Depends on your video card, if your card is from nvidia it supports most of the games and you can play, WC3, Diablo II (really hard to get this working though), any game from ID software, UT2K3, UT2K4, Half-Life (any mods too, well haven't tried in a while I heard it no longer works:-/), there's a bunch of games too these are just games I've played.
Now if you're unfortunate enough to be using an ATI card (and fortunate enough to get the drivers working, I did, once, and then just again 2 hours ago but then it stopped working again) your options are pretty limited. Maybe a few wine games might work and maybe ID software titles (I'm pretty sure those work, I think I played Quake 3 with the ATI card.)
I tried to download GTA3 after I scratched the disc, ended up getting different games that were just renamed to GTA3. Fortunately for me, I found a used copy for reasonably cheap.
So you just bought a game twice because you scratched a disk? I bought GTA 3 because I liked the game, I never bought a GTA game before that (downloaded them all, weren't worth the price, GTA 3 was deffinitely worth it) and I wanted to support rockstar since they made such an amazing game. BUT if I scratched the game, I wouldn't go out and buy a used copy, that doesn't give any money to rockstar (the place that sells you the used game makes all the money, not the place that makes you the game in the first place) so how would rockstar lose money if I downloaded the game? I WOULD copy the game (and I did) and extract the ISOs (which I did) and if I ever lost or damaged the CDs I could always reburn a copy. I also distributed the game between friends but I think that's only fair since they would never have bought the game in the first place (none of my friends really buy PC games unless they're multiplayer.)
If it's easier to just run down the street and buy the game than to wait all day to download and cross your fingers that it's a.) legit b.) works, then I don't see why the "you-cannot-backup-your-game" measures are all that necessary.
It's way easier to go to a store and pick up a game while you're at school, work or sleeping, than to download the game while you're at school, work or sleeping. Unless you don't have any stores at school, work or your bedroom. That's the best way to download, set it to download before you go to sleep, when you're sleeping it downloads, if it's still not done it doesn't matter since you probably have to go to school or work, and when you come back it's done (unless you're on dialup downloading ISOs.) Or even if you get it off a nice FTP, 2 hours and you've got a gig or so (on most cable/dsl connections downloading from a really fast site or bittorrent source.) Now that I actually have a job I usually only download games I know I'd never want to buy just to try them out and see if I want to buy them (prince of persia, UT2K4 which I'm probably not even going to download, it's too much like an expansion pack to me than a full game since I own UT2K3.)
Actually I think it was my snail mail which included a note that said "Please port flash to linux or I'll send more pics" and a pic of myself naked. Although your e-mail may have helped a bit too.
PLEASE! Help me! I'm trying to figure out the time around when I got my first computer. It was a PS/2 486DX2 66MHz with 4 megs of ram (well 3300 K or something like that, not enough to run anything till I upgraded to a whopping 16 megs of ram.) And it has a 256MB hard drive, does anyone know around what year this could have come out? Every year I tell myself, I must have been using computers for 10 years...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA have you ever been to NYC? I don't remember all that sun and palm trees, and the golf course? In NYC? Well on staten island there's one but it's not an island course. It's really Miami, they even have some places that are in Miami (Little Haiti, some other places I don't really know the names of cause I've never been to Miami.)
San Andreas==Los Angeles
No I think that's San Francisco but I'm not sure since I haven't played the game, or seen it in the first GTA
Liberty City==Philadelphia
3 out of 3 wrong, have you even been to any of these citys? If that was Philadelphia, where's Love Park? Pat's King of Cheese Steak (across the street from Geno's with some kind of related missions of course:-))? And even the liberty bell, independance hall, any of the historic buildings philadelphia is famous for? Liberty City is NYC (home of rockstar north by the way), Staunton Island, Staten Island, hello. Statue of liberty, Liberty City... get it? And they made the game (the first one) around the time when all the NYC liscense plates had the statue in the middle so it was a major icon. The NYC MTA bus stop signs are in the game too (although these are also in vice city which is really weird but then again Rockstar north got the textures from the bus stops outside their office probably.) The Brooklyn Bridge is in this game too (I think, I'm pretty sure, haven't played in a while.) A lot of the area names and roads are just like in NYC too (forgot which ones, I think it's something like you start in liberty city, that goes to a brooklyn type place and then to staunton island which is supposed to be staten island, and the order of going their is the same as if you were really in NYC.)
