That's the idea, anyway. I think in practice any good hacker (As opposed to a conventionally, formally trained engineer) is going to be driven half-crazy by the highly conformist military culture, and those that can stick with it are going to need constant micromanaging to keep them on their assigned mission ('You want me to disassemble yet another possible Chinese worm? BORING!') rather than using the available resources to do what they think is best ('Ohh, I'll write a virus that installs HTTPSeverywhere and blocks RST packets! That'll totally screw with China's filtering!').
I know they, the military, didn't drive me crazy as I was already there! On the other hand, I do know I drove my command structures more than a little crazy; military behavior was the only down item on my evaluations which were characterized with 4.0's (2.0 in Military Behavior). What I did have was very, very high-level protection. That was the result of turning an (potentially multi-million dollar) IT disaster-in-the-making into a success. After that, if you needed weird, well for the time, from the systems and networks, or pretty much anything else analyst/engineering-related, I was your guy in the Pacific Fleet region. [I'm pretty sure the person they had in Atlantic Fleet was of the same stuff, although we never met.]
The eventual result was to place me outside the conventional chain-of-command in a branch reporting directly to command, and attach people now and again, under Special Projects [me , I kid you not]. I know they got a hell of a lot more than what they paid for, even discounting a million or so in training costs, and it was one of those jobs where I would have done it for free. Still, the Navy is very tradition-bound and, yet, does have the ability to recognize talent.
If you follow NASA's Tech Briefs, in Vol. 36 No. 7, there are a numerous of articles in there about Terahertz lasers to doing neat things in much reduced package sizes and at a reduced price, all things considered though this is NASA I am talking about. Many prior assumptions about range, size, power, and cost are going out the window so drone mounting is not just conceivable, I'd rate it extremely likely. A random thought about capabilities is that the spectroscopy device, which sure as hell doesn't need a god-awful large power-supply, in the TechBrief could also be more than capable of tracking down the source of pollutants, not just identifying a passenger carrying/having worked with, explosives, chemical weapons, ad nauseum.
Gee, the TSA/DHS and EPA could end up financing NASA. Is that a good thing?
Actually I think that's half the story. The other half probably has to do with the rocket-scientists trying to obtain the near millisecond response time required for today's financial markets so C get dusted off for a return engagement. That's just a guess, though.
libertarians, and I intentionally left it uncapitalized, are well aware of externalities. Where differences occur is usually on how to internalize those externalities into the cost of any particular good or service. Huge differences. Like the size and powers granted to the State.
Those extra cores could easily lend themselves to supporting on device virtualization. End to end encryption, as well as ultimate control over remote-wipe for business related functions and data is a no-brainer. Hell it wouldn't be that hard to let one of those cores be used for DLP.
The big question is whether it will be a PC-like laptop running a desktop OS, or an Atrix-4G like device, basically a convertible laptop body for a phone, running a less functional OS. It could go either way.
Sorry but I can't disagree more and the area of disagreement is that you are forcing an either/or choice on the consumer (business and personal). I've lived through too damn many changes in the UI, many of which ended up in niche use, and come to think of it now, some returning. All the laptop computer entails is nothing more than an all-in-one with a nice battery pack. All a tablet computer is entails nothing more than having the touch interface on top of the display. Looking at one of my catalogs here I can easily find tablet interfaces for desktops or laptops complete with soft keyboards and yes, Windows was involved.
We have yet to really decide what the UI will ultimately look like. I have no trouble envisioning the processing and local storage element of the future as a device held on a wristband, key-chain (fob), or a chain (pendant). The interface would be voice and as many other handy devices that you choose to use networking by body, wireless, whatever. Power, at least to the interfaces, would be via a smart-skin surface that generates power from a nano-tech "solar-cell" like material from heat and multiple frequencies of light with a touch surface to sense how the user is holding the device, what gestures are in use, as well as having an internal gyroscope-accelerometer. There are a few more thoughts along this line. The point here is that we are all limited, for now, by some constraints and I see that those constraints are fundamentally relaxing from generation of device to the next.
