With a Tivo, you can watch at the lowest fast-forward speed (2x) with closed captions enabled on your TV. The captions still come through because the Tivo captures them during broadcast and reinserts them into the encoded stream.
When the user selects his password, he also selects a cursor style or color. When logging in, nine or ten fake cursors in different styles and colors also appear over the image in random locations. All the fake cursors move with the mouse, but their planes of motion are each reflected or rotated some amount from the origin.
All the user has to do is watch the preselected "real" cursor while clicking and ignore the others. No one else will know which one is valid.
Coca-cola's been selling one product for a hundred years now. As Mark Twain said, puting all your eggs in one basket and WATHING THAT BASKET is often a good idea. Beats spreading yourself too thin doing 15 things poorly.
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Links to the original articles only appear under Related Links if timothy or the submitter included them.
Why not provide links to the stories these SlashBacks correct or update? Like this:
OK, who has what up their sleeves, and why?Fervent writes "Interesting twist in the SDMI boycott -- Don Marti's backing down a bit. Apparently he and Leonardo Chiariglione, executive director of the SDMI, talked and found ways to get along about secure music. The article is here."
I'll be impressed if the music industry or anyone else can come up with a high-quality music format which can't be effectively copied with a modicum of hassle. "Anything that can be read," etc. Thta's not about to stop them from trying on both technological and legal fronts. Of the two, I'll take technological any day.
...but has anyone stopped to think that you can't tell what your processor is really computing when it's running seti@home?
Suppose you're a government agency, and you get hold of some important encrypted data. No problem -- just dump the key into the seti@home processing queue. Instant free cycles from enthusiastic geeks all over the country, of whom many are privacy advocates who've been participating in various distributed cracking challenges over the years in attempts to protest your authoritarian policies. O, sweet irony.
Everyone who's worried about getting mugged for their eyeballs -- do you have any idea how unlikely this is? Here's a breakdown:
The mugger must knock you out and steal your wallet. This risk is already present.
The mugger must not immediately leave the scene of the crime, even though he's already got whatever cash and credit cards you were carrying.
The mugger must now use his scalpel, forceps, grapefruit spoon, melon baller, or whatever else he's got handy to remove your eyeball from the socket and sever the optic nerve and muscles that hold it in place, all without puncturing the eyeball in the process (which would probably result in an unusable iris due to the influx of blood).
You must not wake up during any of this.
Because of the $300-per-day limit your bank undoubtedly has on ATM withdrawals, the mugger must now appear on security video at multiple ATM locations over several days holding a severed eyeball, or the whole endeavor is only mildly profitable given the risk. Additionally, the eyeball must maintain its appearance for quite some time with no hydration or blood supply. Formaldehyde may help here; I don't know.
Conclusion: scalpel gangs are not going to rule the streets anytime soon. I'd be more worried about the reliability of the hardware, and the fact that while you can change a PIN, you can't easily change your iris pattern.
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With a Tivo, you can watch at the lowest fast-forward speed (2x) with closed captions enabled on your TV. The captions still come through because the Tivo captures them during broadcast and reinserts them into the encoded stream.
Shouldn't those be called traffic koans?
When the user selects his password, he also selects a cursor style or color. When logging in, nine or ten fake cursors in different styles and colors also appear over the image in random locations. All the fake cursors move with the mouse, but their planes of motion are each reflected or rotated some amount from the origin.
All the user has to do is watch the preselected "real" cursor while clicking and ignore the others. No one else will know which one is valid.
Not really. Those are just the same links that appear in the text, grepped out automatically, plus a few generated by keyword matches (e.g. Linux, Wired, etc.)
Links to the original articles only appear under Related Links if timothy or the submitter included them.
Suppose you're a government agency, and you get hold of some important encrypted data. No problem -- just dump the key into the seti@home processing queue. Instant free cycles from enthusiastic geeks all over the country, of whom many are privacy advocates who've been participating in various distributed cracking challenges over the years in attempts to protest your authoritarian policies. O, sweet irony.
Dan Wineman
- The mugger must knock you out and steal your wallet. This risk is already present.
- The mugger must not immediately leave the scene of the crime, even though he's already got whatever cash and credit cards you were carrying.
- The mugger must now use his scalpel, forceps, grapefruit spoon, melon baller, or whatever else he's got handy to remove your eyeball from the socket and sever the optic nerve and muscles that hold it in place, all without puncturing the eyeball in the process (which would probably result in an unusable iris due to the influx of blood).
- You must not wake up during any of this.
- Because of the $300-per-day limit your bank undoubtedly has on ATM withdrawals, the mugger must now appear on security video at multiple ATM locations over several days holding a severed eyeball, or the whole endeavor is only mildly profitable given the risk. Additionally, the eyeball must maintain its appearance for quite some time with no hydration or blood supply. Formaldehyde may help here; I don't know.
Conclusion: scalpel gangs are not going to rule the streets anytime soon. I'd be more worried about the reliability of the hardware, and the fact that while you can change a PIN, you can't easily change your iris pattern.Dan Wineman