Your safeway card is just passed through a card reader, they don't even check to see if it matches the name on the credit card or check (or they don't care).
If you forget your card, then you can give a phone number.
My card was in my stepfather's name for years after he moved 400 miles away. I still got the discounts even when using my own phone number to identify my card.
Now, when the prosecutor uses that to get a warrant, there isn't anything you can really do about it, but the evidence would not be nearly adequate as proof because no one can prove that you're the only one using your Safeway card.
The only technical challenges he discussed were database size/scope and what resolution to use vs. relevant details.
I was hoping to find out how, exactly, images could be normalized, and the normalize images indexed in a way to avoid O(N) searches.
Differences in perspective seem to me to be an enormous hurdle, not to mention shadows that change from hour to hour. Nothing about these challenges was even mentioned in the article
Looks to me like this guy is trolling patent sharks.
When HTML and HTTP came out, the internet exploded. Home computers started coming out with internet connectivity built-in. (Remember the days of Winsock?)
I also noted that Magnetic Resonance Imaging wasn't in the article. That technology changed surgery.
Explaining what went wrong in the demo, and how environmental factors contributed to the glitch/crash, misses the point that the audience so obviously got:
Microsoft products have problems with crashing. Everyone who uses them knows that. Conan knows that. Bill knows that.
The amusement factor is that even the leader of the company knows that and experiences it in the most sensitive moments.
If you need software to run critical proceses in a nuke plant or an airplane, would you use Microsoft products?
> Is there any way to acutally prove that a message is encrypted, > as opposed to being just random garbage data that two people > happened to mail to each other?
> if the central repository is located in USA and the > FBI want to do a man-in-the-middle attack?
This kind of abuse would eventually be proven when the two endpoints of the communication demonstrated that they were given different public keys for each other. Then the FBI _and_ the key service would have some 'splainin to do, not to mention that the key service would be out of business.
Same principle as Open Source code being secure: someone will eventually find out.
> So screw colonizing Mars, > we need to occupy it now or the terrorists will win.
If we can get the terrorists to go to Mars and try to scare us there, then we'll have them out of our way, so we can build our space elevator in peace.;-)
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Your safeway card is just passed through a card reader, they don't even check to see if it matches the name on the credit card or check (or they don't care).
If you forget your card, then you can give a phone number.
My card was in my stepfather's name for years after he moved 400 miles away. I still got the discounts even when using my own phone number to identify my card.
Now, when the prosecutor uses that to get a warrant, there isn't anything you can really do about it, but the evidence would not be nearly adequate as proof because no one can prove that you're the only one using your Safeway card.
...but I will.
If you want good security, use PGP (or one of it's siblings).
Don't trust application products to secure your data. Use security products for that.
> People have no clue what it means and use it as a slam.
Add to this that the regime that the USA was deriding was socialist, not communist.
If they were falsely arrested, they can pursue their greivance in the courts, except that they would have to violate their own principles to do so...
That's poetic justice.
The only technical challenges he discussed were database size/scope and what resolution to use vs. relevant details.
I was hoping to find out how, exactly, images could be normalized, and the normalize images indexed in a way to avoid O(N) searches.
Differences in perspective seem to me to be an enormous hurdle, not to mention shadows that change from hour to hour. Nothing about these challenges was even mentioned in the article
Looks to me like this guy is trolling patent sharks.
(old x86 haiku)
Keyboard not present.
Press F1 to continue.
Zen engineering?
IE is "integral to the operating system" so it shouldn't count as one of the three applications.
Q: After Oprah's stellar expansion and contraction, what kind of star is left?
A: A brown dwarf.
In the USA, if you've done POA and wills with the assistance an attourney, they'll explain that the POA ends at death and the will kicks in.
> all you American folk still have to fill in your own tax returns; surely our way is better?
The IRS tax return is the mechanism we use to allow rich people to escape paying income tax.
When HTML and HTTP came out, the internet exploded. Home computers started coming out with internet connectivity built-in. (Remember the days of Winsock?)
I also noted that Magnetic Resonance Imaging wasn't in the article. That technology changed surgery.
Explaining what went wrong in the demo, and how environmental factors contributed to the glitch/crash, misses the point that the audience so obviously got:
Microsoft products have problems with crashing. Everyone who uses them knows that. Conan knows that. Bill knows that.
The amusement factor is that even the leader of the company knows that and experiences it in the most sensitive moments.
If you need software to run critical proceses in a nuke plant or an airplane, would you use Microsoft products?
I believe Godel's theorem.
(apologies for not figuring out how to post in the German alphabet)
I have blue masking tape wrapped around the edge of the screen housing.
It looks like that's what's holding it together.
Plus it looks different from all of the other laptops going through security, making it easy for me to keep my eye on it.
If someone's going to lift laptops, they'll move along to one that looks less like a piece of s...junk.
Oh, and I also keep my bag with me everywhere except the security checkpoint.
> The PC as we know it probably only has a decade or so left.
Look back 10 years and the PC as we knew it was getting viruses from floppy disks.
The PC as we know it changes much faster than every "decade or so."
Our planetary network ports are open. Send us your packets!
> You'll take my green lasers when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Wouldn't that be "cold, RED fingers?"
I, for one, would rather not have "W" skimming my charitable dollars.
Go soak your head!
> Is there any way to acutally prove that a message is encrypted,
> as opposed to being just random garbage data that two people
> happened to mail to each other?
Torture.
> if the central repository is located in USA and the
> FBI want to do a man-in-the-middle attack?
This kind of abuse would eventually be proven when the two endpoints of the communication demonstrated that they were given different public keys for each other. Then the FBI _and_ the key service would have some 'splainin to do, not to mention that the key service would be out of business.
Same principle as Open Source code being secure: someone will eventually find out.
In a programmer's life
Three things must be done:
Write two lines of APL
And make the buggers run.
"Sudden and Unexpected Electrical Distribution Anomaly."
Reminds me of "uncontrolled flight into terrain," (the official designation for an airplane crash).
> Apparently, Steve Ballmer believes he can enforce U.S. law in Asia.
No, I think he's counting on it that Asia cannot prosecute Microsoft under U.S.A. racketeering laws.
> So screw colonizing Mars,
;-)
> we need to occupy it now or the terrorists will win.
If we can get the terrorists to go to Mars and try to scare us there, then we'll have them out of our way, so we can build our space elevator in peace.