It's just an ID tag. That's ALL. It has NO history information saved on it. It just uniquely identifies the "wearer" for purposes of database lookups. Odds are that EMT'z will be the last thing linked remotely into the hospital LAN to look up the pertinent records.
Basically it's an armband that can't get lost, swapped, etc.
First and foremost being, NEVER read the referenced article. Always spout comments that are as apocalyptic as possible before clicking throught the link(s).
Think UPC code. The identifier, emblazoned on a food item, brings up its name and price on the cashier's screen.
The VeriChip itself contains no medical records, just codes that can be scanned, and revealed, in a doctor's office or hospital. With that code, the health providers can unlock that portion of a secure database that holds that person's medical information, including allergies and prior treatment. The electronic database, not the chip, would be updated with each medical visit.
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I'm betting if you walk out of a bookstore and tell them that they "gave" you the books that you browsed, they would be more than happy to call the cops on you, posthaste.
The google print service, allows publishers to get their texts indexed and searchable online. At no time, does the publisher state that you can then be considered an owner of something you searched for.
It's strictly a service to allow you to search for books, by text that is in them.
Since they are at no time giving you a copy of the work, for any price, you legally have NO rights to said copy.
Where do you think all the junk is coming from? It's mass that's already on the station. It's not like they are creating new mass out of vaccum up there.
The immediate, off the cuff example, being John Walker Lindh seems to have far less allegiance to the US than someone like Aaaaahnold.
How on earth does being born in the US necessarily mean that you're guaranteed to not have allegiance elsewhere? What about Ethel and Julius Rosenberg while we're at it. They were both born in New York City, after all. Doesn't seem to have kept them all that loyal, once some cash was waved in their faces.
At some base level, you're right. When both players are equally exposed to the same random functions, then it's technically fair.
At the same time, being subject to the vagarities of fate seems unfair on some level. And for that reason I wouldn't classify a game that uses random functions in any way, as being on quite the same level as one that is a "pure" strategy game.
The dice are too fickle. Fairness would involve reducing it to a pure strategy game. The dice and teh cards in Risk make it much less than pure strategy.
The VXA tapes from Exabyte have guaranteed backwards compatibility. Read, and write. As the drives move up to the newer models, they just cram more data onto the same tapes. Pretty sweet tech, as far as I'm concerned.
One thing that this community REFUSES to pay any attention to, is the SAME laws that punish music "piracy" make the GPL possible.
You can't have it both ways guys. If you want to be able to impose restrictions on the use of code that you've released into the "public domain" then you have to accept that companies will want to use the same rules to protect "art" that they don't want to be part of the public domain.
Secondly, the ancient unit of measurement used by Plato - the stade - may have been 20% larger than traditionally assumed.
If the latter is true, one of the rectangular features on the "island" matches almost exactly the dimensions given by Plato for the temple of Poseidon.
I would love to know, if they have any particular reason for deciding that they need to redefine the size of a stade. Or if they just decided they needed to change the facts, to match the current situation.
Sure seems like one of those cases, where you could choose to make almost anything fit the description that Plato gave, with the proper adjustment to the measure of a stade.
Isn't Washington DC built in concentric circles too? Perhaps the Lincoln monument, or some such, can be said to match the temple, with teh proper adjustment to stade size, and we've actually recreated Atlantis w/o even trying.
Especially about the first part of the posting. I assume this is just the/. kneejerk reaction to *any* kind of copyright enforcement, that doesn't involve someone violating the GPL? Someone is doing anything at all to prevent piracy, so it's a bad thing by definition?
Just because someone is enforcing their legally given right to control distribution does *not* make them an evil entity. It really doesn't.
God knows there's a hue and cry when someone does something w/ linux and doesn't share the code. You can't have one, without the other.
The same laws that make the GPL legally enforcable, make other copyright laws legally enforceable too.
Playfair assists in removing DRM from songs you personally have already purchased from iTunes store. It does nothing to strip DRM off songs that someone else bought. It doesn't help you get stuff from iTunes from your *nix box.
So in order to use Playfair, you're already a mac or PC user anyhow.
I'm a local, so I've seen all the news etc. The road in question is 1 lane in each direction. So if you're behind a speeder, he passed you a LONG time ago. So by the time you catch up to the light, it will change again.
Whe the replacement I880 stretch of freeway opened in Oakland California, to replace what collapsed during the '89 earthquake, the local news was reporting that it cost over $1000/inch to construct.
I've been to Saskatchewan. And I was truly apalled at how cheap property was. Coming from the SF bay area, it was a real eye-opener to see how far my monthly rent would have gone there.
I briefly flirted w/ the idea of buying the province w/ some of the money in my 401(k)
"If, as is expected, the Senate gives final approval and President Bush signs it into law, we may well be witnessing the end of Internet e-mail."
Basically allowing the deluge to continue as it has been, isn't really going to cause a huge change. We're annoyed now, we'll continue to be annoyed. So be it.
The decision to implement Spam filtering is going to be made, long after the apps that it runs against are implemented.
And anyone that is shopping for apps/servers and is sufficiently aware of problems like Spam, is going to be aware of the sercurity holes prevalent in MS code, and will avoid their stuff anyhow.
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Basically, it's a replacement for the cheesy lil armbands.
It won't get torn off, or swapped accidentally, or on purpose.
It's just a unique tag for a patient that reduces the odds of it getting scrambled around in any way.
It's just an ID tag. That's ALL. It has NO history information saved on it. It just uniquely identifies the "wearer" for purposes of database lookups. Odds are that EMT'z will be the last thing linked remotely into the hospital LAN to look up the pertinent records.
