I've tested capacitive fingerprint readers (go for optical if you have the money/space!). I've got *very* dry hands (currently my skin is peeling because the air is dry). The difference between dry hands and wet hands is huge on these readers. So I expect that it is simply the persons with sweaty hands that are having the problems. Maybe they should supply their customers with complementary tissue boxes:)
Well, a few things come to mind to mitigate attacks by keyloggers: - the OS could disallow normal users to install keyloggers - the bank could use a separate authentication device (and additionally transaction based security)
These don't completely stop MitM attacks, but they make them much harder.
Hell yes, you will be modded down into oblivion for this. Not because you attack "Google Fanbois" but because you clearly haven't read the article (20% is not malicious). To make matters worse your argument is a pre-emptive ad hominem attack. Stating that you will get modded down for this certainly won't prevent it from happening.
Many ISP's still have unencrypted mail servers. The idea is/was that you are directly connecting with them anyway, so a plain POP3 password is not a problem. This is just not true anymore. People use WiFi at home, login from company PC's and from their smart phones. Don't forget that encryption still costs money - both CPU time and maintenance (replacing certificates and such).
The use of a modified ARM based chip for mobile devices is in itself not interesting either. That it is a relatively fast version, well OK.
What's interesting is that they use it specifically within their company. I would expect that most ARM derivatives are created by chip companies which then sell them to device manufacturers.
Technically it is interesting exactly what they've added and in what configuration. Unfortunately they article is very light on the devices embedded within the SoC. We'll probably have to wait a bit more for that information.
OK, the ocean has been established. Maybe we can go and look for oil pollution to see if there was intelligent life on mars already?
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If you make sure that you require less pages to do something, you will generate less page faults. I would think that this fact is rather universal. Of course, you can go further by tweaking the parameters in such a way that they run well on a specific processor.
I can't tell if that is a better product since that website is very poorly designed. To me, it looks like a product that still needs introducing. It does not really go into enough details on the products defined and to top it off, there is no price information at all. OK, send email, but if it is so cheap, why not advertise it as such?
Depends on the style of the hotel I guess, if it is a relatively new hotel owned by a larger chain, then it may have a slot for the key. But most hotels I've been in (and I've been in quite an number of (normal priced) hotels for my work that still did without. I imagine that at higher priced hotels this kind of thing is more common.
I like the fact that they keep cost down that way. It's also convenient that the lighting of the whole room comes up when inserted. At some hotels the first time you use the key the TV will play a welcome message. Personally speaking, I like to be in control of the lights and I like to charge my laptop when I'm not in. And I will already switch off lights when I'm not in, thank you very much - my parents made that a habit.
The general idea is not to breed that much - there is no reason to wipe out anyone. We've got a life span of a few decades. Wiping myself out at this point of time would make no sense at all - I've already decided not to put another human being on this earth.
You are probably partly right. It obviously depends on the size of an object as well as the distance to the object containing the screen & camera. If you've got a camera on top - probably the most used configuration since it's less likely to be blocked - then the angle is directly related to the percentage of your vertical view of the object. I can imagine that a person will have more distance between the eye and a laptop screen than between the eye and telephone screen most of the time.
Of course, once you get really close you will get pretty weird angles (and probably a relatively large forehead & nose).
Do you mind if I add Vacuum Flowers of Michael Swanwick? The persona of Rebel Mudlark flew / crashed a solar system if I'm not mistaken. It's only a small part of the book, but I had much fun reading about all the strange worlds in there.
Many companies only see immediate return in investment. If there are long term benefits that cost money (using SSD's, dual screen setups, gigabit networking etc. etc. etc.), they'll happily keep their money in their pocket. That this costs hundreds to thousands of dollars each year per employee because of lost efficiency - nobody cares. But maybe I'm rather unlucky with our IT manager and CEO. We hire expensive persons - often 100 dollar an hour minimum - and give them a single 17" screen. It will take a single month (if not less) to have return of investment on a second screen.
