1) charge 20 to 50 per RFID label 2) Opt out 3) ??? 4) Profit!!!
So I can save 20 to 50 cents on my perscription by choosing not to purchase the RFID label? 5 or 6 perscription you woule have saved enough get a cheap bottle of wine.
Let's turn this technology around for our use in civil liberties; thus, making the product a threat. I would like to have this in a backpack. Imagine if it could detect a camera from several hundred yards and direct a laser (preferably mounted on a shark) to that camera thwarting intrusive surveillance. Yeah lets see how long until the Men in Black would allow this.
But really, the issue at hand is cameras in theaters. Is the bootleg market that big? I have seen some movies that were recorded with a camcorder and they were funnier to watch the action of recording than the movie. The market has to adjust to the viewing habits; it appears people may want to watch new movies using alternative methods (aka internet). Don't most movies nowadays make more money from DVD sales then the actual movie? I wonder if the movies were released simultaneously to theaters, DVD, video on demand, video of Internet, etc if this would be an issue?
Now lets bring the two views together from paragraph 1 and 2. Just as the public sector adapt to use changing technology, the movie industry needs to adapt to the situation.
Sears sent out Christmas catalogs based on past purchases; thus, it is prior art. Anything you could buy is in the catalog and anything bought at sears is in the catalog. Further more, this is a case whereby Sears provides a means of purchasing products via past purchases. Not too targeted yet you get a good lawyer to wrangle with this twist and you have yourself a case that could last years.
It good that the government has produced the law to protects the citizens from defective products. However, the cost will be passed onto the consumer. The warranties provided are not free. There is a risk and either the company has to allocate money to a risk fund or acquire insurance to cover defective products.
In the US, the cost of the insurance is left up to the consumer that can be purchased from certain vendors - a store such as Circuit City or Best Buy may offer to sell you such insurance if you want it. Most people forgo the cost and accept the risk; thus, reducing the initial cost of the unit. The consumer does enter an evaluated risk but that is a free choice.
The free markets even out. The product is popular and lasts, people buy it. If it continues to break than people avoid it. Which is better? As you might see I am biased towards the Free Market yet I will say that having government law seems popular at your locale.
Rest assured that MS doesn't want their Xbox to die after a length of time. As/. has speculated in the past, MS is selling them at a loss. Supposedly, the money is in the support services and gaming. I bet it will get repaired if it is wihtin the warranty period.
Also, MS has rolled out the media center for Xbox. I speculate that MS is trying to enter the Movies Over IP (moops from Seinfeld;). I thought that Xbox needed a TV turner but now I believe that the new market is going to be TCP/IP movie center rather than Rf coax.
I saw on a website onetime where a guy had his whole computer in (IRC) mineral sprits. In the web site he recommened the use of FC-77 as mineral spritis is flameable; but the site noted that FC-77 price was quite high. A quick google search reveles that one site has FC-77 for a little over $200 a litter. Maybe buying a window AC unit and hacking it into computer case may be cheaper?
I once thought peltiers would be great with water cooling but we read on/. the other day that these devices are 5% efficient so that's a no.
Water-cooling has a few kinks like electricity near water and corrosion - at least a few years ago that may be solved no days with Antifreeze but you still are at the mercy of the ambient room temperature. It's finicky enough that you couldn't build a machine with water cooling and leave it in a room for 3 years so that leaves a hole in reliability as I couldn't leave my machines on while going away for two weeks on vacation unless I didn't mind rolling the dice to seeing fire trucks at my home.
Considering Water-cooling Your PC? This was the leader I was until I saw a home made active cooling system. I first saw active cooling systems from http://www.vapochill.com/ (website down?) and have been waiting for someone to take an AC compressor and attach it to a computer case. It seems that were just on the verge of DIYers of achieving satisfactory results in active cooling systems; therefore, I will hang on to old reliable (the passive radiators) until I can muscle up the nerve to go the active cooling route.
