Why are people so upset with RFIDs? The only possible reason I can see is that they are afraid of being tracked all the way home with them. That is a simple matter of removing the tag when you leave the store.
I think one of the chief issues is that it goes a step further than clubcards in not only letting the store know who bought what, but what they look like. It could be thought of as another erosion of our right to privacy.
I can't think of too many, though no doubt some slashdotters have some ideas. I suppose you could use it to find out who's been stealing your milk bottles.. er, and that's all I can think of.
.. I think they would have been more problems than they're worth. All it would take would be some pranksters to fox the system by grabbing some blades and putting them back on the box or on the shelf. And doing this every time they went to the store . The store would end up not knowing who had taken razorblades or not, and would no doubt annoy the living hell out of them.
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So all it needs is for one worm robot to become sentient, get cut in half, for one of those to knock something heavy onto the other so it gets cut in half, and repeat until we're facing an army of sentient robot worms intent on crushing humanity. I'm scared.
Because the money is needed by the Police's cop-blurring division which blurrs the faces of undercover police so they don't look out of place when consorting with similarly blurry faced crims.
On another note, as the Register's article points out, there's still a 30% false ID rate on the supposedly successful facial mapping which still sounds a tad worrying.
Other companies have likely done similar but it's the publicity that counts more than anything - an actual success story with Linux from a company with clout should turn a few heards in the direction of open source.
Do you have an old teletype with a 5-bit serial interface sitting around that you've been itching to hook up to the Internet?
No.
You, sir, are hereby expelled from Geek Club due to your blatant failure to own every single piece of obscure or ancient technology ever invented. Hand in your membership badge to the steward and never darken the doors of Slashdot again.
..he really likes her cookies, and is inspired by their crunchy goodness to stop trying to take over the world and open a chain of bakeries. 'So, Mr Anderson.. chocolate chip or cherry?'
I have also found myself seeing some movies and thinking straight away how the scene is done, but the trouble is if you get into that way of thinking you take the fun out of the movie.
On another note, does anyone else think that the Matrix sequels aren't particularly necessary? The Matrix was an excellent movie, but they seemed to paint themselves into a corner making Neo all powerful, for any sequels anyway. I thought The Matrix had a great ending - what happened afterwards was left up to the moviegoer's imagination.
I suppose it's ironic* that the moons of Mars were named fear and terror (phobos and deimos) when in fact it's these distant rocks that should be worrying us.
Indeed. After all, any budding science teachers here may one day end up telling students about the Assclown asteroid Field or the Gillian Anderson nebula. Imagine the horror.
That really is the purpose of the newcard. Plug and play peripherals which can plug in on the desktop, while the rest of the PC is located under the desktop.
Yes, but the big PC still has to sit somewhere - and it's still taking up a lot of room somewhere. It's a nice idea - which sounds rather like having a USB hub on your desk - but the PC could still do with a bigger - or rather smaller - revolution.
Or more likely, with Newcard, you will have smaller and sleeker card peripherals which no one will appreciate due to them being a standard big PC case. This is hardly big news unless someone can sweep the board with a standard smaller PC - perhaps around the size of a PS2. And make it cheap enough to be adopted by the mass market.
If only this guy got working a mech cockpit, to go with the X-Box's Steel Batallion game. Now that'd I'd definitely go for. Half of the work's already been done with the ludicrously complicated controller that comes with the game.
In other news, founder of www.hatsforfish.com blames failure of his enterprise on ill-spirited newsgroup postings, the captain of the Exxon Valdez blames evil fish for his ship's oil spillage, and McDonalds customers blame McDonalds for their food making them fat. Oh, wait, that last one really happened.
When I first read this topic I had visions of homeless people being electronically tagged and someone producing a portable Wi-Fi tracker in reverse allowing people to avoid the homeless. I must watch too much sci-fi.
I hope this information - or at least general statistics about it rather than specific names - will be made available to the various homeless support groups out there. After all, people have to sit up and take notice when definite statistics on homeless deaths and the number of people living on the streets can be produced. Assuming, of course, what qualifies someone as 'homeless' doesn't get redefined by those producing the statistics before they get released to pressure groups and the like.
Auto updating? Never has the Slashdot Billy G Borg icon seemed so appropriate. Cue any remaining dial-up users tearing the modem cable out of their PC in an effort to stop the download of the latest 50MB Windows patch.
Okay, maybe that's a bit cynical, but any software company being able to add things at will to your desktop -after all, how many new Windows users would be canny enough to turn off auto-update first? I'd rather see glaring security holes actually closed off before they're shipped, not afterwards.
