Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 9/29/2003 9:52:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RFID itself isn't robust enough. Other RFID-like techs might be in the future. We'll see... Andy Dawn Falcon Insurance companies insist that RFID golf balls become mandatory for any golf

Re: Names

2003-09-30 Thread William T Goodall
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 01:14 am, Kevin Tarr wrote: At 12:46 AM 9/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:43 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: Karling: 'Carling Black Label' is the name of the worst beer in Britain, so if he ever comes over here there will be ribbing

Re: A bit of a rant (was SFBC)

2003-09-30 Thread G. D. Akin
Reggie Bautista wrote: snip But I really do recommend the Technomage Trilogy. Without getting to spoilery about it, it weaves in and out of a couple of episodes, and while it is mostly cannon, it does seem to contradict one second-season episode. (Lets just say that something happens in the

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread William T Goodall
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 01:42 am, Erik Reuter wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:28:19AM +0100, William T Goodall wrote: On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:44 pm, Erik Reuter wrote: Good point, very true. Of course, one could also wear false fingerprints. The problem of quickly and

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Reuter
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:10:42PM -0400, David Hobby wrote: I wasn't that worried about resolution, just signal to noise ratio. They are related. Good luck resolving fine details with a low S/N. The other issue that comes up is having the system target the eyes of a moving person.

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:09:16PM +0100, William T Goodall wrote: You make being chipped a necessary form of identification for obtaining a bank account, getting a job, hiring or buying a car, purchasing rail, bus or air tickets, obtaining medical treatment, claiming pensions or other

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Reuter
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:04:43PM -0500, The Fool wrote: From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:39:24PM -0500, The Fool wrote: You put the chips in their clothes, easy to scan and remove They can put them in riveted buttons, shoe soles, and the like such

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Reuter
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:07:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about getting people to consent to implants, however in animals such as dogs the implants are known to move through the tissues which makes it very difficult to remove (I seem to recall the vet saying even in a

Re: a new Brin: book review

2003-09-30 Thread Ray Ludenia
Jan Coffey wrote: --- d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, having said that, has America committed crimes? Duh! In protecting our farmers, for example, our price supports have wounded 3rd world farmers exactly BECAUSE we refused to let then tie their economy to ours! Ah, we can

RE: Twins!

2003-09-30 Thread ritu
Julia wrote: Hey, folks, I'm home. Details on babies: Catherine Karling Thompson born 11:32 AM on 9/26/03 6 lbs. 7.5 oz. 19 long Thomas James Thompson born 12:00 Noon on 9/26/03 8 lbs. 1.8 oz. 19 3/4 long Congratulations, Julia. :) I hope you are well and that the babies are

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:33:48PM +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: Australia has tied its economy to US, In what way? Is the Australian currency pegged to the US dollar? I've noticed that the Australian stock market is one of the least correlated with the US stock market. Europe and the Far-East have

Re: a new Brin: book review

2003-09-30 Thread d.brin
There is another factor. Every nation contains some people who remember that the nation bears responsibility for feeding itself. There is a wish never to completely abandon the land. America is down to the lowest fraction of farmers since we left the caves.

Re: Twins!

2003-09-30 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, folks, I'm home. Details on babies: Catherine Karling Thompson born 11:32 AM on 9/26/03 6 lbs. 7.5 oz. 19 long Thomas James Thompson born 12:00 Noon on 9/26/03 8 lbs. 1.8 oz. 19 3/4 long snip Congratulations! And wow, they're

Re: Twins!

