Can anyone point to a scientific study which shows that an individuals fingerprints are unique to that individual? It is commonly accepted that each individual's fingerprints are unique to that individual. However, when I looked into it, I discovered that this was a claim made by some in the late 1800s, which gradually came to be accepted as true. As far as I can tell no one ever did any detailed research to actually determine if it was true.
To make matters worse, when some studies have been done of how reliably experts can identify someone from fingerprints they have discovered that the vast majority of fingerprint experts (in a relatively small sample size) will fail to identify a set of fingerprint samples as belonging to the same person two times in a row.
For that matter has anyone done a study of other proposed biometric identification to show that it is unique in ways that do not vary over an individual's lifetime?
Understand, it is not that I believe that fingerprints are not unique (or other means of biometric identification), it is just that I think it would be wise to actually study the question rather than just assume it to be so, as all of the information I have been able to find seems to indicate is the current case.
Of course if all they have is your key ring, they have to figure out where the things the keys go to are. If they steal your Iphone, much of that information is in there.
From what I've seen here(in france) that people are more taken care of(in case of sickness, bad events, ect ect).
You mean like that time a couple of years ago where a huge number of the elderly died because there was no air conditioning in the nursing homes and just about everyone was on vacation when the heat wave hit. In the U.S., nursing homes are required by law to have air conditioning.
This will decrease or eliminate the follow on sales, not everyone buys a game immediately when it comes out. Those people who haven't gotten around to buying it yet, are much less likely to buy it now. Additionally, those who did buy the game right away are much less likely to ever buy another game from Ubisoft.
Yes, the prosecution must provide the defense with all of the evidence "pertaining to the case" in their possession. As described by the OP, the prosecution decided the black box evidence did not pertain to the case and discarded it. I know that similar things have happened in other cases with other evidence, sometimes this has been a legitimate mistake on the prosecutions part (the evidence was not exculpatory on its own, it only helped the defense in combination with facts unknown to the prosecution at the time) and sometimes it is an attempt by the prosecution to bury evidence that hurts its case. In both types of cases appeals courts have overturned convictions, but there are probably some that the defense never learns about.
Yes, but if it is trivial to retrieve the information, the courts are significantly more likely to admit it then if they have to get a court order to obtain it.
I find it funny that people on slashdot are talking about how bad it is that Toyota makes it hard to get this information when a year or so ago there was a discussion here on slashdot about how much of a privacy violation black boxes on cars.
They give an example of a woman who posted a video of animal cruelty in China and how people on the Internet tracked her down and posted her information. In the U.S. a boy posted a video anonymously of him torturing a dog. People on the Internet spread the word and within 24 hours the poster had been identified and was being charged by the local DA. His name and information was also posted on the Internet. So, this isn't unique to China.
That is a very good point. I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who think it is better business to keep information that offers no competitive advantage to others secret, even from their subordinates.
No, I believe he is talking about the economic "stimulus" package that didn't stimulate the economy. The bailout package that Bush got Congress to pass was "only" in the billions. While the "stimulus" package wasn't a trillion dollars, 800 billion is damn close. Although, the bank bailout was bad enough, but for someone who compaigned on opposing the overspending of the Bush Administration to immediately outspend them in a single year, that takes some chutzpah.
I worked for a Japanese man who regularly read a Korean paper although he had no knowledge of the Korean language (except insofar as it overlapped with Japanese). The paper was written using Chinese characters.
I can think of at least one reason why this would be policy, HIPAA. It is not very hard to get a Windows Domain to not allow IE on any computer in the Domain to go to sites that would allow people to violate HIPAA. It may be possible to do with Firefox, but not as easily (I've never needed to restrict Firefox on a Domain wide basis, so I don't know how hard it would be, but the techniques that lock down IE don't lock down Firefox).
So who are you saying is the Taliban in this fight? I can't really see the Open Source movement as the Amish.
You do realize that Taliban vs. Amish would be a very one sided fight since the Amish are as fanatically non-resistant as the Taliban are violent?
