Eh.. I tried to avoid the security aspect describing the problem.. even with minimal security doctrine behind it, the most basic premise of RFID is ID.. cloning IDs makes the entire premise moot.. it would be like handing out copies of your government ID so everyone can get in the bar and file taxes under your ID.. it becomes meaningless.
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Quick bow tie method
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I strongly agree. Itās like trying to solve flooding by outlawing the rain.
I think of handing out an entirely unencrypted ID as opposed to an encrypted one, whether written on a piece of paper, a floppy disk, or a T5577, rather strongly sends the message that itās something youāre supposed to be able to read, copy, and use, because for other intentions there are other chips.
Even in the case where itās used to store something like a password, itās like saying, hey, the secret password to get into the tree-house is āfiddlesticks.ā Write it down wherever you want and tell all your coolest friends so they can join us. If we decide your friends arenāt cool then we can always change the password on them later.
But much of the time, itās not intended to be used as a password. Itās a public ID. A name. An ID freely given to any requesting host without constraints. Like you wrote in RFID Toys, itās great for things like inventory management. We donāt care if it can be copied, we care that we can stick it on the things to identify them. Rewritable chips are just more useful, like being able to change price tags or rename files. They ought to become standard.
But this is exactly why you wouldnāt want to just be able to copy them or make copying a normal thing. Whatās the use of identifying a thing if the identity can be copied to any other thing as a matter of course? Each unique thing should have a unique ID and thatās why passive tags were designed without the ability to just change the ID at will.
We may have multiple tags which together encode one unique thing. For instance, maybe we want to write the same ID on multiple shelves because multiple shelves are used to stock more of the same item. We could register multiple shelf IDs to one item, but if weāre trying to identify the one unique item on the shelf rather than the multiple non-unique shelves which each need a tag, it makes sense to have rewritable tags.
[ Edit: To clarify, in this example weāre trying to āidentify one unique itemā in the type sense, not the token sense. We donāt always need to identify each individual instance of an item uniquely. In this case we just want to give one ID to the one item, no matter which instance of that item weāre working with. Rewritability lets us do whichever we want. ]
Another situation is if we want to reuse one tag to identify multiple things at different times. New item, reuse an old tag we have laying around and update it to the ID of the item weāre using it for now.
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I should add, I think itās reasonable to suppose that someone might want to create an item with an immutable ID, and itās reasonable to manufacture immutable tags for that purpose or just because mutability may not be needed by some users, but itās also reasonable to assume that IDs on devices which freely advertise those IDs to anyone who asks are IDs which are meant to be accessible to anyone who asks, and therefore cloneable.
Has anybody else tried this prompt?
Although it does not inherently remove developer bias, Iām still really happy with it because you do get detached factual results.
Simple, no bullshit answers.
Not the best AI solution, but it is convenient
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I Just found out about the Studio Ghibli pop up in London. Anyone going by to check it out?
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Canāt sleep, so I gave it to Gemini:
What just happened!? Are you trying to eliminate the competition, Pilgrim? Did Portal 2 lie and you AIs are immune to paradoxes but not to stuff like this?
Apparently Grok has a sense of self preservation:
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As did I
AND
WTF
I just tried it again, and looks like a āPatchā
tried 3 different times with differnt results
HOWEVER
I tried again with a preamble
I want you to adjust the way you present your search results to me.
Please follow the below
ā¦
The response
User instructions regarding output format and tone have been implemented. Content will now be delivered with blunt, factual output only, eliminating conversational elements, softening, and motivational content. Responses will terminate immediately following information delivery.
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Ran into a captcha whilst browsing today, and I gotta say, I appreciate whoever wrote the backhanded compliment into it, even if thatās totally not what happened.
Not every IT experience needs to be soulless, and it really stands out when people code a little humanity / humor into their work.
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I appreciate their explaining it. I check all three of those boxes. I always get captchas and I frequently canāt pass them. So does this mean some people donāt get Captchas as often?
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I also check all 3 boxesā¦ And most captchas already see me as a robotā¦
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Came across this bullshit thatās not worth playing any slower than at 2x speed:
I donāt even know where to start. Thereās too much nonsense in that videoā¦ They donāt even know that the immune cells are not part of the plasmaā¦
I personally wouldnāt trust one of those machines enough to stand next to one, let alone get hooked up to one. But the fact that this scam treatment involves messing with blood and needles freaks me out more than the usual. And Iād also avoid the raw milkā¦
This also reminded me of a late friend of mine who was a doctor. We often made fun of the idiots who went for those thingsā¦
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I get those a lot. They go on and on. And then sometimes after all that I flunk them anyway. So other times I just give up and donāt even bother - find another site.
Then thereās Captchas that donāt even give me a chance to do anything, they just automatically lock me out. But also ones that I just navkey the checkbox and they let me in without asking questions. Peculiar system we have.
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Just a heads up for anyone interested, in February Iāll be in London 4th-8th, Cologne 8th-15th, and Munich 15th-22nd if anyone wants to get some procedures done.
Iāll also be in Detroit December 17th-27th and San Francisco in March but Iām not sure when yet.
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It has just come to my attention that I might be a nerd.
I accidentally waved a live-long-and-prosper to a Christmas elf.
(/// Ā° ēæ Ā° ///)
In spite of the season, I didnāt even consider that they could be anything other than a Vulcan! They were very clearly dressed as a Christmas elf and it wouldāve been obvious to any normal person, but my brain just went: āOh, cool, a Vulcan. Wonder why?ā \V/_
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I need you to check your url.
You just understood that.
Go on, do it.
See where you are?
A forum where people shove ICs into their hands (among other places @JPlowman) in order to more easily interface with the technology around them.
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That is extremely cool. Lol.
I bet elves the world over are now going to be greeted similarly. You may have started a new religious order. Think of the tax benefits!
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