Check with your school to see if there are any standard forms which a club has to fill out to become "recognized" by the school.
Write up a plan consisting of:
a)club name
b)purpose of the club
c)potential members (just say everyone b/c you can't discriminate, but describe who typical members would be)
d)Activities - what will the club do at meetings? outside of meetings?
e)Faculty sponsor - if you get a teacher who is willing to sponsor you (not necessarily monetarily, but with guidance), you have a foot in the door.
f)club structure - will there be officers, etc?
g)community service - is there anything that your club can do to help the community?
These are just some starting points. If you go in with something on paper and with a sponsor, you are more likely to be accepted as something other than a "kid". Adults like to think that they know everything, prove them wrong. Show them that you have given this idea a good amount of thought and have come up with a structured plan or starting point. You may even be able to get some advice from a counselor or prospective sponsor on what else to include.
You're right on the don't want to know how you know so much about bar codes. One of the classes for my major is an AIDC class (automatic identification and data capture). We used the same book that you mention. We were reviewing for a comprehensive final and my professor asked what separated code 128 from all of the rest. I blurted out the answer without even thinking about it and I scared the crap out of myself. THAT's when you know you've gone too far.:)
Tell them to install it and then mess around. Once they screw everything up, they will have to learn how to fix it. Seriously, it does help (but make sure you have some references around!)
Granted, I still don't know that much about linux. But it has helped a lot
On second thought, maybe messing everything us isn't such a good idea.
No shit. You hit it right on the head with that post. Tell that to the AC who dissed me and whomever modded me down as "Overrated" for making a Simpsons related post on the Tintin/Speilberg topic yesterday. I've been watching the Simpsons since "Aye Caramba" was the catch phrase (since the beginning), and I still laugh my ass off at the episodes that I have seen 20 times a piece in reruns. If they don't think someone is funny, tell them to forget about and leave them alone. Like you said, not everyone is as cool as "they" are.
By the way, nice Rev. Lovejoy-Simpsons quote. Here is a link to some that I found on the web (mostly Homer though). SNPP has them sorted by episode. It's a pretty sweet Simpsons site.
WOW. With all of the news that passes through Slashdot (daily, weekly, monthly), it's refreshing to see people from other countries speak their mind and stand up for what they think is right. With the exception of a small percentage, few people in the US see/read/care (generally NOT/. readership) about what is going on outside of our country or can even find it on a map. While these ideals (standing up for what is right, having strong beliefs) are not limited to America, everyone can relate to the "little guy" (as opposed to big brother or corporate *insert country*) standing up for him/herself.
Simply refreshing.
Is there some kind of award for the most sets of parenthesis in a comment?
I don't know what tintin is, but from the sounds of these posts, maybe we should send this one to "Steven Spielberg's non-union Mexican exquivalent" and keep it south of the border.
Burns: Get me Steven Spielberg! Smithers: He's unavailable. Burns: Then get me his non-union Mexican equivalent!
[later] Listen, Senor Spielbergo, I want you to do for me
what Spielberg did for Oskar Schindler. Spielbergo: Er, Schindler es bueno, Senor Burns es el diablo. Burns: Listen, Spielbergo, Schindler and I are like peas in a pod:
we're both factory owners, we both made shells for the
Nazis, but mine worked, dammit! Now go out there and win me
that festival!
As a former jock, I take that as a compliment. Is it so wrong that every time I read or hear the word "ever" that the little voice in my head automatically changes to the Comic Book Guy's?
I'll agree that "nerdiest" is a word if you agree that everyone should precede the word "ever" with "..." thus informing the reader to pause (for dramatic affect) and pay homage to the Comic Book Guy (when necessary or intended).
Since the headline reminds me of the Comic Book Guy, I will dedicate this post to him. Besides, if this cluster, supercomputer, beo thingy is only 85th fastest in the world, you would think that they would use it to figure out the Comic Book Guy's rating scale (or something of equal importance) as opposed to some physics mumbo jumbo.
Apparently, they are powered by sarcastic comments. See smart??, on the 99.97% chance that a)my second post on this topic won't be as funny, b)my comedic genius has yet to be recognized, or c)my plans for world domination have not come to fruition.
It's not THAT easy. Take anything you find on the internet at face value. Just because someone says that they have done it, doesn't mean that you can just walk off of the street and do it. The materials are readily available, but the process is an extreme pain in the a$$. Even, then you aren't guarnteed that it will work. Also, the fingerprint reader shown on the device is of capacitance type. It measures the dielectric properties of the finger placed on the reader.
Dusting the fingerprint is easy. Lifting the fingerprint and getting enough points is harder. Getting a clear image from the lifted print is harder still. "Creating a good scan with illustrator" is also not easy and will not get you by a capacitance fingerprint reader. There have to be ridges on whatever fingerprint that you place on the capacitance scanner, meaning the finger (or fake) need to be 3D.
