Actually this will be used in the fight against obesity.
Since this rfid tag will be tied directly to you, when you go through the lunch line and swipe your watch the register lady (you know the one in the hairnet) will look at you and say "The register says you don't really want that double cheesbuger, so let me take that off your tray and replace it with this nice tofu burger. That will be $18.52."
I read several comments about how most cashiers don't even check the signatures.
I always get a big laugh when one of them does check the signature. Why would management think that a cashier that can't make change if the cash register is down is suddenly a signature expert when someone uses a credit card?
Several years ago one of the news magazine shows on TV did a story where they took some of those credit cards with the people's pictures on them and gave them to staffers and sent them into stores in New York. If I recall correctly non of them had any problems using the credit cards, even the Asian lady using one with the picture of an African American man on the front of the card.
I figured this was one of those conspiracies that the big corporations (in this case the credit card industry and big companies) did not want you to know about. The fact that either it is impossible to create a truly secure system either due to cost or technical issues, or that the credit card companies have calculated that it is not worth the cost to do so and that the general public has been conditioned to pay high interest fees which cover all the losses incured by credit card theft. As such the credit card companies encourage poor credit card handling and poor use of cards by the consumer (example: the get a card here to repair your poor credit scams).
And the debit card scam is even worse! Why the heck would I want something that can suck my hard earned money directly out of my check account? Or is this just another way to get those poor souls that can't get a regular credit card? When you lose a debit card the panic has to be 100 times worse. I don't think many banks will restore your money in that case, unlike a credit card which is the credit cards money not yours.
Why is everyone worried about the fingerprint things?
About two hours after they release encrypted music using this scheme there will be an open source decryption utility that will crack such music and allow it to be used on any player or computer you want.
Like some one else said the company pushing this is looking to make a quick buck off of people that don't know technology and don't know any better.
To start with I am one of many that have been looking for a job for a while now. (any one need a very good network architect/admin/security/firewall person with management/director experience?)
So far I have found the job boards to be a massive time sink. I spend many hours a day going through several boards looking for jobs that match my skill set and applying to several each day. This gets even more time consuming when the job board simply passes you through to the company or recruiters web site where they want you to fill out a resume in thier database instead of using the one from the job board.
Then there are all the jobs posted that don't bother to list the rate they are willing to pay. You finally get a call from a HR person and they tell you the job pays 15 dollars an hour. With the description requiring 15 years experience with every known piece of hardware and protocol in existence and asking that you have all possible certifications.
Or seeing dozens of jobs posted on the boards by Lockheed Martin that I can do in my sleep but never get a response no matter how many times I have applied. And those that require a current top secret clearance. Believe you have to havae a job that requires a clearance before you can get one and if you leave that job the clearance laps fairly quickly. So these jobs don't apply to those out of work, only those looking to change jobs.
And do any of these companies really keep resumes on file and search them? Did they even look at any of the submissions the first time? Or did they already have the candidate identified and were fullfilling some company policy to post the ad some where for so many days before filling the slot?
Some how I don't think they do.
I know the economy is in the dumper and that companies can take their pick from the millions of unemployed but this boarders on bait and switch or at the least making the employee want to find a different job as soon as possible.
As for the job boards themselves, I have found monster to be the worse for what looks like work at home/pyriamid/scam job listings. (big hint: any job that requires you to pay money up front to get it is NOT A JOB!)
I was recently talking to a recruiter that is still spouting the bit about updating your resume every day and rewriting your resume for each job. She even suggested sending your resume overnight to jobs you really wanted. Seems that this really gets the HR persons attention. I would kind of like to use a 2x4 personally.
Another thing I have noticed about the job boards is their continues hawking of services "guaranteed" to get your resume in front of hundreds if not thousands of hiring managers for only a few dollars. Kind of confirms that the job boards are not there to help job seekers or even the employers solve a related problem, they are there to generate a profit any way they can.
Seems to me that honestly listing your accomplishments and skills don't count for much anymore. Not cramming my resume full of meaningless buzz words and not playing thier game does hurt the search. But I suspect they get what they search for. People that talk the jargon but can't resolve a problem because the don't understand what they are doing.
I think we found out just how they will use the information on the national do not call list. I figure most people used the internet to sign up for that, hence they have your email address confirmed.
How nice they can use it to send spam for political campaigns.
So was the do not call list just a shame to collect valid email addresses for this use?
