I have heard in the past that sites that use banner adds for income are a problem. The argument is that the content is being sold under the "guise" of banner advertising in essence.
Who do you think _paid_ Precision Insight to develop DRI???
Besides, I'm don't care for NVidia's practices either. They say you can't get the source code because of patents. You know who's patents their talking about? SGI!
Did you know that the volume of English literature didn't surpass Ancient Greek literature until
1971.
Obviously, a "New ecomimist" is a tacit term for "pompous asshole" The internet, as wonderful as it is, contains very little of our heritage, our writting, and our virtue.
If DeTocqueville were to travel abroad through the internet, we'd be a bunch of viagra eatin, sex starved, chattering dot-com spam-schmucks that argue over stupid bits of "information" and freedoms on a medium that is half matketing platform, half toyland. He'd think that we were nuts.
But even these days, the sanctity of libraries is questionable at best.
Being the grandson of the lady who administered numerous libraries in the past, I can tell you that our libraries are ALREADY censored.
In Texas, for instance, the Federal Government siezed all land-rights documents dating from the early 1800's. Why? Because the hispanics were going and finding their Gransparent's land grants that the State didn't enforced. They were sueing the US Government and winning.
It is also known that some unknown branches of the Government monitor the Materials checked out of libraries. I know several people who have been questioned about their choices in physics books. Some slashdotters know what I am talking about as well.
Absolutly one of the best machines I've ever had. I've had it for two years.. at the time I got it, the equivelant Intel costs twice as much.
With the advent of Gnome and good support from XFree, the alpha has been a very cool machine for me.
I'm planning on getting an XP1100 here in the next few months. (AGP baby! Uses the AMD Irongate chipset!)
Anyhow, I highly recommend one if you want to do 64 bit hacking NOW.
And anyone out there waiting for 64bit intel can thank the Alpha people for working out most of the 64 bit issues in the software they (might one day) use. Or you could get yourself an alpha.
Just stay away from nVidia. Their cards do NOT work on alpha systems.
I work with a horde of ex security people from.gov. While most of them are competant, they tend to be very focused on their area of expertise.
Which is all fine and dandy.. except when they decide to migrate their expertise into something that know relativly nothing about... i.e. programming. Disaster!
All in all, I think that (if the people I work with are any indication) the US gov is pretty well off. They offer good training (some very good UNIX people came from US gov, IIRC). They just have problems that ANY extremly large org will have.
Absolutly. There are NUMEROUS documented problems with (for instance) phones and beepers.
I had written a gateway interface at Pagemart, only to find that almost every beeper had it's own problems. Normally, though, the providers are quick to respond. (Typically, a customer tries to send a JPEG file to their phone.. har har har. it locks up.. doh)
Tell me how an optically reflective based scanner can scan "several layers" deep and analyze this information.
The technology to scan seismic data requires alot of FFT experience and engineers, scientist, and other professionals. Only 1 in 3 wells hits. (I used to work in the seismis analysis sector)
There may be some little hacks to check an optical density of an object, and maybe a IR CCD that could read the heat from a finger. But is this going to work on an oil pipeline in alaska? Or on a cold New York morning?
Not only that, but templates must be matched using advanced software. (Points rotate, are closer or farther, and typically appear and dissapear with each different scan).
First off, it's optical recognition. Pretty much means that "rubber finger" is quite likely to work. (Compaq's optical scanner was recently spoofed using a flashlight. The print was already on the glass, so the flashlight just fooled it into taking the image on the glass)
Secondly, How often do you replace your mouse? Mine last about 1.5 years.
The best quality is that the hardware captures the minutae. Fairly advanced, IMHO (If, in fact the hardware does actually do this.)
Probably the best finger scanning technology is (ahem, plug) by ethentica. We use a plastic with embeded phosphors over a glass CCD. (Abour 1/16" thick.. 500 DPI) The scan can only be induced by having a live finger because of the electrical properties we use to detect a finger. Also, there is no glass to clean regularly. The plastic is cheap, and lasts for millions of scans. And it's the smallest of all.
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I have heard in the past that sites that use banner adds for income are a problem. The argument is that the content is being sold under the "guise" of banner advertising in essence.
Pan
Who do you think _paid_ Precision Insight to develop DRI???
Besides, I'm don't care for NVidia's practices either. They say you can't get the source code because of patents. You know who's patents their talking about? SGI!
SGI is very willing to have NVidia release code.
They need an Idiot rating to go with karma.
Pan
Did you know that the volume of English literature didn't surpass Ancient Greek literature until
1971.
Obviously, a "New ecomimist" is a tacit term for "pompous asshole" The internet, as wonderful as it is, contains very little of our heritage, our writting, and our virtue.
If DeTocqueville were to travel abroad through the internet, we'd be a bunch of viagra eatin, sex starved, chattering dot-com spam-schmucks that argue over stupid bits of "information" and freedoms on a medium that is half matketing platform, half toyland. He'd think that we were nuts.
But even these days, the sanctity of libraries is questionable at best.
Pan
Actually, here in the states at least, I use my own computer at work. They can listen in on your system, but you can use SSL instead.
Also, because it is your machine, the only thing they can say is to not bring it to work. Not bloody likely in my field of business.
Pan
Good Story link, I enjoyed it.
