As a medical doctor I encounter patients everey day, who have no clear recollection of their medical history or the medication that they use.
Implanting an RFID does NOTHING to solve this problem. The problem you describe requires a huge centralized database infrastructure containing medical records, which could be indexed to any conventional identifying method that already is in place.
If Coca-Cola make it mandatory to drink Coke, and we would be imprisoned for refusing to drink Coke, then that would be a violation of our civil liberties, don't you think?
Your comment implies that you don't understand the difference between advocacy and mandatory government edicts.
Coca-Cola can campaign all they want to make it mandatory to drink their beverages. It's not gonna happen. We can frown on them for advocating it if we so choose.
It's a bit ridiculous to sputter with fury at the possibility, though. The kind of thing only fundraisers for Organizations Founded To Protect Our Rights (tm) benefit from.
It's important that more people learn the truth about VisiCalc. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet. And it existed for the first year on the market solely to run on the Apple II computer.
VisiCalc is considered by some people to be solely responsible for the success of Apple. There were a lot of other good PCs on the market from a lot of competing companies at the time. Only the Apple ran VisiCalc.
Businessmen at the time were known to go into Computer Stores flashing their plastic and say 'I want a VisiCalc.'
Without Visicalc only being available on the Apple II, Steve Jobs might just be another Adam Osborne at this point in time.
Where can I get a fast spreadsheet that runs on a palmtop computer that runs for hours on a pair of generic AA batteries? It's nice to have a Lotus 123 machine that actually fits in a vest pocket.
I've seen how PalmOS devices run Spreadsheets, BTW, so let's not pretend they're a reasonable alternative.
Actually, almost the only 21st Century software that I run is a few bits of shareware and all this free software (NetBSD and a bit of Linux). I fell off the 'new software bandwagon' awhile back.
And the Black African-Americans who owned slaves in the confederate south (there were a considerable number of them) probably didn't treat their slaves appreciably better or worse than any of the other slave holders (probably better, though, than the Africans and Arabs in Africa who captured and sold them).
One of the ironies of publishing is that newspapers and magazines are written by people more 'credentialed' than common (non-peer-reviewd, non-academic) books. Anybody can, and does, say anything outrageous they want in a book and if they can get a publisher to print it, it becomes 'fact' to a lot of people. Newspapers and Magazines, on the other hand, face a lot more challanges with regard to credibility.
I believe I've read (I've certainly seen) the book 'Hard Drive: . . ' and I know it's not complimentary towards Gates. But it's also not peer reviewed and, as I said, people can generally get away with whatever they like as the author of a book. (this is changing- the 'reader reviews' at Amazon.com are often eye opening).
Anybody who knows what they're doing can produce a boot floppy and re-LILO their dual-boot Linux/Windows box after installing a Microsoft OS on it. That's been common knowledge stuff since the mid nineties. I used to have an old box (I think it was a 386SX machine) that had seven or eight bootable partitions on it, including a bunch of different DOS images for various purposes. LILO ruled all the way through the second half of the 90's.
Yes. It's amazing how Apple enthusiasts have to run out and buy super-expensive new hardware to 'run UNIX' when real UNIX hardware can be had for pennies. I got six 64 bit Sun Ultra 5 boxes recently for $15 each, fully equipped.
Luddites, for the record, were people who went out and smashed other people's 'hardware' (weaving looms), not those of us who run older hardware with the latest freenixes (NetBSD rocks on a Dell Optiplex GX1 with a P3 500 that I bought at a school auction for $5!)
Well, thousands of people still do some of their computing through VT-100 interfaces, so I guess it's 'no longer elite' to hook a VT-220 to the A port of an older Sparc and run Unix 'the old way.' I think it still merits 'geek points' though, as does having, say, an old SparcStation (the lunchbox sparcs are perfect for this) running headless tucked away on your network somewhere that you shell into to run terminal-based programs. But 'Geek (r)' has probably been trademarked by some poseur by now....
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Maybe IBM will step in and straighten some of it out for Carmack. Outside experts 'stepping in' has certainly salvaged Linux. . .
I went to Egghead to buy Windows 3.0 on the day it came out.
I sure would hate to have a glitch send me to some heaven with only 27 virgins, especially when they turn out to be me and 26 suicide bombing men.
Is this your subtle way of coming out as still being a virgin?
As a medical doctor I encounter patients everey day, who have no clear recollection of their medical history or the medication that they use.
Implanting an RFID does NOTHING to solve this problem. The problem you describe requires a huge centralized database infrastructure containing medical records, which could be indexed to any conventional identifying method that already is in place.
He probably advocates scanning devices at the entries to all buildings and at all traffic intersections.
Otherwise, you're right. He's rambling about nonsense.
If Coca-Cola make it mandatory to drink Coke, and we would be imprisoned for refusing to drink Coke, then that would be a violation of our civil liberties, don't you think?