Not that I care, the company also refuses to invest in air conditioning, and more screens means more heat.
Flu season can't be avoided. OS upgrades can. I'm sure that things like flu season have been calculated in. Or if the company is in a bad state, additional setbacks like the flu season could indeed kill it.
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"It doesn't seem to have all the terrible bug/features that everyone spent the 00's complaining about."
Funny you would say that. I don't think Vista or 7 has improved on any of the problems I have with Windows at all. I can give you a list upon request, but most of the issues are so common now that everybody will say "yes, granpa, we know that by now".
This would not be a troll if you would give us a list what works that much better under Windows 7. Because if it is as much as an advantage of Vista over XP, then forget it. And don't come up with "applications run 10% faster", cause no enterprise user will care a single bit about that. For me, an OS is mainly a thing that runs applications - that's where the real interesting stuff is.
And don't forget that many enterprises will already have stuff added on to Windows XP that might have been added to Windows 7.
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I'm in a likewise situation (although most people would not know the company I'm working for:). As long as there are security updates we'll be running XP. Visual Studio is also used by a large amount of people so if there is an important update, we would have to create a new OS image.
We've got quite a few USB peripherals though, and these are not the peripherals you would normally see on a consumer PC. Getting driver support can be easy to next to impossible for those devices. I'm sure most will run fine on Windows 7, but only a madman will reconfigure his development PC only to find out something required for a project is not working. So these have to be tested.
We've also got quite a few low end PC's that are in use at the client just to run certain programs. Those all run XP. Anyone that developed.NET will know that you have to be careful with system configurations. It's better to run the same OS on the developer to avoid goof-ups.
That said, I'm a Java dev., and I don't care on what system we're running or which DLL's are present and which are not. As long as the VM installs (and, preferably, cygwin), I'm ready for it. Reconfiguring/personalizing a vanilla PC will take about two weeks nevertheless. I will have to upgrade at one time, but I'll happily skip an OS update if possible.
Yeah, since the release of that documents many soldiers have been killed, undoubtedly because of all that top secret information in those documents. Or were they just present when a IED went off? Come on, everybody knows 90% of these documents were just classified "secret" just in case and the other 10% were classified secret to cover up.
You think some Iraqi insurgent is going over 250K documents (think about it, all marked secret?) just to find Joe Jarhead to blow him up? It's not like they are impossible to find or anything.
Democratic government? How democratic is a government that decides to keep oodles and oodles of information secret when there is clearly no use for it to be secret, other than to prevent bad PR? How can the general public be made to see that too much information is being classified as secret?
And how many people know about this information and decide to put their head in the sand? And he should go to these people and nicely ask not to be axed down?
Yes, and why are sharks always in the news when they are killing people? That's a bunch of vicious animals!
Basically there are 2 reasons: 1) machines don't get inspected if they work as expected (i.e. not delivering any money) and 2) even if they are, they won't make headlines.
Lets see: there is a casino operating on the fact that you pay good money to have a relatively small change of winning a lot. For this to work you need to have a good stock pile of cash to pay out. Now compare this on how insurances work. Right. So all they are doing is shifting the profits to the insurance company.
As for the manufacturer: they will happily send a new machine over to the casino, because I don't doubt that that's their limit of responsibility. And rightly so, because they don't have any influence over the slot machine once it is installed. Of course, the bad press will certainly alert casino's and they will probably not buy too many new ones from them. IF they screwed up, they probably get what's coming to them.
Unfortunately, the casino is not getting what coming to them, they are let off the hook.
It doesn't? They just introduce an error somewhere and *you* don't get paid after winning the jackpot? This makes me sick to the stomach. Let's just turn them over to the Gaming Division each time people loose or win a small amount, shall we? Maybe I was supposed to win the jackpot! Who can tell?
