Swilden's post agrees, and of course, if you can break the hardware and modify it you can perform a replay attack only providing the bio parameters, not even faking a print. However, swilden also points out that the amount of effort required to do these things is significant... With well designed systems, it will be significant for a long time, still. You have to consider the threat to determine the risk of using biometrics... In many situations, the threat is unsophisticated, and unlikely to ever be sophisticated enough, especially if there are simpler ways for the actor to accomplish their goals.

I saw that movie! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...â"_The_Wall

Why is a relationship between Google and the White House anywhere near as bad as one between our lawmakers and Boeing, Lockheed, tobacco companies, cable companies, or firearms companies? I trust Google way more than those other guys, and for the White House to actively sway anything in favour of Goog would make waves.

Are you suggesting that Bitcoin is as safe as the USD? One of those still works when the lights go out...

I agree. Downloaders, Hulu watchers, or network website viewers will not see the TV ads because that's not how the system currently works. To include those folks in the Nielsen ratings would make the ratings less relevant to the people who actually pay for the shows. Viewers don't pay for the shows, advertisers do (excepting premium, which, why can't I buy an Internet subscription from HBO?).

It's unfortunate that the number we talk about as a show's popularity is the Nielsen number, which increasingly does not represent actual popularity. Because these networks are a business, though, as these other audiences make up more of their income due to Hulu ads/whatever, the networks will have to start taking them into account. Then the definition of show popularity will no longer solely be the Nielson rating based on TV viewership. It'll probably just be proportional to delivery medium income...

[Citation needed] It's not that I think this can't be true, I'd just like to know specific cases where it was true. Certainly I can think of unethical appropriations of the type you mention, but I wouldn't put deals with Boeing in the category of "worst acts from our government".

Here's the relevant part (sorry, editing on a phone isn't that easy...):

Now comes the fun part: modern hardware acceleration. I assume everybody already knows what OpenGL is. It’s not a library, there will never be one set of sources to alibGL.so. Each vendor is supposed to provide its ownlibGL.so. NVIDIA provides its own implementation of OpenGL and ships its ownlibGL.so, based on its implementations for Windows and OS X.

If you are running open-source drivers, yourlibGL.so implementation probably comes from Mesa. Mesa is many things, but one of the major things it provides that it is most famous for is its OpenGL implementation. It is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL API. Mesa itself has multiple backends for which it provides support. It has three CPU-based implementations: swrast (outdated and old, do not use it), softpipe (slow), llvmpipe (potentially fast). Mesa also has hardware-specific drivers. Intel supports Mesa and has built a number of drivers for their chipsets which are shipped inside Mesa. The radeon and nouveau drivers are also supported in Mesa, but are built on a different architecture: gallium.

I've wondered this before too. How does it all fit together. I found this very helpful: http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-stack/#rendering-stack

I saw this headline and was worried about the Cheeto and Mountain Dew famines that would occur if a community of displaced Battlestar Galactica Gamers was unleashed upon this land.

Well, if you were talking to a geosat satellite, those are way out there in orbit. Fast electrically steerable antennas may allow comms with low earth orbit satellites, which would lower latency.

There are a lot of ways to look at hard, somewhat generic problems, like Sudoku. Have you seen the SAT problem? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem One way to consider it is like you describe - a set of simultaneous equations. Another way to consider it is to use the equations and some rules to draw a graph, then perform graph operations. NP problems are an active area of academic interest. It's generally not possible to know how hard these problems are before solving them, so if this technique can be more general than just Sudoku, that could be important.

Yes. This. In the same way, dumb folks are a complete turnoff, I don't care how good you look.

I've put this statement to the test.

Clearly, then, the solution is to install listening devices in everyone's homes.

That was my initial thought too. But the complaining worked, so more power to the complainers.

My interpretation was, "temperature variations caused by cosmic rays are influenced more by supernovae than by the Sun." I think it's similar to yours, but that the Sun and supernovae are causing cosmic rays to affect Earth's temperature. It probably infers what you're saying too.