The members of the NFC Forum envisage that their technology will be used to manage connections to both active and passive devices. People, they say, could use it to establish a link between two handheld devices in order to swap music --
and get raided by MPAA & RIAA.
And then the obligatory question "Yeah, but does it run Linux?
On a more serious note, the badge, if you stick on your breast pocket, will have one heck of a time picking up your voice, especially in a noisy enviroment. Otherwise you will have to bow your head and pull your shirt up. Looks quite odd.
The question is, who exactly has access to our data?
The credit card companies, for example, have access to a LOT of data. People seem to be content with that.
And it is ridiculous how much information about your activities are already out there, though not publicly accessible, accessible to certain organisations.
I think the scariest bit about this article is that casinos have access to your, YES YOUR, data. And if casinos can do that, so can the mafia.
The government having access to all this information is only a part of the problem. The real problem is, how much of it is available to bad guys, like telemarketeers and the Russian Mafia.
This is not reading the mind. It is just about interpreting the nerve signals.
This is not new. Prosthetic hands that operate on nerve signals have been available for decades.
The reason I started reading slashdot was because it was fairly spin free. I guess I am better off reading the AIT Times. It sure has its faults, but it is spin free.
I did a search on
Money in Politics Database and found 27 records of DIEBOLD employees
donating to political campaigns, and 16 of which to the Bush-Cheny 04
Campaign.
Phase 2 includes developing an airship that can sustain operations for one month at 65,000 feet while providing 10 kilowatts of power to a 4,000-pound payload. The prototype airship will become part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System Test Bed following the successful demonstration in 2006.
Wouldn't an LEO satellite would be more efficient?
As I am outside the US. But I do communicate a lot with people in the US. This means whatever I say can be wire tapped at the US end, encryption notwithstanding.
And these intercepted communications can be passed on to other governments.
This is indeed good news. I am a big fan of Ursula K. Le Guin. Whilst a TV miniseries is better than nothing, I was really hoping for a film coming out soon.
I think this whole study overlooks one key aspect. If the product in question, MS Windows, had fewer holes, then there would be less scope for virus development.
But this is not at all the case. The real damage, IMHO, is not when virus writers share the code, it is when they share the information on vulnerabilities.
The sharing of the code only helps the script kiddies. They can be easily taken care of. But not the clever guys who learn about, and then exploit, vulnerabilities.
I haven't got the exact figures, but I reckon 99% of all code written out there must be written in Imperative (sometimes pseudo OO) languages. There must be SOME reason functional languages are not so popular.
Functional language are only good in theory. Sure, you can easily write programs in them, but they abstract over how the program is executed. And the programs are going to be executed in an imperative manner; machine code is imperative, remember?
Thus, there's a MASSIVE performance loss when a functional programming language is executed on any of the existing processors. Because the compilers can't think and optimise the code to best fit the imperative model. Where as the human being s can. That's why we should stick to imperative programming languages.
The day someone actually invents a function processor, we could start promoting these fringe langauges. Till then, let's keep Haskell as part of CS811
Thank you for listening. That's the end of my rant.
Canadian society is far more socially advanced than the US. Having visited both countries, I found that in terms of social-democracy, US is definitely third world compared to Canada. Why do I say so?
Canada has a better health care system.
Canada has a more accessible education system.
Canada has higher environmental standards.
The Canadian Labour laws are far more just, IMHO, than their US counterparts.
The media are not one dimensial like in the US
The list goes. A lot of my US friends wanted to migrate to Canada, if things in the US got worse. However, it is sad to note how the multinational that have decimated democracy in the US is slowly spreading their tentacles to Canada. I hope Canadians win this battle. Good Luck to them.
The uptake of Linux with Thai computer users is truely mindboggling. I think with the advent of LinuxTLE(Thai Language Edition), more and more computer users are moving away from Windows to Open source.
Quite suprising considering used to be is easy to find illegal software in Thailand.
I think HP is making the right choice by taking advantage of the situation. And with the CEO-Prime Minister Thaksin tipped to win the next election, things will only get harder for pirate software vendors.
The guys who send the spam emails, they are analogous to couriers in the drug trafficking world. Fighting them achieves nothing.
The people you have to fight are the big bosses. In the case of Spam, the IDIOTS who try to sell their products and services through spamming. If more action is taken to prosecute these [deleted expletives], we will be able to combat spam better.
In quite a lot of countries outside the US, one has to has to pay exhorbitant amounts at a per MB rate to get bandwitdh from the US or elsewhere. This is especially true in Thailand.
