Nice units you have there. I think those are even bit more obscure than mile, foot, etc.
Now, neither Wiktionary nor Wikipedia were any help finding the exact measure of one tumbler, but if it's anything like shot glasses here it is circa 4cl, which also is approximately the same ammount as a finger of scotch.
If Wikipedia definition of proof(alcohol) is right, the unit might be even sillier than thumber: "In the definition current in the United States, the proof number is twice the percentage of the alcohol content measured by volume at a temperature of 60 F (15.5 C)." What's the point?
But I commend you on using grams as weight measurement.
Many people here seem to make claims on RFID security without knowledge of the technology actually used. I have done some research on the subject so I think I can give some pointers. Details about the technology can be found at ICAO's web page and short presentation on the subject
Jacobs/Wichers Schreur.
The communication between the password and the reader is encrypted using information in the Machine Readable Zone at the bottom of the passport. This is the basic way to authorize passport reading. The MRZ-information is generated from the information of the passport holder and random numbers. If bad numbering scheme is used, breaking the encryption is quite possible. If large enough random numbers are used, breaking the encryption with brute force is currently not practical.
The authentication is done using public key cryptography. Currently only Passive Authentication is mandatory, but Active Authentiacation is supported and it is mandatory when fingerprint information is contained in the passport. With only Passive Authentication cloning of MRZ-compromized passport is easy, but with Active Authentication it should be unfeasibly difficult.
Reading and cloning an European RFID passport which is using all available security measures (like the e-passports in Finland) is not as trivia as many people here seem to think. As long as there are no backdoors in the cryptography (e.g. for the intelligence agencies) I think the technology is quite sound. Not using all available cryptography is just bad choise by the goverment issuing the passports.
The scheme in TFA is nothing new and nothing revolutionary. If you have physical access to a passport with only Passive Authentication cloning is trivial, as pointed in TFA. This is actually how the technology was designed to work. Maybe the design is bad, but that is hardly big suprise, since the technology is compromize between many organizations and goverments. When someone clones a passport which has Active Authentication, then that is real news.
I used T10s for some years, which was considered a some kind of treachery at that time in Finland. I think it was pretty good phone for its time. The screen is woefully small for SMS and searching thru the phone book was pain in the ass. But it had working voice dial, which was actually quite handy. And it came in reasonable colours too, my phone is dark blue.
The summary is as misleading as usual, the real title of the article is "The good, the bad and the ugly...?" and it's not all about bad or ugly phones.
Ever heard of progressive tax? I don't belive that there is a country with 50% flat income tax rate in world. If you have 50% tax rate in progressive tax country you are probably doing very well.
Half of the people work? Then you probably are from one of these countries:
Afghanistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Djibouti
East Timor
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Nauru
Senegal
Swaziland
Turkmenistan
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Note that most of those countries hardly are democratic so no voting really happens and 85% turnout is just unbelivable.
So stop drooling over your keyboard, create an account and get your facts straight. (I must be new here...)
The bad guys have the tools already, even if it's only one than that's enough, your argument protects and shields only that bad guy and ensures that he gets full cooperation of the voting machine when it comes round to the election.
Wait, what? Are you saying that the next election will be won by the side with better (election machine) hackers? Isn't this just great employment opportunity for the Slashdot crowd?
I, for one, am eagerly expecting the election machine hackout!
This isn't a Microsoft problem. This is a problem that every company and/or web developer must deal with. If they had created their pages to begin with more than one browser in mind, it would not have been a problem.
I can just imagine the signs: "This page requires Internet Explorer 6 or older. If you have newer browser please reinstall your Windows XP"
If you bother to convert all those numbers, why not include SI so that the rest of the siviliced world can understand too? FYI, the offical SI unit of fuel efficiency is firkin of water per furlong.
I can't recommend Opera Mini enough, especially if you have MIDP 2 compatible phone. I can even read Slashdot with my Siemens CX75, something that is practically impossible with the phone's built-in browser.
