Here's a demo of my UPC code recognition software for nokia series 60 phones:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/barcr-reader/ba rcr-alpha2-bin.zip?download
Right now it just displays the code on the screen. If you want to toy with the source, get a CVS checkout.
You need a macro lens on any current cell phone to focus on such close objects, or you need really big barcodes.
[i]So for home use, don't bother. For commercial or industrial settings, though, there can be lots of lights, and here is a labor cost associated with changing them. Some organizations change every light at once, to avoid the higher cost of replacing bulbs individually as they burn out. For those types of applications, the longer-lasting LED lights will lower the cost of changing bulbs.[/i]
A commercial setting would use high pressure sodium or fluorescent instead of incandescent bulbs. The efficiencies and costs on the LED 'bulbs' seems similar to HPS and fluorescent lighting.
Most worms these days scan IPs to find other exploitable hosts. I always thought we should look for exploits in the worm's scanning engine and then attempt to crash it by responding to its scanning requests with data which would do something like exploit a buffer overflow or off by one attack. These crashing response daemons would be located on systems which don't normally take requests of the service type the worm exploits. That way these would be very unlikely to affect anything legitimate. A worm whose scanning code has been crashed would be unlikely to infect other systems. It's also unlikely that crashing the scanning code would affect other services on the infected machine, limiting the legal liability of such a thing.
I've had some luck against people scanning web servers for formmail.pl scripts. My formmail.pl sends random data without any CR or LF. One script so far accepted 2gb of data before disconnecting.
There are other opposite issues with commercial software products. Most companies will release unstable or incomplete software because they need the revenue. They will do this in the hopes that enough people will buy such a product in order to fund the bug fixes. I've been in situations where we were paying $15,000 a year for 4 licenses but were told we'd have to wait a year until a specific feature was fixed. With open source I can fix it myself, submit a patch, and everyone is happy.
Isn't this not much different than heating a metal past its austenitization temperature for a while and cooling it quickly?
I don't understand how this would work for a polymer, as there is no grain for heating and cooling to affect.
[i]Why drive a 4000 pound SUV to pick up a gallon of milk at the supermarket if you don't have to?[/i]
The machoness of a car is inversely proportional to its fuel efficiency.
Why bother taking a car at all to get milk? If you don't live in a sprawl, you should be within easy walking or biking distance of milk.
'Stupid people' don't want to learn about computers. They just want to be able to do things like email pictures of their grandkids to their relatives. Can you honestly say your grandmother could pick up a mandrake cd and have her digital camera, internet, and printer working easily and flawlessly with it without much effort?
The only law which will truly cut down on spyware would be one which bans Internet Explorer.
A lot of spyware isn't 'piggybacked', it's installed through IE browser exploits. A number of people run into the exploits when they mistype a URL or search for porn.
Attempting to pass legislation against companies which will just relocate to other countries is pointless.
Email was designed to trust everyone, making it hard to reject email from people you don't want it from. We must get everyone to move to a better architecture which can force sender authentication if desired by the receiver. My own personal preference would be to have the sending MTA sign outgoing mails with a public key. Any scheme be much easier than getting 100% of governments to outlaw spam, which is what is needed to be effective.
Legislation is not the answer to a technical problem.
As far as exposure to EMF goes, most people are getting far more EMF from common items such as alarm clocks, toasters, and hair dryers. Cell phones can transmit at far higher power levels than WiFi typically does, and you receive much more EMF from it due to your proximity. Very few of those people and groups say anything whcih makes sense.
They can make their opinions known at the polls, but should be ignored otherwise.
At one point in time I was only getting 60% of my postal mail.
If you complain, your local postmaster will tell you he'll look into it and promise to call you back. When he fails to call you back, you can get ahold of the regional customer service number, promise to look into it and call you back. They of course will not call you back. Then of course you will call their national customer service number. They will open a trouble ticket, promise to call you back, but won't. When you call back later, they will inform you that your ticket will have been mysteriously closed without reason.
The United States Postal Service has the worst customer service of any company I've ever dealt with as well as an extremely high failure rate. Email is a far better way to communicate, even if some messages never make it to you.
The only problem is that most terrorists who are willing to die come from middle class backgrounds. None of the 19 men who were in the planes on September 11th ever experienced starvation. This is also typically true for suicide bombers. It's possible that they are extremely upset about the poor masses amongst them. Personally I think it's rather stupid to attempt any sort of strike against civilians in an entity which has a military that is large enough to crush you.
The aftermath of the September 11th attacks has left 60,000 muslims dead (so far). If the goal was anything other than killing civilians, I would consider it a failure.
