No, it's not the first, but it's important for a number of reasons. Most importantly, it's cheaper, piezo electric sensors are cheap and other solutions like I-Tech's Virtual Laser Keyboard are not ($180).
If we get rid of the dollar bill, what are people supposed to use at strip bars? A five is a little bit much for most people and I can't imagine having underwear full of coins is helpful when dancing. Please people, think of the strippers.
Kodama is director of the Advanced Maritime Transport Technology Department at Japan's National Maritime Research Institute (NMRI) in Tokyo. His work is just one of several major programmes under way in the US, Russia, Japan and Europe that focus on how to make ships more slippery.
Based on my experience in the bathtub, an easy way to make a more slippery craft is to cover it with soap. I think this would scale up nicely, but I'm not sure how they would make a freighter in the shape of a rubber duck.
I understand the arguement for LCDs, but "Plasma" just sounds so much cooler. In order to make sure that LCDs are the winnning technology, I propose that companies who make LCDs start referring to their displays as "Liquivision" TVs and high-def LCDs as "Extreme Liquivision Plus".
It looks the same in both Opera and Firefox to me, so that's not the issue. It must be that the US and Australian sites are different although that seems a bit weird.
Absolutely, I do that as well, but more often now I'll just take an image of whatever it is I'm looking at (if it's text, I'll take a screenshot of it) and bring it into Photoshop and then mark it up using my tablet. It's about as easy as marking up a printed copy, but I doubt I would bother if I actually had a printer hooked up to my desktop.
You mean Analog Rights Management. That is, unless they're making books now that are just printed binary data for a PDF file of the book, in which case that seems like a lot of binary data to type within 16 hours.
I agree. The problem that comes to mind first is wear on the paper. If you're reusing the paper it's more likely that you're going to be putting in sheets with folds or slight crumples or whatever and that will easily increase printer/copier jams.
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Definitely. It would be a lot more useful if it were available with various (mostly longer) times of decay. If you're not absolutely sure that you won't need the sheets tomorrow, you're not going to use this paper, but if it lasted say, a week or a month, it might be more useful because it would be easier to be sure you wouldn't need it after it expires.
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This would be perfect for counterfeiters! Print up some fake bills on these sheets, spend them, and if you get caught, the evidence has destroyed itself -- all they have is bill-sized scraps of blank paper!
That is a false analogy. The difference is that DRM lock-in is an artificial limitation. Diesel engines can't use regular gasoline because of how differently the two types of engines work. The only reason you can't play songs from iTunes on your Zune is because Apple doesn't want you to.
DRM isn't even the problem, it's the type of DRM. I'll accept that the RIAA and a lot of people want DRM on the music files they sell, but there's no technical reason that each DRM scheme has to be specific to one player (or small group of players).
The banks don't do this because those Secure Cards cost $$$$$$ and that will hurt the banks bottom line.
Some banks do it. ETrade, for example, will give you an RSA SecurID keyfob for free if you have over a certain amount of money in your account with them (like $50k I think, maybe it was 25). If you don't have enough money to get one for free, you can still get one from them for, I think, $25.
I don't see anything about keyboard typing being allowed. Its pure mouse clicks only for me.
You can type it in if you want, the instructions next to the pinpad specify it:
"Use your mouse to click the numbers on the keypad that correspond to your Login PIN.
OR Use your keyboard to type the letters from the keypad that correspond to your Login PIN."
My guess is that before you hit on an account that had a password of 1234, 4321 or 1337 somebody in the bank's IT department would realize that something's up because a a ridiculous amount of accounts are hitting their password tries limit.
Virtual keyboards are designed to protect against keyloggers, not phishers, and they do a pretty good job. No one technology protects all fronts of attack -- saying virtual keyboards are useless because users can still be phished is like saying that encrypting data between you and a bank is useless because it doesn't protect you from somebody looking over your shoulder.
As far as keyloggers installed by trojans, you're probably right, I've never heard of that happening with any OS besides Windows, but there certainly are keyloggers for unix and other OSes and while you probably don't have to worry about those (presuming you keep your PC secured), there are also hardware keyloggers.
I use ING direct and they do something sort of like that, they have a picture of a numeric pin-pad that comes up and each key has a (random) letter on it. You enter your pin by typing the letter associated with each number. Unfortunately, you can also enter your pin by clicking the numbers (well, unfortunate for security, but fortunate for user convenience).
So the article is saying that people with trojans on their computers are fucked? Is anyone surprised by this? The point of virtual keyboards is not to defend against trojans, it's to defend against keyloggers. They may defend against trojans that try to steal your account information with a keylogger, but I think it's safe to say that no matter what security technology your bank is using, if you've got a trojan on your computer you're going to be fucked.
Then WHY did you buy music off the iTunes store to put on a Zen? Why didn't you buy it off MSN, or Napster, or Real?