2003-09-30 Thread Jean-Marc Chaton
* Julia Thompson [Mon, 29/09/2003 at 15:35 -0500] Hey, folks, I'm home. Details on babies: Catherine Karling Thompson born 11:32 AM on 9/26/03 6 lbs. 7.5 oz. 19 long Thomas James Thompson born 12:00 Noon on 9/26/03 8 lbs. 1.8 oz. 19 3/4 long whaou !! un poids combiné de 6.6 kg,

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William T Goodall wrote: snip As for removal - it would be much easier to insert a rice-grain sized chip deep into the abdomen (say) than it would be to surgically remove it. Could you elaborate? Since these things are (obviously) designed to

Re: Julia's Twins

2003-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Doug Pensinger forwarded: ...have been born: Thomas James Katherine Carly (or Caroline or something like that). No promises on the spelling since I just received voice mail from her husband. Does anyone know the name [and site!] of the Hospital? Maybe they

Re: A bit of a rant (was SFBC)

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 30 Sep 2003 at 18:23, G. D. Akin wrote: Reggie Bautista wrote: snip But I really do recommend the Technomage Trilogy. Without getting to spoilery about it, it weaves in and out of a couple of episodes, and while it is mostly cannon, it does seem to contradict one second-season

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-09-30 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:21 AM 9/30/2003 -0700, you wrote: There is another factor. Every nation contains some people who remember that the nation bears responsibility for feeding itself. There is a wish never to completely abandon the land. America is down to the lowest fraction of farmers since we left the

Re: a new Brin: book review

2003-09-30 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In protecting our farmers, for example, our price supports have wounded 3rd world farmers exactly BECAUSE we refused to let then tie their economy to ours! snip What? would you have us allow our own people to

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-09-30 Thread Doug Pensinger
Kevin Tarr wrote: At 11:21 AM 9/30/2003 -0700, you wrote: There is another factor. Every nation contains some people who remember that the nation bears responsibility for feeding itself. There is a wish never to completely abandon the land. America is down to the lowest fraction of

Illium

2003-09-30 Thread Doug Pensinger
Anyone else read Simmons' latest? Doug ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Claudia Christian alert

2003-09-30 Thread Kevin Tarr
Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 in case anyone didn't know. It was only a bit part but she was on the WBs drama Everwood last night. She was the doctor's mother in a flashback to Vietnam. Didn't see any ducks. Plus Patrick Stewart just played a gay celebrity on Fraiser. Didn't fully watch the

Re: Twins!

2003-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Reggie Bautista wrote: Julia wrote: Hey, folks, I'm home. Details on babies: Catherine Karling Thompson born 11:32 AM on 9/26/03 Thomas James Thompson born 12:00 Noon on 9/26/03 And she will probably never grow tired of reminding him that she's older... :-) Congrats, glad to

Re: Names

2003-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote: On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:43 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: Karling: 'Carling Black Label' is the name of the worst beer in Britain, so if he ever comes over here there will be ribbing :) She. That was *Catherine's* middle name. :) It's a Swedish last

Re: Claudia Christian alert

2003-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Kevin Tarr wrote: Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 in case anyone didn't know. It was only a bit part but she was on the WBs drama Everwood last night. She was the doctor's mother in a flashback to Vietnam. Didn't see any ducks. Plus Patrick Stewart just played a gay celebrity on Fraiser.

Re: Twins!

2003-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug Pensinger wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Hey, folks, I'm home. Details on babies: Congratulations, Julia and Dan! Glad to hear that you all are healthy and home already, I hope the induced labor wasn't as painful as the last time. The induced labor started out fine, it didn't

Re: RFID chips, was Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: On 29 Sep 2003 at 23:37, David Hobby wrote: destroy by washing machines and dryers. Or how about the printers that require specific brand ink cartridges that must have a chip from their own products to work (printer ink is 17 times more expensive than

Re: Julia's Twins

2003-09-30 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Doug Pensinger wrote: From another list: ...have been born: Thomas James Katherine Carly (or Caroline or something like that). No promises on the spelling since I just received voice mail from her husband. Yay Julie! Yay! Congratulations! -- Matt

Re: a new Brin: book review

2003-09-30 Thread Jan Coffey
--- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're a communist then? Absolutly not. However, I do believe that a countries first concern should be for it's own people. Companies who are able to rise due to our way, our capitalist democracy, should be expected to benifit our citizens

Re: Creeping thread ( was RE: A bit of a rant (was SFBC))

2003-09-30 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: Creeping thread sounds like a Metallica parody Maru Or Anne McCaffrey's first horror novel, in which the people of Pern discover that Thread from the Red Star is sentient... Reggie Bautista Or Is That Sapient? Maru Your just