Ironic that your latest posts include accusing people of being prejudice.
A few posts back, but I take the point. This was meant to be light-hearted rather than vicious racism, I'm sorry if it came across wrong. Many of my relatives are Irish - and my wife has Irish ancestry.
That's not libel -- at least not in the U.S. Perhaps Australian law is different. In the U.S., libel has to be false.
Are there exceptions? I got the impression from a TV show (I know not a reliable source) that it was libellous to spread something in sealed juvenile records.
I don't mean to sound too flippant about this, but isn't this around the time in the movie that a Morgan Freeman type of character says "People were not meant to play at god!"?
My daughter used to tease my son when they were little calling him "monkey face". One day a monkey came on children's TV and my son turned round and said "mum, dad, can you tell her off... I know what she's thinking".
..and for locating insurgents hiding in warzones, or stowaways...
not all the uses of this technology are good
Of course not all is good, but what's wrong with finding stow-aways (could be a Muslim with a bomb) or locating insurgents hiding. Unless you are a pacifist discovering enemies who may later attack from behind the lines (saboteurs, snipers, etc.) is a legitimate aim.
If you can buy the sensors, you can read the tag- period. It's not clear at all to someone who's honestly versed in the practice of RF Identification that it does ANYTHING other than report it's ID. Powered tags have varying extra abilities. Things like faster turn on. Extended range at lower reader powers (tag senses the read pulse and POWERS ON, giving a chirp reply...). That sort of thing.
The DOD has badge readers that will identify their DOD badge docked into a holder that do this at hundreds of feet from the reader- as an example. These tags? They're IN that class of devices.
Either the School District's stupid (probable), lying, or both.
It amazes me to no end just how friggin' stupid the lot is here on/. that they can't even manage to understand that concept and are willing to defend the stupidity we're seeing exhibited here by the District.
Just to be clear I was saying that the school district were not committing perjury, not that the cards could not be traced off campus. They were saying that THEIR SYSTEM WOULD NOT ALLOW STAFF to track people off campus, and that's all. That's why I added "Of course it would have been better to qualify that with a statement that the card will still respond to other readers" - what they said was true but did not mean that nobody could track students off-campus
The largest threat of terrorism to the UK does not come from Islamic extremism: the largest threat remains continuing branches of the IRA. Those damn radicalized Christians!
International terrorism from groups such as Al Qaida presents a threat on a scale not previously encountered. Drawing on extremist messages presented by figures such as Usama bin Laden, Al Qaida and its related networks seek to carry out terrorist attacks around the world, aiming to carry out "high impact" attacks causing mass civilian casualties.
I think it is fairly clear that it is the ability of staff to track students location that only works when the student is on campus. Of course it would have been better to qualify that with a statement that the card will still respond to other readers:
...the chip in the Smart ID
badge also enables school staff to locate a student on a campus with a very large student population.16
The campus is equipped with sensors to read the card and school staff can determine the general
whereabouts of the student carrying the card.17 The sensors do not give an exact reading or pinpoint
the precise location of a student (e.g. a specific classroom), but it would show whether the student is
in a certain wing of the school.18 The Smart ID badges work only within the school campus that has
been equipped with sensors to read them.19 The badges do not work off campus.
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Good news for "the grey place"
Ironic that your latest posts include accusing people of being prejudice.
A few posts back, but I take the point. This was meant to be light-hearted rather than vicious racism, I'm sorry if it came across wrong. Many of my relatives are Irish - and my wife has Irish ancestry.
The Micks will be disappointed when they realise they are not making potato chips
This ia an Android thread, not iOs
if (voter.type == NIGGER || voter.type == SPIC) {
democratProbability +=100
}
How about if (voter.type = RACIST) {
democratProbability -=100
}
They follow the example of Muhammad impeccably, kidnapping and raping non-Muslim girls, terrorising non-Muslim countries, and even who oppose laws used to suppress non-Muslims.
Maybe Google should counter-sue everyone who searched for that term!
That's not libel -- at least not in the U.S. Perhaps Australian law is different. In the U.S., libel has to be false.
