If he designed it for Tyson, who presumably paid him, doesn't the design belong to Tyson? Otherwise Tyson would owe the tattoo artist for every appearance and image of same produced of him. Which sounds impossible on its face (pun intended) to me.
The methods for crafting a usable but false finger for the purpose of spoofing electronic fingerprint imaging systems are well documented, but the fun part comes when you do some additional google searching. This is a link to Lee Harvey Oswald's ten card
Others are available.
Two things: Firstly wooden assailants are very dangerous and resistant to gunshot wounds. Your best bet against this sort of wood-be assailant is a flamethrower or an ax.
Secondly, saying that you shouldn't have a gun because you are more likely to commit suicide than be killed by an intruder implies that either people randomly commit suicide for no reason or that people choose to have home invasions. They are not really the same sort of thing so the statistics aren't really a helpful metric.
That said, if you are a person with suicidal tendencies you should keep neither firearms nor flamethrowers (which confusingly are not generally considered firearms) around the house. Axes however are very difficult to commit suicide with, and as such should be kept in the event you run into any would-be wood-be assailants.
This is pretty much the exact type of situation they invented red/black networks for. I can't imagine how any design for a passenger accessible network wouldn't use completely segregated networks for a)passenger use, b)flight logistics and maintenance, and c)actual flight control operations. And given the giant nightmarish spiderweb that aircraft wiring harnesses tend to be I'm guessing it will be a non-trivial task to implement it now, even ignoring the software and systems redesigns that would be required.
So what? I didn't see anything stating or implying that he couldn't start up another web site with another name. The thinksecret2.com domain name is available. All he has to do is copy over is web content and s/thinksecret/thinksecret2/. Even if in the terms of the agreement he personally is precluded from operating such a website I'd be very surprised if he is not allowed to forward his contact information to someone else who wants to run it, and possibly use him as a source.
Why not just create another wiki just for mathematical proofs? You could just have wikiproofs.org and then put outside references to it where necessary in wikipedia. That way the entries would stay a manageable size, but one could easily get access to that information. From what I've seen it should even be possible to run a second wiki that links to the same user database.
I was facing a similar, but somewhat smaller problem (~1600 books) and worked out a solution using delicious monster. First off I segregated my hardcovers and paperbacks info fiction and non-fiction sections, then scanned them all into Delicious Library, a great mac app. It uses a video camera (I used a camcorder with firewire, but you can use a webcam) to scan the barcode, then gets the info on the book from amazon. Obviously the scanning is the most tedious bit, but since I had to remove everything from the shelves at some point anyway to sort everything it wasn't so ugly. After that was done I figured out how many books fit on a shelf (with some fudge factor) and made a label for each shelf showing what range of authors or subjects should go on that shelf. I did wind up with piles of books on my floor while I removed and reshelved everything but I had to do only a couple of shelf cascades where everything had to be moved down. After the shelves had the right books on them it was fairly easy to alphabetize on each shelf without a ton of book juggling.
Given that this is what Greenpeace considers a legitimate methodology I sent an email to info@wd.greenpeace.org (the contact email address listed on their website) inquiring if they use child labor and asking for a list of employees with their birthdays as proof of their adherence to international child employment standards. Since to date they have only sent me an automated response to my question I am giving them a 0/10,000 score on my child labor survey, earning them the rank of exploitative slavemasters(tm). Please feel free to re-publish this survey result.
I get that slash isn't the new york times, but this post was so patently written by a PR flack that I found it hard to even read. Every few months there is a flying car/jetpack story that surfaces, there's no need to be insane boosters of these hare-brained schemes even though we all like the idea.
My guess is that this policy exists solely because a CSR can't figure out how to diagnose even a broken keyboard without their windows only diagnostics. Given that the policy only alienates the occasional customer it kinda makes sense given that the alternative would be somehow getting sane competent intelligent people to answer tech support calls. I can't think of any way to get such a person to do such a job for more than a month without paying them some kind of ridiculous salary. Which would make the whole endeavor fairly unprofitable.
I've had some limited experience with them and I have to say that they generally fail to explain anything, and what they do explain they explain in an efficient way. Because the nature of the proceeding is that they are getting information from this one guy, and most people involved don't really understand the issues involved, there generally are a lot of concepts to explain. However you cannot let the person being deposed, or an independent expert, come and give a briefing on say, the OSI model or how packet transmission and routing is done. As a result the attorney asks a question the expert they hired came up with, but doesn't really understand what the question itself means. Them the person being deposed has to explain the question, and then answer it. Since from the enquirer's perspective this is all part of the answer they can easily get bogged down questioning the facts and not the testimony. Or just fail to perceive the difference between them. From an attorney's persective the problem with experts is that only experts actually understand them. As a result, a bunch of enquiries that most of us could have made conversationally in the course of about 20 minutes were filtered through a bunch of interrogatory lawyer talk and confusion and revealed much less in more time. Overall I think the expert held his own pretty well, since he was only really being deposed on the individual reports, and each one seemed internally consistent as far as I could see.
