The previous comment should have been titled "the major misunderstanding of biometrics". The biometric itself is not required to be kept private. Any biometric system worth anything utilizes a combination of the sample analysis and comparison with various "liveness checks" or other heuristics to determine that the sample given came from the appropriate person. While it is worth having a debate on the relative effectiveness of these techniques, to dismiss biometrics based on the flawed "once you've lost your fingerprint..." argument is wrong.
Example checks might be: - Fingerprint: measuring temperature, bloodflow through the finger, resistance of finger, etc - Voice: asking the individual to respond to questions, measuring stress, etc - Iris: measuring dilation over time, asking the subject to look left or right, etc
Various systems have had combinations of these or many other approaches. In addition, some more secure systems use a combination of biometrics (e.g. finger for identification with voice for authentication)
Again, it's worth debating how effective these approaches may be in each particular deployment scenario, but the previous post (strangely marked "insightful") is just wrong.
Sorry, please don't lump the rest of us in with your level of incompetence in '2003. I've known the difference between routine backups and archival tapes for as long as I've been in the biz, and the original poster is correct - all of these emails were required by law to be archived. Email has been a critical part of most corporate and government infrastructures since the mid 90s.
You are right, though. Let's keep politics out of it. When you compare with the Clinton administration, you clearly must realize that the Clinton administration *did* manage to comply with the law, and when they realized that a few emails in the office of the VP were not being backed up, corrected that. They either hired the most incompetent system administrators out there (does Regent University have a computer science department?) or it was policy. Given the convenient timing, my money is on the latter.
Of course I have. It's just one more thing to carry, and then you get the problems with powered vs. non-powered ports, having to carry a power adaptor for the hub, etc. No, I'd rather have 2 ports, thank you.
Quite true. I was hoping to replace my 12" G4 Powerbook with one of these, but there are two deal killers for me:
- Only one USB port - come on, while wireless may be many places, many corporate environments don't use it yet, so I end up needing ethernet which takes a port, then how am I supposed to use flash drives or other peripherals.
- The integrated battery - my current powerbook is 5 years old (almost) and I'm on my third battery
Apple missed on this one, and I'm a big fan. This is too much form over function. Let's just hope it sells better than the last time they made this mistake - the cube.
The article is short-sighted and misses the main point. Adding direct or deduced context to queries and services will be a major driver of innovation over the next few years, but location is just a small part of this. We're already seeing this in Web2.0 where social connections are added to our context, but we'll see lots of new things become part of context including location, prior pseudonimized searches, "workspace" (personal or work), identity, device type, etc.
I get quite a few calls from collection agencies trying to collect on the (evidently) deadbeats who had my phone number before I did.
Most of the time these calls are: "We have a very important message for you. Please call us back at 800whatever". These are clearly illegal per the original post.
Now, if I sue these guys and win, how hard do you think it is to get a collection agency to pay?
How come any time fingerprint technology comes up on Slashdot, this myth not only arises but gets high points?
Any biometric technology worth its salt has "liveness checks" or ways to combat this. Accuracy in biometrics has got pretty good (not perfect, but good enough for many uses), and the next great area of progress will be improving these checks.
Also note, last I looked, this technology required entering an identifying code plus presenting the finger, raising the bar and eliminating "random" attacks.
Finally, differing from cars, I think a supermarket clerk might just notice if you present a bloody finger for payment. It is an attended operation, after all.
It's not the same. The AE link only works with Airtunes which not all programs support. This is also a $100+ solution. Just putting a digital audio chip in would be a sub-$5 solution for Apple and would work as a standard audio out device. In fact, I'd be suprised if the chip they use for audio doesn't have the capability to do digital audio out (most do these days).
I also use Verizon (Mac OS X, bluetooth to Mot V710 phone) with 1XRTT. It works great. It's worth noting however, that you don't need the $80/month plan. It will just eat minutes out of your regular voice plan. Perfect for those of us for whom this is a "last resort" after home or work broadband or roaming 802.11.
Does anyone know how this will work with Backups/Restores? OS X backup programs have enough problems with resource files, yet alone this additional data.
Also, how about remote file systems (nfs for example). Resource files are mapped as regular files with a._ prefix. Will the metadata be useable on an NFS mounted filesystem.
You know, there's some truth to what you are saying, but I still stand by the more resistance. OS X being built on a Mach/Unix platform has better anti-virus protections in areas such as restrictions to writing (without root or some other permissions) to system startup areas and other things that make it more difficult (but not impossible) to write a virus for this platform. Of course, Office Macro virii can still run if you run MS Office.
Regardless, you spend less time cleaning out a Macs from virii. I've run OS X since 10.0 and never had a virus.
