You'd actually probably need to use 2-3 biometrics methods, considering that you shed DNA constantly in the form of blood, skin cells, and cheek cells. DNA could be gathered from the dust in your cubicle, the fork you ate lunch with, or that bandaid you just threw in the garbage. Hell, if you donate blood, someone could rob the blood-bank if the information you access is that important. I don't personally think DNA is a good primary verification, considering you're shedding it everywhere you go.
The problem with the retina is that, unlike the fingerprints, the retinal image changes with disease processes such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemias, Hydrocephalus, etc. It might be beneficial to spot these early b/c you can't log into the system, but once these pathologies start, your retinal scan will change slowly over time.
However, I would bet that fingerprint verification and retinal scans together would be easy enough to implement and quick enough for a computer to verify that they could be used together for very high accuracy.
I'm probably an atypical/. reader. I'm in my third year of medical school. I recently purchased a IIIx (over the III) for one reason - the 5 minute clinical consult. After investigating the company that puts out this great product (the demo kicks ass if you're in the medical field), I found that they also had a drug program, and are about to introduce a drug-interaction program. These are well-written and niceley designed programs that will replace the multitude of books that fill my short-coat jacket. My last weight on my jacket? 10 pounds. Wear that for a couple of 18 hour shifts, or a couple of 48 hour benders, and it makes all the difference in the world.
My problem? The drug interaction book and the 5 minute clinical consult use 4.5 mb of memory. I've been investigating www.trgnet.com because they have 8mb memory upgrades - including one with a 2mb flash. I'm considering buying it so that I can have the programs I need. Other than that, I love my palm. (And it loves me too...)
But for these uses, I wouldn't need anything greater than 2mb. But, these infobooks are great and really showcase the muscle of handheld computers.
Has anyone had any experience with the products at trgnet.com, specifically for the IIIx? Installation ease? Battery life estimates? Compatibility problems?
We could shut down the government by e-mailing our senator ever 1 second or so, from an anonymous address. They have auto-reply features built in.
Any corporation that has an auto-reply function built in to e-mails that tech support receives could be the subject of such an attack.
A new Outlook Virus would be written and users charged because their client sent out 1 billion e-mails without their knowledge. Microsoft would deny that their OS had any problem.
We could e-mail the UN with massive amounts of mail, and every auto-reply they send would cost them money.
I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I've read up on this a bit from the IPv6 website. In reading ftp://ftp.ipv6.org/pub/rfc/rfc1924.txt , I realized that IPv6 has already been implemented.
The preferred form is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where the 'x's are the hexadecimal values of the eight 16-bit pieces of the address.
Examples:
FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210
I thought that FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210 looked remarkably familiar, and sure enough, I was right! It was my W98 CD Key!
If the events that Ken describe are accurate, his situation does indeed suck. However, there are lessons to be learned here.
1) ALWAYS BACKUP DATA. This seems to burn you whenever you don't.
2) Always have a written contract. Harvard is pulling the site because he isn't a student. Because his contract wasn't written, and he isn't a student, Harvard doesn't have any reason not to pull the site without a hearing. The site shouldn't have been there in the first place, at least, in the eyes of Harvard. I'm sure Antionline knew this. (Strange, I can't connect to their site now... Timeouts and all...)
3) ALWAYS BACKUP DATA - this goes for regular users too. If you have a site you love with information you love, backup that information, if nothing else.
I truly feel for Ken. He seems to have gotten a shaft that few of us can ever imagine receiving. I would reccomend that he get a good lawyer, fight the charges, and file a counter suit. If he has been acedemically, financially, and personally destroyed by this, and their claims have no merit, then he should be able to punish them legally.
However, I doubt he has any case against Harvard. It *IS* Harvard, and he isn't a student. They're just wiping their hands clean. What can you expect from the school that has helped shape the dismal state of the Americal Legal System?
His only hope is that Jeff Gray makes a backup of his data before officially destroying it, and sometime in the future, Ken receives a complete backup of his data, site and all, from an anonymous user. If Jeff is all Ken cracks him up to be, I wouldn't doubt that this has already been done.
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1. I do not register my email address on the Internet with any web site.
So make up one. Slashdot doesn't verify your address. You could also get a hotmail address that you never used and let spam mail go there. Just try e-mailing the address I use at this account > devnull@procyon.com. I could've just as easily used bgates@apple.com or anything else I wanted. Spam-bots won't be able to get through to me using this address, but someone clever enough to put my domain name together with a slightly modified/. name will have no problem e-mailing me. Apparently, your higher education didn't actually teach you to think. 'Tis a shame, really.
2. If that were it's true history, then noone would want to use it.
Or, will history show that a monopoly was created and used its power to force people to use an inferior product?
3. I don't use windows, but most of my associates do. I use a Macintosh for most of my work but I will be switching to Windows because of all the nice software that's out for an Economist.
Like spellcheck and grammer check? I've noticed a trend in your postings. M$ software is always LC, whereas other OS's and companies are UC.
4. The number of consumers that want to use a product = demand. Those consumers want to use a name they have herd of (MS Windows). Because of this, the supply will flow into the market place.
