'Second, the reader doesn't get anything useful off you. This stops magreader thieves from stealing your card info.'
But lets them take you pin number instead, but that's not usefull is it.
'Third, you actually need the pin to make it work.' See second.
4 digit pin could probably be read from RF interfrearance with the device as you type the number in,./ had a story about people doing just for remote keylogging a couple of years ago. (remote as in feet away, not the other side of the planet)
My signiture rubbed off of my previous credit-card leaving a strip with void written all over it. I still managed to use the card for two years without any problems.
On the next card I wrote 'ASK FOR PHOTO ID' on the signiture strip, no one ever did. I had to replace that card because the bank would not accept it, passport and driving license were no good all they would accept waas a proper signiture on the back.
So they sent a new one through, I've signed it X in honour of all the people being paid pennys who had to leave their mark to be identified.
I've tried it from time to time when google isn't palying fair but all I ever get back are the top twnety adds that have nothing to do with the query I typed.
Try, what is the time?
I'm from the UK, you can tell because a UK company hold my IP block.
You get.... Biometric time clocks South Carolina, United States current local time The official U.S. time and finally.... The World Clock - Time Zones
A web page that calculates GMT using you local clock, surley if my PC clock was correct I wouldn't be looking for something to tell me what the time is.
Time A aliens may well be listening for other aliens, just are we are running SETI at home.
Someone, not sure who, descided that we should look for FM signals perticular wave band because that was the easiest way to send a signal accross space so that's what we should look for. I think they use the same reasoning with the send out messages which seems fair.
I don't think they send out messages any more just incase the alines are of the vorgon destroyer type. But I think if they were it woudn't matter if we sent out a signal or not.
I already give people things based on there history.
e.g. When I'm down the pub I know what beers my friends drink, and if they are drinking something different tonight.
I also know what new papers many friends read and what they are interested in taking about.
How can anyone be granted a patent for this (or even consider putting one forward)
Lets, use the word gossip instead of blurbs.
An electronic catalog system provides an interface for users to author and post pieces of content, referred to as gossip The gossip submitted by a particular author are made available for viewing in an any format you like. gossip may also be obtained from external sources, such as the post man, or a news paper.
A personalized gossip selection component selects gossip to present to users based on histories of catalog items selected by such users, and/or based on various other criteria.
We call this the postman. The gossip selected for a particular user are presented within a personal log or "plog," which may be updated daily and will typically contain entries from many different authors.
We call this the bartender.
User feedback provided on specific gossip is taken into consideration by the personalized gossip selection algorithms.
Hi, I'm an stranger but I can give you a job, all you have to do is send me your entire life story, where you've worked, where you went to school, you age etc...
It won't be long before people start using job advertisements for identity theft, it's just so easy, from the average CV you'd get enough information to pass most security checks, and it only takes a birth certificate to get you mothers maiden name.
The best thing is that the UK government want you to provide even more information to prove you can work, corner shops and take aways will be copying your passport details as soon as you take the job.
'You are talking about Yahoo, right, even though your email address is with Hotmail?' I don't use my hotmail address.
'The solution to hiding email traffic from prying eyes is do-it-yourself,' Well unfortunately when you ask most companies for a pgp key they give you a blank look.
e.g. When applying for a job, tell them that your worried about ID theft and you don't want to send you CV unencrypted.
I had to request a new driving license about 6 months ago and they asked my to email my personal details, I asked them for a pgp key, and my ticket is still left open today. Hardly a sign that the government is security conscious, especially with all the phishing going on.
Because I mod up troll's,++flaimbates and mod down funny in my personal settings. since troll is often used for insightful but I didn't understand the poster, and if I want jokes I'll look at my self in the mirror.
That's because the addicts get a high because 'just another go and I'll win', but when they win it's not big enough, so they don't get such a high.
I no quite a few people who used to be crack addicts, the thought of getting some crack often made them a lot more excited and edgy than actually smoking it.
Stop truncating my email at x chars. Support SSL for pop3 so my email isn't sent for everyone to see. Support message ID's in pop3 so kmail doesn't download my email 3 times. Stop putting plain text attachments in the message body or at least let me downlaod them, it really screws up patches.
The first programming company I worked for done something similar, it was understood that pet projects could be used without license for any purpose by the company, they didn't however say that I couldn't also use project. Because we were working small contracts about 10-20% of our time was filled with pet projects.
I developed an application called 'shite to basic', that performed a number of tasks, like formating code, spell checking comments, checking tab order on forms, looking for poorly names variables, looking for complex or messy code, and dependency tracking.
The dependency tracking bit was used for some y2k testing, it was easy to track the dependencies of all functions that use dates, or used functions that used dates etc...
hacess also started out at work at a pet project, but ended up being used to recover some lost data in an access database for a client.
JIT code should always be faster because it can be profiled and optimised at runtime.
