... are we gonna be running Windows on a Mac, or Mac(OSX) on a PC?
(or linux on a mac but with pc hardware.. but you could do that before, only now it's on x86 hardware.. so it'd be a x86 linux distro but running on a mac... er.. aghh.. my head hurts..)
I bet they had problems with the dragon eating their pigs again. They called Bobbin to do his green painting spell but he wasn't available:)
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Sheesh.. seems the theory wasn't that good after all, then;) Still, It'd be interesting to see a study about propietary-app development cost comparison between linux. windows, osx and whatnot, showing lib/compiler/ide/support/etc costs and the like...
There's got to be one on the net.. I'll go back to my googling.
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I don't think paying TrollTech for a QT license will be much of a problem for a company willing to release some propietary app. Think about windowsland, you usually have to pay for at least the IDE (say, visual studio), and they tend to be pretty expensive.. next to that, just using Kdevelop and friends for free, but paying for a QT license seems like a good deal to me, at least in theory.. does anyone know how much a license for QT costs?
Oh he does have the freedom to choose no to be disturbed, and I will be the first to defend that freedom, but that doesn't make him any less of a selfish piece of shit!
But is the trademark for 'Windows' or for 'Microsoft Windows'?
And besides, talking common sense and not legalese, if I see a program and call it "Windows Tuner", I'd assume it's a program for tuning Windows, nothing else. Just because it has 'windows' on it it doesn't mean it's made by microsoft. It's the same as with windows commander.. I know it's what the law says, but that's one of the laws I find have been twisted senseless and should be revised.
Well, normally you dont have one but many fingers pressing constantly against the glass so its hard to just get one good enough to use. And then again, itd be pretty tricky, so itd become virtually impossible in any place thats not completely isolated and unsurveiled (sp?).
Then again, if the biometric access device is in such a place (eg. alone, unguarded, nobody sees you trying to lift a latent or to put a rubber thingy on it), then itd be even easier to break the lock than to go to all the trouble to bypass the fingerprint recognition in most cases.
The primary advantage in fingerprint-reading access controls is that you cannot lend or tell someone your finger, so you can effectively control who goes in and out.
It is true also that theyre pretty hard to fool (contrary to general opinion, generally based on reported tests made in ideal conditions or so long ago that no serious system nowadays permits them), so you can use them to control access to sensitive stuff, but it remains a system, and ANY system can be broken, always. Some are easier, some are harder... sorry about the rant, but sometimes I hear/read people bashing biometric id/access control because its not -perfect-, as if any system was perfect in the first place =P
go check www.linuxbiometrics.com out, theres some interesting discussions about this stuff in the forums.
the input is left intact and fully replicable on anything the target touches
I take it you've never seen a real fingerprint latent or done any real latent lifting. You know, CSI is 99% bullshit and the fingerprint scene in "National Treasure" is utterly ridiculous.
I'd say it should be BOTH. "Unbiased" does not exist. Everyone has bias maybe more, maybe less, but absolutely NO source of news is unbiased.. nor should it be. Instead of ignoring news because of their 'bias' waiting for the One True perfect source, people should try to gather information on any subject from various sources, and try to figure things out for themselves. If the viewpoints of the sources are opposite its even better, as non-factual stuff becomes more evident.
I don't know exactly how it translates to latitude and longitude, but once you find something on the map you can get a direct link to it by using the "link to this page" link on the right.
why? if the work being 'published' is either not copyrighted or public domain, why should they pay?
If someone sees his business model threatened by that, well, time to think of a new way to make money. You can't stop this kind of thing (which would significantly facilitate access to information and benefit society in many ways) just because it hurts someone's sales.
As someone said before, where would we be now if the pony express had managed to outlaw the telegraph because it 'hurt' its sales?
That depends on what you consider 'you'. Your cells die every second, and new ones are generated. Are you a different person because of this?
I had a pc with a 20GB hard disk, gentoo installed. One day, i got new hardware, a new 120GB disk. I copied everything to the new hw. Is the my gentoo the same as before? it is to me. I just have more space and faster hw.
I agree, the old hw is gone, as your body can be gone, but again, 'the original you is gone' depends on what you mean by 'the original you', i.e., what you consider a 'person' or life, etc.
Exactly. And we might even achieve this even without fully understanding which neurons do exactly what in the brain. If neuronal structure and interaction is perfectly reproduced it might just work.. I'd like to know a neurologist's take on this, maybe I'm talking utter nonsense =)
well that depends on if you believe in a 'soul' or not. Counciousness, OTOH, could be emulated if we could have some interpreter software (and necessary HW) to interpret and 'run' your encoded brain.
