Smoke detectors are quite hard to get into, and the amount of americium-241 is *really* minute. They're also not marketed as children's toys.
Sure, it's not as dangerous as a used 'depleted' uranium shell (mmm... U-235 oxide - sounds a good thing to breathe in), but they're not marketed as children's toys either (despite their tendency to get used as such).
If a child eats something they shouldn't, they get taken to hospital. It's usually a fairly minor incident. If a child eats uranium, I think the response would be along the lines of "he's fscked".
I can't work out whether this is a troll or an intrusion from a daily-mail reading moron.
Destroying an RFID tag with EMP is trivial to anybody who can google for "destroy rfid tag" and buy a disposible camera. So you want to trust the security of our children to a totally insecure technology.
Can they revoke the key?
Or do you just have to wait for it to expire?
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But if you have a longer delay, you have to keep the paper around for ages before you can use it again. That's not good either.
What's 'needed' (Personally I don't see what's wrong with paper, but I'll ignore that) is a product that is 'stable' until you erase what's on it by passing it over a special device.
The real problem with this idea is that I usually don't know how long I'm going to keep what I've written until long after I've written it. Since plain paper is cheap, I'm not going to want to risk using 'temp-paper', in case I forget about it and have to come back to it the next day.
All that somebody has to do is to make a trojan that waits until the user has logged on to their bank, and the fancy USB key has done its job. It notifies the attacker, who then logs into the machine via a backdoor, takes control of the mouse and keyboard and simply transfers the money where they want it. Most users will be far too slow kill their machine.
That's not exactly a difficult piece of malware to make!
Bottom line: If any important part of the transaction is done on a compromised machine, no amount of crypto is going to make it safe.
Actually, the reason it's good for building Model-Ts is that the black paint dried faster.
And you could have the Model T in any color, so long as you bought it before 1915 or after 1925.
Contrary to popular belief, it was only between 1915 and 1925 that they were all black.
I've done quite a bit of work in Northern Uganda on computing in humanitarian relief.
I've developed a term for projects that look good to people with no field experience, but are inadequately tested (usually in the west, because it's cheaper than testing in the field) and doomed to failure from the start - "Developed In Geneva, field-tested In New York". I've never seen such a project succeed, and the OLPC project falls into that category.
Even if they solve the technical problems relating to price vs. surviving the hostile environment (laptops don't last long outside of offices anyway, and kids are going to drop it, spill sticky liquids on the keyboard, throw it at somebody they don't like, try to break it so they 'can't' do homework) the social problems are considerably harder to solve, harder to predict, and will vary more with geographical location. I can't think of all of the problems (that's what testing is for!) but here's a few examples.
What do you do when a child loses a laptop?
Do you get them a new laptop? People will develop a survival strategy of 'losing' the laptops, and selling them. Even if you can only salvage $5 from each one, that's a lot of money to the majority of people on the planet, and if they're effectively free large numbers of people will 'lose' their child's laptop. So you either need an endless supply of laptops, or you're eventually going to have to say "no".
What happens to the kid you say "no" to if all their textbooks are on it?
Between 1% and 10% of parents will be hostile to the scheme (some will think it's an attack on 'real' education, some will think it's an attack on their cultural beliefs, and some will just be the nutcases you get everywhere). What do the children of these parents do?
I've thought for a long time that Microsoft's best way to kill Linux is to create MS Linux (free), add a load of features that would make it attractive over other distros (good support for DirectX,.NET, etc.), take over 90% of the Linux market (wait for Red Hat etc to die), make the Open Source community rely on Microsoft's code base, and then slowly make MS Linux so bad that people had to migrate from it to another distro (and the commercial ones would be dead, so good luck getting large companies to do that!) or 'Normal' Windows.
That's not the only way.
If you get rid of the UV radiation by, for example, putting the earth in a big box, then that would completely destory the ozone layer.
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In any (sane) country, contract language is interpreted against the author.
Smoke detectors are quite hard to get into, and the amount of americium-241 is *really* minute. They're also not marketed as children's toys.
Sure, it's not as dangerous as a used 'depleted' uranium shell (mmm... U-235 oxide - sounds a good thing to breathe in), but they're not marketed as children's toys either (despite their tendency to get used as such).
If a child eats something they shouldn't, they get taken to hospital. It's usually a fairly minor incident. If a child eats uranium, I think the response would be along the lines of "he's fscked".
I can't work out whether this is a troll or an intrusion from a daily-mail reading moron.
