if you are interestted in a small inexpensive program with high quality faculty interaction I've heard great things from people about the UC Santa Barbara college of creative studies, it's kind of a little honors program. But as a berkeley graduate, I gotta say if you want a great good value education you can't beat Cal
-GO BEARS!!!
(besides, we've got something stanford doesn't have, we've got the axe)
The ranking criteria used by USNWR are really sketchy, but in their defense they do put Cal as the best engineering school value in the country ( a little off topic but)
With the volume of tags they eventually want to create (by 2006) this is actually more of a concern for many than the privacy issues.
The privacy issues won't be a problem for a long time because quite frankly it'll be damn near impossible for one company to access the data another is storing because as anyone who has worked in supply chain knows, companies hate to give or even sell other companies their demand and sales data. And to have the data centralized and available to everyone with a reader would be ridiculous for infrastructure and never be allowed by consumers. Walmart and other vendors are way more concerned with selling products than tracking you, if people are scared they'll have kill switches on the tags to avoid a loss of sales
The real probelm is the obscene amount of waste these things will produce think of the copper alone , and currently there are no real plans for how to recycle them. and very few people are speaking out about this.
If you are interested in more information about the standards for implementations or who's doing what with the tech right now, check out: autoidcenter.org . They're the main group putting in place the standards that will be used. If you are interested in the privacy issues specifically look at how they intend to run the PML servers, (Physical Markup Language Servers, the boxes that will hold all the infomration associated with the tag #'s) the tags themselves only hold a number, it's the PML servers that say who bought what etc.
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As a concerned villager, I personally am off to grab my pitchfork and swarm the monsters castle like everyone else
if you are interestted in a small inexpensive program with high quality faculty interaction I've heard great things from people about the UC Santa Barbara college of creative studies, it's kind of a little honors program. But as a berkeley graduate, I gotta say if you want a great good value education you can't beat Cal -GO BEARS!!! (besides, we've got something stanford doesn't have, we've got the axe)
...GO!...
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The ranking criteria used by USNWR are really sketchy, but in their defense they do put Cal as the best engineering school value in the country
( a little off topic but)
With the volume of tags they eventually want to create (by 2006) this is actually more of a concern for many than the privacy issues.
The privacy issues won't be a problem for a long time because quite frankly it'll be damn near impossible for one company to access the data another is storing because as anyone who has worked in supply chain knows, companies hate to give or even sell other companies their demand and sales data. And to have the data centralized and available to everyone with a reader would be ridiculous for infrastructure and never be allowed by consumers. Walmart and other vendors are way more concerned with selling products than tracking you, if people are scared they'll have kill switches on the tags to avoid a loss of sales
The real probelm is the obscene amount of waste these things will produce think of the copper alone , and currently there are no real plans for how to recycle them. and very few people are speaking out about this.
If you are interested in more information about the standards for implementations or who's doing what with the tech right now, check out: autoidcenter.org . They're the main group putting in place the standards that will be used. If you are interested in the privacy issues specifically look at how they intend to run the PML servers, (Physical Markup Language Servers, the boxes that will hold all the infomration associated with the tag #'s) the tags themselves only hold a number, it's the PML servers that say who bought what etc.