The technology exists to copy my credit card. Does that mean my creditcard is compromised now? No. It's not actualy compromised until someone actualy copies it.
Only a minority of people will have their iris-scans stolen. Everyone else will go on with their lives thinking that the system is "Good enough". The banks will pander to those people because that's where the money is. But for the minority, banking will be hell.
"For this system to be compromised, the theif must steal your biometric data, your physical token and your knowledge. " For example he could watch you use a bank machine then he could clonk you over the head with a pipe, stealing your token and scanning your retinas.
Unfair in what way? This is a test of real-world performance. If I'm sitting around waiting for my browser to render something it does not help to think "This may be taking a long time, but it's not the developers' fault."
I agree with your statement, but the parenthetical is a bit misleading.
"(Money doesn't disappear when it's spent)." No, but the wealth it represents has been consumed, and must be created anew. The PA Christmas fund was used to buy new toys. The world's overall supply of new toys has gone down and it will take hundreds of man-hours to restore that. (Hundreds? I dunno. I'm guessing here.)
Personally, I think giving toys to poor children is a worthy endeavor, but if you didn't. If you hated either toys or poor children, you wouldn't be happy about that, you'd rather they said "screw poor kids" and circulated their money to cause the man-hours being put to the use of making more 'Enterprise' episodes.
Money itself is not wealth. No more than a name is the thing it represents.
"Mobility? Any craft that could carry a human could go even further if you didn't strap the dead-weight human to it." A human could walk faster than the rovers we've sent so far.
Besides, a mars-buggy with a human piloting it would (hopefully) be able to safely travel a good deal faster than an AI-guided rover. For example, You mention the russians, did any of their probes cover as much ground as the astronauts in a moon-buggy?
It's also security through misdirection. (Ie: If you find someone's secret porn collection, you'll think you know why he's kept it secret. In truth it contains plans for an atom bomb.)
But your point is really what the article is about. A serious Steganography method must be good enough to pass automated searches (steganalysis) because if the enemy knows where your data is, then you almost might as well have not bothered.
And of course, what the other post said is implied.
"Technically, as far as the laws are concerned, the declaration of independence is meaningless." [Context deleted so I can rant about this one line.]
He didn't say it had any legal meaning. But it was the purpose our country is created.
We as Americans generally feel that the early Americans were justified in killing their (British) oppressors because their government did not stand up to the standards described in the declaration of independence.
Is it any wonder that we feel nervous when our own government starts moving away from those ideals?
Good thing the FBI has the right to look up what library books I've got out, otherwise the military would never have saved that one guy's life in Iraq.
"The USA sent an AIRCRAFT CARRIER and airlifted all the useless freeloading U.N. and "Save the Children" reps who were basically just on tour, clicking their tongues and lamenting over the situation." Well, that sounds useful. Glad to see the The government is putting our money where it does the most good.
"God knows how much private citizens contributed, as the media won't report it. I'm sure it's close to as much as the government sent. You see, we don't have a 60% tax rate here so we rely on individuals' free generosity rather than compulsion" One of the major points of having a government is so that when an emergency arises, we can leap into action without first having to pass around a hat. (Imagine a hospital burns down and they only send one firefighter until people send checks to pay for more firefighters.)
PS: There was plenty of time to pass around a hat to get 'donations' for the War in Iraq (it wasn't time critical), but instead they just took our tax money and put us more massively in debt than we've ever been before. (Yay for future-taxes!)
If they ask me why I'm not using the scanner I'll say my finger is injured and bandaged. (Note : For extra effect actualy bandage the finger. )
Of course, removing your fingers would have the added effect of making it dificult for you to use your handgun for revenge. So I guess both ways of doing it have their advantages.
I think it's all PR. I'll bet all this really means is "We used our two years of down time to prep all three shuttles to fly. If something happens to one of the first two, we'll still have one ready."
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What the heck does that mean?
The technology exists to copy my credit card. Does that mean my creditcard is compromised now? No. It's not actualy compromised until someone actualy copies it.
Only a minority of people will have their iris-scans stolen. Everyone else will go on with their lives thinking that the system is "Good enough". The banks will pander to those people because that's where the money is. But for the minority, banking will be hell.
"For this system to be compromised, the theif must steal your biometric data, your physical token and your knowledge. "
For example he could watch you use a bank machine then he could clonk you over the head with a pipe, stealing your token and scanning your retinas.
My favorite text input method for videogames is the "Shoot Your Initials" method found on light-gun games.