Your comment implies that you don't understand the difference between advocacy and mandatory government edicts.
Coca-Cola can campaign all they want to make it mandatory to drink their beverages. It's not gonna happen. We can frown on them for advocating it if we so choose.
It's a bit ridiculous to sputter with fury at the possibility, though. The kind of thing only fundraisers for Organizations Founded To Protect Our Rights (tm) benefit from.
I have personally and deliberately Opted Out of any job that requires a cell phone.
For that matter, I don't remember being required to show a credit card when applying for my current job, either.
How can it be called ID Theft if the original owner still has his identity?
Yes. It's the same as the 'Home Theatre' market.
Also, the SUV was created by poorly worded environmental and safety laws.
The SUV is a TRUCK, you see, and exempt from some of the environmental and safety laws that raise the price of passenger cars.
Also, there's always eBay. . .
So you're suggesting they use the Shuttle to burn up the trash?
VisiCalc made the Apple 2. The IBM PC didn't even exist when VisiCalc came on the market.
It's important that more people learn the truth about VisiCalc. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet. And it existed for the first year on the market solely to run on the Apple II computer.
VisiCalc is considered by some people to be solely responsible for the success of Apple. There were a lot of other good PCs on the market from a lot of competing companies at the time. Only the Apple ran VisiCalc.
Businessmen at the time were known to go into Computer Stores flashing their plastic and say 'I want a VisiCalc.'
Without Visicalc only being available on the Apple II, Steve Jobs might just be another Adam Osborne at this point in time.
MicroSoft also signed a deal with Apple, getting a copy of the source code to MacOS.
Microsoft also produced some of the best early MacOS applications (Word and Excel) that helped Apple make it more than a 'toy' operating system.
The editor application in the Tandy Model 100 is one of the last places where Bill Gates himself wrote the code.
In 8085 Assembly Language, no less.
(hey look, this entry on "Poststructuralism" was written by a Columbia professor!--I can probably assume it's accurate).
How do you know that? Is said professor authenticated somehow in the entry?
Where can I get a fast spreadsheet that runs on a palmtop computer that runs for hours on a pair of generic AA batteries? It's nice to have a Lotus 123 machine that actually fits in a vest pocket.
I've seen how PalmOS devices run Spreadsheets, BTW, so let's not pretend they're a reasonable alternative.
Actually, almost the only 21st Century software that I run is a few bits of shareware and all this free software (NetBSD and a bit of Linux). I fell off the 'new software bandwagon' awhile back.
The Holocaust really did happen.
And the Black African-Americans who owned slaves in the confederate south (there were a considerable number of them) probably didn't treat their slaves appreciably better or worse than any of the other slave holders (probably better, though, than the Africans and Arabs in Africa who captured and sold them).
But anyways. . .
Maybe he has a 1987 vintage Logitech Bus Mouse.
*rim-shot*
One of the ironies of publishing is that newspapers and magazines are written by people more 'credentialed' than common (non-peer-reviewd, non-academic) books. Anybody can, and does, say anything outrageous they want in a book and if they can get a publisher to print it, it becomes 'fact' to a lot of people. Newspapers and Magazines, on the other hand, face a lot more challanges with regard to credibility.
I believe I've read (I've certainly seen) the book 'Hard Drive: . . ' and I know it's not complimentary towards Gates. But it's also not peer reviewed and, as I said, people can generally get away with whatever they like as the author of a book. (this is changing- the 'reader reviews' at Amazon.com are often eye opening).
And Lotus 123 was originally a competitor to (work-alike, but not identical) VisiCalc, which was the FIRST spreadsheet.
Anybody who knows what they're doing can produce a boot floppy and re-LILO their dual-boot Linux/Windows box after installing a Microsoft OS on it. That's been common knowledge stuff since the mid nineties. I used to have an old box (I think it was a 386SX machine) that had seven or eight bootable partitions on it, including a bunch of different DOS images for various purposes. LILO ruled all the way through the second half of the 90's.
Yes. It's amazing how Apple enthusiasts have to run out and buy super-expensive new hardware to 'run UNIX' when real UNIX hardware can be had for pennies. I got six 64 bit Sun Ultra 5 boxes recently for $15 each, fully equipped.
Luddites, for the record, were people who went out and smashed other people's 'hardware' (weaving looms), not those of us who run older hardware with the latest freenixes (NetBSD rocks on a Dell Optiplex GX1 with a P3 500 that I bought at a school auction for $5!)
Well, thousands of people still do some of their computing through VT-100 interfaces, so I guess it's 'no longer elite' to hook a VT-220 to the A port of an older Sparc and run Unix 'the old way.' I think it still merits 'geek points' though, as does having, say, an old SparcStation (the lunchbox sparcs are perfect for this) running headless tucked away on your network somewhere that you shell into to run terminal-based programs. But 'Geek (r)' has probably been trademarked by some poseur by now....