haha... somebody actually modded that as insightful... mods today...
that would be funny to see people sitting there trying to find their numbers all day... then you'd have older people complaining that it doesn't look the same as it did yesterday...
Can you really harass 7% of the population every time they want to enter the country? People simply won't stand for something like that.
again, people entering the country aren't getting their iris scanned for entry. if anything, their iris is getting scanned to be put on file. that's not where the problem is.
we already have a working system, and this iris scanning was always meant to augment it, not replace it. it will still work if it has a 7% failure rate. all it means is that 7% of the people won't be able to take the quick way through security checkpoints.
system where it's easy to become incorrectly identified is a useless one.
once again, you're not being incorrectly identified... you're not being identified at all. what would happen is that you get your iris scanned, it doesn't recognize you, the door doesn't open, and you have to wait for somebody to come out and check your credentials... not that big of a deal...
these scanners wouldn't be used for immigration because their iris won't already be in the database, so there would be nothing to match them up against. in the case of an immigrant, they would put the iris in the database, and this article is talking about matching it to the database.
IMO, this article is basically saying "there's a little flaw in a new technology, so we should just scrap it entirely"
that doesn't always work. if you're running a *nix box and you want to be included with the rest of the world using windows machines, you're going to have to be compatible to even have any chance at competition...
what *nix needs is not to be different, but to be the same and different at the same time, like it is... the reason i use *nix is because I can deal the files windows users give me and I can use other *nix-only programs at the same time...
the difference is that they have 20k on the line, spammers don't... if you click their unsubscribe button and they don't stop, they lose the money. This is a good thing, IMO... at first I thought it was a terrible idea, but then I read the article and it seems like an okay solution... the only thing is that I hope they allow you to keep some of the whitelist email addys on your blacklist... and they don't start giving out email addresses to those on the whitelist...
For example, they wouldn't be able to remove the LSASS service that leaves the computer vulnerable to attack and provides no end-user benefit for a Kiosk.
while I agree with the rest of your statement, this is wrong... all you need to do is create a small script that runs on startup that will kill the LSASS thread... or you can use a firewall to block the port it listens to.
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I doubt they'll have people in towers beaming you from across the street... they would probably just have it so that if you were window shopping and you were in front of a particular dress or something, you would hear a little about that dress... that would be helpful in some situations...
IMO, this technology has alot more potential for good than bad... think about sitting in a library or something and listening to something on a computer without headphones, or going to a museum/car/computer show and hearing about some new technology without being distracted about somethign else?
I don't think the example with the police officer and crowd control is a good idea though... the rest of the crowd kinda needs to hear what the police officer is saying... I would be kinda unnerved if there was a disturbance and all I see is a cop yelling but not saying anything...
On a side note, I don't understand the design of these rovers. Seems like they're dangerously flippable. If that happens, they're pretty much junk, right? Do they have any way of correcting themselves if one tread climbs up onto a rock and it tips over? Why not have 5 or 6 treads around the center and have the middle gyroscopiclly right itself?
it's not like somebody at NASA is sitting there with a remote control with only up/down and left/right controls like an R/C car... all (most) of the movements are carefully planned and plotted out before they're sent up there. NASA isn't going to spend that much money and then just drive it around like a dune buggy...
yeah, but you're not thinking about the hosts bandwidth problems... bandwidth becomes expensive, and at 4.3GB with knoppix's audience and a/. story, the traffic could explode to terabytes overnight...
Who f'en cares if there's a little bit of your screen taken up with ads that will be easily ignored (at least by the majority of us not included in your minority)?
I wouldn't mind a small, unobtrusive ad, but if you check out what they're planning, it would annoy me to no ends... the 'adjacent bar' they have a screenshot of looks like nothing more than a cleverly disguised pop-up...
do you want your teeth growing longer and longer? would you want to have to trim your teeth along with your hair and nails?
teeth aren't made of the same stuff as hair and nails. teeth are bones, and all bones have blood vessels and nerves in them... unless you want flexible teeth of course...
I suppose if they are read-only or locked somehow preventing other uses, they would still make nice mementos.
if you read the article, you'd know that they're reuseable...
'Cause, hey... free USB drive. What's wrong with that?
again, the USB drive isn't free... it costs $20...