Or you can just live here in Japan where some places you pay after you drink. In that case you pretend to go to the washroom after you finish your coffee and simply climb* out the window (shouting "rape").
Considering you live in Japan, shouldn't that be "teentacle wape"?
This is actually very tricky matter. I don't know about laws in Norway, but if I remember correctly, current EU consumer directives say, that consumer can not sign contract that governs which coutrie's laws affect the rights the consumer has. If the company has actual business in the country of the consumer, then the consumer protection laws of the consumer's country are in effect.
Shouldn't they first do something like analyze the call patterns of known terrorists to find the call patterns that are associated to terrorism. Oh, so they haven't caught enought terrorists to make reliable statistical analysis? Maybe they should lower the bar of considering someone terrorist.
The countries with the lowest piracy rates were the United States (21%), New Zealand (23%), Austria (26%), and Finland (26%).
I wonder if there is some kind of connection between being the home country of Linux and low piracy rate. We have quite cheap broadband connections available here, so it's not caused by pirated software being unavailable to public.
I think someone already did. They are called vinyl records. I've never seen one used to hold video but I see no reason why I't couldn't be done, although capacity and quality might be a bit problematic.
I wonder what ID people say about this particula phenomenon. Probably they'll dismiss it as just another unprovable theory. It's too bad that the process is so slow that I don't think anyone remembers what ID was when the reversal starts to have effect on peoples' everyday life.
Slashdot Mirror
WTF? Funny maybe but informative? Stop using crack while modding.
Nice units you have there. I think those are even bit more obscure than mile, foot, etc.
Now, neither Wiktionary nor Wikipedia were any help finding the exact measure of one tumbler, but if it's anything like shot glasses here it is circa 4cl, which also is approximately the same ammount as a finger of scotch.
If Wikipedia definition of proof(alcohol) is right, the unit might be even sillier than thumber: "In the definition current in the United States, the proof number is twice the percentage of the alcohol content measured by volume at a temperature of 60 F (15.5 C)." What's the point?
But I commend you on using grams as weight measurement.
Many people here seem to make claims on RFID security without knowledge of the technology actually used. I have done some research on the subject so I think I can give some pointers. Details about the technology can be found at ICAO's web page and short presentation on the subject Jacobs/Wichers Schreur.
The communication between the password and the reader is encrypted using information in the Machine Readable Zone at the bottom of the passport. This is the basic way to authorize passport reading. The MRZ-information is generated from the information of the passport holder and random numbers. If bad numbering scheme is used, breaking the encryption is quite possible. If large enough random numbers are used, breaking the encryption with brute force is currently not practical.
The authentication is done using public key cryptography. Currently only Passive Authentication is mandatory, but Active Authentiacation is supported and it is mandatory when fingerprint information is contained in the passport. With only Passive Authentication cloning of MRZ-compromized passport is easy, but with Active Authentication it should be unfeasibly difficult.
Reading and cloning an European RFID passport which is using all available security measures (like the e-passports in Finland) is not as trivia as many people here seem to think. As long as there are no backdoors in the cryptography (e.g. for the intelligence agencies) I think the technology is quite sound. Not using all available cryptography is just bad choise by the goverment issuing the passports.
The scheme in TFA is nothing new and nothing revolutionary. If you have physical access to a passport with only Passive Authentication cloning is trivial, as pointed in TFA. This is actually how the technology was designed to work. Maybe the design is bad, but that is hardly big suprise, since the technology is compromize between many organizations and goverments. When someone clones a passport which has Active Authentication, then that is real news.
I used T10s for some years, which was considered a some kind of treachery at that time in Finland. I think it was pretty good phone for its time. The screen is woefully small for SMS and searching thru the phone book was pain in the ass. But it had working voice dial, which was actually quite handy. And it came in reasonable colours too, my phone is dark blue.
