So there are variants and minor changes... do we really count these as new viruses?
we may as well... slashdot editors count variants and minor changes as new:)
I was going to write something here about our diminishing freedoms about how police are targeting speeding as been the worst offence possible on the road when in fact its just good revenue raising...
Then I relised they aren't reporting the gps stats (they may be recording this data but ill assume FTSOTA that they aren't) they aren't automatically fining you for speeding...
Its basically just intelligent cruise control...
Keeping that in mind this technology will cause crashes and more problems rather than less...
But don't take my word for it... just lookup how much cruise control increases the chance of having and accident...
On top of that add the fact that when you need to accelerate in an emergency for some reason very few people are going to be able to find and press some button in order to turn it off to be able to accelerate our of danger...
generally cruise control devices don't engage brakes when you are in excess of the set speed because of the inherent dangers with this (the car has no way of telling if braking at the time is a bad thing e.g. black ice...( No.. not the firewall:) ))...
But anyway enough of my rant while I am of the opinion this may reduce people speeding by looking at studies done it will defiantly increase the number of accidents (and really what's worse?)
Yes, but in all likelyhood transporter technology in its infancy will be no where near as safe as the shuttle...
Not to mention that the time required to develop transported technology to a useable state would mean that we wouldnt be going into space for a VERY VERY long time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand#History
In 1978 Professor Alexander G. Achenbach, and several Dutch citizens forcibly took over sealand...
It was then retaken in a helicopter assasult and achenbach inprisioned by sealand for treason for more details see the link:P
slightly off topic but does anyone else have trouble reading those annoying "confirmation your not a script images"? The one I am looking at right now is nearly impossible to read.
There are many reasons people will settle out of court :
A: They believe they will lose.
B: They can't afford to go to court.
C: The complications, time and money required to go to court outweigh that of settling out of court.
D: Just because you are in the right doesn't mean you will win, anything could happen depending on the judge's mood!
E: millions of other reasons I can't even think of.
In the end settling out of court is usually best for both parties involved and for us the public!
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This technology would in fact be far more secure than the current swipe card technology...
The people that are screaming insecurity don't understand encryption...
Public/private keys are a tried and true encryption method which means that no one will ever see the key stored within the card...
Unlike current swipe cards which reveal all of their data as soon as they are read...
This would mean that you could only access the account with physical access to the card.
I can only see 2 possible ways of actually gaining unauthorized access by creating a fake card (as is often done with swipe cards today)
1: Brute force cracking of the public/private key...
This would first require you to intercept a communication between the bank and the card, and then a few decades to crack the public/private...
This would be easily prevented as the life of the card is probably only a couple of years. After this time the card would be unreadable and you are supplied with a new card by the bank which has a new key...
2: You have two people, once person has a fake card connected to a laptop and the second person runs around after you with an rfid reader.
When the first persons fake card receives the challenge packet it sends it to the second person, who is chasing you around with the rfid reader (which they are holding within 10cm or so of your pocket) sends the challenge packet to your card which responds with the correct response.
This response is then forwarded by the second person back to the first person whose fake card replies to the bank with the correct reply...
If you can't see the problems with pulling off that one then I'm not going to point them out.... : P
When I am generating a random password, I will usually regenerate it until it comes up as something that I can pronounce, or something that looks like another word.
In reference to people keeping password documents in order to remember multiple different passwords, I also happen to do this but i don't use a txt file. I have a master password which i randomly generated and is quite long. The password file is encrypted with this password.
Someone also mentioned that computers are so fast now that brute force is able to compute thousands of possible passwords every second. This is a problem with the cyphers being used today and nothing else.
A new cypher needs to be developed, one which on the fastest computer takes about 10 seconds so to verify, this would mean that it would take up to 4 years to brute force a 4 letter password which contained only letters and numbers. I'm sure that someone would be able to develop some sort of cypher that would be able to be changed so that it was able to be changed to require more or less processing power but without allowing passwords generated on a slow version of the cypher to be decrypted on a fast version of the cypher.
This Technology is unlikely to be used in power lines (as was mentionatedin the article) until it has been proven in many other, likley smaller, situations.
The potential for it to be used say in laptop computers, specifcally in processors, would allow the limited power supplied by batteries to last much longer, as less power would be lost as heat.
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Looks like the hundreds of dollars i spent buying every single futurama DVD box sets were well worth it :)
the question is based on your decision to refuse to to use the hand scanner can they deny you entry?
or
if you fail to be verified correcty can they legally deny you entry???
mod parent down... they dont understand the technology
So when are hydrogen conversions for my rx7 going to be available :)
So there are variants and minor changes... do we really count these as new viruses? we may as well... slashdot editors count variants and minor changes as new :)
Well after reading TFA I was PISSED!
:) ))...
I was going to write something here about our diminishing freedoms about how police are targeting speeding as been the worst offence possible on the road when in fact its just good revenue raising...
