"As a fellow Australian" - Australian? Hence the Tokelau webhost (A south pacific island group's registrar, with New Zealand administration, and Dutch technical support).
"Please understand the issue before commenting on it." - Good advice, I suggest you take it.
"Just like the drivers licemce(sic), passport, credicard(sic), and Club membership card you currently hold in your wallet." - I (intentionally) have only a drivers license as it is a legal prerequisite for driving, for very obviously sensible safety reasons. I see no such compelling reason for a National (not)ID Card.
"If the government was going to infringe on our civil liberties, they would pass legislation applying to everyone, if they wanted to know who we are, they would look at our drivers licence, or other numorous forms of identification. So those aguments cannot be used in this discussion. If the government wants something about a person, or wants to restrict a person, they will do it, reguardless of the notion of a national ID." - As far as I can see this is the government passing legislation applying only to the lower classes. I think I would prefer an all-inclusive approach as this smacks of the divisionist tactics that worked so well in France recently.
As far as the government doing what it wants there are several checks and balances to limit the effectiveness of a draconian government: elections, no-confidence votes, direct and indirect public action being just a few. This is why we are discussing this issue, otherwise we would not worry our guilt free heads and leave our well intentioned politicians to look after our interests for us.
"I'll say this, it is much harder for your inexperienced ID theif(sic) to steal your identity when he does not have the same finger prints, iris and dna as you as used on national ID cards." - The card (hey I thought you said it wasn't a national ID card...) will not contain any of the biometric data you have listed above, and even if it did even the highest quality biometric scanners have to be supervised and still perform at levels far below acceptable in terms of both false negatives and positive identifications. The only positive note to come from this sentence is your credibilty has reached zero. "The card would contain a photograph and a computer chip containing the person's Medicare number, concession status and immunisation data. It would not include a tax file number or identity card information such as a fingerprint..." - http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s162 4266.htm
"So lets stop looking at the negatives..." - Or you could look at the balance of positives to negatives?
Your list of positives is a complete fabrication with no grounding in reality. I have noted the information the card does carry, but this is still not the same as "providing proof", I predict even if introduced it will generally be used in conjunction with existing identification - effectively making it yet another card to add to your earlier list...
"Becase(sic) if you have nothing to hide, then yu(sic) have nothing to worry about, and if you do have something to hide, then you should turn yourself in." - Wow, the philosophy of a child. How sweet...
I was listening to an Australian radio show yesterday and the announcers commented that George Foreman had no fingerprints, allegedly after receiving severe burns from a prototype grill.
Why not? Because you are the type of small minded fool who will try to force tangential threads by refusing to acknowledge the core of an argument. Especially when the main thread makes you look like a consumate prat.
Case in point, you reply to the last sentence of my message.
For the record, some of them were quite mature insults. A childish insult would be "You smell of poo!".
Isaac, I think I can summarise your criticisms thusly:
Whinge, whinge, whinge, bitch, bitch, bitch, moan... *I wish I had a tiny amount of talent too...*
Speaking of talent, or at least lack thereof, your resume is unbelievably uninspiring. Good luck with applying your inimitably superior prose to assisting others in the use of a word processor.
Here is a thought, instead of contributing to the already copious amounts of "you aren't as good as me" posts, you could actually attempt to write or create something original. Of course you would then have to endure a stream of rude, self important, excruciatingly boring drivel from others such as yourself.
Ooh Schama... the height of worldiness... Seriously though I had a look and couldn't find the summary anywhere in the first or last page. Amazon managed it though:
'Schama argues that the Revolution did not produce a "patriotic culture of citizenship" but was preceded by one.'
So I guess Amazon's writing is also superior to Schama's?
'The purpose of good prose is accesibility(sic).' - Ah and here we come to the crux of the issue, you are a technical writer and love the dry, ordered, lifeless prose that is optimal for such application.
Some of us define good prose through more than just an accessibilty metric. The conversational tone in the article was ideal as an example of audience awareness, the vivid personification of much of the more technical details decreases the informational dichotomy between quasi- and Uber- geeks, finally the word choice was understandable but expressive beyond the usual geek grunts ("tenable", "demarcation", "shims" and "ubiquitous" were a few than sprang out - hardly obscure but refreshing to see when "livable", "division", "tape" and "standard" would have been sufficient ).
