I was throwing out a few different ideas, but I wouldn't expect them to all be used at the same time. For instance, if you have an on/off switch, there's no need for a protective casing, if you have an "approve the current transaction" button, there's no need for an on/off switch, etc.
I design armchairs for a living you insensitive clod!
*sigh* A golden opportunity wasted. The correct response to the phrase "armchair cryptographers" would have been, "I encrypt armchairs for a living, you insensitive clod!"
With RFID, an fradulent retalier would simply need you to walk through the door and have a concealed reader sitting within close proximity.
The obvious solution is to have an on/off switch on the card. Not to mention that the range is likely to be only a few centimeters. To complete a transaction, simply take out your card, flip a switch and toss it on a reader pad. Add an inductively-powered LCD display, and you could even see the amount and be required to press a button on the card to approve the transaction.
I just don't see why everyone is so afraid of RFID credit cards. Simply have the private key portion of a key pair stored in the card itself, with the public key in an easily-accessible database. When you make a purchase, the merchant sends a random challenge to the card, which then encrypts it with the private key and sends it back. The merchant verifies against the public key, and, if it matches, the transaction is approved. With a smart card, the only way to use my card is to have the physical card, in which case we're back to be exactly as secure as the current system.
I would think that/. geeks would be all over this. I mean, it's not perfect, but it would be a hell of a lot more secure than the current system. Right now, if I take my credit card to a restaurant, the waiter need only make a spare imprint of the card (and write down the verification number on the back). Later, he can pull out a phone book to get my address, and then he has all of the information he needs to use my card fraudulently.
I say "bring on the RFID credit cards". Simpler to use, and more secure than what's currently in my wallet.
What would infrared look like to someone using this chip? Well, that would be like describing what red looks like to someone who is blind.
Not really. It appears that this chip stimulates the layer of nerves below the retina. Thus, it can only stimulate what you can normally see: Red, green, and blue (and light/dark with the rods). No chip that stimulates the nerves under the retina can make us see anything that our eye can't normally see. There's no undocumented "infrared nerve" that would allow us to see something unique from our normal vision if it were stimulated.
The PSP isn't backward-compatible with PS1 games only because no PS1 emulator has been ported
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I suspect that such an emulator might have some issues. I mean, PS1 emulators are pretty robust these days, but the PSP isn't a general-purpose computing device, and its processor is quite a bit underpowered compared to a desktop PC. I have to wonder if it has the "oomph" needed emulate an entirely different system.
Remember, too, that the PS2 can play PS1 games not because it emulates the PS1, but because it actually has the original PS1 processor as its I/O processor.
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Why are you even commenting? Here's an important part of the original post that you left out:
The main problem that I've had with the PSP is that games which I already own are not playable on the PSP
It would seem that you need to work on your reading comprehension. Please go back and read the entire original post. Dancin_Santa makes it clear that he thinks that the only reason that his original PS[1|2] games won't work is because they're on different sized discs, and there's no way to burn them to a UMD.
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There is no current easy way to get a hold of blank PSP disks and copy my current games to it for play.
It wouldn't matter if there were blank discs, since the PSP isn't backward-compatible with the games for any other Playstation system.
I was actually being serious. What could be better than a clean conscience?
I agree. After viewing my own private porn collection, my conscience is always left discolored and slightly sticky. It could definitely use a good cleaning. But what do you recommend? Bleach is too harsh, and the Catholic Church won't sell me any indulgences, so I'm at a total loss.
How do you know this? Babies from different countries "talk" the same up to a certain age, if everyone's thoughts were different as you assume surely they would all talk differently (even within the same country until they learnt that country's language)
If you were referring to babies babbling, that is no more equivalent to talking than a computer spewing out random ASCII characters is equivalent to serving a webpage.
Just because a group of computers is using the same character set doesn't mean that they're using the same language. Hell, they need not even have the same internal representation of information, relying instead on a specific piece of hardware to interface with the outside world. Similarly, just because babies babble the same complete set of phonemes doesn't mean that they speak the same "language", nor does it imply that they share any sort of internal representation. They just happen to all have the same output hardware.
