Actually they did mod me down. And no, I don't care, I've got karma points falling out of my arse.
As I said, they're easy to get.
Oh, and they'll probably mod this one down too, but I still don't care. Notice I'm leaving the karma bonus on to really drive the point through your thick skull.
You're still forgetting how this can and should evolve. It will take at least five years before these things are ubiquitous. By then, I'm willing to bet that most of us will have a permanent wireless connection sewed into our clothes. It's not very hard to add a device in your wallet that deactivates all your notes if you do get killed.
I guess the main problem would be making these devices tamper-resistant...
It's not like getting karma points is difficult. All you need to do is to make interesting and insightful posts on the topic at hand. I'll probably be modded down for this post, but no matter, I've got enough karma points.
I guess if you're very dumb it's hard to get karma, but any intelligent person should get to 'karma: excellent' within a few days of posting without any efforts.
Unlike weapons and sprays, the jacket can't be grabbed from a woman and used against her. And it's not as lethal as a gun.
Obviously the oxygen-deprived people who wrote this sentence didn't think of your suggestion - which would turn this jacket into a very evil torture device...
If the robber knows that the cash will be deactivated before he can spend it and/or traced to him or whoever he uses it to, it makes it not very worthwhile for him to kill you to take your wallet. Of course it will probably take a 'buffer period' before criminals realise that high street robbery is worthless but once they do, criminality will go down massively - if this is implemented properly.
Yeah I wouldn't recommend this technology in the US atm. Fortunately we're not talking about the US in this story, but about the European Central Bank. The fact that your country is plunging fast into a 1984-like police state is irrelevant.
Anyway, haven't you heard, it's called Terrorism Information Awareness now...!
Yeah, and then the 'fence' gets tracked down and arrested/dismantled. It could get real hard real fast to commit robberies if this technology is applied properly.
Given how cheap those will be, I don't see why wallets shouldn't have RFID readers in them, with a similar mechanism to the cash register. The wallet might not be directly connected but it could record the last 'transactions' in and out of the wallet and after being mugged you could go and report the mugging to the police, who would use your wallet's memory to find out which notes got stolen from you and trace them.
If you get killed in the mugging, it's even more useful - the police will have an even bigger incentive to track down the money.
Of course, there's also the problem of someone stealing the whole wallet. In this respect, a net-connected wallet would be better as it could automatically report itself as lost or stolen as soon as it leaves your vicinity - it could even phone your mobile or send you an SMS to tell you about it.
Honestly, though I definitely agree that we need watchers to watch the watchers in this case and make sure this isn't misused, the possibilities for making something good out of this technology are immense. It could seriously cut down on small-scale criminality.
Get hired as CEO of company X
Destroy its long-term viability to make shareholders happy about the short-term growth
Get a huge bonus
Get hired as CEO of company Y...
Yeah but a rfid-reader wallet connected to the net could report that you've been mugged immediately and 'deactivate' all those notes, making the mugging pointless (the money stops working in all rfid-aware connected cash registers)...
That would make robberies pretty pointless. If your cash register knows what money is in it, you can press the button to say "it was all stolen" and then no other connected cash register will accept that money anymore unless you get it authenticated by the police or whatever... I can see many massive misuses, but there's also a lot of potential good uses...
That's gotta hurt... I feel sorry for nVidia... it does look like they're going the way of 3dfx... Maybe I should buy an ATI card next. nVidia do have good linux driver support, though - does ATI have that too?
Is there any reason to hope that these sports sims (racing, baseball, football, soccer, and so on) have a real possibility of predicting the outcome of matches, or entire seasons?
Watch out with the spindles/stacking. I've found that CDs on a spindle or just stacked will get scratched real bad real quick... That's how I've destroyed my RH8 CDs, for instance - just by leaving them stacked up inside a CD pouch or next to my monitor.
Don't you think it's better if it develops more slowly but in the right direction (to bring people together in the greatest social revolution since the invention of writing) rather than really fast in the wrong direction (another method for people to make money)...?
The more I think about this issue, the more it bugs me. It seems to me that with this additional information thread-safe programming using synchronized blocks (rather than methods) becomes an extremely complex issue in Java... If things don't happen sequentially, how can there be any programming at all??? It seems to me that requiring that what you write on line 10 happens after what you write on line 9 is as basic as requiring that cause happens before effect - if you turn the latter on its head, all physics goes *poof*. If you turn the former, I would say that programming languages also go *poof*.
This is bothering me seriously... anyone got some light to shed on this?
Yes, but if you're programming something really speed-sensitive (eg a game) you can't afford this. It's excellent practice for web applications and desktop applications that need to be maintainable first and fast second. But if you're programming a game engine and you need to squeeze every bit of speed out (as you do when you are programming games) you'll want to use every trick available, even if it might not be useful later - it's useful with the compiler you're using now!
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Actually they did mod me down. And no, I don't care, I've got karma points falling out of my arse.
As I said, they're easy to get.
Oh, and they'll probably mod this one down too, but I still don't care. Notice I'm leaving the karma bonus on to really drive the point through your thick skull.
Daniel
You're still forgetting how this can and should evolve. It will take at least five years before these things are ubiquitous. By then, I'm willing to bet that most of us will have a permanent wireless connection sewed into our clothes. It's not very hard to add a device in your wallet that deactivates all your notes if you do get killed.
I guess the main problem would be making these devices tamper-resistant...
