I don't use pattern. If you have the device, hold it at the correct angle and look at the scratches, you can see the pattern. With a little bit of image processing we can even detect the start and end by "fraying" of the pattern and the density of scratches can indicate the middle part of the path.
If you have high speed camera then even pin can be cracked. People are now taking care to hide the pin in POS terminals and ATM. Soon they will develop ways to screen the screen with a palm or something to thwart video cameras in public setting.
Capitalism is a vengeful God. It will smite any corporation that kills people in pursuit of profits,.... eventually,... once it becomes readily visible to all consumers that "this company will kill to make a few cents", and in the meantime its competitors who tried to be safe would have been undercut and driven to bankruptcy... The CXOs would have cashed in their stock options and unloaded the stock on to a bunch of chumps holding worthless stock....
Yay! For capitalism.
But in reality, these morons would think, "yeah, so I'm going to bail out before the company crashes and burns"
If you allow lower prices for India and China, what's to stop companies from buying the software in those countries and use it in USA? These companies use all the tax loopholes to move their profits to overseas subsidiaries. They know their customers will create subsidiaries in India and turn around and buy services from the subsidiary and use it in USA. The snakes know the legs of snakes, as the old Tamil proverb goes.
I heard Stroustrup used to post regularly in comp.lang.c++ and engage in huge protracted flame wars with newbies. I was a FORTRAN guy those days, and so I don't know first hand. Could not find such postings in the typical archives. Is it true, or just some stories bandied about him?
Build a small raspberry pi machine that is programmed to install spyware on any phone connecting to it via usb port. Also steal as much data as it could and broadcast it via wifi to the mother ship. Pack it nicely, slap stickers saying "Free courtesy phone charging outlet from Port Authority of New York. (To make it useful to more commuters this outlet is programmed to stop charging after 30 minutes. Please disconnect in 30 minutes. Thank you for your cooperation)". Leave it plugged into outlets at various public buildings.
(Read it as an unordered bullet list with... and profit. Thank you. )
More pleasant climate not just for humans, but also for bugs, worms, weeds etc.
The yearly frost has been killing vermin for ages in North America and Europe. As the frost line
moves upwards, as USDA "zones" creep northwards, so do these creatures.
Often these creatures are "invasive" the native plants have no defense against these bugs.
For example stink bugs have existed 200 miles south of Mason-Dixon line for centuries
without serious issues. When the climate became pleasant enough to inhabit pockets
north of PA-MD border, they found many delicious plants and nesting places to winter over,
and they are becoming serious pests.
Such changes have taken place repeatedly in the past. We know that. If it happens slow
enough, the plants will develop resistance. What is alarming is the rapidity of the change.
The life cycle of a tree is in decades. Bugs have life cycles measured in days. Bugs would
have several hundred generations to go against an existing tree which has no way of
defending itself. It takes centuries or even a millennia for a forest to assimilate, integrate
and thrive as new bug species infest them.
Creating doubt is easy. Asking questions is easy. Finding answers is difficult. Accepting
uncomfortable answers, is even more difficult.
You never look at the bright side. That device could fry his nuts and he will not have any children, thus improving the quality of the gene pool for the next generation for millenia to come...
If the savings is just 12 billion dollars, the banks will not bother. They make that much between breakfast and lunch probably. If it ever levels the playing field ever so slightly, they won't do it. Even if there is the merest whiff of suspicion of a suggestion about the probability of giving small banks a couple of molecules of benefit, the big banks will spend 12 billion to thwart it.
The motto, the dream, the hope, the aspiration of every bank is to become so big no one else can compete, and to divert all the profits as executive salaries, boni and other incentives.
bah! lazy bum. Used store bought beans. I grow my own coffee shrub. And I have my own civet cat. And you have no idea how the fruit pulp gets removed and the bean is made available.
When Win7 came in, everyone crapped on it. Longing for XP64. Praising Xp64 as good enough. stable enough. dont mess with this.
Then the fiasco of Win8, skipped 9, Win10. Finally everyone will be brought to Win10 kicking and screaming. And they all will file bug reports with a vengeance. MS developers will bellyache having to fix bugs in win10, while all the really cool assignment goes Win12 teams. But eventually Win10 will get to be actually much better than Win7. Just in time to declare it dead and annoint Win12 as the new king of the hill.
And the cycle will repeat.
Its turtles all the way down. And bugs all the way up.
Linux builds exceptionally good UI and user experience? Why last time I checked there were at least 100 different GUI experiences possible in Linux/ And if you don't like all 100, you can just download the source, make a few edits, voila! "congratulations, 101'st GUI management distro".
The only good thing is, good or bad, you know what GUI is available in ALL windows machines and you can develop applications. Linux suffers in that respect. Qt? or Tkl or gnome or what? . Quite sad, given X11 actually was way ahead of windows in providing a base set of ui features guaranteed on all unix systems.
But for people doing serious work with Linux command-line apps, not having Ctrl-C is a little like driving a car when only the front brakes work.
Shows how little the person who wrote the article knows about clipboards in linux.