We found that it had been an internal mail server for Northwest Mental Health Services.
Oh, c'mon now! You can't drop a juicy tidbit like that without giving us more details. Just a few snippits of the more... "interesting"... emails would do. Surely you found something worthy of sharing on a frickin' mental health services mail server.
Consider if someone prints an ad in a magazine and then that magazine is found a year later in an office somewhere and the prices again are off. Should they be at fault?
Of course not. But then again, it's not possible for a business to change the content of all of their magazine ads with the click of a button. This situation is more like a business failing to change the prices on the billboard outside of their establishment.
Not to nitpick or for karma, but i think you should add the words "...For Profit.".
Nope. As soon as the copy you made of copyrighted media is not being utilized for some fair-use application, you are in violation of copyright law. Profit is not necessary.
Distributing MS Office is OK as long as you don't make money out of it.
That statement is just wrong on so many levels....
It's "creationist" because there is only a disclaimer for evolution. If there were a sticker for every single theory in the book, from the germ theory of disease to the theory of gravitation, well, I'd still complain about it, just for a different reason.
It's a long way from saying, "Oh look. The color of the moth changes in lab tests depending on it's predator and environment" to "Oh, look. Our lab tests just that life came about because of natural selection."
Except that evolution doesn't touch on how life came about at all. The origins of life are completely outside evolution's scope.
Actually, it's both. The theory is the framework that explains how the evolutionary process (which can be observed) operates. This is much like the theory of gravitation explaining how the fact of gravity works.
All the wireless mice I have seen need corded recievers.
Yeah, but not corded receivers that must be practically touching the mouse!
With this, not only are battery problems gone, but we also have the reciever very close to the mouse (touching) so interference will probably be lessened (though not eliminated).
So, basically, it's just like an optical mouse (no battery problems, but limited to the distance of a cable), with the added bonuses of being locked onto a specific mousepad and the possiblity of interference? Color me unimpressed.
Ah, but you have forgotten about the odometer -- i.e., the sinister spy in your dashboard !!!
Just run the car in reverse for a while and it'll take the miles right back off. Oh, but beware of large plate-glass windows overlooking picturesque ravines.
I never imagined that the cars will be traveling bumper-to-bumper at 80mph. I was simply noting that it might be possible for the required buffer space to be so small as to be nearly identical to the space you normally see between cars that are stopped at a traffic light.
Of course, automated cars will likely be programmed to stop as close as reasonably possible to the car in front of them when at a traffic light (yay! no more blue-hairs leaving 3/4 of a car length between them and the next car), so it's probably a moot point.
Keep in mind, though, that the distance that you need between cars is based on the reaction time of the driver. A computer-controlled car is going to be able to react to changing conditions much quicker than a human ever could, thus the safe distance between cars will be smaller.
Now, consider that the safe distance between any two computer-controlled cars traveling 55mph is (for the sake of argument) 5 feet. If all the cars were to keep a 5 foot distance from each other at a stop light, then they could all accelerate simultaneously once it turns green.
It's not just mahjong; it's a mahjong *fight club*. Now you know that's intense.
The first rule of Mahjong Fight Club is - you do not talk about Mahjong Fight Club.
The second rule of Mahjong Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Mahjong Fight Club.
Why would you want to ride one of these cars when 99% of the cars on the road are still driven by people?
Because I'd like to be able to do something productive while riding to/from work, rather than allowing traffic jams to affect my blood pressure for little or no gain?
Nah, who am I kidding? I wouldn't be doing anything productive at all. I'd probably sleep in the car on the way to work. Hell, I'd probably sleep on the way back, too. Or read a book. Or watch TV (in-car entertainment systems will likely be common in self-driving cars). Sure, being one of the first self-driving car owners would probably make my commute a bit slower, but what do I care if I'm actually enjoying the ride (or sleeping through it)?
