If they instead mandated a counter in the ECM that tracked mileage, I'd think maybe I was all for it. But they want GPS "tracking", and they're not even hiding the fact. If they want money for highway/construction projects, then just jack up the gas tax. Gas consumption is directly related to mileage driven.
Assuming they don't have internet or cell access, you could simply tie a USB printer that prints 2D barcodes on thermal paper. They definitely have access to stamps and envelopes and the post office. This is not an insurmountable or highly expensive process. It's a cost of doing business, and for those who only have 5 or 6 cattle, it might mean the difference between a new truck or not, but for people with a headcount over 100? it'll be a blip in normal labor expenses.
That was a pretty expensive reader, and I *KNOW* there are cheaper units available on the market. Combine with a small $5 Atmel AVR ATMega16x, an EEPROM for data collecttion, and a GSM radio module you could create a handheld device for a onetime cost of less than $400. That's far, far less than the cost of a single cow.
I've found some other RFID reader ICs on mouser.com but I'm not entirely sure if I I an do better than that: http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?N=10789086+4294727274&Keyword=RFID&FS=True
Yup, and at the end of the day, they always walked one by one through the doors of the milk room, or off the truck onto the scales. I cry bullshit. Tag 'em once at arrival, tag em at departure/sale, tag 'em going to the slaughterhouse through the chute (one at a time), tag 'em upon delivery of the bolt to the head.
Seriously, it's out and out bitching, and the government will just end up subsidizing it for the smaller operations anyway.
Okay, aside from the multitasking bit, if we restrict ourselves to the corporate environment, if you had something like an App Catalog for your company, you lose none of the flexibility of locking the system down in an iPhone-like fashion.
I've had my Linux systems compromised twice, and my Windows systems twice. I use a far larger number of Windows hosts, but I'm living proof that Linux is under assault in the wild. Granted, all of my Linux and Windows exploits were because of poor patch discipline...
You neglect the fact why we "let" corporate interests dominate us in America: for the most part, American's are fat, happy and lazy.
Take fat and happy away, and you have chaos. Look no further than our inner cities to see the battle being waged by a few against many, and the police. Now turn those people into a moderately-organized and trained force, and you have an assymetric battle going on that few police departments would be able to fight.
As long as you have hope and faith in the system, and most of us do, to some extent, you won't get the style of revolution you see in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Take that away, however, and a home-war will make Iraq seem like a trip to the kindergarten sandbox.
Except you forget: you can boot a clean Linux machine in a second - you can't CD-boot Windows, or boot it from a read-only drive. Architecturally, Linux is better designed to repel attacks in the first place.
I maxed out at 185 once, at 2.1GB of total memory used. Unfortunately, coming in in the morning is painful for me after the virus scanner has shuffled all of the firefox pages to disk, and my poor 5400 RPM laptop drive can't cope. I really do spend more time waiting for my computer to catch up to me, than I do typing.
But the benefit is that my tab structure is organized by project in a hierarchy (using tab sidebar extension). I have deep trees of projects and information all associated with one another, and it's a running state of my work. Firefox crashes a lot less often these days, so my tab usage has grown commensurately.
Not true if your platform properly supports fork() semantics. You only make copies of data in child processes that you change - unchanged code pages are shared amongst all children.
Multi-process != slow. What it equals is process isolation. If you global/static memory footprint is kept to a minimum, and you have fork() style semantics, your total overall memory usage is not significantly greater than if you were using threading instead.
Every year or so I send an email to the MSDN folks - implement fork() in Win32, for fucks sake (a lot more PC than that) - with all sorts of reasons why it's a good idea.
I keep failing to hold my breath, however.:-/
Windows has all the underpinnings to support this. What do I get instead? Fibers. Yup. Fibers. Retro non-preemptive threads. WTF?
Oh please. There are well-trained stunt teams who manage these things, and tell directors to piss off when people are probably going to get hurt. You're far more likely to get killed filming a motorcycle chase than a Hollywood explosion.
I have always been politely asked as if my bag could be searched. And knowing I have nothing to hide, I always say yes. Knowing one of two things can happen, I get escorted out, or taken to the secure room. If I ever felt inclined, I'd have no fear of that, but I always make it clear that I carry lots of expensive cameras and if they're going to search it, I'm going to help them, as I wouldn't want them to be responsible for $3000 cameras getting broken.
