Re:Yes, privacy in a casino is highly sought
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RFID Casino Chips
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RFID has already been proposed and, I believe, used by casinos in limited amounts for counting.
Casinos do NOT lose money by people taking chips. In fact, they encourage it by making their chips flashy, and having periodic "souvenir" designs. Chips cost around $.55 IIRC in bulk (last time I checked many years ago) for a nice design.
Chips often have markings on the edges that are machine-readable, generally used to prevent counterfeiting and for counting.
Casinos are generally more interested in people bringing chips INTO the casino, not out. That could be indicative of a group of folks working together.
I'm mostly concerned about RFID encoded into legal-tender, not so much casino chips. This may appear to be a salami attack on the country, but I don't think it will lead to that slippery slope.
This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes
At this point he begins laughing, as the problem has been reduced to a previous example.
I believe it was the president of DEC at the time that asked "Who would ever want a computer on his desk?"
Another bad assumption made, that my coworker just said, was "the Knapsack crypto algorithm is secure." The knapsack algorithm was a public/private key crypto system that was very elegant in the design and speed, but was eventually broken (on an apple ][, even).
Most of the "No interest for 12 months" deals are a revolving credit account that will not charge interest if you pay it off, on time each month, within 12 months. However, if you don't pay it off or are late with ANY payment, you get hit with all the BACK INTEREST from the time you bought the item!
I've never seen an extra fee for opening one of these... they love getting new customers to accept their credit cards because it's been shown that people buy more when they have a credit card!
Model airplanes are completely different than helicopters, and flying an airplane one direction and turning around just isn't that difficult.
However, it's wrong for a different reason. It's wrong because it's been done already. Except for takeoff and landing, Rotomotion has been doing this for months.
Turn it on and it generates cycles from microscopic springs and pulleys, we call "Springons" that can recover the computing power expended, sending the cpu "Wheel" into another revolution.
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funny how all these machines require a battery or plug....:-)
For a non-player, you have good insight. I'm a player in SWG, and the first part has already happened. People have been playing more, trying to unlock a force sensitive slot.
The second part doesn't really apply. You get three deaths or so, and two more when you reach master. After the fifth, your character gets reset. This is a great equalizer.
Dark jedi are implemented. Color is dependent on the materials used. The screenie is not a fake.
It is possible to make a fake screenie by changing the textures of a sword to be a lightsaber (although only you will see the lightsaber). But that's not what was done.
No fast one was pulled, the contract was 5 NEW CONCEPT films over 10 years. Both parties knew this. This was described to me by one of the animators at pixar who worked on "A Bug's Life." He told me specifically that sequels did not count toward this.
I concur with the pi radian turn regarding drivers. I've had little trouble with them, although I don't play some of the games reported with problems. As a side-note, I've had more games crash with my GF3 (random restarts -- ugh), which forced me to find some beta drivers that somehow worked around the problem.
Also, I didn't think ati released a 3.7... didn't they go from 3.6 to 3.8? Or am I thinking 3.4 to 3.6?
NVidia got some very unexpected competition while sitting on their laurels. I think that this was a real wake-up call and lesson for them, not in the realm of technology so much, but in the realm of promotion and advertising. Their FUD actually got turned on them, and hard, when drivers were shown to be tuned for benchmarks and such.
However, once they accepted ATI as a real contender, it seems they started working on their technology again, instead of whiny press releases and bad pr.
And though consumers took a hit with hastily-released drivers and hardware, it looks like things are turning around for the good of us.
Ya, Gates's comment sounds like it's taken so far out of context to sound silly... but it's not so silly.
There are different levels of security. If your code misformats the font kerning following an 'i' your code is not perfect. It's buggy. It's not secure, either, by some definitions.
If your code crashes on a divide by zero, it's also not secure... but it probably won't lead to remote compromise.
The important thing to keep in mind is that it should be easy and fast to fix. And Damnfoolproof.
TFLOPS = Trillion FLoating-point Operations Per Second.
TFLOPS is similar to MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) and the trailing 'S' is always required.
Although it's accepted to use "Flops" (initial cap only), it's never correct to say "one Flop" unless you're talking about something like Gigli or the Segway.
Agreed... When I add in the cost of my cellphone/pda ($400) with the cost of my SIG 223 9mm auto with hollowpoints and pre-ban 13+1 clip ($750) I shudder at the thought of getting mugged.
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RFID has already been proposed and, I believe, used by casinos in limited amounts for counting.
Casinos do NOT lose money by people taking chips. In fact, they encourage it by making their chips flashy, and having periodic "souvenir" designs. Chips cost around $.55 IIRC in bulk (last time I checked many years ago) for a nice design.
Chips often have markings on the edges that are machine-readable, generally used to prevent counterfeiting and for counting.
Casinos are generally more interested in people bringing chips INTO the casino, not out. That could be indicative of a group of folks working together.
I'm mostly concerned about RFID encoded into legal-tender, not so much casino chips. This may appear to be a salami attack on the country, but I don't think it will lead to that slippery slope.
This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes
At this point he begins laughing, as the problem has been reduced to a previous example.
There are 10 kinds of people, those that understand binary, and those that don't.
And if you found that funny:
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand trinary, and those that don't.
Agreed. Some people just can't tell a joke!
I believe it was the president of DEC at the time that asked "Who would ever want a computer on his desk?"
