I worked in a retail store to pay for university, and the gift certificates we had were the equivalent of real money. You had to buy *something* with them, but the you had the choice of getting the balance as more certificates or cash.
Does anyone know if the reader sends an encryption key, or if the RFID tag has the horsepower to use this to encrypt it's data dynamically?
If not, and the data is encrypted-but-static, how long will it take for third-parties to build a RFID/registration number database which can then be linked to your personal information and allow anyone to track your vehicle anywhere?
I don't really see this working for a rural population - the population density is too low to make it feasable. For broadband data rates, distance is limited, and so the subscriber-per-basestation is not economic unless everyone is a subscriber and has very small farms. An advantage is, of course, that farmland is radio-friendly.
Cities have the opposite problem, in that the individual bandwidth on a shared carrier is horrible, and the environment is radio-hostile.
A semi-rural(hobby/weekend farm, dairy, etc), fringe community or small town environment is the sweet spot for this technology.
Telstra has been making these noises for years, with nothing to show for it. A company(with a government grant) tried to set up a wireless data/phone network with Marconi gear near where my parents live in a semi-rural area, but the landscape defeated them. They would have needed too many base stations to make it viable.
There probably arn't many people there that both want and can afford the product. I suspect that there are also some advantages there when installing the infrastructure - physical access to buildings for sites, data pipes to the sites, street layout friendly to signal propagation, city council friendly to McCaw, etc.
You do not do a test where you'll be swamped by users in a hostile environment. 300/75bps speeds and dead spots like freckles on a read-head are not going to help.
Try and find a documentary on the manufacture of an IC, especially the work that goes into making the initial silicon slug that the wafers are sliced from.
Most plastics are refined from hydrocarbons in a long and nasty process. Polymers are a different matter, but still take a lot of raw materials to get to the gooey stage.
Smelting ore to get steel is an energy intensive process, and one which has a relatively low yeild for the amount of rock you dig out of the ground.
I'm more interested in the energy consumed in the process, right from the mine to the loading dock.
The charger would be trying to deliver twice the designed current, by trying to pump up the pulse voltage(I assume they use a charge/rest/discharge technique), plus any bad battery detection/safety cutout would be negated.
Is would be interesting to watch, but I'll be standing over *there* while you try, if you don't mind...
Some may find it funny and some may find it predicatable, but I posted it because the fact that Linux runs on more than x86-32 needs to be emphasized.
Linux is more than a "Windows competitor". It is a highly adaptable OS which has and will continue to be ported to more hardware platforms than most realize.
From MMU-less bare-bones 32bit cores to massively parallel and redundant big iron, and some really weird things in between, if the hardware exists, someone will port it.
There have been some OS products with wide varieties of supported platforms before(mainly embedded/RTOS products), but I doubt we'll see any which will support all 64bit platforms - and I think Linux will.
So, when I use Mozilla's Simple or Plain body view, or check the "Do not load remote images..." preferences option, I'm actually impeding a federal agent in the execution of their duties.
We intent to. We have an Arena 8611 FC RAID unit connected to a Xeon rsync server. All the other servers back up to it daily, and it can then take a snapshot and write it to tape.
Stage two is multiple snapshots with enough free disk to keep dailies/weeklies going back as far as possible before being freed.
Recipe for sheathing the metal frame of the airship to form an taut aerodynamic shape resistant to temperature fluctuations due to sunlight:
* A base skin of cotton canvas * A first layer of iron oxide * A cellulose butyrate acetate based paint * Aluminum powder mixed in to reflect the sunlight
Recipe for rocket fuel, as used in the Space Shuttle's SRBs:
* Ammonium Perchlorate (69.9%) * Aluminum Powder (16%) * Iron Oxide (0.4%) * Other - Polymer Binder, Curing Agent, etc. (14%)
Assuming that only a fraction of offenders are caught or convicted in the first place, it would follow that a high percentage of offenders won't get caught a second time, even if they do re-offend.
Of course, having form would tend to make them a possible suspect in any local incident, but on the other hand, some would learn from their mistakes and offend more intelligently.
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I worked in a retail store to pay for university, and the gift certificates we had were the equivalent of real money. You had to buy *something* with them, but the you had the choice of getting the balance as more certificates or cash.
This was early 90's in Australia, so YMMV.
Panelling the ceiling with mirrors is old-tech. With the advances that modern audio-visual technology brings, you can also do:
* Select viewing angle
* Slow-motion replay
* Rewind, fast-forward, and skip to event or time-mark
* Watch a re-run of last week's performance
Just think of the possibilities!
I hope it's a troll. I *really* *really* hope so...
I'm only 32. :-{
How can people possibly get this wrong? The simplest conversion to remember is 25.4mm in an inch, and everything multiplies out from there.
