Usually when doing studies, you still ask people to be involved in the study, but don't tell them what the study is looking for. Not asking people is a breach of ethical guidelines. It doesn't matter if the subjects suffered real or percieved harm, the potential for harm was definately there, and they should have asked people first.
Parent is right though. Using this network to download music without paying is wrong, and it should be stopped where possible. I don't see the problem in the owners or their representatives trying to stop people ripping them off.
Not sure if this was what the parent was talking about, but I browse only with Firefox and AVG has detected Java worms. This is using the latest java from sun, latest firefox.
Not sure which site it was, but it wasn't a porn or warez site or anything like that.
It's been tried a few times before in the RFID industry, but it's never been able to work. The reason that casino's want to track the chips is mainly to stop people stealing, hiding or moving chips while they're on the playing tables. No-one could ever guarantee all the chips would read though, so the system never took off. If they've found a way to do it, they would be able to sell the technology in a lot more places than casinos
I'd have to agree with the parent completely. Linux has those features planned, but they're only sort of there and not going anywhere fast. Longhorn should make things a lot easier, just as.Net has. I still see Linux as going far in the server world, but the desktop is likely to be Longhorn.
Fingerprints on the bottom layers should be ok (I think you have 7 layers of skin?) but the upper layers will probably never recover sufficiently for surface/visual recognition. Not many people would continue to work while having these types of burns, so it shouldn't be much of a problem. Any type of biometric scans should not be the sole type of verification, so as long as you remember a password/key you should be fine.
Okay, maybe a poor analogy. Still, I would've thought that very cheap car brands would have a LOT more retruns than someone like a Lexus made car (not sure about Mercedes). The point is that toy fingerprint scanners using poor technology are always going to be fallible, wheras well enginerred solutions will be much much harder to crack, which should be obvious. The toy solutions where always going to be easy to crack, that's why they're cheap.
Modern fingerprint scanners should read the bottom layer of skin which also has the the same fingerprint as the top layer. Unless you have third degree burns on both hands or really deep cuts they should read fine.
Yep, alot of scanners now read the bottom layer of skin, to protect against faking, and also against scratches and abrasions/scratches on the upper layers of skin. This also get's rid of most latex and gelatin workarounds.
Most fingerprint scanners have the tech. to measure if the substance scanned is real skin or not, based on the surface resistance, so latex copies don't work at all. It's a wonder most of these devices at these trade shows still can't do this. Pretty embarrasing really.
and always will be. If they could fool the proper scanners than that would be a surprise. Why would you do your master on this? It's like saying that cheap cars are less reliable than luxary ones. Thank you Captiain Obvious.
DOn't know about other places in Australia, but in Melbourne the rental prices for DVD's are significantly lower than for the same VHS. Something about better reliability, and more second hand resale value.
I have Telstra cable in Australia, and the service is OK. The contract stated that they could change the terms, and then they did so by putting a cap on. THe cap is pretty reasonable, and allows you to download quite a bit each month. The reason for the cap was that some people on residental plans were downloads gigabytes of files per day. I'm not sure if there are too many legal uses that would require that kind of transfer rates, and I'm pretty sure they were just downloading DivX's.
So I think that this is pretty fair, and the people who are complaining are just the people who are downloading all the illegal crap, and just sucking up the service and making everyone's accounts more expensive.
Only in a competitive market. The music market certainly isn't a competitive market and so the price will probably go up instead. Looks at CD's, much cheaper to produce and sell then LP's, but they cost more. Ditto with DVD's vs video tapes. If they can encode all their stuff, they'll start charging per song, with higher profit margins per album.
They'd lose almost 100% marketshare in every non western country, and a fair chunk in western countries to boot. And why would companies put up with this? There is no way admin would put up with this, IT support is such a hassle even without this.
Not quite. Nuclear fusion stills produces nuclear waste, which is not exactly environmentally friendly. Instead of the fuel being radioactive(nuclear fission), the reactor and other components are made radioactive by the fusion process. The only real way to generate electicity is to simple passively collect it eg. wind turbines, solar cells etc
How about Abiword? It's cross platform, can write and read a number of formats, and is getting better all the time. The new release can print to pdf in gnome, and can export to tex as well. It's quite stable, the only drawback being that it can't do tables yet.
why a window manager matters? I don't really care about the window manager, or how it "looks". I don't really know many non-geeks who do. The most important thing is the apps, and consistentcy. That's all that really matters. Personally I use ICEwm, because it never changes, and I have customised it so it is quick for the tasks I need. I've done the same with windows. The only time I reboot is if I need another app, not because of the window manager.
The reason they don't make them smaller than about 40 inches is because there is very little point. On a 14 inch television, the screen would be small enough not to need that kind of resolution.
A long time ago, Sega temaed up with compaq and made a computer that could also play megadrive games. There was a slot in the front(like a disk drive) where the cartridge went. Looked pretty nifty at he time, but it didn't sell well, most people just bought a megadrive.
Nevermind them releasing the source code, what if they modified it? If Microsoft can't detect a break in security for 3 months(or more), how is it going to detect changes in the source code? I wonder if they will go over the ME code? Or the SP1 for W2K?
Java in my experience is far better and logical than C++. Automatic garbage collection is a godsend, and it's far easier to learn Java than C++. The first few versions were really only useful for little applets, but later versions are very good, and are quite fast. C++ is very fast, but it takes longer to debug.
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Usually when doing studies, you still ask people to be involved in the study, but don't tell them what the study is looking for. Not asking people is a breach of ethical guidelines. It doesn't matter if the subjects suffered real or percieved harm, the potential for harm was definately there, and they should have asked people first.
