AFIS is just an automated system. Manual fingerprinting also follows identifying features and matchingthem up. So do you agree that we've ascertained that manual inspection is indeed a matching of points of identification or characteristics, as per the FBI's own fingerprint recognition document?
The FBI wants to be able to read anything, anywhere, anytime. The last time that happened, yes, Godwin.... The simple solution here is for Apple to make the security all hardware based baked into a single unit that also controls updates, and updates can only happen when the phone is unlocked. Problem solved, and I believe indications are that Apple is already incorporating this into the next iPhone.
I believe the FBI's "request" has already caused Apple to start a project to modify the security model so that it is all in hardware and not subject to any external update process. It is likely that iPhone 7 won't have any ability to be updated automatically unless it is unlocked first. Samsung is likely also working on this already because if they don't, well, would you like to buy this nice "Government accessible phone?"
The affidavit further alleges that the fingerprint identification was verified by an FBI fingerprint supervisor, and a retired FBI fingerprint examiner with 30 years of experience on contract with the lab’s Latent Fingerprint Section.
FBI examiner Green then manually matched the print of the fourth AFIS match to the Madrid print as belonging to Mayfield, and then the other two examiners referred to in the affidavit verified that match
Now, how did he "manually matched" the print to the AFIS match? Oh yeah,
Terry Green identified “in excess of 15 points of identification during his comparison”
I'll be happy to admit I'm wrong if those quotes are incorrect or my understanding of fingerprint identification is lacking.
A) They started with AFIS - those are points of match. That purportedly
B) The fact that individuals stated they matched it after AFIS, sure. If it makes you happy. Note that they still used points of identification, because that's what they are trained to do, however badly apparently. Also note that Green only matched 15 points, whereas some guy faked fingerprints decades ago up to 16 points. Not sure where you'd want to go from there. They obviously don't overlay the fingerprints and match them that way.
I regularly load my CPU to 1100%+ (yes, 12 virtual cores) for long periods of time. I guess it depends upon your work load types (Video processing) It's amazing how much time it takes to render some HD+ Camera video into a useable 10 minute video segment, for instance.
With this new SSD performance, do you really need more RAM? Virtual RAM (ie, that "slow" disk based overflow) might support your needs. If you need 16GB+ in a single set of processes concurrently, then yes, 32 or 64GB is appealing. I'm running on 24GB and had considered 48GB, but after analyzing my usage parameters, I almost never hit swap with a couple of changes in habits and an upgrade to 10.10. (Safari and Firefox were notorious memory hogs, Safari is much much better in 10.10 - no I don't run Chrome spyware for my main browsing)
No Apple products have carried an optical drive for quite a few years now. That was his point. Who uses them anymore, except for a few special cases? And yes, I have a BD writer hooked up, but that's all.
They really only need 2, so why a full bag? 1 MDV->VGA and 1 MDV->HDMI with a HDMI->DVI plugin, which is a pretty common adapter. And the VGA is only necessary because someone refuses to update that 1990s 600x800 projector.
I'm not sure why 3 "experts" failing as badly as they failed indicates anything other than they are incompetent at a minimum, and quite possibly points to some nefarious conspiracy at its worst. Given the current headlines I think most would need proof to convince them that incompetence was all it was. In any case, there's still 0 evidence of duplicate fingerprints, much less sets of fingerprints, which started this chain.
OK, I skimmed the article and the first thing I see is (emphasis mine):
The affidavit’s lynchpin was the allegation that senior FBI fingerprint examiner Terry Green identified “in excess of 15 points of identification during his comparison” of Mayfield’s prints on file with the Army and the FBI, and a “photograph image” of a print recovered from a plastic bag
Those 15 points were via AFIS, which is exactly a hash matching system based on measurements between inflection points, IIRC. The rest of the article largely agrees with the previous points going so far as to state AFIS made multiple matches.
Now the interesting thing is that it asks the questions that should be asked, for proof of individuality. It's no different from current DNA analysis, which also uses a subset of markers to determine a match. (Yes, DNA "matching" can "match" 2 individuals with different DNA that happen to have the same markers that are being used, however unlikely that may be with the number of markers being used today)
IMHO, in court, fingerprints and DNA matching should only be used to exclude people. The police will use it as a filter for people of interest so they can reduce their effort.
