Perhaps your language and attitude will improve once you graduate from middle school. The EMF, and resultant energy, is extremely small. You might as well set up a microphone to capture the car's "sound energy" to generate electricity.
LRAD can't produce 150dB at distance - only at extremely short range (a couple of meters). Passive hearing protection will work quite well against it, and, better yet, holding up a piece of wood with just bounce the beam right back to the guy that sent it.
Absolutely. We've been hearing hype from them about their "potential" for years, while there's still no product, while they meanwhile burn through $100 million in VC. Perhaps the recent hype is here because they need some new investors. Typical.
Well, I suppose when they sink >$100m of VC money into this business, they eventually have to start showing some revenue. With $3000 development kits. Boy, I'm impressed!
Even if they are slower in real-world applications, they are still orders of magnitude faster than what this article was claiming was some kind of speed problem.
I don't know how fast all plant machinery runs. I suppose the point is that existing, off-the-shelf barcode scanners can run easily as fast as any plant machinery. Certainly doesn't seem like speed is much of a concern that RFID will fix!
There is very little value-added by RFID on individual product packages, considering the costs involved. A bar-code is essentially free, while they're going to be hard-pressed to make a RFID tag under $0.10. So they might be useful for large palettes and such, there's just no clear advantage over a regular barcode.
And what's this nonsense about barcodes and speed concerns? 600ft/minute is nothing. Standard barcode readers can easily do 700 scans/sec.. So these scanners could handle speeds of 3500 ft/minute.
Forgive my ignorance, but why on earth would anyone want RAID on their laptop? If you really need to protect your data, nightly backups should be quite sufficient.
This is nothing more than an attempt by NASA to appear relevant. They're little more than a sink-hole for people's hard-earned money. Nano is the latest hype, designed only to keep them seeming at the forefront, so that congress can justify continuing to fund them.
It *is* the point. Yeah, no one is going to point a gun at Google execs and force them to interview, but no one is claiming that.
The point is, Google is throwing a hissy-fit after someone demonstrated how their own service "invaded" their CEO's privacy. It's an excellent article, and an excellent example. Google is being completely asinine about it, which is very amusing.
Why is Google constantly being mentioned on the front page, for completely trivial, non-stories? I cannot believe that Slashdot editors are really just that stupid or incompetent, so there must be some other reason.
My guess: Slashdot (or VA) is trying to sell themselves to Google. They're jealous of the other buyouts, and want their piece of cash.
For shame.
Sorry guys, but the collective sucking of the Google dick and the gentle smooching of the Google ass is not going to do it.
It's hard to tell if you're just being obtuse on purpose, or if you really just don't understand the experiment.
"none" was never written. The CONCEPT was being tested, not the word nor its form. The bird *does* understand some english words, and can identify shape, color, material, and number. I've seen this bird in action personally.
This is all really clear from the work. You really ought to read the article before you start decrying everything as BS.
Well put, you're absolutely right. So far, the US has done an excellent job maintaining the integrity and security of DNS, and there is absolutely no reason to take a risk by handing over the keys to an unproven international group.
I'm very happy to see that they aren't pandering to the feel-good international community with something as important as internet infrastructure. Better to placate them with some other BS projects.
I have every right to comment on the poor decisions Google is making. Yes, it's free, and I wouldn't pay for it if it wasn't - but if they're doing dumb things, I'll happily point them out, especially considering all of the inexplicable google-worship that goes on here.
The satellite imagery is nice and all, but it's not very high quality, nor is it anywhere close to the first in the industry - Mapquest had it for years.
But really, with all the gee whiz about this stuff, Google has totally missed two very important things:
1. A scale! There's no scale on the maps at all! How hard is this to implement, fercrissakes?!
2. Printable routes. The neat purple line overlay showing your driving route is not printed by most browsers (IE/Firefox). Very annoying.
These are really, really easy things for them to implement. I'm stunned that they overlooked it.
EZPASS and Fastlane tags are powered transmitters - there's a lithium battery inside them. This is a complelety different beast from the RFID tags in the casino chips (and other small passive devices).
I suppose this means that it would be OK to put GPS tracking devices on all the policecars in your town. They can't have an expectation of privacy when on a public roadway, right?
I'm sure the GPS info would be *mighty* valuable to certain criminal elements...
I just counted a dozen holograms in my pocket, right now, on all my credit cards. There's another on my laptop, and my server. Perhaps they aren't used in the ways people originally imagined, but they've definitely caught on.
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Bingo. They've had exactly this system at my local car wash for years, as well.
Perhaps your language and attitude will improve once you graduate from middle school. The EMF, and resultant energy, is extremely small. You might as well set up a microphone to capture the car's "sound energy" to generate electricity.
Because most cars are not magnets.