Much like in "Ghost in the Shell". Even if you believe in the 'soul' (whatever you define that to be), what if your brain, whichever hard(or wet-)ware it runs on, is able to generate a 'soul'? Is the soul a product of the brain, or the other way around?
The problem with IE wasn't as much about its price being $0, than it coming included in windows. If windows has 90% of the market, including IE in it would remove the need to get a browser somewhere else, which eliminates the need to choose one (which could be other than IE). Not only that, but you can't even uninstall the damn thing.
THAT is the main problem with it. The price isn't a big issue.. do you think if it costed say $50, and it came included with windows, joe sixpack would still go and get another browser? or buy it? (in fact who says IE is really free? do you really think you're not paying for IE when you pay for a windows copy/license?)
Why is it 'bad'? It's just another authentication technique, another tool to improve security. I just don't understand why in every post about biometrics everyone starts bitching about how it's not perfect. Of course it isn't perfect!! there is NO perfect security system, and there'll never be.
Biometrics is NOT about 'perfect' security, it's just a new tool which *can* tighten security where applied properly, and which makes authentication easier in many cases. That's all.
I do work for a company that develops/supports biometric systems (especially fingerprints), but believe me, I don't get paid for saying this, and I won't get a bigger paycheck for lying about this.
The thing is NO technology or security system is 100% perfect, and that's no reason not to research and develop applications in that field. Biometrics DO work (at least fingerprint stuff), and it's a really efficient way of authenticating identity. Making a fake finger which can actually fool a *serious* fingerprint scanner (ie: not those MS sells for a few bucks) is -way- harder to do than for example copying a credit card, or getting someone's password. Not to say that if someone's on guard by the scanner (for example a guard on a building's entrance or a cashier at the bank), it's almost impossible to get a fake finger through without being detected.
In criminal applications, latent fingerprints are lifted from the crime scene using one or various techniques, many of which react to the biological components (sorry, I'm not quite sure how to say that in english) left by the (living) finger, which makes it especially difficult for a fake or dead finger to be used to plant evidence. Even in that case, the prints in an AFIS system are ALWAYS reviewer by an expert, which is the only person able to determine fingerprint match on a court (ie: legally). And having found a print on a crime scene, or having identified someone on a civil application by fingerprinting is in the end a way of accelerating work, because normally every identity has to be verified by various means for anything really serious. Fingerprints allow you to narrow your search to the most likely to be the person you're looking for, then make sure it actually is. The most common way of doing this in police work is finding, say, suspects matching the fingerprints you found on the scene, and then focusing the investigation on those people, to see if they're the man you're looking for. Odds are one of those will be the criminal, and in most cases it helps to find the person in question really quick. Only *then* the latent print might be used as evidence in the court. Otherwise, having your print on a crime scene just means that you where there at some point, not that you committed the crime.
So biometrics ARE a pretty good way to identify people, but, again, that doesn't mean it's *perfect*. That simply doesn't exist. And I'd take fingerprint recognition to manage my bank account over a magnetic card and a numeric password any day.
Well the image is accurate for big events like say (God forbid) Britney spears coming to Buenos Aires for a concert.
But movies are something very different. There are many theaters in BA, and most seat between 70 and 200 people. Maybe theres still an old theater with more capacity somewhere, but itd be exceptional..
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple of Village centers, two or three Hoyts, and things like that, which I believe have guidelines followed in every country they make business in. Most of these sell numbered tickets, but sometimes theres a movie for which they sell general-admission tickets. I dont know what determines which kind of tickets they sell in each case.
Here in Buenos Aires. usually in the most popular cinemas the seats are numbered.. and wether you buy by internet, phone or at the cinema, you get to choose from those that are available (ie: not already sold). oddly this doesn't seem to avoid people running or lining up for entering the place, which is kind of idiotic... go figure
Well maybe you could just install a limiter that disconnects electricity or something when the actual car speed goes over a certain limit.. but it could be dangerous and I guess the immediate effect would be "Speed Limiter Disabled while you wait" signs popping up in every car repair shop (or whatever they're called in english:)
I guess they could be made illegal, but then it'd become a "wink wink nudge nudge" matter with the guy who repairs your car =P
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... are we gonna be running Windows on a Mac, or Mac(OSX) on a PC?
(or linux on a mac but with pc hardware.. but you could do that before, only now it's on x86 hardware.. so it'd be a x86 linux distro but running on a mac... er.. aghh.. my head hurts..)