Was it also NPR that ran a story that most some SETI scientist are starting to think that radio waves is the wrong place to look. Some now believe that lasers would be used by more advanced civilizations as radio waves would be used but a brief history of the civilization.
The quest for CPU power has been largely defeated by bloated software in applications and operating systems. Some programs I wrote in Basic on an Apple II ran faster than when written in a modern language on a G4 Dual-processor Mac with hardware 1,000 times faster.
That is quite odd of him to say. I just checked on seti@home, climate prediction and predictor@home via boinc, I don't see any Apple IIs on top of any lists. Well maybe the distributed computings teams should hire Jef Raskin and his Amazing Basic programming abilities - right?
I think sometimes, you wake up for an interview and haven't had coffee yet and say things that are not quite what you intended - it happens to me all the time ya know...
warning of more privacy implications regarding Google's Desktop Search
So the actual problem is that public computers aren't secure? Google Desktop Search doesn't do anything more than what a halfway good script kiddies can do. I say that all public computers install the software and plug the permissions problem on the OS. If everyone can SEE the insecurity then the users will either
become aware
find alternatives
clamor to have the problem fixed
Another law will be written (don't let it get to this).
Choose one or proactively make a "none of the above choice" by doing something about it.
PS we almost freaking died out here - it's been an over an 1 1/2 since the last story.
tou Shay (sp:) your point is quite valid - it would seem that one proprietary solution became another. Yet looking closer what happened was a company didn't own the rights to a type of format and now it either owns the format or licensed it. During that transition time opened a window for Monkey Audio, Ogg, Flac, etc, to acquire a small toehold; thus, the proprietary solution slipped a bit. That slip may have cost it a large market chuck over the long haul allowing the free solution to acquire that lost chuck.
Remember when Fraunhofer threatened companies for infringing on certain MP3 license a few years ago? Well, that shook the industry into finding alternate solutions. For me, if it isn't some form of lossless open standard such as Flac than I prefer to pass not only on the sound track but the playing device as well. For me, listening to highly compressed MP3 isn't my cup of tea even if the compression ratio for lossy is higher than lossless.
I am glade that Wikipedia settled (?) on OGGs rather than MP3s due to the open nature of the format. Hopefully this trend will continue whereby patent encumbrance may not be best solutions.
When Google integrates an OS as their service. Imagine that one-day a Google like service where you turn on your computer and it connects to Google without any local OS (other than a BIOS and hopefully the BIOS is the Open Source one). Your files, settings and information are stored on the service. Sure you could have USB drives locally to store private info if you desire. But I wonder what Mr. Ballmer would say to that lowest of low price cheap hardware? You could take the money that would have been spent on the OS and allocate that to help pay for the service. At $100/12 = $8 a month; even at $300/12 = $25 per month - not bad having a use anywhere service whereby you don't have to maintain the OS or the Hardware.
Did anyone notice that the phone uses cdma2000. Carriers such as Verizon, Sprint and US Cellular use CDMA so this phone will work in the US. But the last time I tried to hookup a privately owned CDMA phone with Sprint and US Cellular they refused stating that if it didn't have their company name on the phone then they would activate it. I would hat to spend probably a grand (couldn't find the price) on the phone and not be able to use it. Then again, I don't know which is worse, I would hate going with a mobile phone carrier that wouldn't allow me to activate it.
This is true for regular algebra but in calculus there are formulas where even though the regular math proves 0*n = 0; studying points as they approach really close to the numbers will show that sometimes will not be zero. Like sin(x)/x as x -> 0 should be Undefined right? Well as you study the limits on both sides of 0 to infinite "closeness" you'll see that the formula actually equates to 1. Therefore if you had sin(x)/x as x -> 0 * billion it would equal a billion. Weird huh?
lawsuits - interesting that the lawsuit aspect was brought up. I don't know of any law that would prohibit the use of these. Let me site some examples: A radar jammer is illegal because it is regulated by the FCC and jammers don't accept interference and jammers produce interference; Yet Laser jammers are legal because lasers are regulated by the FDA - as such no interference law is applicable; still some states choose to make the laser jammer illegal. Therefore, a new law would have to be drawn at the state level to make these IR devices not legal.
