has anyone thought of comparing the current use to statistical past use? for example, as i sit here typing on my workstation, there are certain keyboard commands i consistently use. there are certain words i consistently misspell, and even how i fix the mistakes. do i backspace all the way? do i highlight the typo, delete, then correct, or do i highlight and correct. there are many nuances that could be tracked, which might include simple thigns like using an application to open a file vs. using a file system browser (i prefer the latter).
tracking this sort of statistical information could be useful in verifying that the current user is who they should be. there is no password to remember or forget. after the computer is statistically "sure" that the user isn't who it should be, there are several steps that could be taken. one of such would be to simply notify an admin. another would be to immediately lock the user out. or, what i think is the best idea - offer a challange question: "What month were you born in?" If they cannot answer the question correctly with a fair amount of rapidness, lock them out.
I think this sort of toll could be the ubercool way to ensure the user is who they say they are. Of course the possible downsides to this is not being able to have someone login and check something for you (maybe a good thing?)
Has this been tried, developed, or thought of? If not, I call prior art on anyone who patents it;)
This is exactly how it is at my work (a University). If you try to log on to your network account, you must get it right within 3 attempts or have it manually reset. I found this out just before figuring out someone left CAPS on.
"Bullshit. [microsoft.com] There's a fix for an IE exploit. 365K. Would you want to reinstall your entire browser, just to fix that one little thing that you urgently want to get corrected?"
well, you see, since microsoft has made IE part of the OS... you can't just "reinstall" it. that's probably a lot why MS has created a patch system.
fortunately for me, i can install firefox on my thumbdrive
has anyone pointed out that id traditionally has made the real bucks when they license the engine? if doom 3 was really a game to make money, it would have full multiplayer support - not this whimpy 4 player thing. as they did with quake 3, they will license the rendering engine for large chunks of cash. to me, doom 3 is just a showcase for thier real jewel - and a way to break even on the past few years of development
we obviously neeed an entire governmental overhaul. take a look at our most recent election. this isn't a time of electoral colleges anymore. but it's just a small piece of the whole puzzle. once a president has control, he just packs the house, senate, and supreme court with friends and backers.
it's all corruption that amounts to padding everyone's wallet. i say let's freeze the assets of the higher ups while in office and see how things go from there:-\
it's all just another lie told to us by our government. it's nothing new, but i think this republican majority government is realizing that all this access to information is not beneficial to the government powers which widely conflict civil liberties.
it seems they've simply given up and just make up blantant lies which are served to the american public as excuses.
oh, it's definately interesting, and could have a very legitimate use. however, compared to some other technologies, i would classify it as useless, literally, "lacking use"
why is it that this sounds like an advert from The Bluetooth Special Interest Group? nothing like the slashdot geeks to drum up some preorders for usless technology
MasterCard PayPass is a new card feature now being tested in the Orlando area. It is available on a limited basis to select current Chase, Citi, and MBNA cardholders, and may be coming soon to the general public. It can be used where you see the PayPass logo and everywhere MasterCard is accepted.
funny, i have a chase mastercard AND i live in orlando... guess i'm not select cardholder. dammit i should have checked that box on the application
if it's data you need to archive but won't be accessing often, what about a simple solution such as an air-tight opaque box. without light or humidity, i would guess the discs would last much longer. after a certin point (x years), just bring up some handy disc copying software and copy for garunteed freshness!
Well, to tell you the truth, University of South Florida is in Tampa, whereas UCF is in Orlando, but in any case, you're right, not everyone at UCF is living on campus; however the campus is expanding rapidly with many off-campus communities now being "UCF Affiliated" which means they have a big hand in what is going on... including the possiblity of controlling Internet. And let's not forget fun things like having a VPN available for students to access on-campus resources only. This, too, is in addition the the highly accessible wireless campus (despite MIT's recent Top 100 list). We even have the privledge of being able to check out laptops in the library to use, with more wireless Internet, of course. In fact, I don't know of a single spot on campus that don't have a hotspot, at least a single lab (consisting of around 40 computers typically), or some other type of public terminal - all hooked up to the world wide wait.
