Nope, it's the same as always. Look at the second link ("for more pictures and information, yadda yadda"), it still points to his blog, containing copy-pasted stuff from other sites.
Gartner is a classic troll. Did you know that every year, 20% of the GNAA's elite is promoted over to Gartner? They are not really open about it, but Gartner is nothing more than the for-profit branch of the GNAA.
It's a classic troll career: with 16, you perambulate the Usenet. With 19, you get your GNAA membership, and work yourself up the organisation. At approximately 25, just having completed a technology-unrelated degree, you are wellcomed to Gartner.
Oh, and, in case you've wondered how to become a member of Gartner's: yes, you have to make a first-article in techworld, mentioning "Gartner". Then you have to join a conference call and are tested about the details of the movie "Bullshit Analysts from Outerspace".
I really wish that Slashdot would bundle reading skills! If you had at least read the summary (I have given up on expecting anyone to read TFAs here), you would have realised that Firefox is bundled with Real products, not Real with Firefox.
Sorry, but you're such a loser when it comes to reading.
But in reality, there must have been some nefarious intentions if they waited so long to announce the reason for his arrest. Hitting the preverbal 2 birds with one stone.
Sure. Over here, that "nefarious" thing which makes agencies withold information is called weekend.
RFID tags not only carries the danger of privacy violations, but also of new vectors for computer viruses. RFID tag can be used to send a SQL injection attack or a buffer overflow.
Wooo, the horrors! And so can Slashdot, an image, a DVD or the email your mother just sent to you. If a programmer does not do input validation or leaves its code open to buffer overruns, everything can be the carrier of a virus. There is no particular danger coming from RFID, only from dumb developers of reader software.
Yeah, then show me how big their antenna was, how much power they needed, and if there were any obstacles between the reader and the chip, and if the target was moving... Then please come back and tell me how such an artificial setup can be translated into a real-life threat.
You are basing your assumptions on the fact that there will be no advances in the technology involved with RFID readers. The fact that you had to be within a very short range for your school tag to be read doesn't mean that it will always be the case, or that your school didn't just go with cheap tech instead of a nicer reader.
Have you ever heard of something called "the laws of physics"? They can't be broken, you know, not even by the marketing department...
See my reply to the post you linked to. Since the diameter of the antenna is approx. directly proportional to its reading range, you'd also need an antenna which is 69 feet in diameter here. Not something you can carry in your pocket to sniff around in the airport or on the subway...
For which you presumably need very high power and a really big antenna (as a rule of thumb, distance r between chip and reader equals to antenna diameter of r). Furthermore, the orientation of the tag to the antenna matters as well (you know, if the RFID's chip antenna is tilted 90 degrees with respect to the orientation of the reader's antenna, nothing can be read).
This all makes it extremely difficult to read out tags unnoticed from more than a feet away.
Exactly! And the higher the frequency, the less it can penetrate through e.g. water. And since the body is made of approx. 90% of water, you also make a great shield if the reader should happen to be on the other side of a person.
On top of that, the diameter of the antenna also has to scale with the distance to the chip. The larger the distance, the larger the antenna you need to read out the RFID chip.
... "Astronauts Pull Off Risky Spacesuit", and asked myself, wtf are they doing stripping up there?? Obviously, someone must have finally flown the hookers to the ISS. Now, about playing blackjack...
Oh, common, you can't be serious about that, no? Austria is a significantly smaller country, and therefore simply hasn't got the money the US has to pour into a space program! Space programs are very money intensive, as NASA proves. If Austria had wanted to go to the moon they must have stopped, well, I don't know, building streets for decades or whatever, to spare that much of money.
There's a reason America is the #1 destination for foreigners looking for an advanced degree. Do you dispute that?
Yes, I do. Could you please state your sources?
That's kind of silly. If I say "you get what you pay for" are you actually going to figure out the amount paid in tuition per class day and then say "Monday was SO much better than Wednesday, clearly this is false" or even "that five minutes the professor was late were worthless academically, so this is false".
Huh? Sorry, but how does this relate to my argument? You stated that "you get what you pay for", thereby implying that the higher the tuition, the better the education. I replied with the argument that "if this holds true, how can Cambridge then be on place number two, with distinctly lower rates, right before Stanford, with again, higher tuition"? Your statement does not fit here at all.
On a sidenote, I've tried to find the rank of your university, but failed. I only found the tuition rates.
Not every American university is better than every European university.
Here, I agree, considering all your community colleges where they don't even do research. But stating that American universities simply are better based on the ranking system is silly. Besides, it doesn't say much about the people who studied there, because it is mainly focused on the research parameters (and we all know how bright profs can sometimes fail at teaching).
Now, allow me to play advocatus diaboli: if it indeed holds true that America would be heaven for foreign researchers, then they would also contribute to your high ranking, but being, well, foreigners, would have received their education apparently from a non-US institution. Therefore, if those people are so good, they must also have come from a good (and foreign) university.
Yeah, but 8 of the 10 best universities are American.
Ahh, the academic ranking's argument... I guess you are aware of the criticism surrounding its measurement methods (citations count, diversity of fields taught, etc.), no?
You get what you pay for in this case.
So how comes, by your reasoning, that the university of Cambridge is ranked as number 2, with low tuition rates of about 5'435 USD per year compared to Harvard's astronomically high rates?
Even if all you say is true it does not follow that one person should have the right to force their neighbors to help get out of if.
