Open source gives intellectual property to your community, city, country, people, and open economy, instead of just one company. Perhaps you care about them.
No, it's not easy to see the "community", but you see those big corporate buildings? That *was* your money.
o it is not, your RFID equipped credit card could be skimmed when you simply walk by a hidden reader.
Even if they could what would they get? It's encrypted and requires a challenge response..
If you read the title you'd know that you can do this from over 100 feet away.
If you actually looked at the article you'd see the antenna he used was about 8 feet long and required a lot of transmit power to do this. Hardly able to fit ion a backpack.
Not really a fair comparison since there's only one of those cars with the switch under the seat. Now if Ford or GM release a whole line of cars and they all used that protection, you'd be damn sure thieves would find out about it and the protection rendered useless.
It's a perfectly valid comparison. The security was simple (a switch) and obscured. The premise was security through obscurity was not valid and it clearly can be.
Also, if Ford or GM released a whole line of cards with a hidden switch under the seat, then that security measure is no longer obscure is it.
My statement is still valid. you hand someone your card to pay for gas, they can go in and duplicate it very easily with a magnetic stripe just by swiping it through a reader.
I dont know what you mean by the RFID skimmer can be inside the reader. Regardless, you need to have the card less than 4 inches away from the reader and held there for several seconds to read it. Even then the data is encrypted and required a challenge response.
Please elaborate, I was under the impression that a signal simply powers the card and induces a response from the card.
No processing or challenge response unless it's a really expensive card.
The signal does power the card but it is challenge, response and the data transmitted is encrypted.
In which case anyone walking past you could read the card without you knowing.
They would get an encrypted mess if they somehow concealed a bulky RFID transmitter and were able to keep that transmitter within 4 inches of your card for several seconds..
So RFID presents a no different security threat than magnetic stripe.. Someone can always duplicate your card if you let them have it, or are not watching.
My bank switched their debit cards over to ones with "PayWave". It's an RFID chip that allows me to just magically wave my card around in the air and pay for stuff at the checkout line.
Have you actually used it? That's not how it works. The RFID feature is EXACTLY the same as the magnetic swipe. The reader has to be initialized by the cash register to read (it's not set to read automatically just like the magnetic readers are not trying to read constantly until told to), and the signal is so weak you actually have to touch the card against the reader and hold it there for a few seconds. There is no way waving your card in the air will cause you to purchase anything.
Yes, Security through Obscurity hasn't been a good strategy for decades now.
I guess you never watched that documentary on car security. They equipped a variety of cars with different state of the art security systems and asked a bunch of real life car thieves (identities hidden) to see if they could break into them and get the engine started without setting off the alarm. The *ONLY* car they couldn't start was the one with the simple engine kill toggle switch hidden under the seat.
In certain instances, security through obscurity is the best security.
Ray Kurzweil is yet another computer programmer blathering on about things that he has no understanding on. The vast majority of software people I know do that, I don't understand why this guy gets to publish books on it.
And yet, for school loans, bank accounts (that don't have any interest), and even my dentist want it because, to them, it is a unique identifier.
I had debated if I should refuse to give them that information or just comply. To my shame, I have simply complied. I tried, at first, to argue it. But there were only so many times I could tolerate the "but, the system requires it... I don't know what to do about your objection" situations that I eventually gave up knowing that, someday, it would likely come back to haunt me.
If they are just using it as a unique identifier (like your dentist) and have no legitimate reason to have it, just give them a fake one that you can remember. The only reason they are asking for your SSN is that you remember it and they dont have to worry about lost user names. If you give them a fake one there is no possible way that they can verify it. That's a lot easier than arguing about it.
Mandate teaching those little bastards every religious idea they will probably come across and give Christianity no preferential or differential treatment.
My school was like that. Had religion all the way into high school but it was a study of ALL mainstream religions, their beliefs and origins. Was also a study of morals and how different people apply their own version of morality differently
I doubt romans would manage to conquer Afghanistan. No one has ever done so militarily, considering the british with advanced military never succeeded, and the russians for how many years with advanced military (considering afghanis weapon and weapons training) did not succeed.
The russians would have succeeded but Regan decided 'look how those evil communists are repressing those people who just want to express their religion! Lets give them weapons and train them to fight!'. And congratulations moron you just trained up the taliban.
No. It's called business - they charge what the market can bear. When you buy a coffee for $2, do you really think it cost them that much? I had a friend in the coffee shop business and it cost him about $0.04 per POT for coffee.