It's also possible that JIT compilers can generate threads (or fibbers) at runtime even it the coder hasn't asked for such, you couldn't do this with C because C supports pointers so you couldn't guarantee the state of anything.
Must of the dogs work is handled in hardware, the Direct X 9 work I'm doing uses a few de-references to keep the code tidy, but it doesn't have any noticeable affect on performance, because what's a de-reference compared to the thousands of calculations the GPU has to make.
One area where big improvements can be made is Matrix transforms, most CPU's come with SIMD for floating point (or integer) operations, they are often several times faster than using SISD instructions, I don't know if any JVM's suport SIMD yet, and I know that GCC 4.0 will be the first GCC to add reasonable support for SIMD.
saline solution would dilute you blood to some extent, this would reduce the amount of oxygen going to the brain (less red blood cells).
It may also make the blood more Acid, and defiantly increase the gradients of some salts (sodium is a key chemical player in nerves transmitting signals)
I assume that this should have an effect of cells firing.
Why do people gamble even though they loose all their money? Because gambling dens use positive reinforcement, they keep telling you you are going to win.
Why to people go to church every Sunday even though the only proof that God may exists is a 2000 year old book of stories? positive reinforcement....
Why don't people pop down the local gun shop and take out their local representative when they've just lost their job, don't get benefits and have huge medical bills? positive reinforcement, a big smile and let the people know your always right.
It took a few hundred years for people to pick up the gun against slavery, and then that was lead by the politicians, the people could have done it any day they wanted, just like the people could have overturned the Saddam any day they wanted.
That's part of the reason why are all governments religious.
The big question is, do the politicians believe their own hype or not?
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'Second, the reader doesn't get anything useful off you. This stops magreader thieves from stealing your card info.'
./ had a story about people doing just for remote keylogging a couple of years ago. (remote as in feet away, not the other side of the planet)
But lets them take you pin number instead, but that's not usefull is it.
'Third, you actually need the pin to make it work.'
See second.
4 digit pin could probably be read from RF interfrearance with the device as you type the number in,
My signiture rubbed off of my previous credit-card leaving a strip with void written all over it. I still managed to use the card for two years without any problems.
On the next card I wrote 'ASK FOR PHOTO ID' on the signiture strip, no one ever did. I had to replace that card because the bank would not accept it, passport and driving license were no good all they would accept waas a proper signiture on the back.
So they sent a new one through, I've signed it X in honour of all the people being paid pennys who had to leave their mark to be identified.
Ah, all in the marketing.
I've tried it from time to time when google isn't palying fair but all I ever get back are the top twnety adds that have nothing to do with the query I typed.
Try, what is the time?
I'm from the UK, you can tell because a UK company hold my IP block.
You get....
Biometric time clocks
South Carolina, United States current local time
The official U.S. time
and finally....
The World Clock - Time Zones
If I try the UK only I get this come up second
A web page that calculates GMT using you local clock, surley if my PC clock was correct I wouldn't be looking for something to tell me what the time is.
Well how many people run SETI at home?
Time A aliens may well be listening for other aliens, just are we are running SETI at home.
Someone, not sure who, descided that we should look for FM signals perticular wave band because that was the easiest way to send a signal accross space so that's what we should look for. I think they use the same reasoning with the send out messages which seems fair.
I don't think they send out messages any more just incase the alines are of the vorgon destroyer type. But I think if they were it woudn't matter if we sent out a signal or not.
It depends where you are.
Drug companies take out patents all the way through the trial process, it's a fairly low risk business.
Patent a drug, try it out doesn't work, patent a new drug.
Patent a drug, try it out, works, patent a more efficient way of making the drug, human trials, patent making the drug in bulk, advertise on FOX.
I already give people things based on there history.
e.g. When I'm down the pub I know what beers my friends drink, and if they are drinking something different tonight.
I also know what new papers many friends read and what they are interested in taking about.
How can anyone be granted a patent for this (or even consider putting one forward)
Lets, use the word gossip instead of blurbs.
An electronic catalog system provides an interface for users to author and post pieces of content, referred to as gossip The gossip submitted by a particular author are made available for viewing in an any format you like.
gossip may also be obtained from external sources, such as the post man, or a news paper.
A personalized gossip selection component selects gossip to present to users based on histories of catalog items selected by such users, and/or based on various other criteria.
We call this the postman.
The gossip selected for a particular user are presented within a personal log or "plog," which may be updated daily and will typically contain entries from many different authors.
We call this the bartender.
User feedback provided on specific gossip is taken into consideration by the personalized gossip selection algorithms.
We call this the mothers meeting.
Looks like Amazon is patenting the wheel.
The BBC makes quite a lot of money selling it's footage and selling DVD's and the like.