In my home town, about 10+ years ago, they tried the same tactic to get rid of the teenagers that were eternally hanging out in the town square. Trouble was, the teenagers in question were mostly goth/vampire types and they actually liked the classical music. It still makes me laugh...
The problem is they didn't understand how something like this works. It doesn't "drive people away", it just makes them less likely to commit crimes. Those who were there intent on committing crimes, move elsewhere. Those who were there just hanging out are unaffected, except that they are less likely to commit a crime on a whim. I suspect that the reason it "failed" in your town is because they were trying to fix a "problem" that wasn't. Teenagers hanging out aren't in and of themselves a problem. However, teenagers hanging out often times start committing crimes (vandalism, petty theft, minor assault) out of boredom, or at the instigation of a few problem individuals. Studies have shown that keeping an area clean, well-lit and in good repair decreases the likelihood of people committing such crimes and encourages those intent on petty crime to go elsewhere.
Absolutely, there is a reason the stuff we call classical music is still around after hundreds of years. I don't remeber who said it but someone said that 90% of all art in any given period is crap. This is correct. Over time, the crap stops being reproduced/preserved and all that is left is the good stuff. That is why I like most of the old songs I hear and dislike most of the new ones. It isn't that the old stuff was better, it's that no one plays the really bad old stuff anymore (and, generally, the older it is, the better it has to be to get played).
There were several marketing studies in the US that showed that stores that played classical music had higher sales than others. First, they determined that playing music at low volume increased sales over silence (people were more willing to casually browse until they found something to buy). Second, they determined that playing classical music had the greatest impact on sales. The theory was (possibly confirmed by further studies, but I don't know) that few people find classical music offensive (even if they don't care for it).
I suspect that playing classical music reduces crime for similar reasons that keeping an area clean (clean up the litter, tow away abandoned cars, etc) and in good repair does, it makes the atmosphere of the area/location into one where a person who has nefarious goals feel out of place (actually, there is no solid explanation for why it works, but it has been shown repeatedly that keeping an area clean and in good repair reduces crime).
The refugee state was created when Israelis forced Palesinians off their OWn ladn into concentration camps.
The Palestinians in the refugee camps left their lands voluntarily when the U.N. partition went into affect (well, their grandparents did) at the urging of many Arab leaders.
It is important to remember, if you make war on an enemy who is better armed than yourself, many more on your side will die than on you enemy's side.
The only way the conflict between Israel and the Arabs will end is if one of two things happens. Either the Israelis inflict so much pain and suffering on the Palestinians and other Arabs that they would rather go elsewhere than continue fighting, or the Arabs kill the overwhelming majority of the Jews in Israel (the stated goal of most Palestinian organizations). So, while the Israelis have done terrible things to the Palestinians, the Palestinians have called many of these things down on themselves.
I have problems with HOAs, but this isn't an HOA (which theoretically you voluntarily chose to join, you have to sign the HOA agreements as part of settlement), it is the local government.
The problem was that a person he did not previously know was his superior (I may be mistaken on this point, but the rest holds) arrived with one or more others and demanded he turn over the network passwords. The problem was that even if the person who was demanding to be told the passwords was authorized to know them the other people were explicitly listed (by category, not name) in city security policies as people who should never have access to the passwords.
As I have heard the story, he did not handle this situation correctly by carefully explaining why he could not divulge the passwords in tha situation and how to manage things so that he could divulge them. However, that requires a certain level of people skills that are irrelevant to the job duties he was originally hired to perform. Even with those people skills it also requires a certain degree of level headedness that would probably be hard to maintain in a situation such as he found himself.
Did he handle the situation badly? Yes. But it was a situation in which he should not have been placed. It was his superior's job to make sure he was not placed in such a situation, and the people skills necessary to make that work right are important for someone in his superior's position (his superior should not have been given the job if he/she lacked them).
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Can anyone point to a scientific study which shows that an individuals fingerprints are unique to that individual? It is commonly accepted that each individual's fingerprints are unique to that individual. However, when I looked into it, I discovered that this was a claim made by some in the late 1800s, which gradually came to be accepted as true. As far as I can tell no one ever did any detailed research to actually determine if it was true.
