Put Your Finger on Proper Security
Posted on December 28, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Redmond | Feature Article: Put Your Finger on Proper Security:
But what if the hacker learns your account password? Game over, right? Not quite: Biometric devices such as fingerprint readers can protect you, but it’s not as simple as plugging them in. To integrate biometrics with Active Directory takes planning, testing and a managed deployment, and [...]
Sphere Worlds
Posted on December 27, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Math Trek: Sphere Worlds, Science News Online, Dec. 18, 2004:
Termes takes a unique perspective in his art. In effect, he imagines crawling inside a transparent ball, then looking out with one eye in all directions from a center point. He then transfers what he sees onto the outside of a sphere.
via Boing Boing.
Securing your home computer for free
Posted on December 26, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This post is primarily for a friend of mine, but I’m putting it up here in case it would interest anyone else. This comes from a personal experience that I am currently undergoing (as in right now) with reformatting my wife’s computer to make it all new and sparkly again. So if you have a [...]
Read More..>>Is There a Future for Speech in Vehicles?
Posted on December 23, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I found an interesting article in Speech Technology Magazine on the future of speech technology in vehicles, and it even covers audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR):
Whether it is navigation information, faxes, phone calls, or Web content that a driver requires, AVSR will boost the accuracy of the speech recognition engine and help to eliminate the need [...]
Multiple Identities
Posted on December 22, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Joi Ito’s Web: I’m not Joi Ito, that’s just my name:
There is a lot of talk about identity these days. You MUST remember that identities are like names. You are NOT your identity. Your identity points to you. Everyone has multiple identities. Roger Clark describes this as the difference between entities and identities. You are [...]
speech recognition based video searching
Posted on December 17, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
blinkx video search:
blinkx TV allows you to search the web for video and audio clips. Unlike other search providers, blinkx TV not only lets you search using standard keyword and Boolean queries but you can also use conceptual search. This type of search is provided by blinkx only, and allows you to enter normal text [...]
Why you shouldn’t be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks . . .
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Why you shouldn’t be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks . . .:
So this is my first ever blog entry and seeing as how I’m a senior member of the PSS Security Incident Response team, you may think I’ve stopped taking my medication by opening with a title like the one above! [...]
TinyP2P
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
TinyP2P:
TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless.
via Boing Boing.
Mechanical LEGO Logic Gates
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
The Goldfish Online - LEGO Logic Gates:
I have now designed working NOT, OR, NOR, AND, and NAND gates. Using two NAND gates I have produced a NAND gate latch or Flip-FLop. The natural follow on from these is clocked logic, full-adders and ultimately a genuine ‘computer’ device. At the moment all these gates essentially just [...]
How the US Government is encouraging biometric growth
Posted on December 15, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
How the US Government is encouraging biometric growth : SecureID News:
A successful future for biometrics is being propelled by the US Government, and their many biometric projects. Here’s an article that sums up everything to date, from US-VISIT to the Frequent Flyers project to the TWIC card. These things are definitely pushing the technology forward.