Imagine someone working in their office at night with the light of their CRT based computer monitor lighting up their office. To our eye the light is a continuous glow, but it in fact changes as the CRT is scanning the image line by line on the computer screen. With a telescope and a sensor it is possible to 'read' this light and using software recreate the original screen by assembling the scanned lines much like a fax.
In other words you don't require a direct view of the monitor.
LCD screens are more secure in this sense as they don't operate in the same way.
Once Google Talk offers their service via SIP and most importantly allows federation with others, they will become the glue that binds together all the currentlyfragmentedvoip offerings. Providers that don't want to open up and federate with Google will slowly dissappear. After all it won't be long and most the people that you talk to will not be on landlines, but IP only, and you therefore don't want a provider that is not connected.
If I was an incumbent telco in any part of the world, I would be scared, I would probably try dirty games such as providing restricted internet access with SIP traffic filtered out.
What is more amusing, is that in Australia you supply your own photo. You take that to the post office, and standing in queue with the queue growing and the staff member feeling rushed, have your one and only 'security check'.
I would put bets on that they wouldn't pick up subtle photoshop alterations to the photos that would make the face recognition system useless. Like slightly moving cheek bones, distance between eyes, nose etc.
The Australian version, which was released this week, and I assume is technically identical to the US one (as the Australians authorities did testing at LA airport), is not rfid.
The chip is designed to release its information when the traditional Machine Readable Zone (the text that is not quite a barcode but in easy OCR font) is scanned on the inside of the front cover.
More info is here, together with HI-RES picture of the centre pages that contain the chip.
On the left, what looks like a structure without a roof, is the construction of the new replacement reactor. The round building on the right is the old reactor.
Picture this.
You register/transfer your domain to Google. (they are a registrar)
Your email is powered by Gmail.
Your calendar is Powered by Gcalendar
hang on why do I need to buy Exchange and Outlook for my small to medium business? I don't!
Integration is currently one of Google's main failings, it is like they give all their clever people all this time to work on their own little products that then become products, but they never talk to each other, even if they get free lunch.
With my gmail account I should be able to seamlessly connect to my Orkut contacts, with a click see where they live on Google Maps, see what my current balance is in Adwords.
People perform and achieve so much more if you give them a challenge.
These races are the breeding grounds for new technology that can eventually find its way into future cars.
What I would like to see is an electric Formula 1 type competition, I would bet that it would only be a few years before we would have electric cars with performance and range to match current Formula 1 cars. With developments in electric motors and battery technology that can then flow on into domestic cars, just like disc brakes, seat belts, crumple zones, fuel injection, and the list goes on...
In Australia you can buy Sony DVD players that are multi-region, they are labelled as Region 4, but play all regions.
Of course when their legal team now hears of this, maybe they will fix that......
It is shame that the ISA server development team didn't get the "We now like SIP" memo, because there is no Microsoft way of passing audio or video SIP calls through their own firewall server (VPN or opening 1000's of ports doesn't count).
When an Open Source organisation can give away money for each security bug and not go broke you might even be able to convince the bean counters in _your_ organisation from a pure security viewpoint... First Security Bug Bounty Payments Awarded
I wonder if Microsoft will match the bounty...they could of course easily afford it, even though there would be a queue to collect money for IE security bugs.
I like your phone analogy. Because what Gmail is doing is applicable to other media. The real Gmailphone analogy would be a phone service that has a machine that uses speech recognition to "listen" to the conversation and say every 3 minutes interrupts and plays an ad. The conversation is not recorded and is all done in real time. The words picked out are not stored after the call, and it is not recorded who listened to what ad.
Where is the privacy issue? Nowhere!
You could do a similar thing for voicemail.
Now how long before I see the above "obvious" system in a patent? (esepecially one issued after 29th May 2004). But that will be the topic of another post...
Yes I remember being in Stockholm during their Water Festival in 1993 (beautiful city), when they did a bit of a air show over the city, they were showing off the JAS plane, but pilot ejected and ditched the plane on an island in the harbour, although I don't think he had much control at the time and they were lucky there weren't any injuries.
As bad as being born on 30th Feb 1712
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No More Leap Second?
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When (greater) Sweden was going to change from Julian to Gregorian calendar they stuffed it up, got one day out of sync with all Julian countries, so to get back in sync they added an extra leap day, creating the only 30th Feb in history.
They eventually made the change from Julian in 1753 by having (gregorian) 1st Mar 1753 after (julian) 17 Feb 1753 removing ten days.
Makes a leap second seem a bit insignificant....
If you have no idea about Julian (as in Ceasar) and Gregorian (as in pope) calendars, have a look here
I don't know if there was ever a time it was on the web but not the pimped commercial version it currently is.
Ahhh the good old days of the internet.....when there was rarely more than one static image banner per page, check out IMDB from 1996
Finally the internet fridge might work...
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NYT on RFID Tags
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This is of course what the Internet fridge requires, a way of tracking what is inside it, and maybe even what is inside the kitchen cupboards. And then add products that have fallen below desired stock levels to your next online grocery order, and maybe even order them.
And the tag should be encoded with expiry date of the product...
...you get the idea.
This actually exists (not-for-profit & non-government) and is called AusBONE, they are getting close to critical mass in terms of the number and size of members (ISPs), to take on the big boys in town, not to say that they can't use some help.
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The German youth should start a mass-movement and turn up at the police station, and report themselves in the thousands simultaneously.
The police, the courts, the jails, could not handle it.
Imagine someone working in their office at night with the light of their CRT based computer monitor lighting up their office. To our eye the light is a continuous glow, but it in fact changes as the CRT is scanning the image line by line on the computer screen. With a telescope and a sensor it is possible to 'read' this light and using software recreate the original screen by assembling the scanned lines much like a fax.