On May 21, new digital kiosks offering the tiny drives will be installed at Maxwell's, a small indie-rock club in Hoboken, N.J. At $10 a pop for the recording, and $20 for the reusable, keychain drive, let the downloading begin.
the truck on the side of the road that's been there for months? or the flagman that just kinda ran into the open lane with nothing but an orange flag and a vest, and is competing with sun glare?
the road I drive to school has miles of closed lane on some days, and the only truck to warn you is on the shoulder, but it doesn't help that it's always there and the sun glare drowns out the lights it's displaying... and the workers have to walk for miles just to move cones... (they're already placed on the sides of the road)
The AXA company is suing Google for selling both the trademarked term, "Direct Assurance" and the companies non-dictionary name, "AXA".
"Direct" and "Assurance" can both be found in a dictionary, and therefore should both be available to anybody who wants to pay a search engine for them (I'm not disagreeing with you here)
pretty soon we won't be able to use any words or combinations of letters at all, because they're trademarked... schools will have to stop making us write research papers because we'll be comparing competing companies...
oh no! we'll actually have to compete with somebody... but I wanted my monopoly:cry:
With an in person voting system it ensures that Sally house wife is in the booth by herself, and her husband isn't voting on her behalf.
that's a good point, but the part your missing is that sally house wife is too scared of her husband to lie to him, because if she votes against his candidate and he finds out in any way, she'll get the beating of a lifetime...
I agree that it's more likely that one person would vote for themselves in a booth-like situation, but then again most of the people voting aren't thinking for themselves anyway...
I think people should be allowed to vote online, and to the people that think it should take some effort, what's more important, getting more people to vote, or making sure the people that do vote are the people that don't need medicare right now?
Oh okay... I wasn't talking about throwing or sliding it... I was talking about holding it flat (butter side up) and letting it drop... (earth gravity as the only force)
that's exactly what I thought when I read this... and since he microwaved them in a tightly packed stack, is there really any surprise they burned in an identical pattern?
I thought it was because the butter was heavier, so it caused the bread to flip (so the butter side was down), but not fast enough to create the momentum to come back up again (becase now the top is lighter)... therefore without any other outside forces (besides gravity), the butter side should always land on the bottom... no matter how far you drop it from...
If someone installs your work from disc 3 of some Linux distro, they couldn't care less who you are. The whole fame thing you are telling me only works amongst geeks. The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place. I mean - get real here.
a few points...
that good looking girl didn't install linux
that good looking, intelligent girl obviously knows the value of education
do you really need to play the fame card to get a girl?
just because you're a geek and you hang out with geeks doesn't mean you can't have a girlfriend who appreciates that
In my host family in Sweden and others, the parents would drive to the city. Get hammered and take a cab or bus home, pick up their car the next day. Here in America, people are convinced that they can drive drunk
that's great, but here in america, you head to the city, get drunk take a subway to the train ($2) take the train back to your town ($20) and take a cab back to your house ($20)... then you find a way back into the city the next morning only to find that it'll cost you another $200 to get your car out of the police impound...
I'm not saying that you should think this way at all... I agree with you somewhat, but you shouldn't generalize 'americans' that way... alot of the people I know always have a safe way home after getting drunk...
this car thing is just a stupid idea though... for several reasons:
your wife's in labor. do you really have an extra 30 seconds to wait for some stupid breath test?
your wife's in labor, it's three in the morning. you quickly swash with mouthwash while she's getting out of bed because you have terrible morning breath. you run out to the car with her, get in, fail the breathalyzer...
'rolling tests' are just another distraction
your beeping horn and flashing lights are a distracation to other motorists
who thought this up, anyway? things like this make me wonder wether americans really have all the control we're told we have...
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I'm not sure, but I could have sworn I heard this a long time ago...
that would be funny to see people sitting there trying to find their numbers all day... then you'd have older people complaining that it doesn't look the same as it did yesterday...
again, people entering the country aren't getting their iris scanned for entry. if anything, their iris is getting scanned to be put on file. that's not where the problem is.
we already have a working system, and this iris scanning was always meant to augment it, not replace it. it will still work if it has a 7% failure rate. all it means is that 7% of the people won't be able to take the quick way through security checkpoints.
once again, you're not being incorrectly identified... you're not being identified at all. what would happen is that you get your iris scanned, it doesn't recognize you, the door doesn't open, and you have to wait for somebody to come out and check your credentials... not that big of a deal...
these scanners wouldn't be used for immigration because their iris won't already be in the database, so there would be nothing to match them up against. in the case of an immigrant, they would put the iris in the database, and this article is talking about matching it to the database.