I've never had a single one rebuff me. I accidently left a 3" folding Kabar on my bag once (twice - it was black and blends into the straps), and I've been subjected to a lot more scrutiny since. But I'm always polite, and since I'm the typically white male yuppy traveller, I don't get much extra hassle. Maybe I'm just lucky.
The first time I forget the knife the screener wouldn't let me touch it in the secure area, but let me leave so I could ship it home. He asked me, "You know I could have you arrested for this, right?" I just sighed and said, "You gotta do what you have to man." 20 minutes later he was reinspecting the bag extra well, and I got through okay.
The second time, I remembered it just as I was about to put it through the xray machine. I told them I'd surrender it there, as I was close to missing my flight. They put it in one of those change holders and sent it through anyway. Then a couple of them got into a discussion over whether I had to be written up, but the dude in charge said that since I surrendered it voluntarily, I could go on my way. But I still get selected every time I fly.
The most aggressive search I ever had was coming back from Jamaica out of Montego Bay. They had my backpack ALL unpacked searching the seams (my Boble*be has metal bands for seams and bolts) . Go figure I waltzed right through customs too.
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How do you know what you want your subset to be unless you query it?
I can't wait for the days where when Wine fails, you can just fire up a VM!
Those days have been here for the better part of a decade, dude.
If they instead mandated a counter in the ECM that tracked mileage, I'd think maybe I was all for it. But they want GPS "tracking", and they're not even hiding the fact. If they want money for highway/construction projects, then just jack up the gas tax. Gas consumption is directly related to mileage driven.
Keep your fucking GPS trackers out of my life.
Except when cattle are commingled at the slaughterhouse - infection could be spread there.
Or when two ranchers commingle their herds where there are shared grazing rights.
Or any of a half dozen other situations I could come up with, including when herds are sold or split, or calves are sold, or studding occurs.
Assuming they don't have internet or cell access, you could simply tie a USB printer that prints 2D barcodes on thermal paper. They definitely have access to stamps and envelopes and the post office. This is not an insurmountable or highly expensive process. It's a cost of doing business, and for those who only have 5 or 6 cattle, it might mean the difference between a new truck or not, but for people with a headcount over 100? it'll be a blip in normal labor expenses.
Sorry, from Radioshack and a lot quantity of 1000 RFID tags from Digikey, I could tag 1000 head of cattle for less than $450, with a scanner.
Tag: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=481-1115-1-ND $.55/unit
Reader: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=753-1022-ND $352
That was a pretty expensive reader, and I *KNOW* there are cheaper units available on the market. Combine with a small $5 Atmel AVR ATMega16x, an EEPROM for data collecttion, and a GSM radio module you could create a handheld device for a onetime cost of less than $400. That's far, far less than the cost of a single cow.
I've found some other RFID reader ICs on mouser.com but I'm not entirely sure if I I an do better than that: http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?N=10789086+4294727274&Keyword=RFID&FS=True
Yup, and at the end of the day, they always walked one by one through the doors of the milk room, or off the truck onto the scales. I cry bullshit. Tag 'em once at arrival, tag em at departure/sale, tag 'em going to the slaughterhouse through the chute (one at a time), tag 'em upon delivery of the bolt to the head.
Seriously, it's out and out bitching, and the government will just end up subsidizing it for the smaller operations anyway.
Okay, aside from the multitasking bit, if we restrict ourselves to the corporate environment, if you had something like an App Catalog for your company, you lose none of the flexibility of locking the system down in an iPhone-like fashion.
I've had my Linux systems compromised twice, and my Windows systems twice. I use a far larger number of Windows hosts, but I'm living proof that Linux is under assault in the wild. Granted, all of my Linux and Windows exploits were because of poor patch discipline...
Windows PE is NOT, I repeat, NOT Windows. You cannot run normal Win32 applications in it.
A Knoppix or Ubuntu boot CD it is not.
You neglect the fact why we "let" corporate interests dominate us in America: for the most part, American's are fat, happy and lazy.
Take fat and happy away, and you have chaos. Look no further than our inner cities to see the battle being waged by a few against many, and the police. Now turn those people into a moderately-organized and trained force, and you have an assymetric battle going on that few police departments would be able to fight.