There are planets other than mars, not finding life on one planet does NOT mean that there is life no where else in the universe except earth. But finding life on mars means there is deffinitely life on other planets. Now if they found a burning bush or a giant ark (with lots of feces from every different species of animal on the planet), I'm sure they'd open up to the idea that god does exist.
I forgot who it was but there's a famous poet that broke every "rule" in poetry. He wrote one poem that was random letters aranged in a weird shape on a page. If someone just decided to write a bunch of random letters in a nice shape and try to compile it, it wouldn't work. Code must follow certain rules, if it doesn't follow those rules it doesn't work, there's no real freedom in code (ok you can make things like the perl camels but I wouldn't call that code art, it's interesting, but not art.) Anything can be considered a poem, or poetry, but only certain things make it as code.
I was trying to point out humorously that the church doesn't respond well to advances in science and technology. What's that? The earth isn't the center of the universe? Blasphemy! Evolution? No way is an ape my ancestor! Dinosaurs? Well they existed with humans! The world's only 5,000 years old damn it!
I don't think I was a troll or flamebait, and I don't have a problem with the church. There's no mention of extra-terrestrial life though anywhere in the bible, I think that finding some would be pretty strong proof against the existence of god (but then again there has been much stuff never mentioned in the bible, or challenged by science that should make people say hey maybe god doesn't exist but then those people mostly ignore it or brush it off.) How would god talk about the creation of the entire universe and leave out "Oh and there's life on other planets, earth isn't the only place in the universe with life." It'd probably be much like discovering the first fossils of dinosaurs, they were never mentioned in the bible and then you get some strange beliefs that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time (like this)
Except in writing poetry, if you throw out every rule in the book, you can create some masterpieces. Nothing has to fit any kind of mold saying "This works and this doesn't."
When you decide, hey I don't like using loops, lets write 10,000 if statements, you aren't creating art, you're creating a bad program and ugly code. You don't have much freedom in code, I guess you could say efficient code with as few lines as possible is art, but not the same way poetry is an art.
I think this gives a decent picture of what to expect at CodeCon:
That's sort of the beauty of CodeCon: people come here to share their weird creations, even if all the bugs haven't quite gotten worked out yet.
A place people come to share their weird creations. And if you read the entire article it seems like they're tech related creations, with a ton of geeks around. The yo-yos aren't important, they're mentioned because of the REACTION to the yo-yos, the people their were true crackers, trying to figure out how the yo-yos worked, taking them apart, making them better. That was why it was mentioned, not that there was anything special about them. Sure the article does swing between so many different topics (placebos, dune, codecon, geek habits) but it's a little interesting (although I also don't understand how it got posted, there really isn't much of a point to the story.)
Not trying to be a troll or flamebait or anything but wouldn't it be really funny if they discovered life on mars? Hearing all those religious leaders say "Oh and ummm we just found this in our bibles, two pages were stuck together, it now says on the 8th day god was sick and sneezed, and created life on mars yeah so check your bibles." And think of all the people that would deny it for years, claiming it was a hoax. Way more than the moon hoax people.
So the sad result of the study is that half the users don't seem to get it yet... How can we drag them in?
Why would we want to drag them in? Ever think anything they have to say is probably pointless and interesting to no one? Or maybe they don't know how to post, or maybe they lied, or maybe they don't speak english well? This isn't like voting where every voice should be heard, this is the internet, there's enough content, we don't need more (emphasis on need, it wouldn't hurt but it's not like information is lacking). When there's a lack of information on the internet because people are afraid to post or experts don't want to post opinions without getting paid or everything on the net is all one sided (like if everyone posting on the net shared the views of the KKK or something like that), then we can say it's a sad state of affairs. I doubt that day will ever come. Experts post their opinions online, people aren't afraid to post things, and the information is very wide and varied (you can find anything on the net, from how to build a spud gun, to replacement ash trays on a 1974 mercury comet.)
I know this is really stupid, and the person shouldn't be labeled a cyber terrorist but what if this was a real act of terrorism? What if a terrorist decided to do something like this on a much larger scale?
If some sort of worm was on the internet changing peoples dialup numbers to 911, would we then claim it was an act of terrorism? How large does an attack have to be before it's labeled as terrorism?
Keep in mind I am NOT saying what he did was terrorism, I am just asking, if this affected 21,000 computers instead of 21 would we still feel it wasn't terrorism?
