Facial recognition, like all biometrics, is not good for this purpose. You either have decent rates of true positive results at the expense of many false positives, or few false positives with many failures.
It's never like it is in the TV shows. The results form biometrics are far too fuzzy to be useful in this context where one looks for one of a large set within a much larger set. It's somewhat useful in non-time-critical situations where one looks for one identity from a large set.
In general, you can regard all biometric identification as not really worth the trouble. Too easy to fake or avoid detection.
I've had the pleasure to meet Randall for a few days during one of his very rare conference visits, where he was the keynote speaker at our university computer society's computing conference. As I was one of the group organising the conference we had drinks with him and his wife back at the hotel, and chatted until the wee hours. He's a genuine nice guy, and he is someone that intensely protects the privacy of his private life and those close to him, from the weirdness that internet fame can bring.
He did find it really refreshing to be able to go on a proper touristy roadtrip a few days after the conference was over to see a few of the prettier places in the nearby area and to see those from a local's perspective instead of the standard stereotypical locations, where his wife (who is a really lovely lady and someone I've kept up some contact with since) was able to pursue some of her interests. All this without people fawning over him or being weird around him. I got the impression that the more his internet fame grows, the harder it is for him to lead a normal life and that is something that I hope he is able to work with as the years go by.
I think it's really cool that he is being recognised for his hard work, and he does work hard that's for sure.
All I described is 'theft' hence the law handles it similar to theft of tangible goods.
Just because the law handles it in similar ways doesn't mean it's the same thing, no matter how much you try to argue this incorrect point. Copyright infringement is a civil offense - hence why there is no requirement for a three-letter-agency to look at it.
As for your code being used elsewhere - that is still not theft as you've not been deprived of an actual item, You've been the victim of copyright infringement, which is not theft. Not nice to happen to you, but it is still not theft. And the treatment of offenders is (and can only be) treated as a civil case - but hey, you might make a decent bit of damages or out-of-court settlement;)
The simplest case: you have only one manuscript and no back ups, I steal it, it is gone.
Then you've stolen a piece of physical property - not intellectual property...
The complex case: I destroy your ability to market it, make money from it, use it as you feel fit. Your option to use your 'property' in a way you can use 'property' is gone, hence: it is stolen. And funnily it is worse than stolen, as I can not even give it back to you.
What you describe is not theft - it's a form of obstruction. If it were actually property - it would be perfectly possible to return it - and by your own words it isn't. Again, copyright/trademark infringement is not theft, no matter how the *AA keep repeating it.
You can't steal intellectual property.
You can copy and use intellectual property inappropriately, sure.
But you sure as hell cannot steal it, and as such it should not be involving the DHS or Federal Government in any way. But these are the people you voted in, and the rest of us have to live with it unfortunately..
Given that I have a few telescopes and I have been stargazing for ~30 years, I really value my night sight. Knowing that the majority of the laser surgeries have a significant proportion of post-operation aberrations that would directly affect my stargazing abilities is a real hindrance to my taking up the eye surgery.
Halos and diffraction spikes around bright objects, increased glare at night, are all relatively common issues to be dealt with afterwards. Most people aren't bothered by this as they rarely come across the situations where these aberrations would show up (exception being night-time driving).
If the surgeries were able to correct higher-order aberrations and a proper wavefront restoration across a portion of the eye that would be larger than the relaxed iris, then it might be a possibility for me. However, the tech is not yet mature for this, for my use cases.
People need to learn how to use English correctly, informally or not. "Should of" does not read correctly nor does it enhance understanding, therefore it is nonsensical to use it. Informal usage should not transfer to the written word. As far as I can gather the usage comes from ill-educated people that spell phonetically with unusual accents such as Essex English. I consider it close to txt spk for parsing ease when reading, and the poor use of language really gets in the way of the author's point coming across.
Yep, sounds like a great idea in theory. What happens when I'm trying to work through a migraine? That definitely changes my computer use patterns and mouse usage characteristics.
May apply more to the usage of mobile smartphones to prevent being fraped these days.