Thanks,
Pan
Being the grandson of the lady who administered numerous libraries in the past, I can tell you that our libraries are ALREADY censored.
In Texas, for instance, the Federal Government siezed all land-rights documents dating from the early 1800's. Why? Because the hispanics were going and finding their Gransparent's land grants that the State didn't enforced. They were sueing the US Government and winning.
It is also known that some unknown branches of the Government monitor the Materials checked out of libraries. I know several people who have been questioned about their choices in physics books. Some slashdotters know what I am talking about as well.
Lots of other stuff too.
Pan
Yep, I have a 21164a 533. (164LX)
Absolutly one of the best machines I've ever had. I've had it for two years.. at the time I got it, the equivelant Intel costs twice as much.
With the advent of Gnome and good support from XFree, the alpha has been a very cool machine for me.
I'm planning on getting an XP1100 here in the next few months. (AGP baby! Uses the AMD Irongate chipset!)
Anyhow, I highly recommend one if you want to do 64 bit hacking NOW.
And anyone out there waiting for 64bit intel can thank the Alpha people for working out most of the 64 bit issues in the software they (might one day) use. Or you could get yourself an alpha.
Just stay away from nVidia. Their cards do NOT work on alpha systems.
Pan
If you bothered to read the press release, you would have read the following on paragraph 1.
blah blah blah.."as part of an e-commerce patent CROSS LICENSING agreement."
So, in short, no.. not a dime was exchanged.
Pan
Penguins in bondage. - Frank Zappa
Most alpha systems require PCI. (The newer XP1100
based on the AMD 751 chipset has AGP now.)
Pan
Ivan Illich is your friend. Read him.
(Deschooling Society, Tools for Conviviality)
Pan
I have a better idea. Give a 20 buck IRS refund to people for not voting. That way the greedy bastards don't influence the elections.
Reverse paranoia.
Pan
You mean like making it a federal crime to buy more than 50$ of prescription medicine in Canada and bringing it into the States? (5000$ fine)
Since when has the US been protecting bad business plans?
*urghh*
Pan
No, that's his karma being rewarded.
Pan
I work with a horde of ex security people from .gov. While most of them are competant, they tend to be very focused on their area of expertise.
Which is all fine and dandy.. except when they decide to migrate their expertise into something that know relativly nothing about... i.e. programming. Disaster!
All in all, I think that (if the people I work with are any indication) the US gov is pretty well off. They offer good training (some very good UNIX people came from US gov, IIRC). They just have problems that ANY extremly large org will have.
Pan
Absolutly. There are NUMEROUS documented problems with (for instance) phones and beepers.
I had written a gateway interface at Pagemart, only to find that almost every beeper had it's own problems. Normally, though, the providers are quick to respond. (Typically, a customer tries to send a JPEG file to their phone.. har har har. it locks up.. doh)
pan
Come on now.. I'd pay about $12 for good stack docs.. especially if it were like egads.. MSDN.
Maybe what's what OSDN is for? hmm..
pan
I agree.. you deserve a point or two for that.
Pan
I don't suppose you've seen the sgi Change Log?? There are kernel patches (good ones) that Linus has turned down.
Name one incedent where Corporate has taken over an open source project.
Pan
Were they copyrighted?
Pan
Tell me how an optically reflective based scanner can scan "several layers" deep and analyze this information.
The technology to scan seismic data requires alot of FFT experience and engineers, scientist, and other professionals. Only 1 in 3 wells hits. (I used to work in the seismis analysis sector)
There may be some little hacks to check an optical density of an object, and maybe a IR CCD that could read the heat from a finger. But is this going to work on an oil pipeline in alaska? Or on a cold New York morning?
pan
YEah.. who in the hell are those guys linus and allen anyhow?
Idiots thought they could write a decent OS. Jeez..
Pan
Not only that, but templates must be matched using advanced software. (Points rotate, are closer or farther, and typically appear and dissapear with each different scan).
They are in fact, nothing like an MD5 or SHA1
Pan
Having written POS software to read those strips, the record goes something like this:
ID#
FIRST NAME
MIDDLE INITIAL
LAST NAME
WEIGHT
HEIGHT (in inches I think?)
EYECOLOR (lookup.. don't remember the records)
But there is some "trash" as the end of the record. Actually,quite a bit. (I had previously thought it was a hash of the data)
It is quite possible to store your fingerprints on the card as well (Cards typically hold about 1-4Kb).
Using minutae-extraction can give you a "starmap" of x,y,theta values. Most people have about 20-30 useful points. (400 bytes is the industry average)
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
Pan
First off, it's optical recognition. Pretty much means that "rubber finger" is quite likely to work. (Compaq's optical scanner was recently spoofed using a flashlight. The print was already on the glass, so the flashlight just fooled it into taking the image on the glass)
Secondly, How often do you replace your mouse? Mine last about 1.5 years.
The best quality is that the hardware captures the minutae. Fairly advanced, IMHO (If, in fact the hardware does actually do this.)
Probably the best finger scanning technology is (ahem, plug) by ethentica. We use a plastic with embeded phosphors over a glass CCD. (Abour 1/16" thick.. 500 DPI) The scan can only be induced by having a live finger because of the electrical properties we use to detect a finger. Also, there is no glass to clean regularly. The plastic is cheap, and lasts for millions of scans. And it's the smallest of all.
Pan