A while back I was speaking to someone who was developing this sort of technology, who told me that his company (and presumably many others) don't look at the actual fingerprint visually, but probe slightly further into the finger. So fingerprint reproduction won't work on that technology, and he claimed that it could even tell whether the finger was connected to a body or not.
The simulation that we are running in isn't necessarily real time - as its computations become more complex, each timestep takes longer to process. Our time slows down relative to the external time, but as we can't detect this external time, we have nothing to compare our timeflow to, so we notice nothing different.
So as long as the external computer has got enough memory, we're fine.
Remember that to use 'sudo' you have to type your password, so any malicious program that wanted to arbitrarily set the permissions using sudo would need to ask your password (or tailgate something else that did - I think you only need to type your password once every 5 mins for sudo)
Using this vulnerability, presumably any malicious program can change the file permissions without using sudo, so it doesn't need your password, so you'll never know.
If you're playing a "premium" audio or video file (or Windows thinks you're playing a premium audio or video file) in the background at the same time as you're working with your own audio or video files, and your hardware doesn't support HDCP in the way Windows wants, then the overall system sound and/or video quality will be affected - e.g. your screen will be made fuzzy intentionally.
Here's a link: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_c ost.txt
Ultimately, the triangles on the paper are really just printed as a bunch of dots. Printing purely a bunch of dots would give the highest data capacity, but would also be highly unreliable - printing triangles give a kind of error correction. Printing triangles may be a novel technique, and may be more useful than all previous techniques, but its capacity is bounded by the capacity of the page when printed with dots.
142 articles is bugger-all, not all of these cases were actually plagiarism, and the biggest cited example in TFA is "An entire paragraph in Alonzo Clark's entry". Surely there has been much greater, and more significant plagiarism in Wikipedia than this? Why is this number so low?!
The Australian Capital Territory seems to be making a decent attempt. I don't know about the physical machine security, but at least everything is open source and voting machines are not hooked up to the net.
Would it help if a TOR-equivalent were created that couldn't do images? For most legitimate uses (eg. anti-oppressive government, paranoid citizen), text should be enough. (are there any uses for which other formats are necessary?). Would it be feasible for a TOR-like system to restrict traffic to text only (i.e. stop/limit Base64 or whatever encoding)?
If this worked, it would certainly free up the networks for legitimate use... Could we make it work?
Clearly we're not even comparing apples and oranges here, we're comparing apples and pianos. But it is amusing nonetheless.
Reminds me of a few years back when Apple advertised their latest computers as being "Faster than light". This tagline was withdrawn a few weeks later under attack from the nerd community, but not before some mac fanboys created the amusing argument that the computer completes a floating point calculation in less time than it takes the light from the monitor to reach your eyes. By that (flawed in several ways) logic, the bottleneck in computation is in the display!
They also had maps of all the stages, with all the checkpoints, sprints, etc, available through Google Earth. You'd download the file, and suddenly a bunch of blue lines would appear on the pictures of France. As usual, you could then tilt the view, and the contours of the mountains would appear, i.e. mountains would rise either side of the blue line that people would be cycling down. You can then almost pretend you're flying down the valley along the course! Very nifty.
When I tried to get (free) certificates from Thawte, Comodo and CAcert, this was all done in a browser, I specified the length of key that I wanted, and presumably the key was generated on their computers rather than by my browser. Presumably in this case it would be very easy for them to keep a copy of my private key.
I take it when you pay for a certificate you can generate your own and get them to sign it?
This is why I love the Hare-Clark preferential voting we have here in Australia. You put the candidates you agree with most as your first preference, even if you know that they're not going to get in. Then so on down the list till you get to the major party you like the most. It gets recorded that your first preference went to the minor party, but when the minor party doesn't get in, your vote gets redistributed (with no devaluation) to your second preference, and so on until it goes to the major party that you voted for.
So voting for lost causes doesn't mean throwing away your vote, your vote will go still go to someone that has a good chance to get elected, but your intention will get recorded and hopefully the major party will notice that it's losing primary votes to the independents, and change its policy accordingly.
How about DRM that doesn't limit copying or the use of files, but just encodes your name/account number as a watermark? This watermark isn't checked before a file is played back, or anything, the watermark is just there. There aren't any limitations on your use, but if a file with someone's watermark appears on the P2P networks, the authorities can prove who supplied it and take them down.
