I promise, that picture was just emailed to me from an extremely high ranking member of a secret NASA team that is in charge of sending people to Mars. Don't tell anyone or we're all in BIG trouble. I guess they forgot to tell the picture taking team that The Tourist Guy would be out walking around this morning.
What do the conspiracy dumbasses say now?
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I haven't had time to read any of their recent wipe material....
...introduced an educational plan to help correct this...
How about starting with their stupid programmers and the testers all the way up the line to a production release who test things to see if they work instead of testing them to see if they break.
The oddity of Coke's promotion revolves around how winners will get their prizes. The cans used will be equipped with Global Positioning System transponders.
Did I miss something or did you?
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Well, part of your subject line is accurate...only that this could would ever happen in a bad dream. It will never happen in real life. Why?
1) I can trade/give away the goods I bought that had the RFID tags in them. There will never be a successful mechanism in place to report the transfer of assets. Can't sell the goods that are mine because we can't register the asset sales? Yeah, right. Like that would ever happen. So, I sell/give away a perfectly good set of tires because I want some others. Now, who is it that they can RELIABLY track those to and use against? I didn't think so.
2) So many premises of your argument are so far fetched that people would have to become total zombies and groups that fight for common sense laws would have to totally disappear for them to ever happen. Yeah, I can see that soon.
You conspiracy theorists need to wake up and take a big deep breath of reality.
For you privacy theorists/skeptics out there, what if I buy 7 of these - 1 for each member of my family and 1 for each of my 2 triplet brothers...
Now, each of us travels around with some of those travel segments being with others using the cards I bought.
Who are they tracking, the purchaser of the cards or the person using the card?
Anyone that thinks they can accurately track anyone with this technology is simply wrong. They would have to assume that everyone that uses them buys 1 and only 1 card and doesn't buy for anyone else. Well, that's just not reality based.
Well, first of all, you need to GAFL. Face it. You're a loser.
Secondly, none of your points are close to the truth, thus they do not justify a response.
Thirdly, everyone's tired of this same old boring bunch of lies. Hell, save yourself some typing/copy & pasting...just type in FP if that's how you get your jollies.
* some QA people that can turn over code that works and turn back code that doesn't.
I know, I know....why switch horses when crossing the stream....
* security holes so big they make the goatse.cx guy blush
I'm positive that their search could find bloat-features to remove from applications, given that 95% of the users of MS Orafice don't use 60% of the 'features'
can type http://www.google.com (or I can click the Google shortcut), Micro$haft will never be MY search engine!
Given:
1) Their other search capabilities suck badly
2) No one wants MS censorship
3) Their "other" software has more problems than a one-winged seagull in a hurricane (bonus points for temporal value)
4) Other people are working on the same types of enhancements to the web experience
There seems to be 2 different ways to us this technology:
1) As verification in the scenario of someone presenting an id and a camera pulling a current image and the system verifies that the person presenting the id is the person on the id. I think the jury is still out on how effective this will be.
2) As recognition in the scenario of mass amounts of people moving by and the system identifiying someone as a terrorist and sending the authorities to nab them. I doubt this will ever work. Hell, humans can't do it because of disguises and we have massively parallel systems between our ears. How many times is a recognition system going to get a good enough image capture of a person to enable a certain match against a criminal/terrorist image database? What happens when someone on the list tacks on a fake mole or scar? Granted the software has to be able to take some variances into account, but at some point giving it that ability also gives it the ability to generate a high number of false-positives and become absolutely worthless.
Is this too simplistic view of the recognition system?
TLHO
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I think we're supposed to sit back, laugh at, and talk about the bit torrent downloaders because most of them will finish downloading about the same time as the cheap cd would arrive...
I haven't read all 400+ comments on this topic or done any research into the U.S.'s OBD-III stuff, but how are they going to handle the practical side of this, e.g., the fact that I'm an identical triplet and sometimes loan my cars or pickup truck to one of my brothers. If one of them is driving and goes 60mph in a 45 zone, who gets the ticket? Lets see that one stand up in court.
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Better and faster at what? Getting you intoxicate?
Conspiracy theorists are DUMBASSES!
Look who showed up just in time for the latest shot!
It's The Tourist Guy!
I promise, that picture was just emailed to me from an extremely high ranking member of a secret NASA team that is in charge of sending people to Mars. Don't tell anyone or we're all in BIG trouble. I guess they forgot to tell the picture taking team that The Tourist Guy would be out walking around this morning.
I haven't had time to read any of their recent wipe material....
They got they heads out of their asses, yet?
...because the last thing we all need is to have weak mussels...
..rimshot..
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here forever...
...because you're experiencing slow Google searches now? Or, are you just trying to cure a problem that doesn't exist?
