That reminds me of a very stupid tax law in Michigan. I don't know if it's still around or not. If your school DID NOT raise tuition more then 2% that year, then you as a student qualified for a deduction on your income tax. If they did raise tuition too much, you lose out on that deduction as well. What's the point of taking more money from students who are already being charged too much?
That's right, it's supposed to be Bat Man. But wait it gets worst! Ken Brown also sponsored this video game where your goal is to kill a penguin. Oh the humanity!:o)
Forgive the obvious title. The thing I think a lot of people don't get when they say RFID is like barcodes, is that a barcode is just for a type of object. It's visibly printed on the package. It has to be visible to scan.
RFID will allow companies to have tags embedded into the products, be readable from a short distance without being visible and without knowing it's been scanned, and have the capacity to track individual items.
A bar code scan could show something you what brand Razor Blade you have using UPC if you still had the package. An RFID scan could tell you when the blade was made, when it was sold, who stocked it, when it was shipped, etc and it could be embedded into the blades. Carry it back into the store, purchased or stolen and they could identify you via credit card records.
Just like TiVo, companies will suddenly know exactly who bought what, no more focus groups needed. Regular consumer companies could benefit from this by making inventory easier, and suppliers and manufacturers could use data mining of customer data to know not just how many were sold, but complete demographic data on every person who purchased it. Just connect the databases.
I understand people who say technology is neither good or bad, it depends on how you use it. Still you have to admit that some technology is much more easily applied towards good or bad purposes. Computers make copying easy and almost impossible to stop, just like RFID will make tracking items easy. It seems designed to do all the things privacy advocates dread.
A typical user user who only chats and does email gets this box. It's $600 + $20 / month. It only runs digitally signed and encrypted software, but the users don't care becase there are no spyware, viruses or other scary things on it, it even dials home every night to make sure that nothing new and scary had been found lately.
Toss a Full copy of Office or something on it to make it useful, but users can't change the running software. No need to bother with tech support, it just works.
Then add something like Lindows (er whatever now) OneClick shopping to add new digitally signed and encryped software to your computer. Nothing to do but click and type your credit card number. It installs and configures itself while you keep browsing with maybe a little animation playing.
I don't know what the market for this would be, but I know some people that would love a machine they would see as guarenteed safe instead of making them feel stupid when the next virus hits and wipes out their stuff.
The non-tinfoil-hat crowd could see this as a feature, just like they don't care to open up and change their VCR or DVD player by themselves.
Freedom isn't for everybody. Some people just aren't ready for it.
Lets see, people are worth about 10 million a piece. That's based on how many people there are in the US, and what they are willing to spend to have a safer job and all the other BS mentioned in the article.
So lets play the numbers for other countries. How does population, exchange rates, etc play in? Is it worth it to kill vermiscripters in England? Russia? Canada? China? India?
He is essentially suggesting that a life is worth a certain amount of cumulative computer/network uptime. How would you like your SLA to say you get 5 nines or someone dies?
Consider that if you kill someone, they may have been a moderator on Slashdot. On the other hand your that much closer to getting first post. How will that affect your Karma? The world wants to know.
As long as GPS is the only game in town, the US has a stranglehold on the superpower market. The US can regulate the GPS satellites and could cut off anyone else at any time. Seeing as GPS has revolutionized warfare, this means the US gets an automatic bonus in any war.
That's right, they get a +5 accuracy on all medium and long range weapons.
I agree about Microsoft Licensing costs being a killer, but they are not going after free Linux, they are going after Red Hat and Suse who make money offering support for these high end projects. Lawernce Livermore used Red Hat Enterprise for it's last cluster and it not free.
My thinking is that it will be a typical Microsoft product. It will be big, bloated, expensive, but easy enough to use that someone without an advanced CS degree may be able to create a supercomputer application after taking some certification courses. Another McEngineer.
It will appear cheaper at first, but once you throw in training, certification, and lost cycles and support it will cost quite a bit. Who knows. Maybe like the iPod mini there is a market for this out there that hardcore geeks can't see. Who has to be convinced to spend the money? They are the real targets.
1) Copy music CDs for personal use: legal 2) Copy game CDs for personal use: illegal 3) Copy TV shows for personal use: legal 4) Copy DVDs for personal use: illegal
Except for the numbering, I think you got it right.
I saw a table selling nothing but Childrens Games on CD's that had obviously been stolen from the outside of Cereal Boxes. The CD's even had printed on them not for retail sale or something like that. Only $10 each. I think I told about 15 people that he stole them from Cereal boxes. I don't know what happened after that, but the other people seemed like they would take care of it.:o)
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That reminds me of a very stupid tax law in Michigan. I don't know if it's still around or not. If your school DID NOT raise tuition more then 2% that year, then you as a student qualified for a deduction on your income tax. If they did raise tuition too much, you lose out on that deduction as well. What's the point of taking more money from students who are already being charged too much?
Next Weeks Episode
:o)
POW!!
ZAP!!!
KRACK!!
That's right, it's supposed to be Bat Man. But wait it gets worst! Ken Brown also sponsored this video game where your goal is to kill a penguin. Oh the humanity!
10 years in the future Cars will be free, you'll only have to pay for Gas.
Does this mean the internet is going to collapse?
That would make it faster them my computer.
Forgive the obvious title. The thing I think a lot of people don't get when they say RFID is like barcodes, is that a barcode is just for a type of object. It's visibly printed on the package. It has to be visible to scan.