I bet they had problems with the dragon eating their pigs again. They called Bobbin to do his green painting spell but he wasn't available :)
Sheesh.. seems the theory wasn't that good after all, then ;)
Still, It'd be interesting to see a study about propietary-app development cost comparison between linux. windows, osx and whatnot, showing lib/compiler/ide/support/etc costs and the like...
There's got to be one on the net.. I'll go back to my googling.
I don't think paying TrollTech for a QT license will be much of a problem for a company willing to release some propietary app. Think about windowsland, you usually have to pay for at least the IDE (say, visual studio), and they tend to be pretty expensive.. next to that, just using Kdevelop and friends for free, but paying for a QT license seems like a good deal to me, at least in theory.. does anyone know how much a license for QT costs?
It should! I believe the Global Thermonuclear War package lists tic-tac-toe among its dependencies ;)
Oh he does have the freedom to choose no to be disturbed, and I will be the first to defend that freedom, but that doesn't make him any less of a selfish piece of shit!
But is the trademark for 'Windows' or for 'Microsoft Windows'?
And besides, talking common sense and not legalese, if I see a program and call it "Windows Tuner", I'd assume it's a program for tuning Windows, nothing else. Just because it has 'windows' on it it doesn't mean it's made by microsoft.
It's the same as with windows commander.. I know it's what the law says, but that's one of the laws I find have been twisted senseless and should be revised.
Andy? is that you?
Well, normally you dont have one but many fingers pressing constantly against the glass so its hard to just get one good enough to use. And then again, itd be pretty tricky, so itd become virtually impossible in any place thats not completely isolated and unsurveiled (sp?).
Then again, if the biometric access device is in such a place (eg. alone, unguarded, nobody sees you trying to lift a latent or to put a rubber thingy on it), then itd be even easier to break the lock than to go to all the trouble to bypass the fingerprint recognition in most cases.
The primary advantage in fingerprint-reading access controls is that you cannot lend or tell someone your finger, so you can effectively control who goes in and out.
It is true also that theyre pretty hard to fool (contrary to general opinion, generally based on reported tests made in ideal conditions or so long ago that no serious system nowadays permits them), so you can use them to control access to sensitive stuff, but it remains a system, and ANY system can be broken, always. Some are easier, some are harder... sorry about the rant, but sometimes I hear/read people bashing biometric id/access control because its not -perfect-, as if any system was perfect in the first place =P
go check www.linuxbiometrics.com out, theres some interesting discussions about this stuff in the forums.
the input is left intact and fully replicable on anything the target touches
I take it you've never seen a real fingerprint latent or done any real latent lifting.
You know, CSI is 99% bullshit and the fingerprint scene in "National Treasure" is utterly ridiculous.
IMO it can certainly be neither.
I'd say it should be BOTH. "Unbiased" does not exist. Everyone has bias maybe more, maybe less, but absolutely NO source of news is unbiased.. nor should it be. Instead of ignoring news because of their 'bias' waiting for the One True perfect source, people should try to gather information on any subject from various sources, and try to figure things out for themselves. If the viewpoints of the sources are opposite its even better, as non-factual stuff becomes more evident.
Use that grey thing you have in your head.
I don't know exactly how it translates to latitude and longitude, but once you find something on the map you can get a direct link to it by using the "link to this page" link on the right.
why? if the work being 'published' is either not copyrighted or public domain, why should they pay?
If someone sees his business model threatened by that, well, time to think of a new way to make money.
You can't stop this kind of thing (which would significantly facilitate access to information and benefit society in many ways) just because it hurts someone's sales.
As someone said before, where would we be now if the pony express had managed to outlaw the telegraph because it 'hurt' its sales?
That depends on what you consider 'you'. Your cells die every second, and new ones are generated. Are you a different person because of this?
I had a pc with a 20GB hard disk, gentoo installed. One day, i got new hardware, a new 120GB disk. I copied everything to the new hw. Is the my gentoo the same as before? it is to me. I just have more space and faster hw.
I agree, the old hw is gone, as your body can be gone, but again, 'the original you is gone' depends on what you mean by 'the original you', i.e., what you consider a 'person' or life, etc.
Exactly. And we might even achieve this even without fully understanding which neurons do exactly what in the brain. If neuronal structure and interaction is perfectly reproduced it might just work..
I'd like to know a neurologist's take on this, maybe I'm talking utter nonsense =)
well that depends on if you believe in a 'soul' or not. Counciousness, OTOH, could be emulated if we could have some interpreter software (and necessary HW) to interpret and 'run' your encoded brain.
