The real problem here is the lack of Authentication.
EMV does not enforce the use of Chip Card authentication schemes like DDA, SDA or CDA. With this hack, the compromised machine is fooling the card and the user into thinking it is legitimate transaction terminal. If authentication schemes were used, the card would never give up it's account data to the terminal.
The user could still be fooled into giving up their PIN, but the attacker would not have the corresponding card data (Unless, of course, the machine convinced the user to swip the card through a magstripe reader... then all bets are off).
This OBJ Article doesn't discuss the particular patent that was thrown out, but it does indicate that new evidence of prior art presented by RIM was instumental in the decision.
The above article also indicates that other patents held by InPro where overturned by German and UK officials in the last week.
The article states that the camera can track the white lines. Here in North America we use Yellow Lines, at least on undivided roads and highways. Can it handle the different colo(u)rs?
What about low visibility conditions, like snow and rain?
Why do the cars need to travel all the way to the end of the tether? Only the thether's anchor needs to be in a geosynchronous orbit. The cars should be able to stop in or slightly above LEO to dispense with their loads.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure one of the chucky movies got banned as a pair of kids we're dangerously copying it...
Sorry, but I must have missed that penultimate scene in the final duel where Anakin switches his lightsaber for a fluorescent light bulb filled with flaming petrol.
Don't get me wrong. There are lots of good, well thought out concepts in the book. That said, BS has a tendency to make a point and then remake the point several times.
I just think the book could have been 1/3 the size.
Then part of me wonders if maybe he just doesn't care anymore and is sick and tired of people asking the same questions. Its gotta be tiring having to answer the same series of policy questions over and over again...
Having read his last book (Beyond Fear), I can't imaging that BS has any difficulting repeating the same thing over-and-over-again (Maybe it's different when he's being paid by the word;^).
Not all Creationists believe in Biblical Creationism (i.e. that every verse in the Bible is historical fact). Both the Jewish and Catholic faiths believe that the scriptures they share are a mix of allegory, history and supernatural revelation.
I am a scientist and a religious nut. Science, to me, doesn't dismiss the existence of a "Prime Mover" but enforce this existence through the Universe's demonstrable order.
The scientific discipline teaches us that we should be open to all potential influences on a particular area of study if we wish to find the answer.
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Did you mean A.I. or Al (as in Al Gore)?
I'm sure that their OpenNMS monitors are currently paging their support staff that the webserver has fallen over.
Are they trying to buy Sealand too?
The real problem here is the lack of Authentication. EMV does not enforce the use of Chip Card authentication schemes like DDA, SDA or CDA. With this hack, the compromised machine is fooling the card and the user into thinking it is legitimate transaction terminal. If authentication schemes were used, the card would never give up it's account data to the terminal. The user could still be fooled into giving up their PIN, but the attacker would not have the corresponding card data (Unless, of course, the machine convinced the user to swip the card through a magstripe reader ... then all bets are off).
Hope they kept the Tom Bombadil storyline. It would work well in a musical ;^)
New government funding for telescopic observations very likely will lead to re-assignment to Level 0.
By the summary, it sounds like a Helicopter could win this.
Sounds like this could be used to generate seeds for a portable version of the Radioactive Random Number Generator
The above article also indicates that other patents held by InPro where overturned by German and UK officials in the last week.
For a second I thought your post read "carnage"
What about low visibility conditions, like snow and rain?
As long as it doesn't practice Negative Utilitarianism. Bodies would be piling up at the bottom of the elevator shaft.
Just look at Australia!
I wonder what stupid things Carl Sagan said that he wasn't willing to have his statements published without having "editorial control"?
Why do the cars need to travel all the way to the end of the tether? Only the thether's anchor needs to be in a geosynchronous orbit. The cars should be able to stop in or slightly above LEO to dispense with their loads.
but I thought irony was like rain on your wedding day?
You already have a compatible VCR ... No upgrades required!
eval -> 01100101011101100110000101101100
evil -> 01100101011101100110100101101100
Google has obviously turned off the Evil Bit.
Sorry, but I must have missed that penultimate scene in the final duel where Anakin switches his lightsaber for a fluorescent light bulb filled with flaming petrol.
I just think the book could have been 1/3 the size.
Having read his last book (Beyond Fear), I can't imaging that BS has any difficulting repeating the same thing over-and-over-again (Maybe it's different when he's being paid by the word ;^).
... is the picture of the PR guy rowing the little dingy. ;^)
This link provides more insight into the various Creation ~isms (I wouldn't say it is authoritative, but it is a good primer).
I am a scientist and a religious nut. Science, to me, doesn't dismiss the existence of a "Prime Mover" but enforce this existence through the Universe's demonstrable order.
The scientific discipline teaches us that we should be open to all potential influences on a particular area of study if we wish to find the answer.
Here is Shatner's monologue from the Just for Laughs festival in 2000. It is a parody of a famous Canadian beer commercial.