The problem here is that your new car is expected to receive wear and tear through normal operations. If someone throws stuff at your car, you make that someone pay for the damage. Spam is thrown at the email address and is not normal usage. Also generally speaking the work on the roads and cars is to make them safer and last longer. Spammers on the other hand continue to do their best to make sure they have more and more ways into your mailbox.
If someone aggressively aged your car in the way spammers aggressively send out spam, you would have them in court in no time.
Think perhaps a combination of methods. A watch that contains personal identity information and somehow monitors your bodies electrochemical status while you wear it. It verifies you are you because it has in a sense monitored your vitals and knows what your stats have been. A drastic change could show that a new user is wearing the watch and therefore the watch would fail to transmit data, instead going into some sort of lockdown mode.
I don't know biology, chemistry, or human anatomy all that well so this is pure speculation.:) Still, something like this doesn't seem too farfetched, while perhaps not quite yet available with today's technology.
In a natural state it is quite common for humans to act in territorial ways and kill other humans for very minor reasons. History is full of examples. And yet we have decided it is better for society that we act against our nature and work together, organizing despite our differences and territories. And yet when we have animals as pets it's okay to let them fight each other because it's their nature, and because it entertains us?
Regarding parent and above response, so it's true that education isn't taking place in our colleges anymore? An activity this ignorant can only imply a great lack of something in the colleges.
First I admit my tendency to believe global warming is blown out of proportion, that more is made of it than is merited. This wouldn't be the first time scientists have given too much focus to something that turns out to be not a big deal. Not that there is no concern here, to put it mildly pollution is a bad thing that we need to stop, global warming or not.
That being said, I am honestly curious how climate shift = global warming? The earth goes through trends, there's no question about this. Climates do shift. If one place gets hotter and another colder, how is this global warming? Do the models show an overall warming trend or are we just seeing shifts of hot and cold to places we're not used to it?
I like cold. I'm waiting for a nice global cooling.:( Oh well, this natural warming cycle will end eventually and the earth will pass on to the next natural period of cold.
I use Firefox primarily and love Firefox, but it does crash at some odd moments, though I suspect some of my extensions at fault rather than the browser. Must consider other factors that influence the stability of a browser.:)
This isn't big brother. This is a school tracking students, something schools have always done. Hall monitors keep an eye on where kids go. Teachers track when a student is in or out of class. As I read it the RFID's are just to make the teacher's job easier, not to add something new to what is already being known.
What privacy is there in school? How many dark corners are there that students should be allowed into with no one knowing? Schools try to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen. So how do the RFID id's violate privacy any more than a teacher at the hall corners with a notebook watching when and where students go?
The better question is how will the school keep one student from carrying around another students' id.
Credit card companies do something like this. I bought several computer parts online then went to the store for some software. I was just leaving the store when my phone rang, it was the credit card company calling to confirm it was actually me making the purchases so confirming transactions must not be too uncommon.
With the patent wars taking place now, primarily I'm thinking of MS trying to box in open source developmnet but this case also applies, I wonder what it would take to assemble a group to just brainstorm possible development tracks, then place patents on those methods, and make those patents freely available under some sort of specialized license (GPL?)
I admit to knowing very little about how patents work, or about the GPL and such, and I know this would cost since filing patents isn't free. But it seems like things are getting so out of hand that the only way to prevent being completely boxed in is either change some patent laws, which seems unlikely, or start trying to proactively file patents with open source developers in mind.
The problem in my thinking is the track record of the ones who will be incorporating the code into.NET. For all their attempts at tightening security MS code is such a monster that it ends up full of holes. While I'm sure Microsoft hires terribly smart coders, nonetheless they have been prone to many, many security holes. This only opens up the possibility for more to add in capability that isn't really needed anyway.
Yes, but how long until HAARP gets changed to DMARP (Dark Matter Advanced Research Project) and starts bombarding these clouds with radio waves to see what could happen?
in High School none of the school workers knew that much about computers, so I was the one running the school linux machine and fixing the windows pc's half the time. Even had teachers use me to help with grading when they couldn't figure out the software. I didn't need a keystroke logger.:)
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You've got a small vision of the future. The future touch pad will be customized for each finger so that each finger performs a different task.
Strange, all the comments about many people switching to classic mode and I can't recall a single person I've met using classic mode. The XP UI is fine with me, took a little getting used to but it works just as well as the old UI once I was accustomed to it.
The visual recognition part is impressive, but learning the game does not impress me. I mean, come on! Computers were psychic back in the 80's and would tell us what animal we were thinking of.
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While the early version was held together with tie-straps and rubber bands, this newest version has a much more professional look.
Yes, the professional hit man look is exactly what I'm trying to have when I'm searching for vulnerable bluetooth devices.
Oddly enough, this problem has not happened for me at all lately. I thought slashdot had changed something but maybe not. :)
As for those websites proving the bug is in firefox, I've tried on those and have never seen the bug reproduce there.
