Procrastination drives much of my own gaming, and I think this holds for a large share of people. The closer a game comes to my "legit" computer usage, the more likely I will pick it up. So yes, game consoles do not stand a chance with me.
If the computer can accurately track my head and eyes when I'm entering passwords, I can do so all the time. Just imagine the privacy issues.
Does your boss know if you are distracted or working (frequent eye shifts)? How about recognizing people by their eye movements - biometric identity theft?
On the upside, you could use it to reliably research face mimics. Think about how much more $PRODUCT you could sell if you knew exactly which part of the commercial sucks.
... i'd have heard of it in quantum computing class. But all we did was study algorithms and eventually reading breakthrough 2-bit model headlines in the news.
Ro me, Rikaichan is the killer extension: Just hover the cursor over a Japanese word, and the translation will pop up. Way faster than any other dictionary approach I have tried.
Somebody is going to say "what's the point to challenge-response if you have to transmit the data and hash anyway?"
Well, take a look at the e-coins system: Each coin has several signatures on it, and the bank randomly selects a certain fraction of them for checking (half?). For example, hash the data + known number postpended. Now, even if a cracker intercepts communication once, he cannot fully copy the passport.
SSL connections are set up by selecting a random number derived from both parties' input that never went over the wire. If you use this algorithm to select which signatures to check, you could force the malicious hotel clerk or thief to read out the passport several times, ideally for a rather long period of time. Say, 1x checking per second, 300 signatures, 10 to check.
Why is it so hard to implement a challange-response mechanism to avoid airing the entire passport data?
Especially when they are going to store fingerprints/images/iris scans on the chips, I would expect the passport chip to do the matching up. (Of course, it has to legitimate itself, too.) Just imagine having to change your fingerprints because of identity theft. Americans already have a taste of this with social security numbers.
BTW, if all you'd like to broadcast is your name and number, just print a barcode. That works perfectly fine in Chile (or Colombia? sorry).
In my experience, moving my body for five minutes every hour or so gives a large boost in brainwork done. Drinking a lot of water is also important. (Dirty little secret: The walk to the restroom may be these 5 minutes.)
Aside from that, I used to do a variety of yoga (link in German) where other people would drink very strong coffee because it didn't make me jittery, nor did it crash me after a while. However, it took me a few months to really master it, and I don't know of any scientific study about its effectiveness.
... They think they can make a real community on the internet, and are using as an analogy the way villages once functioned. Let us ignore the fact that people are much nicer in person than on the internet...
A separate online community as incentive to pay back - That's not how it works:
If all your co-workers and clients (or co-students) will know if you bust your loan, you do care. The same thing goes for a village you are born into and will never leave, or for your relatives. In general, any encompassing group you will depend on and stay in touch with in person.
However, you can always pull out of designated community, even more easily if it exists only behind your screen.
If this buisness model might work, it definitely is not community-secured.
Side note: community-based lending really does work, just think of the stereotype Chinese immigrant clan, village microcredit projects in developement aid or how our grandparents got by.
Move the idea collecting stage to a mind map using pencil and paper. That way, there will be no spelling and grammar to block you, and the structure comes out much more clearly. Pencil and paper tend to boost creativity.
Only then write it straight down. You will save a lot of time on editing if you have a clear concept to communicate.
The extent of pre-structuring depends stronly on your language skills.
In French, my drafts tend to detail the contents of every sentence because I need to dedicate a lot of my attention to prepositions, the right choice of words etc. On the other hand, a quick stare at the wall will often be enough for me to come up on the fly with good wording and grammar in German.
Proofing mainly catches all the good ideas you have once you get a bit of distance (and spelling errors).
When I was shopping for an end-user VOIP solution to replace telephone services a year ago (a move cause a sharp increase in phone rates), I could find
lots of encrypted software-to-software solutions,
a hand full of PSTN gateways (some even claiming to be secure),
but nothing that would permit me to call PSTN / mobile lines at an acceptable price with real encryption.
In the end, I settled with SkypeOut - though nobody can check how they really encrypt and who as access to the keys.
(Requirements: works from any access point, rates around 2 cent/minute to Europe/USA, runs on OS X (ibook), real encryption computer--gateway, decent quality and reliability)
Slashdot Mirror
http://badmoneyadvice.com/2010/04/the-usefulness-of-id-theft-fear.html
Procrastination drives much of my own gaming, and I think this holds for a large share of people. The closer a game comes to my "legit" computer usage, the more likely I will pick it up. So yes, game consoles do not stand a chance with me.