LRAD can't produce 150dB at distance - only at extremely short range (a couple of meters). Passive hearing protection will work quite well against it, and, better yet, holding up a piece of wood with just bounce the beam right back to the guy that sent it.
Piece of cake. Nothing to see here.
You guys are total suckers. Come on!
Absolutely. We've been hearing hype from them about their "potential" for years, while there's still no product, while they meanwhile burn through $100 million in VC. Perhaps the recent hype is here because they need some new investors. Typical.
Well, I suppose when they sink >$100m of VC money into this business, they eventually have to start showing some revenue. With $3000 development kits. Boy, I'm impressed!
LOL
Even if they are slower in real-world applications, they are still orders of magnitude faster than what this article was claiming was some kind of speed problem.
I don't know how fast all plant machinery runs. I suppose the point is that existing, off-the-shelf barcode scanners can run easily as fast as any plant machinery. Certainly doesn't seem like speed is much of a concern that RFID will fix!
There is very little value-added by RFID on individual product packages, considering the costs involved. A bar-code is essentially free, while they're going to be hard-pressed to make a RFID tag under $0.10. So they might be useful for large palettes and such, there's just no clear advantage over a regular barcode.
And what's this nonsense about barcodes and speed concerns? 600ft/minute is nothing. Standard barcode readers can easily do 700 scans/sec.. So these scanners could handle speeds of 3500 ft/minute.
Forgive my ignorance, but why on earth would anyone want RAID on their laptop? If you really need to protect your data, nightly backups should be quite sufficient.
This is nothing more than an attempt by NASA to appear relevant. They're little more than a sink-hole for people's hard-earned money. Nano is the latest hype, designed only to keep them seeming at the forefront, so that congress can justify continuing to fund them.
Disgusting.
It *is* the point. Yeah, no one is going to point a gun at Google execs and force them to interview, but no one is claiming that.
The point is, Google is throwing a hissy-fit after someone demonstrated how their own service "invaded" their CEO's privacy. It's an excellent article, and an excellent example. Google is being completely asinine about it, which is very amusing.
Why is Google constantly being mentioned on the front page, for completely trivial, non-stories? I cannot believe that Slashdot editors are really just that stupid or incompetent, so there must be some other reason.
My guess: Slashdot (or VA) is trying to sell themselves to Google. They're jealous of the other buyouts, and want their piece of cash.
For shame.
Sorry guys, but the collective sucking of the Google dick and the gentle smooching of the Google ass is not going to do it.
It's hard to tell if you're just being obtuse on purpose, or if you really just don't understand the experiment.
"none" was never written. The CONCEPT was being tested, not the word nor its form. The bird *does* understand some english words, and can identify shape, color, material, and number. I've seen this bird in action personally.
This is all really clear from the work. You really ought to read the article before you start decrying everything as BS.
Try asking your dog what color of which there are five objects. The parrot correctly said "none".
It's fine to be unimpressed with Piquepaille, but this is real stuff in the research.
Well put, you're absolutely right. So far, the US has done an excellent job maintaining the integrity and security of DNS, and there is absolutely no reason to take a risk by handing over the keys to an unproven international group.
I'm very happy to see that they aren't pandering to the feel-good international community with something as important as internet infrastructure. Better to placate them with some other BS projects.
I have every right to comment on the poor decisions Google is making. Yes, it's free, and I wouldn't pay for it if it wasn't - but if they're doing dumb things, I'll happily point them out, especially considering all of the inexplicable google-worship that goes on here.
The satellite imagery is nice and all, but it's not very high quality, nor is it anywhere close to the first in the industry - Mapquest had it for years.
But really, with all the gee whiz about this stuff, Google has totally missed two very important things:
1. A scale! There's no scale on the maps at all! How hard is this to implement, fercrissakes?!
2. Printable routes. The neat purple line overlay showing your driving route is not printed by most browsers (IE/Firefox). Very annoying.
These are really, really easy things for them to implement. I'm stunned that they overlooked it.
Anyone have a mirror of this site? :)
EZPASS and Fastlane tags are powered transmitters - there's a lithium battery inside them. This is a complelety different beast from the RFID tags in the casino chips (and other small passive devices).
I suppose this means that it would be OK to put GPS tracking devices on all the policecars in your town. They can't have an expectation of privacy when on a public roadway, right?
I'm sure the GPS info would be *mighty* valuable to certain criminal elements...
One of my neighbors' SSID is "private no access". Of course, there's no WMA, WEP, or MAC filtering - it's wide open. ;)
I just counted a dozen holograms in my pocket, right now, on all my credit cards. There's another on my laptop, and my server. Perhaps they aren't used in the ways people originally imagined, but they've definitely caught on.
No shit. I think they're trying to grab the contents of your clipboard, and who knows what else. These guys are total scum.
Does that mean there will be significatly fewer articles about Transmeta?