Last time I was at the Minneapolis airport I used one of these. In order to get back into the locker, I also had to type in a PIN or pay $20 without it. My guess is that the PIN on these is required because the fingerprint recognition is not good enough to distinguish one person from another. The other possibility is that they just want to make money off of people losing the receipts. If the case is that the fingerprint reader on this is a total piece of crap, then I wouldn't worry too much. I am much more upset by the fact that I was required to give a thumb print to open a bank account.
So you're saying that 45,000 people per year would still die of automobile accidents in the US if the speed limit were dropped to 10 miles per hour and strictly enforced? Automobiles kill many more people than crack, why are US laws so tolerant of violating regulations designed to limit deaths?
Also, what about those of us who constantly go 5 mph above the speed limit? Would we be targeted as reckless drivers because we "speed" most of the time? No thanks.
No, but you should be tagged as criminals, because you are breaking a law created to save lives, just like that guy selling crack on the street corner. I don't agree with constant monitoring of people to watch them for criminal activity, however.
It was. Now it is mandated, therefore it is a tax, and therefore it is government. That means we can bypass the whole "well, it's a private company so they can deep fry your rights in wombat shit" argument.
It's not a tax, it's only mandated for people that own cars. The government isn't forcing you to own one. They're not as necessary as you may think they are.
Ideally, the voters wouldn't be able to see any of the previous entries. You would still run into issues like this with the last voters on the machine. Another thing you would have to mechanically protect against is the machine printing out extra votes while nobody is using the machine. During an audit, the extra votes would be picked up, and then you would have to discard all of the votes from that machine. If you wanted to swing an election as a programmer, you could easily just have the machine ruin results in an area which favors your opponent.
My problem with perl is that the language is too complicated for any single human to remember, except for Larry Wall maybe. Understanding and remembering the entire language, all operators, and all caveats is necessary for working on a team with perl code. I programmed in perl for a full year, and still couldn't remember everything outlined in the 2,000 word document explaining everything about references in perl. There are around 100 of these documents, and you must know them all well in order to understand any code which you may come across.
While it's possible to write good code in perl, I don't think it has ever been done. Even some of the base libraries are horribly written. Take a look at the cpan code for date parsing (strtotime?).
Simple. Have *two* printers which feed into a box on each machine. Pick the printer randomly. Use a mechanical shutter to show the voter the output of the printer being used. As long as you have more than a few people voting at each machine, you have no way of knowing who made which votes, even if you record the order of people that went to the machine.
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Here's a demo of my UPC code recognition software for nokia series 60 phones: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/barcr-reader/ba rcr-alpha2-bin.zip?download
Right now it just displays the code on the screen. If you want to toy with the source, get a CVS checkout.
You need a macro lens on any current cell phone to focus on such close objects, or you need really big barcodes.
[i]So for home use, don't bother. For commercial or industrial settings, though, there can be lots of lights, and here is a labor cost associated with changing them. Some organizations change every light at once, to avoid the higher cost of replacing bulbs individually as they burn out. For those types of applications, the longer-lasting LED lights will lower the cost of changing bulbs.[/i] A commercial setting would use high pressure sodium or fluorescent instead of incandescent bulbs. The efficiencies and costs on the LED 'bulbs' seems similar to HPS and fluorescent lighting.
Most worms these days scan IPs to find other exploitable hosts. I always thought we should look for exploits in the worm's scanning engine and then attempt to crash it by responding to its scanning requests with data which would do something like exploit a buffer overflow or off by one attack. These crashing response daemons would be located on systems which don't normally take requests of the service type the worm exploits. That way these would be very unlikely to affect anything legitimate. A worm whose scanning code has been crashed would be unlikely to infect other systems. It's also unlikely that crashing the scanning code would affect other services on the infected machine, limiting the legal liability of such a thing.
I've had some luck against people scanning web servers for formmail.pl scripts. My formmail.pl sends random data without any CR or LF. One script so far accepted 2gb of data before disconnecting.
There are other opposite issues with commercial software products. Most companies will release unstable or incomplete software because they need the revenue. They will do this in the hopes that enough people will buy such a product in order to fund the bug fixes. I've been in situations where we were paying $15,000 a year for 4 licenses but were told we'd have to wait a year until a specific feature was fixed. With open source I can fix it myself, submit a patch, and everyone is happy.
Why would you run Windows on much more expensive hardware?
I miss that game.
Does this mean disallowing google from your robots.txt is obstruction of justice?
Isn't this not much different than heating a metal past its austenitization temperature for a while and cooling it quickly? I don't understand how this would work for a polymer, as there is no grain for heating and cooling to affect.
[i]Why drive a 4000 pound SUV to pick up a gallon of milk at the supermarket if you don't have to?[/i] The machoness of a car is inversely proportional to its fuel efficiency. Why bother taking a car at all to get milk? If you don't live in a sprawl, you should be within easy walking or biking distance of milk.
pwn3d!