Don't get me wrong here, I sure as hell don't want such nasty software running on ANY networks, let alone mine, maybe it's not so bad being a lesser-known technology privlidged school (I can't wait for the wireless mesh network to be installed).
P.S. And President John Hitt has been expanding the number of students (currently 42,000), much to the dismay of current students (since there is no money for summer classes).
And this has what to do with the story? Absolutely nothing.
funny, at my university, there is no student voice on the college radio. not even that is a reserved source of speech anymore. i don't doubt that is the case at many other universities as well
but only because they're dancing in front of microsoft, taunting them. it's like that "i'm not touching you" game wher you put you finger as close to the person without actually touching them. eventually someone punches that guy in the face though:\
didn't napster try to block certain files by name? what happenedis people renameg George Acosta to something like G0rge Ac0sta. What to stop people from creating the same file with a different hash (by repacking the file or chaning some bits..mp3 is lossy, so I'm sure a hash could be completely different by changing a few bytes without a noticable difference.
I just re-watched Bicentennial Man last night, noting that the start year of 2005 seemed a bit soon for human-like interactive AI robots. Apparently I was wrong.
I wonder at what point we [as a human race] will feel comfotable with robots taking on our duties and responsibilties. At this point, I can sit back and only watch as these machine evolve.
who makes these decisions? given verisign's past, what novice decided this would be best? how about we start polling the slashdot community, or at very least, asking someone with some computer expertise..com,.net, and RFID. what next?
They're changing stuff? They can't even keep my DNS and contact information correct. I can't wait till this "little" change is done so they have one more thing to fcuk up.
Why is it that people always feel the need to apply a certain business model to other forms of business? Don't they relieze it doesn't work that way? Open scince is great, except it will be forgotten before the day is over - simply because it won't work.
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has anyone thought of comparing the current use to statistical past use? for example, as i sit here typing on my workstation, there are certain keyboard commands i consistently use. there are certain words i consistently misspell, and even how i fix the mistakes. do i backspace all the way? do i highlight the typo, delete, then correct, or do i highlight and correct. there are many nuances that could be tracked, which might include simple thigns like using an application to open a file vs. using a file system browser (i prefer the latter).
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tracking this sort of statistical information could be useful in verifying that the current user is who they should be. there is no password to remember or forget. after the computer is statistically "sure" that the user isn't who it should be, there are several steps that could be taken. one of such would be to simply notify an admin. another would be to immediately lock the user out. or, what i think is the best idea - offer a challange question: "What month were you born in?" If they cannot answer the question correctly with a fair amount of rapidness, lock them out.
I think this sort of toll could be the ubercool way to ensure the user is who they say they are. Of course the possible downsides to this is not being able to have someone login and check something for you (maybe a good thing?)
Has this been tried, developed, or thought of? If not, I call prior art on anyone who patents it
This is exactly how it is at my work (a University). If you try to log on to your network account, you must get it right within 3 attempts or have it manually reset. I found this out just before figuring out someone left CAPS on.
"Bullshit. [microsoft.com] There's a fix for an IE exploit. 365K. Would you want to reinstall your entire browser, just to fix that one little thing that you urgently want to get corrected?"
well, you see, since microsoft has made IE part of the OS... you can't just "reinstall" it. that's probably a lot why MS has created a patch system.
fortunately for me, i can install firefox on my thumbdrive
has anyone pointed out that id traditionally has made the real bucks when they license the engine? if doom 3 was really a game to make money, it would have full multiplayer support - not this whimpy 4 player thing. as they did with quake 3, they will license the rendering engine for large chunks of cash. to me, doom 3 is just a showcase for thier real jewel - and a way to break even on the past few years of development
we obviously neeed an entire governmental overhaul. take a look at our most recent election. this isn't a time of electoral colleges anymore. but it's just a small piece of the whole puzzle. once a president has control, he just packs the house, senate, and supreme court with friends and backers.
