I set it to silence (vibrate-only) at meetings and movies, so i can still see who is calling by caller-id. If it's important (eg: a customer), I can get out and answer.
Everywhere else, it plays LeChuck's song from Monkey Island (MIDI):-)
IANAL, etc but I think what copyright says is that you cant make or distribute *copies* of the original. right? so, how is a picture a copy of a statue? a statue is not an image, its a sculpture, a 3 dimensional object. Little copies of the statues I might agree would enter the definition of copy.. but pictures of it? Its ridiculous.
Well then they can develop for a particular version of glib, etc and link everything statically, except for maybe SDL.
It'd make a somewhat larger binary, but games eat up disk space anyway nowadays.. personally I tend to uninstall games I stop playing for some time, and then reinstall them eventually if I feel like playing them again a couple of months later.
As I said before, never put all your faith in ANY system, you can tighten security with technology, and fingerprint recognition does that fairly well, but of course nothing is 100% secure. You have to consider contingencies.
Those exist, but they're more expensive. The problem is that a dead finger should be used immediately, because after a short time, the fingerprint kind of fades and becomes very difficult for a reader to recognize it.
Anyway the real point here is that biometrics, specially fingerprint recognition is a very good and mature solution, which can be used for lots of things. Of course it could be fooled eventually by someone with enough determination and resources, but I would think that/. readers know that there's absolutely NO 100% secure system. Such thing doesn't exist, the goal isn't to render fraud completely impossible, but to reduce it as much as we can. Fooling a fingerprint reader + magnetic card + signature, etc is simply harder than doing the same on non-biometric systems. Other advantage is agility and simplicity, on some systems, you might authenticate just by placing a finger on a reader, instead of using maybe more annoying solutions, and in such a case you might gain some security (a lot in fact, just not 100%) but you also gain in simplicity for the users.
There are no magic cures, the real problem with biometry is not that it doesn't work 100% perfectly but to make people aware of the fact that while it's more secure, it *could* eventually be fooled, and contingencies have to be considered too, just like with any system.
Right. Let's see.. How many Mac manufacturers are there? How many Mac models are there? How many possible combinations on ram type, cpu, mobo, etc etc? Now how about a custom clone PC to all the brands and all the models, and different types of hardware? OSX isn't easy to install because it's better designed or better written. Since it just doesn't need to work on that many different environments, it's a lot easier to automate the installation process.
The NIST specifications are only for data transfer between AFIS systems. Fingerprint matching algorithms are not standarized and every company has its own.
The fingerprint reader in the ipaq seems to be capacitive (as opposed to an optical reader, which would take more place) which are not so good, and have a limited life expectancy. All serious biometric devices use optical readers, but those tend to be bulkier and more expensive.
Yep. Seeing a 10 year old equating the soviet flag with a Nazi flag kinda helps me understand why many americans react like that when someone talks about communism without implying it's a Bad Thing(tm).
That's why they say that a book has as many ways to interpret it as it has readers. That's great about books (or pretty much any work of the kind), anyone can interpret it and understand or think up different meanings in them. This is not (if I understand corectly) what LeGuin is complaining about. The problem here is that the producers not only -really- changed lots of stuff (going beyond any reasonable concept of 'interpretation'), but they claim that to be the authors intended original meaning.
and that's what Ursula intended to make a statement about
The best way to implement biometrics in those cases is as you say, as a second level defense. That is, to authenticate your fingerprint with the one encoded in the credit card. Of course, there will be ways to fool this (there is always a way,/.ers should know that by now), but itd make it even harder than it is now, which is the goal.
No need, serious biometric solutions aren't affected by scars, as they rely on minutiae, not image comparison. And scars are easily recognized during the minutiae extraction. Normally access control systmes ask for two fingers (ie. both indexes) for authentication/identification, so problems about bandaged/amputated fingers are reduced.
It's kind of hard to fool fingerprint recognition systems. Yeah, we all heard about the guy with the jelly made print, but i have yet to see that work in any real case. For instance, you can't leave a false print on a crime scene with that (experts can tell easily if it comes from a live finger or a bit of plastic), and it won't be easy to put the jelly finger on the print scanner without anyone noticing. And even then that doesn't mean you lost your identity. Your print is yours, you just need to show your finger to prove it, and you're the only person who can do that.
