Let me tell you how simple ODF is. I did the following with ZERO documentation. No knowledge at all.
I implemented a photo directory for my church congregation. Since it would need to be easily updated I kept the information in a CSV spreadsheet, including names, addresses, and the name of the photo file. I looked at doing a mail merge with either OOo or Word and it didn't look like I could get what I really wanted with either. So I made a sample doc in OOo Writer and saved it. I then renamed it to a.zip file, opened content.xml and found the xml for what I had put in the test doc. I then wrote a Java program that would parse the CSV and output xml that looked like the xml in the file. Cut and past the generated xml into the document, drop the photos in the pictures directory, and then zip it back up and change the name back. It just worked.
I'll admit that you would have to be a programmer to do something like that, but it was really easy and required no documentation or specialized knowledge. That is the power of the ODF. I'm guessing the same isn't possible with the MS format.
Obviously I'm getting nowhere with you. I'll waste my time elsewhere rather than trying to convince you that the obvious time savings and possible security increases are a good thing.
You admit that you haven't used it, so you wouldn't see the benefit. Besides much of the benefit is to the retailer that is able to get people through the line more quickly rather than to the individual customer that is less likely to notice that they've saved a few seconds.
You've seen it and you don't know it. McDonald's has it nationwide, CVS has it, I've seen it in workplace cafeterias. If you don't know what to look for you'll miss it. It is demonstrably faster and purchases under $25 (soon to be $100) don't require a signature. Contactless EMV will be faster still and will be significantly more secure. In any case the security fears right now are overblown. Do you freak out when you use your card at a restaurant? Why not? The waiter could dupe it, couldn't he?
ask what standards they implement. If they say, "Its EMV" then you can look up that spec. If they say something else then look that up. This stuff isn't a bunch of one-off projects. It is standardized and you can find the specs.
I work in the industry so I am pretty used to doing this but I rarely leverage the fact that I do in order to get specs. I just google it and go to the relevant website and fill out a form, sometimes with junk info. Most stuff that is in production is pretty easy to find. For example, you can get all the Global Platform specs or all the ICAO travel doc specs that detail not only the file format for the contactless passports, but the authentication mechanism and the low level commands that the chips implement.
If you are technically inclined (no longer the even a substantial minority on/.) then you can read this stuff and make some high level determination as to how secure it is. You can also google academic papers researching the security of it.
I am assuming that the person that asked the original question is just a slashbot that has been programmed to believe that "RFID" (and this is NOT RFID) is the devil and that it can't be secure, because they read that on/. I'm claiming that some here could actually find out for themselves if they wanted to.
First of all it probably isn't an RFID tag but a contactless smart card. Yes there is a meaningful distinction.
Second, do you know whether there is any security around it or not? Some implementations have no security at all, others do mutual authentication and create encrypted sessions. You are considerably more secure using the latter of these than your traditional mag stripe.
Get educated before sticking your head in the sand. Mag stripe is going to go away. Hopefully EMV will come to the US soon and put some security standards in place.
Apple actually followed this advice in the 90's. There were a few licensed Apple clone makers. They tended to put out more impressive hardware than Apple. Power Computing has a 4 processor workstation back when such a thing was unheard of. Steve slammed the door on that when he became iCEO.
It isn't her wrist that is blacked out. It is her daughter's head. They have unedited photos on one of the linked to news stories and you can clearly see a little girls head to her side.
Actually you can put JCOP cards in a variety of pure contactless form factors. I've seen them in watches and fobs for instance, but usually I use the dual interface cards that give me the option of using them with the more common contact readers or the much faster contactless ones. The Sharp smart card chip has 2MB of storage and there is a JCOP implementation for it which I believe came out recently. They've had a card with 1MB of storage for quite some time but it was their own Java impelementation as far as I know. The JCOP cards from Philips burrently go up to 72k.
You can also google on "Mifare" for cheap contactless memory cards from Philips. They aren't as programable but for many applications you don't need programability.
All the comparisons that I've seen miss the mark because the neglect to include all the relevant factors. You've just pointed out that I missed one and I agree. My point is that the summary and the article are hugely misleading by selecting a very particular implementation of a technology but using the generic term for it and then saying that their stuff is superior in every way. Like I said, it is crap.
There are contactless smart cards with up to 2 megabytes of storage, built in AES, 3DES, and RSA, that have a 1 inch range and 800 kbps transmit rates. A $1 memory spot looks good compared to a $0.10 rfid chip but isn't so impressive compared to a $1 contactless smart card.
