.
Doesn't the fact that they are powered by radio waves limit their miniaturization? After all, the product of the radio wave power density and the chip area has to be large enough to power the chip (esp. the chip's sender, which itself has to generate strong enough waves to be received above noise level, which means you cannot arbitrarily reduce the power consumption even with ideal technology).
Yes we have a choice to go off the grid, but it's really inconvenient.
Is it? While I do have a mobile phone, it's off most of the time (and quite often I don't even have it with me). And I don't even have a credit card (I had one, but I noticed that I didn't use it, so I got rid of it as unnecessary expense). OK, I'm not in the U.S., but in Europe. I hear it's more difficult to live without credit card in the U.S., but I cannot imagine it being more difficult to have your mobile phone off most of the time.
Of course there are still enough digital traces I leave (esp. by simply using the internet).
The way RFID chips would be forced on everyone might be health insurance. "You see, if you get this RFID chip implanted, you'll not only have the advantage that in case of an accident the hospital will have your relevant data, but in addition we will give you some discount. Oh, did we already tell you that we plan to raise our fee dramatically? Well, not for those wearing this chip. Oh, and should you not decide to get the chip, and you get any trouble which could have been avoided with this chip (of course it's us who decide if it could have been avoided), we certainly won't pay for any related cost. But of course, we don't force you to have the chip. It's your decision. You just have to live with the consequences."
Well, just make your tinfoil hat two-layered. The inner layer with the shiny side pointing inwards blocks the RFID chip, while the outer side with the shiny side pointing outwards protects against mind-control.
Of course this makes tinfoil hats more expensive, and people will need new ones even if they already had one, which proves that this is actually originating at the tinfoil hat industry in order to increase their sales.
It's SUSE ("Nuremberg Windows") we are talking about here. A 10.2 default install managed to make my dual core Athlon 64 barely usable (one core was 100% busy running zmd, the other one was 100% busy running beagle, of course both at nice 0).
First two results are "insect" (that should be expected). Next come two "BluRay", but from the same site, so they probably should be counted as one. Then comes "robot" and "robotic". And after that there comes "*" - but not your Slashdot post, but one in Language Log. After that, there follows another "robot" and two "cybernetic".
I haven't looked at the following result pages, but the robots at least win the front page.
Another way of preventing another 9/11 would be for the airplanes to have stored the no-fly areas and have them automatically refuse to fly there (i.e. whenever the pilot tries to get into a course where it inevitably would enter a no-fly area, the plane automatically will change course so to not enter it). The "hard" no-fly areas should probably be surrounded by "soft" no-fly areas which may still not be flew into, but are not protected by the airplane software. That way a plane making an automatic avoiding maneuver in this "soft" no-fly region wouldn't be in danger of hitting another one, because all non-hijacked planes would still be outside that region.
And then the new suicide terrorist will not even have to bring his own weapons on the plane, he'll just stand up in flight and make it clear that he's a terrorist and be sure that some stupid passenger shoots, thus bringing the plane down.
Well, if you read the text carefully, you'll find out that searches and seizures have to be reasonable ("against unreasonable searches and seizures"), and gives conditions for a warrant. Nowhere does it say that a warrant is needed for a search or seizure.
... and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,...
All you need is a bit of creative reading. What is a probable cause? Well, obviously a cause which is probable. If something has a probability of more that 50%, one certainly can say it's probable. So in order to not violate the clause, you'll just have to make sure that more than half of the time there's a case.
It's called a tree. What tree are you talking about? I just tried a simple binary tree, a Huffman tree and a red-black tree, but none of them converted CO2 into fuel.
Convert CO2 to fuel with sunlight. We've had that for years. They're called plants. Yes, but now they have made more powerful ones. They call them power plants.:-)
In contrast, the light-driven chemical reaction is NOT limited by Carnot
Wrong. Every way to convert thermal light into mechanical power is limited by Carnot. It's just that the light from the sun still has about 6000K (the surface temperature of the sun), which makes the Carnot efficiency about 95% (which BTW is far better than what we can currently achieve with solar cells).
I'm sure there are some tolerances allowed. I'd even bet that of one hundred randomly chosen "3.5 inch" floppy disks, at least ninety nine differ from 90 millimeters by at least 1 nanometer.
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Doesn't the fact that they are powered by radio waves limit their miniaturization? After all, the product of the radio wave power density and the chip area has to be large enough to power the chip (esp. the chip's sender, which itself has to generate strong enough waves to be received above noise level, which means you cannot arbitrarily reduce the power consumption even with ideal technology).
