1. Present finger for scanning 2. Scan matches fingerprint to ID record 3. Checker's terminal displays photo of recognized person 4. Checker notices that the fingerwielder looks nothing like the registered fingerowner. 5. Fingerwielder flees.
Alternatively, you can require a PIN code to use in conjunction with the scan. This is what they did at High Tech Burrito when they tested a thumb-scan system in Berkeley.
The point is this: Is it any fairer to dismiss things like fourier stenography as cosmetic and pointless than it is to dismiss the musical portion as such?
It's obviously not pointless, as we're talking about it apropos of nothing, and when considering aesthetic works, how can anyone portion off aspects as being pointless and others relevant? Artistic works have to be taken by their whole.
I'd rather that someone be able to go through a fair amount of trouble and fool the device, because if they didn't, then they might have to resort to cutting off my finger. Give them an easier way, and one that leaves me digitally intact!
Any way you look at it, it's still more secure than credit card numbers. Then again, you can always cancel your credit card number. What would you do here, cancel that finger, and start using another? You can only do that for so long...
From Kieth's homepage: "The.NET process and Visual Studio.NET both demonstrate good vision and an awareness of the responsibility to build tools and applications on top of the Internet as a Platform."
If you don't want Microsoft to referee the success or failure of your innovation, then don't create innovations which depend on marketing and implementation deals with Microsoft for their success.
RealNames was a marketing ploy, taking advantage of Microsoft's dominance above actual internet standards, and exchanging that monopoly for material gain. The fact that it failed is a testament to the capability of standards over proprietary schemes, and is hardly an example of the evils of Microsoft's monopoly.
The evils of Microsoft's monopoly is the reason RealNames existed in the first place, not the reason it was torn down.
...on th web, anyhow. All the time we deal with several languages, burying one inside another so they'll make sense as they go through successive levels of parsing.
For example, every day I write SQL that is buried in PHP libraries which extracts more PHP that in turn has HTML and Javascript in them.
For another example of the crazyness, check this simple example. Now if you look at the source, you'll notice the end part of that A-tag was:.');"> For those of you who are counting, that's SIX 'enders' in three syntax languages just to form a simple alert box.
. - English syntax ' - Javascript string syntax ) - Javascript function syntax ; - Javascript instruction syntax " - HTML attribute syntax > - XML (err, HTML, whichever) tag syntax
And that's not even a particularly hairy example. That's just client-side and wetware-side parsing.
Put it in the middle of a big boring desert, inside a mountain, underground, surrounded by concrete and lead.
And the put the markers underground so that, if someone tried to dig it up, or if erosion takes hold, the markers will be found before the bunker, but the markers won't be visible ordinarily, to prevent curious post-industrialites from camping out near the 'ruins'.
As to the point about symmetry, the actual reason that the biohazard and radiation symbols are radially symetrical is so they're easily recognizable even if they're turned on end or upside down, whick could easily be the case at the time when you need to recognize them most (ie after a spill, or in a trash dump).
Question (possibly stupid): Why can't we just heave it into space? Is it due to sheer volume? Do we have plans to produce a whole lot more of it?
The sheer bolume is just one problem. The second problem is what happens if there's a launch accident. I recall that NASA was pretty keen on getting some plutonium pellets back from a botched NSA launch a few years ago.
the third problem is that something in orbit, or in free-floating space, is still likely to come back to us or another planet and contaminate it. Properly distributed, a tablespoonfull of plutonium could kill every human on Earth. Entering the atmopshere at high speed isn't the optimal way to distribute, but it would still do a heck of a lot of bad.
Flinging it into the sun would probably work, but getting it there is the hard part.
why not have a sign that just says 'radiation: keep out!' in a few common current languages?
This is stupid. Thousands of years is a long, long time, and catastrophic things can happen. 'We' might not be around to update the signs into new languages, and people most certainly do forget where important things are buried.
We're still discovering about one new pyramid every two years in Egypt, but I bet you were the guy back then who said we didn't need maps and signs because who would forget where we put a fucking huge pyramid?
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Fifteen generations? Bah. If the Japanese will bind the feet of their girls and women, why not bind the fingers and hands when they're small, to keep them compatible with the microelectronics that will fill their later life?
What really got me excited today was the news about Inkwell, the handwriting recognition engine for 10.2.
I'm excited because it's so useless. There is no way that Jobs would put his people through the effort of bringing handwriting recognition to OS X unless it was a precursor to the iPad. My guess is October, January at the latest.