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I've tested capacitive fingerprint readers (go for optical if you have the money/space!). I've got *very* dry hands (currently my skin is peeling because the air is dry). The difference between dry hands and wet hands is huge on these readers. So I expect that it is simply the persons with sweaty hands that are having the problems. Maybe they should supply their customers with complementary tissue boxes :)
Well, a few things come to mind to mitigate attacks by keyloggers:
- the OS could disallow normal users to install keyloggers
- the bank could use a separate authentication device (and additionally transaction based security)
These don't completely stop MitM attacks, but they make them much harder.
Hell yes, you will be modded down into oblivion for this. Not because you attack "Google Fanbois" but because you clearly haven't read the article (20% is not malicious). To make matters worse your argument is a pre-emptive ad hominem attack. Stating that you will get modded down for this certainly won't prevent it from happening.
Replying to A/C trolls, I know, I know...
Many ISP's still have unencrypted mail servers. The idea is/was that you are directly connecting with them anyway, so a plain POP3 password is not a problem. This is just not true anymore. People use WiFi at home, login from company PC's and from their smart phones. Don't forget that encryption still costs money - both CPU time and maintenance (replacing certificates and such).
The use of a modified ARM based chip for mobile devices is in itself not interesting either. That it is a relatively fast version, well OK.
What's interesting is that they use it specifically within their company. I would expect that most ARM derivatives are created by chip companies which then sell them to device manufacturers.
Technically it is interesting exactly what they've added and in what configuration. Unfortunately they article is very light on the devices embedded within the SoC. We'll probably have to wait a bit more for that information.
Because it was retroactively made 3.5 billion years old 6000 years ago. Oh ye of little faith.
OK, the ocean has been established. Maybe we can go and look for oil pollution to see if there was intelligent life on mars already?
If you make sure that you require less pages to do something, you will generate less page faults. I would think that this fact is rather universal. Of course, you can go further by tweaking the parameters in such a way that they run well on a specific processor.
I can't tell if that is a better product since that website is very poorly designed. To me, it looks like a product that still needs introducing. It does not really go into enough details on the products defined and to top it off, there is no price information at all. OK, send email, but if it is so cheap, why not advertise it as such?
Depends on the style of the hotel I guess, if it is a relatively new hotel owned by a larger chain, then it may have a slot for the key. But most hotels I've been in (and I've been in quite an number of (normal priced) hotels for my work that still did without. I imagine that at higher priced hotels this kind of thing is more common.
I like the fact that they keep cost down that way. It's also convenient that the lighting of the whole room comes up when inserted. At some hotels the first time you use the key the TV will play a welcome message. Personally speaking, I like to be in control of the lights and I like to charge my laptop when I'm not in. And I will already switch off lights when I'm not in, thank you very much - my parents made that a habit.
It cost 1 trillion to the tax payer. Many contractors and arm manufacturers and suppliers undoubtedly have become absurdly rich.
And I doubt that was the estimated cost at the start of the war. I mean wars are won after you dethrone a government, right?
The general idea is not to breed that much - there is no reason to wipe out anyone. We've got a life span of a few decades. Wiping myself out at this point of time would make no sense at all - I've already decided not to put another human being on this earth.
You are probably partly right. It obviously depends on the size of an object as well as the distance to the object containing the screen & camera. If you've got a camera on top - probably the most used configuration since it's less likely to be blocked - then the angle is directly related to the percentage of your vertical view of the object. I can imagine that a person will have more distance between the eye and a laptop screen than between the eye and telephone screen most of the time.
Of course, once you get really close you will get pretty weird angles (and probably a relatively large forehead & nose).
A solar sail, not a solar system. D'oh!
Do you mind if I add Vacuum Flowers of Michael Swanwick? The persona of Rebel Mudlark flew / crashed a solar system if I'm not mistaken. It's only a small part of the book, but I had much fun reading about all the strange worlds in there.
Many companies only see immediate return in investment. If there are long term benefits that cost money (using SSD's, dual screen setups, gigabit networking etc. etc. etc.), they'll happily keep their money in their pocket. That this costs hundreds to thousands of dollars each year per employee because of lost efficiency - nobody cares. But maybe I'm rather unlucky with our IT manager and CEO. We hire expensive persons - often 100 dollar an hour minimum - and give them a single 17" screen. It will take a single month (if not less) to have return of investment on a second screen.