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Why are people so upset with RFIDs? The only possible reason I can see is that they are afraid of being tracked all the way home with them. That is a simple matter of removing the tag when you leave the store. I think one of the chief issues is that it goes a step further than clubcards in not only letting the store know who bought what, but what they look like. It could be thought of as another erosion of our right to privacy.
I can't think of too many, though no doubt some slashdotters have some ideas. I suppose you could use it to find out who's been stealing your milk bottles.. er, and that's all I can think of.
.. I think they would have been more problems than they're worth. All it would take would be some pranksters to fox the system by grabbing some blades and putting them back on the box or on the shelf. And doing this every time they went to the store . The store would end up not knowing who had taken razorblades or not, and would no doubt annoy the living hell out of them.
So all it needs is for one worm robot to become sentient, get cut in half, for one of those to knock something heavy onto the other so it gets cut in half, and repeat until we're facing an army of sentient robot worms intent on crushing humanity. I'm scared.
On another note, as the Register's article points out, there's still a 30% false ID rate on the supposedly successful facial mapping which still sounds a tad worrying.
After all, all those Smiths have to do something other than twiddling their thumbs. And they wouldn't need training, either.
What if you have it 'specially marked'?
When they got sponsored by the RIAA and a new litigation and sub-poena serving badges were added to the BSA range.
2. Switch to Linux et al.
3. Profit.
Other companies have likely done similar but it's the publicity that counts more than anything - an actual success story with Linux from a company with clout should turn a few heards in the direction of open source.
Linux? I thought they said 'Matrix'
No.
You, sir, are hereby expelled from Geek Club due to your blatant failure to own every single piece of obscure or ancient technology ever invented. Hand in your membership badge to the steward and never darken the doors of Slashdot again.
..he really likes her cookies, and is inspired by their crunchy goodness to stop trying to take over the world and open a chain of bakeries. 'So, Mr Anderson.. chocolate chip or cherry?'
On another note, does anyone else think that the Matrix sequels aren't particularly necessary? The Matrix was an excellent movie, but they seemed to paint themselves into a corner making Neo all powerful, for any sequels anyway. I thought The Matrix had a great ending - what happened afterwards was left up to the moviegoer's imagination.
Indeed. After all, any budding science teachers here may one day end up telling students about the Assclown asteroid Field or the Gillian Anderson nebula. Imagine the horror.
Yes, but the big PC still has to sit somewhere - and it's still taking up a lot of room somewhere. It's a nice idea - which sounds rather like having a USB hub on your desk - but the PC could still do with a bigger - or rather smaller - revolution.
Or more likely, with Newcard, you will have smaller and sleeker card peripherals which no one will appreciate due to them being a standard big PC case. This is hardly big news unless someone can sweep the board with a standard smaller PC - perhaps around the size of a PS2. And make it cheap enough to be adopted by the mass market.
If only this guy got working a mech cockpit, to go with the X-Box's Steel Batallion game. Now that'd I'd definitely go for. Half of the work's already been done with the ludicrously complicated controller that comes with the game.
'Pile on!' *sound of Billy being crushed beneath the other kids might*
Now all we need is some bright spark to use the heated water from a watercooled PC to have a bath and we're getting really energy efficent.
.. never mind. It'd be much cooler looking if the outer case was entirely transparent, now that would be something worth driving to Germany to buy.
In other news, founder of www.hatsforfish.com blames failure of his enterprise on ill-spirited newsgroup postings, the captain of the Exxon Valdez blames evil fish for his ship's oil spillage, and McDonalds customers blame McDonalds for their food making them fat. Oh, wait, that last one really happened.
I hope this information - or at least general statistics about it rather than specific names - will be made available to the various homeless support groups out there. After all, people have to sit up and take notice when definite statistics on homeless deaths and the number of people living on the streets can be produced. Assuming, of course, what qualifies someone as 'homeless' doesn't get redefined by those producing the statistics before they get released to pressure groups and the like.
Thanks a lot. I now have a mental image of a bunch of people hooked up ass first to a huge contraption, Matrix style.
Just imagine running, PDA in hand, from SCO's keystone cops style lawyers to the sound of the Benny Hill show tune.
Okay, maybe that's a bit cynical, but any software company being able to add things at will to your desktop -after all, how many new Windows users would be canny enough to turn off auto-update first? I'd rather see glaring security holes actually closed off before they're shipped, not afterwards.