I bought this 83 Porsche a while back. No power-steering, 5 speed manual, no cup holders and pretty damn fast. No way I could text while driving this thing. Needed left hand on the wheel all the time, right hand on the wheel or shifting gears. Couldn't even hold a cup of coffee. All I could to was drive, that occupied my attention. Nowadays cars do so much for us which leaves us with discretionary time. This time is then filled with other activities. If one is going to drive then one should focus on driving. If that cannot be done then turn the driving over to something or someone else.
Why do people post pictures of their keys on Flickr anyway? Or pictures of their credit cards and drivers licenses on Flickr. Why would someone want to do that.
Just curious.
"Two Englishmen got drunk in Texas, got lost and walked up the path to a front door to ask the way - at 2am. The owner shot them dead without asking questions"
According to the NY Times article the drunk person was Scottish and "pounded on the front door in a furious manner around 4AM". When he didn't get an answer the drunk climbed the fence and entered the home owners back yard and then started "hitting the back door". I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't have been up for asking him any questions either. I don't know that I would have shot the guy right away but I certainly would have been ready to kill him if necessary.
Of course the Times could have gotten the story wrong. I know every time I read a newspaper article that I have personal knowledge of it always has numerous errors.
Using biometric data is a dangerous road IMHO. If biometric authentication is performed under very tightly controlled conditions then it may be difficult to spoof but the more widespread it becomes the less controlled the conditions will be (the more people involved the higher the chance of stupid people overseeing the process). You can tighten up a server. even Windows (-; so that it is very difficult to penetrate, but when you have billions of I.T. admins running servers you're going to have some loosening of security. See, Dr. Evil was right when he said "Why make billions when we can make... millions". His stupid son just didn't see the big picture which is why he'll always just be Dr. Evils son.
It may become an arms race between the bio-crackers and the security vendors, just like software viruses. I'm pretty sure people will get retinal transplants if they think it will make them a million dollars USD. You'll have people sitting around in a cubicle talking about how stupid an idea it was for a guy to have a retinal transplant but one will pipe up and say "The guy made a million dollars". Then the guy will "jump to the conclusion" that he should do it, have it botched, go blind, and sue the surgeon for millions. Then he'll have a BBQ in which he'll tell his former co-workers if they just hang in there long enough "good things can happen to them too". But I digress.
The scariest thing I can think of when it comes to biometric security is that it will just lead to an escalation of violent crime. Before cars had security systems the guy would just steal your car when you weren't there. Now he'll pull you out of the car, pistol whip you, shoot your hysterical wife and drive off with your children in the back seat. Maybe it's a flawed correlation but it seems like car jacking took off at the same time as car security systems. Now, instead of stealing your password, he'll cut out your eyes. True story here Malaysia car thieves steal finger
This database the FBI is building is so large and so open to corruption through GIGO, that it may make for a very scary country indeed.
Maybe the FBI could just hire attractive 21 year old blonde unemployed models and assign one per household to watch over us. Criminals may never want to leave their house.
After having done some extensive work with Lucene I'd have to say that Wikipedia is not implementing it well if their search does indeed suck (I don't know, I use Google to search Wikipedia). Lucene is a library for building search engines, not a search engine itself. It's possible to implement things like roots of words, synonyms, misspelled words using the Levenshtein distance algorithm , etc.. It's a good tool set and you can use the tools to build crap if you're under deadline/lazy/unimaginative or you can use the tools to build just about any kind of text search feature you can think of.
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I bought this 83 Porsche a while back. No power-steering, 5 speed manual, no cup holders and pretty damn fast. No way I could text while driving this thing. Needed left hand on the wheel all the time, right hand on the wheel or shifting gears. Couldn't even hold a cup of coffee. All I could to was drive, that occupied my attention. Nowadays cars do so much for us which leaves us with discretionary time. This time is then filled with other activities. If one is going to drive then one should focus on driving. If that cannot be done then turn the driving over to something or someone else.
Why do people post pictures of their keys on Flickr anyway? Or pictures of their credit cards and drivers licenses on Flickr. Why would someone want to do that. Just curious.
"Two Englishmen got drunk in Texas, got lost and walked up the path to a front door to ask the way - at 2am. The owner shot them dead without asking questions" According to the NY Times article the drunk person was Scottish and "pounded on the front door in a furious manner around 4AM". When he didn't get an answer the drunk climbed the fence and entered the home owners back yard and then started "hitting the back door". I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't have been up for asking him any questions either. I don't know that I would have shot the guy right away but I certainly would have been ready to kill him if necessary. Of course the Times could have gotten the story wrong. I know every time I read a newspaper article that I have personal knowledge of it always has numerous errors.
Using biometric data is a dangerous road IMHO. If biometric authentication is performed under very tightly controlled conditions then it may be difficult to spoof but the more widespread it becomes the less controlled the conditions will be (the more people involved the higher the chance of stupid people overseeing the process). You can tighten up a server. even Windows (-; so that it is very difficult to penetrate, but when you have billions of I.T. admins running servers you're going to have some loosening of security. See, Dr. Evil was right when he said "Why make billions when we can make ... millions". His stupid son just didn't see the big picture which is why he'll always just be Dr. Evils son.
It may become an arms race between the bio-crackers and the security vendors, just like software viruses. I'm pretty sure people will get retinal transplants if they think it will make them a million dollars USD. You'll have people sitting around in a cubicle talking about how stupid an idea it was for a guy to have a retinal transplant but one will pipe up and say "The guy made a million dollars". Then the guy will "jump to the conclusion" that he should do it, have it botched, go blind, and sue the surgeon for millions. Then he'll have a BBQ in which he'll tell his former co-workers if they just hang in there long enough "good things can happen to them too". But I digress.
The scariest thing I can think of when it comes to biometric security is that it will just lead to an escalation of violent crime. Before cars had security systems the guy would just steal your car when you weren't there. Now he'll pull you out of the car, pistol whip you, shoot your hysterical wife and drive off with your children in the back seat. Maybe it's a flawed correlation but it seems like car jacking took off at the same time as car security systems. Now, instead of stealing your password, he'll cut out your eyes. True story here Malaysia car thieves steal finger
This database the FBI is building is so large and so open to corruption through GIGO, that it may make for a very scary country indeed.
Maybe the FBI could just hire attractive 21 year old blonde unemployed models and assign one per household to watch over us. Criminals may never want to leave their house.
After having done some extensive work with Lucene I'd have to say that Wikipedia is not implementing it well if their search does indeed suck (I don't know, I use Google to search Wikipedia). Lucene is a library for building search engines, not a search engine itself. It's possible to implement things like roots of words, synonyms, misspelled words using the Levenshtein distance algorithm , etc.. It's a good tool set and you can use the tools to build crap if you're under deadline/lazy/unimaginative or you can use the tools to build just about any kind of text search feature you can think of.