This is one of those "why didn't I think of that!" ideas. It actually makes a lot of sense. Most radio & tv stations use helicopters, police scanner feeds, traffic cameras, and other sources when giving traffic reports on the air. Some use SmarTraveler if it's applicable to their area. Even SmarTraveler uses those same sources for traffic information.
The nice thing here is that engineers can use data obtained from GPS to analyze traffic hot spots and design appropriate solutions to them without having to go to the site, set up cameras, observe traffic, etc. when determining the cause of the hot spot.
In addition, using GPS makes it easy to add traffic monitoring to other locations quickly, again without installing cameras, traffic counters, etc.
For example, in the '96 Olympics, Atlanta added several hundred cameras around the city's highways and streets to monitor traffic around the games. Shortly, cities that will be hosting the Olympics and other major events can get the GPS data feeds without the need to setup all that equipment.
ICANN is trying to protect themselves from services such as New.net. New.net provides the ability to register domains under TLDs like.free,.games, and many others that ICANN has either rejected or taking their sweet time with. They provide a browser plugin for when people try to surf those sites so that their DNS servers are used as opposed to normal ones. Even without the plugin, you can still access those sites by appending new.net to the address: sitename.games.new.net
ICANN is trying to block and fight back at these types of services and re-establish themselves as the organization in charge of TLDs.
Book prices from a machine like this will probably be significantly higher than at your everyday bookstore, especially if one is at the store. Most books that can be found at the library are printed on cheap recycled paper that's of slightly better quality than newspaper. Regular paper from an office supply store for printers/copiers/etc are more expensive in comparison. Not to mention, having the convenience of a book-on-demand from a shop, plus costs of labor in having a clerk do that upon request (and keep ink, toner filled) will drive the cost of your book up quickly.
Something's wrong with your eyesight if you can't see it right in the dang middle of the http://www.nsa.gov website. Not to mention a link was posted up by timothy in the article above.
Somebody here mentioned that facial recognition is the result of research going on world-wide. Most likely the NSA is simply working with other researchers outside NSA, and possibly outside the US, on this topic. I saw the same CNN special about NSA that you're talking abut. I think they said that they do indeed share research results with the research community working with biometrics, with the ultimate goal of simplified user authentication.
OK, i don't know if that can be done in PA. I'm from NJ, and know about this story because it was in the Phila Inquirer. I do know that PA uses the photo to send you a replacement license if you lose yours, but in NJ someone can go to a DMV pretending to be someone else and get a fake-id easily.
The danger, critics say, is that the technology could eventually be expanded to monitor the comings and goings of ordinary Coloradans.
How do we know they don't already do this at places like toll plazas? Several mid-atlantic states have EZPass, New England has something called Fastlane (or something like that). And how do we know they haven't put any OCR tools into the cameras at tolls to track license plates? Ever notice those cameras positioned close to the ground?
... a lawmaker trying to push tougher punishment on identity thieves became a victim of identity theft himself. The thief was caught because the state has a database of every driver's photo. The guy actually tried to get a licence in the lawmaker's name. Hence, the state having everyone's picture available can have it plusses.
I wonder how crime-ridden cities would handle this. If this system was implemented in areas that riddled with crime, would the system overload from the hits of picking out all the criminals? The police too, when notified of a criminal being detected, wouldn't they be overwhelmed with hit notices?
Not to mention, police in some cities are no better than the criminals themselves. Whose to say they'll act when notifed of a detection?
How is this a major privacy problem? Couldn't an undercover cop with a good memory for faces stand on a street corner and look out for known criminals? Many police departments already do that.
I was actually referring to cotse's site being targeted by hackers, terrorists threatening steve himself, people using his email address, etc. Are these people going to be turning their bulleye's onto slashdot in forging emails of rob malda or spamming the/. community with porn ads to the point that moderation is pointless? Just the other day comments to an article on/. was spammed with 30+ consecutive identical messages by the same person, not to mention copycats. The person was logged in, giving a default score of 1, meaning most people would see it before it got modded down, and with 30+ messages to mod down, thats a lot of wasted moderating.
I'm curious as to something. This is the second time in my few months of being a/. reader where a security organization has become a target for computer based attacks.
Is it just a matter of time before slashdot, being the public forum that it is, becoms the target of the psychotic individuals currently targeting cotse?
why he pinned this to Los Alamos scientists is beyond me
How is it possible for you to read the article and miss this:
Last week, at the International Conference on Quantum Information, in Rochester, New York, they explained how to build a system that will broadcast uncrackable messages via satellite.
Just curious, what government do you work for...?!? State, federal, what?