The summary is as misleading as usual, the real title of the article is "The good, the bad and the ugly...?" and it's not all about bad or ugly phones.
I have a stone that protects from tigers that I think you would like to buy...
And corollary to that statement is:
When the police becomes both, then the police tends to serve and protect the enemies of the State.
I think that makes some kind of sense, but I have no idea which kind...
You shall not feed the trolls, but whatever...
Ever heard of progressive tax? I don't belive that there is a country with 50% flat income tax rate in world. If you have 50% tax rate in progressive tax country you are probably doing very well.
Half of the people work? Then you probably are from one of these countries:
Afghanistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Djibouti
East Timor
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Nauru
Senegal
Swaziland
Turkmenistan
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Note that most of those countries hardly are democratic so no voting really happens and 85% turnout is just unbelivable.
So stop drooling over your keyboard, create an account and get your facts straight. (I must be new here...)
Wait, what? Are you saying that the next election will be won by the side with better (election machine) hackers? Isn't this just great employment opportunity for the Slashdot crowd?
I, for one, am eagerly expecting the election machine hackout!
I can just imagine the signs: "This page requires Internet Explorer 6 or older. If you have newer browser please reinstall your Windows XP"
5) ???; 6) profit!
From TFA: http://www.openvotingfoundation.org/5-bt-cfg.jpg/
Looks like they built in the illegal voting functionality, but does the XXX mean that the machine will show naked pictures of the candidates?
To keep them tubes clean, just remember to intoduce your kid (embryo?) to state lotteries and horse races as early as possible.
Thank god for lottery balls and horse races.
If you bother to convert all those numbers, why not include SI so that the rest of the siviliced world can understand too? FYI, the offical SI unit of fuel efficiency is firkin of water per furlong.
At least that's what a new computer model suggests.
You mean the artist using Photohop?
Got to love the tags of this story:
[+] troll, idiot, dvorak, css, fud (tagging beta)
Only stupid seems to be missing.
I can't recommend Opera Mini enough, especially if you have MIDP 2 compatible phone. I can even read Slashdot with my Siemens CX75, something that is practically impossible with the phone's built-in browser.
Or you can just live here in Japan where some places you pay after you drink. In that case you pretend to go to the washroom after you finish your coffee and simply climb* out the window (shouting "rape").
Considering you live in Japan, shouldn't that be "teentacle wape"?
This is actually very tricky matter. I don't know about laws in Norway, but if I remember correctly, current EU consumer directives say, that consumer can not sign contract that governs which coutrie's laws affect the rights the consumer has. If the company has actual business in the country of the consumer, then the consumer protection laws of the consumer's country are in effect.
Shouldn't they first do something like analyze the call patterns of known terrorists to find the call patterns that are associated to terrorism. Oh, so they haven't caught enought terrorists to make reliable statistical analysis? Maybe they should lower the bar of considering someone terrorist.
Slashdot at it's best!
The countries with the lowest piracy rates were the United States (21%), New Zealand (23%), Austria (26%), and Finland (26%).
I wonder if there is some kind of connection between being the home country of Linux and low piracy rate. We have quite cheap broadband connections available here, so it's not caused by pirated software being unavailable to public.
[...] the return (on either end) would be weak sort of like a large bird
So you're essentially looking for a bird doing just under mach one? No way that that'd make you pay attention ... not at all.
I, for one, welcome our new just under mach one flying bird overlords.Wow. The most blatant strawman argument I have seen here for a while, but I am reading at +2.
Anyway, you lose, better luck next time.
I think someone already did. They are called vinyl records. I've never seen one used to hold video but I see no reason why I't couldn't be done, although capacity and quality might be a bit problematic.
I wonder what ID people say about this particula phenomenon. Probably they'll dismiss it as just another unprovable theory. It's too bad that the process is so slow that I don't think anyone remembers what ID was when the reversal starts to have effect on peoples' everyday life.