What other laws would apply to the usage of IR devices?
too funny - stupid things happen when you depened on spell check then copy and paste is the weakest link. But on a side note dont think meat cleavers is funny to?
No I didn't - but I re-tried the Mozilla Exploits.
I agree with you, the second one could be much more serious and it made me slightly nervous when the keyboard was locked and all my keystrokes were on the security web page.
The Mozilla security flaw is a simple dialog popup from another web site. When you switch tabs the rouge web site "pops-up" a window asking for information - you think it is from a legitimate web site like a login for a bank account. However, I can't think of the last time I entered any security information in a dialog box.
10) Just a second, my jet isn't ready. 9) Mr. hot pants and all - yeah I know it's an excuse to take'em off. 8) You're so hot that you glow with enthusiasm. 7) Need a light - let me pull out my P.D.A. if you know what I mean. 6) Wowoowow those just engines dooo last. 5) How many would you like to buy madam? 4) Do you smell smoke? 3) Hey that's my jet. 2) Where did I put my jet engine - ahh there it is.
1) Jet engine in your pocket or are you glade to see me.
SNIP:Microsoft is gearing up to compete directly with the TIVO DVR market with a product
Surely you haven't forgot the defunct UltimateTV PVR from Microsoft? MS tried entering that market and either due to market condition or patent issues decided to leave that arena. Now it looks like the PVR replacement is MS's eyes will be an Xbox media center. I imagine someday there will be a hardware upgrade to record some sort of TV broadcast or internet transmissions of TV.
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1) charge 20 to 50 per RFID label
2) Opt out
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
So I can save 20 to 50 cents on my perscription by choosing not to purchase the RFID label? 5 or 6 perscription you woule have saved enough get a cheap bottle of wine.
You guys over in the UK must be hardcore.
Here in the US, I would be more concerned about a person carrying a backpack with a laser mounted on a shark.
Let's turn this technology around for our use in civil liberties; thus, making the product a threat. I would like to have this in a backpack. Imagine if it could detect a camera from several hundred yards and direct a laser (preferably mounted on a shark) to that camera thwarting intrusive surveillance. Yeah lets see how long until the Men in Black would allow this.
But really, the issue at hand is cameras in theaters. Is the bootleg market that big? I have seen some movies that were recorded with a camcorder and they were funnier to watch the action of recording than the movie. The market has to adjust to the viewing habits; it appears people may want to watch new movies using alternative methods (aka internet). Don't most movies nowadays make more money from DVD sales then the actual movie? I wonder if the movies were released simultaneously to theaters, DVD, video on demand, video of Internet, etc if this would be an issue?
Now lets bring the two views together from paragraph 1 and 2. Just as the public sector adapt to use changing technology, the movie industry needs to adapt to the situation.
Sears sent out Christmas catalogs based on past purchases; thus, it is prior art. Anything you could buy is in the catalog and anything bought at sears is in the catalog. Further more, this is a case whereby Sears provides a means of purchasing products via past purchases. Not too targeted yet you get a good lawyer to wrangle with this twist and you have yourself a case that could last years.
europe law implies a warranty of 24 months
It good that the government has produced the law to protects the citizens from defective products. However, the cost will be passed onto the consumer. The warranties provided are not free. There is a risk and either the company has to allocate money to a risk fund or acquire insurance to cover defective products.
In the US, the cost of the insurance is left up to the consumer that can be purchased from certain vendors - a store such as Circuit City or Best Buy may offer to sell you such insurance if you want it. Most people forgo the cost and accept the risk; thus, reducing the initial cost of the unit. The consumer does enter an evaluated risk but that is a free choice.