Except for the fact that it's VERY hard to find a comfortable gaming position in this type of setup (unless you move your desk and stuff.) I had my PC hooked up to my 56" HDTV, and my Live drive's optical output hooked up to my surround sound system, it was very very sweet. The only issue I had was trying to sit on the couch and play. No place for a wrist rest, no place for my keyboard (except my lap) it became really annoying. I eventually used my coffee table as a desk and built a chair with seat cushions, it was decent but not as nice as a chair/desk setup. It would have been much nicer if I setup the TV for a good viewing position too, it's nice sitting in front of a 21" computer monitor cause you can see everything easily. But when you sit right in front of a 56" HDTV things become very hard to see. If you're too close a lot of stuff is out of sight since it's such a huge viewing area and if you're too far you can't see things like that sniper off in the distance.
...wake up in the morning and there's a body hanging outside your window. "There's something on the wing!"
Anyone else think one of the astronauts ordered a real doll and when the other astronauts caught him with it they put it outside? Then when NASA asked about the body outside the space station they just answered "Uhh well we're ummmmm testing the affects of radiation on the human body, yeah that's it."
It's a sex site, so they would have to pay to actually see anything. At most they would see a few pictures of naked women but so what? If I went to a movie theatre and swapped "Lion King 1 1/2" with "Faces of Death" I don't think I'd get a year in prison. But if I swapped it with "Clockwork Orgy" (yeah that's a real movie, yeah I have it) I'd be thrown in prison for years, every parent organization in america would be after me, church leaders would print out flyers of my face to set on fire outside, and G. W. Bush would try and make an amendment on the constitution that'll make me suffer the death penalty.
There's a HUGE difference in taking pictures of a child in explicit sexual activity, and showing them obscene sexually explicit material. Child pornography can damage a child psychologically. You can read this if you would like to know more.
Now exposing a child to pornography, I don't see how this can be "damaging" especially when it's a website that's mostly pictures (and nothing really bad, since you need to sign up on these pages to see that stuff.) The most these children could have seen are some sexual organs. I don't see what's wrong with that as we will all probably see stuff like that at a young age anyway (friends, father's porn collection, some delis that sell certain magazines to minors, TV.)
...on a laptop it's really stupid. I have a lojack installed with something VERY similar to this. It's one of the best anti-theft devices I've ever had on any car. I have a little keychain that I keep with my keys and inside the car is a kind of transmitter. If the car is moving and the keychain is not present, lojack will call my cell phone, send me an e-mail (I receive e-mails on my phone) and call my house. I can add more contact methods (text messaging, more phone numbers, like work or something) but these are the easiest ways to contact me.
The good thing about this (and the bad thing about the laptop one) is if I'm using a car, it's going to be on and the keys are gonna be in it so the keychain is gonna be in the car. If I'm going to go to the bathroom, I'm going to park, turn off my car, take the keys out and go to the bathroom. Now if I'm using a laptop, and I want to go to the bathroom, I'm not going to carry the laptop with me (and if I was going to carry the laptop the device becomes completely pointless.)
This device is useless, if you're going to be 15 feet away from your laptop (ok my bedroom is 15 feet across, it's not very far) you should be able to see anyone going near it that's going to attempt to take it. And if they're going to snatch it up while you're that close this little alarm won't help since they're gonna run and not really care who hears the alarm (they could always just smash it off with their foot, I mean it just hangs off the side, it might crack the case of the laptop but who cares they just got a free laptop.)
Yeah the retailer should never know when you buy condoms, so when you go up to the counter to pay for them rip off the bar code and assure the clerk it's the right one while keeping the condoms in your pocket.
This is really dumb, the store knows when you buy personal items if they have a RFID tag or not. When you go to the counter and pay for the items, hey someone's gonna know! And it kind of tips people off when you carry them in your cart or basket. Also, if you use a CVS card or anything like that they keep track of what you buy and send you flyers and ads home based on that information.
We're not too far from the thought police at all? Where the hell did that come from? RFID tags can't read your mind, if you have one on your body no one's gonna be able to track you from a satellite, it doesn't transmit brain waves. You'd need a reader really close to the device anyway. Not like the CIA is gonna follow you around with a RFID tag reader, that'll defeat the purpose of having the tag installed secretly in the first place.
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Depends on your video card, if your card is from nvidia it supports most of the games and you can play, WC3, Diablo II (really hard to get this working though), any game from ID software, UT2K3, UT2K4, Half-Life (any mods too, well haven't tried in a while I heard it no longer works :-/), there's a bunch of games too these are just games I've played.
