"who is more technologically savvy, your average hacker or your average politician?"
ABOLISH ALL LAWS AGAINST HACKING!
it's up to individuals to make sure every single port is secure against someone wanting to cause damage to your computer/company/bank account.
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is this a piss-take or genuine stupidity?
1. they don't generate radiation except when scanned. and that's radio waves - hence Radio Frequency ID. how do you keep out all the "cancer-causing radiation" from radio stations at the moment? I'm sure the same method will work.
2. I'd be more worried about solar flares knocking out electricity grids and communication satellites than maybe breaking an RFID.
3. the usual way.
4. if you RTFA, they can put the tags in paper money so you're already screwed.
5. did someone mention police with even bigger scanners tracking the thieves? or how about a big fat house alarm that goes off if a RFID leaves the premises?
6. usual laws apply.
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yes, if you RTFA instead of just cut'n'paste whoring, it gives examples of a smart washing machine detecting clothes and a smart cabinet detecting medicine.
surely it'd be better if the washing machine could read the appropriate temperature etc. for the clothes rather than have to connect to some database? as well as being simpler and having less privacy concerns it would be more reliable as you aren't dependent on an external database being maintained just to look up a few properties of the product.
because of MS's idea to have all your info in their servers so they can automatically buy concert tickets for you when your favourite band is in the area.
anything that tries to automatically spend your money on personal things like tickets or food will either need so much customisation and confirmation input that it's quicker to do it yourself, or will just get everything wrong.
"They'll say "look, it's got 512MB of RAM and 80 GB hard drive space," but that is actually 536,870,912 bytes vs. 80,000,000,000 bytes (which is closer to 74.5 GB). And that is some good ground to sue on."
this is probably the most insightful point in the whole thread.
everything else should be modded redundant or retarded.
September 12th, 2003 - Mandrake 9.2 & Ads - Due to the current controversy about ads, MandrakeSoft is going to clarify things in a written statement soon.
when you download from them you have to click a link saying you're a member or are just about to become a member.
and now this ad stuff is just absolute BS.
fuck you Mandrake. nobody uses linux because they want to be hassled for money by a company. in fact that's one of the main reasons people turn to it in the first place.
it's a shame because Mandrake is good for newbies like me. but so long as there's SuSE for newbies, Mandrake has no weight to throw around like this.
it's not about the money. I gladly paid a lot for my SuSE 8.2 Pro box. but that was my choice, they didn't hassle me.
"The world's largest software maker, which is facing increased competition from Linux -- the open-source software standard that can be copied and modified freely -- hired Giga Research, which found that licensing, associated software, maintenance, labor, and training was 25 percent to 28 percent cheaper on Windows for certain types of applications."
and
"Last December, Microsoft released a study that showed that Windows-based servers were cheaper to run than those on Linux in four out of five common server tasks."
how can anyone trust crap like this? WHAT TYPE OF APPLICATIONS? WHAT SERVER TASKS?
Slashdot Mirror
bottled water
on the "dancer floor" ?
;-)
well, at least you sound hip and trendy
"who is more technologically savvy, your average hacker or your average politician?"
ABOLISH ALL LAWS AGAINST HACKING!
it's up to individuals to make sure every single port is secure against someone wanting to cause damage to your computer/company/bank account.
is this a piss-take or genuine stupidity?
1. they don't generate radiation except when scanned. and that's radio waves - hence Radio Frequency ID. how do you keep out all the "cancer-causing radiation" from radio stations at the moment? I'm sure the same method will work.
2. I'd be more worried about solar flares knocking out electricity grids and communication satellites than maybe breaking an RFID.
3. the usual way.
4. if you RTFA, they can put the tags in paper money so you're already screwed.
5. did someone mention police with even bigger scanners tracking the thieves? or how about a big fat house alarm that goes off if a RFID leaves the premises?
6. usual laws apply.
yes, if you RTFA instead of just cut'n'paste whoring, it gives examples of a smart washing machine detecting clothes and a smart cabinet detecting medicine.
surely it'd be better if the washing machine could read the appropriate temperature etc. for the clothes rather than have to connect to some database? as well as being simpler and having less privacy concerns it would be more reliable as you aren't dependent on an external database being maintained just to look up a few properties of the product.
and no matter the topic, some AC will avoid the point being made and instead stereotype slashdot readers' behaviour.
Corollary: you suck.
because of MS's idea to have all your info in their servers so they can automatically buy concert tickets for you when your favourite band is in the area.
anything that tries to automatically spend your money on personal things like tickets or food will either need so much customisation and confirmation input that it's quicker to do it yourself, or will just get everything wrong.
"order you take out food"
.net services) is absolute bullshit and a million times more effort than it's worth.
this kind of automatic buying stuff (like MS
what an odd phrase...
"They'll say "look, it's got 512MB of RAM and 80 GB hard drive space," but that is actually 536,870,912 bytes vs. 80,000,000,000 bytes (which is closer to 74.5 GB). And that is some good ground to sue on."
this is probably the most insightful point in the whole thread.
everything else should be modded redundant or retarded.
the targets are not mutually exclusive
both.
one refers to people ("private individuals").
the other refers to businesses.
actually he said it took 5x as long.
and even then DX9 performance was crap, so they decided to have nvidia cards use DX8.1.
Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, you ignorant fuck.
Plus Halo has just gone gold and will be here in a couple of weeks.
and since you said "program" and not "gameE, 3dMark2003.
it doesn't. they use CPU cycles that you don't. anything you want to run will take absolute priority. it's the same with SETI@Home.
from their website:
September 12th, 2003 - Mandrake 9.2 & Ads - Due to the current controversy about ads, MandrakeSoft is going to clarify things in a written statement soon.
remember when MS started advertising on UserFriendly? eek!
I refuse to donate to Mandrake.
when you download from them you have to click a link saying you're a member or are just about to become a member.
and now this ad stuff is just absolute BS.
fuck you Mandrake. nobody uses linux because they want to be hassled for money by a company. in fact that's one of the main reasons people turn to it in the first place.
it's a shame because Mandrake is good for newbies like me. but so long as there's SuSE for newbies, Mandrake has no weight to throw around like this.
it's not about the money. I gladly paid a lot for my SuSE 8.2 Pro box. but that was my choice, they didn't hassle me.
hmmm... I thought the days of "page 6, paragraph 2, word 3... page 10, paragraph 2, word 8... " were long gone.
maybe (in the spirit of CD keys) next time you should just give me the MD5 of the relevant text...?
yeah it's always funnier when you explain it... :-)
copyright theft? they stole the copyright?
"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework."
omg wtf hax
"The world's largest software maker, which is facing increased competition from Linux -- the open-source software standard that can be copied and modified freely -- hired Giga Research, which found that licensing, associated software, maintenance, labor, and training was 25 percent to 28 percent cheaper on Windows for certain types of applications."
and
"Last December, Microsoft released a study that showed that Windows-based servers were cheaper to run than those on Linux in four out of five common server tasks."
how can anyone trust crap like this? WHAT TYPE OF APPLICATIONS? WHAT SERVER TASKS?
because real people are unimaginative in their subject lines, whereas spammers use randomly generated crap at the end of theirs.
evidently, you can't read...
"They foresaw a way to solve the sonic boom problem, and to enable a generation of supersonic aircraft that do not disturb people on the ground."