Read it in books

[hirez]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interocitor

Soon I shall be able to emit great wedges of Droms & Lemon in the manner of some tedious union-bar Pythonista. I probably mumble DHCP state-transitions in my sleep. All good fun, actually. It's damn fine to have a problem to get my teeth into.

Via the relatively distant autopope, there's this: http://www.rfidvirus.org/papers/percom.06.pdf jarkman and figg will remember the one author from the talk she gave at WhatTheHack last year. I must admit I wasn't best impressed at the time, but the linked paper is rather good.

It's nice (for appropriate values of) to find some gym-malarkey that beats the pogies out of a chap. Looks like I'll need some new runners, though.

Extra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Railway_Bridge (Bag the Movietone news item. Excellent stuff.)

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I take it the sidegrade wasn't a consequence-free walk in the park, then ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know next week. The hairy bit is going to be migrating off the old nameservers. The bit that caused the most swearing today was finding an ancient (and clearly forgotten-about) BOOTP server. I should have spotted that faster, I think.

Oh: see link on edited entry. Nearly what I was looking for,

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Damn, I've just written a government leaflet telling small and medium sized retail/supply chain companies that RFID is the way of the future.

Bugger.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh, it will be. The Septics are going for contactless everything like a pack of lardy rats. EMV/Chip&pin is dead in the water - Or at least was until the Chase crack/panic - because the idle buggers just want to be able to wave their plastic in the vague direction of poor bloody cashier-wallah. Not that they'll be able to afford to pretend to be rich when the Chinese finally lose patience or someone really does convert out to PetroEuros.

However, the wild-eyed hackers and wild-eyed privacy nutters are going to cheerfully play with this tech.

On the other hand, EDIFACT was going to be the way of the future, too...

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

RFID for supply chain efficiency - cool.
RFID on consumer goods, where the chip can't be removed or disabled? Potentially very dodgy indeed.

Let's draw a discreet veil over RFID tags triggering hidden cameras photographing people picking up packets of razor blades...

[figg.livejournal.com]

autopope isn't that distant. He was in the pub tonight.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

Distant from me, then.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Top stuff! I wish I could talk like that. Also deal in secondhand bridges.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You probably can. Or maybe it's just me.

You know, that's a long-term project all of its own: find all the various bits of Severn Rail Bridge. It would take years and many scrapyards.