Now if you're unfortunate enough to be using an ATI card (and fortunate enough to get the drivers working, I did, once, and then just again 2 hours ago but then it stopped working again) your options are pretty limited. Maybe a few wine games might work and maybe ID software titles (I'm pretty sure those work, I think I played Quake 3 with the ATI card.)
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I tried to download GTA3 after I scratched the disc, ended up getting different games that were just renamed to GTA3. Fortunately for me, I found a used copy for reasonably cheap.
So you just bought a game twice because you scratched a disk? I bought GTA 3 because I liked the game, I never bought a GTA game before that (downloaded them all, weren't worth the price, GTA 3 was deffinitely worth it) and I wanted to support rockstar since they made such an amazing game. BUT if I scratched the game, I wouldn't go out and buy a used copy, that doesn't give any money to rockstar (the place that sells you the used game makes all the money, not the place that makes you the game in the first place) so how would rockstar lose money if I downloaded the game? I WOULD copy the game (and I did) and extract the ISOs (which I did) and if I ever lost or damaged the CDs I could always reburn a copy. I also distributed the game between friends but I think that's only fair since they would never have bought the game in the first place (none of my friends really buy PC games unless they're multiplayer.)
If it's easier to just run down the street and buy the game than to wait all day to download and cross your fingers that it's a.) legit b.) works, then I don't see why the "you-cannot-backup-your-game" measures are all that necessary.
It's way easier to go to a store and pick up a game while you're at school, work or sleeping, than to download the game while you're at school, work or sleeping. Unless you don't have any stores at school, work or your bedroom. That's the best way to download, set it to download before you go to sleep, when you're sleeping it downloads, if it's still not done it doesn't matter since you probably have to go to school or work, and when you come back it's done (unless you're on dialup downloading ISOs.) Or even if you get it off a nice FTP, 2 hours and you've got a gig or so (on most cable/dsl connections downloading from a really fast site or bittorrent source.) Now that I actually have a job I usually only download games I know I'd never want to buy just to try them out and see if I want to buy them (prince of persia, UT2K4 which I'm probably not even going to download, it's too much like an expansion pack to me than a full game since I own UT2K3.)
Actually I think it was my snail mail which included a note that said "Please port flash to linux or I'll send more pics" and a pic of myself naked. Although your e-mail may have helped a bit too.
Decisions decisions... walking talking robot... or a realdoll... how about a combination of both? On a segway while walking an AIBO?
PLEASE! Help me! I'm trying to figure out the time around when I got my first computer. It was a PS/2 486DX2 66MHz with 4 megs of ram (well 3300 K or something like that, not enough to run anything till I upgraded to a whopping 16 megs of ram.) And it has a 256MB hard drive, does anyone know around what year this could have come out? Every year I tell myself, I must have been using computers for 10 years...
lol wow I hope you're joking
:-))? And even the liberty bell, independance hall, any of the historic buildings philadelphia is famous for? Liberty City is NYC (home of rockstar north by the way), Staunton Island, Staten Island, hello. Statue of liberty, Liberty City... get it? And they made the game (the first one) around the time when all the NYC liscense plates had the statue in the middle so it was a major icon. The NYC MTA bus stop signs are in the game too (although these are also in vice city which is really weird but then again Rockstar north got the textures from the bus stops outside their office probably.) The Brooklyn Bridge is in this game too (I think, I'm pretty sure, haven't played in a while.) A lot of the area names and roads are just like in NYC too (forgot which ones, I think it's something like you start in liberty city, that goes to a brooklyn type place and then to staunton island which is supposed to be staten island, and the order of going their is the same as if you were really in NYC.)
Vice City==New York City
BWAHAHAHAHAHA have you ever been to NYC? I don't remember all that sun and palm trees, and the golf course? In NYC? Well on staten island there's one but it's not an island course. It's really Miami, they even have some places that are in Miami (Little Haiti, some other places I don't really know the names of cause I've never been to Miami.)
San Andreas==Los Angeles
No I think that's San Francisco but I'm not sure since I haven't played the game, or seen it in the first GTA
Liberty City==Philadelphia
3 out of 3 wrong, have you even been to any of these citys? If that was Philadelphia, where's Love Park? Pat's King of Cheese Steak (across the street from Geno's with some kind of related missions of course
There are planets other than mars, not finding life on one planet does NOT mean that there is life no where else in the universe except earth. But finding life on mars means there is deffinitely life on other planets. Now if they found a burning bush or a giant ark (with lots of feces from every different species of animal on the planet), I'm sure they'd open up to the idea that god does exist.
