Ahh you poor poor people. My home Internet connection runs average at 6.0 Mbps downstream. Peak at 0400 weeknights is around 7.2 Mbps including what little compression can be done with what I download. Peak xfer I have hit ever was 8800Kbps sustained from Microsoft. I'm in Canada giving us "lucky" Canadian cable users only 153 times slower.
1) the tags cannot be deactivated, are not deactivated when you purchase the item
Hmm.. yet to find anything like this that "can't" be done. They are going to have a harder time keeping them active in the store all the way to checkout than we are deactivating them.
2) each tag has a unique ID - buy 3 identical pants, 3 tags have 3 different ID numbers.
The math here would make this impractical, think how many products there are in the world, how many brands of each product, how many sizes for each brand and then try stack on top of that another single unique for each six pack of gillete mach3 razor blades? Think how many cans of coke are sold a day. Not practical. One ID per specific product. Every can of coke - same id.
3.) pay with a traceable currency, like a credit card, and into the database goes your credit card info AND the IDs of the things you bought.
And pay with traceable currency now and into that same database goes the same info off your reciept. This falls back on the last comment. One ID for each product group, not individually unique no different than current practice.
4.) From now on, anyone with a scanner and access to the database where you bought stuff can know who you are, where you are. Walk into a Walmart on the other side of the world, and your RFID tag can identify you (or at least the purchaser of the goods). Have not only your buying habits, but your shopping habits tracked, stored, and datamined. Buy a shirt at a garage sale and get arrested for being someone else! Have more of your info make it into the Total Information Awareeness uberdatabase.
Under most situations I have encountered, an ISP is more concerned with the number of IP address they need to supply than with the number of machines on your connection. Having 1 or 100 machines behind a router causes little difference to your internet connection and the strain on the isp than someone who leaves kazaa running. The major concern with most ISP's is the number of address they have to lease in order to provide their customers with. I currently work for an ISP that provides 2 IP address and extra's are bout $5.00 a month. If you have a router, we won't support your network setup but we do allow you to have a router with as many devices as you see fit. Your monthly bandwidth may become an issue if you have too many machines on one connection. If that s the case however, you should be using more than one connetion anyway. Most of you ar home users with a linux box and a couple pc's and would use the same bandwidth if you only had one pc. I wouldn't stress to hard about ISP's scanning your NAT box to see how many machines you have in there since it's the number of public IP's they have to own that is the biggest concern.
Just wondering about that rejected message you mentioned. Is not 550 the "no relay" message and not a spam message? This message is only sent to the sender when they are trying to send e-mail through an smtp server other than the one for their smtp
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Ahh you poor poor people. My home Internet connection runs average at 6.0 Mbps downstream. Peak at 0400 weeknights is around 7.2 Mbps including what little compression can be done with what I download. Peak xfer I have hit ever was 8800Kbps sustained from Microsoft. I'm in Canada giving us "lucky" Canadian cable users only 153 times slower.
1) the tags cannot be deactivated, are not deactivated when you purchase the item
Hmm.. yet to find anything like this that "can't" be done. They are going to have a harder time keeping them active in the store all the way to checkout than we are deactivating them.
2) each tag has a unique ID - buy 3 identical pants, 3 tags have 3 different ID numbers.
The math here would make this impractical, think how many products there are in the world, how many brands of each product, how many sizes for each brand and then try stack on top of that another single unique for each six pack of gillete mach3 razor blades? Think how many cans of coke are sold a day. Not practical. One ID per specific product. Every can of coke - same id.
3.) pay with a traceable currency, like a credit card, and into the database goes your credit card info AND the IDs of the things you bought.
And pay with traceable currency now and into that same database goes the same info off your reciept. This falls back on the last comment. One ID for each product group, not individually unique no different than current practice.
4.) From now on, anyone with a scanner and access to the database where you bought stuff can know who you are, where you are. Walk into a Walmart on the other side of the world, and your RFID tag can identify you (or at least the purchaser of the goods). Have not only your buying habits, but your shopping habits tracked, stored, and datamined. Buy a shirt at a garage sale and get arrested for being someone else! Have more of your info make it into the Total Information Awareeness uberdatabase.
Do I even have to reply to this one?
Under most situations I have encountered, an ISP is more concerned with the number of IP address they need to supply than with the number of machines on your connection. Having 1 or 100 machines behind a router causes little difference to your internet connection and the strain on the isp than someone who leaves kazaa running. The major concern with most ISP's is the number of address they have to lease in order to provide their customers with. I currently work for an ISP that provides 2 IP address and extra's are bout $5.00 a month. If you have a router, we won't support your network setup but we do allow you to have a router with as many devices as you see fit. Your monthly bandwidth may become an issue if you have too many machines on one connection. If that s the case however, you should be using more than one connetion anyway. Most of you ar home users with a linux box and a couple pc's and would use the same bandwidth if you only had one pc. I wouldn't stress to hard about ISP's scanning your NAT box to see how many machines you have in there since it's the number of public IP's they have to own that is the biggest concern.
Just wondering about that rejected message you mentioned. Is not 550 the "no relay" message and not a spam message? This message is only sent to the sender when they are trying to send e-mail through an smtp server other than the one for their smtp