Comment: I was in the same boat (Score 2) 187
I ended up with gscan2pdf and a rigid directory and filename structure. It works, but yeah, tags would be nice.
Comment: Re:Is this war really going to happen? (Score 1) 969
You tell me.
December 8: Iran responsible for 1998 U.S. embassy bombings
December 22: Judge: Iran, Taliban, al Qaeda liable for 9/11
December 8: Iran responsible for 1998 U.S. embassy bombings
December 22: Judge: Iran, Taliban, al Qaeda liable for 9/11
I can't tell if they have decided yet, but I wouldn't rule out that this is the preparation of a narrative.
Comment: Lame. (Score 1) 130
Boston Dynamics' PETMAN could do its own balancing two years ago.
Comment: Re:Abode Is The Weakest Link (Score 4, Informative) 244
The problem is that it is not "only supposed to be a document display". Someone gave a pretty good summary on Reddit about a month ago. The conclusion is that Adobe Reader is most likely overkill for 90% of the users, and you should stick to something like SumatraPDF or Foxit.
Comment: Doesn't desktop firewalls have one advantage? (Score 1) 440
Aren't desktop firewalls useful in cases where attackers use malicious PDFs/Office documents/browser exploits to run reverse shells? If the exploit tries to connect to evilhost.com:443, how can a server firewall know that the connection is not a legitimate HTTPS connection?
As far as I understand, desktop firewalls would block attempts like these, as long as the connection isn't initiated by a whitelisted program. Of course the exploit payload could include methods to whitelist itself, but I assume there is no one single method to do this, so the payload would have to include custom methods for each of the personal firewall vendors.
Disclaimer: I have no experience with personal firewalls, and if I'm talking out of my ass, please correct me.
Comment: When? (Score 1) 189
The Youtube video was posted January 12, 2008 :\
Analyzing (All of) Star Trek With Face Recognition 140
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kdawson
from the sees-you-when-you're-sleeping dept.
from the sees-you-when-you're-sleeping dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Accurate face recognition is coming. Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, a face recognition start-up spun out from Carnegie Mellon University, has posted a tech demo showing an analysis of the entire original Star Trek series using face recognition. The online visualization includes various annotated clips of the series with clickable thumbnails of each character's appearance. They also have a separate page showing the full data of all the prominent characters in every episode including extracting thumbnails of each appearance." Their software can recognize frontal or near-frontal face instances.
Comment: Re:Buh? (Score 1) 386
I think Sharepoint can do exactly what you are looking for. I haven't seen the "usable interface", though, as the installations I've tried has been quite messy web interfaces, but I'm sure it can be customized to no end.
Comment: CNN Live (Score 1) 197
CNN Live (a href="http://edition.cnn.com/live/">http://cnn.com/live/ works fine for me in Ubuntu, but thanks.
Comment: Re:Still not safe to use Suse of any sort (Score 2, Insightful) 173
Yeah, we will keep coming back to that. From the article I recognized, of course, Banshee, Beagle and F-Spot, but Tasque and Monsoon were new to me. A quick search confirmed both are written in Mono.
A bit further down:
OpenSUSE ships a modified version of OpenOffice.org that bundles Novell's patchset, which includes some nice improvements that Sun has declined to accept upstream for various technical and licensing reasons.
And another Ars article says:
Many of these patches maintained by Novell provide important features that are valuable to Linux users, including support for embedded multimedia via GStreamer, (...) and support for Mono-based automation and scripting.
Mono does not seem to be just means to an end, but an end in itself.
openSUSE Launches 11.1 173
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ScuttleMonkey
from the i-am-lizard-hear-me-roar dept.
from the i-am-lizard-hear-me-roar dept.
Novell has unveiled their latest release to the openSUSE line with 11.1. Offering both updates and new features, Novell continues to push for more openness and transparency. The new release includes Linux kernel 2.6.27, Python 2.6, Mono 2.0, OpenOffice 3.0, and many others. "[...] Our choice was also influenced by impressive changes that are transpiring in the openSUSE community, which is growing rapidly and is also becoming more open, inclusive, and transparent. Last month, the project announced its first community-elected board, a major milestone in its advancement towards community empowerment. This is a very good openSUSE release and it delivers some very impressive enhancements. The distro has evolved tremendously in the past two releases and is becoming a very solid and usable option for regular users."
Comment: Re:Makes for an awkward situation (Score 1) 272
Doesn't your argument assume that all the stores can afford dumping the prices for an equal length of time? This method sounds like a way to get rid of the smallest shops.
Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop 530
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Soulskill
from the sliding-down-a-slippery-slope dept.
from the sliding-down-a-slippery-slope dept.
Apro+im points out a NYTimes report which states that Microsoft and the OLPC project have officially agreed to put Windows XP on the XO laptop. While Microsoft has been working toward this for some time, analysts began to think a deal was more likely after Walter Bender resigned from the project and was replaced by Charles Kane. Former OLPC security developer Ivan Krstic had a lot to say about Windows on the XO as well. From the Times:
"Windows will add a bit to the price of the machines, about $3, the licensing fee Microsoft charges to some developing nations under a program called Unlimited Potential. For those nations that want dual-boot models, running both Windows and Linux, the extra hardware required will add another $7 or so to the cost of the machines, Mr. Negroponte said. The project's agreement with Microsoft involves no payment by the software giant, and Microsoft will not join One Laptop Per Child's board. 'We've stayed very pure,' Mr. Negroponte said.
Feds Block EFF Look at Google/DoJ Contacts 79
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CmdrTaco
from the if-we-are-honest-the-terrorists-win dept.
from the if-we-are-honest-the-terrorists-win dept.
netbuzz writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to know all there is to know about contacts between Google and a Justice Department official involved in a highly charged 2006 government-snooping dispute that ensnared the search giant. That DoJ official, Jane Horvath, was subsequently hired by Google last year as senior privacy counsel. The DoJ has refused for six months to release public information about the matter being requested by EFF."
OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops 231
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timothy
from the what-about-vista-and-sugar-dual-boot dept.
from the what-about-vista-and-sugar-dual-boot dept.
Ian Lamont writes "The OLPC Project and Microsoft are developing a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on the laptops, according to an interview with Nicholas Negroponte. The article is thin on details, as the OLPC/Microsoft talks are apparently at an early stage. Could this be the end of the OS wars in Nigeria and other developing countries?"
While Microsoft has been working on an OLPC-capable version of Windows for some time now, the interesting thing here is the dual-booting provision, rather than forcing users into an either-or choice.