So I'm guessing that by your above (GP) post and this PP following it that you are highly educated likely from Berkley or Stanford (RPI and MIT grads don't make those kinds of errors:p ) -nB
I know they get a lot of greif around here, but their earbuds have interchangeable tips to size them for your ear canal (S/M/L included) and they are $100. I use mine at work and for earbuds they are amazing (fidelity wise), and comfort is very good. I have a set of the $300 over ear QC15 (to replace my old QC1's) and I like them fine, but they are not nearly as good a bang for the buck as the earbuds. When I am doing actual audio/video work I have an ancient set of JBLs that I wear for the detail work and a pair of nice monitor speakers for actual previews, but I don't think you could find anything close to that for reasonable cost (hence why I still use the ancient ones). -nB
Security is layers. a simple alt and keypad entry almost completely disable dictionary attacks, and likely most pre-computed rainbow tables. It is not the only aspect of my standard derivative medium risk password, but I consider it an important one. -nB
what pisses me off is that truecrypt disabled extended ascii for "portability". I used to use a mu character "" (funny, it shows in preview but not post, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)) in one of my TC volumes. I can still open that volume with a new version of TC, but if I create a new volume TC won't let me use the mu, because it may not work on *all* systems. I don't care about all systems I care about all systems I am using. Bonus points if it happens to not work on an attackers system. using [a-zA-Z0-9] + [~`!@#$%^&*()-_+=/?:";'{}|] is all fine and dandy, but when you start using #### values you are virtually guaranteed not to be on any dictionary list, thus requiring brute force only. -nB
I don't know what his app is, but I look at it this way (and is how I handle something I write): Is this a bug? Assuming it is then: is this something that is obvious code error (i.e. buffer overflow, null pointer, etc.)? I fix it. Is this something that is behavior not as expected, but is not a code error (logic error), and should have been seen as part of acceptance testing? I charge for the fix.
really simple, and so far I've not had any customers balk. -nB
I was going to suggest something along the lines of saying hashing the data, but then I realized you want to scan someone's iris and then compare that scan in the database.... Hashing won't work here. DCT would likely work, but is sloooow, the more I think about it the more I realise this is not an easy problem, though really it is if you change the problem:
Every person gets a GUID. They present the GUID as their ID. You query the DB for the GUID and submit their iris scan as the authenticator. You don't need to parse the iris data for a lookup (that is what the GUID is for, then you just do a DCT on the scan you took and the stored scan in the DB. if the result is.90 or better it is likely your person. -nB
Either way, 1/5, 3/5, 1/5 or 1/3,1/3,1/3 I will stand corrected, as by either numbers I was wrong. Do you think even 1/5 of our current population would be willing to push back? I think not. -nB
ha ha ha Plenty of people on/. that have not had a real encounter with the government then. I suspect the Venn diagram is actually two concentric circles of the same diameter... -nB
And yet somewhere in the middle lies the answer. It is of use to note that we celebrate a war every year. On the 4th of July we light off fireworks to celebrate going to war with the British and winning (technically we celebrate our declaration to be independent, but we all know damn well that had we lost or had there been no contest, there likely wouldn't be fireworks every year).
Our country does need a revolution. It needs a real tea party, a mass of people who simply refuse to follow governments orders.
The challenge, of course is critical mass. I would wager that in 1776 well over 50% of the population of the nascent United States of America was willing to outright defy the ruling government, while somewhere north of 90% of the remainder at least supported said dissidents. With the combination of the Democrats buying votes from the poor/uneducated/minority/grafters/etc with entitlement programs and the Republicans selling government support to corporations, I believe a civil revolution is impossible.
thk1 is right, an armed revolution is bad, but I'm not sure no revolution is better...
Radioactive Hydrazine:oooooooh: In that case I'd want a lead biosuit.
Seriously, biosuits and cleanroom suits are the norm in space related activities. It's no different than the (don't know the official name of the position) guy who dumps fuel in the race cars wearing a full nomex suit and protective gear. There is a well above non zero chance of exposure to flammable liquid or fire, so you protect against it. -nB
I think he does. Classified, means just that classified. It may be classified noforn in which case only US citizens may see the whatever it is. It may be classified secret, or top secret, or TS<codeword>. In all the above cases it is also sensitive. It could also be classified as unrestricted (like NASA pictures of the deep cosmos), still classified, but not sensitive.