I can easily see the flashing of PWM driven LEDs as used on cars, to the extent that I can identify the brand of a distant car at night purely from the speed of the flicker of the taillights. I can also easily see the flicker of my Galaxy S3 screen, especially at night. During the day I can easily see the flicker of LED DRLs.
Whatever way my vision works, I often end up gaining detail from a quick scan of my eye's focal point around what I am concentrating on. When a PWM-driven light source is in my field of view I see it as a trail of distinct dots, where a continuously driven light would appear as an evenly illuminated streak. Maybe it's just because I've got a lot of practice of looking at things from 30 years of observational astronomy so I am used to getting the best from my mk1 eyeballs
Cinemas are often painful as I can very easily see individual frames in panning shots, even with the motion blur on the individual frames. Motion blur annoys me as my vision system can't figure out if it is out of focus or blurred, so my eyes get very tires from certain films:(
Back in the CRT days I could easily differentiate between 85hz and 100hz monitors, and I could identify whether a game was operating at 100hz or 120hz if the monitor framerate was higher than that. Mostly by being able to see each frame when the POV was changing quickly, and I could gauge whether there were 8 or 10 frames used for a rocketjump and that kind of thing. This led me to having to spend real money on decent monitors that I didn't see the flicker on.
Newer flat panels have light sources that are a lot more steady, and that never truly drop in brightness as there is no longer an active scan in progress. These no longer flicker as much as older monitors did.
Ophthalmologists didn't find anything odd with my eyes at that stage, it was just my having a particularly discerning vision system. Lucky that I have, as I've located drusen on my retina that I've spotted early enough to possibly be useful in any treatment of this precursor to macular degeneration. Sucks, but I'm still in my 30s so worst case I have more time than most to get used to using peripheral vision for daily tasks.
Excellent news - more and more reasons to stay in Ubuntu and less and less reasons to boot to Win7.
Hats off to the devs that have ported this. Does this mean that we can expect HL2 etc to follow shortly, given it's the same engine?
This will be interesting. I've seen Wii consoles used in the odd hotel lobby outputting to a tv, just running the news feed. Much cheaper and easier for the average person to set up than a PC or paying subscriptions to a news service.
This is one appropriate course of action for someone in that position that made those comments. However it should have been treated publicly as a firing offence though instead of a graceful exit, as most companies I know would have seen these communications as an example of gross incompetence and would have treated accordingly.
There was a patch for SuSE recently to fix a 208-day bug, where certain CPU registers on a particular CPU would hold their value through a reboot. We patched servers in work, and they still fell over at various times past 208 days of uptime. It was then realised that there was a need to fully cold-boot the affected servers for the condition to clear correctly.
So, that was one example of a patch that required shutting down the power.
I own a domain name, and when I sign up to online forums I use unique email addresses specific to that particular forum.
Last year, I started to get spam to the email I signed up to http://www.astronomyforum.net/ do being a good net citizen I informed the admins of that forum about this. I found out that I wasn't the only one that was getting spam to addresses that were used specifically for that forum as there were three other users that were saying the same thing. What was the admin's response? Perma-banning my account on that forum.
Definitely not the expected response, but apparently it's typical behaviour of those running that site to do this once it's known that the email list was compromised.
Thankfully I had no real personal details in the database on that site, but it's a pity to see such a knee-jerk reaction to something that most real admins would be happy to know and then be able to do something about it.
What would you do in the same situation? I just walked away and blacklisted the email address used, as I am still receiving spam to it.
Actually Polaris is not the easiest - it's any stars nearer the Ecliptic Pole, which is based on the Earth's orbit. This is in Draco, and the nearest naked-eye star to the Ecliptic poles are 36 Dra in the northern sky at about 2 degrees from the ecliptic northern pole, and Eta1 Dor at the south ecliptic pole. Surprisingly enough, the LMC is only about 4 degrees from the southern ecliptic pole.
However, Polaris would show the most diurnal parallax, as that is indeed based on the earth's spin.
