I feel your pain, brother: I was in an identical situation. Someone once asked me if I though it odd, being the only guy in a department with fifteen women. My response was "Naw, I don't have any problems. Mind you, I was a bit concerned when my period started to synchronize."
Think of your biometric signature as a private key. The when registering at the central database, what shoul be stored is a PIN/Password passed through the key. If the central database is compromised, all you need to do is re-register with a new PIN/Password. If the reader is compromised, the PIN is changed at the central database making it a bit more difficult.
Not a great solution, but better than just holding the original biometric signature.
You may laugh, but I remember seeing an ad in the late 80's for just such a system: it backed up all the data onto a scannable 2D barcode strip that would be printed across multiple pages (many, many pages.) After a restore, you could then scan the stuff back in.
Funny, I think that was the only time I heard of it. Anyone else out there remember this?
I just don't like the use of old ballistics like the Atlas (which have a nice record of exploding).
There has not been a single lost launch for any Atlas from the Atlas II series onward. The III and V series, with the robust RD-180 motor appear to be quite stable.
Ok, but my question is, why is this all for printing companies and services? Is this some weird secret code for printers? Is this the printing equivalent of "Will no one help the widow's son?" or something?
There have been other email worms out there before, and I have had some extra traffic because of them, but I have had over 500 SoBig infected emails in the past 24 hours. The message doesn't appear to be particularly "catchy" and it seems to follow the infection vector of other worms, so why the traffic? Does it cause infected computers to send out messages more often? Most importantly, when can I punch the person responsible for this?
Although Kamen had been working on this since before the Segway, I think this will have a greater impact. The Segway, let's face it, it an interesting toy that targets a pretty narrow niche. The iBot, on the other hand, will vastly improve the quality of life for a large number of people.
Having assisted a number of people in various types of wheelchairs, the significance of this to the chair-bound cannot be overstated.
"Grocery stores give dicounts for those willing to have there purchasing patterns tracked."
Sure, you could look at it that way, or you could see it as having to pay more to keep your privacy.
My idea is to get a bowl where like-minded people drop their "frequent buyer" cards in a bowl when not using them. When a person needs to go shopping, they just grab one at random, and then toss it in the next card bowl they see. If enough people did this, it could put some interesting fuzz in their data.
Needless to say, people who use these cards for actuall financial things (check verification, etc.) would probably not want to participate.
Just because you're a high priced scumbag RIAA lawyer, it doesn't mean you can just neglect the rules of language.. It should be
" referred to himself as a 'dentist with which I would not want to have another visit.' "
Do these people (canopy, SCO, whatever) actually produce anything, or is all their revenue generated through litigation? If this were a biological analogy, I would say that this is classic example of a parasite.
I agree with your suspicions, but SARS is a bad example to use. It's not *that* hyper-communicable, and it's not very deadly (I don't know the kill rate, as it's still in contention, but it seems to be as low as one out of twenty people, much less if you discount the elderly).
SARS appears to have a 5-10% mortality rate, with modern medicine. The Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918 had a 2% mortality rate, and it was devistating. Don't discount it.
The worst part is, even if this is a troll, this is the way t/k'ers and their ilk think. What I think is really telling is that they think other people have "worthless lives if they care so much about video games." Well, what does it say about the quality of their lives if they don't even have the wherewithall to enjoy the game itself.
That's why a well admin'd server is worth its weight in gold.
Reminds me of a story... I had just come back from a week of training, only to have the server hosting the application I'm responsible for have a complete meltdown. I had an all-nighter just getting the thing back up, and was at work until 7 the next evening restoring the data. All this, mind you, with my wife at home alone with our three month old child. I drive home, no one there. I figure they must be at the park, and walk toward it. I see my wife coming the other way, pushing the stroller, and hear her say loudly "Look Charles, It's Uncle Daddy!"
Because Ctrl-Alt-Del is spoofable by software; PC anywhere, DSView, plus, I'm sure, others can all send the three fingered salute to remote desktops. Plus, I think Microsoft is looking for a "seamless experience in userspace" (or whatver).
So, anyone else feel like taking a shower after reading that? I don't remember the source, but the line "Too bad they don't make a mouthwash for the mind" is appropriate.
That's pretty interesting. When I was a kid, I had synaesthesia, and now that I look back on it, it started to go away about the time I had a series of head injuries...
Of course, I am a data point of one, so I can't draw a causal relationship. I recall reading that sometimes synaethesia is more common in kids, and goes away as they get older as well.
Someone from Urge Overkill had been trashing Albini in a magazine. His response was "Well, in five years I'll still be making records, while they'll be giving blow jobs in bus station bathrooms for pocket change."
..naming James Watt as secretary of the interior. Oh wait, that's been done. how about... ..having Kissinger head a probe about Intelligence failures. Oh yeah. Ok, let's try ..having John Ashcroft head the Deparment of Justice.