You mean Styopa's comment (your comment's grandparent), right? Mine (the one you quoted, parent to your comment) was quite rational, and exactly on the level. No sarcasm was intended: Companies are supposed to try and make money. This in istelf doesn't make them evil.
If I had $40 billion in CASH, an infallibility complex, and a slowly-dawning-realization that a) I'm not going to be able to take it with me and b) everyone doesn't love me as much as I think they do I'd sure use that money for something significant.
Except we're not talking about Bill Gates, we're talking about Microsoft. You know, the company. Companies don't worry about dying and leaving money to descendants or estate taxes, and public companies choose business practices to enhance shareholder value, not cure Polio, unless curing Polio enhances shareholder value.
If you want to see some good come of this huge cash surplus, sell your Microsoft stock (or convince a friend to) and donate it to your favorite worthy cause.
Population of the U.S. = 281,421,906 source [census.gov].
40,000 / 281.422 = 142
Therefore, Microsoft has enough money in reserve to make everyone in the U.S. a millionaire 142 times over.
Might want to watch that math. Your final line compares units in millions to units in millions. $40 billion is enough to give everyone $142, not $142 million.
I highly recommend it. It goes to the broad level of creating relevant communities, how to make sure they're useful, and also discusses the nuts and bolts of registrations and logins. It even has the pragmatism to devote a chapter on how to close communities down when they no longer serve a needed function, without leaving people in the lurch.
Considering that the experiment has to be simple, and accessible to students, I'm gonna have to go with the Schrodinger's Cat experiment, proving Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
No, quantum cryptography makes one link in the chain positively unassailable--not just "more secure".
Actually, no. At its best, Quantum Cryptography ensures that one and only one party will be able to receive the encrypted datastream. That doesn't mean it's unassailable. It simply means that it can't be eavesdropped without the intended recipient being aware of it.
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1. Present finger for scanning
2. Scan matches fingerprint to ID record
3. Checker's terminal displays photo of recognized person
4. Checker notices that the fingerwielder looks nothing like the registered fingerowner.
5. Fingerwielder flees.
Alternatively, you can require a PIN code to use in conjunction with the scan. This is what they did at High Tech Burrito when they tested a thumb-scan system in Berkeley.
SF, CA. The only time people ask to check Id is if you write "Check ID" on the back of your credit card, instead of having a signature.
I was 90% joking, 10% making a point.
The point is this: Is it any fairer to dismiss things like fourier stenography as cosmetic and pointless than it is to dismiss the musical portion as such?
It's obviously not pointless, as we're talking about it apropos of nothing, and when considering aesthetic works, how can anyone portion off aspects as being pointless and others relevant? Artistic works have to be taken by their whole.
I'd rather that someone be able to go through a fair amount of trouble and fool the device, because if they didn't, then they might have to resort to cutting off my finger. Give them an easier way, and one that leaves me digitally intact!
Any way you look at it, it's still more secure than credit card numbers. Then again, you can always cancel your credit card number. What would you do here, cancel that finger, and start using another? You can only do that for so long...
c) adds something cosmetic, pointless, but nonetheless cool.
Doesn't this describe music in its entirety?
From Kieth's homepage: "The .NET process and Visual Studio .NET both demonstrate good vision and an awareness of the responsibility to build tools and applications on top of the Internet as a Platform."
.NET is in disarray, and is in in the midst of a complete strategic overhaul.
While, in other news, Microsoft VP Jim Allchin admits
Interesting dichotomy, that.
If you don't want Microsoft to referee the success or failure of your innovation, then don't create innovations which depend on marketing and implementation deals with Microsoft for their success.
RealNames was a marketing ploy, taking advantage of Microsoft's dominance above actual internet standards, and exchanging that monopoly for material gain. The fact that it failed is a testament to the capability of standards over proprietary schemes, and is hardly an example of the evils of Microsoft's monopoly.
The evils of Microsoft's monopoly is the reason RealNames existed in the first place, not the reason it was torn down.
So are the doublequotes around the HREF parameter, and the period, but who's counting? ;-)
...on th web, anyhow. All the time we deal with several languages, burying one inside another so they'll make sense as they go through successive levels of parsing.
.');"> For those of you who are counting, that's SIX 'enders' in three syntax languages just to form a simple alert box.
. - English syntax
; - Javascript instruction syntax
For example, every day I write SQL that is buried in PHP libraries which extracts more PHP that in turn has HTML and Javascript in them.
For another example of the crazyness, check this simple example. Now if you look at the source, you'll notice the end part of that A-tag was:
' - Javascript string syntax
) - Javascript function syntax
" - HTML attribute syntax
> - XML (err, HTML, whichever) tag syntax
And that's not even a particularly hairy example. That's just client-side and wetware-side parsing.
