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Comment Re:Hemoglobin? Uh. Not quite. (Score 3, Insightful) 107

Cut off the hand in such a way as to keep the appendage from bleeding out (think fire-heated axe), and there's still going to be blood (and hemoglobin) in there.

Pretty sure it uses the RF properties of iron when in motion. If it does use IR, then the blood needs to be a different temperature than the skin. Cutting off the hand would cause the blood to cool too much.

Comment Re:Not Secure (Score 1) 107

Not unless you can print a picture that will show different levels of reflection to the near-infrared wavelengths.

Actually, you'd just have to print something using a Laser printer (toner contains iron oxide, just like Hemoglobin) and tape it to something, like a copper sheet, to produce a very similar picture to the camera.

Comment Re:Give it up. (Score 5, Informative) 200

Indeed. Mostly give up the idea of having the host encrypt files for you. You never know if they have a backdoor of some sort. Find/write software (I use Arq) to encrypt files and then send the encrypted files to a host like Amazon S3. It's really the only way for the host to have the "zero-knowledge" you desire.

Comment Re:Shame about intel mac pros (Score 4, Informative) 134

Current versions of Mac OS X require 64-bit EFI. The original Mac Pros only had 32-bit EFI. Mountain Lion does not have a 32-bit kernel and will not load 32-bit drivers in kernel space (kexts). If you replace the graphics card in the original Mac Pro with one that has a 64-bit driver, you can install Mountain Lion on the original MacPro1,1.

See http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47 for instructions.

Comment Re:Good old Oracle/Java (Score 2, Interesting) 82

I don't see what this has to do with Oracle/Java politics.

Google had/has absolutely no idea what the "correct" list of cipher order was/is. Google copied the order from OpenSSL. Google removed dependency on OpenSSL. Google copied from another source, which happened to be Java.

The ultimate choice may have been done for compatibility with websites not supporting TLS 1.2 but it was not done for compatibility with Java.

Comment Usable Fingerprint data? (Score 4, Interesting) 303

Aside from the fact the government and many institutions (like Banking in the US) already have your fingerprint...

Is there any evidence at all that the fingerprint data store in the A7 is even usable outside of iOS? There's no reason at all to store a raw image of the fingerprint. How would you recreate the fingerprint to make it usable to someone?

Comment Re:Not everything is about Apple. (Score 2) 146

"how is this any different than the fact that Apple pays for product placement in *every* TV show or movie that has a laptop or phone in it?"

Apple doesn't tend to pay for product placements. When TV shows/Movies use a product on camera they will often go to the manufacturer demanding money for the logo to be seen. Apple says no in these cases. That's why most TV shows/movies using Apple products have the apple logo hidden under something (like a post-it note).

When the companies go to the TV show/movie people asking for product placement, the camera will usually hover unnaturally over the product for an extended period of time.

Comment Re:Smart move (Score 2) 457

standard USB power port as in the same kind everyone else used/uses. The spec you pointed to didn't exist until 2010. Apple's USB charger predates the Standard standard but does not predate other standard USB chargers. If you've had a standard USB charger before Oct, 2011, chances are great that it does not conform to the 1.2 spec either.

("standard" as in bog-standard not as in the 1.2 Battery charging Standard).

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