Two things; one, I'm not so worried about strangers as those who coinhabit a dwelling with me! secondly, there is a traditional multi-password bypass feature for BioPassword...
Personally I use BioPassword for authenticating my workstation using keystroke recognition, so I seem to be safe from the exploit as yet; holding an image up to a computer seems like it would require considerably less effort than attaching a PS2 device that typed at exactly the correct rate. Nonetheless, I wonder if this discovery will prompt the redesigning of the way user data is stored across the biometric spectrum, going as far as the oft considered-foolproof keystroke systems...
All I can say is Thank God! More than a simple annoyance in our home lives, the telemarketing industry is a severe drain on the resources of this country. Much like the bureaucracies of Europe (not to mention Canada) which are so widely criticized, the US telemarking industry provides a means of artificial employment for innumerable workers in this country, with people attempting to sell unwanted products in vain, going from job to job as telemarketing franchises are born and die, contributing nothing to the actual economic output of the country. Goodbye telemarketing, and good riddance...
With the frequency of its new releases and subsequent drops of support, it almost seems as if microsoft should stop pretending to provide support over the lifetime ofr a product, and just refers to a set period of time until the version "expires" from the beginning.
Does the patent office seem more interested with getting new patents out of the hideous "pending" ohase instead of investigating the ramifications of such patents? Patent law is specific, and it is not supposed to be this easy to get a patent on a technology that everyone has been using for so long...
Comics on the web are just great, but I don't think we should make too much of an effort making connections between them and their print counterparts... There is just something about reading comics out of a newspaper, and I dont think that can really be reproduced on the screen - I think the comics which really make it on the web wouldn't nessecarily make it in newspapers and vica-versa.
I'd love to see a survey of how many people use the huge number of convoluted and complex review and version features provided by Microsoft Word. The addition of these feature seems to represent the only major change from one version to the next of this microsoft suite, nowadays...
When will providers learn that many consumers just donâ(TM)t care about amazing search algorithms if they are getting the results they want from their current provider â" which most of them are. For godâ(TM)s sake, according to some lexicographers, âoegoogleâ is now an English verb; people swear by google like they swear by no other service on the web, for its extreme conciseness especially. How a company such as MS, so commited to bubblfying (i.e. making all pretty, I can invent verbs too) user interfaces and providing extra services en masse expects to gain real standing in a market full of users accustomed and devoted to minimalism, just by introducing some new-fangled algorithm, I donâ(TM)t know. They should take the lesson of the mass movement from Yahoo and like services, and stay out of the market unless theyâ(TM)re willing to truly separate their extras and over-the-top advertising, which I highly doubtâ¦
I'm sorry, but maybe my inclusion of the words "utterly uninformed" didn't let on to my blatent sarcasm as much as I had hoped... But anyway, I was just trying to highlight the fear that many laymen have, much of it unfounded, of technological breakthroughs regarding genetic engineering, as evidenced by the media firestorm related to altered corn a while back...
I know it's provincial, but there's just something scary about the thought of harnessing something, and I quote, "1,000,000,000,000 degrees" in temperature on earth...
I commented this late in the very-similar post from the other day, but I figured it was worth it again, now that this is recieving more attention.
The print incarnation of this rule has long been in force in Belgium, and it was funny, the local english-speaking magazine had to print a response by what is considered here to be a radical right-wing group (the Vlamms-Blok, more harmless than moderate republicans in the US, if you ask me); they printed the response, along with several articles sorrounding it (literally, on the page) about the introduction and severe abuse of the laws which mandate it, hence completely invalidating the response piece. They weren't even obligated to allow a re-response, it was great.
My real question is, though, how can something as widely defined as European online communication be expected to produce cases which can actually be enforced in court. What's to prevent me from using a US blogsite, or host my site on US servers? Nothing. There's nothing like Eurocrats speanding hideous quantities of time and money on something which proves useless by sheer virtue of its unenforcability.
Well, I don't know where exactly you would yell "fire in a crowded theatre," (all in quotes) but where's the precident that makes an exception to free speach for "subversive rumors?"
"In March last year it required all websites and domestic and foreign internet providers to sign a "self-discipline pact" obliging them not to disseminate "harmful texts or news likely to jeopardise national security and social stability, violate laws and regulations, or spread false news, superstitions and obscenities"."
I love the references to rumors, superstitions, etc. When will the Chinese government take into account the lessons of history and realize that the best way to cultivate rumors and suspicion is to have a population as in the dark as the one they have created. You let your media report freely, and rumors will be quickly shot down with reliable references. You control your media, and you lost the trust of your citizens, who, not knowing any better source, trust the equally-uninformed rumors which then spread like wildfire.
In addition, I read with utter amusement China's wish to maintain a huge telecom and information infrastructure. Would someone like to explain how a nation so inhibiting of communication and information expects to make use of such technology... It's hypotrical, China would love to look Western while keeping its citizans controled in this fashion, and they'll never prove sucessful.
I wonder just how much the proliferation of this technology, and that of the broadband Internet which makes it usefull for the household market, has been catalysed by free music's presence...
