No. The system fails if you don't have means to prove that the mortgage was a result of an identity theft (I remember I've read about several such horror stories in the news). So let me get this straight. You propose a system to prevent fraud that in the end you admit doesn't prevent fraud. So what's the point of the system again?
Yes, I live in Russia and I'm the owner of a small company. Each company in Russia must have the company seal (with imprints registered in a state registry), this is a strong anti-fraud measure. I personally know about several causes of appealed fraudulent deals. So if you can point to several cases of fradulent deals being carried out using forged seals, it sort of shows that this system of seals is already broken.
You can certainly scam hundreds thousands of dollars using fake seals, I don't doubt it. However, the victim of identity theft at least won't have to absorb the damage. You wouldn't have to know once the identity theft is uncovered.
Yes, I've read it. I fail to see how it contradicts me. You don't see how it saying that it's increasingly easy to using forged seals contradicts your statement:
Besides, detecting a fake seal is fairly easy If it was as easy as you claim, it wouldn't be getting easier and easier to commit fraud using forged seals as the article talks about.
It has also become easier to create counterfeit money, you just print them on a laser printer! Does it spell the end of paper money? I don't think so. No, but it would fly in the face of someone proclaiming how easy it is to spot counterfeits when billions and billions in fake currency floats around at any one time.
Then please explain to my poor fucktarded brain why they should have a legal right to hack into my computer without permission? Who said they did? You were talking about how you would have sued Microsoft had someone forced your computer to do a Windows Update and something had broken a driver on your system. The fact of the matter is that Windows Update would have no clue one way or another whether you, a virus, or some remote entity had allowed the update to be installed and as such you'd have no basis to sue Microsoft. Hence why I said your case would have been dismissed.
For example, when you appeal a $100000 mortgage. So if someone is able to get a $100,000 mortage using a forged version of your seal doesn't that sort of tell you that your system of seals has already failed?
I previously misread the post that's why I made this follow up.
For example, when you appeal a $100000 mortgage. Do you have any actual evidence that they do this? I've read stories of people scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars when using fake hankos.
My brother works at a criminal lab:) So that's a no that you didn't even read the article you linked? You sqawked on and on about how the fraud was easy to spot but the article you linked was saying that it was getting easier and easier to commit hanko fraud with modern technology. Did you perhaps fail at reading comprehension?
No. I don't really care about $100-$200 frauds (which form the bulk of frauds). Merchants will just absorb the cost like they do with credit card frauds.
So basically you admit that your system will have little impact when it comes to the vast majority of fraud. So then what was the point of the seal system again?
However, if someones takes a mortgage using a fake seal I want a reliable way to appeal it. Seals provide such a way, signatures do not. You can do this right now without needing to use a seal.
If I hadn't given permission for that update I'd have seen a lawyer about the matter. Yeah, and you would have been subsequently laughed out of court as your case was dismissed. You'd also would have most likely been held accountable to pay Microsoft's attorney's fees.
It's impossible to make a perfect copy of a seal, which can't be distinguished using a microscope. The pattern of micro-features of a seal is unique (assuming that it's a wood or plastic seal, it's not true for metallic seals). And how many times do you expect someone's seal imprint is actually looked at under a microscope? Never?
Besides, detecting a fake seal is fairly easy, it's almost exactly like matching a bullet to a gun using micro-grooves on bullets. Did you even bother to read the wiki article that you linked?
The increasing ease with which modern technology allows hanko fraud is beginning to cause some concern that the present system will not be able to survive. Apparently it's not that easy to detect in day to day transactions if the amount of fraud with respect to seals is becoming easier and easier to carry out.
You can talk all you want how it's detectable under a microscope, but do you honestly think that anyone does that on a regular basis? You can also tell the difference between counterfeit and real money under a microscope, but that doesn't stop people from passing counterfeits into the money supply all the time. Your solution is about as crappy as having people write their name on an index card and using that as a basis of ID verification.
Title Generic frame-level multithreading support
Student Alexander James Lloyd Strange
Mentor kristian Jerpetjoen
Abstract
FFmpeg, while equalling or surpassing the speed of nearly all other codec implementations on a single CPU core, currently only has limited and specific support for multithreading. I will implement a frame-level multithreading system, which can efficiently speed up all uses of libavcodec. This will be based on the successful implementation in the x264 encoder[1], extended to support decoding and whatever synchronization will be required.