There is material that is born secret, and there is material that is classified secret, but classification is just that, putting the material in a class. [/pedantic rant] -nB
Public and often part of/.'s split persona, we are vilified one day and extolled the next. HR largely stays out of the hiring process. They provide a web page for applicants and managers to meet. The management of the group doing the hiring gets to pick who they want for the job. HR is only involved in background checks, drug tests, and legal paperwork. -nB
Nope, the 12 year guy makes more than most with a BS degree. (about 25% more). He makes less than someone with a BS degree that started 12 years ago, true, but this same ratio would hold between some with a BS and MS or MS and PHD. -nB
I believe the reason behind that was that in extreme circumstances where the senate was on recess the president could commit the armed forces, but within 72 hours (plenty of time in an emergency) the senate could convene and ratify that action into a declaration of war or tell the POTUS to GTFO of dodge and pull the troops home. -nB
Actually, yes. WiFi can travel quite far with flat land and no buildings of concrete and rebar in the way. Cellular service is vastly cheaper than copper phone lines.
Yes, I agree, though it does appear to be a bit obvious... I would think another good step would be changing out the polystyrene insulation for aerogel... It is still more durable than a vacuum flask, but almost as good insulation wise. Add to this GP's peltier idea and bake in a decent PV panel on the lid with some LiPo batteries and you're good to go. Plug in to charge when power is available, leave in the sun (or use a remote panel) when power is not available. Aerogel insulates so well that sitting in the sun wouldn't be a bad thing. -nB
And: In case any of these ideas are considered novel enough to patent I hereby lay claim to them and subsequently release them into the public domain. -nB
ha ha ha ha ha I know you are being sarcastic, but two of the best motivated people in my lab have on degree. One has a HS diploma, the other a GED. The one w/ the diploma is a senior technician, worked up from the bottom over 12 years and outperforms the recent grad engineers at most of the work (similar job profiles between Sr. tech and Jr. engineer). The GED tech has been with the company for about a year and is starting the working from the bottom up. Both of these guys are way better at their jobs and motivated compared to the average BS degree holder.
Realistically this is a rare trait in people, but I'll take one of these guys any day over the average degreed person. -nB
Hey, here in California we restrict the douchbags to SF and Hollywood. In both cases we are hoping for the San Andreas to fix this issue for us. Also, I would like to point out that we in California are the only state to get you to watch our douchbags hours on end in our movies. You even spend money to watch our douchbags.
We do occasionally promote them to be governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and possibly president *(I don't think Regan was a douch, but I'm sure some do). -nB
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So I'm guessing that by your above (GP) post and this PP following it that you are highly educated likely from Berkley or Stanford (RPI and MIT grads don't make those kinds of errors :p )
-nB
I know they get a lot of greif around here, but their earbuds have interchangeable tips to size them for your ear canal (S/M/L included) and they are $100. I use mine at work and for earbuds they are amazing (fidelity wise), and comfort is very good. I have a set of the $300 over ear QC15 (to replace my old QC1's) and I like them fine, but they are not nearly as good a bang for the buck as the earbuds.
When I am doing actual audio/video work I have an ancient set of JBLs that I wear for the detail work and a pair of nice monitor speakers for actual previews, but I don't think you could find anything close to that for reasonable cost (hence why I still use the ancient ones).
-nB
to a shoulder surfer it looks like you are punching 230 on the numeric pad, you left pinky is down on alt.
meh, it really doesn't matter anyway.
-nB
[hat tip]
Security is layers.
a simple alt and keypad entry almost completely disable dictionary attacks, and likely most pre-computed rainbow tables. It is not the only aspect of my standard derivative medium risk password, but I consider it an important one.
-nB
Truecrypt refuses to use it.
My bank incidentally also refuses to use it.
what pisses me off is that truecrypt disabled extended ascii for "portability".
I used to use a mu character "" (funny, it shows in preview but not post, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)) in one of my TC volumes. I can still open that volume with a new version of TC, but if I create a new volume TC won't let me use the mu, because it may not work on *all* systems. I don't care about all systems I care about all systems I am using. Bonus points if it happens to not work on an attackers system.
using [a-zA-Z0-9] + [~`!@#$%^&*()-_+=/?:";'{}|] is all fine and dandy, but when you start using #### values you are virtually guaranteed not to be on any dictionary list, thus requiring brute force only.
-nB
I don't know what his app is, but I look at it this way (and is how I handle something I write):
Is this a bug?
Assuming it is then:
is this something that is obvious code error (i.e. buffer overflow, null pointer, etc.)? I fix it.
Is this something that is behavior not as expected, but is not a code error (logic error), and should have been seen as part of acceptance testing? I charge for the fix.
really simple, and so far I've not had any customers balk.
-nB
I was going to suggest something along the lines of saying hashing the data, but then I realized you want to scan someone's iris and then compare that scan in the database.... Hashing won't work here. DCT would likely work, but is sloooow, the more I think about it the more I realise this is not an easy problem, though really it is if you change the problem:
Every person gets a GUID. They present the GUID as their ID. You query the DB for the GUID and submit their iris scan as the authenticator. You don't need to parse the iris data for a lookup (that is what the GUID is for, then you just do a DCT on the scan you took and the stored scan in the DB. if the result is .90 or better it is likely your person.