RFID will allow companies to have tags embedded into the products, be readable from a short distance without being visible and without knowing it's been scanned, and have the capacity to track individual items.
A bar code scan could show something you what brand Razor Blade you have using UPC if you still had the package. An RFID scan could tell you when the blade was made, when it was sold, who stocked it, when it was shipped, etc and it could be embedded into the blades. Carry it back into the store, purchased or stolen and they could identify you via credit card records.
Just like TiVo, companies will suddenly know exactly who bought what, no more focus groups needed. Regular consumer companies could benefit from this by making inventory easier, and suppliers and manufacturers could use data mining of customer data to know not just how many were sold, but complete demographic data on every person who purchased it. Just connect the databases.
I understand people who say technology is neither good or bad, it depends on how you use it. Still you have to admit that some technology is much more easily applied towards good or bad purposes. Computers make copying easy and almost impossible to stop, just like RFID will make tracking items easy. It seems designed to do all the things privacy advocates dread.
Ah but consider this.
A typical user user who only chats and does email gets this box. It's $600 + $20 / month. It only runs digitally signed and encrypted software, but the users don't care becase there are no spyware, viruses or other scary things on it, it even dials home every night to make sure that nothing new and scary had been found lately.
Toss a Full copy of Office or something on it to make it useful, but users can't change the running software. No need to bother with tech support, it just works.
Then add something like Lindows (er whatever now) OneClick shopping to add new digitally signed and encryped software to your computer. Nothing to do but click and type your credit card number. It installs and configures itself while you keep browsing with maybe a little animation playing.
I don't know what the market for this would be, but I know some people that would love a machine they would see as guarenteed safe instead of making them feel stupid when the next virus hits and wipes out their stuff.
The non-tinfoil-hat crowd could see this as a feature, just like they don't care to open up and change their VCR or DVD player by themselves.
Freedom isn't for everybody. Some people just aren't ready for it.
To bad about the logo, but it can work on 32bits...
From the ArticleSo just get your 64 bit emulator running and you too can enjoy tomorrows viruses today!
Lets see, people are worth about 10 million a piece. That's based on how many people there are in the US, and what they are willing to spend to have a safer job and all the other BS mentioned in the article.
So lets play the numbers for other countries. How does population, exchange rates, etc play in? Is it worth it to kill vermiscripters in England? Russia? Canada? China? India?
He is essentially suggesting that a life is worth a certain amount of cumulative computer/network uptime. How would you like your SLA to say you get 5 nines or someone dies?
Consider that if you kill someone, they may have been a moderator on Slashdot. On the other hand your that much closer to getting first post. How will that affect your Karma? The world wants to know.
As long as GPS is the only game in town, the US has a stranglehold on the superpower market. The US can regulate the GPS satellites and could cut off anyone else at any time. Seeing as GPS has revolutionized warfare, this means the US gets an automatic bonus in any war.
That's right, they get a +5 accuracy on all medium and long range weapons.
I agree about Microsoft Licensing costs being a killer, but they are not going after free Linux, they are going after Red Hat and Suse who make money offering support for these high end projects. Lawernce Livermore used Red Hat Enterprise for it's last cluster and it not free.
My thinking is that it will be a typical Microsoft product. It will be big, bloated, expensive, but easy enough to use that someone without an advanced CS degree may be able to create a supercomputer application after taking some certification courses. Another McEngineer.
It will appear cheaper at first, but once you throw in training, certification, and lost cycles and support it will cost quite a bit. Who knows. Maybe like the iPod mini there is a market for this out there that hardcore geeks can't see. Who has to be convinced to spend the money? They are the real targets.
CmdrTaco's Marriage Proposal
Of course we don't know what else was bartered, but I'm sure there was the occasional computer service thrown in.
Melted Penny
Face on Mars
Now we know how it must be a hoax, or a really big Martian penny.
P.S. I know you can get my domain from looking at my profile, but I figured I keep the example simple by using [mydomain.com].
;o)
Get with the program - RFC 2606 clearly says that example.com has been set aside specifically for this purpose.
but frankly your government blow...and sucks at the same time.
I agree, but it's not in the good way I was thinking of.
1) Copy music CDs for personal use: legal
2) Copy game CDs for personal use: illegal
3) Copy TV shows for personal use: legal
4) Copy DVDs for personal use: illegal
Except for the numbering, I think you got it right.
So each node is directly connected to six ajacent nodes.
Excellent. We can finally solve the Optimal Dungeon Theorem on hex tile games.
If only we could go back to the good ol days when someone getting stone involved figuring out what to do with the body.
That's only 6.3X more productive in Imperial Productivity Units.
I can't think they'd ever get many last words besides "AAAAAAGH!"
I wonder if they would have time to carve that on the inside of the suit...
I saw a table selling nothing but Childrens Games on CD's that had obviously been stolen from the outside of Cereal Boxes. The CD's even had printed on them not for retail sale or something like that. Only $10 each. I think I told about 15 people that he stole them from Cereal boxes. I don't know what happened after that, but the other people seemed like they would take care of it. :o)
The $5 Million reward is only payable in Vouchers for Microsoft Software.
Part of the long horn specs, remember?
I love the Shielded cap. All the benefits of an aluminum foil beanie, without the strange looks.
Damn, feel free to fix it. I'm up way too late w/ 2bd new born