Ha! Try spontaneous decapitation. Now THATS pain. One day while trying to fix some really bad code from an ex-software guy I kicked off my program, my head literally ripped itself off my body out of sheer frustration. Took three doctors, five nurses and a wolverine to put everything back in it proper spot.
OK it's only fox news that says people are waitin in line for healthcare. And 2 canadians I talked to were just lying about it. right
You said people die waiting in line, not that there was a line. No one dies waiting for healthcare. If its high priority they get healthcare immediately. If not, then you wait, or you can pay for certain services if you like. My fathers pacemaker was next day. I had a ligament tear in my knee and needed an MRI and athroscopic surgery. I was still fully mobile (just couldn't run) so I had to wait a couple of months. No it's not perfect, but its better than 15% of the population without any health care as in the US, and the majority of the rest only covered for basics. Some people say that the US has the best health care in the world, but thats only true for the 5% that can actually afford the premium care. For the rest, its no where near the best in the world and you should be ashamed of that.
the drugs are cheaper in canada, since canada subsidizes them.
No Canada does not subsidize drugs. In fact drugs are not covered under provincial health care, unless they are part of a hospital stay
Your healthcare should be paid for/provided by no one that's not willing to do it.
No one is forced to provide health care. It's just paid for. The doctors, nurses, hospitals all operate just as they would in the US, they are just not run by insurance companies, but by a board of directors like a company. The only difference is instead of submitting expenses to the insurance company, its submitted to the government. Government does not 'run' the hospitals, they just pay the bills.
The US system sucks. the Canadian system sucks.
I would say both have deficiencies and a merging of the two would make them great. I support fully funded health care like we have in Canada. What I don't like is that certain procedures are not allowed to be run privately. My view is if someone wants to start a private practice to do whatever, and they think they can make a profit at it then go ahead as long as a standard of medical care is maintained and no public funds are used (we call this two tier health care and its making inroads but is hotly debated).
All say that government owns the means of production. Aka government run.
Actually all say that the people own the industries instead of corporations. Very different than government run.
it means something if you die waiting
Bullshit. Never happened in Canada, except maybe on Fox News. No one ever dies waiting for health care in Canada. But I would say a lot of people die in the US because they cannot get healthcare at all.
It means something if your town has lottery to determine who gets a family doctor.
A single incident taken out of context and blown out of proportion. No lotteries exist to get access to family doctors. (you may be thinking of Oregon, not Canada: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/99623.php) However small towns all have a shortage of family doctors both in Canada and in the US. Not having a family doctor (I never had one for years by choice) does not mean you cannot get access to medical help or visit any doctor of your choosing.
It means something if your life threatening illness is somehow classified as optional.
Resources are not allocated like that. If someone doesn't like the service they are getting they are free to go get a second, third, forth opinion, or go to whatever hospital they like.
All of which are very real scenarios in canada.
Only on Fox "News". More accurate would be to call it Fox Lying for Ratings.
the US lacks almost any market forces to get prices low.
In fact the insurance industry is artificially driving prices high. The same drugs and services here in Canada cost far less than they do in the US.
You don't have a right to those things. You don't have a right to other people's services
I have a right to life which includes quality of life. You are right I do not have a right to peoples services in that no one doctor can be forced to serve someone, it's their choice. But I have a right to equal access to healthcare.
And that changes what? We get lots of things from outside the US.. the prices don't go down in other areas of healthcare.
The US is benefiting off of other peoples social programs which you consider bad for some strange reason. Just pointing out the irony.
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Open source gives intellectual property to your community, city, country, people, and open economy, instead of just one company. Perhaps you care about them. No, it's not easy to see the "community", but you see those big corporate buildings? That *was* your money.
I support capitalism, not communism, pinko.
You go inside to pay for gas? I just use the cardswipe/pinpad on the gas pump, which I thought was pretty standard practice these days.
Actually I use an RFID FOB. If I come across a station that doesn't let me pay at the pump, I wont use it. But they still exist.
Why? Unless the resulting drivers are actually better which remains to be seen, just the fact that they are open source is meaningless.
Now if someone can fix ATIs shitty OpenGL support, then I'd be all over it. But for right now this makes no difference.
What data did he get? Was it useful? Could it in any way be used to identify the person or purchase merchandise? I think not.
o it is not, your RFID equipped credit card could be skimmed when you simply walk by a hidden reader.
