Administrative exceptions to DMCA as of 2006:
"Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace. (Revised from a similar exemption approved in 2003.)"
Test Driven Development. After more than 30 years as a working software developer and computer programming instructor I wouldn't teach it any other way. An excellent book recently released that offers this approach is Agile Java by Jeff Langr.
Excellent game, Realm vs Realm combat and public quests are nicely done. I've been enjoying this mmorpg much more than WoW - and it's nice to have scenery and characters that are not cartoonish but rather grim and gritty. The world feels huge and cities and zones are implemented full size rather than a few representative buildings like WoW.
Bastion may be too strong a word for a service that most current internet users never used and don't understand. At the same time usenet plays a significant role in the history and development of the internet and it's sad when familiar, original stuff is deprecated or deleted.
A summer IT internship in the USA may be far easier to accomplish than many of the responses have indicated.
Our organization (Agile programming shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan) invites 4-10 interns a year through IAESTE and have been doing this for about five years now. Some come for only three months, others for a year. Pay is not spectacular - but it's Michigan in the 21st century so nobody is making a lot around these parts. Interns have come from about 17 different countries so far, and all seem to have had a good experience. All have also indicated that the support and services offered by IAESTE were extremely valuable in making the experience possible and successful. The interns who got the most benefit within our organization were those with good English skills and a willingness to learn new things. It has added a lot of value to have people with such different backgrounds and perspectives as part of our organization, and we plan to continue for the forseeable future.
There is an article that appeared in Security Management recently that argues "forget eye-glasses, just look at the floor" as the easiest way to avoid a facial recognition system.
I think that non-cooperative surveillance is doomed to failure anyway, privacy issues aside. Facial recognition works where people voluntarily present themselves for identification as part of existing processes such as border control - and not where they are surveyed without their knowledge.
There have been much harsher articles from the ACLU attacking Visionics' (a leading facial recognition software vendor) performance at the Tampa police department, a system which I understand was unceremoniously dropped a few months back.
I've been investigating a British company called Image Metrics (http://www.image-metrics.com/) that is getting significantly better results in facial recognition than what has been reported from Florida. In my mind there is at least one company that can now perform this kind of task effectively on a commercial basis, regardless of whether or not you think this is good. The interesting thing about their technology and approach to image processing is that it also applies to medical analysis, animation and a bunch of other areas.
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Administrative exceptions to DMCA as of 2006: "Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace. (Revised from a similar exemption approved in 2003.)"
Test Driven Development. After more than 30 years as a working software developer and computer programming instructor I wouldn't teach it any other way. An excellent book recently released that offers this approach is Agile Java by Jeff Langr.
Excellent game, Realm vs Realm combat and public quests are nicely done. I've been enjoying this mmorpg much more than WoW - and it's nice to have scenery and characters that are not cartoonish but rather grim and gritty. The world feels huge and cities and zones are implemented full size rather than a few representative buildings like WoW.
Bastion may be too strong a word for a service that most current internet users never used and don't understand. At the same time usenet plays a significant role in the history and development of the internet and it's sad when familiar, original stuff is deprecated or deleted.
A summer IT internship in the USA may be far easier to accomplish than many of the responses have indicated. Our organization (Agile programming shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan) invites 4-10 interns a year through IAESTE and have been doing this for about five years now. Some come for only three months, others for a year. Pay is not spectacular - but it's Michigan in the 21st century so nobody is making a lot around these parts. Interns have come from about 17 different countries so far, and all seem to have had a good experience. All have also indicated that the support and services offered by IAESTE were extremely valuable in making the experience possible and successful. The interns who got the most benefit within our organization were those with good English skills and a willingness to learn new things. It has added a lot of value to have people with such different backgrounds and perspectives as part of our organization, and we plan to continue for the forseeable future.
There is an article that appeared in Security Management recently that argues "forget eye-glasses, just look at the floor" as the easiest way to avoid a facial recognition system.
I think that non-cooperative surveillance is doomed to failure anyway, privacy issues aside. Facial recognition works where people voluntarily present themselves for identification as
part of existing processes such as border control - and not where they are surveyed without their knowledge.
There have been much harsher articles from the ACLU attacking Visionics' (a leading facial recognition software vendor) performance at the Tampa police department, a system which I understand was unceremoniously dropped a few months back.
I've been investigating a British company called Image Metrics (http://www.image-metrics.com/) that is getting significantly better results in facial recognition than what has been reported from Florida. In my mind there is at least one company that can now perform this kind of task effectively on a commercial basis, regardless of whether or not you think this is good. The interesting thing about their technology and approach to image processing is that it also applies to medical analysis, animation and a bunch of other areas.