recently I have been just yanking the drive out and letting Windows complain. Still, it seems that something is very wrong. All OSes should tell you what process it is that is using the drive so you can remove it "properly".
This is all speculation on my part of course. That said Apple seems to try to keep roughly the same price points filled. Because of that I wouldn't be surprised to see dual dual-cores at about the $2k, $2.5k, and $3k price points.
Even without dual cores, it seems that today's $2k G5 system would be able compete with a cluster of four minis.
Of course I am still waiting to see the quad 970 Linux workstation that everyone said IBM was going to come out with 18 months ago...
The problem with flash drives on Windows is that Windows regulary claims that my drive is in use when it plainly isn't. I can shut down every running program and I still can't safely remove a thumb drive. The only way to please Windows in this instance is to do a shutdown, remove the drive when the coputer is off, and then turn it back on. This doesn't happen to me all the time, but it happens regularly enough to annoy me. I haven't had that problem on my Mac.
Wait to see if the new G5 systems have dual core processors. If they do, then for $2k you could buy either four minis or one dual G5 with four processor cores. When you look at it that way, it seems pretty clear that the new G5 might be faster than a mini cluster at almost anyting. Of course this depends on the dual core issue.
Roll your own distro that removes support for USB drives.
I would suggest that you need to give up. At my last project thumb drives were getting passed around like crazy and nobody was worried about it, and this was a place where they wouldn't give us a network connection. Trust the people that work for you, sue those that screw you, and pay them enough that they aren't easily bribed. As others have mentioned, they have most of the info in their own heads already and there is nothing you can do about that, so make sure they want to stay.
Most systems are implemented such that the chip doesn't contain an image of the fingerprint. Instead it has a template of your fingerprint that is generated during enrollment. This template doesn't contain all the information needed to recreate an image of your fingerprint, though some work has been done showing that some aspects of the fingerprint can be generated. These generated prints can be used to match but do look like a fingerprint to you or me. Also, some cards do an on-card match, which means that they never give the template up. Instead the verification is done by creating a second template on the spot and sending it to the card where it is compared to the original. The card then reports if there was a match.
I should also note that in many systems no server copy of the prints or templates is kept. All the information is on the card. However, I would guess that governments would tend to keep such information if given the chance.
There used to be a guy in southeastern Idaho that bred ligers on his property. He would charge admission ot see them. I remember hearing about this while growing up. Some Googling has reveald that the guy named the attraction Ligertown, USA, and that Jared Hess was well aware of it, and that was the inspiration for the liger comments in ND. It turns out that Shasta has nothing to do with it.
In addition to ligers there are also tigons. One has a tiger and a mother and a lion as a father. The other is the opposite combo, but I have no idea which is which.
Mod the parent up. I did a project at Stanford to create a mock-up GUI for a remote controlled helicopter to be used in search and rescue operations. This was in about 1997. The helicopter used differential GPS and got amazingly accurate position infomation, even while flying around at a good clip. This will give you much better accuracy than you need, assuming that the cardboard boxes don't mess with the signals too badly. What do you have in the boxes anyhow?
When I lived in Brazil I was amazed at the power and efficiency of cars with small engines. I looked into why this was and it turns out that the US has very stringent standards for the exhaust equipment on cars sold in the US. So a small car sold elsewhere would probably have better performance and economy than one in the US.
This isn't to make excuses for the Hummers and other such senseless cars out there, but it does help to explain the situation.
BTW, I have driven a Prius quite a bit as a family member owns one and I was impressed with its size. It is smaller than my Maxima, but not by much.
As the maker of the original "snake oil" comment, let me make a few clarifications. First, I am not the AC that is replying to you. I have posted AC to/. less than 5 times in six years, and not at all in the last six months. Second, the "snake oil" comment was about the amount of review a cipher (any cipher, not this one in particular) has undergone, not whether it is open source. It seems to me that all of the AES candidates have undergone more review than this cipher. Yet even the designers of some of those candidate ciphers have said that people should use AES because it is the standard and it will receive more research going forwad, even though they personally think their own creations have advantages.
Though there is good work that has been done on CS, most of it appears to be done by the creators of it. Finally, from the article:
As of yet no full cryptanalysis of the CS-Cipher is known to exist.
