Somewhat tangential, what's the objection to basic fingerprinting? As I see it, the policy is to fingerprint everyone every n years so that fingerprints found at a crime scene may be matched to a name. The only that would work is if everyone is fingerprinted, regardless of suspicion. "You can't fingerprint me, I've never committed a crime!" would only be appropriate if the fingerprint-taking staff considered everyone suspect, or if fingerprinting were associated with being convicted of a crime.
researchers [...] recently modified a straight-off-e-bay chip-and-pin terminal to play Tetris, with a video on YouTube, demonstrating that devices are neither tamper-resistant nor tamper-evident [...]
I think putting Tetris on the machine makes it pretty obvious that it has been tampered with.
Ever since I moved out of my parents' basement into an apartment, I've had several unwanted windows. Seeing this story, I was overjoyed. Alas, it's for some dumb piece of software. Thanks a lot, Slashdot!
This is the problem: "But we found that when the right sugar is matched with the right chemical partner, it can deliver a powerful double-whammy against cancer cells."
How can they be granted a patent on something they merely discovered? "I found it first, it's mine! You found it too, on your own? Sorry, I'll legally sue your ass out of commission."
When you're talking about data densities, you're talking about raw bits, not the nice error-corrected bytes the drive gives you back. It would be more confusing if they talked of raw bytes, when the actual byte capacity would be less due to error correction and formatting.
"For a long time it was a consumer-oriented show [...]"
Unless they're now catering to people who don't "consume" their computers, it's still a consumer-oriented show, only now they are including corporate (would-be) consumers. Hmmm, corporate consumers... a literal one of those would be nice to have around.
Totally off-topic, but I am very curious as to why certain words in your post are capitalized. I've been seeing this more and more in the past few years and am not making sense of it.
Hey, I have a "liquid crystal plasma cathode ray tube electroluminescent" computer display and it looks great! You wouldn't know it because it looks just like a CRT monitor, but it costed far more.
That, my friend, is why you should keep a backup of your "data"! Then if the original drive goes bad, you still have a copy of the data to destroy if neessary.
Interesting. I imagine the brain scan operators or software would be the weak point. The operators would be bribed/coerced into lying (so do we put them under a brain scan too? heh) and the software would be compromised. Unlike voting, there would be no way to make the process transparent by eliminating complexity and the human element.
Digital Restrictions Managament (DRM) is getting more and more so every year. This is a truely disruptive technology, disrupting your ability to use material you have paid to be able to watch/listen to.
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I think it'll be a while until you buy your movies in the store on a dedicated hard drive. Until then, cheap plastic discs are viable.
There, corrected that for you.
Fortunately, they do still teach English (at least in some parts).
Very carefully.
Somewhat tangential, what's the objection to basic fingerprinting? As I see it, the policy is to fingerprint everyone every n years so that fingerprints found at a crime scene may be matched to a name. The only that would work is if everyone is fingerprinted, regardless of suspicion. "You can't fingerprint me, I've never committed a crime!" would only be appropriate if the fingerprint-taking staff considered everyone suspect, or if fingerprinting were associated with being convicted of a crime.
Just some thoughts I had.
I think putting Tetris on the machine makes it pretty obvious that it has been tampered with.
Even though the cars would mostly be charged at night time when there is "excess" electricity available?
Another very common meme is "C/C++".
OK, I'll rot in (Slashdot) hell for this, but whatever... add seasoning if desired.
Did he die instantly too?
Sure, tell me that Ajax is harmful, after I've just eaten a meal I made with it. Why don't they put this on the warning label??
The truth.
Seeing the title of this story, I first thought it said "emigration". I guess I'm thinking ahead by a few years.
In other words, where's the driver-override switch I can press when I detect that this system is drunk?
Ever since I moved out of my parents' basement into an apartment, I've had several unwanted windows. Seeing this story, I was overjoyed. Alas, it's for some dumb piece of software. Thanks a lot, Slashdot!
This is the problem: "But we found that when the right sugar is matched with the right chemical partner, it can deliver a powerful double-whammy against cancer cells."
How can they be granted a patent on something they merely discovered? "I found it first, it's mine! You found it too, on your own? Sorry, I'll legally sue your ass out of commission."
When you're talking about data densities, you're talking about raw bits, not the nice error-corrected bytes the drive gives you back. It would be more confusing if they talked of raw bytes, when the actual byte capacity would be less due to error correction and formatting.
"For a long time it was a consumer-oriented show [...]"
Unless they're now catering to people who don't "consume" their computers, it's still a consumer-oriented show, only now they are including corporate (would-be) consumers. Hmmm, corporate consumers... a literal one of those would be nice to have around.
Totally off-topic, but I am very curious as to why certain words in your post are capitalized. I've been seeing this more and more in the past few years and am not making sense of it.
"It...feels like candy! Sugary candy!" I hope there are plenty of dentists in the countries this is aimed at.
Hey, I have a "liquid crystal plasma cathode ray tube electroluminescent" computer display and it looks great! You wouldn't know it because it looks just like a CRT monitor, but it costed far more.
Good point; without the legal backup, DRM would be yet another fun challenge and a mere joke on the companies behind it.
"I'll show you how to do X if you promise to do Y." Why shouldn't the inventor have the right do do that? It's his invention after all.
The problem is that many discoveries are also given this treatment, preventing use by others who independently discover the same thing.
That, my friend, is why you should keep a backup of your "data"! Then if the original drive goes bad, you still have a copy of the data to destroy if neessary.
Here here! So why the hell is Slashdot participating with these dorks and posting their announcements? "Don't feed the trolls."
Interesting. I imagine the brain scan operators or software would be the weak point. The operators would be bribed/coerced into lying (so do we put them under a brain scan too? heh) and the software would be compromised. Unlike voting, there would be no way to make the process transparent by eliminating complexity and the human element.
Digital Restrictions Managament (DRM) is getting more and more so every year. This is a truely disruptive technology, disrupting your ability to use material you have paid to be able to watch/listen to.