Besides, you can have all the biometry you want. All you've got is a document stating that a fingerprint that looks like this (image) belongs to a person that looks like this (image), has irises that look like this (image), has a signature that looks approximately like this (image), is called (name), is a citizen of (country), is (male/female), was born on that date at that location, was given this document with that serial number by that authority on that date, and this document expires on that date.
Now, what of this can you verify? You can trust the authority that granted the document by inspecting the security measures embedded within. Perhaps you can even contact the authority and ask about the content of the document by its serial number. You can even go so far as to determine that the person actually is the one who they claim to be. Then again, what does it prove? That they have not committed any crimes? That they will not commit any crimes? That they have not or will not use a false identity in the future?
Depends on the radio. If I had to wind a knob (a really old radio) or fiddle with a touchscreen (something I'd never buy) I wouldn't tune a radio while driving. However, I have a remote control on the steering column that allows me to adjust the volume and change stations or CD tracks without looking or taking my hands off the wheel. Newer cars (mine is a 1999 model) have buttons on the steering wheel for the same purpose.
In my opinion every control that is to be used while driving must have good tactile feedback and be placed so that it can be used without looking, or with a quick glance at most. Anything else distracts way too much.
I rarely eat or drink while driving, partly because I drive a stick shift, which takes two hands to operate, but mostly because it's very distracting and makes a mess in the car. I do sometimes talk on the phone, using it in speaker mode.
I've had a couple of close calls when some living humans kept talking at the wrong time, so I don't think the continuum fallacy necessarily applies here: living humans can be a dangerous distraction, although maybe a lesser one than electronic devices. Talking to a human being rarely commands your full attention or requires you to take your eyes off the traffic, although some people have habits to the contrary.
Also, taking directions from a passenger who isn't good at giving instructions isn't very healthy either. Once I asked a backseat passenger the simple question "go straight or turn right?" and got the answer "that way." Twice. In the same intersection. The third time produced the right answer, but at the very last possible moment.
I've had a couple of unfortunate encounters with well-meaning relatives pushing instructions into my ear in a situation where I simply cannot listen, such as a five-way street crossing with no traffic lights and odd yield rules that nobody follows anyway. The simple request "just a second, please, I need to watch the traffic" produced a load of huffing and puffing and a sermon to the tone "if you don't want me in your car, just say so, I'll take a cab next time."
Finnish plates have, as a general rule, three letters followed by three numbers. I know one guy who drives old postal vehicles. Maybe he'd like the RFC-822 plates...
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Build a new maglev rail infrastructure all across the US. I repeat, you have the technology. Maglev trains would kick flight's ass for short and medium distances.
Or, for a fraction of the cost and hassle, build high-speed rail, which would also kick flight's ass for short and medium distances, with the additional advantage of being able to make use of the existing rails where practical (e.g. entering existing rail stations in large cities). Also, extend this passenger rail network to airports to reduce the number of short connecting flights.
Yes, because it's well known that during employment negotiations, prospective employees hold all the cards, especially during a recession.
Did it occur to you that the "recession" you mentioned--that is, a condition in which the supply of labor exceeds demand--means that you aren't worth as much as during times of tight supply?
Why is it that people lose the ability to understand simple economics as soon as the commodity is labor?
So if the "market value" of a given job, the maximum $/year a person holding that job is currently able to make (including other, similarly-paid jobs that person is doing to make ends meet), is less than the absolute minimum $/year that person requires for sustained living, then what?
If not for the potential for legal trouble, I'd name several projects I've worked on that would fit this description.
I started my own business because I got tired of runaway projects...
FTA: across different languages most characters take three strokes to write out. That's because, he says, three is the highest quantity a person's brain can perceive without resorting to counting. If we wrote Morse code, yes. To my knowledge (which may be false) most writing systems distinguish symbols primarily by their shapes, not by the number of strokes.
Then again, TFA may be misleading. From Changizi's own page (gasp! a source reference!)
"(1) The number of strokes per character is approximately three, independent of the number of characters in the writing system; numeral systems are the exception, having on average only two strokes per character. (2) Characters are approximately 50% redundant, independent of writing system size; intuitively, this means that a character's identity can be determined even when half its strokes are removed. Because writing systems are under selective pressure to have characters that are easy for the visual system to recognize and for the motor system to write, these fundamental commonalities may be a fingerprint of mechanisms underlying the visuo-motor system."
Who did we attack, Iraq, the relatively stable country with no nuclear weapons, or North Korea, the ticking time bomb of regional destablization who already had them? The one with the oil?
That's true, but reducing the distance between you and the car in front of you does increase traffic density, and thus throughput at a given speed.