Please feel free to reply, but I can't say I am going to waste any further time on you.
"Having worked with welfare case managers, I can tell you that it is the minority of people who are relegated to menial tasks." - I call shenanigans. Your statement is meaningless puffery and opinion substantiated with nothing. A close friends mother has been a case manager for decades (remember DSS and CES?) and disagrees - which of them is right? Who can say, but make sure you insult the honest opinions put forward by others, you rude git.
"I post as AC because I don't have a slashdot account. Does this somehow diminish the value of my opinion?" - Gee, posting on slashdot... what do you think Einstein?
"I also have a general idea of what a troll is..." - Well you are doing just fine so far Mr Troll.
ESD Transient Voltage Suppressors are built into nearly all modern chips.
They usually give you at least 8kV (contact) and 15kV (air) of protection from static charges.
It's certainly not impossible but it is quite difficult to fry a decently constructed chip.
And I quote: "Irony is the use of words in a way to conceal true intention with literal intention. More clearly, irony is when you say one thing but mean another."
Please refer to this page for further definitions, etymology, examples, etc.
Complete with a sig link to raptureready... Psychotic zealots of the world unite!
It is your Most Sacred and Holy duty to fuck the world up as much as you can to speed on The Rapture(sic).
Ah and the Rapture Index, tracking such milestones in the breakdown of social morality as:
1968
U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Epperson v. Arkansas:
State statue banning teaching of evolution is unconstitutional. A state cannot alter any element in a course of study in order to promote a religious point of view. A state's attempt to hide behind a nonreligious motivation will not be given credence unless that state can show a secular reason as the foundation for its actions
As far as I understand it (not very far...) the pacific countries had spent a large amount of time and money in the past to establish monitoring centres, distribute contact details etc. In the Indian basin no such cooperation and preparation had been enacted.
If someone contributes time and money in establishing such a system and THEN isn't issued timely notifications then they are entitled to feel disgruntled. If they have done nothing and gotten nothing then should they be surprised?
* Weak anthropic principle (WAP): "The observed values of all physical and cosmological quantities are not equally probable but they take on values restricted by the requirement that there exist sites where carbon-based life can evolve and by the requirements that the Universe be old enough for it to have already done so." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_Principle
What immediately sprang to mind was a small ferrite coil on the yellow laser control trace. Filter out the highest frequency signals and viola... sure you lose a bit of detail in the yellow, but it would certainly make the dot patterns harder if not impossible to decode.
Slashdot Mirror
"Please understand the issue before commenting on it." - Good advice, I suggest you take it.
"Just like the drivers licemce(sic), passport, credicard(sic), and Club membership card you currently hold in your wallet." - I (intentionally) have only a drivers license as it is a legal prerequisite for driving, for very obviously sensible safety reasons. I see no such compelling reason for a National (not)ID Card.
"If the government was going to infringe on our civil liberties, they would pass legislation applying to everyone, if they wanted to know who we are, they would look at our drivers licence, or other numorous forms of identification. So those aguments cannot be used in this discussion. If the government wants something about a person, or wants to restrict a person, they will do it, reguardless of the notion of a national ID." - As far as I can see this is the government passing legislation applying only to the lower classes. I think I would prefer an all-inclusive approach as this smacks of the divisionist tactics that worked so well in France recently.
As far as the government doing what it wants there are several checks and balances to limit the effectiveness of a draconian government: elections, no-confidence votes, direct and indirect public action being just a few. This is why we are discussing this issue, otherwise we would not worry our guilt free heads and leave our well intentioned politicians to look after our interests for us.
"I'll say this, it is much harder for your inexperienced ID theif(sic) to steal your identity when he does not have the same finger prints, iris and dna as you as used on national ID cards." - The card (hey I thought you said it wasn't a national ID card...) will not contain any of the biometric data you have listed above, and even if it did even the highest quality biometric scanners have to be supervised and still perform at levels far below acceptable in terms of both false negatives and positive identifications. The only positive note to come from this sentence is your credibilty has reached zero. "The card would contain a photograph and a computer chip containing the person's Medicare number, concession status and immunisation data. It would not include a tax file number or identity card information such as a fingerprint..." - http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s162 4266.htm
"So lets stop looking at the negatives..." - Or you could look at the balance of positives to negatives?