Even if they could what would they get? It's encrypted and requires a challenge response..
If you read the title you'd know that you can do this from over 100 feet away.
If you actually looked at the article you'd see the antenna he used was about 8 feet long and required a lot of transmit power to do this. Hardly able to fit ion a backpack.
Not really a fair comparison since there's only one of those cars with the switch under the seat. Now if Ford or GM release a whole line of cars and they all used that protection, you'd be damn sure thieves would find out about it and the protection rendered useless.
It's a perfectly valid comparison. The security was simple (a switch) and obscured. The premise was security through obscurity was not valid and it clearly can be.
Also, if Ford or GM released a whole line of cards with a hidden switch under the seat, then that security measure is no longer obscure is it.
My statement is still valid. you hand someone your card to pay for gas, they can go in and duplicate it very easily with a magnetic stripe just by swiping it through a reader.
I dont know what you mean by the RFID skimmer can be inside the reader. Regardless, you need to have the card less than 4 inches away from the reader and held there for several seconds to read it. Even then the data is encrypted and required a challenge response.
Please elaborate, I was under the impression that a signal simply powers the card and induces a response from the card. No processing or challenge response unless it's a really expensive card.
The signal does power the card but it is challenge, response and the data transmitted is encrypted.
In which case anyone walking past you could read the card without you knowing.
They would get an encrypted mess if they somehow concealed a bulky RFID transmitter and were able to keep that transmitter within 4 inches of your card for several seconds..
So RFID presents a no different security threat than magnetic stripe.. Someone can always duplicate your card if you let them have it, or are not watching.
Or you can actually understand the technology, realize no vendor can read your card without your knowledge and not worry about it anyway.
My bank switched their debit cards over to ones with "PayWave". It's an RFID chip that allows me to just magically wave my card around in the air and pay for stuff at the checkout line.
Have you actually used it? That's not how it works. The RFID feature is EXACTLY the same as the magnetic swipe. The reader has to be initialized by the cash register to read (it's not set to read automatically just like the magnetic readers are not trying to read constantly until told to), and the signal is so weak you actually have to touch the card against the reader and hold it there for a few seconds. There is no way waving your card in the air will cause you to purchase anything.
Yes, Security through Obscurity hasn't been a good strategy for decades now.
I guess you never watched that documentary on car security. They equipped a variety of cars with different state of the art security systems and asked a bunch of real life car thieves (identities hidden) to see if they could break into them and get the engine started without setting off the alarm. The *ONLY* car they couldn't start was the one with the simple engine kill toggle switch hidden under the seat.
In certain instances, security through obscurity is the best security.
Uhh no. Before this article I've never even heard of him.
Ray Kurzweil is yet another computer programmer blathering on about things that he has no understanding on. The vast majority of software people I know do that, I don't understand why this guy gets to publish books on it.
serving hard time for violation of federal law
I said *IF* they have no reason to have it.
And yet, for school loans, bank accounts (that don't have any interest), and even my dentist want it because, to them, it is a unique identifier. I had debated if I should refuse to give them that information or just comply. To my shame, I have simply complied. I tried, at first, to argue it. But there were only so many times I could tolerate the "but, the system requires it... I don't know what to do about your objection" situations that I eventually gave up knowing that, someday, it would likely come back to haunt me.
If they are just using it as a unique identifier (like your dentist) and have no legitimate reason to have it, just give them a fake one that you can remember. The only reason they are asking for your SSN is that you remember it and they dont have to worry about lost user names. If you give them a fake one there is no possible way that they can verify it. That's a lot easier than arguing about it.
Mandate teaching those little bastards every religious idea they will probably come across and give Christianity no preferential or differential treatment.
My school was like that. Had religion all the way into high school but it was a study of ALL mainstream religions, their beliefs and origins. Was also a study of morals and how different people apply their own version of morality differently
Oops I screwed up. It's actually $0.004 per lb.
Agreed he's probably not talking into account building lease or labour, just materials cost, so you are correct marginal cost would be more accurate.
Also power rates here are about 6-7c per kWh, but still in the ballpark of what you say.
Regardless of the actual numbers, the cost you pay is nowhere near the actual cost of a cup of coffee. Markups are part of business.
Green coffee beans trade at wholesale prices of somewhere upward of one dollar per pound on international markets.
