According to Fujitsu's PR, they're guessing that they can achieve a 5% equal error rate -- they actually identified all 700 correctly.
Of course, this tells us nothing about how easily fooled the system is. Considering the recent success of a Japanese researcher in breaking fingerprint systems, I wouldn't trust this for a second.
No matter what you're into, there's something, probably several somethings, somewhere on a cable channel for you.
The problem isn't the quality of the programming, it's simply sitting in front of a screen, swallowing images of fictional worlds. Whether one watches Buffy, the History Channel, Dan Rather, or Un Chien Andalou, it's the same thing -- when TV doesn't distort in the name of entertainment, it domesticates.
There are a billion people across the Pacific who use fonts that have upwards of 10,000 different characters. I find Japanese on non-commercial unixes simply unbearable, the fonts are so bad. While presumably the Chinese government is willing to design it's own fonts for its version of Linux, that does no good for the Japanese or Korean markets, and little for Chinese markets that do not use PRC characters.
And no, the fonts you mention are not damn easy to create.
Get off your high horse. Many people are in science simply because they thought it would be more satisfying and pay better than the alternatives, not because they knew it's what they wanted to do since birth. Most scientists are not selfless monks, devoted to knowledge above all else.
"With a couple of keystrokes on a computer, Old Dominion University's maglev transportation system project moved -- literally and figuratively -- steps closer to making history. The first propulsion tests of the system on the campus guideway began Thursday, a feat that has not previously been accomplished in the United States...."
http://www.odu.edu/webroot/orgs/IA/university_news.nsf/articles/08092002092905AM
Yes, the Alphas have lost their main advantage, a high clock speed. Unless the architecture has fundamentally changed, the Alpha can't hope to compete at 1.3-1.7 Ghz.
The worst thing about this for many of us is that it means the end of Solaris on laptops. The Sparc alternatives (http://www.naturetech.com.tw) are simply too expensive to be a practical alternative for someone wanting a cheap, portable Jumpstart server. But then, getting Solaris to run on a laptop can be a time-consuming, frustrating endeavor.
The only way the first point could be true is if no Redhat box had ever been cracked.
Solaris appears to have more exploits than any other proprietary OS primarily because Sun has traditionally been more open than other vendors about its security problems, and because of Sun's long dominance of the US education market.
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Of course, this tells us nothing about how easily fooled the system is. Considering the recent success of a Japanese researcher in breaking fingerprint systems, I wouldn't trust this for a second.
The problem isn't the quality of the programming, it's simply sitting in front of a screen, swallowing images of fictional worlds. Whether one watches Buffy, the History Channel, Dan Rather, or Un Chien Andalou, it's the same thing -- when TV doesn't distort in the name of entertainment, it domesticates.
And no, the fonts you mention are not damn easy to create.
Get off your high horse. Many people are in science simply because they thought it would be more satisfying and pay better than the alternatives, not because they knew it's what they wanted to do since birth. Most scientists are not selfless monks, devoted to knowledge above all else.
"With a couple of keystrokes on a computer, Old Dominion University's maglev transportation system project moved -- literally and figuratively -- steps closer to making history. The first propulsion tests of the system on the campus guideway began Thursday, a feat that has not previously been accomplished in the United States...." http://www.odu.edu/webroot/orgs/IA/university_news .nsf/articles/08092002092905AM
Yes, the Alphas have lost their main advantage, a high clock speed. Unless the architecture has fundamentally changed, the Alpha can't hope to compete at 1.3-1.7 Ghz.
The worst thing about this for many of us is that it means the end of Solaris on laptops. The Sparc alternatives (http://www.naturetech.com.tw) are simply too expensive to be a practical alternative for someone wanting a cheap, portable Jumpstart server. But then, getting Solaris to run on a laptop can be a time-consuming, frustrating endeavor.
The only way the first point could be true is if no Redhat box had ever been cracked.
Solaris appears to have more exploits than any other proprietary OS primarily because Sun has traditionally been more open than other vendors about its security problems, and because of Sun's long dominance of the US education market.