You seem to miss the point of social safety. It does not simply force YOU to help others out, the system is mutual. I.e., should you find yourself suddenly down on the ground, you will get help too. That's the beauty of it: you may have to pay for others, but in exchange you can live a calm life yourself, knowing that you will get help as well if you should once need it. Oh, and apart from that, nobody's keeping you from investing in whatever you think will once pay off.
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Ok, then I will lay it out for you on how to proceed exactly:
Problem solved.
But only if it is a kernel update. Otherwise, you just restart the service/application, and are good.
Just hit the mute key after pressing the power button, and you won't hear the chime.
Pleease, how hard is that??
Nope, it's the same as always. Look at the second link ("for more pictures and information, yadda yadda"), it still points to his blog, containing copy-pasted stuff from other sites.
Gartner is a classic troll. Did you know that every year, 20% of the GNAA's elite is promoted over to Gartner? They are not really open about it, but Gartner is nothing more than the for-profit branch of the GNAA.
It's a classic troll career: with 16, you perambulate the Usenet. With 19, you get your GNAA membership, and work yourself up the organisation. At approximately 25, just having completed a technology-unrelated degree, you are wellcomed to Gartner.
Oh, and, in case you've wondered how to become a member of Gartner's: yes, you have to make a first-article in techworld, mentioning "Gartner". Then you have to join a conference call and are tested about the details of the movie "Bullshit Analysts from Outerspace".
This guy is the best fucking troll I've seen today on Slashdot. He even bothered to register a nick for that!
Huh, why? In conjunction with some lubricant they make for an excellent feeling!
So this IS South Korea?
$> defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1
Well, this one squares quite good because the law is not in effect yet...
I really wish that Slashdot would bundle reading skills! If you had at least read the summary (I have given up on expecting anyone to read TFAs here), you would have realised that Firefox is bundled with Real products, not Real with Firefox.
Sorry, but you're such a loser when it comes to reading.
Sure. Over here, that "nefarious" thing which makes agencies withold information is called weekend.
Wooo, the horrors! And so can Slashdot, an image, a DVD or the email your mother just sent to you. If a programmer does not do input validation or leaves its code open to buffer overruns, everything can be the carrier of a virus. There is no particular danger coming from RFID, only from dumb developers of reader software.
Yeah, then show me how big their antenna was, how much power they needed, and if there were any obstacles between the reader and the chip, and if the target was moving... Then please come back and tell me how such an artificial setup can be translated into a real-life threat.
Have you ever heard of something called "the laws of physics"? They can't be broken, you know, not even by the marketing department...
See my reply to the post you linked to. Since the diameter of the antenna is approx. directly proportional to its reading range, you'd also need an antenna which is 69 feet in diameter here. Not something you can carry in your pocket to sniff around in the airport or on the subway...
For which you presumably need very high power and a really big antenna (as a rule of thumb, distance r between chip and reader equals to antenna diameter of r). Furthermore, the orientation of the tag to the antenna matters as well (you know, if the RFID's chip antenna is tilted 90 degrees with respect to the orientation of the reader's antenna, nothing can be read).
This all makes it extremely difficult to read out tags unnoticed from more than a feet away.
For theoretical background, read How to Build a Low-Cost, Extended-Range RFID Skimmer by Kirschenbaum and Wool.
Exactly! And the higher the frequency, the less it can penetrate through e.g. water. And since the body is made of approx. 90% of water, you also make a great shield if the reader should happen to be on the other side of a person.
On top of that, the diameter of the antenna also has to scale with the distance to the chip. The larger the distance, the larger the antenna you need to read out the RFID chip.
... "Astronauts Pull Off Risky Spacesuit", and asked myself, wtf are they doing stripping up there?? Obviously, someone must have finally flown the hookers to the ISS. Now, about playing blackjack...
He died. Same track, same weekend.
Oh, common, you can't be serious about that, no? Austria is a significantly smaller country, and therefore simply hasn't got the money the US has to pour into a space program! Space programs are very money intensive, as NASA proves. If Austria had wanted to go to the moon they must have stopped, well, I don't know, building streets for decades or whatever, to spare that much of money.
Yes, I do. Could you please state your sources?
Huh? Sorry, but how does this relate to my argument? You stated that "you get what you pay for", thereby implying that the higher the tuition, the better the education. I replied with the argument that "if this holds true, how can Cambridge then be on place number two, with distinctly lower rates, right before Stanford, with again, higher tuition"? Your statement does not fit here at all.
On a sidenote, I've tried to find the rank of your university, but failed. I only found the tuition rates.
Here, I agree, considering all your community colleges where they don't even do research. But stating that American universities simply are better based on the ranking system is silly. Besides, it doesn't say much about the people who studied there, because it is mainly focused on the research parameters (and we all know how bright profs can sometimes fail at teaching).
Now, allow me to play advocatus diaboli: if it indeed holds true that America would be heaven for foreign researchers, then they would also contribute to your high ranking, but being, well, foreigners, would have received their education apparently from a non-US institution. Therefore, if those people are so good, they must also have come from a good (and foreign) university.
Ahh, the academic ranking's argument... I guess you are aware of the criticism surrounding its measurement methods (citations count, diversity of fields taught, etc.), no?
So how comes, by your reasoning, that the university of Cambridge is ranked as number 2, with low tuition rates of about 5'435 USD per year compared to Harvard's astronomically high rates?
You seem to miss the point of social safety. It does not simply force YOU to help others out, the system is mutual. I.e., should you find yourself suddenly down on the ground, you will get help too. That's the beauty of it: you may have to pay for others, but in exchange you can live a calm life yourself, knowing that you will get help as well if you should once need it. Oh, and apart from that, nobody's keeping you from investing in whatever you think will once pay off.