what has religion to do whith it ? France doesn't take religion for a crime, does it ?
This ID card will be designed to guarantee that as a french citizen, the card you wear is genuinely yours. There is nothing more to it. I doubt cops in the street would scan your iris (Inclusion of iris sig in the card is considered), they will probably just continue to ask papers as usual.
The point is to discriminate forged IDs from genuine ones, especialy when, say, asking for governement welfare funds. In France, the social security system sometimes gives welfare revenue aroud 800$ a month, so better check twice if you're elligible. And, by the way, if you're who the ID says you are.
And why would you forge an ID ? More or less the reason orbits around money or crime.
What I read here, instead, is just fears about wether this card would help steal biometric data. this is nonsense : until the iris sig is in, all the other biometric data stored on the card are a digital photograph taken in a photomaton, and a digital fingerprint signature (which as pointed above is not enough to duplicate fingerprints).
Those data are already quite easy to duplicate, you leave fingerprints everywhere, and you carry your face around all day.
But they make forging a card quite more difficult, because you have to get a (correctly encoded and crypted) copy of your own fingerprints and face (that matches your face and the picture on the card) and put it inside a read-only and/or code-protected and/or encrypted chip.
I am more afraid that the code stored in my credit card chip could be read from the keypad than from the card itself. The ID card could work on the same system for your (beloved) fingerprints : give some data to the card, it says just "yep" or "nah".
ex-cracker would ber more apropriate, would it not ?
a hacker is someone who loves hacking, i.e. typing code, ro slashdotting.
a cracker uses hacker's technical skills for nuisance.
I have news for you... the American population is decidedly less monolithic than many countries and not all of us are as dumb as you think [.../...] American invention [.../...] American invention [.../...] Deal with it
Seems that diagonal-reading your text is enough to find out you take the american population for exactly what you say it is not.
And by the way, I for one don't reproach monolitich thinking in american citizen, I reproach them --well, some of them, but they shout louder and are more annoying than the rest-- exactly that "We Are What We Are. We Do What We Want. Deal With It."
But I have to admit it's still a bit fun when US President Bush comes to EU asking for 'good relationship', and you can hear behind the words : "Get us out of the shit we put ourselves in in Irak, Please? "
Also, as a non-american (you guessed it, did you not?) , I don't see any particular reason why we should leave control of the system to a foreign body that we have no particular reason to trust.
So what you say, everyone can say it.
Plus, if everyone built their own net, it... wait a minute... I dont remember it clearly, but actually, yes, my ISP came to deliver my modem in a Pontiac, they had those american flags... ooops, I guess I'm in your head.;oD
Just remember that for everyone, at least half the world is foreign. But UN is foreign for virtually no-one.
Is that they will probably have this patent, since the patent office of Seattle just stamps
"OK -- MICROSOFT PATENTED" on everything it gets.
Remember that story with the apple (the fruit) they patented to Microsoft? It was filed by a farmer, but they did not even read it, just *stamp*.
I see no-one suggested Neverball.
This could be appropriate, requires no clic during action.
It consists basically in letting a ball roll on a surface you control the inclination of with your mouse (in your case, with your head). Sounds a bit like Marble madness, but quite better in my opinion. And very relaxing, too.
Also included is a mini-golf game using the same graphics and engine : neverputt Find them there :
http://icculus.org/neverball/#download
Note you will need a DLL if running winXP without service pack, but i cant recall the name (easy to find via google)
Maybe a billard game such as foobillard would be suitable ? Of course, this means you'll lack a bit of the "advanced" features such as ball spin, etc., but it could just be fine. find it here :
http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/
Maybe you would be interrested, if you type with Dasher, or any other quick typing method, to try out some roleplaying forums (fora?)
Good luck, don't hesitate to send message if you want me to inform you when i find more suitable games.
Soon to be released by the Geek Buggers Consortium:
A deamon that automagically sends support@intel.com a standard mail when CPU is 100% at low speed.