In Latin America many of the most popular TV shows are never meant to last year after year. They have a story arc that they are going to tell and they are progressing to that particular end. If the show is popular they might add more filler in the middle, if it isn't they might trim it, but it was born in order to die. This is very liberating for the writers because they can kill characters off or have them get married without worrying about the long term consequences for the show, since it is going to end anyhow. Also, there is a new one hour episode every night. I thought that the first season of 24 was a great showcase of how this format could work in the US, but then they had to go and have multiple seasons...
Anyhow, I've often thought that LotR would have make a very good novela, broadcast once a week for an hour, and intend to last maybe a year, and by that I mean about 50 episodes, not 20.
I took "emmulated PC software" to mean x86 Windows. You are free to interpret it more liberally. I'm sure lots of xbox modders are running the PowerPC version of NT on their xbox1.o.
Leland Stanford Junior University is a private university. Though not a junior university. I can assure you that my loans would all be paid off now if it were a public university.
This isn't going to directly cause anybody (or at least a measurable number of people) to purchase this system as opposed to a competitor. But what it will do it cause the mainstream media to oooh and aaahhh over it a bit more which will help indirectly. It will get mentioned on CNN and such and contribute to a positive feel surrounding a story.
You've got me there! I agree that most people wouldn't notice it, which just goes to show that this entire discussion is pointless, since the actors could look quit a bit different and most people would not notice it, or at least wouldn't think about it or be distracted by it.
You're worried about Gollum, a CGI character? Why on earth is that? If you are trying to be funny then I'm sorry.
If you paid much attention Gollum looks significantly different in each of the three LOTR films anyhow. He'll probably look different yet again in the Hobbit movies.
there are different standards for radio induction systems. Look up ISO 14443 and ISO 16593 (I believe). Many building security systems use MiFare cards. The chips are produced by Philips and are considered contactless smart cards rather than RFID by those in the know.
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Let me tell you how simple ODF is. I did the following with ZERO documentation. No knowledge at all.
.zip file, opened content.xml and found the xml for what I had put in the test doc. I then wrote a Java program that would parse the CSV and output xml that looked like the xml in the file. Cut and past the generated xml into the document, drop the photos in the pictures directory, and then zip it back up and change the name back. It just worked.
I implemented a photo directory for my church congregation. Since it would need to be easily updated I kept the information in a CSV spreadsheet, including names, addresses, and the name of the photo file. I looked at doing a mail merge with either OOo or Word and it didn't look like I could get what I really wanted with either. So I made a sample doc in OOo Writer and saved it. I then renamed it to a
I'll admit that you would have to be a programmer to do something like that, but it was really easy and required no documentation or specialized knowledge. That is the power of the ODF. I'm guessing the same isn't possible with the MS format.
Obviously I'm getting nowhere with you. I'll waste my time elsewhere rather than trying to convince you that the obvious time savings and possible security increases are a good thing.
You admit that you haven't used it, so you wouldn't see the benefit. Besides much of the benefit is to the retailer that is able to get people through the line more quickly rather than to the individual customer that is less likely to notice that they've saved a few seconds.
You've seen it and you don't know it. McDonald's has it nationwide, CVS has it, I've seen it in workplace cafeterias. If you don't know what to look for you'll miss it. It is demonstrably faster and purchases under $25 (soon to be $100) don't require a signature. Contactless EMV will be faster still and will be significantly more secure. In any case the security fears right now are overblown. Do you freak out when you use your card at a restaurant? Why not? The waiter could dupe it, couldn't he?
ask what standards they implement. If they say, "Its EMV" then you can look up that spec. If they say something else then look that up. This stuff isn't a bunch of one-off projects. It is standardized and you can find the specs.
/.) then you can read this stuff and make some high level determination as to how secure it is. You can also google academic papers researching the security of it.
/. I'm claiming that some here could actually find out for themselves if they wanted to.
I work in the industry so I am pretty used to doing this but I rarely leverage the fact that I do in order to get specs. I just google it and go to the relevant website and fill out a form, sometimes with junk info. Most stuff that is in production is pretty easy to find. For example, you can get all the Global Platform specs or all the ICAO travel doc specs that detail not only the file format for the contactless passports, but the authentication mechanism and the low level commands that the chips implement.
