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Recognizing Your Own Handwriting As A Password 151

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 02, 2007 @08:44AM from the sounds-suspiciously-like-reading dept.

Gary writes "A new online authentication system called Dynahand could make logging in to websites a little easier. With Dynahand, users simply identify their own handwriting, instead of entering a cryptic password or buying a biometric device to scan their fingerprints. The user's handwriting samples contain only digits, since numerals are harder for an outside party to recognize than letters are. The digits displayed are random, so the handwriting is the only clue to the correct answer."

A Reprieve for Internet Radio 108

Posted by Zonk on Monday July 02, 2007 @07:09AM from the i-can-keep-getting-my-soundtrack-fix dept.

westlake writes "In the wake of Internet Radio's Day of Silence, SoundExchange has proposed a temporary $2500 cap on advance payments 'per channel/per station.' The Digital Music Association responded immediately in its own press release that it would agree to this, but only if the term for the new arrangement were extended to 2010 — or, preferably, forever. On another front, SoundExchange seems aware in its PR that it will have to concede something more to the non-profit webcaster, if it is to avoid Congressional action."

Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Finally End Journey 210

Posted by Zonk on Monday July 02, 2007 @05:10AM from the born-free-as-free-as-the-wind-blows dept.

Bert de Jong writes "The Daily Mail reports that thousands of rubber ducks who have traveled the seas of the world since 1992 are about to end their journey. After escaping out of a container fallen off a Chinese freight ship in a storm, scientists have been followed them on their fifteen year trek. This has turned out to be an invaluable source of information for studying ocean currents. Now it seems inevitable though that they will finally land on the shores of South-West England. '[Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer] correctly predicted what many thought was impossible - that thousands of them would end up washed into the Arctic ice near Alaska, and then move at a mile a day, frozen in the pack ice, around their very own North-West Passage to the Atlantic. It proved true years later and in 2003, the first Friendly Floatees were found, frozen and then thawed out, on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada. So precious to science are they that the US firm that made them is offering a £50 bounty for finding one.'"

Comment Need new Trackballs (Score 1) 377

by ebelisle on Thursday September 08, 2005 @04:38PM (#13512793) Attached to: Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse

I can't agree enough about the Logictech Trackman Marble FX. I've got two and I hope they never die because it looks like Logitech will never comeout with a new trackball.

The only newer trackball out there is the Cordless Optical TrackMan, but I don't see why I need to consume mass batteries for a device I will never move.

I want a new trackball from Logitech with finger movement (bulge on right), lots of buttons, a cord, and USB. Basically, a corded Optical Trackman.

But three years and no new Trackballs? I feel like I'm the only trackball using dinosaur in the valley, except I evolved from a mouse, and now I have to de-evolve [devolve?] back.

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