Most xterm and clones use mostly emacs like syntax. control-insert for copy and shift-insert for paste. X11 systems use middle mouse click to paste sections highlighted with the mouse. Cygwin - mintty supports control-insert and shift-insert.
In the console window spawned by cmd if you edit and enable quick-edit mode, "ENTER" is copy and right mouse click is paste.
I work in a mixture of all three windows on my desktop simultaneously. I use window bg color to remind me what kind of console I'm working on to do the right copy-paste. But in none of these systems control-c is used for copy.
Only in MS-windows-GUI control-c is used for copy. Looks like the author's knowledge about control-c is based on hearsay.
The law of firm of Dewy Chetham and Howe reported yesterday that vandals destroyed very valuable property. Spokesperson of the firm Insanei Rony said,:The firm keeps all their files in unlocked cabinets in the back porch open to the public, in order to serve our clients better. This allows our clients to work at their schedule and come in drop off their forms and depositions at their convenience. On Friday evening a group of vandals, criminals, who have absolutely no right to be on the property, who have no business with the firm, trespassed into our public porch, we stress it is private property though it has no gates, alarms or security guards and is accessible to public, and destroyed our valuable records. We demand the police, funded by taxpayers to act as our private security guards, and patrol our premises regularly and spend more of their resources to track down and apprehend the criminals, we stress it is a criminal act, and it is the duty of the police to apprehend the criminals. The firm also pays taxes, and it is entitled to the protection and the services of the police, even if we pay less than 0.01% of the cost the police and even if this investigation consumes 99.99% of its resources, we plan to stand our right to the service and prosecute our case vigorously."
His main chute was ok, but FBI now says, they accidentally sent him a dummy class room demo chute, with inoperable rip cord and the bag sewn shut, inadvertently. So he had only one working chute. Dropped into dark rainy air, without helmet, without oxygen, without camping, hunting, survival gear, with one chute and two money bags strapped to his waist. The wiki is wrong to say he went into -57 deg F air. that is cruise altitude FL300 range. He dropped at FL100, people live at higher altitude than this, in places like Tibet, ski lodges in Alps. So with some thermal underpants, he could drop to 5000 ft in less than a minute.
It is possible for him to have landed safely and secreted the money bags. After that it is very difficult to believe he could have survived long, somehow hitchhiked out of that area, to some bus station or train yard or truck stop traveled without being seen out of that area. With that level of media attention to that part of the country all strangers would have been noticed and reported. I think he died near where the cash was found. The wild animals tore through his body and clothing, most the cash and bones ended up in the river and washed out to the ocean.
Advice to future copy-cats. Practice skydiving and become familiar. Try to take your own familiar parachute. Ask for basic camping survival gear. Dry food rations and some water. After landing safely, secure the cash and note the gps coordinates. Find a water course and follow it down stream. Till you come to a river with decent flowing water. Collect drift wood, form a raft and float down stream. Raft only at nights. From the watershed where you jump, figure out which river you will end up in, pick the city to rejoin civilization, practice it couple of times, do dry runs.
With the proliferation of security cameras, high resolution picture of your face will have been recorded by TSA. So grow mustache, beard, dye them, wear glasses. Doctor your eye-glass frames to be asymmetric, slightly. You need to make the eigen values of the face detection algo matrix go askew. After the fact switch to contacts, go clean shaven and revert to natural hair color. Colored contact lenses before the crime^H^H^H^H^H adventure, a must.
Realize if you can pull this off, you are smart enough to make more money legally.
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If you have high speed camera then even pin can be cracked. People are now taking care to hide the pin in POS terminals and ATM. Soon they will develop ways to screen the screen with a palm or something to thwart video cameras in public setting.
Yay! For capitalism.
But in reality, these morons would think, "yeah, so I'm going to bail out before the company crashes and burns"
If you allow lower prices for India and China, what's to stop companies from buying the software in those countries and use it in USA? These companies use all the tax loopholes to move their profits to overseas subsidiaries. They know their customers will create subsidiaries in India and turn around and buy services from the subsidiary and use it in USA. The snakes know the legs of snakes, as the old Tamil proverb goes.
OK, thanks I will correct people spreading such rumors.
I heard Stroustrup used to post regularly in comp.lang.c++ and engage in huge protracted flame wars with newbies. I was a FORTRAN guy those days, and so I don't know first hand. Could not find such postings in the typical archives. Is it true, or just some stories bandied about him?
You must have missed the documentary filmed by the noted historian one A. M. Hitchcock.
(Read it as an unordered bullet list with ... and profit. Thank you. )
Why is it not available in more public places?
Brain surgery is child's play compared to finite element mesh generation.
The yearly frost has been killing vermin for ages in North America and Europe. As the frost line moves upwards, as USDA "zones" creep northwards, so do these creatures.
Often these creatures are "invasive" the native plants have no defense against these bugs. For example stink bugs have existed 200 miles south of Mason-Dixon line for centuries without serious issues. When the climate became pleasant enough to inhabit pockets north of PA-MD border, they found many delicious plants and nesting places to winter over, and they are becoming serious pests.