This is a false argument, and clearly from someone who has never used OS X. Why would you have to hire three? Why not one, or one part time since OS X needs so little support? As people migrate over to Mac OS X, you will need less admins. There's your cost savings.
Perhaps you are a windows admin yourself.... hmmmmmm.
Uh, because the price of a computer is only a little bit of the total cost of ownership, and Macs have been shown to have much lower requirements for support, more resistance to virii, less user time to do tasks, etc, etc.
What boggles my mind is the descreasing market share. I personally have been responsible for over 20 Macs being sold, all to people who are now complete converts for various reasons (ease of use, security, etc).
If every other Mac fanatic did this, we'd at least see a dent.
I also don't understand why more small to midsize businesses don't jump on the OS X bandwagon because of significantly lower cost of ownership.
No, it's a shot across the bow of Veritas, not Oracle. Veritas offers the (rather good but very expensive) Storage Foundation Cluster File System. It is also used for running Oracle 9iRAC and other high availability applications.
As someone who is hiring in the bay area (J2EE folks), we're having problems finding good, qualified candidates.
The problems we see are:
1. Gross overstatement of skills on the resume
2. Bad written or verbal communication skills
3. Bad attitudes (won't function well in a team)
So, I concur that there's a dearth of good, experienced, qualified candidates. Chumps are a dime a dozen.
"Toxicity is known to cause excitement, agitation, restlessness, shifting states of consciousness, and toxic psychosis (10), mimicking amphetamine psychosis. Allergic individuals may be erroneously diagnosed, medicated, and lost in a dark disturbed world, until death."
He actually has a point. There are quite a few people (myself included) that caffeine is toxic to - even in the dosage that decaf gives you.
This is often misdiagnosed and having gone through years of treatments for other unrelated (and nonexistant) ailments, it's worth getting the word out about this.
There's a number of sites on the web with more information.
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Sorry, you miss the point. Biometrics are not private and any biometric system which is built with that assumption is flawed.
But I suppose you wear a tinfoil mask to guard against those face recognition systems tied to cameras because your face data is yours and only yours.
You are confusing the ethics, legality and technology behind biometrics in a bad way.
The previous comment should have been titled "the major misunderstanding of biometrics". The biometric itself is not required to be kept private. Any biometric system worth anything utilizes a combination of the sample analysis and comparison with various "liveness checks" or other heuristics to determine that the sample given came from the appropriate person. While it is worth having a debate on the relative effectiveness of these techniques, to dismiss biometrics based on the flawed "once you've lost your fingerprint..." argument is wrong.
Example checks might be:
- Fingerprint: measuring temperature, bloodflow through the finger, resistance of finger, etc
- Voice: asking the individual to respond to questions, measuring stress, etc
- Iris: measuring dilation over time, asking the subject to look left or right, etc
Various systems have had combinations of these or many other approaches. In addition, some more secure systems use a combination of biometrics (e.g. finger for identification with voice for authentication)
Again, it's worth debating how effective these approaches may be in each particular deployment scenario, but the previous post (strangely marked "insightful") is just wrong.
Sorry, please don't lump the rest of us in with your level of incompetence in '2003. I've known the difference between routine backups and archival tapes for as long as I've been in the biz, and the original poster is correct - all of these emails were required by law to be archived. Email has been a critical part of most corporate and government infrastructures since the mid 90s.
You are right, though. Let's keep politics out of it. When you compare with the Clinton administration, you clearly must realize that the Clinton administration *did* manage to comply with the law, and when they realized that a few emails in the office of the VP were not being backed up, corrected that. They either hired the most incompetent system administrators out there (does Regent University have a computer science department?) or it was policy. Given the convenient timing, my money is on the latter.
Of course I have. It's just one more thing to carry, and then you get the problems with powered vs. non-powered ports, having to carry a power adaptor for the hub, etc. No, I'd rather have 2 ports, thank you.
Quite true. I was hoping to replace my 12" G4 Powerbook with one of these, but there are two deal killers for me:
- Only one USB port - come on, while wireless may be many places, many corporate environments don't use it yet, so I end up needing ethernet which takes a port, then how am I supposed to use flash drives or other peripherals.
- The integrated battery - my current powerbook is 5 years old (almost) and I'm on my third battery
Apple missed on this one, and I'm a big fan. This is too much form over function. Let's just hope it sells better than the last time they made this mistake - the cube.
160GB probably isn't an option because of the thickness of the drive... the 160GB ipod is a little thicker than the 80GB one (13.5mm vs. 10.5mm)
The article is short-sighted and misses the main point. Adding direct or deduced context to queries and services will be a major driver of innovation over the next few years, but location is just a small part of this. We're already seeing this in Web2.0 where social connections are added to our context, but we'll see lots of new things become part of context including location, prior pseudonimized searches, "workspace" (personal or work), identity, device type, etc.