In other words you don't require a direct view of the monitor. LCD screens are more secure in this sense as they don't operate in the same way.
Once Google Talk offers their service via SIP and most importantly allows federation with others, they will become the glue that binds together all the currently fragmented voip offerings. Providers that don't want to open up and federate with Google will slowly dissappear. After all it won't be long and most the people that you talk to will not be on landlines, but IP only, and you therefore don't want a provider that is not connected.
If I was an incumbent telco in any part of the world, I would be scared, I would probably try dirty games such as providing restricted internet access with SIP traffic filtered out.
What is more amusing, is that in Australia you supply your own photo. You take that to the post office, and standing in queue with the queue growing and the staff member feeling rushed, have your one and only 'security check'. I would put bets on that they wouldn't pick up subtle photoshop alterations to the photos that would make the face recognition system useless. Like slightly moving cheek bones, distance between eyes, nose etc.
The Australian version, which was released this week, and I assume is technically identical to the US one (as the Australians authorities did testing at LA airport), is not rfid.
The chip is designed to release its information when the traditional Machine Readable Zone (the text that is not quite a barcode but in easy OCR font) is scanned on the inside of the front cover.
More info is here, together with HI-RES picture of the centre pages that contain the chip.
On the left, what looks like a structure without a roof, is the construction of the new replacement reactor. The round building on the right is the old reactor.
I agree. I just tried to find the delete button in my account preferences but it wasn't there....
Picture this. You register/transfer your domain to Google. (they are a registrar) Your email is powered by Gmail. Your calendar is Powered by Gcalendar hang on why do I need to buy Exchange and Outlook for my small to medium business? I don't!
Integration is currently one of Google's main failings, it is like they give all their clever people all this time to work on their own little products that then become products, but they never talk to each other, even if they get free lunch. With my gmail account I should be able to seamlessly connect to my Orkut contacts, with a click see where they live on Google Maps, see what my current balance is in Adwords.
Archimedes supposedly set fire to the Roman Navy using an arrangement of mirrors.
And you probably wouldn't want to have this guy as a neighbour, as he used reflected light from 100 mirrors to "cut" the tops off several trees.
People perform and achieve so much more if you give them a challenge. These races are the breeding grounds for new technology that can eventually find its way into future cars.
What I would like to see is an electric Formula 1 type competition, I would bet that it would only be a few years before we would have electric cars with performance and range to match current Formula 1 cars. With developments in electric motors and battery technology that can then flow on into domestic cars, just like disc brakes, seat belts, crumple zones, fuel injection, and the list goes on...
In Australia you can buy Sony DVD players that are multi-region, they are labelled as Region 4, but play all regions. Of course when their legal team now hears of this, maybe they will fix that......
It is shame that the ISA server development team didn't get the "We now like SIP" memo, because there is no Microsoft way of passing audio or video SIP calls through their own firewall server (VPN or opening 1000's of ports doesn't count).
HA, when I looked at mailinator.com, there was even a valid invite in the "invites" 'mailbox'.
When an Open Source organisation can give away money for each security bug and not go broke you might even be able to convince the bean counters in _your_ organisation from a pure security viewpoint...
First Security Bug Bounty Payments Awarded
I wonder if Microsoft will match the bounty...they could of course easily afford it, even though there would be a queue to collect money for IE security bugs.
I like your phone analogy. Because what Gmail is doing is applicable to other media. The real Gmailphone analogy would be a phone service that has a machine that uses speech recognition to "listen" to the conversation and say every 3 minutes interrupts and plays an ad. The conversation is not recorded and is all done in real time. The words picked out are not stored after the call, and it is not recorded who listened to what ad. Where is the privacy issue? Nowhere! You could do a similar thing for voicemail. Now how long before I see the above "obvious" system in a patent? (esepecially one issued after 29th May 2004). But that will be the topic of another post...
I would bet that Microsoft would rather have a certain level of piracy (for home users especially), than have those machines run an alternative OS.
Yes I remember being in Stockholm during their Water Festival in 1993 (beautiful city), when they did a bit of a air show over the city, they were showing off the JAS plane, but pilot ejected and ditched the plane on an island in the harbour, although I don't think he had much control at the time and they were lucky there weren't any injuries.
When (greater) Sweden was going to change from Julian to Gregorian calendar they stuffed it up, got one day out of sync with all Julian countries, so to get back in sync they added an extra leap day, creating the only 30th Feb in history.
They eventually made the change from Julian in 1753 by having (gregorian) 1st Mar 1753 after (julian) 17 Feb 1753 removing ten days.
Makes a leap second seem a bit insignificant....
If you have no idea about Julian (as in Ceasar) and Gregorian (as in pope) calendars, have a look here
Which is why soldiers march out of step over bridges, interesting java applet showing why.
If all the chinese jumped off a chair at once, would it affect the earth? Original answer from StraightDope is here
ASCII art is great for porn but for technical stuff I prefer real images. This image cleared things up for me.
I don't know if there was ever a time it was on the web but not the pimped commercial version it currently is.
Ahhh the good old days of the internet.....when there was rarely more than one static image banner per page, check out IMDB from 1996
This is of course what the Internet fridge requires, a way of tracking what is inside it, and maybe even what is inside the kitchen cupboards. And then add products that have fallen below desired stock levels to your next online grocery order, and maybe even order them.
...you get the idea.
And the tag should be encoded with expiry date of the product...
This actually exists (not-for-profit & non-government) and is called AusBONE, they are getting close to critical mass in terms of the number and size of members (ISPs), to take on the big boys in town, not to say that they can't use some help.