As long as you have hope and faith in the system, and most of us do, to some extent, you won't get the style of revolution you see in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Take that away, however, and a home-war will make Iraq seem like a trip to the kindergarten sandbox.
Exactly how much usability are you actually losing with the iPhone? I'd wager a whole hell of a lot less than you think.
Did I say CERN? I mean CERT. Gar... damn brain isn't working today. I blame IBM WID-6.1 and that crazy guy asking for Smalltalk support.
Which means: write an exploit for EVERYTHING on CERN's list, no matter what the platform.
Except you forget: you can boot a clean Linux machine in a second - you can't CD-boot Windows, or boot it from a read-only drive. Architecturally, Linux is better designed to repel attacks in the first place.
I maxed out at 185 once, at 2.1GB of total memory used. Unfortunately, coming in in the morning is painful for me after the virus scanner has shuffled all of the firefox pages to disk, and my poor 5400 RPM laptop drive can't cope. I really do spend more time waiting for my computer to catch up to me, than I do typing.
But the benefit is that my tab structure is organized by project in a hierarchy (using tab sidebar extension). I have deep trees of projects and information all associated with one another, and it's a running state of my work. Firefox crashes a lot less often these days, so my tab usage has grown commensurately.
Not true if your platform properly supports fork() semantics. You only make copies of data in child processes that you change - unchanged code pages are shared amongst all children.
Multi-process != slow. What it equals is process isolation. If you global/static memory footprint is kept to a minimum, and you have fork() style semantics, your total overall memory usage is not significantly greater than if you were using threading instead.
Every year or so I send an email to the MSDN folks - implement fork() in Win32, for fucks sake (a lot more PC than that) - with all sorts of reasons why it's a good idea.
:-/
I keep failing to hold my breath, however.
Windows has all the underpinnings to support this. What do I get instead? Fibers. Yup. Fibers. Retro non-preemptive threads. WTF?
All benchmarks are flawed
I'd argue that this is true only if they don't disclose their biases and limitations of testing methodology.
I can same the same thing about ReiserFS 3, personally. XFS, JFS and Reiser have all been good to me over the years, but so has ext3, for that matter.
Let's do the math. 200+ million firearms in the hands of the civilian populace.
:-) Carry on.
2.5 million American soldiers, many of whom would be reluctant to drive tanks over protestors.
Many people will die, but as the carpetbombing of Tokyo, Berlin, and Iraq have proven, that only strengthens the will of others to take their place.
Chinese leadership realized that the key to "civil order" was well-fed, fat and lazy citizenry, just like the good old U.S.of.A.
+1 Ass-kicking. Well spoken.
Oh please. There are well-trained stunt teams who manage these things, and tell directors to piss off when people are probably going to get hurt. You're far more likely to get killed filming a motorcycle chase than a Hollywood explosion.
I have always been politely asked as if my bag could be searched. And knowing I have nothing to hide, I always say yes. Knowing one of two things can happen, I get escorted out, or taken to the secure room. If I ever felt inclined, I'd have no fear of that, but I always make it clear that I carry lots of expensive cameras and if they're going to search it, I'm going to help them, as I wouldn't want them to be responsible for $3000 cameras getting broken.
I've never had a single one rebuff me. I accidently left a 3" folding Kabar on my bag once (twice - it was black and blends into the straps), and I've been subjected to a lot more scrutiny since. But I'm always polite, and since I'm the typically white male yuppy traveller, I don't get much extra hassle. Maybe I'm just lucky.
The first time I forget the knife the screener wouldn't let me touch it in the secure area, but let me leave so I could ship it home. He asked me, "You know I could have you arrested for this, right?" I just sighed and said, "You gotta do what you have to man." 20 minutes later he was reinspecting the bag extra well, and I got through okay.
The second time, I remembered it just as I was about to put it through the xray machine. I told them I'd surrender it there, as I was close to missing my flight. They put it in one of those change holders and sent it through anyway. Then a couple of them got into a discussion over whether I had to be written up, but the dude in charge said that since I surrendered it voluntarily, I could go on my way. But I still get selected every time I fly.
The most aggressive search I ever had was coming back from Jamaica out of Montego Bay. They had my backpack ALL unpacked searching the seams (my Boble*be has metal bands for seams and bolts) . Go figure I waltzed right through customs too.
Name. Age. DOB. Anything to Declare? Have a nice day.
I must say I've been a lucky traveller.