If you want to link fingerprints to a suspect you need to know that a fingerprint is unique (it is coming from him). Second thing you need to know is that his fingerprint is irreproducable (noone can fake it). Most people here concentrate (as asked) on the uniqueness. But...
A number of years ago, I saw a documentary about reproducing fingerprints, and for the EE nerds here: it's fucking easy.
Here is how you do it. You get the print from the guy you want to impersonate. Take some laserprinter toner. Take a soft brush, and wipe some toner on his fingerprints. They should appear in black. Then take some tape, and lift the toner from the object. Tape it onto a white sheet of paper. Scan the paper with the black fingerprint on it. Do some retouching of the image. Print the negative on sheet. You know have a sheet, with see-through where the fingerprint has to come. You can also take a photo of the lifted thumbprint, and directly use the negative. The result is the same. You make a singlesided PCB, using the sheet. Put some liquid rubber in the 'mold' (the PCB, which now has the pattern of the fingerprint). Take the dried up rubber, and voila: a rubber stamp, with the looks of a fingerprint. You can glue this thin rubber stamp on you own finger as well.
I fail to see why this subject is important. There are more countries in the world, and showing the difficulties of one of 'm (not once, but repeatedly in different stories) is not news for nerds/the world. I think slashdot is more worldwide then some NA citizens think.
I think there should be a new poll:-)
Where are u from:
-US
-Europe
-Russia
-China
-India
-Rest of world
-Away from Jon Katz
You could say that writing is a tool, but... Some people would start religious wars about their holy writings (yes I'm referring to the bibles of the real religions, not Emacs vs Vi:-).
Mod the parent UP. I work in a hardware company, and the guy who 'does the web' feels he needs JavaScript. And it don't work under Mozilla (basically rendering out the webpage completely, since the menu disappears). It might not be a standard, but that is not always what counts. (If you desparately want to see the page, look at bops.com).
In what way is the hardware we have (closely related to software of course) related to our language.
If you are familiar with the hamer (our language) then the answer is going to be a nail (our hardware/software). Which might be the best fit, for us. Otoh, other languages like Japanese/Chinese have other characteristics (that could be usefull in semantics/new computer paradigms?).
Go to a local company and ask if there is any automating to do. Divide and conquer if it is a big project. Let them do the real stuff! They can at least be proud, because it will be used IRL. If you offer your service for free, then most small shops and companies don't really care about some extra attention that they need. Of course you are going to be the proj. man.
I agree that computer cycles should not be wasted, but Transmeta has answered that gap. If you don't need cycles, turn the computer "off".
The only real advantage to do distributed computing is the huge number of available computer power. If you want that however, you need a simple problem that is hard to solve and has a simple (read: small in size) answer. Otherwise the communication is going to be a problem. I don't think that that is always the problem.
quote: ROTTERDAM, 27 JULI. De grootste platenmaatschappijen hebben binnen twee maanden allemaal een 'digitaal distributiesysteem' voor hun muziek. Dat zegt de Nederlandse internetmanager L. Beerens van Universal Music Group, een van de grootste platenmaatschappijen ter wereld.
Which translates into: The biggest recordcompanies will have a digital distributionsystem for their music within three months, according to internetmanager L Beerens of the Universal Music Group. One of the biggest recordcompanies of the world.
I'm not holding my television near my ear. If I would do that I would hear a constant 16 kHz tone which would drive me crazy. And if you remember about 5 years ago there were a lot of radiance tests going on for computer monitors. I prefer a low radiation one!
A cell phone is useful only if you want to talk to someone. Exactly. And there are other reasons to talk to people then for a love life or popularity. There are a lot of ((situations where I need to talk to people) AND (I'm not near any wirephone)). I then either have to go there (time) or I call (money). I know the answer to that...
A headset helps. The only reason (as far as I know, and I had this subject in our ethics class) that the startac has such a low radiation is because the antenna comes out @ a different spot on the cellphone.
I know the next generations cellphones are going to use the next generation DSP's: TI,... Look at their performance (and/or) claims and you can judge for yourself. Multiple billions of instructions per second!
If you have file access to win, it shouldn't bee to hard to get a screenshot: -install grabbersoftware -write some scripting -change the shortcut for her favorite spamprogramme how you get fileaccess to a box is a different story...
I like the sentence: "... will take hours to download over all but the fastest net connections...." hehehe. My fastest ISO image I downloaded was about 40 minutes. That went over some backbone, but the local uni network goes even faster.
Shouldn't Microsoft move to a more warmer place like Nicaragua or Belize or something? I'm sure they would feel much more at ease with all the bugs they have around there (real exotic ones:-)).
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mod #32 up _MORE_. -Upgradebility for hardware is now a software option. -Backwardcompatability is now a sofrware option. -Kernel/Windows hacking is now a software option -It would help for SMP, because you can now have several different processors behave the same. You just need to start writing the software for it...
Sorry to interrupt this nice article, but this has been done before in the EE dept of Delft University, The Netherlands. It was hosted by the Electro Technische Vereniging and it was held on a 22 floor building. For a few nice shots: http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/englis h.html
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If you want to link fingerprints to a suspect you need to know that a fingerprint is unique (it is coming from him). Second thing you need to know is that his fingerprint is irreproducable (noone can fake it). Most people here concentrate (as asked) on the uniqueness. But...