To make matters worse, when some studies have been done of how reliably experts can identify someone from fingerprints they have discovered that the vast majority of fingerprint experts (in a relatively small sample size) will fail to identify a set of fingerprint samples as belonging to the same person two times in a row.
For that matter has anyone done a study of other proposed biometric identification to show that it is unique in ways that do not vary over an individual's lifetime?
Understand, it is not that I believe that fingerprints are not unique (or other means of biometric identification), it is just that I think it would be wise to actually study the question rather than just assume it to be so, as all of the information I have been able to find seems to indicate is the current case.
Of course if all they have is your key ring, they have to figure out where the things the keys go to are. If they steal your Iphone, much of that information is in there.
Of coarse I already keep all my keys on a single keychain, just like most people. This probably wouldn't be any less secure.
Except of course, I only have to duplicate one key to get access to all of your stuff, instead of having to duplicate each of your keys.
a european country isn't really the same as a US state
That may be true, but a European country is more like a U.S. state than it is like the U.S. as a whole.
From what I've seen here(in france) that people are more taken care of(in case of sickness, bad events, ect ect).
You mean like that time a couple of years ago where a huge number of the elderly died because there was no air conditioning in the nursing homes and just about everyone was on vacation when the heat wave hit. In the U.S., nursing homes are required by law to have air conditioning.
This will decrease or eliminate the follow on sales, not everyone buys a game immediately when it comes out. Those people who haven't gotten around to buying it yet, are much less likely to buy it now. Additionally, those who did buy the game right away are much less likely to ever buy another game from Ubisoft.
Based on the studies I have seen of prognosis after being diagnosed with cancer, in Sweden it would have been a lot less than 7 years.
That looks like a good guess. Someone in Newegg's supply chain was buying these chips on the gray market and got burned.
My question is what is the price point for this machine?
Yes, the prosecution must provide the defense with all of the evidence "pertaining to the case" in their possession. As described by the OP, the prosecution decided the black box evidence did not pertain to the case and discarded it. I know that similar things have happened in other cases with other evidence, sometimes this has been a legitimate mistake on the prosecutions part (the evidence was not exculpatory on its own, it only helped the defense in combination with facts unknown to the prosecution at the time) and sometimes it is an attempt by the prosecution to bury evidence that hurts its case. In both types of cases appeals courts have overturned convictions, but there are probably some that the defense never learns about.
Yes, but if it is trivial to retrieve the information, the courts are significantly more likely to admit it then if they have to get a court order to obtain it.
I find it funny that people on slashdot are talking about how bad it is that Toyota makes it hard to get this information when a year or so ago there was a discussion here on slashdot about how much of a privacy violation black boxes on cars.
They give an example of a woman who posted a video of animal cruelty in China and how people on the Internet tracked her down and posted her information. In the U.S. a boy posted a video anonymously of him torturing a dog. People on the Internet spread the word and within 24 hours the poster had been identified and was being charged by the local DA. His name and information was also posted on the Internet. So, this isn't unique to China.
So the difference between Iraq (Bush) and TARP (also Bush) has what to do with Obama spending more in the first year than Bush did in 8?
That is a very good point. I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who think it is better business to keep information that offers no competitive advantage to others secret, even from their subordinates.
Read the book "Who Really Cares".
No, I believe he is talking about the economic "stimulus" package that didn't stimulate the economy. The bailout package that Bush got Congress to pass was "only" in the billions. While the "stimulus" package wasn't a trillion dollars, 800 billion is damn close. Although, the bank bailout was bad enough, but for someone who compaigned on opposing the overspending of the Bush Administration to immediately outspend them in a single year, that takes some chutzpah.
I worked for a Japanese man who regularly read a Korean paper although he had no knowledge of the Korean language (except insofar as it overlapped with Japanese). The paper was written using Chinese characters.
I can think of at least one reason why this would be policy, HIPAA. It is not very hard to get a Windows Domain to not allow IE on any computer in the Domain to go to sites that would allow people to violate HIPAA. It may be possible to do with Firefox, but not as easily (I've never needed to restrict Firefox on a Domain wide basis, so I don't know how hard it would be, but the techniques that lock down IE don't lock down Firefox).
