Yeah, because you really need that kind of operation to create the same thing at peace time. I don't want to burst your bubble, but with enough explosives it is easy to burst a dam.
That's just basic bad design. I would (and have) done the same thing with some alarm widgets. Actually, you would be surprised how many alarms are badly designed - probably because anybody can program a simple clock. Why the heck would you want to change the clock design by tapping it? Is that the main functionality of the clock? The clock change function should be in the menu somewhere. And if it rings, I expect to see a great big bell or button which I can hit to switch it off. Preferably I should be able to shout at it as well.
We of course understand computers and programmers. So we don't get in a fit, think for a second and hit the back button or something similar.
Will they create a community and some kind of entity to manage it all, or are they just releasing it in the hope somebody picks it up? The OS license (if it is FSF compliant) is just a first step to creating a community around it.
For some reason US citizens always only think of themselves. Personally, I think it is great that they treat themselves as they do other human beings on the planet. It may bring some hard needed reflections on how technology is abused (but I'm not holding my breath).
Try tunneling under Amsterdam and see what muck is like to drill through:( The new metro line is already about 5 years overdue (not to mention way the added 1000 million of costs).
Oh, those devs don't have email or need documentation? I've seen quite a few devs actually say they did not need a 2nd monitor...until they actually tried. I've never ever seen somebody trade pixels for more desktop space, except for the manager (who is constantly playing with his blackberry even though there is a screen right in front of him, seems to me that reading email is easier on a desktop).
My fight is over: devs from an external firm now get 2 monitors, as do the DB developers. You know: the people that cost even *more* per hour. The fight is continuing: as one of the top devs with 3 external devs around me, I'm now going to fight to give them a telephone. Do you believe these cheap fucking idiots?
Yup, dual HP LP2065 IPS (for those all important 3200 x 1200 pixels that actually handle highlighting in pastel). At work only 2 x 17", but dual screens none-the-less. Where are the 1600x1200 LED S-IPS business screens? Pretty please with sugar on top?
Hmm, semantics. He did prevent himself being killed because of the email system. If a doctor cures you from an illness, hasn't he saved you because you die of other causes later?
Yadayadayada. You still did not address the waste issue. Are you saying that the nuclear waste in in the same league as a granite counter top? Who the fuck moderates this shit up?
"And WRT your comment on terrorism, there's a video on Youtube I've seen that debunks the whole "flying a plane into a reactor" myth. Nuclear plants have concrete walls that are like 10 feet thick and the plane collapses on it self and does nothing to the wall."
Oh, so all the government officials and nuclear plant operators that actually said on TV that the nuclear reactors are not resistant against collisions by anything slightly larger than a Cessna are lying? And they are lying in the *wrong direction*? And you simply dismiss those things because of an unnamed YouTube video?
Ah, I always read Slashdot for these kind of negative remarks, with a large part of Slashdot backing them up. In a technical sense, they did solve the problem. Is it eating you up that somebody else is better than you or something? Are you doing anything except spewing negative remarks?
Each and every article about a new invention has the same remark about the invention not being ready. Sure, there is always some level of truth in the comments that point it out. But if everybody is modding up those remarks because they sound true, *do we really need those remarks*?
New idea: create a program that finds an article about a new invention, scans the article pointed to for the date of release, and creates an automatic remark. Development time: some 5 years.
You will have to take multiple pictures and combine them, or you'll loose so much detail it is not funny anymore. Current monitors have really bad resolutions. You cannot use a IPS screen because you can easily see the raster around the pixels. You cannot use a TN screen because they suck.
I had to go out of my way to buy a somewhat decent 3200 x 1200 resolution (using two screens).
And to show you an even more controversial issue: evidence points to the fact that being prone to be aroused by children may be a genetic brain condition (I am reading a book by Swaab on the brain, so don't just take my word on it). So you may be prosecuting people that try to remove the urge by watching child pornography - because the urge is just there and will stay with the person. Of course that does not mean that child abusers are *in any way* innocent. But the mere watching of child pornography?
People even get arrested for watching *drawn* child pornography. I can't see any reason for that at all, except trying to weed out everybody that is "different".
"and what stops me from taking a real photograph of a fake photograph? snap, photoshop, print, snap."
I'm pretty sure that you can't rule this out, but I also think that there are many ways of messing that up. Pixel artefacts, discolouring, stripes, loss of resolution, seems between separate parts of the picture etc. etc. may make life more difficult. And many printer/copiers even deliberately add water-signs or other identifying features (HP yellow dots for instance).
It is unique per camera, it says so in the press release which I linked in a separate post. Unfortunately, I could not Google up any other details.