Such changes have taken place repeatedly in the past. We know that. If it happens slow enough, the plants will develop resistance. What is alarming is the rapidity of the change. The life cycle of a tree is in decades. Bugs have life cycles measured in days. Bugs would have several hundred generations to go against an existing tree which has no way of defending itself. It takes centuries or even a millennia for a forest to assimilate, integrate and thrive as new bug species infest them.
Creating doubt is easy. Asking questions is easy. Finding answers is difficult. Accepting uncomfortable answers, is even more difficult.
Did they name the baby sharks Jesus II, Jesus III and Jesus IV?
But it is a problem because... google.
As long as it does not undergo spontaneous combustion.
You never look at the bright side. That device could fry his nuts and he will not have any children, thus improving the quality of the gene pool for the next generation for millenia to come...
The motto, the dream, the hope, the aspiration of every bank is to become so big no one else can compete, and to divert all the profits as executive salaries, boni and other incentives.
bah! lazy bum. Used store bought beans. I grow my own coffee shrub. And I have my own civet cat. And you have no idea how the fruit pulp gets removed and the bean is made available.
They could not prove Nixon faking moon landings. So they nailed him for cover up of office break in.
The real moon walker outlived a singer/dancer who moonwalked on earth.
Then the fiasco of Win8, skipped 9, Win10. Finally everyone will be brought to Win10 kicking and screaming. And they all will file bug reports with a vengeance. MS developers will bellyache having to fix bugs in win10, while all the really cool assignment goes Win12 teams. But eventually Win10 will get to be actually much better than Win7. Just in time to declare it dead and annoint Win12 as the new king of the hill.
And the cycle will repeat.
Its turtles all the way down. And bugs all the way up.
The only good thing is, good or bad, you know what GUI is available in ALL windows machines and you can develop applications. Linux suffers in that respect. Qt? or Tkl or gnome or what? . Quite sad, given X11 actually was way ahead of windows in providing a base set of ui features guaranteed on all unix systems.
But for people doing serious work with Linux command-line apps, not having Ctrl-C is a little like driving a car when only the front brakes work.
Shows how little the person who wrote the article knows about clipboards in linux.
Most xterm and clones use mostly emacs like syntax. control-insert for copy and shift-insert for paste. X11 systems use middle mouse click to paste sections highlighted with the mouse. Cygwin - mintty supports control-insert and shift-insert.
In the console window spawned by cmd if you edit and enable quick-edit mode, "ENTER" is copy and right mouse click is paste.
I work in a mixture of all three windows on my desktop simultaneously. I use window bg color to remind me what kind of console I'm working on to do the right copy-paste. But in none of these systems control-c is used for copy.
Only in MS-windows-GUI control-c is used for copy. Looks like the author's knowledge about control-c is based on hearsay.
Vandals destroy very valuable property
The law of firm of Dewy Chetham and Howe reported yesterday that vandals destroyed very valuable property. Spokesperson of the firm Insanei Rony said, :The firm keeps all their files in unlocked cabinets in the back porch open to the public, in order to serve our clients better. This allows our clients to work at their schedule and come in drop off their forms and depositions at their convenience. On Friday evening a group of vandals, criminals, who have absolutely no right to be on the property, who have no business with the firm, trespassed into our public porch, we stress it is private property though it has no gates, alarms or security guards and is accessible to public, and destroyed our valuable records. We demand the police, funded by taxpayers to act as our private security guards, and patrol our premises regularly and spend more of their resources to track down and apprehend the criminals, we stress it is a criminal act, and it is the duty of the police to apprehend the criminals. The firm also pays taxes, and it is entitled to the protection and the services of the police, even if we pay less than 0.01% of the cost the police and even if this investigation consumes 99.99% of its resources, we plan to stand our right to the service and prosecute our case vigorously."
It is possible for him to have landed safely and secreted the money bags. After that it is very difficult to believe he could have survived long, somehow hitchhiked out of that area, to some bus station or train yard or truck stop traveled without being seen out of that area. With that level of media attention to that part of the country all strangers would have been noticed and reported. I think he died near where the cash was found. The wild animals tore through his body and clothing, most the cash and bones ended up in the river and washed out to the ocean.
Advice to future copy-cats. Practice skydiving and become familiar. Try to take your own familiar parachute. Ask for basic camping survival gear. Dry food rations and some water. After landing safely, secure the cash and note the gps coordinates. Find a water course and follow it down stream. Till you come to a river with decent flowing water. Collect drift wood, form a raft and float down stream. Raft only at nights. From the watershed where you jump, figure out which river you will end up in, pick the city to rejoin civilization, practice it couple of times, do dry runs.
With the proliferation of security cameras, high resolution picture of your face will have been recorded by TSA. So grow mustache, beard, dye them, wear glasses. Doctor your eye-glass frames to be asymmetric, slightly. You need to make the eigen values of the face detection algo matrix go askew. After the fact switch to contacts, go clean shaven and revert to natural hair color. Colored contact lenses before the crime^H^H^H^H^H adventure, a must.
Realize if you can pull this off, you are smart enough to make more money legally.
Not that your tastes, are not to be respected, they are. But caviar is as gross as dog shit --so you know.