The problem here is that your new car is expected to receive wear and tear through normal operations. If someone throws stuff at your car, you make that someone pay for the damage. Spam is thrown at the email address and is not normal usage. Also generally speaking the work on the roads and cars is to make them safer and last longer. Spammers on the other hand continue to do their best to make sure they have more and more ways into your mailbox.
If someone aggressively aged your car in the way spammers aggressively send out spam, you would have them in court in no time.
Think perhaps a combination of methods. A watch that contains personal identity information and somehow monitors your bodies electrochemical status while you wear it. It verifies you are you because it has in a sense monitored your vitals and knows what your stats have been. A drastic change could show that a new user is wearing the watch and therefore the watch would fail to transmit data, instead going into some sort of lockdown mode.
:) Still, something like this doesn't seem too farfetched, while perhaps not quite yet available with today's technology.
I don't know biology, chemistry, or human anatomy all that well so this is pure speculation.
In a natural state it is quite common for humans to act in territorial ways and kill other humans for very minor reasons. History is full of examples. And yet we have decided it is better for society that we act against our nature and work together, organizing despite our differences and territories. And yet when we have animals as pets it's okay to let them fight each other because it's their nature, and because it entertains us?
Regarding parent and above response, so it's true that education isn't taking place in our colleges anymore? An activity this ignorant can only imply a great lack of something in the colleges.
First I admit my tendency to believe global warming is blown out of proportion, that more is made of it than is merited. This wouldn't be the first time scientists have given too much focus to something that turns out to be not a big deal. Not that there is no concern here, to put it mildly pollution is a bad thing that we need to stop, global warming or not.
That being said, I am honestly curious how climate shift = global warming? The earth goes through trends, there's no question about this. Climates do shift. If one place gets hotter and another colder, how is this global warming? Do the models show an overall warming trend or are we just seeing shifts of hot and cold to places we're not used to it?
Nice use of the bold there. It helped. Really. Next time add some underlining for really cool effects. :)
I like cold. I'm waiting for a nice global cooling. :( Oh well, this natural warming cycle will end eventually and the earth will pass on to the next natural period of cold.
I use Firefox primarily and love Firefox, but it does crash at some odd moments, though I suspect some of my extensions at fault rather than the browser. Must consider other factors that influence the stability of a browser. :)
This isn't big brother. This is a school tracking students, something schools have always done. Hall monitors keep an eye on where kids go. Teachers track when a student is in or out of class. As I read it the RFID's are just to make the teacher's job easier, not to add something new to what is already being known.
What privacy is there in school? How many dark corners are there that students should be allowed into with no one knowing? Schools try to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen. So how do the RFID id's violate privacy any more than a teacher at the hall corners with a notebook watching when and where students go?
The better question is how will the school keep one student from carrying around another students' id.
Credit card companies do something like this. I bought several computer parts online then went to the store for some software. I was just leaving the store when my phone rang, it was the credit card company calling to confirm it was actually me making the purchases so confirming transactions must not be too uncommon.
With the patent wars taking place now, primarily I'm thinking of MS trying to box in open source developmnet but this case also applies, I wonder what it would take to assemble a group to just brainstorm possible development tracks, then place patents on those methods, and make those patents freely available under some sort of specialized license (GPL?)
I admit to knowing very little about how patents work, or about the GPL and such, and I know this would cost since filing patents isn't free. But it seems like things are getting so out of hand that the only way to prevent being completely boxed in is either change some patent laws, which seems unlikely, or start trying to proactively file patents with open source developers in mind.
*gasp* *jaw drop*
Thou Shalt Not Speak Against Uffie!
This has already been done:
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oops I was very VERY redundant. :)
640k is enough for anyone.
The problem in my thinking is the track record of the ones who will be incorporating the code into .NET. For all their attempts at tightening security MS code is such a monster that it ends up full of holes. While I'm sure Microsoft hires terribly smart coders, nonetheless they have been prone to many, many security holes. This only opens up the possibility for more to add in capability that isn't really needed anyway.
Yes, but how long until HAARP gets changed to DMARP (Dark Matter Advanced Research Project) and starts bombarding these clouds with radio waves to see what could happen?
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I love those similar stories that are similar.
in High School none of the school workers knew that much about computers, so I was the one running the school linux machine and fixing the windows pc's half the time. Even had teachers use me to help with grading when they couldn't figure out the software. I didn't need a keystroke logger. :)
You've got a small vision of the future. The future touch pad will be customized for each finger so that each finger performs a different task.
Strange, all the comments about many people switching to classic mode and I can't recall a single person I've met using classic mode. The XP UI is fine with me, took a little getting used to but it works just as well as the old UI once I was accustomed to it.
I've got a high speed connection and this glitch shows up commonly on slashdot. Doesn't manifest itself on other sites so far as I've noticed.
The visual recognition part is impressive, but learning the game does not impress me. I mean, come on! Computers were psychic back in the 80's and would tell us what animal we were thinking of.