I remember thinking it when I saw The Matrix for the first time in the theater. I mentioned it to my wife on the way out and she not only didn't remember the scene (in either movie) but thought I was crazy. She probably thinks that most days.
I showed GitS to a friend this weekend. He just kept saying, "Oh wow, they stole that shot/idea for The Matrix."
I'll have to check out Lain, but it is pretty clear that GitS was influentian. As an example notice how the agent lands on the roof of the building, cracking the tiles underneath him, holding his gun at the side of his head.
There is also a lot of discussion about the nature of reality and things plugging into the back of people's heads. Also arguments about whether an AI is a sentient entity, though that is more from the Zion Archives stuff on the Animatrix.
You wouldn't be making a credit card charge of $0.25. The transaction costs would be enormous. You would make a larger payment up front and then have a digital wallet from which you could make small, efficient payments. If could pay a tenth of a cent for a game of Bejeweled with no fuss it would be attractive.
If you can get the keys out of a 4758 you let me know. Notice that I didn't state that the HSM is located in the ATM itself. You could certainly have it in a data center and use a network connection.
IBM in conjunction with a German supermarket chain has developed a way to disable tags en masse as you leave the store. This gives the store all the benefits of RFID without giving the customer any of the negatives.
I submitted an article on this to/. a few weeks ago but it was rejected. Typical of/. to print every anti-RFID piece of FUD they get but to ignore anything that might indicate that some companines get it.
It is easy establish a secure channel with just 3DES in the presence of an eavesdropper. The Global Platform key agreement scheme is one way that is common in the smart card world.
Each card has a unique key that is derived from the serial number and a master key. This master key is stored in tamper reactive hardware such as an IBM 4758. When the card is inserted the card reports its serial number, allowing the hardware security module (HSM) to calculate the unique card key. Then the card and the HSM each generate a random number, encrypt it using the card unique key resulting in a cryptogram. Cryptograms are exchanged, decrypted, and the random numbers are used to generate a unique session key that is used for the rest of the communication.
This is a simplification, but it even without PK crypto you can have secure communication between a smart card and a HSM.
Of course someone could spend a lot of money and extract the card unique key from a card, but then they only have the ability to duplicate one card, not make arbitrary cards since they don't know the system master key. The system should be designed such that the cost of extracting a key from a card is greater than the amount of damage that could be caused by such an exposure.
In that case, even if someone can duplicate a card (which they would most likely have to have in their possession) there is little incentive to do so. It is much easier to just use a scheme like the one in this article to go after mag stripe cards. Smart criminals will go after the low hanging fruit.
By the way, the low hanging fruit is quickly becoming the USA as the rest of the world moves to smart cards. Expect fraud rates to continue to rise until we make the change.
Given that this is a discussion of Fahrenheit versus Centigrade your mention of -40 is amusing. I know it doesn't matter, but what type of degrees did you mean? I am assuming C, since you are in Canada.
You are assuming that path of the asteroid is near perpendicular to that of the earth. Since these are asteroids in orbits near the earth it seems much more likely that the path of the asteroid be on a tangent with the orbit of earth. This means that it is unlikely that the earth will "move out of the way" in the 12 hours it would take to go from the USA presenting itself as a target to Russia or China.
Now the question is this: If you the USA has the tech to delay or speed the arrival of the asteroid by 12 hours then could it just as easily cause it to miss entirely?
I agree that the result of a sufficiently large asteroid hitting the earth would be undesirable no matter where it hits.
I think that falling sats are are different problem, given that they have a decaying orbit, so there are many more variables. These rocks aren't in earth orbit to begin with.
The "all nations" approach seems like it would be vulnerable to the tragedy of the commons. But think about it for a moment... The USA doesn't want the earth to get hit, but it really doesn't want the USA to get hit. Changing the course enough to make sure the rock hits the other side of the world is probably a lot easier. Now if we just mention this to other countries it might motivate them to participate in such a program in numbers sufficient to ensure that by working together we could push any rock any direction needed.
If you use a medium that can be updated (such as a smart card) as your biometric template ocntainer, then implementing adaptive biometrics is quite simple.
There are a variety of techniques. One is to "merge" the last successful match with the template, creating a new template that is an average of the two. Over time the eye can change and the template will track those changes.
Another is to simply generate a new template from each successful match. Store the most recent n templates. When matching consider a match to be successful if it matches m out of n templates where m is some number less than n.
Of course if the iris were to change rapidly or even if it changed slowly and you didn't travel for an extended period then these techniques wouldn't be helpful. But they would work well for those who travel occasionally (or more frequently) even with moderate changes in the biometric over time.
1. Don't upgrade a critical system to a new kernel unless you need to. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade to 2.6, and if you don't have a need to then don't do it.
2. I don't think that "stable" in this context means what you think it means.
Thanks, I have just now been able to read the original article. One of the parents implied that the reflection was being used somehow, which at least would have been novel. Instead it seems that they are documenting a technique known to 13-year olds everywhere. I know that when I was younger my friends and I tried this once or twice.