If you are technically inclined (no longer the even a substantial minority on
I am assuming that the person that asked the original question is just a slashbot that has been programmed to believe that "RFID" (and this is NOT RFID) is the devil and that it can't be secure, because they read that on
you are correct. Slashdot has a tough time on these issues. The sky is always falling.
First of all it probably isn't an RFID tag but a contactless smart card. Yes there is a meaningful distinction.
Second, do you know whether there is any security around it or not? Some implementations have no security at all, others do mutual authentication and create encrypted sessions. You are considerably more secure using the latter of these than your traditional mag stripe.
Get educated before sticking your head in the sand. Mag stripe is going to go away. Hopefully EMV will come to the US soon and put some security standards in place.
Apple actually followed this advice in the 90's. There were a few licensed Apple clone makers. They tended to put out more impressive hardware than Apple. Power Computing has a 4 processor workstation back when such a thing was unheard of. Steve slammed the door on that when he became iCEO.
What on earth should the wikipedia article on Primerica say?
It isn't her wrist that is blacked out. It is her daughter's head. They have unedited photos on one of the linked to news stories and you can clearly see a little girls head to her side.
Actually you can put JCOP cards in a variety of pure contactless form factors. I've seen them in watches and fobs for instance, but usually I use the dual interface cards that give me the option of using them with the more common contact readers or the much faster contactless ones. The Sharp smart card chip has 2MB of storage and there is a JCOP implementation for it which I believe came out recently. They've had a card with 1MB of storage for quite some time but it was their own Java impelementation as far as I know. The JCOP cards from Philips burrently go up to 72k.
The IBM JCOP card is one such smart card.
You can also google on "Mifare" for cheap contactless memory cards from Philips. They aren't as programable but for many applications you don't need programability.
All the comparisons that I've seen miss the mark because the neglect to include all the relevant factors. You've just pointed out that I missed one and I agree. My point is that the summary and the article are hugely misleading by selecting a very particular implementation of a technology but using the generic term for it and then saying that their stuff is superior in every way. Like I said, it is crap.
sloppy, have you tried tube sock? It allows you to download the video files directly using it.
There are contactless smart cards with up to 2 megabytes of storage, built in AES, 3DES, and RSA, that have a 1 inch range and 800 kbps transmit rates. A $1 memory spot looks good compared to a $0.10 rfid chip but isn't so impressive compared to a $1 contactless smart card.
In Latin America many of the most popular TV shows are never meant to last year after year. They have a story arc that they are going to tell and they are progressing to that particular end. If the show is popular they might add more filler in the middle, if it isn't they might trim it, but it was born in order to die. This is very liberating for the writers because they can kill characters off or have them get married without worrying about the long term consequences for the show, since it is going to end anyhow. Also, there is a new one hour episode every night. I thought that the first season of 24 was a great showcase of how this format could work in the US, but then they had to go and have multiple seasons...
Anyhow, I've often thought that LotR would have make a very good novela, broadcast once a week for an hour, and intend to last maybe a year, and by that I mean about 50 episodes, not 20.
(The rest of the company tends to let them down.)
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Huh? What are you saying about me????
I took "emmulated PC software" to mean x86 Windows. You are free to interpret it more liberally. I'm sure lots of xbox modders are running the PowerPC version of NT on their xbox1.o.
Given that the xbox used an x86 chipset and the Wii will use another Power-derived design it seems that your comment is trivially proven true.
Leland Stanford Junior University is a private university. Though not a junior university. I can assure you that my loans would all be paid off now if it were a public university.
This isn't going to directly cause anybody (or at least a measurable number of people) to purchase this system as opposed to a competitor. But what it will do it cause the mainstream media to oooh and aaahhh over it a bit more which will help indirectly. It will get mentioned on CNN and such and contribute to a positive feel surrounding a story.
The following companies will be more than happy to sell you a password storage/single sign on solution:
Encentuate
ActivIdentity
Passlogix
You've got me there! I agree that most people wouldn't notice it, which just goes to show that this entire discussion is pointless, since the actors could look quit a bit different and most people would not notice it, or at least wouldn't think about it or be distracted by it.
You're worried about Gollum, a CGI character? Why on earth is that? If you are trying to be funny then I'm sorry.
If you paid much attention Gollum looks significantly different in each of the three LOTR films anyhow. He'll probably look different yet again in the Hobbit movies.
there are different standards for radio induction systems. Look up ISO 14443 and ISO 16593 (I believe). Many building security systems use MiFare cards. The chips are produced by Philips and are considered contactless smart cards rather than RFID by those in the know.