Why not add a little hardware and check for a living finger? When I was in the hospital, they put a noninvasive sensor on my finger that measured my pulse and blood oxygen level. It uses two frequencies of light to measure oxygenated haemoglobin.
If your gonna do something like that, why not use something like the hospital finger clamps, making the clamp a open switch, and the finger the closing element, and only activate depending on the electrical resistance of the finger (so it doesnt go off from a peice of metal or whatever, say.) then have the clamp hooked to a circuit or program to calculate if their heartrate is "abnormally high" (so in case you get a gun stuck to your head, it doesnt do your attacker any good) and then put your finger print scanner inside the clamp... though all this does is take care of a finger print scanner in a really complex way...
Better yet, and easier, just use retinal scanners, or thermal imaging of their face to check the location of the veins in their head (fars I've hear, everybodys forehead veins are different, security firms were looking into using that)
Still easiest of all, go talk to the Israelies, they're supposed to be the masters of security (camera/automatic face recognition and that sort of thing anyway)....
everybody always talks about how cheap and lame assed the government is when it comes to spending money and "saving" by firing ppl like their massively underpaid IT guys, then being told later that they really needed that person, but being the stuck up idiots they are, decide to hire somebody else at 2x the cost just because they dont wanna admit they were wrong...
well heres a no-brainer, why the goddamn hell waste millions on buying M$ Office when they could use a FREE 80meg download of OpenOffice again for FREE, and as a side note: I use it myself, and it has damn near every feature MS Office gives you and then some, like a one-touch button on the word processor to turn it into a PDF... the ONLY TWO things MS Office has that I actually use are the auto-correct/dictionary, and the readability report after a spell check.
so is it like the vomit comet (nasa airliner that does parabolic shaped dives and climbs to simulate 0g on the airliner (astronaut training)) or is it like nasa's swimming pool 0g simulation
Pros: they won't have to worry nearly as much about a water supply, they might actually have enough water to grow stuff in that helluva desert
Cons: Instead of other nations trying to invade each other for "Religious Reasons" masking their true greed for each other's oil, it'll be for water instead of oil...
when I use google, I only see usually 3 to 4 ads (the text ones) off on the right and the 2 or 3 that show up immediately before the search results (between results and search form), which is like 5-10% of the ads you see on other search engines (yahoo, msn, ect.).
BTW: I heard there was a spyware infection a few months ago (I think it was in google's news section) that did what the first or third guy said (spyware infection causing the ads), where it redirected anybody connecting to google to the spyware distributors site, which they somehow managed to get the google.com domain name, which was LOADED with nothing but ads, it sounded like they even had support for all the languages the real google supports...
1: arent the things supposed to run Intel Pentium 3's (so why are they pissed?)
2: they'll run linux, so they should be able to run most any program requiring less than the hardware specs, and a windows emulator or recompiler for their "windows only" programs
3: since its running linux, it shouldnt be to hard for people to write their own code (obviously the ones that know how)
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by Hey Pope Felcher . . (921019) on Friday December 09, @08:16PM (#14225426)
If Windows is such a success, why is it so buggy?
not to mention all of the insecurities MS Office (including Outlook) are supposed to have (granted most of outlooks are idiots opening attachments that are obviously a virus or spyware),
others are (not exactly bugs, but just crappy programs and services): aol, e-machines, and any others you guys wanna add...
because NASA can't do it themselves and they know it... they haven't been able to do anything aside from the occasional sending a crew and supplies into space for at least the past 25 years. they just cant do it and make a profit - they dont know how. at the very least, the "private sector" will do what europe has been doing and send up something like an Arian rocket - no crew, just the payload (then you dont need to waste space with air, food, water or any of that stuff)
either way you look at the three ways I describe it, games are in fact art::::
1: Where a game resembles a movie or book, it is art (movies and books are considered art, are they not?), some movies, books, and paintings are fantastic, while others it would be giving more credit than due to say people could care less about them, some make you cry over the story and stare in awe at the visuals and the unique way things are rendered, and others just make you want to puke
2: the type of game that allows the end user/gamer to control the outcome - making the gamer the artist because what results is their creation
1: its almost positively illegal extortion
2: it would be business suicide because all the other ISP's would'nt have a chance in hell of being that psychotic, since they would charge while companies like Cox, qwest, and others wouldnt, Cox and the others would get all the business (except for the idiots who for some reason insist on staying with bell south [can anybody say aol users that keep the aol browser just to use aim?]), thus bell south would be committing business suicide (not even efficiently, at that, the least they could do is cancel any high speed service and go back to exclusively 14k dialup)
this idiot doesnt realize that Linux isnt the only open source software out there, theres firefox (we all know how much of a relief it was when it was first released, what a break from IE, and how much it has grown and is so MUCH insanely more adaptable than IE), and the OpenOffice.org "productivity suite" (it just feels better than MS office), and the GIMP
if you guys haven't heard, there were articals a few months ago about the whole state of Massachusets switching to OOo (last I heard, now they got some idiots in the state govt that dont even have the authority to do so trying to keep it from happening), whats that try to tell you about OOo
the only thing I can think of MS office does that OOo doesnt is a good auto-correct (minor feature) which is simply somebody developing for OOo with no life entering a dictionary into a database, however, OOo does recognize which ones you've spelled wrong and offer to auto-complete them later
on the other side, one feature OOo does have I haven't seen (at least noticed) in MS Office is the ability to one-click convert the document into a PDF (horrible memory leech format fars I care)
the only thing I can think of MS office does that OOo doesnt is a good auto-correct (minor feature) which is simply somebody developing for OOo with no life entering a dictionary into a database, however, OOo does recognize which ones you've spelled wrong and offer to auto-complete them later
on the other side, one feature OOo does have I haven't seen (at least noticed) in MS Office is the ability to one-click convert the document into a PDF (horrible memory leech format fars I care)
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about a 1/8 inch, maybe 1/16
If your gonna do something like that, why not use something like the hospital finger clamps, making the clamp a open switch, and the finger the closing element, and only activate depending on the electrical resistance of the finger (so it doesnt go off from a peice of metal or whatever, say.) then have the clamp hooked to a circuit or program to calculate if their heartrate is "abnormally high" (so in case you get a gun stuck to your head, it doesnt do your attacker any good) and then put your finger print scanner inside the clamp... though all this does is take care of a finger print scanner in a really complex way...