The "ooo! That's neat, I have to have one..." is nothing new and you'll see the lemmings go off the cliff to have one. The fundamental arbiter of the process at work here is what will be useful for the foreseeable future. Given the reduction of foreseeable (attention-span) from generation to generation, it's a good thing that the length of a generation has also shortened.
I suppose I should insert the obligatory ZFS reference here. I'm going to that for my huge collection of books and documents although I have been heading into video-land now. Given the fact that the versions I've been looking at here have inline de-duplication, who cares if something is filed under one, five, or two-hundred directories. The built-in RAID characteristics make it interesting as well, although it isn't going to be magically fast (without serious hardware).
For those of the Mac persuasion, I was over on Ars-Technica and came across a reference to a version for Mac in beta with a release target sometime around Summer. I don't do Mac, but the author has targeted it for media library use. Z-410
"If your house burns down, your backup burns with it, so you end up buying your CDS back, AND ALSO buy new HDDs;)"
Your backups may burn. Mine are in a secure facility along with all my masters and a replacement computer, although getting a standby machine doesn't cost much these days (even on a seriously limited income). Another chance to engineer a next-gen machine is not necessarily bad.
Any reputable engineer who isn't owned by one side or the other in this 'debate' will look at the network infrastructure, then the size of the anticipated customer base (hell, just for Apple's projected sales alone), and the anticipated customer usage patterns. Result is a train-wreck. No other result. It won't work.
Now I'm an unusual customer with normally unusual demand and, fortunately, all my wireless service provider does after a I blow through twice the max capacity for the month in just a couple of days and just slows my connection. The rest of the industry either cuts you off or charges you exorbitant overage fees. If everyone wants video wherever, whenever (or downloads a lot of alpha and beta software to test), it just won't work.
Engineers and economists (usually) deal with the real world, the world with (rational?) constraints. I am, and have been, both to my misfortune. Why misfortune? Because I've been watching this build for a very long time. No one listened. Enjoy.
The reason I'm interested in FreeBSD now, aside from many years living with it rather long ago, is utilizing the dedupe feature of ZFS in support of virtualization. There are certainly other implementations out there, ZFS or no, but it looks like a wicked combination. Now if I could get deduped memory, without breaking the bank, as well...;-).
Yet it seems if you want to get a job, go to school, do business with anyone, etc, you have to have this pricey, proprietary, garbage office suite.
To hell with MS Office. The sooner people realize that it is discriminatory to require it so broadly when a free version is available, the sooner it will die the death it deserves.
If it is such garbage, why does everyone fall all over themselves to imitate and inter-operate with it. Sorry, I'm an engineer and I deal in reality not someone's rose-colored view of the world. Reality is that it is on the desktop where you work and/or your laptop ad. It's starting to be web accessible as well. It has way more features than most anyone ever needs, so much so that it has to inline help (the ribbon interface) so you don't get lost along the way. And it has no problems, so far, inter-operating with itself (big surprise). The desktop war has been over for a very, very long time. Deal with it.
Actually I don't have to imagine at all. I see it practically every time I go out to cure the "slows" which inevitably occurs due to every damn package out there wishing to install yet another toolbar, yet another search provider, yet another home page, and always yet another updater! And that's before f*ck*ng cleaning up the malware. Malware is actually the least labor intensive element of the whole charade. I call it a charade as it's inevitable that I'll be back in a few months to wash, rinse, repeat.
The sad part of all of this is that I can't really blame the users since they are conditioned into following whatever recipe that each shiny new app that comes along requires of them. While there have been a few oopsies along the way, so far, with apps for smart phones, you wait and watch for them to follow down this trap infested path (gutters?).
Not quite correct AC. You have to have had at least one version of a defective JVM installed. If you are like me and don't install it at all, even with Windows you will not be affected. Yet another reason not to play in traffic with defective toys.