Yes, it would, that was my point in mentioning that it is 40-bit. I choose that as an example because it sprang to mind as a recent high profile complete compromise of a non-standard cipher that was completely and totally broken, rather than something that has simply been shown to have weaknesses but not actaully broken.
Obviously the system being discussed here isn't using 40-bit keys. I don't know if they are doing something else that is stupid. That is why heavily reviewed ciphers are a good thing. Now, is this cipher heavily reviewed? Or are they trying to get a lot of people to use it in order to attract attention to it and then get it reviewed? If that is the case then the cart is before the horse, isn't it?
One of the advantages of AES, 3DES and DES is that as heavily used standards they attract a lot of research. You can have a lot of confidence that if there is a weakness it will be discovered and made public. The same is not true of proprietary ciphers. As a example look at the 40 bit encryption used by TI for RFID tags that was recently broken by a bunch of university students. If those students had been malicious they could have broken it and not told anyone. They could have then exploited the weakness for years because the cipher isn't widely studied so it is unlikely that someone else would have bothered to crack it. If TI had simply gone with 3DES there would have been no problem.
The moral of the story: stick to the standards people.
The refresh rate of your eyes is known as persistence of vision. Some people have a higher rate than others. You can use an adjustable strobe light to see what your rate is. Different animals have different rates as well. Supposedly a praying mantis has incredibly fast persistence of vision.
I have participated in the RFP process of some of the deployments you mention. You are wrong. The specs given by the vendors referencce EMV and the specifics are lifted straight from EMV.
did you read the article? He has it working on a Mac without a motion sensor, he uses the mouse to give input to the routine. It would be simple to have a button to click to rotate 90 degrees.
Thanks for your reply. I didn't mean to imply that there is a "Contactless EMV" standard. My point, which you stated more clearly, is that all of these cards implement EMV (with SDA) and use the t=cl protocol.
I'm not sure what your "education" comment means, as you haven't told me anything that I don't know. I do appreciate that you have taken the time to state things clearly, and perhaps I haven't done so myself.
While we're on the subject of education, let me say that education is exactly why I am saying that this is not RFID. RFID means something to most/.ers, and many of the fear it, as evidenced by the responses to this article, which originally contained many references to RFID. If/.ers, and concerned people in general, understood some of the details not only would many of them feel better about this technology, but we would be well on our way to productive discussions of the real implications of it rather than the shoutfests over the imagined horrors.
Has my effort to educate/.ers been fruitful? I am not sure. What I do know is that the text of the/. article was changed a few hours after the original post as a direct result of my admittedly hasty and rude comment. Note that the article that is linked to never mentions RFID. Thousands of people read my comment as it was the fourth response to the article and quickly modded up to +5. They might not agree with me, but at least they know there is a difference of opinion over this. In contrast you chimmed in saying "You are wrong" when you knew that I was in fact right. I find this a bit odd.
While we're at it, I must say that your response to one of my previous comments in November demonstrates that while you seem to know some terminology, you don't seem to have deep smart card experience. Please correct me if I am wrong. It is very possible that I have misunderstood your previous comment in some way. It is difficult to tell since you did not respond. Interesting that 2/3rds of the time you have posted to/. it has been in response to me.
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recently I have been just yanking the drive out and letting Windows complain. Still, it seems that something is very wrong. All OSes should tell you what process it is that is using the drive so you can remove it "properly".
Even without dual cores, it seems that today's $2k G5 system would be able compete with a cluster of four minis.
Of course I am still waiting to see the quad 970 Linux workstation that everyone said IBM was going to come out with 18 months ago...
The problem with flash drives on Windows is that Windows regulary claims that my drive is in use when it plainly isn't. I can shut down every running program and I still can't safely remove a thumb drive. The only way to please Windows in this instance is to do a shutdown, remove the drive when the coputer is off, and then turn it back on. This doesn't happen to me all the time, but it happens regularly enough to annoy me. I haven't had that problem on my Mac.
Wait to see if the new G5 systems have dual core processors. If they do, then for $2k you could buy either four minis or one dual G5 with four processor cores. When you look at it that way, it seems pretty clear that the new G5 might be faster than a mini cluster at almost anyting. Of course this depends on the dual core issue.