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I feel your pain, brother: I was in an identical situation. Someone once asked me if I though it odd, being the only guy in a department with fifteen women.
My response was "Naw, I don't have any problems. Mind you, I was a bit concerned when my period started to synchronize."
Think of your biometric signature as a private key. The when registering at the central database, what shoul be stored is a PIN/Password passed through the key. If the central database is compromised, all you need to do is re-register with a new PIN/Password. If the reader is compromised, the PIN is changed at the central database making it a bit more difficult.
Not a great solution, but better than just holding the original biometric signature.
You may laugh, but I remember seeing an ad in the late 80's for just such a system: it backed up all the data onto a scannable 2D barcode strip that would be printed across multiple pages (many, many pages.) After a restore, you could then scan the stuff back in.
Funny, I think that was the only time I heard of it. Anyone else out there remember this?
I guess I'll have to bring up the dyslexic atheist who didn't believe in dog..
...I wasn't staring at my skeletonized home system, waiting for a RMA for my dead mobo.
Ok, but my question is, why is this all for printing companies and services? Is this some weird secret code for printers? Is this the printing equivalent of "Will no one help the widow's son?" or something?
There have been other email worms out there before, and I have had some extra traffic because of them, but I have had over 500 SoBig infected emails in the past 24 hours.
The message doesn't appear to be particularly "catchy" and it seems to follow the infection vector of other worms, so why the traffic? Does it cause infected computers to send out messages more often?
Most importantly, when can I punch the person responsible for this?
Although Kamen had been working on this since before the Segway, I think this will have a greater impact. The Segway, let's face it, it an interesting toy that targets a pretty narrow niche. The iBot, on the other hand, will vastly improve the quality of life for a large number of people.
Having assisted a number of people in various types of wheelchairs, the significance of this to the chair-bound cannot be overstated.
"Grocery stores give dicounts for those willing to have there purchasing patterns tracked."
Sure, you could look at it that way, or you could see it as having to pay more to keep your privacy.
My idea is to get a bowl where like-minded people drop their "frequent buyer" cards in a bowl when not using them. When a person needs to go shopping, they just grab one at random, and then toss it in the next card bowl they see. If enough people did this, it could put some interesting fuzz in their data.
Needless to say, people who use these cards for actuall financial things (check verification, etc.) would probably not want to participate.
Just because you're a high priced scumbag RIAA lawyer, it doesn't mean you can just neglect the rules of language.. It should be " referred to himself as a 'dentist with which I would not want to have another visit.' "
Do these people (canopy, SCO, whatever) actually produce anything, or is all their revenue generated through litigation? If this were a biological analogy, I would say that this is classic example of a parasite.
It's not complete until it can send email.
And founder of the Klan.
The worst part is, even if this is a troll, this is the way t/k'ers and their ilk think. What I think is really telling is that they think other people have "worthless lives if they care so much about video games." Well, what does it say about the quality of their lives if they don't even have the wherewithall to enjoy the game itself.
That's why a well admin'd server is worth its weight in gold.
T'was a fearfull man!!
No, my brain can't get rid of it, either.
We should form a support group.
Reminds me of a story...
I had just come back from a week of training, only to have the server hosting the application I'm responsible for have a complete meltdown. I had an all-nighter just getting the thing back up, and was at work until 7 the next evening restoring the data. All this, mind you, with my wife at home alone with our three month old child. I drive home, no one there. I figure they must be at the park, and walk toward it. I see my wife coming the other way, pushing the stroller, and hear her say loudly "Look Charles, It's Uncle Daddy!"
I still feel it when the nights get cold...
Because Ctrl-Alt-Del is spoofable by software; PC anywhere, DSView, plus, I'm sure, others can all send the three fingered salute to remote desktops. Plus, I think Microsoft is looking for a "seamless experience in userspace" (or whatver).
Actually, Art History is filled with that (without the 1337 speak, of course). Read Vasari's Lives of the Artists, for instance.
So, anyone else feel like taking a shower after reading that? I don't remember the source, but the line "Too bad they don't make a mouthwash for the mind" is appropriate.
That's pretty interesting. When I was a kid, I had synaesthesia, and now that I look back on it, it started to go away about the time I had a series of head injuries...
Of course, I am a data point of one, so I can't draw a causal relationship. I recall reading that sometimes synaethesia is more common in kids, and goes away as they get older as well.
Someone from Urge Overkill had been trashing Albini in a magazine. His response was "Well, in five years I'll still be making records, while they'll be giving blow jobs in bus station bathrooms for pocket change."
You have to be careful that the font doesn't have the "do not embed" bit set, otherwise that can still bite you on the ass.
..naming James Watt as secretary of the interior. Oh wait, that's been done. how about...
..having Kissinger head a probe about Intelligence failures. Oh yeah. Ok, let's try
..having John Ashcroft head the Deparment of Justice.
Ok, that's it. I give up.