Unfair in what way? This is a test of real-world performance.
If I'm sitting around waiting for my browser to render something it does not help to think "This may be taking a long time, but it's not the developers' fault."
Yay, a Linux == Communism troll.
It's pretty obvious that software only has to be created once and then everybody can download it.
He's not likely to fix a million computers at once.
I agree with your statement, but the parenthetical is a bit misleading.
"(Money doesn't disappear when it's spent)."
No, but the wealth it represents has been consumed, and must be created anew.
The PA Christmas fund was used to buy new toys. The world's overall supply of new toys has gone down and it will take hundreds of man-hours to restore that. (Hundreds? I dunno. I'm guessing here.)
Personally, I think giving toys to poor children is a worthy endeavor, but if you didn't. If you hated either toys or poor children, you wouldn't be happy about that, you'd rather they said "screw poor kids" and circulated their money to cause the man-hours being put to the use of making more 'Enterprise' episodes.
Money itself is not wealth. No more than a name is the thing it represents.
Hah! You're supposed to get the grant money before you tell us the answer! Sucker!
Now we're going to use that money to find out the diference between an ocean and a sea!
" I think They Might be Giants defined what it was to be a star fairly well."
Yes. It was a cover though. Science Songs. Check out "Why Does The Sun Shine" on the space album.
"Mobility? Any craft that could carry a human could go even further if you didn't strap the dead-weight human to it."
A human could walk faster than the rovers we've sent so far.
Besides, a mars-buggy with a human piloting it would (hopefully) be able to safely travel a good deal faster than an AI-guided rover.
For example, You mention the russians, did any of their probes cover as much ground as the astronauts in a moon-buggy?
Why make a new Hubble? They could just buy back the one in the Smithsonian.
I recomend telling Charlie. With internet access he could start a Dot Com and finaly earn that nickle he's been needing.
Who is this "they" you're talking about that's outlawing things?
FYI : Calgary is in Canada.
Why replace it with a vanilla background? If you're good you could replace it with someone else's living room.
Perhaps he means he works at Microsoft or some other large company working to erode our liberties.
Perhaps you'd be interested to learn about the concept of sarcasm.
Many pre-paid 'credit' cards are available to people of all ages. (Some draw the line at age 13, others don't bother with age limits at all.)
I only keep my important documents around to hide my porn.
It's also security through misdirection. (Ie: If you find someone's secret porn collection, you'll think you know why he's kept it secret. In truth it contains plans for an atom bomb.)
But your point is really what the article is about. A serious Steganography method must be good enough to pass automated searches (steganalysis) because if the enemy knows where your data is, then you almost might as well have not bothered.
And of course, what the other post said is implied.
"Technically, as far as the laws are concerned, the declaration of independence is meaningless." [Context deleted so I can rant about this one line.]
He didn't say it had any legal meaning. But it was the purpose our country is created.
We as Americans generally feel that the early Americans were justified in killing their (British) oppressors because their government did not stand up to the standards described in the declaration of independence.
Is it any wonder that we feel nervous when our own government starts moving away from those ideals?
Because Canadians don't have boats?
Good thing the FBI has the right to look up what library books I've got out, otherwise the military would never have saved that one guy's life in Iraq.
"The USA sent an AIRCRAFT CARRIER and airlifted all the useless freeloading U.N. and "Save the Children" reps who were basically just on tour, clicking their tongues and lamenting over the situation."
Well, that sounds useful. Glad to see the The government is putting our money where it does the most good.
"God knows how much private citizens contributed, as the media won't report it. I'm sure it's close to as much as the government sent. You see, we don't have a 60% tax rate here so we rely on individuals' free generosity rather than compulsion"
One of the major points of having a government is so that when an emergency arises, we can leap into action without first having to pass around a hat.
(Imagine a hospital burns down and they only send one firefighter until people send checks to pay for more firefighters.)
PS: There was plenty of time to pass around a hat to get 'donations' for the War in Iraq (it wasn't time critical), but instead they just took our tax money and put us more massively in debt than we've ever been before. (Yay for future-taxes!)
We can just steal your credit card.
If they ask me why I'm not using the scanner I'll say my finger is injured and bandaged. (Note : For extra effect actualy bandage the finger. )
Of course, removing your fingers would have the added effect of making it dificult for you to use your handgun for revenge. So I guess both ways of doing it have their advantages.
I think it's all PR. I'll bet all this really means is "We used our two years of down time to prep all three shuttles to fly. If something happens to one of the first two, we'll still have one ready."