Parent is right though. Using this network to download music without paying is wrong, and it should be stopped where possible. I don't see the problem in the owners or their representatives trying to stop people ripping them off.
Just use C:\Documents and Settings\All Users, under 2000/XP. It's in the API under special folders. It's made for situations like you describe.
Not sure if this was what the parent was talking about, but I browse only with Firefox and AVG has detected Java worms. This is using the latest java from sun, latest firefox.
Not sure which site it was, but it wasn't a porn or warez site or anything like that.
It's been tried a few times before in the RFID industry, but it's never been able to work. The reason that casino's want to track the chips is mainly to stop people stealing, hiding or moving chips while they're on the playing tables. No-one could ever guarantee all the chips would read though, so the system never took off. If they've found a way to do it, they would be able to sell the technology in a lot more places than casinos
I'd have to agree with the parent completely. Linux has those features planned, but they're only sort of there and not going anywhere fast. Longhorn should make things a lot easier, just as .Net has. I still see Linux as going far in the server world, but the desktop is likely to be Longhorn.
Fingerprints on the bottom layers should be ok (I think you have 7 layers of skin?) but the upper layers will probably never recover sufficiently for surface/visual recognition. Not many people would continue to work while having these types of burns, so it shouldn't be much of a problem. Any type of biometric scans should not be the sole type of verification, so as long as you remember a password/key you should be fine.
Okay, maybe a poor analogy. Still, I would've thought that very cheap car brands would have a LOT more retruns than someone like a Lexus made car (not sure about Mercedes). The point is that toy fingerprint scanners using poor technology are always going to be fallible, wheras well enginerred solutions will be much much harder to crack, which should be obvious. The toy solutions where always going to be easy to crack, that's why they're cheap.
Modern fingerprint scanners should read the bottom layer of skin which also has the the same fingerprint as the top layer. Unless you have third degree burns on both hands or really deep cuts they should read fine.
Yep, alot of scanners now read the bottom layer of skin, to protect against faking, and also against scratches and abrasions/scratches on the upper layers of skin. This also get's rid of most latex and gelatin workarounds.
Most fingerprint scanners have the tech. to measure if the substance scanned is real skin or not, based on the surface resistance, so latex copies don't work at all. It's a wonder most of these devices at these trade shows still can't do this. Pretty embarrasing really.
and always will be. If they could fool the proper scanners than that would be a surprise. Why would you do your master on this? It's like saying that cheap cars are less reliable than luxary ones. Thank you Captiain Obvious.
DOn't know about other places in Australia, but in Melbourne the rental prices for DVD's are significantly lower than for the same VHS. Something about better reliability, and more second hand resale value.
I have Telstra cable in Australia, and the service is OK. The contract stated that they could change the terms, and then they did so by putting a cap on. THe cap is pretty reasonable, and allows you to download quite a bit each month. The reason for the cap was that some people on residental plans were downloads gigabytes of files per day. I'm not sure if there are too many legal uses that would require that kind of transfer rates, and I'm pretty sure they were just downloading DivX's.
So I think that this is pretty fair, and the people who are complaining are just the people who are downloading all the illegal crap, and just sucking up the service and making everyone's accounts more expensive.
Only in a competitive market. The music market certainly isn't a competitive market and so the price will probably go up instead. Looks at CD's, much cheaper to produce and sell then LP's, but they cost more. Ditto with DVD's vs video tapes. If they can encode all their stuff, they'll start charging per song, with higher profit margins per album.
Sega makes a small profit on each Dreamcast, but not very much. They sell at slightly above cost price.
They'd lose almost 100% marketshare in every non western country, and a fair chunk in western countries to boot. And why would companies put up with this? There is no way admin would put up with this, IT support is such a hassle even without this.
Not quite. Nuclear fusion stills produces nuclear waste, which is not exactly environmentally friendly. Instead of the fuel being radioactive(nuclear fission), the reactor and other components are made radioactive by the fusion process. The only real way to generate electicity is to simple passively collect it eg. wind turbines, solar cells etc
How about Abiword? It's cross platform, can write and read a number of formats, and is getting better all the time. The new release can print to pdf in gnome, and can export to tex as well. It's quite stable, the only drawback being that it can't do tables yet.
why a window manager matters? I don't really care about the window manager, or how it "looks". I don't really know many non-geeks who do. The most important thing is the apps, and consistentcy. That's all that really matters. Personally I use ICEwm, because it never changes, and I have customised it so it is quick for the tasks I need. I've done the same with windows. The only time I reboot is if I need another app, not because of the window manager.
The reason they don't make them smaller than about 40 inches is because there is very little point. On a 14 inch television, the screen would be small enough not to need that kind of resolution.
A long time ago, Sega temaed up with compaq and made a computer that could also play megadrive games. There was a slot in the front(like a disk drive) where the cartridge went. Looked pretty nifty at he time, but it didn't sell well, most people just bought a megadrive.
Re enrty speed of space shuttle is about Mach 30, so she should be okay.
Nevermind them releasing the source code, what if they modified it? If Microsoft can't detect a break in security for 3 months(or more), how is it going to detect changes in the source code? I wonder if they will go over the ME code? Or the SP1 for W2K?
Java in my experience is far better and logical than C++. Automatic garbage collection is a godsend, and it's far easier to learn Java than C++. The first few versions were really only useful for little applets, but later versions are very good, and are quite fast. C++ is very fast, but it takes longer to debug.