As in most problems regarding crypto, the usage scenario is rather important. For instance, I can imagine that editors of newspapers trust the photographer enough to keep the camera secure. In that case you can use the signature to verify that it was taken by the camera and photographer. That may not hold in court though, where the evidence is always suspect of deliberate falsification.
Of course, if the camera is tamper evident, a jurisdictional court is likely to have an expert look at it. Then again, if the problem is in the implementation of the signature then tamper evident does not mean squat. It seems we'll have to wait until the details become available.
With the top-notch translators that are around today, you may be able to get the gist of the book. But the chance that the translation of the book will be a joy to read is about zero, zip, nada, nothing. You'd better buy a good translation or, if that's not available, try and learn French (with the book itself as source material maybe).
I'm in the market for a good way of recognizing OCR-B based characters on an android device (mostly uppercase characters and digits). I know the location (on a flat 2D plane in a 3D space) of the characters, but they do not form sentences or even words. Does anyone have a good algorithm to do this kind of low-level character recognition? A library would be even better of course, especially if it is open source. I'm personally thinking of comparing bitmaps or vectors.
As a hint to other devs, many commercial barcode packages contain OCR character recognition, which could be used for purposes where you can specify the conditions (fonts, lighting conditions etc).
Yeah, I was looking for an android OCR library, and that one was the only one that came up. Although there are a few other Linux options, none of those seemed to be right on the money either. This article is strengthening the already published reports on open source OCR software: basically, it's not performing all that well. I wish it was.
The internet connection would not work either: it would replace the security problems with the signing key with the security problems of the authentication key:)
The press release does mention that you have to extract the key from the camera. If this is relatively easy then the system is totally broken. If it is not, you could create some kind of revocation list - but it would be the equivalent of a sloppy patch. Security is hard to accomplish, it does not surprise me that a camera manufacturer fails hardware protected signature creation.
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Yeah, because you really need that kind of operation to create the same thing at peace time. I don't want to burst your bubble, but with enough explosives it is easy to burst a dam.
Fukushima was a worst-case scenario
Yeah, and before that it was Chernobyl and before that Three Mile Island. It will only be surpassed by the next disastrous event, I'm sure.
....and there are absolutely no insurmountable problems (most definitely including nuclear waste disposal/reuse).
Shut up or provide the answer. And don't you dare reiterate the same shit again.
Modern reactor designs would also avoid any meltdown scenario.
Should also avoid any meltdown scenario. And what about the pools *next* to the reactor?
Insightful my ass.
Ah, don't you love that crispy sound of age old receipts, the ones with all the moisture removed :)
Don't feed the trolls.
That's just basic bad design. I would (and have) done the same thing with some alarm widgets. Actually, you would be surprised how many alarms are badly designed - probably because anybody can program a simple clock. Why the heck would you want to change the clock design by tapping it? Is that the main functionality of the clock? The clock change function should be in the menu somewhere. And if it rings, I expect to see a great big bell or button which I can hit to switch it off. Preferably I should be able to shout at it as well.
We of course understand computers and programmers. So we don't get in a fit, think for a second and hit the back button or something similar.
Will they create a community and some kind of entity to manage it all, or are they just releasing it in the hope somebody picks it up? The OS license (if it is FSF compliant) is just a first step to creating a community around it.
For some reason US citizens always only think of themselves. Personally, I think it is great that they treat themselves as they do other human beings on the planet. It may bring some hard needed reflections on how technology is abused (but I'm not holding my breath).
Try tunneling under Amsterdam and see what muck is like to drill through :( The new metro line is already about 5 years overdue (not to mention way the added 1000 million of costs).
Oh, those devs don't have email or need documentation? I've seen quite a few devs actually say they did not need a 2nd monitor...until they actually tried. I've never ever seen somebody trade pixels for more desktop space, except for the manager (who is constantly playing with his blackberry even though there is a screen right in front of him, seems to me that reading email is easier on a desktop).
My fight is over: devs from an external firm now get 2 monitors, as do the DB developers. You know: the people that cost even *more* per hour. The fight is continuing: as one of the top devs with 3 external devs around me, I'm now going to fight to give them a telephone. Do you believe these cheap fucking idiots?
Yup, dual HP LP2065 IPS (for those all important 3200 x 1200 pixels that actually handle highlighting in pastel). At work only 2 x 17", but dual screens none-the-less. Where are the 1600x1200 LED S-IPS business screens? Pretty please with sugar on top?
Hmm, semantics. He did prevent himself being killed because of the email system. If a doctor cures you from an illness, hasn't he saved you because you die of other causes later?