Interesting, but I'd take a punt that most of these meteorites go into the sea rather than hitting crystalline rock. They'd make a mighty big splash, but probably slow down enough before hitting the sea bed.
DVD is certainly having a negative impact on cinemagoing. There are certainly times when you want to go out and see a movie, but in many (most?) cases the difference between watching the movie at home or at a cinema is decreasing. Therefore more people are buying DVDs, and fewer people are going to cinemas.
Whenever I go to a cinema (unfortunately rarely these days), I am subjected to trailers which often show me really cool movies that I then want to go to see. So if I go to one movie, chances are I'll go to a few more in the next few weeks. I'm sure that i'm not alone here (and the advertising industry hopes i'm not too!)
But there aren't compulsory trailers on DVDs (and if there were i would get very pissed off and boycott the DVDs concerned), and so audiences aren't exposed to future movies that they might like. So they are then less likely to continue seeing as many more movies.
How can the movie industry fix this? More, better advertising on TV perhaps. More trailers on DVDs (though if you make these unskippable you WILL piss people off and they'll rent less DVDs because of the annoyance). But the best strategy, if it is possible, is to entice the public back to watching movies at the cinema, probably by lowering prices. Then they'll want to keep seeing more movies at the cinema if the movie's good enough, or otherwise on DVD.
Of course it wouldn't be profitable. How many people look at (or get a chance to look at) the interface of a phone before they buy it?
But the real reason my friends are switching back to their old mobiles is because their new mobiles crash constantly. But you don't get a proper chance to test for that before you buy, so there is no short-term disadvantage to phone companies for shitty design. And because there is no short-term disadvantage, all companies are doing it. And so by the time you're in the market for another new phone, you're screwed.
Yes, we hate said English teachers, but being forced to write things by hand often does produce a better assignment - you are forced to redraft (at least once). When you redraft by hand, you have to write every word again, which gives you time to think carefully about every individual sentence each time you write it out. If you use a Word Processor, then if you redraft at all, you're likely just to skim read what you've already written.
The same goes for copying down what's written on the board in maths lectures, compared to reading through the notes. One way forces you to take longer over each point, giving you time to completely digest what is happening rather than saying 'i understand that' and moving on.
And we Aussies, courtesy of the Free Trade Agreement with the US, inherit the DMCA. No-one here has ever been prosecuted for ripping CDs or taping TV. If someone was, there would be public outcry and the laws would be changed drastically. I believe no-one here has yet been prosecuted for downloading MP3s either.
This move makes legal what everyone's already doing in order to allow the clampdown on downloading MP3s and movies. This way, if the record companies overstep the line and try to prosecute someone for ripping a CD they own, then they'll lose the case and there won't be public pressure to change the laws drastically.
Everyone ignored the old line in the sand, so they're drawing a new one that they can get tough with.
I keep hearing that Apple's first gen products are unreliable. Personally I've had a 1st gen original iMac (screen replaced after about 4 years, then finally retired two months ago in full working condition), a 1st gen iPod (still on original battery, in use 2 hours a day 5 days a week), and now I'm on a dual core iMac, where the biggest problem is a screen redraw ripple when scrolling.
I also know of some people that had lemon after lemon in later revisions.
I'm sure there were some cockups, but which first gen models were no good?
Ask any gun owner? Ask any person who objects to the current government about our new sedition laws. Ask most judges about the new law where anyone can be locked up in secret for knowing someone who is suspected of planning a terrorist act. I just hope these laws get removed before some bastard gets elected and decides to abuse them.
Australia does this for its two non-commercial channels. These channels report the government's corruption/incompetence with more ferocity than the commercial channels, and so their budgets have shrunk substantially over the last 10 years. One now has to show ads.
Detector vans don't need to be admissible in court to be useful; I would imagine that they'd use them outside houses that supposedly don't watch TV, and if they detected a TV in that house, they could go in and harass the occupants and get their admissible evidence. The detector vans mean that they don't have to harass households that don't have a TV.
While this isn't as good as not skipping between tracks, if there are a pair of tracks that you'll only want to listen to together (e.g. Parabol/Parabola off Lateralus), you should import them into iTunes/whatever as one track (use Join CD Tracks in the advanced menu). Then you're not going to get a gap between them, and you're not going to get Parabol by itself on random play, building up to nothing.
