Blue collar is generally defined by two things: a non-salaried wage (i.e. hourly or piece work), and manual labor (as a daily part of the job; not just spending a weekend racking servers). If any IT folks fall into those categories, then they are being grossly taken advantage of by their employer.
1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive
I thought 'visible' was something the human eye could see. If they are defining 'visible' as something that can only be detected with incredibly sensitive equipment, would not all light be visible light?
You will have to be more specific. By "US" do you mean United States? And then is this the United States of America? Africa? Acronym? What of donuts? WHAT!
In the same vein as World of World of Warcraft, I have developed a game called Guitar Hero Hero. The player uses an elaborate set of motion sensing devices to control a character on screen. That character hold a Guitar Hero "guitar" and the goal is to increase the characters 'loser' meter by making him/her think they are actually playing a real instrument. You have Loser Power!
I know from watching the special edition of the Simpsons DVD special features (season 8 I think), they already do this in a limited way. Do you think that every 'D'oh!', 'Ay, caramba!', and 'Exccccellent' are created fresh for every episode that requires them? Because they are not. There is some kind of sound bank they keep clips of all the oft-used lines in. It's not too hard of a stretch to imagine that being expanded to more and more lines over time.
One important difference is ownership. You own the car outright whereas you licensed to use the software. With a car there is no EULA to accept. You are completely within your rights to disassemble the car to it's base pieces and use the parts to make a different car. You can even remove the 'Ford' nameplate, replace it with 'FordSux' and sell it to anyone with impunity.
Not true. I have personally gotten the better end of the deal at least twice. But no one wants to stand up and say 'I bought a new stereo and was charged -$250 dollars!'. There have also been numerous published accounts of gas stations mistakenly charging hundreds of people $0.25/gal for gas (instead of $2.50).
sigh, no. You are missing the 'metrics' part of biometrics. When a fingerprint enters a database it notes such things as how many microns each swirl is form the others, retina images use a similar set of metrics. These are dispassionate numbers not open to human interpretation.
With the image on the license none of this information exists. There is no way to determine how many centimeters the bridge of your nose is from the ridge of your brow, or the circumstance of your skull.
But you make a good point about DNA; this is also not a biometric per se because it's completely open to a human making a judgment call based on less than perfect methodology. It's it's way off, then it's easy. But god help you if up against someone who's DNA printout is 'pretty close' to yours.
No, you picture is not a considered true 'biometric' because it requires a human to decide 'sure I guess this looks like you'. Now if they actually assigned metrics to your facial structure that might work....unless you had an identical twin, but I digress.
Also, this statement:
The process was ludicrous, even though it only took a few minutes.
That's why three-factor security is the only real way to make this work. They have two factors already (something you have (card) and something you are (fingerprint)). Now if they could just close the deal with a PIN code (something you know), that would be the hat trick of security. They could even provide you with a 'duress' PIN that you could give someone if you were at gunpoint. It would automatically lock everything down. And the best part? When the systems that maintains all this fails, you don't have to call some crazy foreigner to get it fixed because you are already in India!
Oh, Pinky. If it's implemented well, it will be all but unseen. The registers already required a code to unlock (factor 1). If they use belt-clipped ID badges with RFID as the proximity card (factor 2) and fingerprint scanners on the keypad keys (factor 3) then it would work....for out plans to take over the WORLD!
They can't go from a cold press to paper-in-hand in 10 minutes. I imagine every cities' paper is different, but the local paper here in my city says it takes about 3 hours to print the first paper after the they get the go from the EIC.
Biometrics are not as bullet-proof as many people think. With many fingerprint scanners, for example, one can fool them with little more than a xerox copy of the needed fingerprint. I am more of an advocate of three factor security, instead of just trading one single-factor method for another.
We should have biometrics, passwords, and proximity smartcards.
....because newspapers can't even ink their presses in 2.5 hours. Seriously. If the President was assassinated at 1PM today, the soonest any paper could publish anything about it would be maybe 5 hours later; assuming they put out a special edition. For all other severities of news, it's usually at least 24 hours old. I am guessing this study only included TV and web sites otherwise newspapers would drastically wonk the numbers.
Not really a valid analogy since the voicemail messages are not being stolen, per se, just observed (or in this case listened to). I think a better one would be 'I see you left your door unlocked so I let myself in and read your diary'. Still not good, but also not theft.
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Blue collar is generally defined by two things: a non-salaried wage (i.e. hourly or piece work), and manual labor (as a daily part of the job; not just spending a weekend racking servers). If any IT folks fall into those categories, then they are being grossly taken advantage of by their employer.