Has anyone heard of other stories of manufacturers being deceptive so that they could get better reviews?
Yes. Thank you for asking.
and brings market share back up, it will really be the land of the rising Sun...
It works fine in Open Office, just because the file format is used by M$ product doesn't mean it's of the devil...
of course it doesn't....it's the fact that the file format came from Microsoft means that it's from the devil.
Ever had a real programming language class?
...introduced an educational plan to help correct this...
How about starting with their stupid programmers and the testers all the way up the line to a production release who test things to see if they work instead of testing them to see if they break.
Can you view the pics from the MRI via RMI to UIUC from UoN, UK?
IDTS....
The oddity of Coke's promotion revolves around how winners will get their prizes. The cans used will be equipped with Global Positioning System transponders.
Did I miss something or did you?
Well, part of your subject line is accurate...only that this could would ever happen in a bad dream. It will never happen in real life. Why?
1) I can trade/give away the goods I bought that had the RFID tags in them. There will never be a successful mechanism in place to report the transfer of assets. Can't sell the goods that are mine because we can't register the asset sales? Yeah, right. Like that would ever happen. So, I sell/give away a perfectly good set of tires because I want some others. Now, who is it that they can RELIABLY track those to and use against? I didn't think so.
2) So many premises of your argument are so far fetched that people would have to become total zombies and groups that fight for common sense laws would have to totally disappear for them to ever happen. Yeah, I can see that soon.
You conspiracy theorists need to wake up and take a big deep breath of reality.
For you privacy theorists/skeptics out there, what if I buy 7 of these - 1 for each member of my family and 1 for each of my 2 triplet brothers...
Now, each of us travels around with some of those travel segments being with others using the cards I bought.
Who are they tracking, the purchaser of the cards or the person using the card?
Anyone that thinks they can accurately track anyone with this technology is simply wrong. They would have to assume that everyone that uses them buys 1 and only 1 card and doesn't buy for anyone else. Well, that's just not reality based.
Well, first of all, you need to GAFL. Face it. You're a loser.
Secondly, none of your points are close to the truth, thus they do not justify a response.
Thirdly, everyone's tired of this same old boring bunch of lies. Hell, save yourself some typing/copy & pasting...just type in FP if that's how you get your jollies.
Fourthly, you're really lame AND a loser...
* some QA people that can turn over code that works and turn back code that doesn't.
I know, I know....why switch horses when crossing the stream....
* security holes so big they make the goatse.cx guy blush
I'm positive that their search could find bloat-features to remove from applications, given that 95% of the users of MS Orafice don't use 60% of the 'features'
can type http://www.google.com (or I can click the Google shortcut), Micro$haft will never be MY search engine!
Given:
1) Their other search capabilities suck badly
2) No one wants MS censorship
3) Their "other" software has more problems than a one-winged seagull in a hurricane (bonus points for temporal value)
4) Other people are working on the same types of enhancements to the web experience
I AIN'T SWITCHING....BITE ME, BILL...
Now we can dig out out those 2 model 50's and the model 70 we have in the closet and make use of them.
...now if we can only find a 100Mb Ethernet micro-channel architecture NIC....
I sure hope Gentoo will run in 640K with 2M of extended RAM...
but it's been a long time since anyone asked me....Thanks for visiting the 9th Grade Biology Trivia (tm) store....
There seems to be 2 different ways to us this technology: 1) As verification in the scenario of someone presenting an id and a camera pulling a current image and the system verifies that the person presenting the id is the person on the id. I think the jury is still out on how effective this will be. 2) As recognition in the scenario of mass amounts of people moving by and the system identifiying someone as a terrorist and sending the authorities to nab them. I doubt this will ever work. Hell, humans can't do it because of disguises and we have massively parallel systems between our ears. How many times is a recognition system going to get a good enough image capture of a person to enable a certain match against a criminal/terrorist image database? What happens when someone on the list tacks on a fake mole or scar? Granted the software has to be able to take some variances into account, but at some point giving it that ability also gives it the ability to generate a high number of false-positives and become absolutely worthless. Is this too simplistic view of the recognition system?
TLHO
I think we're supposed to sit back, laugh at, and talk about the bit torrent downloaders because most of them will finish downloading about the same time as the cheap cd would arrive...
Did you miss a pill this morning? Depending on where you're located, it might not be too late to take it.
Hey, if you put 27 of these in a row, wouldn't you have a Perfect Game?
I haven't read all 400+ comments on this topic or done any research into the U.S.'s OBD-III stuff, but how are they going to handle the practical side of this, e.g., the fact that I'm an identical triplet and sometimes loan my cars or pickup truck to one of my brothers. If one of them is driving and goes 60mph in a 45 zone, who gets the ticket? Lets see that one stand up in court.
Yet another advantage to having a multiple!