This is at best old news. We already have this in the UK in various versions.
We have sensors hanging from motorway bridges and along major routes they monitor trafic speed and report when it slows down or stops. Some of our systems also report when you are nearing a speed enforcement camera.
Most of these things need a couple of hundred quid (Sorry USAnians out there quid=GB Pounds) subscription per year. OH yeah and some of them can track stolen cars by using the mobile phone network to triangulate the position of the vehicle, very accurate (about 10 metres resolution) and hard to defeat.
There are "strings" of DNA which are considered to be "junk" by geneticists. These strings may represent "old code" not used by modern organisms because conditions since the appearance of the first primitive single-celled organisms has changed so radically.
This DNA would be an excellent place to store files, messages or even your favourite pr0n stash as the data capacity represented is fairly large [1].
BTW you have about 70% of your DNA in common with a cucumber.
For us in.uk a "Prescott" is a byword for a bumbling buffoon.
Characterised by:
1). Rambling incoherent communications.
2). A violent temper which could blow at any time.
3). A tendancy to do a rapid about about-face whenever challenged by the realities of hard work.
Do we really need a chip like this?
Note: For those not in.uk you should not that Prescott is our Deputy Prime Minister.
Girlfriend in one corner.
Coffee machine loaded with Monsooned Malabar in the other corner.
View over town centre to watch life go by.
2 minutes walk from favourite kite flying space (the beach)
5 minutes walk from home.
Sounds like the perfect office to me I wish it was mine...
I get 1 - 2 spam messages on my phone per day. Some days it's 4 - 5 This is a problem because:
1) No thank you, I do not wish to win a holiday. (Where I tend to travel, package holiday firms do not)
2) I'm not interested in dating. (I'm all fixed up there)
3) Ditto "Text chatting" (I have friends thank you)
4) I already have a call tarrif that suits me (If I want to change I will go looking for myself)
5) My phone only has space for 15 messages and if the phone is off for a day or two (yes I DO have weekends) I have to clear out the spam before getting on to the messages I want / need / should read.
I've talked (at length and with growing frustration) to the network provider (Vodaphone UK) and they tell me that it's not their problem and the spam is coming from a different network. If this is so:
1) Why do they allow it onto their network in the first place?
2) Why is the return address a Vodaphone shortcut number?
Answers which come to mind are:
1) They're making pots of money out of this and so it will require legislation to protect the consumer.
2) They couldn't give a rats arse about their customers.
3) The UK government couldn't give a rats arse either so long as the network licence fees are being paid.
Solutions?
After the "pleasant chats" I've had with Vodaphone's "Customer Services" I feel like a small tactical nuke on a certain call centre is in order.
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Sorry Anonymous Coward, I wasn't denying the availability of other systems just reporting on ours.
BTW when "having a go" at other posters please sign in as a registered user rather than AC. It makes the place so much more interesting.
This is at best old news. We already have this in the UK in various versions.
We have sensors hanging from motorway bridges and along major routes they monitor trafic speed and report when it slows down or stops. Some of our systems also report when you are nearing a speed enforcement camera.
Most of these things need a couple of hundred quid (Sorry USAnians out there quid=GB Pounds) subscription per year. OH yeah and some of them can track stolen cars by using the mobile phone network to triangulate the position of the vehicle, very accurate (about 10 metres resolution) and hard to defeat.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of humans...
We are Dyslexia of Borg. Rennaisance is fertile. Prepare to have your arse laminated.
There are "strings" of DNA which are considered to be "junk" by geneticists. These strings may represent "old code" not used by modern organisms because conditions since the appearance of the first primitive single-celled organisms has changed so radically.
This DNA would be an excellent place to store files, messages or even your favourite pr0n stash as the data capacity represented is fairly large [1].
BTW you have about 70% of your DNA in common with a cucumber.
Ian
[1] For relative and various values of large.
For us in .uk a "Prescott" is a byword for a bumbling buffoon.
.uk you should not that Prescott is our Deputy Prime Minister.
Characterised by:
1). Rambling incoherent communications.
2). A violent temper which could blow at any time.
3). A tendancy to do a rapid about about-face whenever challenged by the realities of hard work.
Do we really need a chip like this?
Note: For those not in
Girlfriend in one corner.
Coffee machine loaded with Monsooned Malabar in the other corner.
View over town centre to watch life go by.
2 minutes walk from favourite kite flying space (the beach)
5 minutes walk from home.
Sounds like the perfect office to me I wish it was mine...
Oooops! It is my office.
I get 1 - 2 spam messages on my phone per day. Some days it's 4 - 5
This is a problem because:
1) No thank you, I do not wish to win a holiday. (Where I tend to travel, package holiday firms do not)
2) I'm not interested in dating. (I'm all fixed up there)
3) Ditto "Text chatting" (I have friends thank you)
4) I already have a call tarrif that suits me (If I want to change I will go looking for myself)
5) My phone only has space for 15 messages and if the phone is off for a day or two (yes I DO have weekends) I have to clear out the spam before getting on to the messages I want / need / should read.
I've talked (at length and with growing frustration) to the network provider (Vodaphone UK) and they tell me that it's not their problem and the spam is coming from a different network.
If this is so:
1) Why do they allow it onto their network in the first place?
2) Why is the return address a Vodaphone shortcut number?
Answers which come to mind are:
1) They're making pots of money out of this and so it will require legislation to protect the consumer.
2) They couldn't give a rats arse about their customers.
3) The UK government couldn't give a rats arse either so long as the network licence fees are being paid.
Solutions?
After the "pleasant chats" I've had with Vodaphone's "Customer Services" I feel like a small tactical nuke on a certain call centre is in order.