The moral: it's a lot harder than everyone thinks. Don't trivialize it. Biometric applications may not be ready for wide scale applications, but they definitely have the potential. The hurdle will be educating people so that they can tell the truth from the fluff.
I would have to agree that this is definitely a book for newcomers. I am new to SQL and I can say that the examples and the index will make anything you need to find/do very easy, especially when I am trying to get my homework done right before it's due.:)
The reviewer hits it right on the nose when he says the book should be renamed SQL Fundamentals: Applied to Oracle and Access (or something like that). This isn't necessarily a bad thing,though. Used in an academic setting (where schools would most likely use Oracle or MS Access) or at home (where most people run Windows with Office installed), you get the most for you value.
If you want a book that covers MySQL (or a different version) so that you can read and use it, chances are that you already know how to install, set up, and configure it. While that may describe the majority of/. readers, it doesn't come close to and every day joe schmoe users.
This is a big question that the Biometrics industry and government have been trying to answer for a while. You may want to do a search for AAMVA (American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators) or TSA (Transportation Security Agency). From what I've read or seen in class, they have been dealing with this issue pretty recently. You may also want to look up NIST or INCITS.
I think the biggest questions that they are trying to answer are: who owns the biometric template? who stores the template (user on a smart card or company on a server)? what happens if your biometric becomes associated with someone else, vice versa?
As one of the other posts pointed out, there are already a number of other things that could hurt your privacy a lot worse (like SSN, credit info, etc) than having to use a hand geometry reader to gain physical access. As far as a company sharing your data with another company, that goes beyond the scope of the biometric and has to do with each individual companies policy.
If you want to read up on hand geometry readers, check of Recognition Systems' Hand Key II. This is the product that I have had the most experience with.
If I remember correctly the Hand Key II uses:
a 9 byte template
template aging (template changes over time according to changes in your hand)
1:1 - verification -> which means that it only compares your hand to the template it has stored for your PIN
One thing to note is that it does not store a picture of your hand. It only stores the 1s and 0s that make up your template. At that point, I would be more worried about how/where the template is stored and it being used for a replay attack. Also, it takes 3 dimensional measurements meaning that it is going to be very hard to spoof the device with a fake version of your hand. To top it off, the attacker needs to know your PIN. I'm not saying it is impossible, but highly unlikely.
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Check with your school to see if there are any standard forms which a club has to fill out to become "recognized" by the school.
Write up a plan consisting of:
a)club name
b)purpose of the club
c)potential members (just say everyone b/c you can't discriminate, but describe who typical members would be)
d)Activities - what will the club do at meetings? outside of meetings?
e)Faculty sponsor - if you get a teacher who is willing to sponsor you (not necessarily monetarily, but with guidance), you have a foot in the door.
f)club structure - will there be officers, etc?
g)community service - is there anything that your club can do to help the community?
These are just some starting points. If you go in with something on paper and with a sponsor, you are more likely to be accepted as something other than a "kid". Adults like to think that they know everything, prove them wrong. Show them that you have given this idea a good amount of thought and have come up with a structured plan or starting point. You may even be able to get some advice from a counselor or prospective sponsor on what else to include.
Good Luck!
You're right on the don't want to know how you know so much about bar codes. One of the classes for my major is an AIDC class (automatic identification and data capture). We used the same book that you mention. We were reviewing for a comprehensive final and my professor asked what separated code 128 from all of the rest. I blurted out the answer without even thinking about it and I scared the crap out of myself. THAT's when you know you've gone too far. :)
I see the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the horizon!!!
maybe they should have hit up george carlin's list of words you can't say on tv. i'm sure it would have helped.
Tell them to install it and then mess around. Once they screw everything up, they will have to learn how to fix it. Seriously, it does help (but make sure you have some references around!)
Granted, I still don't know that much about linux. But it has helped a lot
On second thought, maybe messing everything us isn't such a good idea.
Try:
rm -rf this-post
No shit. You hit it right on the head with that post. Tell that to the AC who dissed me and whomever modded me down as "Overrated" for making a Simpsons related post on the Tintin/Speilberg topic yesterday. I've been watching the Simpsons since "Aye Caramba" was the catch phrase (since the beginning), and I still laugh my ass off at the episodes that I have seen 20 times a piece in reruns. If they don't think someone is funny, tell them to forget about and leave them alone. Like you said, not everyone is as cool as "they" are.
By the way, nice Rev. Lovejoy-Simpsons quote. Here is a link to some that I found on the web (mostly Homer though). SNPP has them sorted by episode. It's a pretty sweet Simpsons site.
WOW. With all of the news that passes through Slashdot (daily, weekly, monthly), it's refreshing to see people from other countries speak their mind and stand up for what they think is right. With the exception of a small percentage, few people in the US see/read/care (generally NOT /. readership) about what is going on outside of our country or can even find it on a map. While these ideals (standing up for what is right, having strong beliefs) are not limited to America, everyone can relate to the "little guy" (as opposed to big brother or corporate *insert country*) standing up for him/herself.