Better yet, and easier, just use retinal scanners, or thermal imaging of their face to check the location of the veins in their head (fars I've hear, everybodys forehead veins are different, security firms were looking into using that)
Still easiest of all, go talk to the Israelies, they're supposed to be the masters of security (camera/automatic face recognition and that sort of thing anyway)....
well heres a no-brainer, why the goddamn hell waste millions on buying M$ Office when they could use a FREE 80meg download of OpenOffice again for FREE, and as a side note: I use it myself, and it has damn near every feature MS Office gives you and then some, like a one-touch button on the word processor to turn it into a PDF... the ONLY TWO things MS Office has that I actually use are the auto-correct/dictionary, and the readability report after a spell check.
so is it like the vomit comet (nasa airliner that does parabolic shaped dives and climbs to simulate 0g on the airliner (astronaut training)) or is it like nasa's swimming pool 0g simulation
Cons: Instead of other nations trying to invade each other for "Religious Reasons" masking their true greed for each other's oil, it'll be for water instead of oil...
lol, now sports players wont have to take steroids...
BTW: I heard there was a spyware infection a few months ago (I think it was in google's news section) that did what the first or third guy said (spyware infection causing the ads), where it redirected anybody connecting to google to the spyware distributors site, which they somehow managed to get the google.com domain name, which was LOADED with nothing but ads, it sounded like they even had support for all the languages the real google supports...
2: they'll run linux, so they should be able to run most any program requiring less than the hardware specs, and a windows emulator or recompiler for their "windows only" programs
3: since its running linux, it shouldnt be to hard for people to write their own code (obviously the ones that know how)
Alternate (Score:5, Funny) by Hey Pope Felcher . . (921019) on Friday December 09, @08:16PM (#14225426) If Windows is such a success, why is it so buggy?
not to mention all of the insecurities MS Office (including Outlook) are supposed to have (granted most of outlooks are idiots opening attachments that are obviously a virus or spyware),
others are (not exactly bugs, but just crappy programs and services): aol, e-machines, and any others you guys wanna add...
because NASA can't do it themselves and they know it... they haven't been able to do anything aside from the occasional sending a crew and supplies into space for at least the past 25 years. they just cant do it and make a profit - they dont know how. at the very least, the "private sector" will do what europe has been doing and send up something like an Arian rocket - no crew, just the payload (then you dont need to waste space with air, food, water or any of that stuff)
this story has been out since at least early 2005
either way you look at the three ways I describe it, games are in fact art::::
1: Where a game resembles a movie or book, it is art (movies and books are considered art, are they not?), some movies, books, and paintings are fantastic, while others it would be giving more credit than due to say people could care less about them, some make you cry over the story and stare in awe at the visuals and the unique way things are rendered, and others just make you want to puke
2: the type of game that allows the end user/gamer to control the outcome - making the gamer the artist because what results is their creation
1: its almost positively illegal extortion 2: it would be business suicide because all the other ISP's would'nt have a chance in hell of being that psychotic, since they would charge while companies like Cox, qwest, and others wouldnt, Cox and the others would get all the business (except for the idiots who for some reason insist on staying with bell south [can anybody say aol users that keep the aol browser just to use aim?]), thus bell south would be committing business suicide (not even efficiently, at that, the least they could do is cancel any high speed service and go back to exclusively 14k dialup)
this idiot doesnt realize that Linux isnt the only open source software out there, theres firefox (we all know how much of a relief it was when it was first released, what a break from IE, and how much it has grown and is so MUCH insanely more adaptable than IE), and the OpenOffice.org "productivity suite" (it just feels better than MS office), and the GIMP if you guys haven't heard, there were articals a few months ago about the whole state of Massachusets switching to OOo (last I heard, now they got some idiots in the state govt that dont even have the authority to do so trying to keep it from happening), whats that try to tell you about OOo the only thing I can think of MS office does that OOo doesnt is a good auto-correct (minor feature) which is simply somebody developing for OOo with no life entering a dictionary into a database, however, OOo does recognize which ones you've spelled wrong and offer to auto-complete them later on the other side, one feature OOo does have I haven't seen (at least noticed) in MS Office is the ability to one-click convert the document into a PDF (horrible memory leech format fars I care)
the only thing I can think of MS office does that OOo doesnt is a good auto-correct (minor feature) which is simply somebody developing for OOo with no life entering a dictionary into a database, however, OOo does recognize which ones you've spelled wrong and offer to auto-complete them later on the other side, one feature OOo does have I haven't seen (at least noticed) in MS Office is the ability to one-click convert the document into a PDF (horrible memory leech format fars I care)