Basically it's an armband that can't get lost, swapped, etc.
First and foremost being, NEVER read the referenced article. Always spout comments that are as apocalyptic as possible before clicking throught the link(s).
Think UPC code. The identifier, emblazoned on a food item, brings up its name and price on the cashier's screen.
The VeriChip itself contains no medical records, just codes that can be scanned, and revealed, in a doctor's office or hospital. With that code, the health providers can unlock that portion of a secure database that holds that person's medical information, including allergies and prior treatment. The electronic database, not the chip, would be updated with each medical visit.
I'm betting if you walk out of a bookstore and tell them that they "gave" you the books that you browsed, they would be more than happy to call the cops on you, posthaste.
The google print service, allows publishers to get their texts indexed and searchable online. At no time, does the publisher state that you can then be considered an owner of something you searched for.
It's strictly a service to allow you to search for books, by text that is in them.
Since they are at no time giving you a copy of the work, for any price, you legally have NO rights to said copy.
Where do you think all the junk is coming from? It's mass that's already on the station. It's not like they are creating new mass out of vaccum up there.
The immediate, off the cuff example, being John Walker Lindh seems to have far less allegiance to the US than someone like Aaaaahnold.
How on earth does being born in the US necessarily mean that you're guaranteed to not have allegiance elsewhere? What about Ethel and Julius Rosenberg while we're at it. They were both born in New York City, after all. Doesn't seem to have kept them all that loyal, once some cash was waved in their faces.
I don't think Longhorn will be shipped by 2020.
At some base level, you're right. When both players are equally exposed to the same random functions, then it's technically fair.
At the same time, being subject to the vagarities of fate seems unfair on some level. And for that reason I wouldn't classify a game that uses random functions in any way, as being on quite the same level as one that is a "pure" strategy game.
The dice are too fickle. Fairness would involve reducing it to a pure strategy game. The dice and teh cards in Risk make it much less than pure strategy.
The VXA tapes from Exabyte have guaranteed backwards compatibility. Read, and write. As the drives move up to the newer models, they just cram more data onto the same tapes. Pretty sweet tech, as far as I'm concerned.
One thing that this community REFUSES to pay any attention to, is the SAME laws that punish music "piracy" make the GPL possible.
You can't have it both ways guys. If you want to be able to impose restrictions on the use of code that you've released into the "public domain" then you have to accept that companies will want to use the same rules to protect "art" that they don't want to be part of the public domain.
Secondly, the ancient unit of measurement used by Plato - the stade - may have been 20% larger than traditionally assumed.
If the latter is true, one of the rectangular features on the "island" matches almost exactly the dimensions given by Plato for the temple of Poseidon.
I would love to know, if they have any particular reason for deciding that they need to redefine the size of a stade. Or if they just decided they needed to change the facts, to match the current situation.
Sure seems like one of those cases, where you could choose to make almost anything fit the description that Plato gave, with the proper adjustment to the measure of a stade.
Isn't Washington DC built in concentric circles too? Perhaps the Lincoln monument, or some such, can be said to match the temple, with teh proper adjustment to stade size, and we've actually recreated Atlantis w/o even trying.
Especially about the first part of the posting. I assume this is just the /. kneejerk reaction to *any* kind of copyright enforcement, that doesn't involve someone violating the GPL? Someone is doing anything at all to prevent piracy, so it's a bad thing by definition?
Just because someone is enforcing their legally given right to control distribution does *not* make them an evil entity. It really doesn't.
God knows there's a hue and cry when someone does something w/ linux and doesn't share the code. You can't have one, without the other.
The same laws that make the GPL legally enforcable, make other copyright laws legally enforceable too.
Playfair assists in removing DRM from songs you personally have already purchased from iTunes store. It does nothing to strip DRM off songs that someone else bought. It doesn't help you get stuff from iTunes from your *nix box.
So in order to use Playfair, you're already a mac or PC user anyhow.
I'm a local, so I've seen all the news etc. The road in question is 1 lane in each direction. So if you're behind a speeder, he passed you a LONG time ago. So by the time you catch up to the light, it will change again.
Was the Government upgrading it's RAM is just gonna hurt, really.
But with April 15 right around the corner, I'm almost used to getting rammed by them.
Woefully underestimating the cost.
Whe the replacement I880 stretch of freeway opened in Oakland California, to replace what collapsed during the '89 earthquake, the local news was reporting that it cost over $1000/inch to construct.
I've been to Saskatchewan. And I was truly apalled at how cheap property was. Coming from the SF bay area, it was a real eye-opener to see how far my monthly rent would have gone there.
I briefly flirted w/ the idea of buying the province w/ some of the money in my 401(k)
can you buy a house for $7000??????
Seems like a total non-starter to me.
Until reading the post I had no clue what company created DAOC. And give it a day or so, and I'll likely forget it too.
Those would be examples of MS having a vested interest in the Spam industry, not the Anti-Spam industry, actually.
"If, as is expected, the Senate gives final approval and President Bush signs it into law, we may well be witnessing the end of Internet e-mail."
Basically allowing the deluge to continue as it has been, isn't really going to cause a huge change. We're annoyed now, we'll continue to be annoyed. So be it.
The decision to implement Spam filtering is going to be made, long after the apps that it runs against are implemented.
And anyone that is shopping for apps/servers and is sufficiently aware of problems like Spam, is going to be aware of the sercurity holes prevalent in MS code, and will avoid their stuff anyhow.
Just out of curiousity, what would Microsofts vested interest be, in the anti-spam business?