That actually perfectly illustrates his point about vendor lock-in -- if you pick the wrong player, you're limiting your choices for what music stores you can use and vice versa. If it weren't for vendor lock-in via proprietary DRM then there would be no problem with interoperability.
In his report, Arthur discusses Nicholas Negroponte's gift of hand-powered laptops to developing nations and the wide array of troubles that could arise as the world's exploitable poor go online."
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This is true, the three schools tiers in Germany are Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. There is some mobility between these schools, but most of it is downward rather than students moving up a level (although it does happen).
If you don't like what you're doing at your job you can find another job that you like better. If you don't like what you're doing at your school your ability to change your situation is limited to, at best, going to another school which you'll probably dislike comparably.
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No, it's not the first, but it's important for a number of reasons. Most importantly, it's cheaper, piezo electric sensors are cheap and other solutions like I-Tech's Virtual Laser Keyboard are not ($180).
If we get rid of the dollar bill, what are people supposed to use at strip bars? A five is a little bit much for most people and I can't imagine having underwear full of coins is helpful when dancing. Please people, think of the strippers.
Actually it was a "Michael Jackson has sex with monkeys" joke, which is rather novel by comparison.
I understand the arguement for LCDs, but "Plasma" just sounds so much cooler. In order to make sure that LCDs are the winnning technology, I propose that companies who make LCDs start referring to their displays as "Liquivision" TVs and high-def LCDs as "Extreme Liquivision Plus".
Also, they should put racing stripes on them.
It looks the same in both Opera and Firefox to me, so that's not the issue. It must be that the US and Australian sites are different although that seems a bit weird.
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Anyway, here's a picture of what the virtual pinpad looks like on the US site: http://itsbeenconfirmed.com/uploaded/ingkeypad.jp
Hardware keyloggers.
Absolutely, I do that as well, but more often now I'll just take an image of whatever it is I'm looking at (if it's text, I'll take a screenshot of it) and bring it into Photoshop and then mark it up using my tablet. It's about as easy as marking up a printed copy, but I doubt I would bother if I actually had a printer hooked up to my desktop.
You mean Analog Rights Management. That is, unless they're making books now that are just printed binary data for a PDF file of the book, in which case that seems like a lot of binary data to type within 16 hours.
I agree. The problem that comes to mind first is wear on the paper. If you're reusing the paper it's more likely that you're going to be putting in sheets with folds or slight crumples or whatever and that will easily increase printer/copier jams.
Definitely. It would be a lot more useful if it were available with various (mostly longer) times of decay. If you're not absolutely sure that you won't need the sheets tomorrow, you're not going to use this paper, but if it lasted say, a week or a month, it might be more useful because it would be easier to be sure you wouldn't need it after it expires.
This would be perfect for counterfeiters! Print up some fake bills on these sheets, spend them, and if you get caught, the evidence has destroyed itself -- all they have is bill-sized scraps of blank paper!
That is a false analogy. The difference is that DRM lock-in is an artificial limitation. Diesel engines can't use regular gasoline because of how differently the two types of engines work. The only reason you can't play songs from iTunes on your Zune is because Apple doesn't want you to.
DRM isn't even the problem, it's the type of DRM. I'll accept that the RIAA and a lot of people want DRM on the music files they sell, but there's no technical reason that each DRM scheme has to be specific to one player (or small group of players).
My guess is that before you hit on an account that had a password of 1234, 4321 or 1337 somebody in the bank's IT department would realize that something's up because a a ridiculous amount of accounts are hitting their password tries limit.
Virtual keyboards are designed to protect against keyloggers, not phishers, and they do a pretty good job. No one technology protects all fronts of attack -- saying virtual keyboards are useless because users can still be phished is like saying that encrypting data between you and a bank is useless because it doesn't protect you from somebody looking over your shoulder.
As far as keyloggers installed by trojans, you're probably right, I've never heard of that happening with any OS besides Windows, but there certainly are keyloggers for unix and other OSes and while you probably don't have to worry about those (presuming you keep your PC secured), there are also hardware keyloggers.
I use ING direct and they do something sort of like that, they have a picture of a numeric pin-pad that comes up and each key has a (random) letter on it. You enter your pin by typing the letter associated with each number. Unfortunately, you can also enter your pin by clicking the numbers (well, unfortunate for security, but fortunate for user convenience).
So the article is saying that people with trojans on their computers are fucked? Is anyone surprised by this? The point of virtual keyboards is not to defend against trojans, it's to defend against keyloggers. They may defend against trojans that try to steal your account information with a keylogger, but I think it's safe to say that no matter what security technology your bank is using, if you've got a trojan on your computer you're going to be fucked.
Tempest is one of the best games ever. Invest in a working arcade version and enjoy.
When you become to arthritic to play it though, you have to give it to me.
This is true, the three schools tiers in Germany are Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. There is some mobility between these schools, but most of it is downward rather than students moving up a level (although it does happen).