It's been a long road to the current state of play with the original limited release of the specs for the older ATI cards through to the current state with near-parity with the Windows drivers. It's really good to see this right now as I am in the market again for an improvement to my current graphics card. My number one option was the Nvidia 660, but if this set of code makes things that much better then I may go for one of the AMD 79xx cards instead.
I was in college in the University of Limerick with the Irish developer behind the drm-next tree, and he's a really great guy. He was a member of Skynet, (the UL Computer Society) along with some other people that have gone on to be fairly visible members of the wordlwide Linux community, including the likes of:
Mel Gorman, kernel memory hacker;
Dave Airlie. AMD graphics developer,
Caolan McNamara, who did the first MSWord converter.
Many thanks. I'm getting ~300 KB/sec on a 100MBit connection here at work..
Pity that running torrents in the office is a firing offence here, otherwise I'd be on top of the torrent and re-sharing.
It's nice to see a company live up to one of it's brands, namely the nicer version called "Gentleman Jack"...
(though that doesn't taste as nice as a bottle of Silver Select)
EULA? What's that?
Seriously - given that EULAs are nothing more than a wishlist for a software supplier and are *not* legally enforceable, the content of said EULA is non-relevant. If I purchase (with language like "buy" "Sale" or "yours for €x a month") an appliance I consider myself to have complete rights to use and break anything in or on said device. I can uninstall the OS and run my own. I can break through the security restrictions and mess with the innards as I see fit. I can root or jailbreak as I see fit. I can't redistribute that OS as that is covered under copyright law.
Now, as for my contract with the carrier - that is a different story altogether - I have paid for that, and I have entered into an agreement there with another legal entity, and as such I will agree to be constrained by that contract and its terms and conditions. If I have bought and I own an iPhone, as far as I am concerened that includes a copy of the OS to allow that hardware to be used, and I can do whatever I like with that OS copy without distributing it.
If your local laws are different, get on to you local representative and get them changed..
As far as I can see the majority of the rest of the world has already lost faith in the US as a country, and are watching in horror as that which was considered the epitome of western civilisation in the 60's and 70's has degenerated into something similar to that which was considered the nemesis during that time (the Soviet Union). At least the USSR managed to give almost everyone a purpose, even if they couldn't provide enough food...
But seriously - this whole TSA situation is making a mockery of everything the US used to stand for, and it's certain at this point that the terrorists have easily won, and it's going to take a proper revolution to fix it. God help us all..
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It's never like it is in the TV shows. The results form biometrics are far too fuzzy to be useful in this context where one looks for one of a large set within a much larger set. It's somewhat useful in non-time-critical situations where one looks for one identity from a large set.
In general, you can regard all biometric identification as not really worth the trouble. Too easy to fake or avoid detection.
He did find it really refreshing to be able to go on a proper touristy roadtrip a few days after the conference was over to see a few of the prettier places in the nearby area and to see those from a local's perspective instead of the standard stereotypical locations, where his wife (who is a really lovely lady and someone I've kept up some contact with since) was able to pursue some of her interests. All this without people fawning over him or being weird around him. I got the impression that the more his internet fame grows, the harder it is for him to lead a normal life and that is something that I hope he is able to work with as the years go by.
I think it's really cool that he is being recognised for his hard work, and he does work hard that's for sure.
All I described is 'theft' hence the law handles it similar to theft of tangible goods.
Just because the law handles it in similar ways doesn't mean it's the same thing, no matter how much you try to argue this incorrect point.
Copyright infringement is a civil offense - hence why there is no requirement for a three-letter-agency to look at it.
As for your code being used elsewhere - that is still not theft as you've not been deprived of an actual item, You've been the victim of copyright infringement, which is not theft. Not nice to happen to you, but it is still not theft. And the treatment of offenders is (and can only be) treated as a civil case - but hey, you might make a decent bit of damages or out-of-court settlement ;)
Of course it can be stolen.
The simplest case: you have only one manuscript and no back ups, I steal it, it is gone.
Then you've stolen a piece of physical property - not intellectual property...
The complex case: I destroy your ability to market it, make money from it, use it as you feel fit. Your option to use your 'property' in a way you can use 'property' is gone, hence: it is stolen. And funnily it is worse than stolen, as I can not even give it back to you.
