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American Apparel straps RFID tags onto individual garments {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2008 8:19AM Tracking someone using the RFID tags left in their clothing from inventory would be one of the least efficient means of stalking someone ever conceived. There are already much simpler ways to identify you (yes, you!) in public than trying to link up that serial number (which is what the tag really is, a unique ID) to a manufacturer's database to your credit card to your identity.
If you really want to be anonymous, unplug your computer, disconnect your cell phone, cut up your credit cards, and don't walk down a city street for the rest of your life. I'm surprised by how easily people scare over RFID when they're already on camera 24/7.
There are large tides of economics which mean that RFID will replace barcodes in the next decade or so, which means a lot of good things for both retailers and consumers. The threat of "privacy loss" is actually very minimal when we're talking about tagging retail goods. This is opposed to the horrible implementation in US passports, which really is a security nightmare. If you're looking to demonize the technology, you might as well start there, with the big guns.
How would you change Apple's Time Capsule? {Engadget}
Mar 29th 2008 4:39PM Yes, having a G (or B) device connected to the same network will slow it down! 802.11 networks which support b/g/n operate at the fastest level of the slowest device connected. So a Wii or an iPhone or an older laptop running on your TC network will pull it down to g speeds.
We solved this problem by segmenting our network - I've got an old Airport Express which creates one wifi network for the b/g devices, and an Extreme that's locked to n for the laptops. They're connected over ethernet, so we can see the devices on either end, but we keep n speeds between laptops and our NAS.
Yes, we have entirely too much wireless data flowing through our apartment.
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 1) {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 3:28PM yoink!
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 2) {Engadget}
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Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 3) {Engadget}
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Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 4) {Engadget}
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Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 5) {Engadget}
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Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 6) {Engadget}
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Time Machine now works with AirPort Extreme's AirDisk feature {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2008 7:44PM Wait, what? You've been able to use AEBS USB-attached drives as NAS since the beginning. I keep my entire iTunes library on one.
I just moved my Time Machine disk to my base station, and it definitely works. It's insisting on starting my backups from scratch, however, since Time Machine doesn't seem to realize it was the same drive it was using 10 minutes ago. The copy is going at about 2MB/sec.
Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Mar 19th 2008 7:33PM I've got it going, too. Though it looks like it just started a full TM backup from scratch, despite the pre-existing backups on the drive. I had to select the drive as a new backup location in the "change disk" dialog, so I suppose that makes sense, but it would have been nice if I didn't have to fling 130GB across my network right now. It does appear to be quite speedy (2-2.5MB/sec).