This is lovely, except that it would be argued, probably effectively, in court that your binding to that clause of the EULA extends beyond your use of the software. Then again, I'd love to see how Microsoft would substantiate any claims to damage with this clause, and hence, it would probably just insist on invalidating your license, anyway.
Forget GDP per capita, I think weâ(TM)ve found a new measure for quality of living! In all seriousness, I think the references to rich western culture bring up an interesting point: thereâ(TM)s no measure of a countryâ(TM)s wealth and the contentedness of its people in their lives like the amount of money they spend on amusements and distractions. The consumer crap index, made up of useless innovations, movie and sport industry revenues, and profits of haute-fashion shops for pre-teens.
I thought âoerip-proofâ was pretty much done when some genius figured out it could be superceded with a marker? And whatâ(TM)s to prevent me from just ripping a self-destructing media (that concept I still find amusing) once, and keeping the digital content for an extended period? IMHO, these companies should be spending more of their money on trying to produce better music than this feeble attempt to protect what they're turning out.
I already have a dandy of a time just keeping the crystal of my little Seiko from getting scratched up, how am I gonna manage to keep a touch screen safe on my wrist? Not to mention incidental pushing of the on-screen buttons. I know these are relativly logistical concerns, but these things could prove annoying...
Video card manufacturers could do this to keep from spending half their man hours on programming their drivers to trick benchmarks. Then again, this wouldn't fly to well, would it... If there's anything worse than feew people buying your product because it benchmarks poorly, it's no one buying your product because the industry press hates you.
This is a nice concession by microsoft, but what of the weird restrictions on benchmarking alluded to in the older slashdot article?
'You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the.NET Framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval.'
The print incarnation of this rule has long been in force in Belgium, and it was funny, the local english-speaking magazine had to print a response by what is considered here to be a radical right-wing group (the Vlamms-Blok, more harmless than moderate republicans in the US, if you ask me); they printed the response, along with several articles sorrounding it (literally, on the page) about the introduction and severe abuse of the laws which mandate it, hence completely invalidating the response piece. They weren't even obligated to allow a re-response, it was great.
My real question is, though, how can something as widely defined as European online communication be expected to produce cases which can actually be enforced in court. What's to prevent me from using a US blogsite, or host my site on US servers? Nothing. There's nothing like Eurocrats speanding hideous quantities of time and money on something which proves useless by sheer virtue of its unenforcability.
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You ever come back to your comp to find lovely little treats in your history folder?
Two things; one, I'm not so worried about strangers as those who coinhabit a dwelling with me! secondly, there is a traditional multi-password bypass feature for BioPassword...
Personally I use BioPassword for authenticating my workstation using keystroke recognition, so I seem to be safe from the exploit as yet; holding an image up to a computer seems like it would require considerably less effort than attaching a PS2 device that typed at exactly the correct rate. Nonetheless, I wonder if this discovery will prompt the redesigning of the way user data is stored across the biometric spectrum, going as far as the oft considered-foolproof keystroke systems...
All I can say is Thank God! More than a simple annoyance in our home lives, the telemarketing industry is a severe drain on the resources of this country. Much like the bureaucracies of Europe (not to mention Canada) which are so widely criticized, the US telemarking industry provides a means of artificial employment for innumerable workers in this country, with people attempting to sell unwanted products in vain, going from job to job as telemarketing franchises are born and die, contributing nothing to the actual economic output of the country. Goodbye telemarketing, and good riddance...
With the frequency of its new releases and subsequent drops of support, it almost seems as if microsoft should stop pretending to provide support over the lifetime ofr a product, and just refers to a set period of time until the version "expires" from the beginning.
Does the patent office seem more interested with getting new patents out of the hideous "pending" ohase instead of investigating the ramifications of such patents? Patent law is specific, and it is not supposed to be this easy to get a patent on a technology that everyone has been using for so long...
Comics on the web are just great, but I don't think we should make too much of an effort making connections between them and their print counterparts... There is just something about reading comics out of a newspaper, and I dont think that can really be reproduced on the screen - I think the comics which really make it on the web wouldn't nessecarily make it in newspapers and vica-versa.
I'd love to see a survey of how many people use the huge number of convoluted and complex review and version features provided by Microsoft Word. The addition of these feature seems to represent the only major change from one version to the next of this microsoft suite, nowadays...
Now public schools will again have a rationale for prohibiting cell phones in school!
When will providers learn that many consumers just donâ(TM)t care about amazing search algorithms if they are getting the results they want from their current provider â" which most of them are. For godâ(TM)s sake, according to some lexicographers, âoegoogleâ is now an English verb; people swear by google like they swear by no other service on the web, for its extreme conciseness especially. How a company such as MS, so commited to bubblfying (i.e. making all pretty, I can invent verbs too) user interfaces and providing extra services en masse expects to gain real standing in a market full of users accustomed and devoted to minimalism, just by introducing some new-fangled algorithm, I donâ(TM)t know. They should take the lesson of the mass movement from Yahoo and like services, and stay out of the market unless theyâ(TM)re willing to truly separate their extras and over-the-top advertising, which I highly doubtâ¦
I'm sorry, but maybe my inclusion of the words "utterly uninformed" didn't let on to my blatent sarcasm as much as I had hoped... But anyway, I was just trying to highlight the fear that many laymen have, much of it unfounded, of technological breakthroughs regarding genetic engineering, as evidenced by the media firestorm related to altered corn a while back...