No, it actually trades at $0.04 per pound according to the link you sent me http://data.tradingcharts.com/futures/quotes/KC.html(those units are dollars per contract size so it would be $166 per 37500lbs, not $1.66 per pound).
Since your initial assumption was wrong, the rest of your analysis is similarly wrong.
I stand by my $0.04 per pot.
I doubt romans would manage to conquer Afghanistan. No one has ever done so militarily, considering the british with advanced military never succeeded, and the russians for how many years with advanced military (considering afghanis weapon and weapons training) did not succeed.
The russians would have succeeded but Regan decided 'look how those evil communists are repressing those people who just want to express their religion! Lets give them weapons and train them to fight!'. And congratulations moron you just trained up the taliban.
No. It's called business - they charge what the market can bear. When you buy a coffee for $2, do you really think it cost them that much? I had a friend in the coffee shop business and it cost him about $0.04 per POT for coffee.
Then you will know pain.
Ha! Try spontaneous decapitation. Now THATS pain. One day while trying to fix some really bad code from an ex-software guy I kicked off my program, my head literally ripped itself off my body out of sheer frustration. Took three doctors, five nurses and a wolverine to put everything back in it proper spot.
OK it's only fox news that says people are waitin in line for healthcare. And 2 canadians I talked to were just lying about it. right
You said people die waiting in line, not that there was a line. No one dies waiting for healthcare. If its high priority they get healthcare immediately. If not, then you wait, or you can pay for certain services if you like. My fathers pacemaker was next day. I had a ligament tear in my knee and needed an MRI and athroscopic surgery. I was still fully mobile (just couldn't run) so I had to wait a couple of months. No it's not perfect, but its better than 15% of the population without any health care as in the US, and the majority of the rest only covered for basics. Some people say that the US has the best health care in the world, but thats only true for the 5% that can actually afford the premium care. For the rest, its no where near the best in the world and you should be ashamed of that.
the drugs are cheaper in canada, since canada subsidizes them.
No Canada does not subsidize drugs. In fact drugs are not covered under provincial health care, unless they are part of a hospital stay
Your healthcare should be paid for/provided by no one that's not willing to do it.
No one is forced to provide health care. It's just paid for. The doctors, nurses, hospitals all operate just as they would in the US, they are just not run by insurance companies, but by a board of directors like a company. The only difference is instead of submitting expenses to the insurance company, its submitted to the government. Government does not 'run' the hospitals, they just pay the bills.
The US system sucks. the Canadian system sucks.
I would say both have deficiencies and a merging of the two would make them great. I support fully funded health care like we have in Canada. What I don't like is that certain procedures are not allowed to be run privately. My view is if someone wants to start a private practice to do whatever, and they think they can make a profit at it then go ahead as long as a standard of medical care is maintained and no public funds are used (we call this two tier health care and its making inroads but is hotly debated).
All say that government owns the means of production. Aka government run.
Actually all say that the people own the industries instead of corporations. Very different than government run.
it means something if you die waiting
Bullshit. Never happened in Canada, except maybe on Fox News. No one ever dies waiting for health care in Canada. But I would say a lot of people die in the US because they cannot get healthcare at all.
It means something if your town has lottery to determine who gets a family doctor.
A single incident taken out of context and blown out of proportion. No lotteries exist to get access to family doctors. (you may be thinking of Oregon, not Canada: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/99623.php) However small towns all have a shortage of family doctors both in Canada and in the US. Not having a family doctor (I never had one for years by choice) does not mean you cannot get access to medical help or visit any doctor of your choosing.
It means something if your life threatening illness is somehow classified as optional.
Resources are not allocated like that. If someone doesn't like the service they are getting they are free to go get a second, third, forth opinion, or go to whatever hospital they like.
All of which are very real scenarios in canada.
Only on Fox "News". More accurate would be to call it Fox Lying for Ratings.
the US lacks almost any market forces to get prices low.
In fact the insurance industry is artificially driving prices high. The same drugs and services here in Canada cost far less than they do in the US.
You don't have a right to those things. You don't have a right to other people's services
I have a right to life which includes quality of life. You are right I do not have a right to peoples services in that no one doctor can be forced to serve someone, it's their choice. But I have a right to equal access to healthcare.
And that changes what? We get lots of things from outside the US.. the prices don't go down in other areas of healthcare.
The US is benefiting off of other peoples social programs which you consider bad for some strange reason. Just pointing out the irony.