Well if they actually are literate, they either become lead developers or the project managers who speak to lead developers. After all, we can't let the illiterate developers demonstrate in our dog and pony shows how illiterate they actually are to anyone outside of IT that controls our pay now, could we?
As for the language wars, and the browser wars herein, I've seen everything at least four to five times now since I started with punch cards and magnetic tape, way back when I was ten, on a computer that occupied the whole first floor of the Science building. So far, I've never used the same tools twice for any of the dozens of projects since that time instead choosing the tools to fit the requirements of the project rather than force-fitting the project onto the tools. Whatever. Let the children have their tantrums about their favorite toys;-).
Slight modification required there dotancohen. It is only Windows (l)users in combination with certain browsers. I exclusively use Opera these days (no extensions/plug-ins) and neither plug-in nor download was required for the test. Perfect Green "Up to Date" button. But, perhaps, we should not let (admittedly one) fact get in the way of a good bashing.
I will not ever go out into the vastness of the WWW with an extension or other modification present unless it was during a session with a virtual machine that will be immediately destroyed after completion of the session. Loading up on extensions/plug-ins, even with the best intentions, is only marginally less dangerous that wandering the web with no firewall at all. Hmmm,... if you use a really exotic OS/Browser combination (say Mosaic on an Amiga?) it might even be orders or magnitude safer.
You missed a group there. The politicians had been pushing on Wall Street for decades (since 1968) to price down home mortgages (drive down interest rates reflected by 'red-lining' where it was rational behavior) via the Fed and various pieces of legislation (Safe Housing Act, among others). Wall Street reacted by coming up with methods to effectively reinsure those mortgages using CDO's and any other method they could think up over that same period. For it to work, Wall Street had to have to cooperation of the Fed as well as the politicians and for several decades it did. There were several near collapses averted over the years but the Fed successfully stopped system-wide revalueation. Finally, when it did start going off a cliff, some people and institutions were left still looking for a seat when the music ended (e.g. J. P. Morgan in investment banking, too many to count in consumer) but didn't have some sugar-daddies waiting to pull them out of the wreckage (GMA, Goldman-Sachs,...).
The sad thing about this whole mess is that the CDO's and other instruments still have 90% of the assets still performing but in a gift from Congress and the Fed the institutions were able to write-off the entire asset, while still keeping the stream of payments. As a result you'll be seeing banks and other investment firms having record future profits. Nice.
Actually the approach I'm in the middle of implementing will use NexentaStor in a virtual machine with the heaviest duty search engine [probably dtSearch and/or Windows Search with all the plugins] I can lay my hands on to keep things nicely indexed. The community edition of NexentaStor is good to 18 TB which should do for a while as I'm a text junkie not a music or video junkie. It also uses ZFS so it is single-instance storage right out of the box plus additional goodness. I've been planning this for a while and the last pieces are on thier way now.
"The number of flash drives or PCIe flash devices needed to achieve the performance of main memory is not cost-effective, given the number of PCIe buses needed, the cost of the devices and the complexity of using them compared to just using memory."
...
"Even if flash device latency improves, it still has to go through the OS and PCIe bus compared to a direct hardware translation to address memory."
...
"Knowledge of how to do I/O efficiently is limited because I/O programming is not taught in schools."
...
"The cost of I/O in terms of operating system interrupt overhead, latency and the path through the I/O stack is another limitation."
If you don't like the game, change the rules! The problem here is the multiple hardware and software layers between the flash memory (for now) and the processor. Take the bus and extend it to a box, if necessary, that has a ton of directly addressable flash memory, IOW Flash RAM is your system memory. DRAM, if any, should be used as level 3 cache. As your database grows, you add more flash RAM. All the quotes above only make the self-imposed complexity even more ridiculous. Stupid humans!
I do have to wonder about their method for selecting matching faces. Thumbs+ (Cerious) has had an image 'matching' method for quite a while now so my question is this prior art?" True, the method (algorithm) in Thumbs+ is a general pattern matching versus Microsoft's pure facial.