Destroying an RFID tag with EMP is trivial to anybody who can google for "destroy rfid tag" and buy a disposible camera. So you want to trust the security of our children to a totally insecure technology.
Can they revoke the key?
Or do you just have to wait for it to expire?
But if you have a longer delay, you have to keep the paper around for ages before you can use it again. That's not good either.
What's 'needed' (Personally I don't see what's wrong with paper, but I'll ignore that) is a product that is 'stable' until you erase what's on it by passing it over a special device.
In most parts of the world, the banks are liable for the disappearing money.
The real problem with this idea is that I usually don't know how long I'm going to keep what I've written until long after I've written it. Since plain paper is cheap, I'm not going to want to risk using 'temp-paper', in case I forget about it and have to come back to it the next day.
Even then, you're still far from safe.
All that somebody has to do is to make a trojan that waits until the user has logged on to their bank, and the fancy USB key has done its job. It notifies the attacker, who then logs into the machine via a backdoor, takes control of the mouse and keyboard and simply transfers the money where they want it. Most users will be far too slow kill their machine.
That's not exactly a difficult piece of malware to make!
Bottom line: If any important part of the transaction is done on a compromised machine, no amount of crypto is going to make it safe.
Somebody shoot the moderator.
I was proud of that!
I'd rather be in the house that's still standing after 400 years.
In the West, Putin kills You!
In Soviet Russia, Putin Kills You!
Not at all!
The language is continually evolving, so unless they translated it into 70-year-old Mapuzugun (or whatever limit applies), it's not expired.
Actually, the reason it's good for building Model-Ts is that the black paint dried faster.
And you could have the Model T in any color, so long as you bought it before 1915 or after 1925.
Contrary to popular belief, it was only between 1915 and 1925 that they were all black.
I can't wait! I can just imagine the converstation on channel 16 when somebody releases a buggy one.
"Mayday Mayday Mayday. This is RMS Titanic, RMS Titanic, RMS Titanic. We are sinking. Over."
"When you walk through the storm, ..."
Hold your head up high,
And don't be afraid of the dark
(Or the (less interesting) equivilent in DSC)
And a partridge in a pear tree?
In Birmingham today,
But on the positive side,
"Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?" Anywhere but Birmingham?
From the article - "Strange as it may seem, the number of accidents has declined dramatically."
I wonder what percentage of that decrease comes from drivers avoiding the town because it's a nightmare to drive through it.
I really hate people who expect somebody else to do everything for them.
I've done quite a bit of work in Northern Uganda on computing in humanitarian relief. I've developed a term for projects that look good to people with no field experience, but are inadequately tested (usually in the west, because it's cheaper than testing in the field) and doomed to failure from the start - "Developed In Geneva, field-tested In New York". I've never seen such a project succeed, and the OLPC project falls into that category.
Even if they solve the technical problems relating to price vs. surviving the hostile environment (laptops don't last long outside of offices anyway, and kids are going to drop it, spill sticky liquids on the keyboard, throw it at somebody they don't like, try to break it so they 'can't' do homework) the social problems are considerably harder to solve, harder to predict, and will vary more with geographical location. I can't think of all of the problems (that's what testing is for!) but here's a few examples.
What do you do when a child loses a laptop?
Do you get them a new laptop? People will develop a survival strategy of 'losing' the laptops, and selling them. Even if you can only salvage $5 from each one, that's a lot of money to the majority of people on the planet, and if they're effectively free large numbers of people will 'lose' their child's laptop. So you either need an endless supply of laptops, or you're eventually going to have to say "no".
What happens to the kid you say "no" to if all their textbooks are on it?
Between 1% and 10% of parents will be hostile to the scheme (some will think it's an attack on 'real' education, some will think it's an attack on their cultural beliefs, and some will just be the nutcases you get everywhere). What do the children of these parents do?
I've thought for a long time that Microsoft's best way to kill Linux is to create MS Linux (free), add a load of features that would make it attractive over other distros (good support for DirectX, .NET, etc.), take over 90% of the Linux market (wait for Red Hat etc to die), make the Open Source community rely on Microsoft's code base, and then slowly make MS Linux so bad that people had to migrate from it to another distro (and the commercial ones would be dead, so good luck getting large companies to do that!) or 'Normal' Windows.
HIV is the virus; not AIDS.
This is supposed to be in the science section!
Remember: Pseudoscience kills.
That's not the only way. If you get rid of the UV radiation by, for example, putting the earth in a big box, then that would completely destory the ozone layer.
cameras watch *YOU*... err... never mind.
So who says we're limited to BINARY computers?