I think this will be more useful to me for muting people whose volume is set too high. I always seem to find someone whose mike isn't squelching either the background hiss or their game volume. This way I can just mute them and if everyone does and they can see it they will (hopefully) adjust their configuration.
IANAL but this seems like a huge class action pitfall for them. From the fact that none of the employees were trained to understand the concept of rates in cents versus rates in dollars (which is a reasonable thing to train them for, since they quote in fractions of a cent but bill in dollars in cants) verizon seems pretty grossly negligent. Similarly the potential size of the class is huge (every person who has every asked a verizon rep for a rate quote), and the damages are significant (99% of the roaming costs). At this point, if some enterprising class action lawyer gets on the case I think verizon is basically boned.
The most recent interesting turn based game I know is the Combat Mission: Series from battlefront. While it is showing its age I am surprised that the concept in it hasn't been adapted (or, if you prefer, copied) by other rts games types. I'd like to see it's 3-d turn based strategy engine used in say the Warcraft or C&C universe.
This is also very useful for locating the vulnerabilities of and planning attacks on spherical battlestations. I even seem to recall a movie having a display system like this...
I'd have to say yes. Since this is going to be an intro course there is a lot of ground to cover. Teaching good OO habits in java is complicated enough when you are dealing with students who have never seen the advantages it gives you over say C, I wouldn't want to use up at least one whole lecture, and probably a few lectures worth of Q&A/Debugging showing them how to deal with emacs or vi. Most IDEs will be very intuitive to anyone who has used a word processor, just with a few extra buttons at the top of the interface. Remember, this is only an intro course, if the students decide to become serious about programming you can point them to some online faqs about the great emacs vs. vi debate and the oreilly section of the bookstore. Just some thoughts from someone with too much education who has seen professors crash and burn trying to teach three things at once.
Just explain to your boss that if things continue the way they are now the company will be SOL if you get hit by a bus or catch the flu. Make it clear that you are not threatening them, but are just concerned that you are a critical piece of infrastructure. It makes them a) appreciate you and b) cognizant of the danger of the current system.
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You would be pedantic. But if you plan on suspending the 3d printer from a tether and then swinging it you might be being pendantic.
Isn't an inverted flag a symbol of distress?
If he designed it for Tyson, who presumably paid him, doesn't the design belong to Tyson? Otherwise Tyson would owe the tattoo artist for every appearance and image of same produced of him. Which sounds impossible on its face (pun intended) to me.
The methods for crafting a usable but false finger for the purpose of spoofing electronic fingerprint imaging systems are well documented, but the fun part comes when you do some additional google searching.
This is a link to Lee Harvey Oswald's ten card
Others are available.
Two things: Firstly wooden assailants are very dangerous and resistant to gunshot wounds. Your best bet against this sort of wood-be assailant is a flamethrower or an ax.
Secondly, saying that you shouldn't have a gun because you are more likely to commit suicide than be killed by an intruder implies that either people randomly commit suicide for no reason or that people choose to have home invasions. They are not really the same sort of thing so the statistics aren't really a helpful metric.
That said, if you are a person with suicidal tendencies you should keep neither firearms nor flamethrowers (which confusingly are not generally considered firearms) around the house. Axes however are very difficult to commit suicide with, and as such should be kept in the event you run into any would-be wood-be assailants.
You could stage a denial of service attack using your death ray to target a given victim's machine. Their machine will completely lock up.
This is pretty much the exact type of situation they invented red/black networks for. I can't imagine how any design for a passenger accessible network wouldn't use completely segregated networks for a)passenger use, b)flight logistics and maintenance, and c)actual flight control operations. And given the giant nightmarish spiderweb that aircraft wiring harnesses tend to be I'm guessing it will be a non-trivial task to implement it now, even ignoring the software and systems redesigns that would be required.
So what? I didn't see anything stating or implying that he couldn't start up another web site with another name. The thinksecret2.com domain name is available. All he has to do is copy over is web content and s/thinksecret/thinksecret2/. Even if in the terms of the agreement he personally is precluded from operating such a website I'd be very surprised if he is not allowed to forward his contact information to someone else who wants to run it, and possibly use him as a source.
Why not just create another wiki just for mathematical proofs? You could just have wikiproofs.org and then put outside references to it where necessary in wikipedia. That way the entries would stay a manageable size, but one could easily get access to that information. From what I've seen it should even be possible to run a second wiki that links to the same user database.