Nice! I wish I had thought of that. I use the site: restriction all the time, especially for searches on microsoft.com. Funny that I have had to use Google all these ywars to search the MSKB.
President Obama can, obviously, be trusted by his financial supporters. The RIAA and MPAA were the only group left after first Goldman-Sachs was payed off, then the unions (look how much they own of GM) to be payed off. Y'all expected something different? It stopped mattering who was in power in America some time ago. Now it's who bought the politician(s) and for how much.
I used to support our people, country and Constitution. I put my life on the line to do so and am totally disabled as a result. Sadly, I now firmly believe that supporting the first two was a mistake.
The main problem is that each security person treats their security as if they are the only one and treat security with the standard error. Solving a social problem with a technical solution. It is very hard to explain people that changing passwords every month will LOWER the security.
Got it in one. Security, like any other aspect of operations, is a process. If you have a broken process you don't always go for the most technical solution or a solution that fundamentally only works for certain people of a certain type. I spend time on the line with the people that are going to use any new approach to find out what they know works, doesn't work, and especially where the pain points lie. It's handy if you've ever been out in the field with an anthropologist who have to elicit not only how people do things but why, or why not.
The approach I strongly favor uses pass-phrases consisting or one or more sentences or phrases, always something that is easy for me, or whomever I'm training, to remember. Use the capitalization and punctuation and it meets complexity rules. And it's easy to remember. Fairly easy to type if you (they) do any word-processing. And it's easy to remember. Oh yes, ditch the change each time period paradigm or make it something annually. Monthly, probably even quarterly change requirements usually get you back to where we are using a broken process.
Did I mention it's easy to remember?
[Apologies hougi as this isn't directed at you, but this has to be repeated to this audience. Technically astute (perfect) solutions are useless if not practiced. The Real World is The Real World. So sorry if you in the audience can't understand that. I hope you can find another job after your firm goes bankrupt due to a data-breach.]
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That's the idea, anyway. I think in practice any good hacker (As opposed to a conventionally, formally trained engineer) is going to be driven half-crazy by the highly conformist military culture, and those that can stick with it are going to need constant micromanaging to keep them on their assigned mission ('You want me to disassemble yet another possible Chinese worm? BORING!') rather than using the available resources to do what they think is best ('Ohh, I'll write a virus that installs HTTPSeverywhere and blocks RST packets! That'll totally screw with China's filtering!').
I know they, the military, didn't drive me crazy as I was already there! On the other hand, I do know I drove my command structures more than a little crazy; military behavior was the only down item on my evaluations which were characterized with 4.0's (2.0 in Military Behavior). What I did have was very, very high-level protection. That was the result of turning an (potentially multi-million dollar) IT disaster-in-the-making into a success. After that, if you needed weird, well for the time, from the systems and networks, or pretty much anything else analyst/engineering-related, I was your guy in the Pacific Fleet region. [I'm pretty sure the person they had in Atlantic Fleet was of the same stuff, although we never met.]
The eventual result was to place me outside the conventional chain-of-command in a branch reporting directly to command, and attach people now and again, under Special Projects [me , I kid you not]. I know they got a hell of a lot more than what they paid for, even discounting a million or so in training costs, and it was one of those jobs where I would have done it for free. Still, the Navy is very tradition-bound and, yet, does have the ability to recognize talent.
Do you run around punching people who wear Bluetooth headsets in the ear?
Don't tempt me! Quite a bit of the time I can't tell if the speaker is talking to me or to someone via their cell.
If you follow NASA's Tech Briefs, in Vol. 36 No. 7, there are a numerous of articles in there about Terahertz lasers to doing neat things in much reduced package sizes and at a reduced price, all things considered though this is NASA I am talking about. Many prior assumptions about range, size, power, and cost are going out the window so drone mounting is not just conceivable, I'd rate it extremely likely. A random thought about capabilities is that the spectroscopy device, which sure as hell doesn't need a god-awful large power-supply, in the TechBrief could also be more than capable of tracking down the source of pollutants, not just identifying a passenger carrying/having worked with, explosives, chemical weapons, ad nauseum.
