The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet's software is upgradeable and currently runs on the Linux-based Internet Tablet 2005 software edition. There is a planned launch next year of an operating system upgrade - the Internet Tablet 2006 software addition - that will support additional services, including Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging.
So in 2006, this gadget can be used as a WI-FI VoIP phone. This shall be very interesting.
In the Loebner Prize compo the bots try to be human and they are rated on their humanness. The original paper by Turing had both a man and a bot impersonating a woman.
Perhaps Turing's idea was that the man and the bot are both trying pretend something they're not, thus requiring some intelligence. In Loebner competition, the humans (confederates) never pretend anything.
This is the first time someone tried Turing's original version of the test.
I would hazzard a guess and say that one reason they are doing this is to subsidize french IT.
1st, the main reason for doing this is the U.S. requirement for biometric passports for entry without visa, as stated in many posts before.
2nd, due to EU regulations, there will most likely be a EU-wide competition on who will get to supply the passports and ID cards. This has been the case in most EU countries switching to biometric passports.
We already have biometric data on our passports. It's called a photograph.
Can somebody explain to me:
1. Why extra biometric data is necessary
Typically, the biometric passports will contain exactly that: a photograph. The key point is that the photograph is digitally signed and its authenticity can thus be verified using some PKI scheme. This makes the passport much harder to forge.
In the future, the passports may also contain fingerprints or retina scans, but I think that is of lesser importance than the data being signed.
2. Why so many people think extra biometric data is more abusive than the current biometric data stored on passports?
I imagine most people are afraid of the data leaking as the new passport chips will be contactless. People are afraid of "identity theft". However, the protocols contain encryption and message authentication codes, so it won't be very easy to "eavesdrop".
I'd be more paranoid about governments now having really easy and feasible way of transfering the photos from the passports to their databases.
Biometrics are only good in a limited sphere where other measures are in place.
Essentially, biometrics should only be used in face-to-face situations, i.e. there's someone verifying that the biometric scan is done properly.
The biometric passport is one such case: there will always be a customs official around when your picture is taken or fingerprint scanned for verification with the reference data stored on the passport chip.
Is this [third camera inside the sub] there so they can make a documentary about marine biologists at the same time as they make the one about the sharks?
Nah, it's more like the black box on an airplane recording everything so they can later figure out what the heck went wrong when the marine biologist was consumed by a great white for lunch.
I had to code a visual debugger for a small embedded system some 5+ years back. The debugging data was fetched from the system via some I/O, so I did what seemed obvious to me: logged all the data (relatively small amounts of it anyway), and gave the debugger ability to go back in the log. Of course, when not at current PC, the information was view-only, but the feature was awesome. No more of those "oops, one step too many, start over, dang!" Although the debugger itself was quite low-end, I still miss that feature a lot in other debuggers.
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Big construction projects such as planes, ships, etc. would never make it they weren't divided into components of manageable size, as suggested for software in the parent. Suppose if someone suggested in an airplane project that random integration testing at the very end of the project is sufficient - a practise still commonly in use in software projects.
What is it about software construction that makes this so difficult a concept to grasp?
Not that useless. My colleague a few cubicles away has used one like this for maybe three years (I don't know where the news is in the article anyway) and he finds it quite useful.
It's nice not having to move your hand over to the mouse for an occasional mouse action, especially if you mostly work with the keyboard. Your hands remain at the position to go on typing. GUIs often make you do things for which there are no easy keyboard shortcuts available.
It's fast and accurate compared to typical laptop style mouse replacements.
It works with the mouse, you can switch to the "real" mouse whenever you need.
Not for everyone, but there certainly are people who find this increases their productivity and decreases wrist problems.
Nokia has a similar product called Premicell. The idea behind these devices is to economically provide conventional (well, sort of) phone services to areas which do not have phone lines by using the cellular network.
Anyway, I happened to get my hands on one, and I still have it. It works perfectly with the good old Ericsson rotary phone we used to have when I was a kid.
It's a neat combination for playing pranks on people: they seem to have a hard time comprehending how a rotary phone could function in a car, in the woods, etc.
Eventually, this might reduce the amount of comment spam.
But somehow I don't think spammers really care if a blog uses this system or not. It's probably easier to just spam all blogs than to figure out which are useless. Just like email spammers don't care much if an address is valid or not.
Some people think that adding spam filters to an email account reduces the spam sent, while it only reduces the amount of spam received. This solution does neither.
However, all efforts to fight spam should be welcomed and supported. Despite my pessimism, it will be interesting to see how it turns out.
Moreover, Sega had a nice development going on not only in NFL but also in NHL and NBA games. All of them ESPN branded. Now, instead of developing the games further, I guess they will have to concentrate on removing any resemblance to ESPN broadcasts. If they are still going to make new versions of the games.
EA, on the other hand, has admitted they're not going to use the ESPN brand anytime soon. They just bought Sega out.
As per the team and player names, the Pro Evolution Soccer series by Konami has always been more or less easy to modify. EA holds the FIFA license, but you can download the current rosters at http://pesfan.com/bulletin/home.php for PES. I guess this is the way to go for Sega as well: just make the better game.