I just read the book a couple of weeks ago. What a pile of crap. If you like templars, hermetism and that kind of stuff, go read Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum".
Meanwhile, sagem is selling this set, which looks like it could make me drool in a very homerish way. Does anyone have one of these? Do they look better than a plasma screen?
As a matter of fact, if you listen carefully.. or even not so carefully, in that scene, the music has changed from the original. Not from the SE, but from the original (1983/LD/etc) movies. In the original movies there was some kind of ewok song, whereas in the new versions we got a different background song with non-ewok sounding chorus and stuff.
Both wrong. The data stored is usually some kind of array or matrix of the finger minutiae (relative position, direction, etc). No serious fingerprint identification system compares -images-. Te image of the fingerprint is analyzed, the minutiae are extracted, and that's used to perform the matching against the database. A single fingerprint can contain more than 50 minutiae, while 12 are enough to identify a person.
In Buenos Aires we got 512k down / 128k up for about 100 argentine pesos (around 33 dollars.) p/mo.
And they even manage to call it 'broadband' with a straight face..
check this out: If you buy the 'fiber 512' service, it costs you around $100 (argentine pesos) per month. That's a standard cablemodem connection, coaxial to modem, ethernet from modem to nic. If you buy the 'fiber 512 wifi' service, it costs around $130 per month... and all they do is give you a wifi cablemodem instead of an ethernet one!
And those are the prices IF you are a cable TV customer of the same company. Otherwise you'd have to pay about 50% extra.
Slashdot Mirror
I set it to silence (vibrate-only) at meetings and movies, so i can still see who is calling by caller-id. If it's important (eg: a customer), I can get out and answer.
:-)
Everywhere else, it plays LeChuck's song from Monkey Island (MIDI)
IANAL, etc but I think what copyright says is that you cant make or distribute *copies* of the original. right? so, how is a picture a copy of a statue? a statue is not an image, its a sculpture, a 3 dimensional object. Little copies of the statues I might agree would enter the definition of copy.. but pictures of it? Its ridiculous.
You can keep your criminals, thank you.
Well then they can develop for a particular version of glib, etc and link everything statically, except for maybe SDL.
It'd make a somewhat larger binary, but games eat up disk space anyway nowadays.. personally I tend to uninstall games I stop playing for some time, and then reinstall them eventually if I feel like playing them again a couple of months later.
Exactly.
As I said before, never put all your faith in ANY system, you can tighten security with technology, and fingerprint recognition does that fairly well, but of course nothing is 100% secure. You have to consider contingencies.
Those exist, but they're more expensive. The problem is that a dead finger should be used immediately, because after a short time, the fingerprint kind of fades and becomes very difficult for a reader to recognize it.
/. readers know that there's absolutely NO 100% secure system. Such thing doesn't exist, the goal isn't to render fraud completely impossible, but to reduce it as much as we can. Fooling a fingerprint reader + magnetic card + signature, etc is simply harder than doing the same on non-biometric systems. Other advantage is agility and simplicity, on some systems, you might authenticate just by placing a finger on a reader, instead of using maybe more annoying solutions, and in such a case you might gain some security (a lot in fact, just not 100%) but you also gain in simplicity for the users.
Anyway the real point here is that biometrics, specially fingerprint recognition is a very good and mature solution, which can be used for lots of things. Of course it could be fooled eventually by someone with enough determination and resources, but I would think that
There are no magic cures, the real problem with biometry is not that it doesn't work 100% perfectly but to make people aware of the fact that while it's more secure, it *could* eventually be fooled, and contingencies have to be considered too, just like with any system.
Well, severed fingers don't work on optic fingerprint readers, so it doesn't really matter if the clerk is an idiot
Right. Let's see.. How many Mac manufacturers are there? How many Mac models are there? How many possible combinations on ram type, cpu, mobo, etc etc?
Now how about a custom clone PC to all the brands and all the models, and different types of hardware?
OSX isn't easy to install because it's better designed or better written. Since it just doesn't need to work on that many different environments, it's a lot easier to automate the installation process.
