It is very odd to see a how-to document for the Mac that calls the OS, "OS X.3.5" I looked at that and I was confused for a moment since I've never seen that particular abuse before.
Though some people don't get it, the name of the OS is "OS X", pronounced "oh-es ten", and the version number in this case would be 10.3.5, thus giving us "OS X 10.3.5"
And yes, I think that whoever comes up with names and version numbers at both Apple and Sun should be shot.
I'm not saying it is a good idea, but that is the purpose of this mileage tax. This is just a different method of achieving the same result, without the invasion of privacy.
A possible solution would be to raise the gas tax and get rid of the LEV incentive. The incentive for a LEV would be that you pay less gas tax. There is probably a balance to be found here. Even a moron such as yourself could figure out a solution that doesn't involve tacking a GPS device on all vehices.
even less invasive: raise the stupid gas tax on everybody. People should be rewarded for driving cars that pollute less, not punished. Somehow the idea of pollution is being left out of this equation.
Wouldn't it just be easier to just raise the gas tax? Another alternative that would be less invasive would be to make people pay a different tax rate based on the mileage their car gets. Another way would be to make it part of the inspection process. When you take your car in for inspection they take down the mileage. It seems like there are lots of solutions to this that don't involve putting a GPS in every car.
While in college I was asked to invite a psychic to the dorm to give a talk. I called and introduced myself and finally he asked how to get to the dorm. I bit my tongue to keep from saying, "You're psychic, you tell me!" In the end I met him at a gas station near the freeway exit and had him follow me to the dorm.
I am missing the cohenrent arguement aspect of the article. Most of it is just backstory to convince us that his instincts are right. If he's so brilliant at "smelling" companies then why isn't he making big bucks on Wall Street? His smell test doesn't pass my smell test.
I think you are confusing Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) with their former company, Arthur Anderson. The two split prior to the scandal. Re-branding the consulting company seemed strange to me at the time since they had a huge name, but in hindsight it was genius.
It could be a standard 7816 smart card (contact only) instead of a 14443 card which is contactless. It could also be an optical stripe card, or even a 2d barcode if they used jpeg2000 to compress the image. However if it is 14443 tinfoil works nicely. I've tested it and it never fails to block card communication. The reader doesn't even see that a card is there.
Luckily their missle tech is such that we can watch them building it and destroy it if needed. However that only works if we know they are going to attack rather than just do another test launch.
Forget the nukes. NK has a massive amount of conventional weaponry locked, loaded, and pointed at Seoul. The instant hostilities erupt Seoul will be reduced to rubble without a nuke. NK has a gun to SK's head and is ready to pull the trigger. Hopefully reports that the government is about to collapse are true and more reasonable people will come to power.
Why is this in the Apple section?
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Also, while Archon is great, somebody needs to do a faithful rendition of MULE.
If maturity and stability are what you value then why not go with OpenGL to begin with? For the other stuff you mention there is SDL. I don't see how it is unstable.
I don't remember details such as number of pictures but it was very limited. I remember taking pictures of dorm residents and then running to my room, hooking it up to the Mac, and then heading back to the party while I waited for it to download. I would then retrieve the camera later and take more photos. Not only was the resolution crappy, but the light sensitivity was terrible.
Ugggh! My dorm had that beast when I was in college. It took crappy pictures, was heavy, and ran out of batteries quickly. Of course it was the first digital camera that I ever used, so maybe I am judging it too harshly. Even so, at the time I thought that it just wasn't quite ready for prime-time.
This seems like an implementation of the Street Performer Protocol that he proposed. This only implements the first half of it though, in which the fans pay up for a work. The second half is that the work is then released freely. I doubt Paramount would be open to that part of it.
This is a problem with many Free software projects. The emphasis is on making it usable for developers, not pretty for your grandma. Firefox seems to be an example of how a product can become very popular by actually worrying about such things.
I attended a talk by RMS once. When he opened it up for questions, I asked why the gnu.org webpage looked like 1994 and said that great content with no style wouldn't appeal to the masses. He said that he didn't care about people like that and those that "got it" don't care about outward appearances. He got cheers from the crowd.