Not that I care, the company also refuses to invest in air conditioning, and more screens means more heat.
Flu season can't be avoided. OS upgrades can. I'm sure that things like flu season have been calculated in. Or if the company is in a bad state, additional setbacks like the flu season could indeed kill it.
"It doesn't seem to have all the terrible bug/features that everyone spent the 00's complaining about."
Funny you would say that. I don't think Vista or 7 has improved on any of the problems I have with Windows at all. I can give you a list upon request, but most of the issues are so common now that everybody will say "yes, granpa, we know that by now".
This would not be a troll if you would give us a list what works that much better under Windows 7. Because if it is as much as an advantage of Vista over XP, then forget it. And don't come up with "applications run 10% faster", cause no enterprise user will care a single bit about that. For me, an OS is mainly a thing that runs applications - that's where the real interesting stuff is.
And don't forget that many enterprises will already have stuff added on to Windows XP that might have been added to Windows 7.
I'm in a likewise situation (although most people would not know the company I'm working for :). As long as there are security updates we'll be running XP. Visual Studio is also used by a large amount of people so if there is an important update, we would have to create a new OS image.
We've got quite a few USB peripherals though, and these are not the peripherals you would normally see on a consumer PC. Getting driver support can be easy to next to impossible for those devices. I'm sure most will run fine on Windows 7, but only a madman will reconfigure his development PC only to find out something required for a project is not working. So these have to be tested.
We've also got quite a few low end PC's that are in use at the client just to run certain programs. Those all run XP. Anyone that developed .NET will know that you have to be careful with system configurations. It's better to run the same OS on the developer to avoid goof-ups.
That said, I'm a Java dev., and I don't care on what system we're running or which DLL's are present and which are not. As long as the VM installs (and, preferably, cygwin), I'm ready for it. Reconfiguring/personalizing a vanilla PC will take about two weeks nevertheless. I will have to upgrade at one time, but I'll happily skip an OS update if possible.
Yeah, since the release of that documents many soldiers have been killed, undoubtedly because of all that top secret information in those documents. Or were they just present when a IED went off? Come on, everybody knows 90% of these documents were just classified "secret" just in case and the other 10% were classified secret to cover up.
You think some Iraqi insurgent is going over 250K documents (think about it, all marked secret?) just to find Joe Jarhead to blow him up? It's not like they are impossible to find or anything.
Democratic government? How democratic is a government that decides to keep oodles and oodles of information secret when there is clearly no use for it to be secret, other than to prevent bad PR? How can the general public be made to see that too much information is being classified as secret?
And how many people know about this information and decide to put their head in the sand? And he should go to these people and nicely ask not to be axed down?
Yes, and why are sharks always in the news when they are killing people? That's a bunch of vicious animals!
Basically there are 2 reasons: 1) machines don't get inspected if they work as expected (i.e. not delivering any money) and 2) even if they are, they won't make headlines.
Lets see: there is a casino operating on the fact that you pay good money to have a relatively small change of winning a lot. For this to work you need to have a good stock pile of cash to pay out. Now compare this on how insurances work. Right. So all they are doing is shifting the profits to the insurance company.
As for the manufacturer: they will happily send a new machine over to the casino, because I don't doubt that that's their limit of responsibility. And rightly so, because they don't have any influence over the slot machine once it is installed. Of course, the bad press will certainly alert casino's and they will probably not buy too many new ones from them. IF they screwed up, they probably get what's coming to them.
Unfortunately, the casino is not getting what coming to them, they are let off the hook.
It doesn't? They just introduce an error somewhere and *you* don't get paid after winning the jackpot? This makes me sick to the stomach. Let's just turn them over to the Gaming Division each time people loose or win a small amount, shall we? Maybe I was supposed to win the jackpot! Who can tell?