Are there exceptions? I got the impression from a TV show (I know not a reliable source) that it was libellous to spread something in sealed juvenile records.
and you spend your days wishing that you could have sex with a horse.
Just wishing? That does show a great lack of initiative.
Must really want a date with Catwoman.
Or Robin. Who knows?
Wait until he finds out that the original batmobile only gets you a date with the original Catwoman
I don't mean to sound too flippant about this, but isn't this around the time in the movie that a Morgan Freeman type of character says "People were not meant to play at god!"?
Why not, God "plays" people all the time
My daughter used to tease my son when they were little calling him "monkey face". One day a monkey came on children's TV and my son turned round and said "mum, dad, can you tell her off ... I know what she's thinking".
Seems some people don't grow up
Bugger me!
This must be down to the corporate "death squads" who decide who will get treatment and who won't.
It appears to be giving the finger to US satellites. Really - go and look
I think everyone loves to hate some company...
Curse and damn Betty Crocker...
Watson: "who is Motha-fuckin' Archie Bunker, ya fucking douchebag!"
Without the colorful additions everyday plain English would end up sounding just like the Queen's Language.
You must have overheard the Queen giving Prince Philip some "advice"!
He considers everything. He's become so ambiguous now, as if he knows nothing at all....
..and for locating insurgents hiding in warzones, or stowaways... not all the uses of this technology are good
Of course not all is good, but what's wrong with finding stow-aways (could be a Muslim with a bomb) or locating insurgents hiding. Unless you are a pacifist discovering enemies who may later attack from behind the lines (saboteurs, snipers, etc.) is a legitimate aim.
Here is a malicious use scenario: 1) Malicious user points own RFID reader at target at school, gets ID #
2) Malicious user then tracks target to time when alone, following that ID#.
It might be even easier than that if RFID numbers are allocated in batches; Identify one student and others in a similar range would also be students.
If you can buy the sensors, you can read the tag- period. It's not clear at all to someone who's honestly versed in the practice of RF Identification that it does ANYTHING other than report it's ID. Powered tags have varying extra abilities. Things like faster turn on. Extended range at lower reader powers (tag senses the read pulse and POWERS ON, giving a chirp reply...). That sort of thing.
The DOD has badge readers that will identify their DOD badge docked into a holder that do this at hundreds of feet from the reader- as an example. These tags? They're IN that class of devices.
Either the School District's stupid (probable), lying, or both.
It amazes me to no end just how friggin' stupid the lot is here on /. that they can't even manage to understand that concept and are willing to defend the stupidity we're seeing exhibited here by the District.
Just to be clear I was saying that the school district were not committing perjury, not that the cards could not be traced off campus. They were saying that THEIR SYSTEM WOULD NOT ALLOW STAFF to track people off campus, and that's all. That's why I added "Of course it would have been better to qualify that with a statement that the card will still respond to other readers" - what they said was true but did not mean that nobody could track students off-campus
The largest threat of terrorism to the UK does not come from Islamic extremism: the largest threat remains continuing branches of the IRA. Those damn radicalized Christians!
Not according to MI5 who say
International terrorism from groups such as Al Qaida presents a threat on a scale not previously encountered. Drawing on extremist messages presented by figures such as Usama bin Laden, Al Qaida and its related networks seek to carry out terrorist attacks around the world, aiming to carry out "high impact" attacks causing mass civilian casualties.
Also "attribution" does not help when your main enemy is Islam. The attackers could be in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, or Wolverhampton.
...the chip in the Smart ID badge also enables school staff to locate a student on a campus with a very large student population.16 The campus is equipped with sensors to read the card and school staff can determine the general whereabouts of the student carrying the card.17 The sensors do not give an exact reading or pinpoint the precise location of a student (e.g. a specific classroom), but it would show whether the student is in a certain wing of the school.18 The Smart ID badges work only within the school campus that has been equipped with sensors to read them.19 The badges do not work off campus.
God will provide you with new jobs.
Oh the optimism of Apple fanbois! Face it, Steve has gone.