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Your Thoughts Are Your Password
Vitaly Friedman writes "Scientists hope that mind-reading computers will one day replace typed passwords, making fingerprint readers and retina scans obsolete. Skeptics say don't count on it. From the article: 'Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device that will use a person's thoughts to authenticate her or his identity. Their idea of utilizing brain-wave signatures as pass-thoughts is based on the premise that brain waves are unique to each individual. Some researchers believe the difference might just be enough to create a system that allows you to log in with your thoughts.'"
...so my computer won't let me use it when I'm stoned or tripped out :-/
:'-(
Gonna have to get a standalone CD player and ditch winamp and it's pretty visual plugins
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Wait, did I just say that out loud ?
Why do I suspect there will be quite a few folks out there with not particularly complex passwords?
I know my first thought password wil be along the lines of:
"If you don't let me into this computer right now, I'm going to throw you out of the window."
The Urgent-use chip that typically prevents access to a technology when the user is in desperate need, will be in direct conflict with the new thought reading password-chip. The upcoming internal struggle in computers will be interesting to watch, but a pain to support.
Oh You POS
Scientists also hope that soon breakthroughs in the field of Artificial Intelligence will give rise to a new race of machine intelligences, who will selflessly do all our work for us, freeing us for lives of leisure (and, incidentally, not murder all of us or make us into batteries).
Scientists also hope that soon they will identify the Dishonesty Gene, so that they may excie it from humanity's DNA, creating a race of perfectly honest people who no longer need to safeguard their systems with passwords.
Scientists also hope that soon they will be able to transport our consciousnesses into vast computers, giving each member of humanity a lifespan of eons and a godlike existence.
Me...I just want my goddamned flying car. That's all.
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~ |rip/\/\aster /\/\onkey
*puts on blue turban and takes an envelope*
Dumber than a brick.
*rips open envelope to read what's inside*
What you call a person that can't give their 'mind password.'
-- Bridget
I deal with users all the time, and there is no WAY this'll work...There is no software ever written that can distinguish one blank slate from another.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
They'll have to crowbar my tinfoil helmet from my cold dead head first!!!!
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Mine will be Natalie Portman, naked and petrified.
Sweet!
Gozer: The Choice is made!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa!
Gozer: The Traveller has come!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nobody choosed anything!
[turns to Egon]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Did YOU choose anything?
Dr. Egon Spengler: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Winston] Did YOU?
Winston Zeddemore: My mind is totally blank.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I didn't choose anything.
[long pause, Peter, Egon and Winston all look at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: I couldn't help it. It just popped IN there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [angrily] What? What just popped in there?
Dr Ray Stantz: I... I... I tried to think...
Dr. Egon Spengler: LOOK!
[they all look over one side of the roof]
Dr Ray Stantz: No! It CAN'T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?
Dr Ray Stantz: It CAN'T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you do, Ray?
Winston Zeddemore: Oh, shit!
[they all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat, Peter looks at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: [somberly] It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
--From the IMDB.
Cthulhu Saves.
Yeah, but did you consider the following:
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Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
...between my thought password and the parental controls I'll have in place to keep nieces and nephews from using Uncle Glas' computer for immoral purposes. Probably never be able to get into the bloody thing again.
I came, I saw, I left. It looked better in the brochure.
I'm not too sure since I'm not a big pro in the brain waves department but heh, that would be cool.
If someone said its possible its because they saw the beginning of a way to do this.
Sure it looks funky but heh... I can still read that famous phrase :
"256k of RAM outta be enough for everyone...."
If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. - Will Kommen
Your password is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
like this:
Pardon ma'am, whatever you do dont look at this red light and think of your password.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
This brings a whole new meaning to: "can you reset my password?"
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
...you must think in Russian.
Friends don't let friends send email drunk.
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.