Run all of your RSA operations in secure, dedicated HW devices (crypto co-processors such as smart-cards, IBM 4758s, nCipher, etc).
I get quite a few calls from collection agencies trying to collect on the (evidently) deadbeats who had my phone number before I did.
Most of the time these calls are: "We have a very important message for you. Please call us back at 800whatever". These are clearly illegal per the original post.
Now, if I sue these guys and win, how hard do you think it is to get a collection agency to pay?
How come any time fingerprint technology comes up on Slashdot, this myth not only arises but gets high points?
Any biometric technology worth its salt has "liveness checks" or ways to combat this. Accuracy in biometrics has got pretty good (not perfect, but good enough for many uses), and the next great area of progress will be improving these checks.
Also note, last I looked, this technology required entering an identifying code plus presenting the finger, raising the bar and eliminating "random" attacks.
Finally, differing from cars, I think a supermarket clerk might just notice if you present a bloody finger for payment. It is an attended operation, after all.
It's not the same. The AE link only works with Airtunes which not all programs support. This is also a $100+ solution. Just putting a digital audio chip in would be a sub-$5 solution for Apple and would work as a standard audio out device. In fact, I'd be suprised if the chip they use for audio doesn't have the capability to do digital audio out (most do these days).
On the mini. Bah. Come on Apple, even the Airport Express has such a thing (a combo jack).
This is a real killer for those wanting to use the Mini in their entertainment center.
for the release of Tiger.
I also use Verizon (Mac OS X, bluetooth to Mot V710 phone) with 1XRTT. It works great. It's worth noting however, that you don't need the $80/month plan. It will just eat minutes out of your regular voice plan. Perfect for those of us for whom this is a "last resort" after home or work broadband or roaming 802.11.
Does anyone know how this will work with Backups/Restores? OS X backup programs have enough problems with resource files, yet alone this additional data.
._ prefix. Will the metadata be useable on an NFS mounted filesystem.
Also, how about remote file systems (nfs for example). Resource files are mapped as regular files with a
You know, there's some truth to what you are saying, but I still stand by the more resistance. OS X being built on a Mach/Unix platform has better anti-virus protections in areas such as restrictions to writing (without root or some other permissions) to system startup areas and other things that make it more difficult (but not impossible) to write a virus for this platform. Of course, Office Macro virii can still run if you run MS Office.
Regardless, you spend less time cleaning out a Macs from virii. I've run OS X since 10.0 and never had a virus.
This is a false argument, and clearly from someone who has never used OS X. Why would you have to hire three? Why not one, or one part time since OS X needs so little support? As people migrate over to Mac OS X, you will need less admins. There's your cost savings.
Perhaps you are a windows admin yourself.... hmmmmmm.
Uh, because the price of a computer is only a little bit of the total cost of ownership, and Macs have been shown to have much lower requirements for support, more resistance to virii, less user time to do tasks, etc, etc.
Note that this does not mean that they are replacing IE with FireFox......... YET
What boggles my mind is the descreasing market share. I personally have been responsible for over 20 Macs being sold, all to people who are now complete converts for various reasons (ease of use, security, etc).
If every other Mac fanatic did this, we'd at least see a dent.
I also don't understand why more small to midsize businesses don't jump on the OS X bandwagon because of significantly lower cost of ownership.
No, it's a shot across the bow of Veritas, not Oracle. Veritas offers the (rather good but very expensive) Storage Foundation Cluster File System. It is also used for running Oracle 9iRAC and other high availability applications.
Personally I can't wait until the 4.1 NET release to get TCP/IP networking, although I understand that BSD 4.2 will be the real killer release.
As someone who is hiring in the bay area (J2EE folks), we're having problems finding good, qualified candidates.
The problems we see are:
1. Gross overstatement of skills on the resume
2. Bad written or verbal communication skills
3. Bad attitudes (won't function well in a team)
So, I concur that there's a dearth of good, experienced, qualified candidates. Chumps are a dime a dozen.
Here's a good link
"Toxicity is known to cause excitement, agitation, restlessness, shifting states of consciousness, and toxic psychosis (10), mimicking amphetamine psychosis. Allergic individuals may be erroneously diagnosed, medicated, and lost in a dark disturbed world, until death."
He actually has a point. There are quite a few people (myself included) that caffeine is toxic to - even in the dosage that decaf gives you.
This is often misdiagnosed and having gone through years of treatments for other unrelated (and nonexistant) ailments, it's worth getting the word out about this.
There's a number of sites on the web with more information.