If we could use the argument that copyright should be reduced to less than 20 years, I'm all for it. The only one that would really be "hurt" by such shortening is Disney, honestly.
The FBI doesn't have identical fingerprints, what they have is the number of elements of a fingerprint used to "hash" the fingerprint results in collisions. Since identical twins don't havethe samefingerprints. That said, an "identical" fingerprint, however unlikely since the fingertip would have to be the same size and shape to begin with, is certainly within the realm of statistical possibility, the likelihood of a person having an identical set of fingerprints would be truly astronomical.
I could easily pay that much, but it's an interesting tightrope. In Tennessee the average is sub 6 cents thanks to the TVA. Oh, and that is the total cost including transmission fees for 1kWh+ / month usage without upper cap restrictions, there are cheaper plans as long as you go with restrictions on use such as time of day or usage windwos, which if exceeded remove pretty much all benefits and push you to the "real" rate above about 13 cents per kWh. On my plan, if I drop under a cap, I pay more per kWh, something like 12-14 cents, but that's immaterial as to negatively affecting budget, I'd rather have a slightly raised floor than a rapidly escalating ceiling. If I add local solar generation, then it could start to get interesting.
The average rate where I am is around $0.08 / kWh. I have already added a radiant barrier to one attic, and it made a big enough difference I'm looking to add it to the rest. If you do it yourself, it's downright cheap, although it does suck to work in the attic.
With the exception of identical twins and clones, each of us has a unigue DNA.
FTFY, since fingerprints and irises are unique even among identical twins due to variances as development occurs, and the same would hold for clones. I would imagine there are differences in the ear canals also.
I know you live in a unique bubble where everything comes up roses, but real energy prices have been increasing for the majority of us for years. Enough so that I'm looking at a solar installation to offset those increasing prices.
That is absolutely no different than keeping years of meta data about phones, phone locations, car license plates, CCTV photo/videos, etc. This is just one more implementation of the exact same concept. Record everything, then pinpoint through time who was there. Arrest said person, even if it's the wrong person. Orwell was prescient.
Once you start incorporating Congress into the story your fairy tale falls apart. The best parts of Clinton's governance was the Republican congress that controlled spending and the growth of government.
And yet they completely tanked with Bush Jr.
You can thank the Clinton administration for Enron, and the internet bubble. On the other had Democrats in Congress blocked reform of the mortgage industry that the Bush administration tried to pass to head off the meltdown that occurred and badly damaged the economy.
You can thank Reagan and the Republican senate for Enron and the banking meltdowns. Bush Sr didn't try to pass any legislation, in fact, I don't recall any such thing. Under Bush Jr, when the Reps had both houses of congress, they failed to push any bill through even though supposedly the Bush Jr white house asked for it 17 times. Somehow that sounds Fox newsish, considering all the other crap they pushed through.
The internet bubble was a separate thing that may or may not have had a government cause. I'd argue likely not, except for the "no tax" bit in 97 or whenever that was passed.
And working two jobs? Thank Obamacare.
You are smoking crack. The two jobs bit has been around for at least 2 decades.
Before Obamacare it was becoming common for even fast food jobs to offer healthcare benefit.
Fast food jobs are specifically restricted to under 32 hours excepting managers if they have insurance. Even Walmart does this and has prior to ACA.
After Obamacare that pretty much stopped and lots of full time jobs in the economy turned into part time jobs to get around Obamacare's taxes, penalties, and regulations. Companies shut down expansion plans to stay under the limits. And who brought Obamacare? 100% Democrat created and passed.
Your description of events in the 1960s is more than a little confused as well.
Don't get me wrong, ACA was the right concept, horrible implementation. Single payer is the way forward, or you are advocating to leave people dying in the streets.
Simple solution, every time you get on the MTA, play conversational bits from various movies in a low conversational volume, say: The Godfather, Goodfellas, Hannibal, etc....
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AFIS is just an automated system. Manual fingerprinting also follows identifying features and matching them up. So do you agree that we've ascertained that manual inspection is indeed a matching of points of identification or characteristics, as per the FBI's own fingerprint recognition document?