How long until the utterly uninformed are afraid to go over to their friends houses, for fear of getting "zapped" by the "radioactive" fish?
I know it's provincial, but there's just something scary about the thought of harnessing something, and I quote, "1,000,000,000,000 degrees" in temperature on earth...
I commented this late in the very-similar post from the other day, but I figured it was worth it again, now that this is recieving more attention.
The print incarnation of this rule has long been in force in Belgium, and it was funny, the local english-speaking magazine had to print a response by what is considered here to be a radical right-wing group (the Vlamms-Blok, more harmless than moderate republicans in the US, if you ask me); they printed the response, along with several articles sorrounding it (literally, on the page) about the introduction and severe abuse of the laws which mandate it, hence completely invalidating the response piece. They weren't even obligated to allow a re-response, it was great.
My real question is, though, how can something as widely defined as European online communication be expected to produce cases which can actually be enforced in court. What's to prevent me from using a US blogsite, or host my site on US servers? Nothing. There's nothing like Eurocrats speanding hideous quantities of time and money on something which proves useless by sheer virtue of its unenforcability.
Well, I don't know where exactly you would yell "fire in a crowded theatre," (all in quotes) but where's the precident that makes an exception to free speach for "subversive rumors?"
"In March last year it required all websites and domestic and foreign internet providers to sign a "self-discipline pact" obliging them not to disseminate "harmful texts or news likely to jeopardise national security and social stability, violate laws and regulations, or spread false news, superstitions and obscenities"."
I love the references to rumors, superstitions, etc. When will the Chinese government take into account the lessons of history and realize that the best way to cultivate rumors and suspicion is to have a population as in the dark as the one they have created. You let your media report freely, and rumors will be quickly shot down with reliable references. You control your media, and you lost the trust of your citizens, who, not knowing any better source, trust the equally-uninformed rumors which then spread like wildfire.
In addition, I read with utter amusement China's wish to maintain a huge telecom and information infrastructure. Would someone like to explain how a nation so inhibiting of communication and information expects to make use of such technology... It's hypotrical, China would love to look Western while keeping its citizans controled in this fashion, and they'll never prove sucessful.
I wonder just how much the proliferation of this technology, and that of the broadband Internet which makes it usefull for the household market, has been catalysed by free music's presence...
This is lovely, except that it would be argued, probably effectively, in court that your binding to that clause of the EULA extends beyond your use of the software. Then again, I'd love to see how Microsoft would substantiate any claims to damage with this clause, and hence, it would probably just insist on invalidating your license, anyway.
Forget GDP per capita, I think weâ(TM)ve found a new measure for quality of living! In all seriousness, I think the references to rich western culture bring up an interesting point: thereâ(TM)s no measure of a countryâ(TM)s wealth and the contentedness of its people in their lives like the amount of money they spend on amusements and distractions. The consumer crap index, made up of useless innovations, movie and sport industry revenues, and profits of haute-fashion shops for pre-teens.
I thought âoerip-proofâ was pretty much done when some genius figured out it could be superceded with a marker? And whatâ(TM)s to prevent me from just ripping a self-destructing media (that concept I still find amusing) once, and keeping the digital content for an extended period? IMHO, these companies should be spending more of their money on trying to produce better music than this feeble attempt to protect what they're turning out.
I already have a dandy of a time just keeping the crystal of my little Seiko from getting scratched up, how am I gonna manage to keep a touch screen safe on my wrist? Not to mention incidental pushing of the on-screen buttons. I know these are relativly logistical concerns, but these things could prove annoying...
Well, for one, I'm pretty sure that Microsoft would like to have a nice little document to stick to should anyone discover they're being spied on.
Video card manufacturers could do this to keep from spending half their man hours on programming their drivers to trick benchmarks. Then again, this wouldn't fly to well, would it... If there's anything worse than feew people buying your product because it benchmarks poorly, it's no one buying your product because the industry press hates you.
This is a nice concession by microsoft, but what of the weird restrictions on benchmarking alluded to in the older slashdot article?
.NET Framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval.'
'You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the
The print incarnation of this rule has long been in force in Belgium, and it was funny, the local english-speaking magazine had to print a response by what is considered here to be a radical right-wing group (the Vlamms-Blok, more harmless than moderate republicans in the US, if you ask me); they printed the response, along with several articles sorrounding it (literally, on the page) about the introduction and severe abuse of the laws which mandate it, hence completely invalidating the response piece. They weren't even obligated to allow a re-response, it was great.
My real question is, though, how can something as widely defined as European online communication be expected to produce cases which can actually be enforced in court. What's to prevent me from using a US blogsite, or host my site on US servers? Nothing. There's nothing like Eurocrats speanding hideous quantities of time and money on something which proves useless by sheer virtue of its unenforcability.