I forgot who it was but there's a famous poet that broke every "rule" in poetry. He wrote one poem that was random letters aranged in a weird shape on a page. If someone just decided to write a bunch of random letters in a nice shape and try to compile it, it wouldn't work. Code must follow certain rules, if it doesn't follow those rules it doesn't work, there's no real freedom in code (ok you can make things like the perl camels but I wouldn't call that code art, it's interesting, but not art.) Anything can be considered a poem, or poetry, but only certain things make it as code.
I was trying to point out humorously that the church doesn't respond well to advances in science and technology. What's that? The earth isn't the center of the universe? Blasphemy! Evolution? No way is an ape my ancestor! Dinosaurs? Well they existed with humans! The world's only 5,000 years old damn it!
I don't think I was a troll or flamebait, and I don't have a problem with the church. There's no mention of extra-terrestrial life though anywhere in the bible, I think that finding some would be pretty strong proof against the existence of god (but then again there has been much stuff never mentioned in the bible, or challenged by science that should make people say hey maybe god doesn't exist but then those people mostly ignore it or brush it off.) How would god talk about the creation of the entire universe and leave out "Oh and there's life on other planets, earth isn't the only place in the universe with life." It'd probably be much like discovering the first fossils of dinosaurs, they were never mentioned in the bible and then you get some strange beliefs that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time (like this)
Except in writing poetry, if you throw out every rule in the book, you can create some masterpieces. Nothing has to fit any kind of mold saying "This works and this doesn't."
When you decide, hey I don't like using loops, lets write 10,000 if statements, you aren't creating art, you're creating a bad program and ugly code. You don't have much freedom in code, I guess you could say efficient code with as few lines as possible is art, but not the same way poetry is an art.
What is CodeCon?
I think this gives a decent picture of what to expect at CodeCon: That's sort of the beauty of CodeCon: people come here to share their weird creations, even if all the bugs haven't quite gotten worked out yet. A place people come to share their weird creations. And if you read the entire article it seems like they're tech related creations, with a ton of geeks around. The yo-yos aren't important, they're mentioned because of the REACTION to the yo-yos, the people their were true crackers, trying to figure out how the yo-yos worked, taking them apart, making them better. That was why it was mentioned, not that there was anything special about them. Sure the article does swing between so many different topics (placebos, dune, codecon, geek habits) but it's a little interesting (although I also don't understand how it got posted, there really isn't much of a point to the story.)
... as soon as the site loaded I couldn't help from clicking the "Nude Beaches" link.
Not trying to be a troll or flamebait or anything but wouldn't it be really funny if they discovered life on mars? Hearing all those religious leaders say "Oh and ummm we just found this in our bibles, two pages were stuck together, it now says on the 8th day god was sick and sneezed, and created life on mars yeah so check your bibles." And think of all the people that would deny it for years, claiming it was a hoax. Way more than the moon hoax people.
So the sad result of the study is that half the users don't seem to get it yet... How can we drag them in?
Why would we want to drag them in? Ever think anything they have to say is probably pointless and interesting to no one? Or maybe they don't know how to post, or maybe they lied, or maybe they don't speak english well? This isn't like voting where every voice should be heard, this is the internet, there's enough content, we don't need more (emphasis on need, it wouldn't hurt but it's not like information is lacking). When there's a lack of information on the internet because people are afraid to post or experts don't want to post opinions without getting paid or everything on the net is all one sided (like if everyone posting on the net shared the views of the KKK or something like that), then we can say it's a sad state of affairs. I doubt that day will ever come. Experts post their opinions online, people aren't afraid to post things, and the information is very wide and varied (you can find anything on the net, from how to build a spud gun, to replacement ash trays on a 1974 mercury comet.)
...if the admin put up a nice message that said "These are not the images you are looking for." Much better than a connection refused.
I know this is really stupid, and the person shouldn't be labeled a cyber terrorist but what if this was a real act of terrorism? What if a terrorist decided to do something like this on a much larger scale?
If some sort of worm was on the internet changing peoples dialup numbers to 911, would we then claim it was an act of terrorism? How large does an attack have to be before it's labeled as terrorism?
Keep in mind I am NOT saying what he did was terrorism, I am just asking, if this affected 21,000 computers instead of 21 would we still feel it wasn't terrorism?
how cool would UT2004 be on that!