Hi, I'm an stranger but I can give you a job, all you have to do is send me your entire life story, where you've worked, where you went to school, you age etc...
It won't be long before people start using job advertisements for identity theft, it's just so easy, from the average CV you'd get enough information to pass most security checks, and it only takes a birth certificate to get you mothers maiden name.
The best thing is that the UK government want you to provide even more information to prove you can work, corner shops and take aways will be copying your passport details as soon as you take the job.
someone needs to write a float blocker, it shouldn't be too hard to block divs that are positioned over a block of text.
I wish they'd tell me what I'm thinking, because I often don't know myself.
Now all they need to do is link it up-to a recording device and you'd never forget a thing.
That's sir Microsoft to you.
sometimes when people are being confronted by an authority figure they feel like they have to be on the defensive
When was the last time a cop stopped you, gave you a bunch of flowers and told you you were a model citizen?
Isn't it their job to make sure people are being as nice as possible to each other?
'You are talking about Yahoo, right, even though your email address is with Hotmail?'
I don't use my hotmail address.
'The solution to hiding email traffic from prying eyes is do-it-yourself,'
Well unfortunately when you ask most companies for a pgp key they give you a blank look.
e.g.
When applying for a job, tell them that your worried about ID theft and you don't want to send you CV unencrypted.
I had to request a new driving license about 6 months ago and they asked my to email my personal details, I asked them for a pgp key, and my ticket is still left open today. Hardly a sign that the government is security conscious, especially with all the phishing going on.
Because I mod up troll's ,++flaimbates and mod down funny in my personal settings. since troll is often used for insightful but I didn't understand the poster, and if I want jokes I'll look at my self in the mirror.
That's because the addicts get a high because 'just another go and I'll win', but when they win it's not big enough, so they don't get such a high.
I no quite a few people who used to be crack addicts, the thought of getting some crack often made them a lot more excited and edgy than actually smoking it.
Why did the firefox guys decide to make open the default operation on downloads instead of open containing folder?
Now all they have to do is.
Stop truncating my email at x chars.
Support SSL for pop3 so my email isn't sent for everyone to see.
Support message ID's in pop3 so kmail doesn't download my email 3 times.
Stop putting plain text attachments in the message body or at least let me downlaod them, it really screws up patches.
Microsoft provide server software to DRM music, But I don't see Apple touching anything that's even been near Microsoft.
The first programming company I worked for done something similar, it was understood that pet projects could be used without license for any purpose by the company, they didn't however say that I couldn't also use project.
Because we were working small contracts about 10-20% of our time was filled with pet projects.
I developed an application called 'shite to basic', that performed a number of tasks,
like formating code, spell checking comments, checking tab order on forms, looking for poorly names variables, looking for complex or messy code, and dependency tracking.
The dependency tracking bit was used for some y2k testing, it was easy to track the dependencies of all functions that use dates, or used functions that used dates etc...
hacess also started out at work at a pet project, but ended up being used to recover some lost data in an access database for a client.
JIT code should always be faster because it can be profiled and optimised at runtime.
It's also possible that JIT compilers can generate threads (or fibbers) at runtime even it the coder hasn't asked for such, you couldn't do this with C because C supports pointers so you couldn't guarantee the state of anything.
Must of the dogs work is handled in hardware, the Direct X 9 work I'm doing uses a few de-references to keep the code tidy, but it doesn't have any noticeable affect on performance, because what's a de-reference compared to the thousands of calculations the GPU has to make.
One area where big improvements can be made is Matrix transforms, most CPU's come with SIMD for floating point (or integer) operations, they are often several times faster than using SISD instructions, I don't know if any JVM's suport SIMD yet, and I know that GCC 4.0 will be the first GCC to add reasonable support for SIMD.
Hmm... kidney stones, drink lots of water.... Inject patient with watery solution....hmmm
saline solution would dilute you blood to some extent, this would reduce the amount of oxygen going to the brain (less red blood cells).
It may also make the blood more Acid, and defiantly increase the gradients of some salts (sodium is a key chemical player in nerves transmitting signals)
I assume that this should have an effect of cells firing.
I once knew someone who's chat-up line was,
fancy a fuck? about one time in 30 it worked.
positive reinforcement.
Why do people gamble even though they loose all their money? Because gambling dens use positive reinforcement, they keep telling you you are going to win.
Why to people go to church every Sunday even though the only proof that God may exists is a 2000 year old book of stories? positive reinforcement....
Why don't people pop down the local gun shop and take out their local representative when they've just lost their job, don't get benefits and have huge medical bills? positive reinforcement, a big smile and let the people know your always right.
It took a few hundred years for people to pick up the gun against slavery, and then that was lead by the politicians, the people could have done it any day they wanted, just like the people could have overturned the Saddam any day they wanted.
That's part of the reason why are all governments religious.
The big question is, do the politicians believe their own hype or not?