Gee, the TSA/DHS and EPA could end up financing NASA. Is that a good thing?
Actually I think that's half the story. The other half probably has to do with the rocket-scientists trying to obtain the near millisecond response time required for today's financial markets so C get dusted off for a return engagement. That's just a guess, though.
libertarians, and I intentionally left it uncapitalized, are well aware of externalities. Where differences occur is usually on how to internalize those externalities into the cost of any particular good or service. Huge differences. Like the size and powers granted to the State.
Those extra cores could easily lend themselves to supporting on device virtualization. End to end encryption, as well as ultimate control over remote-wipe for business related functions and data is a no-brainer. Hell it wouldn't be that hard to let one of those cores be used for DLP.
Don't even ask (!!) about how many times I operated without a safety-net.
The big question is whether it will be a PC-like laptop running a desktop OS, or an Atrix-4G like device, basically a convertible laptop body for a phone, running a less functional OS. It could go either way.
Sorry but I can't disagree more and the area of disagreement is that you are forcing an either/or choice on the consumer (business and personal). I've lived through too damn many changes in the UI, many of which ended up in niche use, and come to think of it now, some returning. All the laptop computer entails is nothing more than an all-in-one with a nice battery pack. All a tablet computer is entails nothing more than having the touch interface on top of the display. Looking at one of my catalogs here I can easily find tablet interfaces for desktops or laptops complete with soft keyboards and yes, Windows was involved.
We have yet to really decide what the UI will ultimately look like. I have no trouble envisioning the processing and local storage element of the future as a device held on a wristband, key-chain (fob), or a chain (pendant). The interface would be voice and as many other handy devices that you choose to use networking by body, wireless, whatever. Power, at least to the interfaces, would be via a smart-skin surface that generates power from a nano-tech "solar-cell" like material from heat and multiple frequencies of light with a touch surface to sense how the user is holding the device, what gestures are in use, as well as having an internal gyroscope-accelerometer. There are a few more thoughts along this line. The point here is that we are all limited, for now, by some constraints and I see that those constraints are fundamentally relaxing from generation of device to the next.
The "ooo! That's neat, I have to have one..." is nothing new and you'll see the lemmings go off the cliff to have one. The fundamental arbiter of the process at work here is what will be useful for the foreseeable future. Given the reduction of foreseeable (attention-span) from generation to generation, it's a good thing that the length of a generation has also shortened.
I suppose I should insert the obligatory ZFS reference here. I'm going to that for my huge collection of books and documents although I have been heading into video-land now. Given the fact that the versions I've been looking at here have inline de-duplication, who cares if something is filed under one, five, or two-hundred directories. The built-in RAID characteristics make it interesting as well, although it isn't going to be magically fast (without serious hardware).
For those of the Mac persuasion, I was over on Ars-Technica and came across a reference to a version for Mac in beta with a release target sometime around Summer. I don't do Mac, but the author has targeted it for media library use. Z-410
"If your house burns down, your backup burns with it, so you end up buying your CDS back, AND ALSO buy new HDDs ;)"
Your backups may burn. Mine are in a secure facility along with all my masters and a replacement computer, although getting a standby machine doesn't cost much these days (even on a seriously limited income). Another chance to engineer a next-gen machine is not necessarily bad.
Any reputable engineer who isn't owned by one side or the other in this 'debate' will look at the network infrastructure, then the size of the anticipated customer base (hell, just for Apple's projected sales alone), and the anticipated customer usage patterns. Result is a train-wreck. No other result. It won't work.
Now I'm an unusual customer with normally unusual demand and, fortunately, all my wireless service provider does after a I blow through twice the max capacity for the month in just a couple of days and just slows my connection. The rest of the industry either cuts you off or charges you exorbitant overage fees. If everyone wants video wherever, whenever (or downloads a lot of alpha and beta software to test), it just won't work.
Engineers and economists (usually) deal with the real world, the world with (rational?) constraints. I am, and have been, both to my misfortune. Why misfortune? Because I've been watching this build for a very long time. No one listened. Enjoy.