Yadayadayada. You still did not address the waste issue. Are you saying that the nuclear waste in in the same league as a granite counter top? Who the fuck moderates this shit up?
"And WRT your comment on terrorism, there's a video on Youtube I've seen that debunks the whole "flying a plane into a reactor" myth. Nuclear plants have concrete walls that are like 10 feet thick and the plane collapses on it self and does nothing to the wall."
Oh, so all the government officials and nuclear plant operators that actually said on TV that the nuclear reactors are not resistant against collisions by anything slightly larger than a Cessna are lying? And they are lying in the *wrong direction*? And you simply dismiss those things because of an unnamed YouTube video?
That's just plane trolling what you did there...
Ah, I always read Slashdot for these kind of negative remarks, with a large part of Slashdot backing them up. In a technical sense, they did solve the problem. Is it eating you up that somebody else is better than you or something? Are you doing anything except spewing negative remarks?
Each and every article about a new invention has the same remark about the invention not being ready. Sure, there is always some level of truth in the comments that point it out. But if everybody is modding up those remarks because they sound true, *do we really need those remarks*?
New idea: create a program that finds an article about a new invention, scans the article pointed to for the date of release, and creates an automatic remark. Development time: some 5 years.
You will have to take multiple pictures and combine them, or you'll loose so much detail it is not funny anymore. Current monitors have really bad resolutions. You cannot use a IPS screen because you can easily see the raster around the pixels. You cannot use a TN screen because they suck.
I had to go out of my way to buy a somewhat decent 3200 x 1200 resolution (using two screens).
And to show you an even more controversial issue: evidence points to the fact that being prone to be aroused by children may be a genetic brain condition (I am reading a book by Swaab on the brain, so don't just take my word on it). So you may be prosecuting people that try to remove the urge by watching child pornography - because the urge is just there and will stay with the person. Of course that does not mean that child abusers are *in any way* innocent. But the mere watching of child pornography?
People even get arrested for watching *drawn* child pornography. I can't see any reason for that at all, except trying to weed out everybody that is "different".
Looks promising, many thanks! License plates are not that far off from the intended purpose.
"and what stops me from taking a real photograph of a fake photograph? snap, photoshop, print, snap."
I'm pretty sure that you can't rule this out, but I also think that there are many ways of messing that up. Pixel artefacts, discolouring, stripes, loss of resolution, seems between separate parts of the picture etc. etc. may make life more difficult. And many printer/copiers even deliberately add water-signs or other identifying features (HP yellow dots for instance).
It is unique per camera, it says so in the press release which I linked in a separate post. Unfortunately, I could not Google up any other details.
As in most problems regarding crypto, the usage scenario is rather important. For instance, I can imagine that editors of newspapers trust the photographer enough to keep the camera secure. In that case you can use the signature to verify that it was taken by the camera and photographer. That may not hold in court though, where the evidence is always suspect of deliberate falsification.
Of course, if the camera is tamper evident, a jurisdictional court is likely to have an expert look at it. Then again, if the problem is in the implementation of the signature then tamper evident does not mean squat. It seems we'll have to wait until the details become available.
With the top-notch translators that are around today, you may be able to get the gist of the book. But the chance that the translation of the book will be a joy to read is about zero, zip, nada, nothing. You'd better buy a good translation or, if that's not available, try and learn French (with the book itself as source material maybe).
I'm in the market for a good way of recognizing OCR-B based characters on an android device (mostly uppercase characters and digits). I know the location (on a flat 2D plane in a 3D space) of the characters, but they do not form sentences or even words. Does anyone have a good algorithm to do this kind of low-level character recognition? A library would be even better of course, especially if it is open source. I'm personally thinking of comparing bitmaps or vectors.
As a hint to other devs, many commercial barcode packages contain OCR character recognition, which could be used for purposes where you can specify the conditions (fonts, lighting conditions etc).
Yeah, I was looking for an android OCR library, and that one was the only one that came up. Although there are a few other Linux options, none of those seemed to be right on the money either. This article is strengthening the already published reports on open source OCR software: basically, it's not performing all that well. I wish it was.
The internet connection would not work either: it would replace the security problems with the signing key with the security problems of the authentication key :)
Their press release can be found here:
http://www.elcomsoft.com/nikon.html
The press release does mention that you have to extract the key from the camera. If this is relatively easy then the system is totally broken. If it is not, you could create some kind of revocation list - but it would be the equivalent of a sloppy patch. Security is hard to accomplish, it does not surprise me that a camera manufacturer fails hardware protected signature creation.