What advantage does a hardware chip have over the setting of a hidden file? For most users product registrations have blown their privacy out the window long ago.
Privacy isn't the issue here, the issue is non-volatile vs semi-volatile identity mapping for e-commerce. Certainly your hardware can allready be profiled uniquely. I guess I am just not understanding what all the fuss is about.
The real issue here is safety and confidentiality for the kids. If schools have a rampant disregard for computer security issues so much so that they openly display social security numbers, how open is their computer system likely to be?
I am sure that confidential information is linked on their databases, and could be accessed by unauthorized personnel.
It is so easy to use unlinked student ID's and keep the crossreference on paper in the school vault what advantage does a fresh meat badge have?
This is obviously a poor implementation. It is so easy to establish ID numbers that are not linked to other personal information such as student wages and addresses.
I would much rather be known as an UNLINKED number for the purposes of school activities, then to wear a freshmeat badge with a where to find me built into it.
When there is a dispute about ownership of a student ID the only cross reference needed is a simple student Name - Id number cross reference. This should be kept off of any computer obviously.
The government spends millions in taxes hiding military targets ^^^^^ from identification and endangerment, maybe they should start sharing some of this knowledge and help protect the kids.
If we had a massive parrallel database of images that covered 90% of the earth at a resolution of 10 CM (sorry no nipples), and if the image was refreshed twice a second what would be the storage requirement? Would we be able to use a Linux system to roam the image?
There are valid reasons for monitering company assets, liability issues are the major reason. If you don't want to be tracked bring your own personal Red hat laptop and dial out over a cell phone.
Now i'm going to have nightmares that this is all a shadow conspiracy to abduct slashdotters and replace them with perl scripts!
They just need a small sample of your innermost thoughts and they will be able to clone you intellectually, no one will suspect. Soon there will be no one left. (insane laughter)
It is scary but there are a lot of newsgroups that could easily be replaced by a Pearl script...
The easiest way to get around the intellectual property issues would probably be to allow proprietary high bandwidth downloads originating from licensed servers only. We might also have to compromise and allow an increased regulatory presence for I2.
Currently we regulate cable TV by providing proprietary hardware and or cabling. Sure you can get around this but you risk getting caught by the cable/dish cops. The same will have to hold true for HDTV over the internet.
As you pointed out i'm sure it will be easy to create a lower resolution copy of the original content even if the original content streams through a proprietary server. This leads to the unpopular option of increased regulation for I2.
IMHO we are going to have to do something serious about protecting copyright or else the major media outlets aren't going to jump on the convergence bandwagon.
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As has allready been noted laws like this may push people into using steganographic techniques to hide their crypto.
Personally I don't have a problem keeping my pgp headers visible, but if they insist.
What advantage does a hardware chip have over the setting of a hidden file? For most users product registrations have blown their privacy out the window long ago.
Privacy isn't the issue here, the issue is non-volatile vs semi-volatile identity mapping for e-commerce. Certainly your hardware can allready be profiled uniquely. I guess I am just not understanding what all the fuss is about.
The real issue here is safety and confidentiality for the kids. If schools have a rampant disregard for computer security issues so much so that they openly display social security numbers, how open is their computer system likely to be?
I am sure that confidential information is linked on their databases, and could be accessed by unauthorized personnel.
It is so easy to use unlinked student ID's and keep the crossreference on paper in the school vault what advantage does a fresh meat badge have?
This is obviously a poor implementation. It is so easy to establish ID numbers that are not linked to other personal information such as student wages and addresses.
I would much rather be known as an UNLINKED number for the purposes of school activities, then to wear a freshmeat badge with a where to find me built into it.
When there is a dispute about ownership of a student ID the only cross reference needed is a simple student Name - Id number cross reference.
This should be kept off of any computer obviously.
The government spends millions in taxes hiding military targets ^^^^^ from identification and endangerment, maybe they should start sharing some of this knowledge and help protect the kids.
If we had a massive parrallel database of images that covered 90% of the earth at a resolution of 10 CM (sorry no nipples), and if the image was refreshed twice a second what would be the storage requirement? Would we be able to use a Linux system to roam the image?
There are valid reasons for monitering company assets, liability issues are the major reason. If you don't want to be tracked bring your own personal Red hat laptop and dial out over a cell phone.
Now i'm going to have nightmares that this is all a shadow conspiracy to abduct slashdotters and replace them with perl scripts!
They just need a small sample of your innermost thoughts and they will be able to clone you intellectually, no one will suspect. Soon there will be no one left. (insane laughter)
It is scary but there are a lot of newsgroups that could easily be replaced by a Pearl script...
I agree in the near future, multicast will probably be the way most of us get hdtv access.
As you pointed out technically 620MBPS and faster Terralink type connections are possible for the distant future.
The extremely wealthy have access to the best technology first, but it is still fun for the rest of us to dream and speculate.
The easiest way to get around the intellectual property issues would probably be to allow proprietary high bandwidth downloads originating from licensed servers only. We might also have to compromise and allow an increased regulatory presence for I2.
Currently we regulate cable TV by providing proprietary hardware and or cabling. Sure you can get around this but you risk getting caught by the cable/dish cops. The same will have to hold true for HDTV over the internet.
As you pointed out i'm sure it will be easy to create a lower resolution copy of the original content even if the original content streams through a proprietary server. This leads to the unpopular option of increased regulation for I2.
IMHO we are going to have to do something serious about protecting copyright or else the major media outlets aren't going to jump on the convergence bandwagon.
The thing about Tesla technology is that the effects diminish with the square of the distance from the discharge.
This is quite dramatic in the case of an atomic blast...
In the real world unless you are talking about very sensitive equipment with large antenna the range for tesla discharge is not very impressive.
I bet there are some nasty directional narrow beam weapons that have been developed but not yet declassified out there though.