The feds. I'm actually an intern pursuing my BS in CS. The internship program managers advertise to us the oppurtunities offered by the government in hopes of having us come on board after graduation. I do know of several people who have partaked in the 20/20 program. The real benefit obviously comes after the degree is completed. No loans to pay back and a nice pay raise for having the extra degree : )
I know of several Master's programs offered by my employer, the government. The two I know the most about are:
1) 20/20. Work part-time, school part-time. Collect full salary and the gov't will pay your tuition. Requires the school be local to your work location.
2) I dont remember the name- spend one year going to the school of your choice full-time. Sponsering agency will pay tuition and housing costs. Again you collect full salary. Problem here is most master's programs require two years of work, yet this program only allows one year.
Both programs require good grades and you remain employed by the sponsering agency a certain number of years after completing your degree. Failure to do so will require to pay back tuition costs in some fashion.
You really should only be concerned with Linux starting to resemble older versions of Windows. MacOS (any recent version) is able to show how far along the boot-up process is. OS 8 and 9 use those little icons along the bottom of the screen, OS-X uses a progress bar and a message saying what's currently being loaded. Win2K also uses a progress bar, but no messages.
I don't think the messages in Linux are gonna disappear completely, just not as many in number.
It was actually a quote by an Apple rep I spoke with at the conference. Others have told me Steve Jobs said something similar a week before at the Apple Developers conference.
I'll agree with you that 1.3 on OS-X isn't perfect, but it runs well for the most part and gets the job done. JDK 1.4 is supposedly going to have a lot of improvements, which was one major bullet that Sun repeatedly got rammed down our throats at JavaOne.
Apple needs Java to work on Macs more than anything. I think apple found themselves very fortunate to have their table on the JavaOne Pavillion floor (the tradeshow area) be right up front by the entrance, giving everyone that walks in an oppurtunity to see the awesome beauty that is Aqua.
Outside of the keynote demo using OS-X, there were at least two sessions by apple. One was on using WebObjects, the other a specialized session for OS-X and Java. I'm certain there were also a few BOFs that dealt with OS-X as well.
Actually, Windows was the most used for on-stage stuff. Unlike you who watched the webcasts, I was actually there and saw the demos live in front of me, but lets not start the flame wars on that.
Most of the demo's were actually Windows machines. In addition, the slide presentations were all done in StarOffice, running under Windows. A large number of keynote demos were actually of J2ME enabled systems - PDAs, SmartCards, Cell-phones, etc.
But Sun did get people to use Solaris 8. Throughout the Moscone Convention Center, they had "Hacker Labs" set up where attendees could access internet and do whatever. The machines used? Solaris 8 on Ultrasparcs.
This is an unique idea in getting broadband into the mainstream. DSL and Cable aren't quite there yet, as remote places cant get cable and most new places cant get DSL. But everyone that has a computer also has electricity, so the problem of wiring places for DSL/Cable is inherently gone for many, meaning all they need is a modem of some sort to extract the data out of the power outlets.
But two problems may exist: this has been tried elsewhere (dont remember where), it wasn't a good experiment as the normal electrical power caused problems for data lines. Hopefully this has resolved in some way.
The second problem is similar to that of cable modems: Line sharing. If everyone in your neighborhood (or house, depending on how the network is setup) surfs at the same time, everyone's connection speed goes down. Not to mention the security risks here are also similar to those of cable modems.
Slashdot Mirror
The nice thing here is that engineers can use data obtained from GPS to analyze traffic hot spots and design appropriate solutions to them without having to go to the site, set up cameras, observe traffic, etc. when determining the cause of the hot spot.
In addition, using GPS makes it easy to add traffic monitoring to other locations quickly, again without installing cameras, traffic counters, etc.
For example, in the '96 Olympics, Atlanta added several hundred cameras around the city's highways and streets to monitor traffic around the games. Shortly, cities that will be hosting the Olympics and other major events can get the GPS data feeds without the need to setup all that equipment.
ICANN is trying to block and fight back at these types of services and re-establish themselves as the organization in charge of TLDs.
Book prices from a machine like this will probably be significantly higher than at your everyday bookstore, especially if one is at the store. Most books that can be found at the library are printed on cheap recycled paper that's of slightly better quality than newspaper. Regular paper from an office supply store for printers/copiers/etc are more expensive in comparison. Not to mention, having the convenience of a book-on-demand from a shop, plus costs of labor in having a clerk do that upon request (and keep ink, toner filled) will drive the cost of your book up quickly.
Something's wrong with your eyesight if you can't see it right in the dang middle of the http://www.nsa.gov website. Not to mention a link was posted up by timothy in the article above.