This mail looks as follows:
"Dear support team,
If you received this mail, it's because of a malfuction in your Prescott CPU #22354432, which reached a idle state of 0% during 68 ms while still being in low frequency mode. It had a temperature of 56C
feel free to ignore this mail as you ignored the 122563 previously sent by this deamon, and just as you ignored the need of a solution for CPU heat problems.
Actually, yes, that's phenomenal. Because 7 years ago, virtually no open source software was able to compete with commercial software, and now the tendency changes, having a strong infexion towards the end-user (at least).
I know, it's awesome to be proud of being close to ordinary people, but that means more and more open-source software will soon find the way to seduce people, i.e. being simply efficient, and user friendly. So yes, it *is* wonderful to me that the open-source community, even after years, is able to respond to the needs of people.
Maybe we'll learn from this success and Open-source software sharing the main qualities of FF such as thunderbird, but also CDex, and other slick and friendly stuff may just come to light...
The difference in price is a lot more than $50. Go to the Dell site, and you can see a bunch of models for less than $1000. For Apple, only the eMac is under $1000. The G5 starts at $2000. Laptops are even worse, a Powerbook costs $2000. You can easily find a Dell or HP for just a little over $1k.
Funny, that. I've heard somewhere that my 1000eur box was not more powerful than an imac, but sensibly equivalent. The price you put in it gives you more or less the same result, what you're looking for is not that.
First, longevity: I for one admit not being any authority, but i just saw last month a 6-years old mac (!) still running with no problem at all and used very efficiently for novel-writing purposes. The longest life I saw for a PC (win/linux) without reintalling the system was about 1 year and a half.
Second, User-friendlyness: Once again, why to use a nearly-illogical system like windows or linux, which are a bit disapointing for the begginer:
On windows, the structure of the interface and the lack of standard behavior is a real problem for the begginer (I still wonder why the box I have to use at work sometimes launches the apps on a long click) ;
And on linux... Gnome? KDE? AnotherLevel? Enlightenment? So many wll-built desktop environments, but begginers keep wondering how I can change my System by pressin Ctrl-Alt-F1.
[Note: don't even think arguing about a distro. "What the hell is a distro?" "So it's not Linux?" "So what's different?"]
I personnally worship the Linux system, but I think OS.X would be a better very first step.
Actually it is.
The real problem i.m.o. is not the batteries capacity, but the power consumption of the hardware : the fact is that the processing power of the processor is not related to the power needed to run : the thermic isolation (remember the 'panda project' this three dimensionally designed CPU which was half colder than any other one or something like that..) can do a lot, as well as all the stuff around : unuseful excited components, bad quality of the circuit, etc...
But another major issue is probably (still according to me) the power management.
would your G4 last 6h if the HDrives didnt stop, the CPU run a bit lower when unplugged from external power supply ?
So: I take it that batteries can not be well improved anymore. But probably all the surrounding stuff could be ?
you're a nerd, are you not ?
So Do what i Do, and add to every search you do the flag 'site:.org' and get rid of the commercial sites.
I'm also expecting a version of google that allows looking only for personal pages.
And, by the way, if a commercial site is listed '.org', is it illegal ? (.org should be non-profit only, hum ?)
I totally agree with a upper post. Why use Hotmail ? Convenient ? Ad-free(no, i'm kidding)?
And so what, lazy people of Earth, who do not want to look a bit further, Hotmail isn't the only free Webmail, is it ?
Okay, just a little list:
*IcqMail www.icqmail.com : up to 5 mailboxes per ICQ# you have...
*YOUR ISP www.[your isp name].[your country code] : usually more or less 5 mailboxes. Just get one for your junk...
*Others ISP (free ones) Living in France, I can tell about www.free.fr, yahoo(.fr,.co.uk,.anythingelse...), laposte.net(up to infinity mailboxes per capita), Gmail(coming soon to you...),etc
So, please, stop complaining about M$'s Hotmail, don't use it, and let spammers take care of the Hotmailers, they pay for it, so they'll mail first hotmail.