I can tell you who I think "gets it" and who doesn't.
I was on a 7 pm flight this week. We say on the runway for over 2 hours while a computer on the plane was rebooting repeatedly. Finally they rebooting the entire plane, shutting everything off and then bringing the systems back up. That didn't work either. Finally they gave up, said that this had happened early in the day (!) and put us on another plane going to a different city. To make a long story short, I got in at 2 am instead of 8 pm and I could have driven there faster.
You are correct. This is an optical fingerprint reader and unless there is additional hardware on it it will not do live finger detection. Therefore the gummi bear attack will probably work.
Also, on the question of "how good is it?". That depends on whose fingerprint software is being used. If the software is in-house Microsoft stuff then it is probably first generation and not very accurate. What this does is raise both the false-positive and the false-negative rate, meaning it is more likely to let the wrong person in and it is also more likely to not let you in. They might be buying the reader and the software from someone. It looks like it might be a Digital Persona reader.
You aren't stuck with that as your only option. Authentec makes nice readers that are capacitive and can do live finger detection. These work well with the BioScrypt software, which is very highly rated in all the fingerprint shoot-outs done by government and industry.
Finally, if security is what you want, consider using it in conjuction with a password, or with a password and biometrics. ActivCard makes a very good solution which can be set up to require the use of all three. After that it can do single sign on, entering all your passwords into the various programs you use.
I realized after I posted that it wasn't clear what I was giving. Unless it is info that will lead to my own death and/or that of my family (you get the picture) I would probably give them access to the data. If they want to cut off my finger I suppose they still could, but then neither of us could get the data.
I suppose you could choose a less useful finger, or even a small toe if this is a big concern.
I have bought several anime DVDs. I was going to guy the GITS:SAC series. Then I saw how much it was and that it wasn't all out yet. So I downloaded it. I guess I could have Tivo'd it off CN instead, but it is more convinient to have on my laptop.
I saw the same memo. I am not looking forward to this. What we really need to do is implement a secure single sign on solution like ActivCard that utilizes a smart card and/or biometrics.
There was an internal badging initiative about a year ago that was looking at moving away from mag stripes for door access. If we bought the right cards for physical access we could leverage that investment for logical.
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It is very odd to see a how-to document for the Mac that calls the OS, "OS X.3.5" I looked at that and I was confused for a moment since I've never seen that particular abuse before.
Though some people don't get it, the name of the OS is "OS X", pronounced "oh-es ten", and the version number in this case would be 10.3.5, thus giving us "OS X 10.3.5"
And yes, I think that whoever comes up with names and version numbers at both Apple and Sun should be shot.
I'm not saying it is a good idea, but that is the purpose of this mileage tax. This is just a different method of achieving the same result, without the invasion of privacy.
A possible solution would be to raise the gas tax and get rid of the LEV incentive. The incentive for a LEV would be that you pay less gas tax. There is probably a balance to be found here. Even a moron such as yourself could figure out a solution that doesn't involve tacking a GPS device on all vehices.
even less invasive: raise the stupid gas tax on everybody. People should be rewarded for driving cars that pollute less, not punished. Somehow the idea of pollution is being left out of this equation.
Wouldn't it just be easier to just raise the gas tax? Another alternative that would be less invasive would be to make people pay a different tax rate based on the mileage their car gets. Another way would be to make it part of the inspection process. When you take your car in for inspection they take down the mileage. It seems like there are lots of solutions to this that don't involve putting a GPS in every car.
While in college I was asked to invite a psychic to the dorm to give a talk. I called and introduced myself and finally he asked how to get to the dorm. I bit my tongue to keep from saying, "You're psychic, you tell me!" In the end I met him at a gas station near the freeway exit and had him follow me to the dorm.
I am missing the cohenrent arguement aspect of the article. Most of it is just backstory to convince us that his instincts are right. If he's so brilliant at "smelling" companies then why isn't he making big bucks on Wall Street? His smell test doesn't pass my smell test.
I think you are confusing Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) with their former company, Arthur Anderson. The two split prior to the scandal. Re-branding the consulting company seemed strange to me at the time since they had a huge name, but in hindsight it was genius.