Not that it's safe or I'm advocating it, mind you, but traffic flow dynamics aren't a simple thing.
Only up to the point where one ripple (like an impatient traffic james who passes on the right and cuts off somebody in the left lane) causes a standing wave of brake lights...
Captcha: reinvent - some nations need to reinvent rail transit...
It had taken them over 20 minutes to get someone else to buzz them into the building or they'd have been there a lot sooner. I find this bit somewhat alarming. Do ambulance crews and other rescue people have to be buzzed in as well?
A platform that is reasonably popular or otherwise interesting, and unsecure by design will be attacked. A more secure platform, which is also reasonably popular or otherwise interesting, will get attacked less.
Now, looking at the attack method table, it's obvious that in a case of defacement, the underlying web server platform is largely irrelevant. Web sites these days are complex arrays of application logic and databases. Rarely does a large web site consist of a web server dealing out static files. This change enables more dynamic content and easier content administration than before; then again, it adds several places where things can go wrong. What the Zone-H statistic really tells is that in a complex setup where there are components that can be compromised, the front end web server is usually running Apache. This tells nothing about its security, since it's usually not the front end web server software that is compromised.
Now, if the site included common web applications and application platforms in its reporting, the statistics would have much more value.
I can see quite a few things changing radically when you don't have to the have the social clutter of one person talking at a time. I see you haven't met my mother-in-law.
It seems utilities are surprisingly hard to understand. Drink a two-liter bottle of a caffeinated beverage and tell me plumbing has no value. Or get your hands dirty and tell me the same. Or try hiring anybody, let alone halfway competent, to a company that doesn't waste money to such worthless things as toilets.
In any business larger than a small shop there are usually several toilets for capacity and redundancy. One can be down for a long time without an adverse effect, provided that it's properly sealed from the rest of the network. This bears a remarkable similarity to a setup of multiple redundant servers. In fact, a large establishment that gets large peak loads may have one or more clusters with several toilets, urinals, and sinks in a single room connected to shared plumbing; similarly, a large establishment that gets large peak loads may have one or more clusters with several servers, load balancers, and storage systems in a single room connected to shared networks. Then again, if you live in an apartment with just one toilet, you want it fixed pretty darn quick.
If the availability of toilets goes down for some reason, the performance of the affected workers can be assumed to go down, since a worker on a "nature call" is longer away from their desk. Unless sitting at a desk is counterproductive, and getting up and meeting some new people actually improves results... At a customer service location, at least if food or drinks are served, it's important that a customer toilet be available. And if a toilet is available, it had better be in a working condition; a broken toilet is worse than none at all.
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Do you live in an EU member country? I live in Finland and I did get to vote for members of the European Parliament.
You can fake visas and passports, but you will have a hard time faking a fingerprint.
I take it you haven't been watching Mythbusters, then. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo
Slides from 2002 about reproducing fingerprints in gelatin http://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldStuff/Fall03/ref/gummy-slides.pdf
Besides, you can have all the biometry you want. All you've got is a document stating that a fingerprint that looks like this (image) belongs to a person that looks like this (image), has irises that look like this (image), has a signature that looks approximately like this (image), is called (name), is a citizen of (country), is (male/female), was born on that date at that location, was given this document with that serial number by that authority on that date, and this document expires on that date.
Now, what of this can you verify? You can trust the authority that granted the document by inspecting the security measures embedded within. Perhaps you can even contact the authority and ask about the content of the document by its serial number. You can even go so far as to determine that the person actually is the one who they claim to be. Then again, what does it prove? That they have not committed any crimes? That they will not commit any crimes? That they have not or will not use a false identity in the future?
Depends on the radio. If I had to wind a knob (a really old radio) or fiddle with a touchscreen (something I'd never buy) I wouldn't tune a radio while driving. However, I have a remote control on the steering column that allows me to adjust the volume and change stations or CD tracks without looking or taking my hands off the wheel. Newer cars (mine is a 1999 model) have buttons on the steering wheel for the same purpose.
In my opinion every control that is to be used while driving must have good tactile feedback and be placed so that it can be used without looking, or with a quick glance at most. Anything else distracts way too much.
I rarely eat or drink while driving, partly because I drive a stick shift, which takes two hands to operate, but mostly because it's very distracting and makes a mess in the car. I do sometimes talk on the phone, using it in speaker mode.
I've had a couple of close calls when some living humans kept talking at the wrong time, so I don't think the continuum fallacy necessarily applies here: living humans can be a dangerous distraction, although maybe a lesser one than electronic devices. Talking to a human being rarely commands your full attention or requires you to take your eyes off the traffic, although some people have habits to the contrary.