Slashdot Mirror
yep. just do it. We won't check your ID, neither any biometrics.
what has religion to do whith it ? France doesn't take religion for a crime, does it ?
This ID card will be designed to guarantee that as a french citizen, the card you wear is genuinely yours. There is nothing more to it. I doubt cops in the street would scan your iris (Inclusion of iris sig in the card is considered), they will probably just continue to ask papers as usual.
The point is to discriminate forged IDs from genuine ones, especialy when, say, asking for governement welfare funds. In France, the social security system sometimes gives welfare revenue aroud 800$ a month, so better check twice if you're elligible. And, by the way, if you're who the ID says you are.
And why would you forge an ID ? More or less the reason orbits around money or crime.
What I read here, instead, is just fears about wether this card would help steal biometric data. this is nonsense : until the iris sig is in, all the other biometric data stored on the card are a digital photograph taken in a photomaton, and a digital fingerprint signature (which as pointed above is not enough to duplicate fingerprints).
I am more afraid that the code stored in my credit card chip could be read from the keypad than from the card itself. The ID card could work on the same system for your (beloved) fingerprints : give some data to the card, it says just "yep" or "nah".Those data are already quite easy to duplicate, you leave fingerprints everywhere, and you carry your face around all day.
But they make forging a card quite more difficult, because you have to get a (correctly encoded and crypted) copy of your own fingerprints and face (that matches your face and the picture on the card) and put it inside a read-only and/or code-protected and/or encrypted chip.
ex-cracker would ber more apropriate, would it not ?
a hacker is someone who loves hacking, i.e. typing code, ro slashdotting.
a cracker uses hacker's technical skills for nuisance.
So that's why the USA didn't go metric !
Seems that diagonal-reading your text is enough to find out you take the american population for exactly what you say it is not.
And by the way, I for one don't reproach monolitich thinking in american citizen, I reproach them --well, some of them, but they shout louder and are more annoying than the rest-- exactly that "We Are What We Are. We Do What We Want. Deal With It."
But I have to admit it's still a bit fun when US President Bush comes to EU asking for 'good relationship', and you can hear behind the words : "Get us out of the shit we put ourselves in in Irak, Please? "
Also, as a non-american (you guessed it, did you not?) , I don't see any particular reason why we should leave control of the system to a foreign body that we have no particular reason to trust. ... ooops, I guess I'm in your head. ;oD
So what you say, everyone can say it.
Plus, if everyone built their own net, it... wait a minute... I dont remember it clearly, but actually, yes, my ISP came to deliver my modem in a Pontiac, they had those american flags
Just remember that for everyone, at least half the world is foreign. But UN is foreign for virtually no-one.
"OK -- MICROSOFT PATENTED" on everything it gets.
Remember that story with the apple (the fruit) they patented to Microsoft? It was filed by a farmer, but they did not even read it, just *stamp*.
Sad, sad world.
This could be appropriate, requires no clic during action
It consists basically in letting a ball roll on a surface you control the inclination of with your mouse (in your case, with your head). Sounds a bit like Marble madness, but quite better in my opinion. And very relaxing, too.
Also included is a mini-golf game using the same graphics and engine : neverputt
Find them there : http://icculus.org/neverball/#download Note you will need a DLL if running winXP without service pack, but i cant recall the name (easy to find via google)
Maybe a billard game such as foobillard would be suitable ? Of course, this means you'll lack a bit of the "advanced" features such as ball spin, etc., but it could just be fine.
find it here : http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/
Maybe you would be interrested, if you type with Dasher, or any other quick typing method, to try out some roleplaying forums (fora?)
Good luck, don't hesitate to send message if you want me to inform you when i find more suitable games.
A deamon that automagically sends support@intel.com a standard mail when CPU is 100% at low speed.