[1] http://akuvian.org/src/x264/sliceless_threads.txt, http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=442&pgno=0
However, there are low-tech measures, like personal seals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkan) which are almost impossible to forge. How would they be in the least bit impossible to forge? You just get a copy of something that the person has sealed. Use that as a basis to build a seal yourself and bam you're forging their identity. Your notion of it being impossible to forge might have been correct hundreds of years ago, but I very much doubt it would hold up against any modern forger.
BTW from the wiki article:
The increasing ease with which modern technology allows hanko fraud is beginning to cause some concern that the present system will not be able to survive.
You don't have a 4th Amendment right to enter the country. You keep repeating this statement that makes no sense. You might as well say: "You don't have a 1st Amendment right to enter the country". It makes as little sense as the statement you keep parroting over and over.
but anybody who feels that this is bad policy can write their Senator or vote the current administration out of office in November. How would this have any effect? The CBP has been doing this since it was formed back in 1798. Voting Bush out of office isn't going to do shit.
Outside the US border, the US has no duty to protect your 4th Amendment rights either. I'm failing to see the relevance of your statement. These searches are done by the CBP within the US border. Who said anything about the US having a duty to protect 4th Amendment rights outside of the US?
But then, I'm the guy who thinks people should go back to having face to face conversations with IRL friends instead of myspace, facebook, phones, and SMS. Yep, especially when those IRL friends can live hundreds or thousands of miles away. Clearly the most economical way is to travel those long distances rather than calling or IMing them.
You're just paying a different Middleman, New Egg and Fry's. At best you're not paying for Dell's assembly labor, which on Desktop class systems I find is usually $0 versus components from New Egg, and I like the Dell's integration better (tooless chassis, better laid out small from factors, etc). But certainly there's a place for build it yourself when it comes to customization, though there's also a place for annoying folks who think its a sign of their 733T skillz that they can build something more complicated than a basic Lego set No 1337 attitude here. It's just that I run a business of building computers so I just build my own since there's no reason I'd need to buy something prebuilt.
Me, I gave up the build your own path when I realized it cost me money to build it myself (that was 4 years ago). I got my dad a 2.8Ghz Dual core w/ 1 GB RAM & a 19" LCD for $400 2 months ago, covered by a 1 year warranty. Even if I could save $100 buying the cheapest components I could (which I doubt), its not worth my headaches and time to deal with. Whatever works for you. I don't begrudge anyone who wants to buy a prebuilt system, it's just not worth the premium cost for me.
Admittedly, Apple's pricing model starts aggressive then fades as component prices drop and their prices hold steady, but you're clearly talking out your ass. Apple sells an 8-core Dual Xeon system for $2,800, two 2.8 Ghz Xeon's are currently priced at $720 each at New Egg, so you hit 50% before you bought a Motherboard Good for those. I was looking at a 2.83 ghz quad core XEON which were only about 450 where I looked at.
much less RAM, Huh? I got 2 1 gig sticks included. So you failed there. It was around 120.
case, That was included in the price. For about 90 bucks.
optical drives, They have a single 16x DVD drive. You can get those for less than 20 bucks. That was included as well.
power supplies, That was 100 bucks.
and video cards. I actually put in a higher end video card than they have for barely 100 bucks.
Can you build a PC for less than a Mac Pro? Sure. For far less. I saved myself 1500 dollars and I got in many cases higher end parts.
But the savings aren't that huge anymore. Okay having relooked over the math it was 1500 dollars total for everything. So yes I misspoke and I was initially about 200 dollars under the actual cost. A 1300 dollars saving is still a hefty amount.
That's not a reasonable comparison. With the Apple (or a comparable Dell, or whatever) you're getting service, support, a system-wide warranty, etc. Dell's 3 year service and support, which includes parts and labor in it, is only 170 dollars. Even allowing that Apple's might cost twice that plus even throwing in the price of OS X you're still going to have to explain close to a 800 dollar added margin.
I'm not saying home-built systems are better or worse than prebuilt systems but it's silly to compare them. No it's a perfectly valid comparison as it shows whether or not the premium they are charging is really giving you any value. In this case, it's not for me. I don't need support and I don't want Apple's OS, so the comparison is rightfully showing that I'd get no added value for spending $1500 more.