The FBI wants to be able to read anything, anywhere, anytime. The last time that happened, yes, Godwin.... The simple solution here is for Apple to make the security all hardware based baked into a single unit that also controls updates, and updates can only happen when the phone is unlocked. Problem solved, and I believe indications are that Apple is already incorporating this into the next iPhone.
I believe the FBI's "request" has already caused Apple to start a project to modify the security model so that it is all in hardware and not subject to any external update process. It is likely that iPhone 7 won't have any ability to be updated automatically unless it is unlocked first. Samsung is likely also working on this already because if they don't, well, would you like to buy this nice "Government accessible phone?"
The affidavit further alleges that the fingerprint identification was verified by an FBI fingerprint supervisor, and a retired FBI fingerprint examiner with 30 years of experience on contract with the lab’s Latent Fingerprint Section.
FBI examiner Green then manually matched the print of the fourth AFIS match to the Madrid print as belonging to Mayfield, and then the other two examiners referred to in the affidavit verified that match
Now, how did he "manually matched" the print to the AFIS match? Oh yeah,
Terry Green identified “in excess of 15 points of identification during his comparison”
I'll be happy to admit I'm wrong if those quotes are incorrect or my understanding of fingerprint identification is lacking.
senior FBI fingerprint examiner Terry Green identified “in excess of 15 points of identification during his comparison"
I'm not sure what else there is to say.
The prints only matched because the cops wanted them to match, even though a casual inspection shows they don't.
And that is the real issue in the story. The next question is why.
Depends on what you run in your VMs... I had a single VM running and loading near 12 full cores as well. Again, use cases determine everything.
A) They started with AFIS - those are points of match. That purportedly
B) The fact that individuals stated they matched it after AFIS, sure. If it makes you happy. Note that they still used points of identification, because that's what they are trained to do, however badly apparently. Also note that Green only matched 15 points, whereas some guy faked fingerprints decades ago up to 16 points. Not sure where you'd want to go from there. They obviously don't overlay the fingerprints and match them that way.
I regularly load my CPU to 1100%+ (yes, 12 virtual cores) for long periods of time. I guess it depends upon your work load types (Video processing) It's amazing how much time it takes to render some HD+ Camera video into a useable 10 minute video segment, for instance.
With this new SSD performance, do you really need more RAM? Virtual RAM (ie, that "slow" disk based overflow) might support your needs. If you need 16GB+ in a single set of processes concurrently, then yes, 32 or 64GB is appealing. I'm running on 24GB and had considered 48GB, but after analyzing my usage parameters, I almost never hit swap with a couple of changes in habits and an upgrade to 10.10. (Safari and Firefox were notorious memory hogs, Safari is much much better in 10.10 - no I don't run Chrome spyware for my main browsing)
No Apple products have carried an optical drive for quite a few years now. That was his point. Who uses them anymore, except for a few special cases? And yes, I have a BD writer hooked up, but that's all.
They really only need 2, so why a full bag? 1 MDV->VGA and 1 MDV->HDMI with a HDMI->DVI plugin, which is a pretty common adapter. And the VGA is only necessary because someone refuses to update that 1990s 600x800 projector.
I'm not sure why 3 "experts" failing as badly as they failed indicates anything other than they are incompetent at a minimum, and quite possibly points to some nefarious conspiracy at its worst. Given the current headlines I think most would need proof to convince them that incompetence was all it was. In any case, there's still 0 evidence of duplicate fingerprints, much less sets of fingerprints, which started this chain.
The affidavit’s lynchpin was the allegation that senior FBI fingerprint examiner Terry Green identified “in excess of 15 points of identification during his comparison” of Mayfield’s prints on file with the Army and the FBI, and a “photograph image” of a print recovered from a plastic bag
Those 15 points were via AFIS, which is exactly a hash matching system based on measurements between inflection points, IIRC. The rest of the article largely agrees with the previous points going so far as to state AFIS made multiple matches.
Now the interesting thing is that it asks the questions that should be asked, for proof of individuality. It's no different from current DNA analysis, which also uses a subset of markers to determine a match. (Yes, DNA "matching" can "match" 2 individuals with different DNA that happen to have the same markers that are being used, however unlikely that may be with the number of markers being used today)
IMHO, in court, fingerprints and DNA matching should only be used to exclude people. The police will use it as a filter for people of interest so they can reduce their effort.
