In an e-mail message to all students, school officials warned that using peer-to-peer file-trading services could force the university to kick students off the network.
Yeah, but I'm sure they can still get away with setting up a local gnutella server on the intranet. They're probably only monitoring incoming traffic.
I see this database exonerating the innocent more than convicting the guilty. There are thousands of guilty convictions here in the US that have been overturned since the development of DNA fingerprinting.
Couldn't the database even be used to find organ donor matches?
I heard that the Military is issuing smart cards now, the smart cards do not contain the actual info but tell the scanning computer what file to look at for that particular soldier.
Now lets say there's a government database that houses all this information, and the card readers can only access the parts relevent to their field. This would probably be one of the more secure ways of doing it.
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Also, If you can hear it, you can copy it.
This is why the RIAA will never win.
How large were the files for a classic NES game? A 2-D Barcode can hold around 4MB of data, and most roms are around 2-3MB.
What were you convicted of "stealing"?
and why didn't you just get it from the MIT tech department?
In an e-mail message to all students, school officials warned that using peer-to-peer file-trading services could force the university to kick students off the network.
Yeah, but I'm sure they can still get away with setting up a local gnutella server on the intranet. They're probably only monitoring incoming traffic.
Woah...I know kung fu.
So now when a girl tells you you're hung like a furry woodland creature...it's not as bad as it was before?
I see this database exonerating the innocent more than convicting the guilty. There are thousands of guilty convictions here in the US that have been overturned since the development of DNA fingerprinting.
Couldn't the database even be used to find organ donor matches?
Making computers "heal" themselves would save millions of dollars in tech support.
But first we need to get humans to fix the operating systems before computers can take over. *cough*Windows*cough*
Bah! It'd probably take me 4 monthes to download it on dialup...I guess I'll just wait.
I heard that the Military is issuing smart cards now, the smart cards do not contain the actual info but tell the scanning computer what file to look at for that particular soldier.
Now lets say there's a government database that houses all this information, and the card readers can only access the parts relevent to their field. This would probably be one of the more secure ways of doing it.