The free markets even out. The product is popular and lasts, people buy it. If it continues to break than people avoid it. Which is better? As you might see I am biased towards the Free Market yet I will say that having government law seems popular at your locale.
Rest assured that MS doesn't want their Xbox to die after a length of time. As /. has speculated in the past, MS is selling them at a loss. Supposedly, the money is in the support services and gaming. I bet it will get repaired if it is wihtin the warranty period.
;). I thought that Xbox needed a TV turner but now I believe that the new market is going to be TCP/IP movie center rather than Rf coax.
Also, MS has rolled out the media center for Xbox. I speculate that MS is trying to enter the Movies Over IP (moops from Seinfeld
I saw on a website onetime where a guy had his whole computer in (IRC) mineral sprits. In the web site he recommened the use of FC-77 as mineral spritis is flameable; but the site noted that FC-77 price was quite high. A quick google search reveles that one site has FC-77 for a little over $200 a litter. Maybe buying a window AC unit and hacking it into computer case may be cheaper?
I once thought peltiers would be great with water cooling but we read on /. the other day that these devices are 5% efficient so that's a no.
Water-cooling has a few kinks like electricity near water and corrosion - at least a few years ago that may be solved no days with Antifreeze but you still are at the mercy of the ambient room temperature. It's finicky enough that you couldn't build a machine with water cooling and leave it in a room for 3 years so that leaves a hole in reliability as I couldn't leave my machines on while going away for two weeks on vacation unless I didn't mind rolling the dice to seeing fire trucks at my home.
Considering Water-cooling Your PC? This was the leader I was until I saw a home made active cooling system. I first saw active cooling systems from http://www.vapochill.com/ (website down?) and have been waiting for someone to take an AC compressor and attach it to a computer case. It seems that were just on the verge of DIYers of achieving satisfactory results in active cooling systems; therefore, I will hang on to old reliable (the passive radiators) until I can muscle up the nerve to go the active cooling route.
Was it also NPR that ran a story that most some SETI scientist are starting to think that radio waves is the wrong place to look. Some now believe that lasers would be used by more advanced civilizations as radio waves would be used but a brief history of the civilization.
The quest for CPU power has been largely defeated by bloated software in applications and operating systems. Some programs I wrote in Basic on an Apple II ran faster than when written in a modern language on a G4 Dual-processor Mac with hardware 1,000 times faster.
That is quite odd of him to say. I just checked on seti@home, climate prediction and predictor@home via boinc, I don't see any Apple IIs on top of any lists. Well maybe the distributed computings teams should hire Jef Raskin and his Amazing Basic programming abilities - right?
I think sometimes, you wake up for an interview and haven't had coffee yet and say things that are not quite what you intended - it happens to me all the time ya know...
So the actual problem is that public computers aren't secure? Google Desktop Search doesn't do anything more than what a halfway good script kiddies can do. I say that all public computers install the software and plug the permissions problem on the OS. If everyone can SEE the insecurity then the users will either
Choose one or proactively make a "none of the above choice" by doing something about it.
PS we almost freaking died out here - it's been an over an 1 1/2 since the last story.
tou Shay (sp :) your point is quite valid - it would seem that one proprietary solution became another. Yet looking closer what happened was a company didn't own the rights to a type of format and now it either owns the format or licensed it. During that transition time opened a window for Monkey Audio, Ogg, Flac, etc, to acquire a small toehold; thus, the proprietary solution slipped a bit. That slip may have cost it a large market chuck over the long haul allowing the free solution to acquire that lost chuck.
Remember when Fraunhofer threatened companies for infringing on certain MP3 license a few years ago? Well, that shook the industry into finding alternate solutions. For me, if it isn't some form of lossless open standard such as Flac than I prefer to pass not only on the sound track but the playing device as well. For me, listening to highly compressed MP3 isn't my cup of tea even if the compression ratio for lossy is higher than lossless.