I do not want to be stuck behind an autonomous car with its blinker on for 200 miles. The programmer that gets that wrong needs to be tied to the bumper of that vehicle!
Actully I am wondering how you program the autonomoouos vehicle to flip other drivers off in traffic and honk the horn. And when they do collide with something do you program them to drive away or stay and yell at the other driver?
Now we are going to ship helium to Mars? What happened to the helium shortage that was mentioned a couple of years ago?
I seem to remember reading that the worlds reserves (which I believe are mostly if not all in the U.S.) are getting down to almost critical levels with no new reserves being found.
They are just perpetuating the myth that the rovers are really on mars. Everyone knows that it is all done in a Hollywood sound stage. The problem a few weeks ago with the the first rover was traced to someone using the mircowave oven and causing interference with their radios on the set.
Anyone want another burrito heated up?
You are partially correct. No one is unbiased. However when you state that the judge and jury get to see all of the evidence you are incorrect. The judge and jury get to see what evidence is allowed. In addition they get to see a lot of chaff that both sides throw out in order to obscure what facts are actually presented.
Remember, in a court of law, no one is there to find the facts, the truth, or to dispense justice. They are there so the two sides can tell their story to a jury in a bid to convince them that their story is the right one to vote for. Neither the defense or the prosecution really care if the people they represent are guilty or inoccent. They just want to win the case. The funny part is the lawyers get paid regardless of the outcome.
Just like most reality shows have little reality in them, court cases like the SCO one does not really depend on facts.
In a court room the Judge and lawyers are not there to determine the facts, or the truth, or even to dispense justice. They are there so the the two sets of lawyers can spin a story that may or may not be based in reality, and probably has little to do with any facts of the case. They will churn out tremendous amounts of chaff simply to convince the Judge and jury that they can tell the better story.
So it is a crap shoot, SCO could win, all depends on if they bought the right Judge and jury.
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Actually this will be used in the fight against obesity.
Since this rfid tag will be tied directly to you, when you go through the lunch line and swipe your watch the register lady (you know the one in the hairnet) will look at you and say "The register says you don't really want that double cheesbuger, so let me take that off your tray and replace it with this nice tofu burger. That will be $18.52."
I read several comments about how most cashiers don't even check the signatures.
I always get a big laugh when one of them does check the signature. Why would management think that a cashier that can't make change if the cash register is down is suddenly a signature expert when someone uses a credit card?
Several years ago one of the news magazine shows on TV did a story where they took some of those credit cards with the people's pictures on them and gave them to staffers and sent them into stores in New York. If I recall correctly non of them had any problems using the credit cards, even the Asian lady using one with the picture of an African American man on the front of the card.
I figured this was one of those conspiracies that the big corporations (in this case the credit card industry and big companies) did not want you to know about. The fact that either it is impossible to create a truly secure system either due to cost or technical issues, or that the credit card companies have calculated that it is not worth the cost to do so and that the general public has been conditioned to pay high interest fees which cover all the losses incured by credit card theft. As such the credit card companies encourage poor credit card handling and poor use of cards by the consumer (example: the get a card here to repair your poor credit scams).
And the debit card scam is even worse! Why the heck would I want something that can suck my hard earned money directly out of my check account? Or is this just another way to get those poor souls that can't get a regular credit card? When you lose a debit card the panic has to be 100 times worse. I don't think many banks will restore your money in that case, unlike a credit card which is the credit cards money not yours.
I remember this being done several years ago. Did they repeat the same project?
Why is everyone worried about the fingerprint things?
About two hours after they release encrypted music using this scheme there will be an open source decryption utility that will crack such music and allow it to be used on any player or computer you want.
Like some one else said the company pushing this is looking to make a quick buck off of people that don't know technology and don't know any better.
Carry a +5 long sword, and good +2 dagger. Look them right in the eye, hold up a pair of dice and say "You felling lucky punk?".
To start with I am one of many that have been looking for a job for a while now. (any one need a very good network architect/admin/security/firewall person with management/director experience?)
So far I have found the job boards to be a massive time sink. I spend many hours a day going through several boards looking for jobs that match my skill set and applying to several each day. This gets even more time consuming when the job board simply passes you through to the company or recruiters web site where they want you to fill out a resume in thier database instead of using the one from the job board.
Then there are all the jobs posted that don't bother to list the rate they are willing to pay. You finally get a call from a HR person and they tell you the job pays 15 dollars an hour. With the description requiring 15 years experience with every known piece of hardware and protocol in existence and asking that you have all possible certifications.