Your list of positives is a complete fabrication with no grounding in reality. I have noted the information the card does carry, but this is still not the same as "providing proof", I predict even if introduced it will generally be used in conjunction with existing identification - effectively making it yet another card to add to your earlier list...
"Becase(sic) if you have nothing to hide, then yu(sic) have nothing to worry about, and if you do have something to hide, then you should turn yourself in." - Wow, the philosophy of a child. How sweet...
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Wow a Zardoz reference... you need help. :)
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Wierd.
Why not? Because you are the type of small minded fool who will try to force tangential threads by refusing to acknowledge the core of an argument. Especially when the main thread makes you look like a consumate prat.
Case in point, you reply to the last sentence of my message.
For the record, some of them were quite mature insults. A childish insult would be "You smell of poo!".
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Whinge, whinge, whinge, bitch, bitch, bitch, moan... *I wish I had a tiny amount of talent too...*
Speaking of talent, or at least lack thereof, your resume is unbelievably uninspiring. Good luck with applying your inimitably superior prose to assisting others in the use of a word processor.
Here is a thought, instead of contributing to the already copious amounts of "you aren't as good as me" posts, you could actually attempt to write or create something original. Of course you would then have to endure a stream of rude, self important, excruciatingly boring drivel from others such as yourself.
Ooh Schama... the height of worldiness... Seriously though I had a look and couldn't find the summary anywhere in the first or last page. Amazon managed it though:
'Schama argues that the Revolution did not produce a "patriotic culture of citizenship" but was preceded by one.'
So I guess Amazon's writing is also superior to Schama's?
'The purpose of good prose is accesibility(sic).' - Ah and here we come to the crux of the issue, you are a technical writer and love the dry, ordered, lifeless prose that is optimal for such application.
Some of us define good prose through more than just an accessibilty metric. The conversational tone in the article was ideal as an example of audience awareness, the vivid personification of much of the more technical details decreases the informational dichotomy between quasi- and Uber- geeks, finally the word choice was understandable but expressive beyond the usual geek grunts ("tenable", "demarcation", "shims" and "ubiquitous" were a few than sprang out - hardly obscure but refreshing to see when "livable", "division", "tape" and "standard" would have been sufficient ).
Please feel free to reply, but I can't say I am going to waste any further time on you.
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Sounds like a locale issue possibly?
"I post as AC because I don't have a slashdot account. Does this somehow diminish the value of my opinion?" - Gee, posting on slashdot... what do you think Einstein?
"I also have a general idea of what a troll is..." - Well you are doing just fine so far Mr Troll.
However a lot of the content is still only broadcast in Standard Definition, or at best upsampled.
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They usually give you at least 8kV (contact) and 15kV (air) of protection from static charges.
It's certainly not impossible but it is quite difficult to fry a decently constructed chip.
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Digital TV has taken a lot of the challenge out of it. MythTV and an automated conversion script works pretty well...
It repels bears...
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Please refer to this page for further definitions, etymology, examples, etc.
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It is your Most Sacred and Holy duty to fuck the world up as much as you can to speed on The Rapture(sic).
Ah and the Rapture Index, tracking such milestones in the breakdown of social morality as:
1968
U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Epperson v. Arkansas:
State statue banning teaching of evolution is unconstitutional. A state cannot alter any element in a course of study in order to promote a religious point of view. A state's attempt to hide behind a nonreligious motivation will not be given credence unless that state can show a secular reason as the foundation for its actions
I would say that makes you a youngish male.
I think there is a link on google...
As far as I understand it (not very far...) the pacific countries had spent a large amount of time and money in the past to establish monitoring centres, distribute contact details etc. In the Indian basin no such cooperation and preparation had been enacted.
If someone contributes time and money in establishing such a system and THEN isn't issued timely notifications then they are entitled to feel disgruntled. If they have done nothing and gotten nothing then should they be surprised?
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Q. (The karma whore)
* Weak anthropic principle (WAP): "The observed values of all physical and cosmological quantities are not equally probable but they take on values restricted by the requirement that there exist sites where carbon-based life can evolve and by the requirements that the Universe be old enough for it to have already done so." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_Principle
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link
I swear I meant to preview...
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"All ExpressCard slots will accommodate modules designed to use either Universal Serial Bus (USB*) 2.0, or the emerging PCI*Express standards."
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