What you describe is not theft - it's a form of obstruction. If it were actually property - it would be perfectly possible to return it - and by your own words it isn't. Again, copyright/trademark infringement is not theft, no matter how the *AA keep repeating it.
It's a civil matter.
You can't steal intellectual property.
You can copy and use intellectual property inappropriately, sure.
But you sure as hell cannot steal it, and as such it should not be involving the DHS or Federal Government in any way. But these are the people you voted in, and the rest of us have to live with it unfortunately..
Given that I have a few telescopes and I have been stargazing for ~30 years, I really value my night sight. Knowing that the majority of the laser surgeries have a significant proportion of post-operation aberrations that would directly affect my stargazing abilities is a real hindrance to my taking up the eye surgery.
Halos and diffraction spikes around bright objects, increased glare at night, are all relatively common issues to be dealt with afterwards. Most people aren't bothered by this as they rarely come across the situations where these aberrations would show up (exception being night-time driving).
If the surgeries were able to correct higher-order aberrations and a proper wavefront restoration across a portion of the eye that would be larger than the relaxed iris, then it might be a possibility for me. However, the tech is not yet mature for this, for my use cases.
People need to learn how to use English correctly, informally or not. "Should of" does not read correctly nor does it enhance understanding, therefore it is nonsensical to use it. Informal usage should not transfer to the written word. As far as I can gather the usage comes from ill-educated people that spell phonetically with unusual accents such as Essex English. I consider it close to txt spk for parsing ease when reading, and the poor use of language really gets in the way of the author's point coming across.
May apply more to the usage of mobile smartphones to prevent being fraped these days.
Most home burglaries are during the daytime - but your point is still valid.
I can easily see the flashing of PWM driven LEDs as used on cars, to the extent that I can identify the brand of a distant car at night purely from the speed of the flicker of the taillights. I can also easily see the flicker of my Galaxy S3 screen, especially at night. During the day I can easily see the flicker of LED DRLs. :(
Whatever way my vision works, I often end up gaining detail from a quick scan of my eye's focal point around what I am concentrating on. When a PWM-driven light source is in my field of view I see it as a trail of distinct dots, where a continuously driven light would appear as an evenly illuminated streak. Maybe it's just because I've got a lot of practice of looking at things from 30 years of observational astronomy so I am used to getting the best from my mk1 eyeballs
Cinemas are often painful as I can very easily see individual frames in panning shots, even with the motion blur on the individual frames. Motion blur annoys me as my vision system can't figure out if it is out of focus or blurred, so my eyes get very tires from certain films
Back in the CRT days I could easily differentiate between 85hz and 100hz monitors, and I could identify whether a game was operating at 100hz or 120hz if the monitor framerate was higher than that. Mostly by being able to see each frame when the POV was changing quickly, and I could gauge whether there were 8 or 10 frames used for a rocketjump and that kind of thing. This led me to having to spend real money on decent monitors that I didn't see the flicker on.
Newer flat panels have light sources that are a lot more steady, and that never truly drop in brightness as there is no longer an active scan in progress. These no longer flicker as much as older monitors did.
Ophthalmologists didn't find anything odd with my eyes at that stage, it was just my having a particularly discerning vision system. Lucky that I have, as I've located drusen on my retina that I've spotted early enough to possibly be useful in any treatment of this precursor to macular degeneration. Sucks, but I'm still in my 30s so worst case I have more time than most to get used to using peripheral vision for daily tasks.
Excellent news - more and more reasons to stay in Ubuntu and less and less reasons to boot to Win7. Hats off to the devs that have ported this. Does this mean that we can expect HL2 etc to follow shortly, given it's the same engine?
This will be interesting. I've seen Wii consoles used in the odd hotel lobby outputting to a tv, just running the news feed. Much cheaper and easier for the average person to set up than a PC or paying subscriptions to a news service.
This is one appropriate course of action for someone in that position that made those comments. However it should have been treated publicly as a firing offence though instead of a graceful exit, as most companies I know would have seen these communications as an example of gross incompetence and would have treated accordingly.