Also, any self-driving car is going to have to have a GPS navigation system, which means that I can just enter an address and my car will take me there. No more trying to find some place that I've never been to at night in the rain (arguably the most annoying type of driving known to man).
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I was throwing out a few different ideas, but I wouldn't expect them to all be used at the same time. For instance, if you have an on/off switch, there's no need for a protective casing, if you have an "approve the current transaction" button, there's no need for an on/off switch, etc.
I just don't see why everyone is so afraid of RFID credit cards. Simply have the private key portion of a key pair stored in the card itself, with the public key in an easily-accessible database. When you make a purchase, the merchant sends a random challenge to the card, which then encrypts it with the private key and sends it back. The merchant verifies against the public key, and, if it matches, the transaction is approved. With a smart card, the only way to use my card is to have the physical card, in which case we're back to be exactly as secure as the current system.
/. geeks would be all over this. I mean, it's not perfect, but it would be a hell of a lot more secure than the current system. Right now, if I take my credit card to a restaurant, the waiter need only make a spare imprint of the card (and write down the verification number on the back). Later, he can pull out a phone book to get my address, and then he has all of the information he needs to use my card fraudulently.
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I say "bring on the RFID credit cards". Simpler to use, and more secure than what's currently in my wallet.
Remember, too, that the PS2 can play PS1 games not because it emulates the PS1, but because it actually has the original PS1 processor as its I/O processor.
Just because a group of computers is using the same character set doesn't mean that they're using the same language. Hell, they need not even have the same internal representation of information, relying instead on a specific piece of hardware to interface with the outside world. Similarly, just because babies babble the same complete set of phonemes doesn't mean that they speak the same "language", nor does it imply that they share any sort of internal representation. They just happen to all have the same output hardware.
Ah, but you have forgotten about the odometer -- i.e., the sinister spy in your dashboard !!!
Just run the car in reverse for a while and it'll take the miles right back off. Oh, but beware of large plate-glass windows overlooking picturesque ravines.
I never imagined that the cars will be traveling bumper-to-bumper at 80mph. I was simply noting that it might be possible for the required buffer space to be so small as to be nearly identical to the space you normally see between cars that are stopped at a traffic light.
Of course, automated cars will likely be programmed to stop as close as reasonably possible to the car in front of them when at a traffic light (yay! no more blue-hairs leaving 3/4 of a car length between them and the next car), so it's probably a moot point.
Keep in mind, though, that the distance that you need between cars is based on the reaction time of the driver. A computer-controlled car is going to be able to react to changing conditions much quicker than a human ever could, thus the safe distance between cars will be smaller.
Now, consider that the safe distance between any two computer-controlled cars traveling 55mph is (for the sake of argument) 5 feet. If all the cars were to keep a 5 foot distance from each other at a stop light, then they could all accelerate simultaneously once it turns green.
It's not just mahjong; it's a mahjong *fight club*. Now you know that's intense.
The first rule of Mahjong Fight Club is - you do not talk about Mahjong Fight Club.
The second rule of Mahjong Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Mahjong Fight Club.
Why would you want to ride one of these cars when 99% of the cars on the road are still driven by people?
Because I'd like to be able to do something productive while riding to/from work, rather than allowing traffic jams to affect my blood pressure for little or no gain?
Nah, who am I kidding? I wouldn't be doing anything productive at all. I'd probably sleep in the car on the way to work. Hell, I'd probably sleep on the way back, too. Or read a book. Or watch TV (in-car entertainment systems will likely be common in self-driving cars). Sure, being one of the first self-driving car owners would probably make my commute a bit slower, but what do I care if I'm actually enjoying the ride (or sleeping through it)?
Also, any self-driving car is going to have to have a GPS navigation system, which means that I can just enter an address and my car will take me there. No more trying to find some place that I've never been to at night in the rain (arguably the most annoying type of driving known to man).
Correct. ROTK was the one with the oliphaunt-trunk surfing.
Same here. The site's actually responding faster for me now than it was last night.