'Stupid people' don't want to learn about computers. They just want to be able to do things like email pictures of their grandkids to their relatives. Can you honestly say your grandmother could pick up a mandrake cd and have her digital camera, internet, and printer working easily and flawlessly with it without much effort?
The only law which will truly cut down on spyware would be one which bans Internet Explorer.
A lot of spyware isn't 'piggybacked', it's installed through IE browser exploits. A number of people run into the exploits when they mistype a URL or search for porn.
Attempting to pass legislation against companies which will just relocate to other countries is pointless.
$3,000 is also a lot to spend on a TV.
Email was designed to trust everyone, making it hard to reject email from people you don't want it from. We must get everyone to move to a better architecture which can force sender authentication if desired by the receiver. My own personal preference would be to have the sending MTA sign outgoing mails with a public key. Any scheme be much easier than getting 100% of governments to outlaw spam, which is what is needed to be effective. Legislation is not the answer to a technical problem.
As far as exposure to EMF goes, most people are getting far more EMF from common items such as alarm clocks, toasters, and hair dryers. Cell phones can transmit at far higher power levels than WiFi typically does, and you receive much more EMF from it due to your proximity. Very few of those people and groups say anything whcih makes sense.
They can make their opinions known at the polls, but should be ignored otherwise.
At one point in time I was only getting 60% of my postal mail. If you complain, your local postmaster will tell you he'll look into it and promise to call you back. When he fails to call you back, you can get ahold of the regional customer service number, promise to look into it and call you back. They of course will not call you back. Then of course you will call their national customer service number. They will open a trouble ticket, promise to call you back, but won't. When you call back later, they will inform you that your ticket will have been mysteriously closed without reason.
The United States Postal Service has the worst customer service of any company I've ever dealt with as well as an extremely high failure rate. Email is a far better way to communicate, even if some messages never make it to you.
The only problem is that most terrorists who are willing to die come from middle class backgrounds. None of the 19 men who were in the planes on September 11th ever experienced starvation. This is also typically true for suicide bombers. It's possible that they are extremely upset about the poor masses amongst them. Personally I think it's rather stupid to attempt any sort of strike against civilians in an entity which has a military that is large enough to crush you. The aftermath of the September 11th attacks has left 60,000 muslims dead (so far). If the goal was anything other than killing civilians, I would consider it a failure.
Yes, you may be able to achieve 10 frames per second in the highest quality setting.
Last time I was at the Minneapolis airport I used one of these. In order to get back into the locker, I also had to type in a PIN or pay $20 without it. My guess is that the PIN on these is required because the fingerprint recognition is not good enough to distinguish one person from another. The other possibility is that they just want to make money off of people losing the receipts. If the case is that the fingerprint reader on this is a total piece of crap, then I wouldn't worry too much. I am much more upset by the fact that I was required to give a thumb print to open a bank account.
So you're saying that 45,000 people per year would still die of automobile accidents in the US if the speed limit were dropped to 10 miles per hour and strictly enforced? Automobiles kill many more people than crack, why are US laws so tolerant of violating regulations designed to limit deaths?
Also, what about those of us who constantly go 5 mph above the speed limit? Would we be targeted as reckless drivers because we "speed" most of the time? No thanks.
No, but you should be tagged as criminals, because you are breaking a law created to save lives, just like that guy selling crack on the street corner. I don't agree with constant monitoring of people to watch them for criminal activity, however.
It was. Now it is mandated, therefore it is a tax, and therefore it is government. That means we can bypass the whole "well, it's a private company so they can deep fry your rights in wombat shit" argument. It's not a tax, it's only mandated for people that own cars. The government isn't forcing you to own one. They're not as necessary as you may think they are.
Ideally, the voters wouldn't be able to see any of the previous entries. You would still run into issues like this with the last voters on the machine. Another thing you would have to mechanically protect against is the machine printing out extra votes while nobody is using the machine. During an audit, the extra votes would be picked up, and then you would have to discard all of the votes from that machine. If you wanted to swing an election as a programmer, you could easily just have the machine ruin results in an area which favors your opponent.
My problem with perl is that the language is too complicated for any single human to remember, except for Larry Wall maybe. Understanding and remembering the entire language, all operators, and all caveats is necessary for working on a team with perl code. I programmed in perl for a full year, and still couldn't remember everything outlined in the 2,000 word document explaining everything about references in perl. There are around 100 of these documents, and you must know them all well in order to understand any code which you may come across. While it's possible to write good code in perl, I don't think it has ever been done. Even some of the base libraries are horribly written. Take a look at the cpan code for date parsing (strtotime?).
Simple. Have *two* printers which feed into a box on each machine. Pick the printer randomly. Use a mechanical shutter to show the voter the output of the printer being used. As long as you have more than a few people voting at each machine, you have no way of knowing who made which votes, even if you record the order of people that went to the machine.