IMO, this article is basically saying "there's a little flaw in a new technology, so we should just scrap it entirely"
who modded my topic as funny, anyway?
what *nix needs is not to be different, but to be the same and different at the same time, like it is... the reason i use *nix is because I can deal the files windows users give me and I can use other *nix-only programs at the same time...
the difference is that they have 20k on the line, spammers don't... if you click their unsubscribe button and they don't stop, they lose the money. This is a good thing, IMO... at first I thought it was a terrible idea, but then I read the article and it seems like an okay solution... the only thing is that I hope they allow you to keep some of the whitelist email addys on your blacklist... and they don't start giving out email addresses to those on the whitelist...
For example, they wouldn't be able to remove the LSASS service that leaves the computer vulnerable to attack and provides no end-user benefit for a Kiosk. while I agree with the rest of your statement, this is wrong... all you need to do is create a small script that runs on startup that will kill the LSASS thread... or you can use a firewall to block the port it listens to.
IMO, this technology has alot more potential for good than bad... think about sitting in a library or something and listening to something on a computer without headphones, or going to a museum/car/computer show and hearing about some new technology without being distracted about somethign else?
I don't think the example with the police officer and crowd control is a good idea though... the rest of the crowd kinda needs to hear what the police officer is saying... I would be kinda unnerved if there was a disturbance and all I see is a cop yelling but not saying anything...
it's not like somebody at NASA is sitting there with a remote control with only up/down and left/right controls like an R/C car... all (most) of the movements are carefully planned and plotted out before they're sent up there. NASA isn't going to spend that much money and then just drive it around like a dune buggy...
yeah, but you're not thinking about the hosts bandwidth problems... bandwidth becomes expensive, and at 4.3GB with knoppix's audience and a /. story, the traffic could explode to terabytes overnight...
I wouldn't mind a small, unobtrusive ad, but if you check out what they're planning, it would annoy me to no ends... the 'adjacent bar' they have a screenshot of looks like nothing more than a cleverly disguised pop-up...
teeth aren't made of the same stuff as hair and nails. teeth are bones, and all bones have blood vessels and nerves in them... unless you want flexible teeth of course...
if you read the article, you'd know that they're reuseable...
'Cause, hey ... free USB drive. What's wrong with that?
again, the USB drive isn't free... it costs $20...
the road I drive to school has miles of closed lane on some days, and the only truck to warn you is on the shoulder, but it doesn't help that it's always there and the sun glare drowns out the lights it's displaying... and the workers have to walk for miles just to move cones... (they're already placed on the sides of the road)
do you have any idea of how long that must take?
"Direct" and "Assurance" can both be found in a dictionary, and therefore should both be available to anybody who wants to pay a search engine for them (I'm not disagreeing with you here)
pretty soon we won't be able to use any words or combinations of letters at all, because they're trademarked... schools will have to stop making us write research papers because we'll be comparing competing companies...
oh no! we'll actually have to compete with somebody... but I wanted my monopoly :cry:
that's a good point, but the part your missing is that sally house wife is too scared of her husband to lie to him, because if she votes against his candidate and he finds out in any way, she'll get the beating of a lifetime...
I agree that it's more likely that one person would vote for themselves in a booth-like situation, but then again most of the people voting aren't thinking for themselves anyway...
I think people should be allowed to vote online, and to the people that think it should take some effort, what's more important, getting more people to vote, or making sure the people that do vote are the people that don't need medicare right now?
What about Nikon and their D70? and with all the advertising that camera's been getting and all the attention it's been recieving...
Oh okay... I wasn't talking about throwing or sliding it... I was talking about holding it flat (butter side up) and letting it drop... (earth gravity as the only force)
that's exactly what I thought when I read this... and since he microwaved them in a tightly packed stack, is there really any surprise they burned in an identical pattern?
I thought it was because the butter was heavier, so it caused the bread to flip (so the butter side was down), but not fast enough to create the momentum to come back up again (becase now the top is lighter)... therefore without any other outside forces (besides gravity), the butter side should always land on the bottom... no matter how far you drop it from...
a few points...
that's great, but here in america, you head to the city, get drunk take a subway to the train ($2) take the train back to your town ($20) and take a cab back to your house ($20)... then you find a way back into the city the next morning only to find that it'll cost you another $200 to get your car out of the police impound...
I'm not saying that you should think this way at all... I agree with you somewhat, but you shouldn't generalize 'americans' that way... alot of the people I know always have a safe way home after getting drunk...
this car thing is just a stupid idea though... for several reasons:
who thought this up, anyway? things like this make me wonder wether americans really have all the control we're told we have...