User: mkoop73

Speaker Built-in?!

On: Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse"

Mighty Mouse even sounds as good as it feels. The audio feedback built into Mighty Mouse provides an aural sensation that responds to your movements. A tiny speaker inside Mighty Mouse produces button-clicking and Scroll Ball-rolling sound effects. Design Page

Just read the NYTimes Article

On: What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It?

NYTimes: God (or not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take A Leap

Re:Yes, and the devices collect the data

On: Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting

Yes, there's a lot of information on drivers' licenses and people do use it:

"Great Taste, Less Privacy.", Kim Zetter, Wired News. 6 February 2004. 7 April 2004.

Re:Hard to verify out-of-state ID cards...

On: Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting

What we need is a PKI-based smart card to verify identity. Not only would this be able to securely verify identity, but also allow digital signatures. Of course, none of this protects us from terrorists necessarily, but it would go a long way towards curbing identity theft, etc Instead of your easily-obtainable SSN securing many services, you could have a digital signature required before approval of credit, etc.

Re:Unconfirmed, as of yet.

On: Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware

I downloaded es5us.exe from their download page just a few minutes ago and got a completely different build number. I tried the exploit code and all of the test cases failed. I'm not even sure where that beta URL came from. I've never used E5 before, so I can't test it on an older copy -- or even validate those versions exist.