Then I relised they aren't reporting the gps stats (they may be recording this data but ill assume FTSOTA that they aren't) they aren't automatically fining you for speeding...
Its basically just intelligent cruise control...
Keeping that in mind this technology will cause crashes and more problems rather than less...
But don't take my word for it... just lookup how much cruise control increases the chance of having and accident...
On top of that add the fact that when you need to accelerate in an emergency for some reason very few people are going to be able to find and press some button in order to turn it off to be able to accelerate our of danger...
generally cruise control devices don't engage brakes when you are in excess of the set speed because of the inherent dangers with this (the car has no way of telling if braking at the time is a bad thing e.g. black ice...( No.. not the firewall
But anyway enough of my rant while I am of the opinion this may reduce people speeding by looking at studies done it will defiantly increase the number of accidents (and really what's worse?)
Yes, but in all likelyhood transporter technology in its infancy will be no where near as safe as the shuttle...
Not to mention that the time required to develop transported technology to a useable state would mean that we wouldnt be going into space for a VERY VERY long time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand#History :P
In 1978 Professor Alexander G. Achenbach, and several Dutch citizens forcibly took over sealand... It was then retaken in a helicopter assasult and achenbach inprisioned by sealand for treason for more details see the link
I find Axcrypt is good for this...
http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
well since you have access to the source you could just make the changes yourself...
or wait till someone else does
you think that is paranoid... i have seperate virtual machines!!!
Yeah, your right bill gates didnt do it for the money...
... one peice of crappy software at a time :)
If he had he would have stoped along time ago...
He does it because he wants to rule the world
Things aren't always so black and white...
There are many reasons people will settle out of court :
A: They believe they will lose.
B: They can't afford to go to court.
C: The complications, time and money required to go to court outweigh that of settling out of court.
D: Just because you are in the right doesn't mean you will win, anything could happen depending on the judge's mood!
E: millions of other reasons I can't even think of.
In the end settling out of court is usually best for both parties involved and for us the public!
oh wait...
block one port, annoy us all.
65534 ports on the wall...
whats next blocking port 80 because it is used when performing a DOS ??
I can think of a million better ways to prevent spam cant the FCC!!
The people that are screaming insecurity don't understand encryption...
Public/private keys are a tried and true encryption method which means that no one will ever see the key stored within the card...
Unlike current swipe cards which reveal all of their data as soon as they are read...
This would mean that you could only access the account with physical access to the card.
I can only see 2 possible ways of actually gaining unauthorized access by creating a fake card (as is often done with swipe cards today)
1: Brute force cracking of the public/private key...
This would first require you to intercept a communication between the bank and the card, and then a few decades to crack the public/private...
This would be easily prevented as the life of the card is probably only a couple of years. After this time the card would be unreadable and you are supplied with a new card by the bank which has a new key...
2: You have two people, once person has a fake card connected to a laptop and the second person runs around after you with an rfid reader.
When the first persons fake card receives the challenge packet it sends it to the second person, who is chasing you around with the rfid reader (which they are holding within 10cm or so of your pocket) sends the challenge packet to your card which responds with the correct response.
This response is then forwarded by the second person back to the first person whose fake card replies to the bank with the correct reply... If you can't see the problems with pulling off that one then I'm not going to point them out.... : P
gotta love how microsoft claims in that poster than FOSS is illegal by saying "getting software for any less would be illegal" :)
Really? and all these years i thought you were ment to stick it up your...
He didnt remove the pictures, he just deleted the linking page :)
http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/lh4058_ 01.jpg
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No, But apparently the MPAA can :)
When I am generating a random password, I will usually regenerate it until it comes up as something that I can pronounce, or something that looks like another word.
In reference to people keeping password documents in order to remember multiple different passwords, I also happen to do this but i don't use a txt file. I have a master password which i randomly generated and is quite long. The password file is encrypted with this password.
Someone also mentioned that computers are so fast now that brute force is able to compute thousands of possible passwords every second. This is a problem with the cyphers being used today and nothing else.
A new cypher needs to be developed, one which on the fastest computer takes about 10 seconds so to verify, this would mean that it would take up to 4 years to brute force a 4 letter password which contained only letters and numbers. I'm sure that someone would be able to develop some sort of cypher that would be able to be changed so that it was able to be changed to require more or less processing power but without allowing passwords generated on a slow version of the cypher to be decrypted on a fast version of the cypher.
it may stop people calling up because of pr0n dialers, but they will then be calling up because of other problems.
I have had to FIX PCs which have had microsoft antispyware installed on them by users!
This Technology is unlikely to be used in power lines (as was mentionatedin the article) until it has been proven in many other, likley smaller, situations.
The potential for it to be used say in laptop computers, specifcally in processors, would allow the limited power supplied by batteries to last much longer, as less power would be lost as heat.
As i said in the previous article, this is just a case of nVidia trying to make something run fast as hell regardless of stability.
Im not too worried though, as im sure that nVidia will either fix these issues with new drivers, or failing that rev 2 of the board.