Much like in "Ghost in the Shell". Even if you believe in the 'soul' (whatever you define that to be), what if your brain, whichever hard(or wet-)ware it runs on, is able to generate a 'soul'? Is the soul a product of the brain, or the other way around?
You mean like you won in human basketball at the olympics? oh, wait.. nevermind. ;)
The problem with IE wasn't as much about its price being $0, than it coming included in windows.
If windows has 90% of the market, including IE in it would remove the need to get a browser somewhere else, which eliminates the need to choose one (which could be other than IE). Not only that, but you can't even uninstall the damn thing.
THAT is the main problem with it. The price isn't a big issue.. do you think if it costed say $50, and it came included with windows, joe sixpack would still go and get another browser? or buy it? (in fact who says IE is really free? do you really think you're not paying for IE when you pay for a windows copy/license?)
Hmmm I believe you can get them on divx somwhere *coughedonkeycough* *coughbittorrentcough*.
sorry.
I'd better let Tim Burton do it :)
And to think of all the excellent researchers with *important* issues to research on, who can't do it because of lack of material/money.
Shameful.
Why is it 'bad'? It's just another authentication technique, another tool to improve security. I just don't understand why in every post about biometrics everyone starts bitching about how it's not perfect. Of course it isn't perfect!! there is NO perfect security system, and there'll never be.
Biometrics is NOT about 'perfect' security, it's just a new tool which *can* tighten security where applied properly, and which makes authentication easier in many cases. That's all.
I do work for a company that develops/supports biometric systems (especially fingerprints), but believe me, I don't get paid for saying this, and I won't get a bigger paycheck for lying about this.
The thing is NO technology or security system is 100% perfect, and that's no reason not to research and develop applications in that field. Biometrics DO work (at least fingerprint stuff), and it's a really efficient way of authenticating identity. Making a fake finger which can actually fool a *serious* fingerprint scanner (ie: not those MS sells for a few bucks) is -way- harder to do than for example copying a credit card, or getting someone's password. Not to say that if someone's on guard by the scanner (for example a guard on a building's entrance or a cashier at the bank), it's almost impossible to get a fake finger through without being detected.
In criminal applications, latent fingerprints are lifted from the crime scene using one or various techniques, many of which react to the biological components (sorry, I'm not quite sure how to say that in english) left by the (living) finger, which makes it especially difficult for a fake or dead finger to be used to plant evidence.
Even in that case, the prints in an AFIS system are ALWAYS reviewer by an expert, which is the only person able to determine fingerprint match on a court (ie: legally). And having found a print on a crime scene, or having identified someone on a civil application by fingerprinting is in the end a way of accelerating work, because normally every identity has to be verified by various means for anything really serious.
Fingerprints allow you to narrow your search to the most likely to be the person you're looking for, then make sure it actually is. The most common way of doing this in police work is finding, say, suspects matching the fingerprints you found on the scene, and then focusing the investigation on those people, to see if they're the man you're looking for. Odds are one of those will be the criminal, and in most cases it helps to find the person in question really quick. Only *then* the latent print might be used as evidence in the court. Otherwise, having your print on a crime scene just means that you where there at some point, not that you committed the crime.
So biometrics ARE a pretty good way to identify people, but, again, that doesn't mean it's *perfect*. That simply doesn't exist. And I'd take fingerprint recognition to manage my bank account over a magnetic card and a numeric password any day.
Well the image is accurate for big events like say (God forbid) Britney spears coming to Buenos Aires for a concert.
But movies are something very different. There are many theaters in BA, and most seat between 70 and 200 people. Maybe theres still an old theater with more capacity somewhere, but itd be exceptional..
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple of Village centers, two or three Hoyts, and things like that, which I believe have guidelines followed in every country they make business in. Most of these sell numbered tickets, but sometimes theres a movie for which they sell general-admission tickets. I dont know what determines which kind of tickets they sell in each case.
don't they have numbered seats in the US?
Here in Buenos Aires. usually in the most popular cinemas the seats are numbered.. and wether you buy by internet, phone or at the cinema, you get to choose from those that are available (ie: not already sold).
oddly this doesn't seem to avoid people running or lining up for entering the place, which is kind of idiotic... go figure
Well maybe you could just install a limiter that disconnects electricity or something when the actual car speed goes over a certain limit.. but it could be dangerous and I guess the immediate effect would be "Speed Limiter Disabled while you wait" signs popping up in every car repair shop (or whatever they're called in english:)
I guess they could be made illegal, but then it'd become a "wink wink nudge nudge" matter with the guy who repairs your car =P