There was a patch for SuSE recently to fix a 208-day bug, where certain CPU registers on a particular CPU would hold their value through a reboot. We patched servers in work, and they still fell over at various times past 208 days of uptime. It was then realised that there was a need to fully cold-boot the affected servers for the condition to clear correctly.
So, that was one example of a patch that required shutting down the power.
Rule 34. All that needs to be said..
Last year, I started to get spam to the email I signed up to http://www.astronomyforum.net/ do being a good net citizen I informed the admins of that forum about this. I found out that I wasn't the only one that was getting spam to addresses that were used specifically for that forum as there were three other users that were saying the same thing. What was the admin's response? Perma-banning my account on that forum.
Definitely not the expected response, but apparently it's typical behaviour of those running that site to do this once it's known that the email list was compromised.
Thankfully I had no real personal details in the database on that site, but it's a pity to see such a knee-jerk reaction to something that most real admins would be happy to know and then be able to do something about it.
What would you do in the same situation? I just walked away and blacklisted the email address used, as I am still receiving spam to it.
Actually Polaris is not the easiest - it's any stars nearer the Ecliptic Pole, which is based on the Earth's orbit. This is in Draco, and the nearest naked-eye star to the Ecliptic poles are 36 Dra in the northern sky at about 2 degrees from the ecliptic northern pole, and Eta1 Dor at the south ecliptic pole. Surprisingly enough, the LMC is only about 4 degrees from the southern ecliptic pole.
However, Polaris would show the most diurnal parallax, as that is indeed based on the earth's spin.
I was in college in the University of Limerick with the Irish developer behind the drm-next tree, and he's a really great guy. He was a member of Skynet, (the UL Computer Society) along with some other people that have gone on to be fairly visible members of the wordlwide Linux community, including the likes of:
:D
Mel Gorman, kernel memory hacker;
Dave Airlie. AMD graphics developer,
Caolan McNamara, who did the first MSWord converter.
Irish Linux hackers FTW
Many thanks. I'm getting ~300 KB/sec on a 100MBit connection here at work.. Pity that running torrents in the office is a firing offence here, otherwise I'd be on top of the torrent and re-sharing.
Why a page titled "LOOSER"?
Was there someone that was tighter?
Or did you mean "LOSER", as in a person that is not an achiever?
It's nice to see a company live up to one of it's brands, namely the nicer version called "Gentleman Jack"...
(though that doesn't taste as nice as a bottle of Silver Select)
Posting as AC to be able to moderate your comments is pus. May you burn.
FYI: If you post as AC, you can't moderate the anonymous comment you've just posted.
Only if it triggers the video camera and informs you it is ready for review and upload..
Seriously - given that EULAs are nothing more than a wishlist for a software supplier and are *not* legally enforceable, the content of said EULA is non-relevant. If I purchase (with language like "buy" "Sale" or "yours for €x a month") an appliance I consider myself to have complete rights to use and break anything in or on said device. I can uninstall the OS and run my own. I can break through the security restrictions and mess with the innards as I see fit. I can root or jailbreak as I see fit. I can't redistribute that OS as that is covered under copyright law.
Now, as for my contract with the carrier - that is a different story altogether - I have paid for that, and I have entered into an agreement there with another legal entity, and as such I will agree to be constrained by that contract and its terms and conditions. If I have bought and I own an iPhone, as far as I am concerened that includes a copy of the OS to allow that hardware to be used, and I can do whatever I like with that OS copy without distributing it.
If your local laws are different, get on to you local representative and get them changed..
As far as I can see the majority of the rest of the world has already lost faith in the US as a country, and are watching in horror as that which was considered the epitome of western civilisation in the 60's and 70's has degenerated into something similar to that which was considered the nemesis during that time (the Soviet Union). At least the USSR managed to give almost everyone a purpose, even if they couldn't provide enough food...
But seriously - this whole TSA situation is making a mockery of everything the US used to stand for, and it's certain at this point that the terrorists have easily won, and it's going to take a proper revolution to fix it. God help us all..