For the record my personal systems are a mix of Macs and home-built boxes. Right tool for the right job. My Mac laptop cost more than my quad-core server with two RAID arrays, but I don't compare them because it doesn't make sense. Why? You've made no real case for why the comparison is invalid. Even with the warranty and OS costs factored in I'm still paying almost a 40% markup on the Mac Pro versus a system I can build myself. More power to you if you love paying such a huge markup, but I'll save myself the money and use it to buy other stuff for the system.
You're doing a pretty good job of steering me clear of ever buying anything from Mac. If you were trying to sway me into thinking the $1500 premium is worth something, this is doing a pretty poor job.
OS X Don't want. So that's no added value to me. I run Debian on all my boxes.
a nicely made case, Not really. The case I chose was in many was much better looking and more offered more space for upgrades than the one they are selling at least from looking at the pictures they offer.
a well tested set of components (supposedly), Except in the case of the component being explicitly stated I got the exact same thing. So that's no advantage for Apple. In fact that's just highlighting just how much they are trying to rip me off.
direct support for hardware AND software issues from Apple, since they made everything and can't weasel out of support by claiming "it was the other guys stuff that broke!" This is the only thing remotely approaching worth spending more money for, but not 1500 dollars more.
Sorry, but you're going to have to convince me much better than that that I should spend a $1500 premium for a Mac Pro versus something I can build myself. In fact I can put that $1500 savings into actually buying a second comparably spec'd machine or I can build a machine that would be even more superior to the comparably priced Mac Pro.
Actually, if you price a Mac Pro vs. a similarly spec'd workstation from Dell, the Apple frequently comes in a few dollars cheaper. That's not really saying much to me as I don't buy anything from Dell. I build my own PCs and cut out the middleman markups.
Apple really does not have a high margin on base Mac Pros, ie without the ridiculous memory upgrade costs. Considering I've spec'd out comparable systems with parts from Newegg and Frys that cost anywhere from 50% to 66% the Mac Pro, I'd say they have a pretty hefty margin.
Yea but on a mac pro, the drives are out of the way and the rack is standard. Yeah it's standard but you're paying a hefty premium I'm not. I can buy 5 of those racks for my case and I'm still saving quite a ton of money over your Mac Pro which can be put into use to buy other things.
You install some drive racks in a 5.25 bay on a PC tower, and you just lost a bunch of internal space because there is still a drive tower inside, empty. Maybe if you buy a really cheap and cramped PC tower. On mine I don't lose much of any space. Besides if I did need more space the internal drive tower is detachable in my case by simply unscrewing the thumb screws. So in the end you've gained nothing over what I can do in my case and you've paid probably twice the cost that I did.
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I previously misread the post that's why I made this follow up.
You can talk all you want how it's detectable under a microscope, but do you honestly think that anyone does that on a regular basis? You can also tell the difference between counterfeit and real money under a microscope, but that doesn't stop people from passing counterfeits into the money supply all the time. Your solution is about as crappy as having people write their name on an index card and using that as a basis of ID verification.
Title Generic frame-level multithreading support
Student Alexander James Lloyd Strange
Mentor kristian Jerpetjoen
Abstract
FFmpeg, while equalling or surpassing the speed of nearly all other codec implementations on a single CPU core, currently only has limited and specific support for multithreading. I will implement a frame-level multithreading system, which can efficiently speed up all uses of libavcodec. This will be based on the successful implementation in the x264 encoder[1], extended to support decoding and whatever synchronization will be required. [1] http://akuvian.org/src/x264/sliceless_threads.txt, http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=442&pgno=0
"Want WiFi around? Just flush it down." LOL
Oops that should be 1789.
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You're doing a pretty good job of steering me clear of ever buying anything from Mac. If you were trying to sway me into thinking the $1500 premium is worth something, this is doing a pretty poor job.
Well I just spec'd out a system that matches (and in many cases surpasses) this $2800 Mac Pro, http://store.apple.com/AppleStore/WebObjects/BizCustom.woa/9794008/wo/YvG4Po3p3yxA2wHk7uDuP4Rzytr/1.?p=0 , and it cost me all of 1300 dollars. So the question becomes, what's that 1500 premium buying me exactly? Looks like a big fat nothing to me.
Yeah, the Chinese sure have a record of hand wringing over the fact that they might not have assurances to use patented software. LOL