:-\
it's all corruption that amounts to padding everyone's wallet. i say let's freeze the assets of the higher ups while in office and see how things go from there
it's all just another lie told to us by our government. it's nothing new, but i think this republican majority government is realizing that all this access to information is not beneficial to the government powers which widely conflict civil liberties.
it seems they've simply given up and just make up blantant lies which are served to the american public as excuses.
why is it that this reminds me of the MSIE project ChromeEffects?
if you haven't heard of it, that's because it was shelved in alpha
uhm, pardon me here, but since when was building a *quality* website easy?
these same people that can't figure out how to operate a built-in phone book on thier nokia now need something.name? i think not
oh, it's definately interesting, and could have a very legitimate use. however, compared to some other technologies, i would classify it as useless, literally, "lacking use"
why is it that this sounds like an advert from The Bluetooth Special Interest Group? nothing like the slashdot geeks to drum up some preorders for usless technology
if it's data you need to archive but won't be accessing often, what about a simple solution such as an air-tight opaque box. without light or humidity, i would guess the discs would last much longer. after a certin point (x years), just bring up some handy disc copying software and copy for garunteed freshness!
Well, to tell you the truth, University of South Florida is in Tampa, whereas UCF is in Orlando, but in any case, you're right, not everyone at UCF is living on campus; however the campus is expanding rapidly with many off-campus communities now being "UCF Affiliated" which means they have a big hand in what is going on... including the possiblity of controlling Internet. And let's not forget fun things like having a VPN available for students to access on-campus resources only. This, too, is in addition the the highly accessible wireless campus (despite MIT's recent Top 100 list). We even have the privledge of being able to check out laptops in the library to use, with more wireless Internet, of course. In fact, I don't know of a single spot on campus that don't have a hotspot, at least a single lab (consisting of around 40 computers typically), or some other type of public terminal - all hooked up to the world wide wait.
Don't get me wrong here, I sure as hell don't want such nasty software running on ANY networks, let alone mine, maybe it's not so bad being a lesser-known technology privlidged school (I can't wait for the wireless mesh network to be installed).
P.S. And President John Hitt has been expanding the number of students (currently 42,000), much to the dismay of current students (since there is no money for summer classes).
And this has what to do with the story? Absolutely nothing.
erm, my school, University of Central Florida has 42,000ish and we're only the second largest in the state, right under the University of Florida.
funny, at my university, there is no student voice on the college radio. not even that is a reserved source of speech anymore. i don't doubt that is the case at many other universities as well
i don't if they're going to want to do that. that might lead to increased free speech, creative ideas, and non-biased information
funniest... name... ever...
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but only because they're dancing in front of microsoft, taunting them. it's like that "i'm not touching you" game wher you put you finger as close to the person without actually touching them. eventually someone punches that guy in the face though
didn't napster try to block certain files by name? what happenedis people renameg George Acosta to something like G0rge Ac0sta. What to stop people from creating the same file with a different hash (by repacking the file or chaning some bits. .mp3 is lossy, so I'm sure a hash could be completely different by changing a few bytes without a noticable difference.
Comments, questions?
I just re-watched Bicentennial Man last night, noting that the start year of 2005 seemed a bit soon for human-like interactive AI robots. Apparently I was wrong.
I wonder at what point we [as a human race] will feel comfotable with robots taking on our duties and responsibilties. At this point, I can sit back and only watch as these machine evolve.
who makes these decisions? given verisign's past, what novice decided this would be best? how about we start polling the slashdot community, or at very least, asking someone with some computer expertise. .com, .net, and RFID. what next?
They're changing stuff? They can't even keep my DNS and contact information correct. I can't wait till this "little" change is done so they have one more thing to fcuk up.
I wonder if the good slashdot people would be willing to make this into a slashbox ?
Why is it that people always feel the need to apply a certain business model to other forms of business? Don't they relieze it doesn't work that way? Open scince is great, except it will be forgotten before the day is over - simply because it won't work.
"Federal and state governments could lose billions of dollars in revenue..." ...of which could made up if we spent an ounce less on military funding.
oh come on now, getting his hair cut specifically contributes to the welds. obviously. duh.