A number of years ago, I saw a documentary about reproducing fingerprints, and for the EE nerds here: it's fucking easy.
Here is how you do it. You get the print from the guy you want to impersonate. Take some laserprinter toner. Take a soft brush, and wipe some toner on his fingerprints. They should appear in black. Then take some tape, and lift the toner from the object. Tape it onto a white sheet of paper. Scan the paper with the black fingerprint on it. Do some retouching of the image. Print the negative on sheet. You know have a sheet, with see-through where the fingerprint has to come. You can also take a photo of the lifted thumbprint, and directly use the negative. The result is the same. You make a singlesided PCB, using the sheet. Put some liquid rubber in the 'mold' (the PCB, which now has the pattern of the fingerprint). Take the dried up rubber, and voila: a rubber stamp, with the looks of a fingerprint. You can glue this thin rubber stamp on you own finger as well.
There goes the irreproducability of fingerprints
Look at the projects page... tcp/ip stack is being worked on.
I think there should be a new poll
Where are u from:
-US
-Europe
-Russia
-China
-India
-Rest of world
-Away from Jon Katz
Trying to type with your dick is not the best way...:-)
You could say that writing is a tool, but... Some people would start religious wars about their holy writings (yes I'm referring to the bibles of the real religions, not Emacs vs Vi :-).
Actually, having more people around seems to achieve a different effect: less accountability to quality.
Mod the parent UP. I work in a hardware company, and the guy who 'does the web' feels he needs JavaScript. And it don't work under Mozilla (basically rendering out the webpage completely, since the menu disappears). It might not be a standard, but that is not always what counts. (If you desparately want to see the page, look at bops.com).
In what way is the hardware we have (closely related to software of course) related to our language.
If you are familiar with the hamer (our language) then the answer is going to be a nail (our hardware/software). Which might be the best fit, for us. Otoh, other languages like Japanese/Chinese have other characteristics (that could be usefull in semantics/new computer paradigms?).
For a shameless commercial:
BOPS designs DSPs, and a demo of iVLIW (yet another taste of VLIW). here, and press start demos. Have phun.
disclaimer: I work there.
Go to a local company and ask if there is any automating to do. Divide and conquer if it is a big project. Let them do the real stuff! They can
at least be proud, because it will be used IRL. If
you offer your service for free, then most small shops and companies don't really care about some extra attention that they need. Of course you are going to be the proj. man.
I agree that computer cycles should not be wasted, but Transmeta has answered that gap. If you don't need cycles, turn the computer "off".
The only real advantage to do distributed computing is the huge number of available computer power. If you want that however, you need a simple problem that is hard to solve and has a simple (read: small in size) answer. Otherwise the communication is going to be a problem. I don't think that that is always the problem.
A Dutch newspaper has an article about the RIAA of the Netherlands which says that the industry will find an alternative within a few months.
quote:
ROTTERDAM, 27 JULI. De grootste platenmaatschappijen hebben binnen twee maanden allemaal een 'digitaal distributiesysteem' voor hun muziek. Dat zegt de Nederlandse internetmanager L. Beerens van Universal Music Group, een van de grootste platenmaatschappijen ter wereld.
Which translates into: The biggest recordcompanies will have a digital distributionsystem for their music within three months, according to internetmanager L Beerens of the Universal Music Group. One of the biggest recordcompanies of the world.
There has been shown to be memory effects on rats when they were subjected to GHz radiation.
I'm not holding my television near my ear. If I would do that I would hear a constant 16 kHz tone which would drive me crazy. And if you remember about 5 years ago there were a lot of radiance tests going on for computer monitors. I prefer a low radiation one!
A cell phone is useful only if you want to talk to someone.
Exactly. And there are other reasons to talk to people then for a love life or popularity. There are a lot of ((situations where I need to talk to people) AND (I'm not near any wirephone)). I then either have to go there (time) or I call (money). I know the answer to that...
A headset helps. The only reason (as far as I know, and I had this subject in our ethics class) that the startac has such a low radiation is because the antenna comes out @ a different spot on the cellphone.
I know the next generations cellphones are going to use the next generation DSP's: TI, ... Look at their performance (and/or) claims and you can judge for yourself. Multiple billions of instructions per second!
If you have file access to win, it shouldn't bee to hard to get a screenshot:
-install grabbersoftware
-write some scripting
-change the shortcut for her favorite spamprogramme
how you get fileaccess to a box is a different story...
I like the sentence: "... will take hours to download over all but the fastest net connections. ..." hehehe. My fastest ISO image I downloaded was about 40 minutes. That went over some backbone, but the local uni network goes even faster.
Shouldn't Microsoft move to a more warmer place like Nicaragua or Belize or something? I'm sure they would feel much more at ease with all the bugs they have around there (real exotic ones :-)).
mod #32 up _MORE_.
-Upgradebility for hardware is now a software option.
-Backwardcompatability is now a sofrware option.
-Kernel/Windows hacking is now a software option
-It would help for SMP, because you can now have several different processors behave the same.
You just need to start writing the software for it...
'nuff said
kernelpanic: Startbutton sponsored by Microsoft
I wouldn't buy it. I'd rather have a small computer hooked up to my car stereo (with a din connector or so).
Sorry to interrupt this nice article, but this has been done before in the EE dept of Delft University, The Netherlands. It was hosted by the Electro Technische Vereniging and it was held on a 22 floor building. For a few nice shots:s h.html
http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/engli