Well, actually, that's not such a bad way of going about it as might first seem. (Before I get flamed, that's randomly choosing people to spot check I'm talking about - not randomly choosing to give 12-hour detentions for people for whom the spot check failed to turn up anything incriminating, and not shooting people in the head; and only in the context of it being an alternative to using a fixed set of profiling rules to distribute the same number of spot checks). As Bruce Schneier said: "Whenever you design a security system with two ways through -- an easy way and a hard way -- you invite the attacker to take the easy way. Profile for young Arab males, and you'll get terrorists that are old non-Arab females."
currently no market...well, I want one. That is, I'd like something normally the size of a USB key with a screen the size of, say, an IPAQ screen when in use. Ideally, the device would also contain a projection keyboard, since as PDAs / mobile 'phones get smaller, the input mechanisms rapidly become unusable.
The bank must show that the customer acted fraudulently or without reasonable care, otherwise the customer is not liable. This text describes some of the potential problems with this.
I had something of a braindump along these lines a little while ago here - mainly the techie bits of how one might go about writing something like this without any of the users falling foul of UK legislation if any of the *other* users store material on their hard drives via the system. It kinda petered out due to lack of interest, though.
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The US was looking at doing this sort of thing too, to be fair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare
FAT here; when I care about permissions, I make tarballs - which incidentally also make resolving the UID problem much easier.
What he's looking for is the genre of romance games, which I'm honestly pretty thankful don't really exist. Actually, they do. Allegedly.
Plug in a yacc-style parse tree generator, and users can write things like this or this..
Russia had rovers down pat years ago...
Well, actually, that's not such a bad way of going about it as might first seem. (Before I get flamed, that's randomly choosing people to spot check I'm talking about - not randomly choosing to give 12-hour detentions for people for whom the spot check failed to turn up anything incriminating, and not shooting people in the head; and only in the context of it being an alternative to using a fixed set of profiling rules to distribute the same number of spot checks). As Bruce Schneier said: "Whenever you design a security system with two ways through -- an easy way and a hard way -- you invite the attacker to take the easy way. Profile for young Arab males, and you'll get terrorists that are old non-Arab females."
currently no market ...well, I want one. That is, I'd like something normally the size of a USB key with a screen the size of, say, an IPAQ screen when in use. Ideally, the device would also contain a projection keyboard, since as PDAs / mobile 'phones get smaller, the input mechanisms rapidly become unusable.
The bank must show that the customer acted fraudulently or without reasonable care, otherwise the customer is not liable. This text describes some of the potential problems with this.
Groups like this are all over the place. Even true in the printed world - check out Sweatdrop Studios, for instance..
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Well, you know it works - just think, a few years ago they were selling penis extensions, now it's peeeeeniiiiiiis extensions..
..simply tatoo the handy "Image manipulation forbidden" symbol prominently on your forehead..
Well, actually...
I had something of a braindump along these lines a little while ago here - mainly the techie bits of how one might go about writing something like this without any of the users falling foul of UK legislation if any of the *other* users store material on their hard drives via the system. It kinda petered out due to lack of interest, though.