I got to the age of 26 before I discovered that shallots were not small fish. It is the only time (so far) that I have been ruthlessly mocked by both my parents and a waitress at the same time.
Makes you wonder what else you've got horribly wrong...
To paraphrase the article: there is a sequence of nucleotides common to all terrestrial organisms with known end sequences (possibly multiple alleles thereof) and hence known PCR primers. If PCR succeeds that would tell us that DNA of common ancestry was present. Subsequent analysis would tell us the sequence and hence when the organism diverged from terrestrial common ancestor.
The article also addresses contamination and engineering issues.
The article is a slow and difficult read if you don't know PCR in detail but I thought I'd paraphrase as best I can since, while I'm not a molecular biologist, I've spent the last year writing SSO analysis software... As always, wikipedia is your friend.
Don't you guys in the new world have chip and pin yet?
Its a million miles from perfect, but it certainly speeds up small payments and means that a crook has to clone the card *and* shoulder-surf for the PIN. Actually, the more likely attack vector is to subvert the card reader such that the card number is read from the magnetic strip and the PIN from the keypad. The genuine hardware in the reader has no idea that other hardware has been added. It's happened to me twice but the bank repaid the money (they believed me when I said I wasn't in Dubai *and* London simultaneously).
I worked as a developer for a company making tills and back-office retail systems when chip and pin was introduced in the UK. The above attack was the first we thought of and the first that we demonstrated to horrified management who'd swallowed the 'chip and pin is secure' BS.
No touchscreen mobile device supports hovering to my knowledge, including PDAs, smart phones, iPhone, etc. I've just finished an application that ran on a tablet PC (Toshiba?) running Windows XP Tablet edition. If you move the pointer within about 5mm of the screen the pointer moves with it and so the mouse-over events fire. Touching the screen was the equivalent of left-clicking the mouse.
Naturally, as anticipated, the users were incapable of the motor control skills necessary and were unable to achieve anything other than jabbing wildly at the screen. Which was why I designed the UI with no hover or right-click functionality...
I had this same idea a few years back. In my case it was inspired by a combination of studying PKI via Applied Cryptography and contemporaneously reading a novel in which someone was poisoned despite having a food taster. This was because the poisoner wanted to control the time of death and be in the clear and so poisoned the target and then fed him the antidote for a while (which the taster obviously didn't notice) until the time came...
Then the two ideas collided in my head et voila.
The elegant aspect of this attack is that restores would still work while the key was in place.
Why do people want to read jokes about their work?
To remind themselves how silly this game is! One of my collegues commented one day on the effectively random stuff the hackers would say. It ocurred to me that it was the sentient equivalent of chewing one's leg off to get out of a trap.
Mark.
'I've run out of limbs but have to give four weeks notice. Good of sales to hand me another pre-fucked project.'
It is quite clearly dangerous, and to protect the rights of all Americans, it should be banned.
Um. It's not just Americans that this applies to... Does anyone else think that labels such as 'American', 'English' (me), 'Indian' and so on have become somewhat redundant? I've always thought of myself as human (since it gives me fewer unconcious ways of thinking that others are less important). Let's start a movement for a country for netizens.
- It's a revolution! Programmers of the world, compile!
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If they'd killed him, they'd have converted their example into a martyr.
I got to the age of 26 before I discovered that shallots were not small fish. It is the only time (so far) that I have been ruthlessly mocked by both my parents and a waitress at the same time.
Makes you wonder what else you've got horribly wrong...
sunonsunday.co.uk
www.123-reg.co.uk
Let's crowdsource the security questions...
Ta, muchly.
Right there.
Intent.
If I don't see that in comments...
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You used the wrong brackets.
Also, the campaign (at least here in the U.K.) was for the Jeff Buckley version.
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Yes, I am old here. Off to get a life now...
To paraphrase the article: there is a sequence of nucleotides common to all terrestrial organisms with known end sequences (possibly multiple alleles thereof) and hence known PCR primers. If PCR succeeds that would tell us that DNA of common ancestry was present. Subsequent analysis would tell us the sequence and hence when the organism diverged from terrestrial common ancestor.
The article also addresses contamination and engineering issues.
The article is a slow and difficult read if you don't know PCR in detail but I thought I'd paraphrase as best I can since, while I'm not a molecular biologist, I've spent the last year writing SSO analysis software... As always, wikipedia is your friend.
Its a million miles from perfect, but it certainly speeds up small payments and means that a crook has to clone the card *and* shoulder-surf for the PIN. Actually, the more likely attack vector is to subvert the card reader such that the card number is read from the magnetic strip and the PIN from the keypad. The genuine hardware in the reader has no idea that other hardware has been added. It's happened to me twice but the bank repaid the money (they believed me when I said I wasn't in Dubai *and* London simultaneously).
I worked as a developer for a company making tills and back-office retail systems when chip and pin was introduced in the UK. The above attack was the first we thought of and the first that we demonstrated to horrified management who'd swallowed the 'chip and pin is secure' BS.
Naturally, as anticipated, the users were incapable of the motor control skills necessary and were unable to achieve anything other than jabbing wildly at the screen. Which was why I designed the UI with no hover or right-click functionality...
I had this same idea a few years back. In my case it was inspired by a combination of studying PKI via Applied Cryptography and contemporaneously reading a novel in which someone was poisoned despite having a food taster. This was because the poisoner wanted to control the time of death and be in the clear and so poisoned the target and then fed him the antidote for a while (which the taster obviously didn't notice) until the time came...
Then the two ideas collided in my head et voila.
The elegant aspect of this attack is that restores would still work while the key was in place.
Why do people want to read jokes about their work?
To remind themselves how silly this game is! One of my collegues commented one day on the effectively random stuff the hackers would say. It ocurred to me that it was the sentient equivalent of chewing one's leg off to get out of a trap.
Mark.
'I've run out of limbs but have to give four weeks notice. Good of sales to hand me another pre-fucked project.'
Robert Fisk is the name you're looking for; writes for 'The Independent' in the UK.
- Mark.
Hi.
It is quite clearly dangerous, and to protect the rights of all Americans, it should be banned.
Um. It's not just Americans that this applies to... Does anyone else think that labels such as 'American', 'English' (me), 'Indian' and so on have become somewhat redundant? I've always thought of myself as human (since it gives me fewer unconcious ways of thinking that others are less important). Let's start a movement for a country for netizens.
- It's a revolution! Programmers of the world, compile!