Put it in the middle of a big boring desert, inside a mountain, underground, surrounded by concrete and lead.
And the put the markers underground so that, if someone tried to dig it up, or if erosion takes hold, the markers will be found before the bunker, but the markers won't be visible ordinarily, to prevent curious post-industrialites from camping out near the 'ruins'.
Thanks for the neurohazard kudos!
As to the point about symmetry, the actual reason that the biohazard and radiation symbols are radially symetrical is so they're easily recognizable even if they're turned on end or upside down, whick could easily be the case at the time when you need to recognize them most (ie after a spill, or in a trash dump).
Question (possibly stupid): Why can't we just heave it into space? Is it due to sheer volume? Do we have plans to produce a whole lot more of it?
The sheer bolume is just one problem. The second problem is what happens if there's a launch accident. I recall that NASA was pretty keen on getting some plutonium pellets back from a botched NSA launch a few years ago.
the third problem is that something in orbit, or in free-floating space, is still likely to come back to us or another planet and contaminate it. Properly distributed, a tablespoonfull of plutonium could kill every human on Earth. Entering the atmopshere at high speed isn't the optimal way to distribute, but it would still do a heck of a lot of bad.
Flinging it into the sun would probably work, but getting it there is the hard part.
And heck, nobody really goes to Nevada anyhow.
And it's not like civilization will forget that there's a whole bunch of really nasty shit in the Nevada.
Fuck. I forgot where I put Atlantis. Anyone?
why not have a sign that just says 'radiation: keep out!' in a few common current languages?
This is stupid. Thousands of years is a long, long time, and catastrophic things can happen. 'We' might not be around to update the signs into new languages, and people most certainly do forget where important things are buried.
We're still discovering about one new pyramid every two years in Egypt, but I bet you were the guy back then who said we didn't need maps and signs because who would forget where we put a fucking huge pyramid?
I made one seven years ago for neurological pathogens, but I think in this case, the best idea might be a variant of the skull and crossbones, replacing the crossbones with the traditional radiation symbol.
Isn't that Spectre?
Fifteen generations? Bah. If the Japanese will bind the feet of their girls and women, why not bind the fingers and hands when they're small, to keep them compatible with the microelectronics that will fill their later life?
What really got me excited today was the news about Inkwell, the handwriting recognition engine for 10.2.
I'm excited because it's so useless. There is no way that Jobs would put his people through the effort of bringing handwriting recognition to OS X unless it was a precursor to the iPad. My guess is October, January at the latest.
Soooooo happy.
Your comment was emotional and quite senseless.
You mean Styopa's comment (your comment's grandparent), right? Mine (the one you quoted, parent to your comment) was quite rational, and exactly on the level. No sarcasm was intended: Companies are supposed to try and make money. This in istelf doesn't make them evil.
If I had $40 billion in CASH, an infallibility complex, and a slowly-dawning-realization that a) I'm not going to be able to take it with me and b) everyone doesn't love me as much as I think they do I'd sure use that money for something significant.
Except we're not talking about Bill Gates, we're talking about Microsoft. You know, the company. Companies don't worry about dying and leaving money to descendants or estate taxes, and public companies choose business practices to enhance shareholder value, not cure Polio, unless curing Polio enhances shareholder value.
If you want to see some good come of this huge cash surplus, sell your Microsoft stock (or convince a friend to) and donate it to your favorite worthy cause.
$40 billion = 40 thousand million dollars.
Population of the U.S. = 281,421,906 source [census.gov].
40,000 / 281.422 = 142
Therefore, Microsoft has enough money in reserve to make everyone in the U.S. a millionaire 142 times over.
Might want to watch that math. Your final line compares units in millions to units in millions. $40 billion is enough to give everyone $142, not $142 million.
Derek Powazek, creator of Fray, Kvetch, and others, wrote an excellent book on the subject: Design for Community.
I highly recommend it. It goes to the broad level of creating relevant communities, how to make sure they're useful, and also discusses the nuts and bolts of registrations and logins. It even has the pragmatism to devote a chapter on how to close communities down when they no longer serve a needed function, without leaving people in the lurch.
This really is a great book.
Ingredients:
That set of animations demonstrating the design overlap would have been a lot smaller if they'd done it in Flash.
No, quantum cryptography makes one link in the chain positively unassailable--not just "more secure".
Actually, no. At its best, Quantum Cryptography ensures that one and only one party will be able to receive the encrypted datastream. That doesn't mean it's unassailable. It simply means that it can't be eavesdropped without the intended recipient being aware of it.