Mar 31, 2010
Sports: Twins' Span hits own mother with foul ball
That's just unlucky. And if his mother is anything like mine, he'll never hear the end of it. Rightfully so....
News: Councilman axed by city council for facebook game obsession
HA! Even after a warning from the council chairman, he 'continu[ed] to manage his farm and milk his cows despite [the chairman]'s warnings.'
Mar 29, 2010
News: OpenSSL 1.0.0 released!
First official version of open-source security project finally released!
News: Court OKs repeated tasering of pregnant woman
Really? Wow...just wow. Because it was set on 'stun' and not 'dart' mode, it's not excessive force, according to the court. Is there no consideration about the NUMBER of times she was tasered? No? WTF? So as long as it's only on a low pain setting, I can taser someone as much as I want? Something's not right in that logic.
News: New RFID tag could be end of bar codes
At 3 cents per tag, this is getting to a place that is cost-possible for manufacturers.
I remember a commercial a few years back. A guy in a trenchcoat, trying hard to look suspicious, is walking around a grocery store. He keeps picking up items and 'hiding' them in his trenchcoat, all the while being followed by a stern looking security gaurd. After getting a punch of items, he walks through some blue-looking force field. The security gaurd stops hip.....to give him the receipt he forgot.
The blue field was a scan of some kind. It picked out the items in his pockets and charged, presumably, an account on file. Pretty cool that this is close to being reality.
My problem is this: What happens if I bring an item I have already purchased INTO the store, and then walk back out? Am I charged again? How will the system be able to differentiate items already purchased from those buying this time through? This is mostly for clothing stores (at least, in my head), but what is the answer here?
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