Simply refreshing.
Is there some kind of award for the most sets of parenthesis in a comment?
I don't know what tintin is, but from the sounds of these posts, maybe we should send this one to "Steven Spielberg's non-union Mexican exquivalent" and keep it south of the border.
[2F31] A Star is Burns
Burns: Get me Steven Spielberg!
Smithers: He's unavailable.
Burns: Then get me his non-union Mexican equivalent! [later] Listen, Senor Spielbergo, I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Oskar Schindler.
Spielbergo: Er, Schindler es bueno, Senor Burns es el diablo.
Burns: Listen, Spielbergo, Schindler and I are like peas in a pod: we're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, dammit! Now go out there and win me that festival!
-- Burns puts his foot down, "A Star is Burns"
As a former jock, I take that as a compliment. Is it so wrong that every time I read or hear the word "ever" that the little voice in my head automatically changes to the Comic Book Guy's?
I'll agree that "nerdiest" is a word if you agree that everyone should precede the word "ever" with "..." thus informing the reader to pause (for dramatic affect) and pay homage to the Comic Book Guy (when necessary or intended).
Since the headline reminds me of the Comic Book Guy, I will dedicate this post to him. Besides, if this cluster, supercomputer, beo thingy is only 85th fastest in the world, you would think that they would use it to figure out the Comic Book Guy's rating scale (or something of equal importance) as opposed to some physics mumbo jumbo.
An excerpt:
[BABF01] Treehouse of Horror X: Desperately Xeeking Xena
(The Collector, slowly, strikes a dramatic pose)
Collector(CBG): Lucite hardening ... must end life in classic Lorne Greene
pose from "Battlestar Galactica." Best ... death ... ever!
From "Smart" Billboards Debut in Sacramnto to:
"Smart" Billboards Debut in Sacramento
Apparently, they are powered by sarcastic comments. See smart?? , on the 99.97% chance that a)my second post on this topic won't be as funny, b)my comedic genius has yet to be recognized, or c)my plans for world domination have not come to fruition.
It's not THAT easy. Take anything you find on the internet at face value. Just because someone says that they have done it, doesn't mean that you can just walk off of the street and do it. The materials are readily available, but the process is an extreme pain in the a$$. Even, then you aren't guarnteed that it will work. Also, the fingerprint reader shown on the device is of capacitance type. It measures the dielectric properties of the finger placed on the reader.
Dusting the fingerprint is easy. Lifting the fingerprint and getting enough points is harder. Getting a clear image from the lifted print is harder still. "Creating a good scan with illustrator" is also not easy and will not get you by a capacitance fingerprint reader. There have to be ridges on whatever fingerprint that you place on the capacitance scanner, meaning the finger (or fake) need to be 3D.
The moral: it's a lot harder than everyone thinks. Don't trivialize it. Biometric applications may not be ready for wide scale applications, but they definitely have the potential. The hurdle will be educating people so that they can tell the truth from the fluff.
I would have to agree that this is definitely a book for newcomers. I am new to SQL and I can say that the examples and the index will make anything you need to find/do very easy, especially when I am trying to get my homework done right before it's due. :)
The reviewer hits it right on the nose when he says the book should be renamed SQL Fundamentals: Applied to Oracle and Access (or something like that). This isn't necessarily a bad thing,though. Used in an academic setting (where schools would most likely use Oracle or MS Access) or at home (where most people run Windows with Office installed), you get the most for you value.
If you want a book that covers MySQL (or a different version) so that you can read and use it, chances are that you already know how to install, set up, and configure it. While that may describe the majority of /. readers, it doesn't come close to and every day joe schmoe users.
This is a big question that the Biometrics industry and government have been trying to answer for a while. You may want to do a search for AAMVA (American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators) or TSA (Transportation Security Agency). From what I've read or seen in class, they have been dealing with this issue pretty recently. You may also want to look up NIST or INCITS.
I think the biggest questions that they are trying to answer are: who owns the biometric template? who stores the template (user on a smart card or company on a server)? what happens if your biometric becomes associated with someone else, vice versa?
As one of the other posts pointed out, there are already a number of other things that could hurt your privacy a lot worse (like SSN, credit info, etc) than having to use a hand geometry reader to gain physical access. As far as a company sharing your data with another company, that goes beyond the scope of the biometric and has to do with each individual companies policy.
If you want to read up on hand geometry readers, check of Recognition Systems' Hand Key II. This is the product that I have had the most experience with.
If I remember correctly the Hand Key II uses:
One thing to note is that it does not store a picture of your hand. It only stores the 1s and 0s that make up your template. At that point, I would be more worried about how/where the template is stored and it being used for a replay attack. Also, it takes 3 dimensional measurements meaning that it is going to be very hard to spoof the device with a fake version of your hand. To top it off, the attacker needs to know your PIN. I'm not saying it is impossible, but highly unlikely.
I couldn't have summed it up any better than that.