The NIST specifications are only for data transfer between AFIS systems. Fingerprint matching algorithms are not standarized and every company has its own.
The fingerprint reader in the ipaq seems to be capacitive (as opposed to an optical reader, which would take more place) which are not so good, and have a limited life expectancy.
All serious biometric devices use optical readers, but those tend to be bulkier and more expensive.
Yep. Seeing a 10 year old equating the soviet flag with a Nazi flag kinda helps me understand why many americans react like that when someone talks about communism without implying it's a Bad Thing(tm).
That's why they say that a book has as many ways to interpret it as it has readers. That's great about books (or pretty much any work of the kind), anyone can interpret it and understand or think up different meanings in them.
This is not (if I understand corectly) what LeGuin is complaining about. The problem here is that the producers not only -really- changed lots of stuff (going beyond any reasonable concept of 'interpretation'), but they claim that to be the authors intended original meaning.
and that's what Ursula intended to make a statement about
That's where they totally fscked up.
You seem to imply that comunism and democracy are mutually exclusive.
You sure you know the meaning of either one?
maybe, but if it is eliminated we'd practically have no need of the GPL :)
The best way to implement biometrics in those cases is as you say, as a second level defense. That is, to authenticate your fingerprint with the one encoded in the credit card. Of course, there will be ways to fool this (there is always a way, /.ers should know that by now), but itd make it even harder than it is now, which is the goal.
No need, serious biometric solutions aren't affected by scars, as they rely on minutiae, not image comparison. And scars are easily recognized during the minutiae extraction.
Normally access control systmes ask for two fingers (ie. both indexes) for authentication/identification, so problems about bandaged/amputated fingers are reduced.
It's kind of hard to fool fingerprint recognition systems. Yeah, we all heard about the guy with the jelly made print, but i have yet to see that work in any real case. For instance, you can't leave a false print on a crime scene with that (experts can tell easily if it comes from a live finger or a bit of plastic), and it won't be easy to put the jelly finger on the print scanner without anyone noticing. And even then that doesn't mean you lost your identity. Your print is yours, you just need to show your finger to prove it, and you're the only person who can do that.
I just read the book a couple of weeks ago. What a pile of crap.
If you like templars, hermetism and that kind of stuff, go read Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum".
Meanwhile, sagem is selling this set, which looks like it could make me drool in a very homerish way. Does anyone have one of these? Do they look better than a plasma screen?
As a matter of fact, if you listen carefully.. or even not so carefully, in that scene, the music has changed from the original. Not from the SE, but from the original (1983/LD/etc) movies.
In the original movies there was some kind of ewok song, whereas in the new versions we got a different background song with non-ewok sounding chorus and stuff.
Clearly, the only winning move is not to play :)
Both wrong. The data stored is usually some kind of array or matrix of the finger minutiae (relative position, direction, etc). No serious fingerprint identification system compares -images-. Te image of the fingerprint is analyzed, the minutiae are extracted, and that's used to perform the matching against the database. A single fingerprint can contain more than 50 minutiae, while 12 are enough to identify a person.
Getting advice on slashdot is a sure way to an easily hackable website.
:)
And you're implicitly advising to install windows/IIS? nice troll
vi /etc/fstab
He's right, linux would be attacked just as frequently as windows.
The interesting question would be if it'd also be 0wned just as much.
That's heaven, man.
In Buenos Aires we got 512k down / 128k up for about 100 argentine pesos (around 33 dollars.) p/mo.
And they even manage to call it 'broadband' with a straight face..
check this out: If you buy the 'fiber 512' service, it costs you around $100 (argentine pesos) per month. That's a standard cablemodem connection, coaxial to modem, ethernet from modem to nic.
If you buy the 'fiber 512 wifi' service, it costs around $130 per month... and all they do is give you a wifi cablemodem instead of an ethernet one!
And those are the prices IF you are a cable TV customer of the same company. Otherwise you'd have to pay about 50% extra.
bully?
It's their country, and their laws. If you want to do business in THEIR country, respect their values and their laws. Otherwise, just don't go there.
'Civilized world'? where the hell do you come from, the XVth century or something?