Daniel
It's not like getting karma points is difficult. All you need to do is to make interesting and insightful posts on the topic at hand. I'll probably be modded down for this post, but no matter, I've got enough karma points.
I guess if you're very dumb it's hard to get karma, but any intelligent person should get to 'karma: excellent' within a few days of posting without any efforts.
Daniel
Bits of wood are excellent non-conducting weapons. Baseball bats, big branches, etc...
If you're fucked up enough to go attack women at night in parkings, you're probably fucked up enough to torture them too.
Daniel
Unlike weapons and sprays, the jacket can't be grabbed from a woman and used against her. And it's not as lethal as a gun.
Obviously the oxygen-deprived people who wrote this sentence didn't think of your suggestion - which would turn this jacket into a very evil torture device...
Daniel
What's wrong with carrying readers on ourselves? They should be pretty cheap to manufacture in very large quantities...
Daniel
If the robber knows that the cash will be deactivated before he can spend it and/or traced to him or whoever he uses it to, it makes it not very worthwhile for him to kill you to take your wallet. Of course it will probably take a 'buffer period' before criminals realise that high street robbery is worthless but once they do, criminality will go down massively - if this is implemented properly.
Daniel
Yeah I wouldn't recommend this technology in the US atm. Fortunately we're not talking about the US in this story, but about the European Central Bank. The fact that your country is plunging fast into a 1984-like police state is irrelevant.
Anyway, haven't you heard, it's called Terrorism Information Awareness now...!
Daniel
Yeah, and then the 'fence' gets tracked down and arrested/dismantled. It could get real hard real fast to commit robberies if this technology is applied properly.
Daniel
Given how cheap those will be, I don't see why wallets shouldn't have RFID readers in them, with a similar mechanism to the cash register. The wallet might not be directly connected but it could record the last 'transactions' in and out of the wallet and after being mugged you could go and report the mugging to the police, who would use your wallet's memory to find out which notes got stolen from you and trace them.
If you get killed in the mugging, it's even more useful - the police will have an even bigger incentive to track down the money.
Of course, there's also the problem of someone stealing the whole wallet. In this respect, a net-connected wallet would be better as it could automatically report itself as lost or stolen as soon as it leaves your vicinity - it could even phone your mobile or send you an SMS to tell you about it.
Honestly, though I definitely agree that we need watchers to watch the watchers in this case and make sure this isn't misused, the possibilities for making something good out of this technology are immense. It could seriously cut down on small-scale criminality.
Daniel
Screw that, there's a better way:
Get hired as CEO of company X
Destroy its long-term viability to make shareholders happy about the short-term growth
Get a huge bonus
Get hired as CEO of company Y...
Daniel
Some people really have too much time on their hands...
Daniel
Yeah but a rfid-reader wallet connected to the net could report that you've been mugged immediately and 'deactivate' all those notes, making the mugging pointless (the money stops working in all rfid-aware connected cash registers)...
Daniel
That would make robberies pretty pointless. If your cash register knows what money is in it, you can press the button to say "it was all stolen" and then no other connected cash register will accept that money anymore unless you get it authenticated by the police or whatever... I can see many massive misuses, but there's also a lot of potential good uses...
Daniel
Damn, I had mod points 3 days ago. +1 to the parent.
Daniel
That's gotta hurt... I feel sorry for nVidia... it does look like they're going the way of 3dfx... Maybe I should buy an ATI card next. nVidia do have good linux driver support, though - does ATI have that too?
Daniel
Is there any reason to hope that these sports sims (racing, baseball, football, soccer, and so on) have a real possibility of predicting the outcome of matches, or entire seasons?
No.
Daniel
Watch out with the spindles/stacking. I've found that CDs on a spindle or just stacked will get scratched real bad real quick... That's how I've destroyed my RH8 CDs, for instance - just by leaving them stacked up inside a CD pouch or next to my monitor.
Daniel
Hacking is just like being the One. No one can tell you you're hacking, you just do it.
Daniel
Don't you think it's better if it develops more slowly but in the right direction (to bring people together in the greatest social revolution since the invention of writing) rather than really fast in the wrong direction (another method for people to make money)...?
I mean, what's the big hurry?
Daniel
Some good developments in the great techno-legal world war. There had been too many bad ones lately...
This one would have been a small disaster if it had gone wrong. Now let's hope the EU makes the right decision too!
Daniel
Come on, be more generous. If we don't include even them in the human genome, what chance does Bush stand???
Daniel
Hum... You mind posting some links with more information on "atomic spinlocks" and the "dekkers algorithm"?
Daniel
Hrm...
The more I think about this issue, the more it bugs me. It seems to me that with this additional information thread-safe programming using synchronized blocks (rather than methods) becomes an extremely complex issue in Java... If things don't happen sequentially, how can there be any programming at all??? It seems to me that requiring that what you write on line 10 happens after what you write on line 9 is as basic as requiring that cause happens before effect - if you turn the latter on its head, all physics goes *poof*. If you turn the former, I would say that programming languages also go *poof*.
This is bothering me seriously... anyone got some light to shed on this?
Daniel
Yes, but if you're programming something really speed-sensitive (eg a game) you can't afford this. It's excellent practice for web applications and desktop applications that need to be maintainable first and fast second. But if you're programming a game engine and you need to squeeze every bit of speed out (as you do when you are programming games) you'll want to use every trick available, even if it might not be useful later - it's useful with the compiler you're using now!
Daniel