The reason I'm interested in FreeBSD now, aside from many years living with it rather long ago, is utilizing the dedupe feature of ZFS in support of virtualization. There are certainly other implementations out there, ZFS or no, but it looks like a wicked combination. Now if I could get deduped memory, without breaking the bank, as well... ;-).
Yet it seems if you want to get a job, go to school, do business with anyone, etc, you have to have this pricey, proprietary, garbage office suite.
To hell with MS Office. The sooner people realize that it is discriminatory to require it so broadly when a free version is available, the sooner it will die the death it deserves.
If it is such garbage, why does everyone fall all over themselves to imitate and inter-operate with it. Sorry, I'm an engineer and I deal in reality not someone's rose-colored view of the world. Reality is that it is on the desktop where you work and/or your laptop ad. It's starting to be web accessible as well. It has way more features than most anyone ever needs, so much so that it has to inline help (the ribbon interface) so you don't get lost along the way. And it has no problems, so far, inter-operating with itself (big surprise). The desktop war has been over for a very, very long time. Deal with it.
Windows, or a malfunctioning device between keyboard and chair ;-). Noted and thanks!
Actually I don't have to imagine at all. I see it practically every time I go out to cure the "slows" which inevitably occurs due to every damn package out there wishing to install yet another toolbar, yet another search provider, yet another home page, and always yet another updater! And that's before f*ck*ng cleaning up the malware. Malware is actually the least labor intensive element of the whole charade. I call it a charade as it's inevitable that I'll be back in a few months to wash, rinse, repeat.
The sad part of all of this is that I can't really blame the users since they are conditioned into following whatever recipe that each shiny new app that comes along requires of them. While there have been a few oopsies along the way, so far, with apps for smart phones, you wait and watch for them to follow down this trap infested path (gutters?).
Not quite correct AC. You have to have had at least one version of a defective JVM installed. If you are like me and don't install it at all, even with Windows you will not be affected. Yet another reason not to play in traffic with defective toys.
Well if they actually are literate, they either become lead developers or the project managers who speak to lead developers. After all, we can't let the illiterate developers demonstrate in our dog and pony shows how illiterate they actually are to anyone outside of IT that controls our pay now, could we?
;-).
As for the language wars, and the browser wars herein, I've seen everything at least four to five times now since I started with punch cards and magnetic tape, way back when I was ten, on a computer that occupied the whole first floor of the Science building. So far, I've never used the same tools twice for any of the dozens of projects since that time instead choosing the tools to fit the requirements of the project rather than force-fitting the project onto the tools. Whatever. Let the children have their tantrums about their favorite toys
Slight modification required there dotancohen. It is only Windows (l)users in combination with certain browsers. I exclusively use Opera these days (no extensions/plug-ins) and neither plug-in nor download was required for the test. Perfect Green "Up to Date" button. But, perhaps, we should not let (admittedly one) fact get in the way of a good bashing.
I will not ever go out into the vastness of the WWW with an extension or other modification present unless it was during a session with a virtual machine that will be immediately destroyed after completion of the session. Loading up on extensions/plug-ins, even with the best intentions, is only marginally less dangerous that wandering the web with no firewall at all. Hmmm,... if you use a really exotic OS/Browser combination (say Mosaic on an Amiga?) it might even be orders or magnitude safer.
You missed a group there. The politicians had been pushing on Wall Street for decades (since 1968) to price down home mortgages (drive down interest rates reflected by 'red-lining' where it was rational behavior) via the Fed and various pieces of legislation (Safe Housing Act, among others). Wall Street reacted by coming up with methods to effectively reinsure those mortgages using CDO's and any other method they could think up over that same period. For it to work, Wall Street had to have to cooperation of the Fed as well as the politicians and for several decades it did. There were several near collapses averted over the years but the Fed successfully stopped system-wide revalueation. Finally, when it did start going off a cliff, some people and institutions were left still looking for a seat when the music ended (e.g. J. P. Morgan in investment banking, too many to count in consumer) but didn't have some sugar-daddies waiting to pull them out of the wreckage (GMA, Goldman-Sachs, ...).