Yes they always open it, but they usually leave the cap sitting there. They NEVER put the cap in their pocket, unless there is a chance of winning R$1,000,000.
The entire country was obsessed with the game. It was on the news all the time and was a frequent topic of conversation.
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I was wondering if that was what you meant, and if so, why you didn't state it. :)
If it is BT how can we not be gentle?
Obviously the transcriber has missed the point if Free doen't have the uppercase F.
You probably could have sold it for a profit to a spanish major.
This certainly falls under the category of humour. It is the funniest thing I've read on /. in a while.
I remember thinking it when I saw The Matrix for the first time in the theater. I mentioned it to my wife on the way out and she not only didn't remember the scene (in either movie) but thought I was crazy. She probably thinks that most days.
I'll have to check out Lain, but it is pretty clear that GitS was influentian. As an example notice how the agent lands on the roof of the building, cracking the tiles underneath him, holding his gun at the side of his head.
There is also a lot of discussion about the nature of reality and things plugging into the back of people's heads. Also arguments about whether an AI is a sentient entity, though that is more from the Zion Archives stuff on the Animatrix.
You wouldn't be making a credit card charge of $0.25. The transaction costs would be enormous. You would make a larger payment up front and then have a digital wallet from which you could make small, efficient payments. If could pay a tenth of a cent for a game of Bejeweled with no fuss it would be attractive.
Which one is yours?
Now that you've posted you can't mod me up though. :)
If you can get the keys out of a 4758 you let me know. Notice that I didn't state that the HSM is located in the ATM itself. You could certainly have it in a data center and use a network connection.
I submitted an article on this to /. a few weeks ago but it was rejected. Typical of /. to print every anti-RFID piece of FUD they get but to ignore anything that might indicate that some companines get it.
You don't get it. If the orbit is tangental it will hit in the middle and the earth isn't moving "out of the way" it is moving in the same direction.
Which is why I said it was amusing.
Each card has a unique key that is derived from the serial number and a master key. This master key is stored in tamper reactive hardware such as an IBM 4758. When the card is inserted the card reports its serial number, allowing the hardware security module (HSM) to calculate the unique card key. Then the card and the HSM each generate a random number, encrypt it using the card unique key resulting in a cryptogram. Cryptograms are exchanged, decrypted, and the random numbers are used to generate a unique session key that is used for the rest of the communication.
This is a simplification, but it even without PK crypto you can have secure communication between a smart card and a HSM.
Of course someone could spend a lot of money and extract the card unique key from a card, but then they only have the ability to duplicate one card, not make arbitrary cards since they don't know the system master key. The system should be designed such that the cost of extracting a key from a card is greater than the amount of damage that could be caused by such an exposure.
In that case, even if someone can duplicate a card (which they would most likely have to have in their possession) there is little incentive to do so. It is much easier to just use a scheme like the one in this article to go after mag stripe cards. Smart criminals will go after the low hanging fruit.
By the way, the low hanging fruit is quickly becoming the USA as the rest of the world moves to smart cards. Expect fraud rates to continue to rise until we make the change.
Given that this is a discussion of Fahrenheit versus Centigrade your mention of -40 is amusing. I know it doesn't matter, but what type of degrees did you mean? I am assuming C, since you are in Canada.
Now the question is this: If you the USA has the tech to delay or speed the arrival of the asteroid by 12 hours then could it just as easily cause it to miss entirely?
I agree that the result of a sufficiently large asteroid hitting the earth would be undesirable no matter where it hits.
I think that falling sats are are different problem, given that they have a decaying orbit, so there are many more variables. These rocks aren't in earth orbit to begin with.
The "all nations" approach seems like it would be vulnerable to the tragedy of the commons. But think about it for a moment... The USA doesn't want the earth to get hit, but it really doesn't want the USA to get hit. Changing the course enough to make sure the rock hits the other side of the world is probably a lot easier. Now if we just mention this to other countries it might motivate them to participate in such a program in numbers sufficient to ensure that by working together we could push any rock any direction needed.
There are a variety of techniques. One is to "merge" the last successful match with the template, creating a new template that is an average of the two. Over time the eye can change and the template will track those changes.
Another is to simply generate a new template from each successful match. Store the most recent n templates. When matching consider a match to be successful if it matches m out of n templates where m is some number less than n.
Of course if the iris were to change rapidly or even if it changed slowly and you didn't travel for an extended period then these techniques wouldn't be helpful. But they would work well for those who travel occasionally (or more frequently) even with moderate changes in the biometric over time.
2. I don't think that "stable" in this context means what you think it means.
Ok, I had thought of that but wondered if there was some odd bit of biochemistry that I was unaware of.
Am I missing something? I read the whole article and the part about lead poisoning made no sense.
Thanks, I have just now been able to read the original article. One of the parents implied that the reflection was being used somehow, which at least would have been novel. Instead it seems that they are documenting a technique known to 13-year olds everywhere. I know that when I was younger my friends and I tried this once or twice.
The entire country was obsessed with the game. It was on the news all the time and was a frequent topic of conversation.