Sure this is a great idea, it's intuitive and cool and could be implemented by folding or transparencies or by rolling, etc....
But if they decide to patent it then no one will be able to use it except microsoft, cause they'll pay the licensing fees... if they even bother or want to implement it.
I find it funny that all of their sources use electronic devices to generate random numbers. In regards to what they are doing with skin resistence and brain waves, i'd like to see the same experiment repeated with falling water drops or dice rolls, as opposed to electronic analog uncertainties.
Government. Rember what happened to Susan McDougal when she decided not to testify? I'm pretty sure the government could put you away for a long time if you decided not to give up that 30-character password.
Just deny knowing what the password is by saying something like, "I'm sorry your honour, but the computer changes the password and reencrypts the data every day if I don't chek in with it, and when you arrested me I wasn't able to check in with it, so I can't give you the password."
All of my sensitive information is kept on a windows box that has no network card, and all data is stored on the disk encrypted, and only decrypted into a ram disk.
If I want to transfer files to the computer, I load them into the unfrozen drive of a second pc that has DeepFreeze on it, unplug the network card, restart, move the files onto a usb disk, and then transfer them from the usb disk back to my secure computer's ram disk, where they are encrypted then stored on the harddisk.
I used to work for a company that contracted out a call center to AT and T so maybe this is why I'm not surprised at all, because new trainee's regularily "tap" into a conversation that another employee is working on and listen in to gain experience. I did it myself when I was a trainee too.
I actually enjoyed it because someof the things people said when they were on hold could be quite amusing. Especially when it was obvious that the person on hold had no idea that "on hold" only disconnects the employee in teh call center, not the recording equipment or the trainee or Quality assurance manager who is also listening in.
We even had to report in a man who was talking to someone about killing his wife.
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Sure this is a great idea, it's intuitive and cool and could be implemented by folding or transparencies or by rolling, etc.... But if they decide to patent it then no one will be able to use it except microsoft, cause they'll pay the licensing fees... if they even bother or want to implement it.
You've got 4500 dollars to each student, plus 500 dollars to each sponser, and 200 accepted applicants, (4500 + 500) * 200 = 1,000,000
Then you add the cost of implementing the idea in whatever way google's business model works, and you get 1 mil plus a bit.
I find it funny that all of their sources use electronic devices to generate random numbers. In regards to what they are doing with skin resistence and brain waves, i'd like to see the same experiment repeated with falling water drops or dice rolls, as opposed to electronic analog uncertainties.
Government. Rember what happened to Susan McDougal when she decided not to testify? I'm pretty sure the government could put you away for a long time if you decided not to give up that 30-character password. Just deny knowing what the password is by saying something like, "I'm sorry your honour, but the computer changes the password and reencrypts the data every day if I don't chek in with it, and when you arrested me I wasn't able to check in with it, so I can't give you the password."
All of my sensitive information is kept on a windows box that has no network card, and all data is stored on the disk encrypted, and only decrypted into a ram disk. If I want to transfer files to the computer, I load them into the unfrozen drive of a second pc that has DeepFreeze on it, unplug the network card, restart, move the files onto a usb disk, and then transfer them from the usb disk back to my secure computer's ram disk, where they are encrypted then stored on the harddisk.
I used to work for a company that contracted out a call center to AT and T so maybe this is why I'm not surprised at all, because new trainee's regularily "tap" into a conversation that another employee is working on and listen in to gain experience. I did it myself when I was a trainee too. I actually enjoyed it because someof the things people said when they were on hold could be quite amusing. Especially when it was obvious that the person on hold had no idea that "on hold" only disconnects the employee in teh call center, not the recording equipment or the trainee or Quality assurance manager who is also listening in. We even had to report in a man who was talking to someone about killing his wife.