A PhD you are not. Your bluff has been called. The number of current Windows users has nothing to do with the demand for toasters with WinCE. You've missed the boat entirely. Perhaps you should write Devry and complain about that degree they gave you.
I really don't see what the big deal is. You guys act like this is some sort of a religion.
Coming from someone who is spouting M$ FUD, I find that statement rather ironic.
Linux 3:16 - OSS just kicked your ass.
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It has come to my attention that an AC claims the following. Ph.D. in economics and a Masters in Business administration.
Sounds like that MS Linux job has been filled. (Story on/. a few days ago) What I wonder is why all of the Pro-M$ AC postings in this thread have the same style of speech, almost identical language, and similar grammatical errors.
Let me ask our AC PhD a few questions....
1) Why don't you get a/. account? It's free. Or, do you not understand the concept of "free".
2) Why would any developer risk the quality of their product on an OS that costs them money and has a history of crapping all over itself?
3) How does the number of windows users equal demand? If I run an M$O$, does that mean I demand that my VCR run a M$O$? I don't think so.
Oh Man! I totally forgot about that essay. It wasn't history, but fiction.
Who wrote that? I remember it well, but I can't remember who wrote it. It was a satirical piece about how the Scottish could raise money by breeding and selling their kids for food/hides.
So I take it that the "Alan Parsons Project" joke was dated to the 90's?
Or the ID4 gag.
Or the "Oil Crisis and a Flock of Seagulls Joke"
And the rocket description scene was truly entertaining.
Watch it again. There are several really witty musical references not confined to the 90s, as well as multiple scenes blatently copied from other movies. Of course, it wasn't Mel Brooks blatant, but it was still there.
I've watched the poll since early this morning. It appears that the poll has been reset at least twice. The first reset came when Linux had nearly 75% of the vote - and 2500 votes were cast away. Next, Linux and Mac were neck in neck, with Mac having the slight lead, in over 4000 votes - at which point after, it was reset. It's 2:30 Central (US) and the poll shows almost 2300 votes, with a Linux percentage of 63%.
I wonder if someone is resetting the data because they don't like the results, or if their poll data is saved to another file and then reset so visitors feel that their vote carries more weight.
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Rather amusing. And if you didn't read the follow up, you shall be admonished.
But those toilet-bowl brushes sure do sound cool. Can't wait to upgrade mine.
You'd actually probably need to use 2-3 biometrics methods, considering that you shed DNA constantly in the form of blood, skin cells, and cheek cells. DNA could be gathered from the dust in your cubicle, the fork you ate lunch with, or that bandaid you just threw in the garbage. Hell, if you donate blood, someone could rob the blood-bank if the information you access is that important.
I don't personally think DNA is a good primary verification, considering you're shedding it everywhere you go.
The problem with the retina is that, unlike the fingerprints, the retinal image changes with disease processes such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemias, Hydrocephalus, etc. It might be beneficial to spot these early b/c you can't log into the system, but once these pathologies start, your retinal scan will change slowly over time.
However, I would bet that fingerprint verification and retinal scans together would be easy enough to implement and quick enough for a computer to verify that they could be used together for very high accuracy.
I'm probably an atypical /. reader. I'm in my third year of medical school. I recently purchased a IIIx (over the III) for one reason - the 5 minute clinical consult. After investigating the company that puts out this great product (the demo kicks ass if you're in the medical field), I found that they also had a drug program, and are about to introduce a drug-interaction program. These are well-written and niceley designed programs that will replace the multitude of books that fill my short-coat jacket. My last weight on my jacket? 10 pounds. Wear that for a couple of 18 hour shifts, or a couple of 48 hour benders, and it makes all the difference in the world.
My problem? The drug interaction book and the 5 minute clinical consult use 4.5 mb of memory. I've been investigating www.trgnet.com because they have 8mb memory upgrades - including one with a 2mb flash. I'm considering buying it so that I can have the programs I need. Other than that, I love my palm. (And it loves me too...)
But for these uses, I wouldn't need anything greater than 2mb. But, these infobooks are great and really showcase the muscle of handheld computers.
Has anyone had any experience with the products at trgnet.com, specifically for the IIIx? Installation ease? Battery life estimates? Compatibility problems?
Think of all the potential uses.
We could shut down the government by e-mailing our senator ever 1 second or so, from an anonymous address. They have auto-reply features built in.
Any corporation that has an auto-reply function built in to e-mails that tech support receives could be the subject of such an attack.
A new Outlook Virus would be written and users charged because their client sent out 1 billion e-mails without their knowledge. Microsoft would deny that their OS had any problem.
We could e-mail the UN with massive amounts of mail, and every auto-reply they send would cost them money.
I love it.
Gah.
I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I've read up on this a bit from the IPv6 website. In reading ftp://ftp.ipv6.org/pub/rfc/rfc1924.txt , I realized that IPv6 has already been implemented.
The preferred form is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where the 'x's are the
hexadecimal values of the eight 16-bit pieces of the address.
Examples:
FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210
I thought that FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210 looked remarkably familiar, and sure enough, I was right! It was my W98 CD Key!