If we could use the argument that copyright should be reduced to less than 20 years, I'm all for it. The only one that would really be "hurt" by such shortening is Disney, honestly.
The FBI doesn't have identical fingerprints, what they have is the number of elements of a fingerprint used to "hash" the fingerprint results in collisions. Since identical twins don't have the same fingerprints. That said, an "identical" fingerprint, however unlikely since the fingertip would have to be the same size and shape to begin with, is certainly within the realm of statistical possibility, the likelihood of a person having an identical set of fingerprints would be truly astronomical.
I could easily pay that much, but it's an interesting tightrope. In Tennessee the average is sub 6 cents thanks to the TVA. Oh, and that is the total cost including transmission fees for 1kWh+ / month usage without upper cap restrictions, there are cheaper plans as long as you go with restrictions on use such as time of day or usage windwos, which if exceeded remove pretty much all benefits and push you to the "real" rate above about 13 cents per kWh. On my plan, if I drop under a cap, I pay more per kWh, something like 12-14 cents, but that's immaterial as to negatively affecting budget, I'd rather have a slightly raised floor than a rapidly escalating ceiling. If I add local solar generation, then it could start to get interesting.
The average rate where I am is around $0.08 / kWh. I have already added a radiant barrier to one attic, and it made a big enough difference I'm looking to add it to the rest. If you do it yourself, it's downright cheap, although it does suck to work in the attic.
With the exception of identical twins and clones, each of us has a unigue DNA.
FTFY, since fingerprints and irises are unique even among identical twins due to variances as development occurs, and the same would hold for clones. I would imagine there are differences in the ear canals also.
I know you live in a unique bubble where everything comes up roses, but real energy prices have been increasing for the majority of us for years. Enough so that I'm looking at a solar installation to offset those increasing prices.
That is absolutely no different than keeping years of meta data about phones, phone locations, car license plates, CCTV photo/videos, etc. This is just one more implementation of the exact same concept. Record everything, then pinpoint through time who was there. Arrest said person, even if it's the wrong person. Orwell was prescient.
Once you start incorporating Congress into the story your fairy tale falls apart. The best parts of Clinton's governance was the Republican congress that controlled spending and the growth of government.
And yet they completely tanked with Bush Jr.
You can thank the Clinton administration for Enron, and the internet bubble. On the other had Democrats in Congress blocked reform of the mortgage industry that the Bush administration tried to pass to head off the meltdown that occurred and badly damaged the economy.
You can thank Reagan and the Republican senate for Enron and the banking meltdowns. Bush Sr didn't try to pass any legislation, in fact, I don't recall any such thing. Under Bush Jr, when the Reps had both houses of congress, they failed to push any bill through even though supposedly the Bush Jr white house asked for it 17 times. Somehow that sounds Fox newsish, considering all the other crap they pushed through.
The internet bubble was a separate thing that may or may not have had a government cause. I'd argue likely not, except for the "no tax" bit in 97 or whenever that was passed.
And working two jobs? Thank Obamacare.
You are smoking crack. The two jobs bit has been around for at least 2 decades.
Before Obamacare it was becoming common for even fast food jobs to offer healthcare benefit.
Fast food jobs are specifically restricted to under 32 hours excepting managers if they have insurance. Even Walmart does this and has prior to ACA.
After Obamacare that pretty much stopped and lots of full time jobs in the economy turned into part time jobs to get around Obamacare's taxes, penalties, and regulations. Companies shut down expansion plans to stay under the limits. And who brought Obamacare? 100% Democrat created and passed.
Your description of events in the 1960s is more than a little confused as well.
Don't get me wrong, ACA was the right concept, horrible implementation. Single payer is the way forward, or you are advocating to leave people dying in the streets.
Besides, I read that the world's population growth would end somewhere this century.
Yep, time for the harvest
There's a saying: A fool and his money are soon parted.
The cautious survive the downswings, or do you not recall the stories of those losing everything when bubbles popped?
Simple solution, every time you get on the MTA, play conversational bits from various movies in a low conversational volume, say: The Godfather, Goodfellas, Hannibal, etc....