Disclaimer: I'm an Australian who entered the school system after the metric system was adoped.
Does anyone know if the reader sends an encryption key, or if the RFID tag has the horsepower to use this to encrypt it's data dynamically?
If not, and the data is encrypted-but-static, how long will it take for third-parties to build a RFID/registration number database which can then be linked to your personal information and allow anyone to track your vehicle anywhere?
I don't really see this working for a rural population - the population density is too low to make it feasable. For broadband data rates, distance is limited, and so the subscriber-per-basestation is not economic unless everyone is a subscriber and has very small farms. An advantage is, of course, that farmland is radio-friendly.
Cities have the opposite problem, in that the individual bandwidth on a shared carrier is horrible, and the environment is radio-hostile.
A semi-rural(hobby/weekend farm, dairy, etc), fringe community or small town environment is the sweet spot for this technology.
Telstra has been making these noises for years, with nothing to show for it. A company(with a government grant) tried to set up a wireless data/phone network with Marconi gear near where my parents live in a semi-rural area, but the landscape defeated them. They would have needed too many base stations to make it viable.
There probably arn't many people there that both want and can afford the product. I suspect that there are also some advantages there when installing the infrastructure - physical access to buildings for sites, data pipes to the sites, street layout friendly to signal propagation, city council friendly to McCaw, etc.
You do not do a test where you'll be swamped by users in a hostile environment. 300/75bps speeds and dead spots like freckles on a read-head are not going to help.
s/symbiotic/parasitic/
I can see the "Post Anonymously" option, but where do I find the "Post Humously" option?
Sorry, SlashCode doesn't support that option. You should be looking for a community site that runs a Ouija Board.
Try and find a documentary on the manufacture of an IC, especially the work that goes into making the initial silicon slug that the wafers are sliced from.
Most plastics are refined from hydrocarbons in a long and nasty process. Polymers are a different matter, but still take a lot of raw materials to get to the gooey stage.
Smelting ore to get steel is an energy intensive process, and one which has a relatively low yeild for the amount of rock you dig out of the ground.
I'm more interested in the energy consumed in the process, right from the mine to the loading dock.
The charger would be trying to deliver twice the designed current, by trying to pump up the pulse voltage(I assume they use a charge/rest/discharge technique), plus any bad battery detection/safety cutout would be negated.
Is would be interesting to watch, but I'll be standing over *there* while you try, if you don't mind...
The proxy couldn't find it, and neither could it's peers.
Some may find it funny and some may find it predicatable, but I posted it because the fact that Linux runs on more than x86-32 needs to be emphasized.
Linux is more than a "Windows competitor". It is a highly adaptable OS which has and will continue to be ported to more hardware platforms than most realize.
From MMU-less bare-bones 32bit cores to massively parallel and redundant big iron, and some really weird things in between, if the hardware exists, someone will port it.
There have been some OS products with wide varieties of supported platforms before(mainly embedded/RTOS products), but I doubt we'll see any which will support all 64bit platforms - and I think Linux will.
2 minutes after posting, it's +4 Funny.
Come on moderators, it's Insightful, not Funny!
There will be one operating system that will support all (64-bit) extended systems.
He's right. It's called Linux.
You probably don't want to know about Apollo's Public Domain, then...
They've got RFIDs, so an IP(v6 perhaps) is just around the corner. The rollout could happen any day.
Now they've slowed down from Ludicrous Speed and landed safely, they can begin combing the desert.
So, when I use Mozilla's Simple or Plain body view, or check the "Do not load remote images..." preferences option, I'm actually impeding a federal agent in the execution of their duties.
Isn't that a crime in the USA?
310 here today....
This is a serious question.
Are you aware that you just called your wife stupid?
We intent to. We have an Arena 8611 FC RAID unit connected to a Xeon rsync server. All the other servers back up to it daily, and it can then take a snapshot and write it to tape.
Stage two is multiple snapshots with enough free disk to keep dailies/weeklies going back as far as possible before being freed.
Recipe for sheathing the metal frame of the airship to form an taut aerodynamic shape resistant to temperature fluctuations due to sunlight:
* A base skin of cotton canvas
* A first layer of iron oxide
* A cellulose butyrate acetate based paint
* Aluminum powder mixed in to reflect the sunlight
Recipe for rocket fuel, as used in the Space Shuttle's SRBs:
* Ammonium Perchlorate (69.9%)
* Aluminum Powder (16%)
* Iron Oxide (0.4%)
* Other - Polymer Binder, Curing Agent, etc. (14%)
See here among many, many other places.
Assuming that only a fraction of offenders are caught or convicted in the first place, it would follow that a high percentage of offenders won't get caught a second time, even if they do re-offend.
Of course, having form would tend to make them a possible suspect in any local incident, but on the other hand, some would learn from their mistakes and offend more intelligently.