If the events that Ken describe are accurate, his situation does indeed suck. However, there are lessons to be learned here.
1) ALWAYS BACKUP DATA. This seems to burn you whenever you don't.
2) Always have a written contract. Harvard is pulling the site because he isn't a student. Because his contract wasn't written, and he isn't a student, Harvard doesn't have any reason not to pull the site without a hearing. The site shouldn't have been there in the first place, at least, in the eyes of Harvard. I'm sure Antionline knew this. (Strange, I can't connect to their site now... Timeouts and all...)
3) ALWAYS BACKUP DATA - this goes for regular users too. If you have a site you love with information you love, backup that information, if nothing else.
I truly feel for Ken. He seems to have gotten a shaft that few of us can ever imagine receiving. I would reccomend that he get a good lawyer, fight the charges, and file a counter suit. If he has been acedemically, financially, and personally destroyed by this, and their claims have no merit, then he should be able to punish them legally.
However, I doubt he has any case against Harvard. It *IS* Harvard, and he isn't a student. They're just wiping their hands clean. What can you expect from the school that has helped shape the dismal state of the Americal Legal System?
His only hope is that Jeff Gray makes a backup of his data before officially destroying it, and sometime in the future, Ken receives a complete backup of his data, site and all, from an anonymous user. If Jeff is all Ken cracks him up to be, I wouldn't doubt that this has already been done.
1. I do not register my email address on the Internet with any web site.
/. name will have no problem e-mailing me. Apparently, your higher education didn't actually teach you to think. 'Tis a shame, really.
So make up one. Slashdot doesn't verify your address. You could also get a hotmail address that you never used and let spam mail go there. Just try e-mailing the address I use at this account > devnull@procyon.com. I could've just as easily used bgates@apple.com or anything else I wanted. Spam-bots won't be able to get through to me using this address, but someone clever enough to put my domain name together with a slightly modified
2. If that were it's true history, then noone would want to use it.
Or, will history show that a monopoly was created and used its power to force people to use an inferior product?
3. I don't use windows, but most of my associates do. I use a Macintosh for most of my work but I will be switching to Windows because of all the nice software that's out for an Economist.
Like spellcheck and grammer check? I've noticed a trend in your postings. M$ software is always LC, whereas other OS's and companies are UC.
4. The number of consumers that want to use a product = demand. Those consumers want to use a name they have herd of (MS Windows). Because of this, the supply will flow into the market place.
A PhD you are not. Your bluff has been called. The number of current Windows users has nothing to do with the demand for toasters with WinCE. You've missed the boat entirely. Perhaps you should write Devry and complain about that degree they gave you.
I really don't see what the big deal is. You guys act like this is some sort of a religion.
Coming from someone who is spouting M$ FUD, I find that statement rather ironic.
Linux 3:16 - OSS just kicked your ass.
It has come to my attention that an AC claims the following.
/. a few days ago) What I wonder is why all of the Pro-M$ AC postings in this thread have the same style of speech, almost identical language, and similar grammatical errors.
/. account? It's free. Or, do you not understand the concept of "free".
Ph.D. in economics and a Masters in Business administration.
Sounds like that MS Linux job has been filled. (Story on
Let me ask our AC PhD a few questions....
1) Why don't you get a
2) Why would any developer risk the quality of their product on an OS that costs them money and has a history of crapping all over itself?
3) How does the number of windows users equal demand? If I run an M$O$, does that mean I demand that my VCR run a M$O$? I don't think so.
Perhaps you are a MSCFUDF [1]
[1] Microsoft Certified FUD Flinger
Oh Man! I totally forgot about that essay. It wasn't history, but fiction.
Who wrote that? I remember it well, but I can't remember who wrote it. It was a satirical piece about how the Scottish could raise money by breeding and selling their kids for food/hides.
Page 13, High Yield Behavioral Science by Barbara Fadem
Mature Defense Mechanisms
Altruism, Humor, Sublimation, and Suppression.
Immature Defense Mechanisms
Acting Out, Denial, Displacement, Dissociation, Identification, Intellectualization, Isolation of Affect, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction Formation, Regression, Repression, and Splitting.
Humor is a perfectly acceptable manner to deal with emotions, provided it isn't used to excess.
Perhaps you are being a bit inconsiderate.
So I take it that the "Alan Parsons Project" joke was dated to the 90's?
Or the ID4 gag.
Or the "Oil Crisis and a Flock of Seagulls Joke"
And the rocket description scene was truly entertaining.
Watch it again. There are several really witty musical references not confined to the 90s, as well as multiple scenes blatently copied from other movies. Of course, it wasn't Mel Brooks blatant, but it was still there.
I've watched the poll since early this morning. It appears that the poll has been reset at least twice. The first reset came when Linux had nearly 75% of the vote - and 2500 votes were cast away. Next, Linux and Mac were neck in neck, with Mac having the slight lead, in over 4000 votes - at which point after, it was reset. It's 2:30 Central (US) and the poll shows almost 2300 votes, with a Linux percentage of 63%.
I wonder if someone is resetting the data because they don't like the results, or if their poll data is saved to another file and then reset so visitors feel that their vote carries more weight.