Another bad assumption made, that my coworker just said, was "the Knapsack crypto algorithm is secure." The knapsack algorithm was a public/private key crypto system that was very elegant in the design and speed, but was eventually broken (on an apple ][, even).
Most of the "No interest for 12 months" deals are a revolving credit account that will not charge interest if you pay it off, on time each month, within 12 months. However, if you don't pay it off or are late with ANY payment, you get hit with all the BACK INTEREST from the time you bought the item!
I've never seen an extra fee for opening one of these... they love getting new customers to accept their credit cards because it's been shown that people buy more when they have a credit card!
BLACK KNIGHT: I shall sue.
ARTHUR: What?
BLACK KNIGHT: I shall sue.
ARTHUR: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I will not pay a license fee for free software.
BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man.
ARTHUR: So be it!
[clang clang clang]
[ARTHUR files a countersuit for four patents the BLACK KNIGHT is infringing upon]
ARTHUR: Now stand aside, you litigous adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch!
ARTHUR: A scratch?! You have no evidence of infringement!
BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I do.
ARTHUR: Well, show me then. I'm going to file another motion for discovery!
BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.
ARTHUR: Liar!
BLACK KNIGHT: Come on, you pansy!
[clang clang clang]
[ARTHUR chops off the BLACK KNIGHT's lawsuit at the knees]
ARTHUR: Victory is mine!
BLACK KNIGHT: It's just a flesh wound!
[headbutts ARTHUR] I'm invincible!
ARTHUR: You're a looney!
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, all right, pay me $100M and we'll call it a draw.
ARTHUR: Come, Patsy. [clip clop, clip clop]
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Good point... but /. readers would use a map before asking for directions to the nearest subnet.
You can't simply restore an individual file since the restoration process is basically the reverse: dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1.
You might be able to mount the image as read-only ntfs (or fat) and then find and restore that one file...
This is ask slashdot, can it be done? What if the of=/mnt/fs/drive.backup (a file, not a drive)?
Model airplanes are completely different than helicopters, and flying an airplane one direction and turning around just isn't that difficult.
However, it's wrong for a different reason. It's wrong because it's been done already. Except for takeoff and landing, Rotomotion has been doing this for months.
Finally a hardware device that can decrypt backwards writing.
Now if only they'll invent Transposed Computing that can hardware decrypt Rot13.
A Perpetual Computing Machine!
:-)
Turn it on and it generates cycles from microscopic springs and pulleys, we call "Springons" that can recover the computing power expended, sending the cpu "Wheel" into another revolution.
--
funny how all these machines require a battery or plug....
For a non-player, you have good insight. I'm a player in SWG, and the first part has already happened. People have been playing more, trying to unlock a force sensitive slot.
The second part doesn't really apply. You get three deaths or so, and two more when you reach master. After the fifth, your character gets reset. This is a great equalizer.
Dark jedi are implemented. Color is dependent on the materials used. The screenie is not a fake.
It is possible to make a fake screenie by changing the textures of a sword to be a lightsaber (although only you will see the lightsaber). But that's not what was done.
No fast one was pulled, the contract was 5 NEW CONCEPT films over 10 years. Both parties knew this. This was described to me by one of the animators at pixar who worked on "A Bug's Life." He told me specifically that sequels did not count toward this.
even worse, having your phone ring and having to say "I'm sorry, you got the wrong orifice."
I concur with the pi radian turn regarding drivers. I've had little trouble with them, although I don't play some of the games reported with problems. As a side-note, I've had more games crash with my GF3 (random restarts -- ugh), which forced me to find some beta drivers that somehow worked around the problem.
Also, I didn't think ati released a 3.7... didn't they go from 3.6 to 3.8? Or am I thinking 3.4 to 3.6?
argh, original article /.'ed.
NVidia got some very unexpected competition while sitting on their laurels. I think that this was a real wake-up call and lesson for them, not in the realm of technology so much, but in the realm of promotion and advertising. Their FUD actually got turned on them, and hard, when drivers were shown to be tuned for benchmarks and such.
However, once they accepted ATI as a real contender, it seems they started working on their technology again, instead of whiny press releases and bad pr.
And though consumers took a hit with hastily-released drivers and hardware, it looks like things are turning around for the good of us.
Ya, Gates's comment sounds like it's taken so far out of context to sound silly... but it's not so silly.
There are different levels of security. If your code misformats the font kerning following an 'i' your code is not perfect. It's buggy. It's not secure, either, by some definitions.
If your code crashes on a divide by zero, it's also not secure... but it probably won't lead to remote compromise.
The important thing to keep in mind is that it should be easy and fast to fix. And Damnfoolproof.
Seti@Home measures speed in terranflops.
I heard 1988 summer teen-slasher movies reached 6 terrorflops.
TFLOPS = Trillion FLoating-point Operations Per Second.
TFLOPS is similar to MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) and the trailing 'S' is always required.
Although it's accepted to use "Flops" (initial cap only), it's never correct to say "one Flop" unless you're talking about something like Gigli or the Segway.
they said 20 DAYS standby.
Agreed... When I add in the cost of my cellphone/pda ($400) with the cost of my SIG 223 9mm auto with hollowpoints and pre-ban 13+1 clip ($750) I shudder at the thought of getting mugged.
To paraphrase Arnold it would be "I would like a pulsed plasma rifle in the 40 mw range"
They made a ground laser powered prototype aircraft and tested it. There is no way this current one is the first laser powered aircraft.