A whole city grid of sensors and what could you do with it? Well, with IPv6 and ubiquitous RFID you could provide the means for everyone in a given area to be tracked and their movements monitored down to the square meter. Thieves would never be able to steal anything since the items they have would be tracked to wherever they go to and cross tracking of their IDs would give you everything that you needed to apprehend the scofflaws.
Of course, everyone who chose not to take the chip would be an 'illegal' anyway and forced to steal to feed and clothe themselves and their kids. This tech would be a great way to root out those idiots and make sure they received reeducation and the chip they are so afraid of. I mean, really, the sensor grid is there to protect us from terrorists and outlaws who can't understand that tracking is for our own good.
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I'm a Believer too but right at the end this was an unnecessary barb and, more importantly, a bad witness to the unsaved.:/
You nailed it! I just turned 40 and after 12 years in IT, I'm burned out on network architecture and design. I love doing it but it's gotten stale - I even went to Iraq and Haiti to get a change of scenery and it was the SOS. I just tried working for.gov and man, 2 months of working for 'El Cucaracha, the Clueless Network Dictator' I'm outta here at the end of the month.
I totally get what you and others are going through - May be we should form a 'recovering IT workers' support group...:/
If you haven't been there and done that, please sit down and drink your $tarbuck$ frappacino.
Okay, you think that we don't belong there - that's fine - but don't suggest pulling away the only means of real commo for our guys back to home. Internet access is the *primary* means by which I and hundreds of my colleagues were able to communicate from home while supporting US troops abroad. The services that these small entrepreneurs did and still do for the contractors and soldiers to keep our morale up and semi-sane is utterly incalculable.
It does seem kind of odd that the two most powerful devices have had the same flaw introduced to them. Makes some of us wonder what effort is being expended in discouraging us from discovering something.
As a veteran of the OS Wars of the 90's (1993-1998) I can say that it looks like Steve and Bill (or at least thier proxies) are going to be going at each other within the next 5 years if not sooner. The current Apple vs PC ads, M$ attempts to challenge the iPod, and the ending of VB scripting for the Mac are the precursors to another war where Apple will be able to make real in-roads to the IT community but that will only happen when - not if - the Apple OS makes it's final transfer onto open Intel/AMD platforms.
Linux has given the entire IT community an opportunity to challenge the M$ hegemony and Apple with OS X (or 11) will be positioned to take advantage of some of the 'new' market share. The gloves are coming off and Apple is much better financially to fight and win - or gain more ground - this time around.
My explanation to my mother was about the same speed. If he's trying to boil down the Internet to the clueless, I wish he'd said pipes instead of tubes but the concept is the same. He did okay with a rudementary explanation of QoS as well.
Until we get a CCIE or JNCIE elected this is going to happen, so who's the geek out there willing to start running for office?
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A whole city grid of sensors and what could you do with it? Well, with IPv6 and ubiquitous RFID you could provide the means for everyone in a given area to be tracked and their movements monitored down to the square meter. Thieves would never be able to steal anything since the items they have would be tracked to wherever they go to and cross tracking of their IDs would give you everything that you needed to apprehend the scofflaws. Of course, everyone who chose not to take the chip would be an 'illegal' anyway and forced to steal to feed and clothe themselves and their kids. This tech would be a great way to root out those idiots and make sure they received reeducation and the chip they are so afraid of. I mean, really, the sensor grid is there to protect us from terrorists and outlaws who can't understand that tracking is for our own good.
I'm a Believer too but right at the end this was an unnecessary barb and, more importantly, a bad witness to the unsaved. :/
You nailed it! I just turned 40 and after 12 years in IT, I'm burned out on network architecture and design. I love doing it but it's gotten stale - I even went to Iraq and Haiti to get a change of scenery and it was the SOS. I just tried working for .gov and man, 2 months of working for 'El Cucaracha, the Clueless Network Dictator' I'm outta here at the end of the month.
I totally get what you and others are going through - May be we should form a 'recovering IT workers' support group... :/
Look at Marconi and Tesla - Tesla should have gotten the patent and the Nobel for it but....
If you haven't been there and done that, please sit down and drink your $tarbuck$ frappacino. Okay, you think that we don't belong there - that's fine - but don't suggest pulling away the only means of real commo for our guys back to home. Internet access is the *primary* means by which I and hundreds of my colleagues were able to communicate from home while supporting US troops abroad. The services that these small entrepreneurs did and still do for the contractors and soldiers to keep our morale up and semi-sane is utterly incalculable.
It does seem kind of odd that the two most powerful devices have had the same flaw introduced to them. Makes some of us wonder what effort is being expended in discouraging us from discovering something.
As a veteran of the OS Wars of the 90's (1993-1998) I can say that it looks like Steve and Bill (or at least thier proxies) are going to be going at each other within the next 5 years if not sooner. The current Apple vs PC ads, M$ attempts to challenge the iPod, and the ending of VB scripting for the Mac are the precursors to another war where Apple will be able to make real in-roads to the IT community but that will only happen when - not if - the Apple OS makes it's final transfer onto open Intel/AMD platforms. Linux has given the entire IT community an opportunity to challenge the M$ hegemony and Apple with OS X (or 11) will be positioned to take advantage of some of the 'new' market share. The gloves are coming off and Apple is much better financially to fight and win - or gain more ground - this time around.
My explanation to my mother was about the same speed. If he's trying to boil down the Internet to the clueless, I wish he'd said pipes instead of tubes but the concept is the same. He did okay with a rudementary explanation of QoS as well. Until we get a CCIE or JNCIE elected this is going to happen, so who's the geek out there willing to start running for office?
It could be said that the Bush Administration had this planned as a part of 9/11....