So who are you saying is the Taliban in this fight? I can't really see the Open Source movement as the Amish.
You do realize that Taliban vs. Amish would be a very one sided fight since the Amish are as fanatically non-resistant as the Taliban are violent?
In my home town, about 10+ years ago, they tried the same tactic to get rid of the teenagers that were eternally hanging out in the town square. Trouble was, the teenagers in question were mostly goth/vampire types and they actually liked the classical music. It still makes me laugh...
The problem is they didn't understand how something like this works. It doesn't "drive people away", it just makes them less likely to commit crimes. Those who were there intent on committing crimes, move elsewhere. Those who were there just hanging out are unaffected, except that they are less likely to commit a crime on a whim. I suspect that the reason it "failed" in your town is because they were trying to fix a "problem" that wasn't. Teenagers hanging out aren't in and of themselves a problem. However, teenagers hanging out often times start committing crimes (vandalism, petty theft, minor assault) out of boredom, or at the instigation of a few problem individuals. Studies have shown that keeping an area clean, well-lit and in good repair decreases the likelihood of people committing such crimes and encourages those intent on petty crime to go elsewhere.
Absolutely, there is a reason the stuff we call classical music is still around after hundreds of years. I don't remeber who said it but someone said that 90% of all art in any given period is crap. This is correct. Over time, the crap stops being reproduced/preserved and all that is left is the good stuff. That is why I like most of the old songs I hear and dislike most of the new ones. It isn't that the old stuff was better, it's that no one plays the really bad old stuff anymore (and, generally, the older it is, the better it has to be to get played).
There were several marketing studies in the US that showed that stores that played classical music had higher sales than others. First, they determined that playing music at low volume increased sales over silence (people were more willing to casually browse until they found something to buy). Second, they determined that playing classical music had the greatest impact on sales. The theory was (possibly confirmed by further studies, but I don't know) that few people find classical music offensive (even if they don't care for it).
I suspect that playing classical music reduces crime for similar reasons that keeping an area clean (clean up the litter, tow away abandoned cars, etc) and in good repair does, it makes the atmosphere of the area/location into one where a person who has nefarious goals feel out of place (actually, there is no solid explanation for why it works, but it has been shown repeatedly that keeping an area clean and in good repair reduces crime).
The refugee state was created when Israelis forced Palesinians off their OWn ladn into concentration camps.
The Palestinians in the refugee camps left their lands voluntarily when the U.N. partition went into affect (well, their grandparents did) at the urging of many Arab leaders.
It is important to remember, if you make war on an enemy who is better armed than yourself, many more on your side will die than on you enemy's side.
The only way the conflict between Israel and the Arabs will end is if one of two things happens. Either the Israelis inflict so much pain and suffering on the Palestinians and other Arabs that they would rather go elsewhere than continue fighting, or the Arabs kill the overwhelming majority of the Jews in Israel (the stated goal of most Palestinian organizations). So, while the Israelis have done terrible things to the Palestinians, the Palestinians have called many of these things down on themselves.
I have problems with HOAs, but this isn't an HOA (which theoretically you voluntarily chose to join, you have to sign the HOA agreements as part of settlement), it is the local government.
The problem was that a person he did not previously know was his superior (I may be mistaken on this point, but the rest holds) arrived with one or more others and demanded he turn over the network passwords. The problem was that even if the person who was demanding to be told the passwords was authorized to know them the other people were explicitly listed (by category, not name) in city security policies as people who should never have access to the passwords.
As I have heard the story, he did not handle this situation correctly by carefully explaining why he could not divulge the passwords in tha situation and how to manage things so that he could divulge them. However, that requires a certain level of people skills that are irrelevant to the job duties he was originally hired to perform. Even with those people skills it also requires a certain degree of level headedness that would probably be hard to maintain in a situation such as he found himself.
Did he handle the situation badly? Yes. But it was a situation in which he should not have been placed. It was his superior's job to make sure he was not placed in such a situation, and the people skills necessary to make that work right are important for someone in his superior's position (his superior should not have been given the job if he/she lacked them).