Comment Re:All good until someone simulates biometrics... (Score 5, Funny) 383
Finger print scanners are fooled by gummy bears.
Where I work, the scanners are quite high. Way beyond the reach of even the tallest gummy bears.
Finger print scanners are fooled by gummy bears.
Where I work, the scanners are quite high. Way beyond the reach of even the tallest gummy bears.
"In Norse mythology, Froyjo (Old Norse the "Lordo"), son of Njörðr, is a god associated with yolo, swag and yogurt. "
I'm ready to switch passwords for anything else as long as:
1 - It can't be extracted from me by an easier method than torture or blackmail.
2 - It stops working forever if I'm dead.
Otherwise, some blood will have to wash away the naivete. Again.
Even Baskin Robbins knew to stop at 31 flavors.
Indeed.
99% of games have absolutely no performance issues on a Mac. They also take waaaay less space in a Mac's SSD. And they are also way cheaper.
That's what a terrorist would say to cover his identity.
Mr Coward, I'm afraid you have made your last mistake.
Every single creature that has ever existed is responsible for the current precise status of the Earth.
If an ancient civilization traveled half a billion years to the past and killed a single bacteria, the present wouldn't be exactly the same. Maybe the difference would be small, but it's much more probable that the impact of that tiny change, and its accumulated consequences century after century, billions of generations of bacteria later, would have changed everything.
A single misplaced atom could be responsible for the non-existence of the troglodyte who was to be the ancestor of the guy who wielded the weapon that killed the great grandfather of the guy who discovered how to make fire, delaying the discovery a few dozen generations, and turning the present into the renaissance.
But once the future has passed, it's no longer future. So one can only assert to have tested the predictability formerly called future; also known as the Prince test.
The reason the City of London Police are doing this a lot is because they are highly specialised in economic crime detection, investigation and enforcement, so combating criminal level copyright infringement is in fact one of their specialities.
Is that a fact?
Because if it's just a belief, mine is that the reason they are doing this is because, and only because, of corporate pressure.
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want them for my own
More than they could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is
My own bloody private police force!
The deluxe edition comes with an eye-patch. They initially offered a parrot, but there where some shipment incidences*.
*: There's still some debate about the actual status of the parrots upon arrival. Synology insists on the parrots' being alive, but there have been customer reports on the parrots being: "passed on", "no more", "ceased", "expired and gone to meet it's maker", "a stiff", "Bereft of life", "resting in peace", among others.
Well, they need gates. And gates aren't free.
If it was meant to be connected to the internet it would be called ASOTAS
Now I'm sad about the length of news I really couldn't care less being about four times longer than news I'd like to know more about.
And they even include corrections (as fundamental as changing Caroline to Carolyn).
In science news, to get more than four paragraphs in the NYT one has to reach Mars riding a comet harnessed with carbon nanotubes. And replacing "light years" with "ping-pong balls" wouldn't be deemed deserving of errata.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.