-nB
Either way, 1/5, 3/5, 1/5 or 1/3,1/3,1/3 I will stand corrected, as by either numbers I was wrong. Do you think even 1/5 of our current population would be willing to push back? I think not.
-nB
ha ha ha /. that have not had a real encounter with the government then. I suspect the Venn diagram is actually two concentric circles of the same diameter...
Plenty of people on
-nB
O_o
Seems a non sequitor in this context along the lines of the $699 SCO license fee trolls.
I see the tie in, but ...
And yet somewhere in the middle lies the answer.
It is of use to note that we celebrate a war every year. On the 4th of July we light off fireworks to celebrate going to war with the British and winning (technically we celebrate our declaration to be independent, but we all know damn well that had we lost or had there been no contest, there likely wouldn't be fireworks every year).
Our country does need a revolution. It needs a real tea party, a mass of people who simply refuse to follow governments orders.
The challenge, of course is critical mass. I would wager that in 1776 well over 50% of the population of the nascent United States of America was willing to outright defy the ruling government, while somewhere north of 90% of the remainder at least supported said dissidents. With the combination of the Democrats buying votes from the poor/uneducated/minority/grafters/etc with entitlement programs and the Republicans selling government support to corporations, I believe a civil revolution is impossible.
thk1 is right, an armed revolution is bad, but I'm not sure no revolution is better...
That would be creepy to hear.
Also, if it really had launched its self I think we all know it would be shot down ASAP.
-nB
Radioactive Hydrazine :oooooooh:
In that case I'd want a lead biosuit.
Seriously, biosuits and cleanroom suits are the norm in space related activities.
It's no different than the (don't know the official name of the position) guy who dumps fuel in the race cars wearing a full nomex suit and protective gear. There is a well above non zero chance of exposure to flammable liquid or fire, so you protect against it.
-nB
I think he does.
Classified, means just that classified.
It may be classified noforn in which case only US citizens may see the whatever it is.
It may be classified secret, or top secret, or TS<codeword>.
In all the above cases it is also sensitive.
It could also be classified as unrestricted (like NASA pictures of the deep cosmos), still classified, but not sensitive.
There is material that is born secret, and there is material that is classified secret, but classification is just that, putting the material in a class.
[/pedantic rant]
-nB
Public and often part of /.'s split persona, we are vilified one day and extolled the next.
HR largely stays out of the hiring process. They provide a web page for applicants and managers to meet. The management of the group doing the hiring gets to pick who they want for the job. HR is only involved in background checks, drug tests, and legal paperwork.
-nB
Nope, the 12 year guy makes more than most with a BS degree. (about 25% more). He makes less than someone with a BS degree that started 12 years ago, true, but this same ratio would hold between some with a BS and MS or MS and PHD.
-nB
(Yes, it talks about declaration of war.
I believe the reason behind that was that in extreme circumstances where the senate was on recess the president could commit the armed forces, but within 72 hours (plenty of time in an emergency) the senate could convene and ratify that action into a declaration of war or tell the POTUS to GTFO of dodge and pull the troops home.
-nB
Actually, yes.
WiFi can travel quite far with flat land and no buildings of concrete and rebar in the way. Cellular service is vastly cheaper than copper phone lines.
Yes, I agree, though it does appear to be a bit obvious...
I would think another good step would be changing out the polystyrene insulation for aerogel... It is still more durable than a vacuum flask, but almost as good insulation wise. Add to this GP's peltier idea and bake in a decent PV panel on the lid with some LiPo batteries and you're good to go. Plug in to charge when power is available, leave in the sun (or use a remote panel) when power is not available. Aerogel insulates so well that sitting in the sun wouldn't be a bad thing.
-nB
And: In case any of these ideas are considered novel enough to patent I hereby lay claim to them and subsequently release them into the public domain.
-nB
ha ha ha ha ha
I know you are being sarcastic, but two of the best motivated people in my lab have on degree. One has a HS diploma, the other a GED. The one w/ the diploma is a senior technician, worked up from the bottom over 12 years and outperforms the recent grad engineers at most of the work (similar job profiles between Sr. tech and Jr. engineer). The GED tech has been with the company for about a year and is starting the working from the bottom up. Both of these guys are way better at their jobs and motivated compared to the average BS degree holder.
Realistically this is a rare trait in people, but I'll take one of these guys any day over the average degreed person.
-nB
They don't even work of you have noscript...
We could use Jack Thompson's cock. I think he has photos of it somewhere in the docket...
Hey, here in California we restrict the douchbags to SF and Hollywood. In both cases we are hoping for the San Andreas to fix this issue for us. Also, I would like to point out that we in California are the only state to get you to watch our douchbags hours on end in our movies. You even spend money to watch our douchbags.
We do occasionally promote them to be governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and possibly president *(I don't think Regan was a douch, but I'm sure some do).
-nB