I was facing a similar, but somewhat smaller problem (~1600 books) and worked out a solution using delicious monster. First off I segregated my hardcovers and paperbacks info fiction and non-fiction sections, then scanned them all into Delicious Library, a great mac app. It uses a video camera (I used a camcorder with firewire, but you can use a webcam) to scan the barcode, then gets the info on the book from amazon. Obviously the scanning is the most tedious bit, but since I had to remove everything from the shelves at some point anyway to sort everything it wasn't so ugly. After that was done I figured out how many books fit on a shelf (with some fudge factor) and made a label for each shelf showing what range of authors or subjects should go on that shelf. I did wind up with piles of books on my floor while I removed and reshelved everything but I had to do only a couple of shelf cascades where everything had to be moved down. After the shelves had the right books on them it was fairly easy to alphabetize on each shelf without a ton of book juggling.
Given that this is what Greenpeace considers a legitimate methodology I sent an email to info@wd.greenpeace.org (the contact email address listed on their website) inquiring if they use child labor and asking for a list of employees with their birthdays as proof of their adherence to international child employment standards. Since to date they have only sent me an automated response to my question I am giving them a 0/10,000 score on my child labor survey, earning them the rank of exploitative slavemasters(tm). Please feel free to re-publish this survey result.
I get that slash isn't the new york times, but this post was so patently written by a PR flack that I found it hard to even read. Every few months there is a flying car/jetpack story that surfaces, there's no need to be insane boosters of these hare-brained schemes even though we all like the idea.
Why is this post on slashdot?
This seems like a thinly veiled ad for Marriot internet access.
Nice comment, Hiro Protagonist.
My guess is that this policy exists solely because a CSR can't figure out how to diagnose even a broken keyboard without their windows only diagnostics. Given that the policy only alienates the occasional customer it kinda makes sense given that the alternative would be somehow getting sane competent intelligent people to answer tech support calls. I can't think of any way to get such a person to do such a job for more than a month without paying them some kind of ridiculous salary. Which would make the whole endeavor fairly unprofitable.
I've had some limited experience with them and I have to say that they generally fail to explain anything, and what they do explain they explain in an efficient way. Because the nature of the proceeding is that they are getting information from this one guy, and most people involved don't really understand the issues involved, there generally are a lot of concepts to explain. However you cannot let the person being deposed, or an independent expert, come and give a briefing on say, the OSI model or how packet transmission and routing is done. As a result the attorney asks a question the expert they hired came up with, but doesn't really understand what the question itself means. Them the person being deposed has to explain the question, and then answer it. Since from the enquirer's perspective this is all part of the answer they can easily get bogged down questioning the facts and not the testimony. Or just fail to perceive the difference between them. From an attorney's persective the problem with experts is that only experts actually understand them. As a result, a bunch of enquiries that most of us could have made conversationally in the course of about 20 minutes were filtered through a bunch of interrogatory lawyer talk and confusion and revealed much less in more time. Overall I think the expert held his own pretty well, since he was only really being deposed on the individual reports, and each one seemed internally consistent as far as I could see.
I think this will be more useful to me for muting people whose volume is set too high. I always seem to find someone whose mike isn't squelching either the background hiss or their game volume. This way I can just mute them and if everyone does and they can see it they will (hopefully) adjust their configuration.
Barnes and Noble has a color scheme closer to that of slashdot.
Licensed New York cab drivers have to memorize such information too. Though the exam always tends to heavily favor Manhattan knowledge.
IANAL but this seems like a huge class action pitfall for them. From the fact that none of the employees were trained to understand the concept of rates in cents versus rates in dollars (which is a reasonable thing to train them for, since they quote in fractions of a cent but bill in dollars in cants) verizon seems pretty grossly negligent. Similarly the potential size of the class is huge (every person who has every asked a verizon rep for a rate quote), and the damages are significant (99% of the roaming costs). At this point, if some enterprising class action lawyer gets on the case I think verizon is basically boned.
The most recent interesting turn based game I know is the Combat Mission: Series from battlefront. While it is showing its age I am surprised that the concept in it hasn't been adapted (or, if you prefer, copied) by other rts games types. I'd like to see it's 3-d turn based strategy engine used in say the Warcraft or C&C universe.
This is also very useful for locating the vulnerabilities of and planning attacks on spherical battlestations. I even seem to recall a movie having a display system like this...
P.S. Sorry, had to be said
I'd have to say yes. Since this is going to be an intro course there is a lot of ground to cover. Teaching good OO habits in java is complicated enough when you are dealing with students who have never seen the advantages it gives you over say C, I wouldn't want to use up at least one whole lecture, and probably a few lectures worth of Q&A/Debugging showing them how to deal with emacs or vi. Most IDEs will be very intuitive to anyone who has used a word processor, just with a few extra buttons at the top of the interface. Remember, this is only an intro course, if the students decide to become serious about programming you can point them to some online faqs about the great emacs vs. vi debate and the oreilly section of the bookstore.
Just some thoughts from someone with too much education who has seen professors crash and burn trying to teach three things at once.
Just explain to your boss that if things continue the way they are now the company will be SOL if you get hit by a bus or catch the flu. Make it clear that you are not threatening them, but are just concerned that you are a critical piece of infrastructure. It makes them a) appreciate you and b) cognizant of the danger of the current system.