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A while back I was speaking to someone who was developing this sort of technology, who told me that his company (and presumably many others) don't look at the actual fingerprint visually, but probe slightly further into the finger. So fingerprint reproduction won't work on that technology, and he claimed that it could even tell whether the finger was connected to a body or not.
The simulation that we are running in isn't necessarily real time - as its computations become more complex, each timestep takes longer to process. Our time slows down relative to the external time, but as we can't detect this external time, we have nothing to compare our timeflow to, so we notice nothing different. So as long as the external computer has got enough memory, we're fine.
Remember that to use 'sudo' you have to type your password, so any malicious program that wanted to arbitrarily set the permissions using sudo would need to ask your password (or tailgate something else that did - I think you only need to type your password once every 5 mins for sudo)
Using this vulnerability, presumably any malicious program can change the file permissions without using sudo, so it doesn't need your password, so you'll never know.
If you're playing a "premium" audio or video file (or Windows thinks you're playing a premium audio or video file) in the background at the same time as you're working with your own audio or video files, and your hardware doesn't support HDCP in the way Windows wants, then the overall system sound and/or video quality will be affected - e.g. your screen will be made fuzzy intentionally. Here's a link: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_c ost.txt
Ultimately, the triangles on the paper are really just printed as a bunch of dots. Printing purely a bunch of dots would give the highest data capacity, but would also be highly unreliable - printing triangles give a kind of error correction. Printing triangles may be a novel technique, and may be more useful than all previous techniques, but its capacity is bounded by the capacity of the page when printed with dots.
142 articles is bugger-all, not all of these cases were actually plagiarism, and the biggest cited example in TFA is "An entire paragraph in Alonzo Clark's entry". Surely there has been much greater, and more significant plagiarism in Wikipedia than this? Why is this number so low?!
The Australian Capital Territory seems to be making a decent attempt. I don't know about the physical machine security, but at least everything is open source and voting machines are not hooked up to the net.
Would it help if a TOR-equivalent were created that couldn't do images? For most legitimate uses (eg. anti-oppressive government, paranoid citizen), text should be enough. (are there any uses for which other formats are necessary?). Would it be feasible for a TOR-like system to restrict traffic to text only (i.e. stop/limit Base64 or whatever encoding)?
If this worked, it would certainly free up the networks for legitimate use... Could we make it work?
Clearly we're not even comparing apples and oranges here, we're comparing apples and pianos. But it is amusing nonetheless.
Reminds me of a few years back when Apple advertised their latest computers as being "Faster than light". This tagline was withdrawn a few weeks later under attack from the nerd community, but not before some mac fanboys created the amusing argument that the computer completes a floating point calculation in less time than it takes the light from the monitor to reach your eyes. By that (flawed in several ways) logic, the bottleneck in computation is in the display!
They also had maps of all the stages, with all the checkpoints, sprints, etc, available through Google Earth. You'd download the file, and suddenly a bunch of blue lines would appear on the pictures of France. As usual, you could then tilt the view, and the contours of the mountains would appear, i.e. mountains would rise either side of the blue line that people would be cycling down. You can then almost pretend you're flying down the valley along the course! Very nifty.
When I tried to get (free) certificates from Thawte, Comodo and CAcert, this was all done in a browser, I specified the length of key that I wanted, and presumably the key was generated on their computers rather than by my browser. Presumably in this case it would be very easy for them to keep a copy of my private key.
I take it when you pay for a certificate you can generate your own and get them to sign it?
This is why I love the Hare-Clark preferential voting we have here in Australia. You put the candidates you agree with most as your first preference, even if you know that they're not going to get in. Then so on down the list till you get to the major party you like the most. It gets recorded that your first preference went to the minor party, but when the minor party doesn't get in, your vote gets redistributed (with no devaluation) to your second preference, and so on until it goes to the major party that you voted for.
So voting for lost causes doesn't mean throwing away your vote, your vote will go still go to someone that has a good chance to get elected, but your intention will get recorded and hopefully the major party will notice that it's losing primary votes to the independents, and change its policy accordingly.
How about DRM that doesn't limit copying or the use of files, but just encodes your name/account number as a watermark? This watermark isn't checked before a file is played back, or anything, the watermark is just there. There aren't any limitations on your use, but if a file with someone's watermark appears on the P2P networks, the authorities can prove who supplied it and take them down.