I thought 'visible' was something the human eye could see. If they are defining 'visible' as something that can only be detected with incredibly sensitive equipment, would not all light be visible light?
You will have to be more specific. By "US" do you mean United States? And then is this the United States of America? Africa? Acronym? What of donuts? WHAT!
God, I hope you are never in the IS department at my company. Or any company for that matter.
I don't think anyone, anywhere, ever, has considered an IT worker 'blue collar'.
In the same vein as World of World of Warcraft, I have developed a game called Guitar Hero Hero. The player uses an elaborate set of motion sensing devices to control a character on screen. That character hold a Guitar Hero "guitar" and the goal is to increase the characters 'loser' meter by making him/her think they are actually playing a real instrument. You have Loser Power!
Bring a whole new meaning to the 'Look Inside!' icon. /shiver/
I know from watching the special edition of the Simpsons DVD special features (season 8 I think), they already do this in a limited way. Do you think that every 'D'oh!', 'Ay, caramba!', and 'Exccccellent' are created fresh for every episode that requires them? Because they are not. There is some kind of sound bank they keep clips of all the oft-used lines in. It's not too hard of a stretch to imagine that being expanded to more and more lines over time.
Given the name "Marxist Hacker" I would concur with your conclusions.
One important difference is ownership. You own the car outright whereas you licensed to use the software. With a car there is no EULA to accept. You are completely within your rights to disassemble the car to it's base pieces and use the parts to make a different car. You can even remove the 'Ford' nameplate, replace it with 'FordSux' and sell it to anyone with impunity.
Joke's on you! I post via US Mail.
Not true. I have personally gotten the better end of the deal at least twice. But no one wants to stand up and say 'I bought a new stereo and was charged -$250 dollars!'. There have also been numerous published accounts of gas stations mistakenly charging hundreds of people $0.25/gal for gas (instead of $2.50).
sigh, no. You are missing the 'metrics' part of biometrics. When a fingerprint enters a database it notes such things as how many microns each swirl is form the others, retina images use a similar set of metrics. These are dispassionate numbers not open to human interpretation.
With the image on the license none of this information exists. There is no way to determine how many centimeters the bridge of your nose is from the ridge of your brow, or the circumstance of your skull.
But you make a good point about DNA; this is also not a biometric per se because it's completely open to a human making a judgment call based on less than perfect methodology. It's it's way off, then it's easy. But god help you if up against someone who's DNA printout is 'pretty close' to yours.
Also, this statement:
Made me think you need to watch this video.
That's why three-factor security is the only real way to make this work. They have two factors already (something you have (card) and something you are (fingerprint)). Now if they could just close the deal with a PIN code (something you know), that would be the hat trick of security. They could even provide you with a 'duress' PIN that you could give someone if you were at gunpoint. It would automatically lock everything down. And the best part? When the systems that maintains all this fails, you don't have to call some crazy foreigner to get it fixed because you are already in India!
FYI...'Habib' is an Arabic, not Indian, name. It means, roughly, 'sweetheart'. I would suggest 'Mr. Sharma' for the Indian name.
Oh, Pinky. If it's implemented well, it will be all but unseen. The registers already required a code to unlock (factor 1). If they use belt-clipped ID badges with RFID as the proximity card (factor 2) and fingerprint scanners on the keypad keys (factor 3) then it would work....for out plans to take over the WORLD!
They can't go from a cold press to paper-in-hand in 10 minutes. I imagine every cities' paper is different, but the local paper here in my city says it takes about 3 hours to print the first paper after the they get the go from the EIC.
Biometrics are not as bullet-proof as many people think. With many fingerprint scanners, for example, one can fool them with little more than a xerox copy of the needed fingerprint. I am more of an advocate of three factor security, instead of just trading one single-factor method for another.
We should have biometrics, passwords, and proximity smartcards.
....because newspapers can't even ink their presses in 2.5 hours. Seriously. If the President was assassinated at 1PM today, the soonest any paper could publish anything about it would be maybe 5 hours later; assuming they put out a special edition. For all other severities of news, it's usually at least 24 hours old. I am guessing this study only included TV and web sites otherwise newspapers would drastically wonk the numbers.
Do you think you could resist the offer on principle?
"They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house. I'm not made of stone!" -Krusty the Clown
Or is it Comcasted?
Hi! This is Pol Pot. Have we met? Because you seem like some I could really dig (a grave for).
Not really a valid analogy since the voicemail messages are not being stolen, per se, just observed (or in this case listened to). I think a better one would be 'I see you left your door unlocked so I let myself in and read your diary'. Still not good, but also not theft.
LINE 10 PRINT "byte"
LINE 20 goto 10 REPEAT 8.881784197E-16
Then you wait for long time.....