Speaking from experience, very cool.
Except for the fact that it's VERY hard to find a comfortable gaming position in this type of setup (unless you move your desk and stuff.) I had my PC hooked up to my 56" HDTV, and my Live drive's optical output hooked up to my surround sound system, it was very very sweet. The only issue I had was trying to sit on the couch and play. No place for a wrist rest, no place for my keyboard (except my lap) it became really annoying. I eventually used my coffee table as a desk and built a chair with seat cushions, it was decent but not as nice as a chair/desk setup. It would have been much nicer if I setup the TV for a good viewing position too, it's nice sitting in front of a 21" computer monitor cause you can see everything easily. But when you sit right in front of a 56" HDTV things become very hard to see. If you're too close a lot of stuff is out of sight since it's such a huge viewing area and if you're too far you can't see things like that sniper off in the distance.
...wake up in the morning and there's a body hanging outside your window. "There's something on the wing!"
Anyone else think one of the astronauts ordered a real doll and when the other astronauts caught him with it they put it outside? Then when NASA asked about the body outside the space station they just answered "Uhh well we're ummmmm testing the affects of radiation on the human body, yeah that's it."
It's a sex site, so they would have to pay to actually see anything. At most they would see a few pictures of naked women but so what? If I went to a movie theatre and swapped "Lion King 1 1/2" with "Faces of Death" I don't think I'd get a year in prison. But if I swapped it with "Clockwork Orgy" (yeah that's a real movie, yeah I have it) I'd be thrown in prison for years, every parent organization in america would be after me, church leaders would print out flyers of my face to set on fire outside, and G. W. Bush would try and make an amendment on the constitution that'll make me suffer the death penalty.
There's a HUGE difference in taking pictures of a child in explicit sexual activity, and showing them obscene sexually explicit material. Child pornography can damage a child psychologically. You can read this if you would like to know more.
Now exposing a child to pornography, I don't see how this can be "damaging" especially when it's a website that's mostly pictures (and nothing really bad, since you need to sign up on these pages to see that stuff.) The most these children could have seen are some sexual organs. I don't see what's wrong with that as we will all probably see stuff like that at a young age anyway (friends, father's porn collection, some delis that sell certain magazines to minors, TV.)
The space elevator can only get the stuff/people up into space, but without a place to put them they arn't much use.
Yeah because we all know it is completely immpossible to use the counterweight as a new space station/
...on a laptop it's really stupid. I have a lojack installed with something VERY similar to this. It's one of the best anti-theft devices I've ever had on any car. I have a little keychain that I keep with my keys and inside the car is a kind of transmitter. If the car is moving and the keychain is not present, lojack will call my cell phone, send me an e-mail (I receive e-mails on my phone) and call my house. I can add more contact methods (text messaging, more phone numbers, like work or something) but these are the easiest ways to contact me.
The good thing about this (and the bad thing about the laptop one) is if I'm using a car, it's going to be on and the keys are gonna be in it so the keychain is gonna be in the car. If I'm going to go to the bathroom, I'm going to park, turn off my car, take the keys out and go to the bathroom. Now if I'm using a laptop, and I want to go to the bathroom, I'm not going to carry the laptop with me (and if I was going to carry the laptop the device becomes completely pointless.)
This device is useless, if you're going to be 15 feet away from your laptop (ok my bedroom is 15 feet across, it's not very far) you should be able to see anyone going near it that's going to attempt to take it. And if they're going to snatch it up while you're that close this little alarm won't help since they're gonna run and not really care who hears the alarm (they could always just smash it off with their foot, I mean it just hangs off the side, it might crack the case of the laptop but who cares they just got a free laptop.)
Yeah the retailer should never know when you buy condoms, so when you go up to the counter to pay for them rip off the bar code and assure the clerk it's the right one while keeping the condoms in your pocket.
This is really dumb, the store knows when you buy personal items if they have a RFID tag or not. When you go to the counter and pay for the items, hey someone's gonna know! And it kind of tips people off when you carry them in your cart or basket. Also, if you use a CVS card or anything like that they keep track of what you buy and send you flyers and ads home based on that information.
We're not too far from the thought police at all? Where the hell did that come from? RFID tags can't read your mind, if you have one on your body no one's gonna be able to track you from a satellite, it doesn't transmit brain waves. You'd need a reader really close to the device anyway. Not like the CIA is gonna follow you around with a RFID tag reader, that'll defeat the purpose of having the tag installed secretly in the first place.
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