Also, taking directions from a passenger who isn't good at giving instructions isn't very healthy either. Once I asked a backseat passenger the simple question "go straight or turn right?" and got the answer "that way." Twice. In the same intersection. The third time produced the right answer, but at the very last possible moment.
I've had a couple of unfortunate encounters with well-meaning relatives pushing instructions into my ear in a situation where I simply cannot listen, such as a five-way street crossing with no traffic lights and odd yield rules that nobody follows anyway. The simple request "just a second, please, I need to watch the traffic" produced a load of huffing and puffing and a sermon to the tone "if you don't want me in your car, just say so, I'll take a cab next time."
Finnish plates have, as a general rule, three letters followed by three numbers. I know one guy who drives old postal vehicles. Maybe he'd like the RFC-822 plates...
Use Safari, have resizable textarea boxes.
Build a new maglev rail infrastructure all across the US. I repeat, you have the technology. Maglev trains would kick flight's ass for short and medium distances.
Or, for a fraction of the cost and hassle, build high-speed rail, which would also kick flight's ass for short and medium distances, with the additional advantage of being able to make use of the existing rails where practical (e.g. entering existing rail stations in large cities). Also, extend this passenger rail network to airports to reduce the number of short connecting flights.I hate slashdot for it's lack of editing.
Use the preview.No need to tweak the kernel, just use a shell without job control. (Horrors!)
Yes, because it's well known that during employment negotiations, prospective employees hold all the cards, especially during a recession.
Did it occur to you that the "recession" you mentioned--that is, a condition in which the supply of labor exceeds demand--means that you aren't worth as much as during times of tight supply?
Why is it that people lose the ability to understand simple economics as soon as the commodity is labor?
So if the "market value" of a given job, the maximum $/year a person holding that job is currently able to make (including other, similarly-paid jobs that person is doing to make ends meet), is less than the absolute minimum $/year that person requires for sustained living, then what?If not for the potential for legal trouble, I'd name several projects I've worked on that would fit this description. I started my own business because I got tired of runaway projects...
Because the client's browser could be compromized.
What if my company bought a load of them and sold them to individual geek hobbyists?
print "It's a matchbox"; while(true) { print " that contains a matchbox"; }
You expect us to care about someone who is themselves admittedly intolerant of others?
So you're intolerant of intolerant lactose intolerants?That's true, but reducing the distance between you and the car in front of you does increase traffic density, and thus throughput at a given speed.
Not that it's safe or I'm advocating it, mind you, but traffic flow dynamics aren't a simple thing.
Only up to the point where one ripple (like an impatient traffic james who passes on the right and cuts off somebody in the left lane) causes a standing wave of brake lights...Captcha: reinvent - some nations need to reinvent rail transit...
Make a spherical calzone and I'll be interested.
Then you might end up with ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
Harrumph.
A platform that is reasonably popular or otherwise interesting, and unsecure by design will be attacked. A more secure platform, which is also reasonably popular or otherwise interesting, will get attacked less.
Now, looking at the attack method table, it's obvious that in a case of defacement, the underlying web server platform is largely irrelevant. Web sites these days are complex arrays of application logic and databases. Rarely does a large web site consist of a web server dealing out static files. This change enables more dynamic content and easier content administration than before; then again, it adds several places where things can go wrong. What the Zone-H statistic really tells is that in a complex setup where there are components that can be compromised, the front end web server is usually running Apache. This tells nothing about its security, since it's usually not the front end web server software that is compromised.
Now, if the site included common web applications and application platforms in its reporting, the statistics would have much more value.
It seems utilities are surprisingly hard to understand. Drink a two-liter bottle of a caffeinated beverage and tell me plumbing has no value. Or get your hands dirty and tell me the same. Or try hiring anybody, let alone halfway competent, to a company that doesn't waste money to such worthless things as toilets.
In any business larger than a small shop there are usually several toilets for capacity and redundancy. One can be down for a long time without an adverse effect, provided that it's properly sealed from the rest of the network. This bears a remarkable similarity to a setup of multiple redundant servers. In fact, a large establishment that gets large peak loads may have one or more clusters with several toilets, urinals, and sinks in a single room connected to shared plumbing; similarly, a large establishment that gets large peak loads may have one or more clusters with several servers, load balancers, and storage systems in a single room connected to shared networks. Then again, if you live in an apartment with just one toilet, you want it fixed pretty darn quick.
If the availability of toilets goes down for some reason, the performance of the affected workers can be assumed to go down, since a worker on a "nature call" is longer away from their desk. Unless sitting at a desk is counterproductive, and getting up and meeting some new people actually improves results... At a customer service location, at least if food or drinks are served, it's important that a customer toilet be available. And if a toilet is available, it had better be in a working condition; a broken toilet is worse than none at all.