I am in no way willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to WATCH advertisements. Don't get me wrong. I am totally pro-advertising, I do understand that advertising is a way for content providers to make some money, but I prefer textual targetted advertising.
So what would I do? Firstly, I will try to find a way to block these ads. If this fails, I will just boycott these sites and find alternate sites. And I figure a lot of people will do the same.
So these people will lose the audience to gain revenue. Doesn't sound logical now, does it?
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Going by all the trolls on ./, I think the distribution must be close to the 2-year old end.
and get raided by MPAA & RIAA.
And then the obligatory question "Yeah, but does it run Linux?
I guess one could also combine it with a trekkie badge
On a more serious note, the badge, if you stick on your breast pocket, will have one heck of a time picking up your voice, especially in a noisy enviroment. Otherwise you will have to bow your head and pull your shirt up. Looks quite odd.
There're only a few cases where the remake was better.
The credit card companies, for example, have access to a LOT of data. People seem to be content with that.
And it is ridiculous how much information about your activities are already out there, though not publicly accessible, accessible to certain organisations.
I think the scariest bit about this article is that casinos have access to your, YES YOUR, data. And if casinos can do that, so can the mafia.
The government having access to all this information is only a part of the problem. The real problem is, how much of it is available to bad guys, like telemarketeers and the Russian Mafia.
This is not new. Prosthetic hands that operate on nerve signals have been available for decades.
The reason I started reading slashdot was because it was fairly spin free. I guess I am better off reading the AIT Times. It sure has its faults, but it is spin free.
I did a search on Money in Politics Database and found 27 records of DIEBOLD employees donating to political campaigns, and 16 of which to the Bush-Cheny 04 Campaign.
And then you'll have a paper trail
Here's an alternate link I am looking for removal instructions. BRB.
will be after phatbot, now that Kazaa is being counter-sued.
Phase 2 includes developing an airship that can sustain operations for one month at 65,000 feet while providing 10 kilowatts of power to a 4,000-pound payload. The prototype airship will become part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System Test Bed following the successful demonstration in 2006. Wouldn't an LEO satellite would be more efficient?
The form says: US address, city & state, or zip
And these intercepted communications can be passed on to other governments.
Scary
Here's compelling evidence that Slashdot's Michael is Evil:
Move on
This is indeed good news. I am a big fan of Ursula K. Le Guin. Whilst a TV miniseries is better than nothing, I was really hoping for a film coming out soon.
But this is not at all the case. The real damage, IMHO, is not when virus writers share the code, it is when they share the information on vulnerabilities.
The sharing of the code only helps the script kiddies. They can be easily taken care of. But not the clever guys who learn about, and then exploit, vulnerabilities.
Functional language are only good in theory. Sure, you can easily write programs in them, but they abstract over how the program is executed. And the programs are going to be executed in an imperative manner; machine code is imperative, remember?
Thus, there's a MASSIVE performance loss when a functional programming language is executed on any of the existing processors. Because the compilers can't think and optimise the code to best fit the imperative model. Where as the human being s can. That's why we should stick to imperative programming languages.
The day someone actually invents a function processor, we could start promoting these fringe langauges. Till then, let's keep Haskell as part of CS811
Thank you for listening. That's the end of my rant.
The list goes. A lot of my US friends wanted to migrate to Canada, if things in the US got worse. However, it is sad to note how the multinational that have decimated democracy in the US is slowly spreading their tentacles to Canada. I hope Canadians win this battle. Good Luck to them.
Quite suprising considering used to be is easy to find illegal software in Thailand.
I think HP is making the right choice by taking advantage of the situation. And with the CEO-Prime Minister Thaksin tipped to win the next election, things will only get harder for pirate software vendors.
The people you have to fight are the big bosses. In the case of Spam, the IDIOTS who try to sell their products and services through spamming. If more action is taken to prosecute these [deleted expletives], we will be able to combat spam better.
I am in no way willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to WATCH advertisements. Don't get me wrong. I am totally pro-advertising, I do understand that advertising is a way for content providers to make some money, but I prefer textual targetted advertising.
So what would I do? Firstly, I will try to find a way to block these ads. If this fails, I will just boycott these sites and find alternate sites. And I figure a lot of people will do the same.
So these people will lose the audience to gain revenue. Doesn't sound logical now, does it?
Or the DoJ might start investigating the underhand tactics RIAA has used to curtail P2P services.
Either way, this is very good news.
And it is not only the Germs I am worried about. Since I started coming to Slashdot, my Desktop contains 20,343 trolls per square inch.
A recent survey indicated a**hole per Oval office in the Whitehouse.
The list goes on.
Once they release the interfaces to these car computers, we can install Linux on them.