Interesting, but I'd take a punt that most of these meteorites go into the sea rather than hitting crystalline rock. They'd make a mighty big splash, but probably slow down enough before hitting the sea bed.
DVD is certainly having a negative impact on cinemagoing. There are certainly times when you want to go out and see a movie, but in many (most?) cases the difference between watching the movie at home or at a cinema is decreasing. Therefore more people are buying DVDs, and fewer people are going to cinemas.
Whenever I go to a cinema (unfortunately rarely these days), I am subjected to trailers which often show me really cool movies that I then want to go to see. So if I go to one movie, chances are I'll go to a few more in the next few weeks. I'm sure that i'm not alone here (and the advertising industry hopes i'm not too!)
But there aren't compulsory trailers on DVDs (and if there were i would get very pissed off and boycott the DVDs concerned), and so audiences aren't exposed to future movies that they might like. So they are then less likely to continue seeing as many more movies.
How can the movie industry fix this? More, better advertising on TV perhaps. More trailers on DVDs (though if you make these unskippable you WILL piss people off and they'll rent less DVDs because of the annoyance). But the best strategy, if it is possible, is to entice the public back to watching movies at the cinema, probably by lowering prices. Then they'll want to keep seeing more movies at the cinema if the movie's good enough, or otherwise on DVD.
Sure it froze up for a few minutes, but it didn't crash!
Of course it wouldn't be profitable. How many people look at (or get a chance to look at) the interface of a phone before they buy it? But the real reason my friends are switching back to their old mobiles is because their new mobiles crash constantly. But you don't get a proper chance to test for that before you buy, so there is no short-term disadvantage to phone companies for shitty design. And because there is no short-term disadvantage, all companies are doing it. And so by the time you're in the market for another new phone, you're screwed.
Yes, we hate said English teachers, but being forced to write things by hand often does produce a better assignment - you are forced to redraft (at least once). When you redraft by hand, you have to write every word again, which gives you time to think carefully about every individual sentence each time you write it out. If you use a Word Processor, then if you redraft at all, you're likely just to skim read what you've already written.
The same goes for copying down what's written on the board in maths lectures, compared to reading through the notes. One way forces you to take longer over each point, giving you time to completely digest what is happening rather than saying 'i understand that' and moving on.
And we Aussies, courtesy of the Free Trade Agreement with the US, inherit the DMCA. No-one here has ever been prosecuted for ripping CDs or taping TV. If someone was, there would be public outcry and the laws would be changed drastically. I believe no-one here has yet been prosecuted for downloading MP3s either.
This move makes legal what everyone's already doing in order to allow the clampdown on downloading MP3s and movies. This way, if the record companies overstep the line and try to prosecute someone for ripping a CD they own, then they'll lose the case and there won't be public pressure to change the laws drastically.
Everyone ignored the old line in the sand, so they're drawing a new one that they can get tough with.
Or MarioBook Pro.
I keep hearing that Apple's first gen products are unreliable. Personally I've had a 1st gen original iMac (screen replaced after about 4 years, then finally retired two months ago in full working condition), a 1st gen iPod (still on original battery, in use 2 hours a day 5 days a week), and now I'm on a dual core iMac, where the biggest problem is a screen redraw ripple when scrolling.
I also know of some people that had lemon after lemon in later revisions.
I'm sure there were some cockups, but which first gen models were no good?
Ask any gun owner? Ask any person who objects to the current government about our new sedition laws. Ask most judges about the new law where anyone can be locked up in secret for knowing someone who is suspected of planning a terrorist act. I just hope these laws get removed before some bastard gets elected and decides to abuse them.
Australia does this for its two non-commercial channels. These channels report the government's corruption/incompetence with more ferocity than the commercial channels, and so their budgets have shrunk substantially over the last 10 years. One now has to show ads.
Detector vans don't need to be admissible in court to be useful; I would imagine that they'd use them outside houses that supposedly don't watch TV, and if they detected a TV in that house, they could go in and harass the occupants and get their admissible evidence. The detector vans mean that they don't have to harass households that don't have a TV.
While this isn't as good as not skipping between tracks, if there are a pair of tracks that you'll only want to listen to together (e.g. Parabol/Parabola off Lateralus), you should import them into iTunes/whatever as one track (use Join CD Tracks in the advanced menu). Then you're not going to get a gap between them, and you're not going to get Parabol by itself on random play, building up to nothing.