This mail looks as follows:
"Dear support team,
If you received this mail, it's because of a malfuction in your Prescott CPU #22354432, which reached a idle state of 0% during 68 ms while still being in low frequency mode. It had a temperature of 56C
feel free to ignore this mail as you ignored the 122563 previously sent by this deamon, and just as you ignored the need of a solution for CPU heat problems.
Yours sincerely,
The Intel bugger deamon."
I sue you all. ;)
PS : this is so ridiculous.
what about Debian mirrors that do provide a version of firefox? do you think they took this in account ?
apt-get install firefox is so easy we used it on maybe 100 machines in the student residence...
Actually, yes, that's phenomenal.
Because 7 years ago, virtually no open source software was able to compete with commercial software, and now the tendency changes, having a strong infexion towards the end-user (at least).
I know, it's awesome to be proud of being close to ordinary people, but that means more and more open-source software will soon find the way to seduce people, i.e. being simply efficient, and user friendly. So yes, it *is* wonderful to me that the open-source community, even after years, is able to respond to the needs of people.
Maybe we'll learn from this success and Open-source software sharing the main qualities of FF such as thunderbird, but also CDex, and other slick and friendly stuff may just come to light...
"GATES: We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry."
Don't reply, I just dont need to be mod as Flamebait...
"To my knowledge WINE is an emulator for windows[...]" Wine Is No Emulator ! funny how people forget the meaning of acronyms...
First, longevity: I for one admit not being any authority, but i just saw last month a 6-years old mac (!) still running with no problem at all and used very efficiently for novel-writing purposes. The longest life I saw for a PC (win/linux) without reintalling the system was about 1 year and a half.
Second, User-friendlyness: Once again, why to use a nearly-illogical system like windows or linux, which are a bit disapointing for the begginer:
On windows, the structure of the interface and the lack of standard behavior is a real problem for the begginer (I still wonder why the box I have to use at work sometimes launches the apps on a long click) ;
And on linux... Gnome? KDE? AnotherLevel? Enlightenment? So many wll-built desktop environments, but begginers keep wondering how I can change my System by pressin Ctrl-Alt-F1. [Note: don't even think arguing about a distro. "What the hell is a distro?" "So it's not Linux?" "So what's different?"]
I personnally worship the Linux system, but I think OS.X would be a better very first step.
Actually it is. The real problem i.m.o. is not the batteries capacity, but the power consumption of the hardware : the fact is that the processing power of the processor is not related to the power needed to run : the thermic isolation (remember the 'panda project' this three dimensionally designed CPU which was half colder than any other one or something like that..) can do a lot, as well as all the stuff around : unuseful excited components, bad quality of the circuit, etc ...
But another major issue is probably (still according to me) the power management.
would your G4 last 6h if the HDrives didnt stop, the CPU run a bit lower when unplugged from external power supply ?
So: I take it that batteries can not be well improved anymore. But probably all the surrounding stuff could be ?
you're a nerd, are you not ? So Do what i Do, and add to every search you do the flag 'site:.org' and get rid of the commercial sites. I'm also expecting a version of google that allows looking only for personal pages. And, by the way, if a commercial site is listed '.org', is it illegal ? (.org should be non-profit only, hum ?)
I totally agree with a upper post.
:
Why use Hotmail ? Convenient ? Ad-free(no, i'm kidding)?
And so what, lazy people of Earth, who do not want to look a bit further, Hotmail isn't the only free Webmail, is it ?
Okay, just a little list
*IcqMail
www.icqmail.com : up to 5 mailboxes per ICQ# you have...
*YOUR ISP
www.[your isp name].[your country code] : usually more or less 5 mailboxes. Just get one for your junk...
*Others ISP (free ones)
Living in France, I can tell about www.free.fr, yahoo(.fr,.co.uk,.anythingelse...), laposte.net(up to infinity mailboxes per capita), Gmail(coming soon to you...),etc
So, please, stop complaining about M$'s Hotmail, don't use it, and let spammers take care of the Hotmailers, they pay for it, so they'll mail first hotmail.