Is it? While I do have a mobile phone, it's off most of the time (and quite often I don't even have it with me). And I don't even have a credit card (I had one, but I noticed that I didn't use it, so I got rid of it as unnecessary expense). OK, I'm not in the U.S., but in Europe. I hear it's more difficult to live without credit card in the U.S., but I cannot imagine it being more difficult to have your mobile phone off most of the time.
Of course there are still enough digital traces I leave (esp. by simply using the internet).
The way RFID chips would be forced on everyone might be health insurance. "You see, if you get this RFID chip implanted, you'll not only have the advantage that in case of an accident the hospital will have your relevant data, but in addition we will give you some discount. Oh, did we already tell you that we plan to raise our fee dramatically? Well, not for those wearing this chip. Oh, and should you not decide to get the chip, and you get any trouble which could have been avoided with this chip (of course it's us who decide if it could have been avoided), we certainly won't pay for any related cost. But of course, we don't force you to have the chip. It's your decision. You just have to live with the consequences."
Well, just make your tinfoil hat two-layered. The inner layer with the shiny side pointing inwards blocks the RFID chip, while the outer side with the shiny side pointing outwards protects against mind-control.
Of course this makes tinfoil hats more expensive, and people will need new ones even if they already had one, which proves that this is actually originating at the tinfoil hat industry in order to increase their sales.
It's SUSE ("Nuremberg Windows") we are talking about here. A 10.2 default install managed to make my dual core Athlon 64 barely usable (one core was 100% busy running zmd, the other one was 100% busy running beagle, of course both at nice 0).
I can't imagine how the quality of SUSE could in any way depend on the amount of melanin in your skin.
I just had to try that!
First two results are "insect" (that should be expected).
Next come two "BluRay", but from the same site, so they probably should be counted as one.
Then comes "robot" and "robotic".
And after that there comes "*" - but not your Slashdot post, but one in Language Log.
After that, there follows another "robot" and two "cybernetic".
I haven't looked at the following result pages, but the robots at least win the front page.
I guess you just killed your safety. Surely Google will soon pick up your comment, thus making coding accidents more dangerous.
You learn gaming in school?
a) I for one welcome our new programming challenges
:-)
b) In Soviet Russia the programmers know math
c)
1. Hire programmer
2. ?????
3. Pay salary!
OK, did I pass the test?
Exactly. What do you think a gunfight will do to an airplane?
Another way of preventing another 9/11 would be for the airplanes to have stored the no-fly areas and have them automatically refuse to fly there (i.e. whenever the pilot tries to get into a course where it inevitably would enter a no-fly area, the plane automatically will change course so to not enter it). The "hard" no-fly areas should probably be surrounded by "soft" no-fly areas which may still not be flew into, but are not protected by the airplane software. That way a plane making an automatic avoiding maneuver in this "soft" no-fly region wouldn't be in danger of hitting another one, because all non-hijacked planes would still be outside that region.
And then the new suicide terrorist will not even have to bring his own weapons on the plane, he'll just stand up in flight and make it clear that he's a terrorist and be sure that some stupid passenger shoots, thus bringing the plane down.
Somewhere a Slashdot-reading terrorist now makes a note: "Don't wash feet before trying to smuggle bomb in shoe."
Or imagine he puts up a sender telling all cars "there's a new bridge over the river right here to the left!"
Well, if you read the text carefully, you'll find out that searches and seizures have to be reasonable ("against unreasonable searches and seizures"), and gives conditions for a warrant. Nowhere does it say that a warrant is needed for a search or seizure.
All you need is a bit of creative reading. What is a probable cause? Well, obviously a cause which is probable. If something has a probability of more that 50%, one certainly can say it's probable. So in order to not violate the clause, you'll just have to make sure that more than half of the time there's a case.
So when you want to enter the U.S. with a laptop, you better freshen up your knowledge of the C programming language
Use an encryption method which produces things like "first post", "Imagine a beowulf cluster", "In Soviet Russia" etc.
For example, Slashdot.
Ok, that one is a problem with Slashdot
SCNR
At infinite distance, the screen size would also be infinite. Which sounds much more impressive than a 54 inch screen. :-)
You mean from now on the Borg icon refers to Linux instead of Microsoft?
Well, maybe I'm not up to date, but I always thought first-borns run on food, just like anyone else.
Wrong. Every way to convert thermal light into mechanical power is limited by Carnot. It's just that the light from the sun still has about 6000K (the surface temperature of the sun), which makes the Carnot efficiency about 95% (which BTW is far better than what we can currently achieve with solar cells).
I'm sure there are some tolerances allowed. I'd even bet that of one hundred randomly chosen "3.5 inch" floppy disks, at least ninety nine differ from 90 millimeters by at least 1 nanometer.