Somebody here mentioned that facial recognition is the result of research going on world-wide. Most likely the NSA is simply working with other researchers outside NSA, and possibly outside the US, on this topic. I saw the same CNN special about NSA that you're talking abut. I think they said that they do indeed share research results with the research community working with biometrics, with the ultimate goal of simplified user authentication.
OK, i don't know if that can be done in PA. I'm from NJ, and know about this story because it was in the Phila Inquirer. I do know that PA uses the photo to send you a replacement license if you lose yours, but in NJ someone can go to a DMV pretending to be someone else and get a fake-id easily.
How do we know they don't already do this at places like toll plazas? Several mid-atlantic states have EZPass, New England has something called Fastlane (or something like that). And how do we know they haven't put any OCR tools into the cameras at tolls to track license plates? Ever notice those cameras positioned close to the ground?
... a lawmaker trying to push tougher punishment on identity thieves became a victim of identity theft himself. The thief was caught because the state has a database of every driver's photo. The guy actually tried to get a licence in the lawmaker's name. Hence, the state having everyone's picture available can have it plusses.
... how long it will be before Slashdot gets a few of these regarding some of the comments I'm reading regarding the loophole to getting XP RC1.
ah, dont worry. Knowing MS, oppurtunities to bash them come up quite frequently.
Not to mention, police in some cities are no better than the criminals themselves. Whose to say they'll act when notifed of a detection?
How is this a major privacy problem? Couldn't an undercover cop with a good memory for faces stand on a street corner and look out for known criminals? Many police departments already do that.
I was actually referring to cotse's site being targeted by hackers, terrorists threatening steve himself, people using his email address, etc. Are these people going to be turning their bulleye's onto slashdot in forging emails of rob malda or spamming the /. community with porn ads to the point that moderation is pointless? Just the other day comments to an article on /. was spammed with 30+ consecutive identical messages by the same person, not to mention copycats. The person was logged in, giving a default score of 1, meaning most people would see it before it got modded down, and with 30+ messages to mod down, thats a lot of wasted moderating.
I saw that link too, but decided not to reproduce it since it put up by tim at the top of the page.
The system described by here sounds very similar to the slashdot system. And /. too, has been vistited by copyright lawyers in attempting censorship.
Is it just a matter of time before slashdot, being the public forum that it is, becoms the target of the psychotic individuals currently targeting cotse?
I'm curious as to why it was LANL that developed this technique. NSA is supposed to be the group that works with cryptology.
How is it possible for you to read the article and miss this:
Last week, at the International Conference on Quantum Information, in Rochester, New York, they explained how to build a system that will broadcast uncrackable messages via satellite.
The feds. I'm actually an intern pursuing my BS in CS. The internship program managers advertise to us the oppurtunities offered by the government in hopes of having us come on board after graduation. I do know of several people who have partaked in the 20/20 program. The real benefit obviously comes after the degree is completed. No loans to pay back and a nice pay raise for having the extra degree : )
1) 20/20. Work part-time, school part-time. Collect full salary and the gov't will pay your tuition. Requires the school be local to your work location.
2) I dont remember the name- spend one year going to the school of your choice full-time. Sponsering agency will pay tuition and housing costs. Again you collect full salary. Problem here is most master's programs require two years of work, yet this program only allows one year.
Both programs require good grades and you remain employed by the sponsering agency a certain number of years after completing your degree. Failure to do so will require to pay back tuition costs in some fashion.
very kool!!! learn something new everyday......
I don't think the messages in Linux are gonna disappear completely, just not as many in number.
I'll agree with you that 1.3 on OS-X isn't perfect, but it runs well for the most part and gets the job done. JDK 1.4 is supposedly going to have a lot of improvements, which was one major bullet that Sun repeatedly got rammed down our throats at JavaOne.
Outside of the keynote demo using OS-X, there were at least two sessions by apple. One was on using WebObjects, the other a specialized session for OS-X and Java. I'm certain there were also a few BOFs that dealt with OS-X as well.
Most of the demo's were actually Windows machines. In addition, the slide presentations were all done in StarOffice, running under Windows. A large number of keynote demos were actually of J2ME enabled systems - PDAs, SmartCards, Cell-phones, etc.
But Sun did get people to use Solaris 8. Throughout the Moscone Convention Center, they had "Hacker Labs" set up where attendees could access internet and do whatever. The machines used? Solaris 8 on Ultrasparcs.
But two problems may exist: this has been tried elsewhere (dont remember where), it wasn't a good experiment as the normal electrical power caused problems for data lines. Hopefully this has resolved in some way.
The second problem is similar to that of cable modems: Line sharing. If everyone in your neighborhood (or house, depending on how the network is setup) surfs at the same time, everyone's connection speed goes down. Not to mention the security risks here are also similar to those of cable modems.