Searching 1976 to present... Results of Search in 1976 to present db for: AN/("International Business Machines" OR IBM): 39148 patents. Hits 1 through 50 out of 39148
As this result does not include non-U.S. nor pre-1976 patents, I guess this is pretty much in line with the world wide search result.
You get a lot of smart people, ask that they publish, and watch what happens.
Contributing to the industry by publishing also deserves appreciation as opposed to a lot of companies that want to keep most of their R&D company confidential.
Consider this: If the pens were sensitive to, say, light or air, opening the box could change their colors, effectively making the observed box contain something other than the unopened box.
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Why? Hack value.
Drysuit.
Not good.
Perhaps Turing's idea was that the man and the bot are both trying pretend something they're not, thus requiring some intelligence. In Loebner competition, the humans (confederates) never pretend anything.
This is the first time someone tried Turing's original version of the test.
1st, the main reason for doing this is the U.S. requirement for biometric passports for entry without visa, as stated in many posts before.
2nd, due to EU regulations, there will most likely be a EU-wide competition on who will get to supply the passports and ID cards. This has been the case in most EU countries switching to biometric passports.
Typically, the biometric passports will contain exactly that: a photograph. The key point is that the photograph is digitally signed and its authenticity can thus be verified using some PKI scheme. This makes the passport much harder to forge.
In the future, the passports may also contain fingerprints or retina scans, but I think that is of lesser importance than the data being signed.
I imagine most people are afraid of the data leaking as the new passport chips will be contactless. People are afraid of "identity theft". However, the protocols contain encryption and message authentication codes, so it won't be very easy to "eavesdrop".
I'd be more paranoid about governments now having really easy and feasible way of transfering the photos from the passports to their databases.
Essentially, biometrics should only be used in face-to-face situations, i.e. there's someone verifying that the biometric scan is done properly.
The biometric passport is one such case: there will always be a customs official around when your picture is taken or fingerprint scanned for verification with the reference data stored on the passport chip.
Nah, it's more like the black box on an airplane recording everything so they can later figure out what the heck went wrong when the marine biologist was consumed by a great white for lunch.
Well, it's just yet another innovative way of getting the Darwin Award...
I had to code a visual debugger for a small embedded system some 5+ years back. The debugging data was fetched from the system via some I/O, so I did what seemed obvious to me: logged all the data (relatively small amounts of it anyway), and gave the debugger ability to go back in the log. Of course, when not at current PC, the information was view-only, but the feature was awesome. No more of those "oops, one step too many, start over, dang!" Although the debugger itself was quite low-end, I still miss that feature a lot in other debuggers.
What is it about software construction that makes this so difficult a concept to grasp?
And which is more "marketable", knowing a bunch of stuff and being good at it, or both of those and being enthusiastic about it as well?
It's nice not having to move your hand over to the mouse for an occasional mouse action, especially if you mostly work with the keyboard. Your hands remain at the position to go on typing. GUIs often make you do things for which there are no easy keyboard shortcuts available.
It's fast and accurate compared to typical laptop style mouse replacements.
It works with the mouse, you can switch to the "real" mouse whenever you need.
Not for everyone, but there certainly are people who find this increases their productivity and decreases wrist problems.
Oh wait, is it the IP packets after all?
I just installed the Slashfix mentioned in parent, and the rendering problem is no more. Band-aid or not, it works. (Thanks!)
Anyway, I happened to get my hands on one, and I still have it. It works perfectly with the good old Ericsson rotary phone we used to have when I was a kid.
It's a neat combination for playing pranks on people: they seem to have a hard time comprehending how a rotary phone could function in a car, in the woods, etc.
But somehow I don't think spammers really care if a blog uses this system or not. It's probably easier to just spam all blogs than to figure out which are useless. Just like email spammers don't care much if an address is valid or not.
Some people think that adding spam filters to an email account reduces the spam sent, while it only reduces the amount of spam received. This solution does neither.
However, all efforts to fight spam should be welcomed and supported. Despite my pessimism, it will be interesting to see how it turns out.
EA, on the other hand, has admitted they're not going to use the ESPN brand anytime soon. They just bought Sega out.
As per the team and player names, the Pro Evolution Soccer series by Konami has always been more or less easy to modify. EA holds the FIFA license, but you can download the current rosters at http://pesfan.com/bulletin/home.php for PES. I guess this is the way to go for Sega as well: just make the better game.
US: 400 billion USD.
EU: 193 billion USD (160 billion EUR).
Source: http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_07-08/EU.asp
As this result does not include non-U.S. nor pre-1976 patents, I guess this is pretty much in line with the world wide search result.
Contributing to the industry by publishing also deserves appreciation as opposed to a lot of companies that want to keep most of their R&D company confidential.
Consider this: If the pens were sensitive to, say, light or air, opening the box could change their colors, effectively making the observed box contain something other than the unopened box.
Interesting. I just found GyroRemote Air Presenter for sale in a UK web store (at a ripoff price). Is there a difference?