I would suggest that you need to give up. At my last project thumb drives were getting passed around like crazy and nobody was worried about it, and this was a place where they wouldn't give us a network connection. Trust the people that work for you, sue those that screw you, and pay them enough that they aren't easily bribed. As others have mentioned, they have most of the info in their own heads already and there is nothing you can do about that, so make sure they want to stay.
I should also note that in many systems no server copy of the prints or templates is kept. All the information is on the card. However, I would guess that governments would tend to keep such information if given the chance.
In addition to ligers there are also tigons. One has a tiger and a mother and a lion as a father. The other is the opposite combo, but I have no idea which is which.
Too bad for us that AZ doesn't have DST. If it did we might not have to put up with your posts.
This is not the line that you are looking for...
Mod the parent up. I did a project at Stanford to create a mock-up GUI for a remote controlled helicopter to be used in search and rescue operations. This was in about 1997. The helicopter used differential GPS and got amazingly accurate position infomation, even while flying around at a good clip. This will give you much better accuracy than you need, assuming that the cardboard boxes don't mess with the signals too badly. What do you have in the boxes anyhow?
This isn't to make excuses for the Hummers and other such senseless cars out there, but it does help to explain the situation.
BTW, I have driven a Prius quite a bit as a family member owns one and I was impressed with its size. It is smaller than my Maxima, but not by much.
I for one am anxiously awaiting OSX 10.10.10, Miniature Daschund.
Radio Shack cable is also a rip-off. Instead of paying 70% too much for fancy Monster cables you pay 200% too much for crappy Radio Shack cables.
Though there is good work that has been done on CS, most of it appears to be done by the creators of it. Finally, from the article:
As of yet no full cryptanalysis of the CS-Cipher is known to exist.
Obviously the system being discussed here isn't using 40-bit keys. I don't know if they are doing something else that is stupid. That is why heavily reviewed ciphers are a good thing. Now, is this cipher heavily reviewed? Or are they trying to get a lot of people to use it in order to attract attention to it and then get it reviewed? If that is the case then the cart is before the horse, isn't it?
You are right. Nevermind what I said. Buy the snake oil, it has a better track record.
I should probably mention that the above is in no way meant to endorse the use of single DES in the present.
The moral of the story: stick to the standards people.
The refresh rate of your eyes is known as persistence of vision. Some people have a higher rate than others. You can use an adjustable strobe light to see what your rate is. Different animals have different rates as well. Supposedly a praying mantis has incredibly fast persistence of vision.
I have participated in the RFP process of some of the deployments you mention. You are wrong. The specs given by the vendors referencce EMV and the specifics are lifted straight from EMV.
did you read the article? He has it working on a Mac without a motion sensor, he uses the mouse to give input to the routine. It would be simple to have a button to click to rotate 90 degrees.
Where did you get this program? I have a T40 which should have the same feature and would like to try it out.
Also, Windows users will freak out if they don't have an eject button.
I'm not sure what your "education" comment means, as you haven't told me anything that I don't know. I do appreciate that you have taken the time to state things clearly, and perhaps I haven't done so myself.
While we're on the subject of education, let me say that education is exactly why I am saying that this is not RFID. RFID means something to most /.ers, and many of the fear it, as evidenced by the responses to this article, which originally contained many references to RFID. If /.ers, and concerned people in general, understood some of the details not only would many of them feel better about this technology, but we would be well on our way to productive discussions of the real implications of it rather than the shoutfests over the imagined horrors.
Has my effort to educate /.ers been fruitful? I am not sure. What I do know is that the text of the /. article was changed a few hours after the original post as a direct result of my admittedly hasty and rude comment. Note that the article that is linked to never mentions RFID. Thousands of people read my comment as it was the fourth response to the article and quickly modded up to +5. They might not agree with me, but at least they know there is a difference of opinion over this. In contrast you chimmed in saying "You are wrong" when you knew that I was in fact right. I find this a bit odd.
While we're at it, I must say that your response to one of my previous comments in November demonstrates that while you seem to know some terminology, you don't seem to have deep smart card experience. Please correct me if I am wrong. It is very possible that I have misunderstood your previous comment in some way. It is difficult to tell since you did not respond. Interesting that 2/3rds of the time you have posted to /. it has been in response to me.