The sad thing about this whole mess is that the CDO's and other instruments still have 90% of the assets still performing but in a gift from Congress and the Fed the institutions were able to write-off the entire asset, while still keeping the stream of payments. As a result you'll be seeing banks and other investment firms having record future profits. Nice.
Actually the approach I'm in the middle of implementing will use NexentaStor in a virtual machine with the heaviest duty search engine [probably dtSearch and/or Windows Search with all the plugins] I can lay my hands on to keep things nicely indexed. The community edition of NexentaStor is good to 18 TB which should do for a while as I'm a text junkie not a music or video junkie. It also uses ZFS so it is single-instance storage right out of the box plus additional goodness. I've been planning this for a while and the last pieces are on thier way now.
"The number of flash drives or PCIe flash devices needed to achieve the performance of main memory is not cost-effective, given the number of PCIe buses needed, the cost of the devices and the complexity of using them compared to just using memory."
... "Even if flash device latency improves, it still has to go through the OS and PCIe bus compared to a direct hardware translation to address memory."
... "Knowledge of how to do I/O efficiently is limited because I/O programming is not taught in schools."
... "The cost of I/O in terms of operating system interrupt overhead, latency and the path through the I/O stack is another limitation."
If you don't like the game, change the rules! The problem here is the multiple hardware and software layers between the flash memory (for now) and the processor. Take the bus and extend it to a box, if necessary, that has a ton of directly addressable flash memory, IOW Flash RAM is your system memory. DRAM, if any, should be used as level 3 cache. As your database grows, you add more flash RAM. All the quotes above only make the self-imposed complexity even more ridiculous. Stupid humans!
I do have to wonder about their method for selecting matching faces. Thumbs+ (Cerious) has had an image 'matching' method for quite a while now so my question is this prior art?" True, the method (algorithm) in Thumbs+ is a general pattern matching versus Microsoft's pure facial.
Nice! I wish I had thought of that. I use the site: restriction all the time, especially for searches on microsoft.com. Funny that I have had to use Google all these ywars to search the MSKB.
President Obama can, obviously, be trusted by his financial supporters. The RIAA and MPAA were the only group left after first Goldman-Sachs was payed off, then the unions (look how much they own of GM) to be payed off. Y'all expected something different? It stopped mattering who was in power in America some time ago. Now it's who bought the politician(s) and for how much.
I used to support our people, country and Constitution. I put my life on the line to do so and am totally disabled as a result. Sadly, I now firmly believe that supporting the first two was a mistake.
The main problem is that each security person treats their security as if they are the only one and treat security with the standard error. Solving a social problem with a technical solution. It is very hard to explain people that changing passwords every month will LOWER the security.
Got it in one. Security, like any other aspect of operations, is a process. If you have a broken process you don't always go for the most technical solution or a solution that fundamentally only works for certain people of a certain type. I spend time on the line with the people that are going to use any new approach to find out what they know works, doesn't work, and especially where the pain points lie. It's handy if you've ever been out in the field with an anthropologist who have to elicit not only how people do things but why, or why not.
The approach I strongly favor uses pass-phrases consisting or one or more sentences or phrases, always something that is easy for me, or whomever I'm training, to remember. Use the capitalization and punctuation and it meets complexity rules. And it's easy to remember. Fairly easy to type if you (they) do any word-processing. And it's easy to remember. Oh yes, ditch the change each time period paradigm or make it something annually. Monthly, probably even quarterly change requirements usually get you back to where we are using a broken process.
Did I mention it's easy to remember?
[Apologies hougi as this isn't directed at you, but this has to be repeated to this audience. Technically astute (perfect) solutions are useless if not practiced. The Real World is The Real World. So sorry if you in the audience can't understand that. I hope you can find another job after your firm goes bankrupt due to a data-breach.]