If the computer can accurately track my head and eyes when I'm entering passwords, I can do so all the time. Just imagine the privacy issues. Does your boss know if you are distracted or working (frequent eye shifts)? How about recognizing people by their eye movements - biometric identity theft? On the upside, you could use it to reliably research face mimics. Think about how much more $PRODUCT you could sell if you knew exactly which part of the commercial sucks.
... i'd have heard of it in quantum computing class. But all we did was study algorithms and eventually reading breakthrough 2-bit model headlines in the news.
Ro me, Rikaichan is the killer extension: Just hover the cursor over a Japanese word, and the translation will pop up. Way faster than any other dictionary approach I have tried.
Somebody is going to say "what's the point to challenge-response if you have to transmit the data and hash anyway?"
Well, take a look at the e-coins system: Each coin has several signatures on it, and the bank randomly selects a certain fraction of them for checking (half?). For example, hash the data + known number postpended. Now, even if a cracker intercepts communication once, he cannot fully copy the passport.
SSL connections are set up by selecting a random number derived from both parties' input that never went over the wire. If you use this algorithm to select which signatures to check, you could force the malicious hotel clerk or thief to read out the passport several times, ideally for a rather long period of time. Say, 1x checking per second, 300 signatures, 10 to check.
Why is it so hard to implement a challange-response mechanism to avoid airing the entire passport data?
Especially when they are going to store fingerprints /images/iris scans on the chips, I would expect the passport chip to do the matching up. (Of course, it has to legitimate itself, too.) Just imagine having to change your fingerprints because of identity theft. Americans already have a taste of this with social security numbers.
BTW, if all you'd like to broadcast is your name and number, just print a barcode. That works perfectly fine in Chile (or Colombia? sorry).
So, how do you go about personal growth? I have my theories, but really don't know.
At 25 it's a bit horrifying to read your diary and notice you've had all the problems you're now complaining about already 2 years ago.
And somehow, exuberant overreacting even makes girls cute, perpetuating the problem.
In my experience, moving my body for five minutes every hour or so gives a large boost in brainwork done. Drinking a lot of water is also important. (Dirty little secret: The walk to the restroom may be these 5 minutes.)
Aside from that, I used to do a variety of yoga (link in German) where other people would drink very strong coffee because it didn't make me jittery, nor did it crash me after a while. However, it took me a few months to really master it, and I don't know of any scientific study about its effectiveness.
A separate online community as incentive to pay back - That's not how it works:
If all your co-workers and clients (or co-students) will know if you bust your loan, you do care. The same thing goes for a village you are born into and will never leave, or for your relatives. In general, any encompassing group you will depend on and stay in touch with in person.
However, you can always pull out of designated community, even more easily if it exists only behind your screen.
If this buisness model might work, it definitely is not community-secured. Side note: community-based lending really does work, just think of the stereotype Chinese immigrant clan, village microcredit projects in developement aid or how our grandparents got by.
Move the idea collecting stage to a mind map using pencil and paper. That way, there will be no spelling and grammar to block you, and the structure comes out much more clearly. Pencil and paper tend to boost creativity.
Only then write it straight down. You will save a lot of time on editing if you have a clear concept to communicate.
The extent of pre-structuring depends stronly on your language skills.
In French, my drafts tend to detail the contents of every sentence because I need to dedicate a lot of my attention to prepositions, the right choice of words etc. On the other hand, a quick stare at the wall will often be enough for me to come up on the fly with good wording and grammar in German.
Proofing mainly catches all the good ideas you have once you get a bit of distance (and spelling errors).
Future governments might consider it a deposit of weapon technology for them to use if it is too deadly. Don't make the warning sign attractive.
When I was shopping for an end-user VOIP solution to replace telephone services a year ago (a move cause a sharp increase in phone rates), I could find
In the end, I settled with SkypeOut - though nobody can check how they really encrypt and who as access to the keys.
(Requirements: works from any access point, rates around 2 cent/minute to Europe/USA, runs on OS X (ibook), real encryption computer--gateway, decent quality and reliability)
Do you know of any better solutions?