I am glade that Wikipedia settled (?) on OGGs rather than MP3s due to the open nature of the format. Hopefully this trend will continue whereby patent encumbrance may not be best solutions.
When Google integrates an OS as their service. Imagine that one-day a Google like service where you turn on your computer and it connects to Google without any local OS (other than a BIOS and hopefully the BIOS is the Open Source one). Your files, settings and information are stored on the service. Sure you could have USB drives locally to store private info if you desire. But I wonder what Mr. Ballmer would say to that lowest of low price cheap hardware? You could take the money that would have been spent on the OS and allocate that to help pay for the service. At $100/12 = $8 a month; even at $300/12 = $25 per month - not bad having a use anywhere service whereby you don't have to maintain the OS or the Hardware.
Did anyone notice that the phone uses cdma2000. Carriers such as Verizon, Sprint and US Cellular use CDMA so this phone will work in the US. But the last time I tried to hookup a privately owned CDMA phone with Sprint and US Cellular they refused stating that if it didn't have their company name on the phone then they would activate it. I would hat to spend probably a grand (couldn't find the price) on the phone and not be able to use it. Then again, I don't know which is worse, I would hate going with a mobile phone carrier that wouldn't allow me to activate it.
Nothing times a billion is still nothing
This is true for regular algebra but in calculus there are formulas where even though the regular math proves 0*n = 0; studying points as they approach really close to the numbers will show that sometimes will not be zero. Like sin(x)/x as x -> 0 should be Undefined right? Well as you study the limits on both sides of 0 to infinite "closeness" you'll see that the formula actually equates to 1. Therefore if you had sin(x)/x as x -> 0 * billion it would equal a billion. Weird huh?
65 trillion calculations per second and all I ponder is if NEC would mind using my user id while running seti@home.
lawsuits - interesting that the lawsuit aspect was brought up. I don't know of any law that would prohibit the use of these. Let me site some examples: A radar jammer is illegal because it is regulated by the FCC and jammers don't accept interference and jammers produce interference; Yet Laser jammers are legal because lasers are regulated by the FDA - as such no interference law is applicable; still some states choose to make the laser jammer illegal. Therefore, a new law would have to be drawn at the state level to make these IR devices not legal.
What other laws would apply to the usage of IR devices?
Until Netcraft confirms it I wont believe it. I'll back check in two years at http://www.netcraft.com to verify his findings.
-- a 2006 web odyssey
too funny - stupid things happen when you depened on spell check then copy and paste is the weakest link. But on a side note dont think meat cleavers is funny to?
No I didn't - but I re-tried the Mozilla Exploits.
I agree with you, the second one could be much more serious and it made me slightly nervous when the keyboard was locked and all my keystrokes were on the security web page.
The Mozilla security flaw is a simple dialog popup from another web site. When you switch tabs the rouge web site "pops-up" a window asking for information - you think it is from a legitimate web site like a login for a bank account. However, I can't think of the last time I entered any security information in a dialog box.
I like Dave so here is a top ten list:
10) Just a second, my jet isn't ready.
9) Mr. hot pants and all - yeah I know it's an excuse to take'em off.
8) You're so hot that you glow with enthusiasm.
7) Need a light - let me pull out my P.D.A. if you know what I mean.
6) Wowoowow those just engines dooo last.
5) How many would you like to buy madam?
4) Do you smell smoke?
3) Hey that's my jet.
2) Where did I put my jet engine - ahh there it is.
1) Jet engine in your pocket or are you glade to see me.
SNIP:Microsoft is gearing up to compete directly with the TIVO DVR market with a product
Surely you haven't forgot the defunct UltimateTV PVR from Microsoft? MS tried entering that market and either due to market condition or patent issues decided to leave that arena. Now it looks like the PVR replacement is MS's eyes will be an Xbox media center. I imagine someday there will be a hardware upgrade to record some sort of TV broadcast or internet transmissions of TV.
Here the /. article and here is the test. I think those test were bogus though because it didn't let you see the full source email.