It could be a standard 7816 smart card (contact only) instead of a 14443 card which is contactless. It could also be an optical stripe card, or even a 2d barcode if they used jpeg2000 to compress the image. However if it is 14443 tinfoil works nicely. I've tested it and it never fails to block card communication. The reader doesn't even see that a card is there.
Luckily their missle tech is such that we can watch them building it and destroy it if needed. However that only works if we know they are going to attack rather than just do another test launch.
Forget the nukes. NK has a massive amount of conventional weaponry locked, loaded, and pointed at Seoul. The instant hostilities erupt Seoul will be reduced to rubble without a nuke. NK has a gun to SK's head and is ready to pull the trigger. Hopefully reports that the government is about to collapse are true and more reasonable people will come to power.
Also, while Archon is great, somebody needs to do a faithful rendition of MULE.
If maturity and stability are what you value then why not go with OpenGL to begin with? For the other stuff you mention there is SDL. I don't see how it is unstable.
I don't remember details such as number of pictures but it was very limited. I remember taking pictures of dorm residents and then running to my room, hooking it up to the Mac, and then heading back to the party while I waited for it to download. I would then retrieve the camera later and take more photos. Not only was the resolution crappy, but the light sensitivity was terrible.
Ugggh! My dorm had that beast when I was in college. It took crappy pictures, was heavy, and ran out of batteries quickly. Of course it was the first digital camera that I ever used, so maybe I am judging it too harshly. Even so, at the time I thought that it just wasn't quite ready for prime-time.
This seems like an implementation of the Street Performer Protocol that he proposed. This only implements the first half of it though, in which the fans pay up for a work. The second half is that the work is then released freely. I doubt Paramount would be open to that part of it.
While it might not be the best gif ever, it was better than I was expecting.
I attended a talk by RMS once. When he opened it up for questions, I asked why the gnu.org webpage looked like 1994 and said that great content with no style wouldn't appeal to the masses. He said that he didn't care about people like that and those that "got it" don't care about outward appearances. He got cheers from the crowd.
I can tell you who I think "gets it" and who doesn't.
I was on a 7 pm flight this week. We say on the runway for over 2 hours while a computer on the plane was rebooting repeatedly. Finally they rebooting the entire plane, shutting everything off and then bringing the systems back up. That didn't work either. Finally they gave up, said that this had happened early in the day (!) and put us on another plane going to a different city. To make a long story short, I got in at 2 am instead of 8 pm and I could have driven there faster.
Also, on the question of "how good is it?". That depends on whose fingerprint software is being used. If the software is in-house Microsoft stuff then it is probably first generation and not very accurate. What this does is raise both the false-positive and the false-negative rate, meaning it is more likely to let the wrong person in and it is also more likely to not let you in. They might be buying the reader and the software from someone. It looks like it might be a Digital Persona reader.
You aren't stuck with that as your only option. Authentec makes nice readers that are capacitive and can do live finger detection. These work well with the BioScrypt software, which is very highly rated in all the fingerprint shoot-outs done by government and industry.
Finally, if security is what you want, consider using it in conjuction with a password, or with a password and biometrics. ActivCard makes a very good solution which can be set up to require the use of all three. After that it can do single sign on, entering all your passwords into the various programs you use.
I realized after I posted that it wasn't clear what I was giving. Unless it is info that will lead to my own death and/or that of my family (you get the picture) I would probably give them access to the data. If they want to cut off my finger I suppose they still could, but then neither of us could get the data.
I suppose you could choose a less useful finger, or even a small toe if this is a big concern.
As would a shotgun.
many readers have pretty good live finger detection. If somebody wants something badly enough to cut off my finger, I will simply give it to them.
I have bought several anime DVDs. I was going to guy the GITS:SAC series. Then I saw how much it was and that it wasn't all out yet. So I downloaded it. I guess I could have Tivo'd it off CN instead, but it is more convinient to have on my laptop.
There was an internal badging initiative about a year ago that was looking at moving away from mag stripes for door access. If we bought the right cards for physical access we could leverage that investment for logical.