Or seeing dozens of jobs posted on the boards by Lockheed Martin that I can do in my sleep but never get a response no matter how many times I have applied. And those that require a current top secret clearance. Believe you have to havae a job that requires a clearance before you can get one and if you leave that job the clearance laps fairly quickly. So these jobs don't apply to those out of work, only those looking to change jobs.
And do any of these companies really keep resumes on file and search them? Did they even look at any of the submissions the first time? Or did they already have the candidate identified and were fullfilling some company policy to post the ad some where for so many days before filling the slot?
Some how I don't think they do.
I know the economy is in the dumper and that companies can take their pick from the millions of unemployed but this boarders on bait and switch or at the least making the employee want to find a different job as soon as possible.
As for the job boards themselves, I have found monster to be the worse for what looks like work at home/pyriamid/scam job listings. (big hint: any job that requires you to pay money up front to get it is NOT A JOB!)
I was recently talking to a recruiter that is still spouting the bit about updating your resume every day and rewriting your resume for each job. She even suggested sending your resume overnight to jobs you really wanted. Seems that this really gets the HR persons attention. I would kind of like to use a 2x4 personally.
Another thing I have noticed about the job boards is their continues hawking of services "guaranteed" to get your resume in front of hundreds if not thousands of hiring managers for only a few dollars. Kind of confirms that the job boards are not there to help job seekers or even the employers solve a related problem, they are there to generate a profit any way they can.
Seems to me that honestly listing your accomplishments and skills don't count for much anymore. Not cramming my resume full of meaningless buzz words and not playing thier game does hurt the search. But I suspect they get what they search for. People that talk the jargon but can't resolve a problem because the don't understand what they are doing.
Thanks for letting me rant.
What is that? There is a lead industry out there?
What do they promote? More lead in paint?
Whats next TV ads for the lead industry:
"Got lead?"
I think we found out just how they will use the information on the national do not call list. I figure most people used the internet to sign up for that, hence they have your email address confirmed.
How nice they can use it to send spam for political campaigns.
So was the do not call list just a shame to collect valid email addresses for this use?
I do not want to be stuck behind an autonomous car with its blinker on for 200 miles. The programmer that gets that wrong needs to be tied to the bumper of that vehicle!
Actully I am wondering how you program the autonomoouos vehicle to flip other drivers off in traffic and honk the horn. And when they do collide with something do you program them to drive away or stay and yell at the other driver?
So does this explain Marvin Martians voice? He's been sucking on a ballon?
Now we are going to ship helium to Mars? What happened to the helium shortage that was mentioned a couple of years ago?
I seem to remember reading that the worlds reserves (which I believe are mostly if not all in the U.S.) are getting down to almost critical levels with no new reserves being found.
They are just perpetuating the myth that the rovers are really on mars. Everyone knows that it is all done in a Hollywood sound stage. The problem a few weeks ago with the the first rover was traced to someone using the mircowave oven and causing interference with their radios on the set. Anyone want another burrito heated up?
You are partially correct. No one is unbiased. However when you state that the judge and jury get to see all of the evidence you are incorrect. The judge and jury get to see what evidence is allowed. In addition they get to see a lot of chaff that both sides throw out in order to obscure what facts are actually presented.
Remember, in a court of law, no one is there to find the facts, the truth, or to dispense justice. They are there so the two sides can tell their story to a jury in a bid to convince them that their story is the right one to vote for. Neither the defense or the prosecution really care if the people they represent are guilty or inoccent. They just want to win the case. The funny part is the lawyers get paid regardless of the outcome.
Hey! How come an SCO lawyer is asking advice on how to prosecute their case on slash dot? Oh, never mind, I think I answered my own question.
Just like most reality shows have little reality in them, court cases like the SCO one does not really depend on facts. In a court room the Judge and lawyers are not there to determine the facts, or the truth, or even to dispense justice. They are there so the the two sets of lawyers can spin a story that may or may not be based in reality, and probably has little to do with any facts of the case. They will churn out tremendous amounts of chaff simply to convince the Judge and jury that they can tell the better story. So it is a crap shoot, SCO could win, all depends on if they bought the right Judge and jury.
So while they are reading each comment they can't take the 20 seconds to remove the email address and other information before posting it?
Oh wait, I forgot, nobody is really reading any of these comments including the committe that requested them. They are to busy to be bothered.
I almost forgot that this is a republic.