You are how you walk.
Posted on December 15, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
onClick Biometrics in touch: You are how you walk.:
Wondering what’s happening with gait biometrics? This is the technology that can use regular video cameras, and identify you based on how you walk. It’s not talked about as much because there are more privacy issues relating to a technology that can label you without even knowing [...]
Solution to Computer Viruses?
Posted on December 10, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
BigUnix – [The] End of Computer Viruses Is Near:
Ever since large numbers of people have been getting access to the internet, the game has been changing for computer security. Adequate solutions in the past can no longer handle the scale of threats that occur now. Large numbers of machines on the internet are vulnerable to [...]
Password Overload Syndrome
Posted on December 9, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Calum MacLeod, Senior Consultant for Cyber-Ark writes, in Biometric Digest:
Administrators, like most of us, have the best of intentions, but the more those passwords exchange hands or remain unchanged, the greater the likelihood of a security breach. Also because administrative passwords frequently need to be shared, there is increased risk that they are just left [...]
US-wide Survey On Fingerprint Biometrics
Posted on December 9, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
US-wide Survey On Fingerprint Biometrics:
A majority of U.S. consumers are willing to pay a premium to add fingerprint biometrics to their electronic devices – such as PCs and cell phones – to help make their life easier and more secure, according to a recent nationwide survey.
via onClick Biometrics
Illegal Engineering
Posted on December 9, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
timhunkin/illegal engineering:
An illustrated lecture about the history of Safes and Safe breaking. The lecture is based round a large wooden safe with a video camera inside, projecting the inside of the door mechanism on a screen.
This is currently my favourite lecture to perform. There’s something very satisfying about the simple ingenuity of safes and locks. [...]
Random Numbers
Posted on December 7, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Take a Chance: Science News Online, Dec. 4, 2004:
Now, physicists and computer scientists are figuring out ways to pull true randomness out of the physical world. One Web site, for instance, generates random numbers from the noise of a radio tuned between stations. And a commercial device put on the market last March harnesses nature’s [...]
Comic Strip RSS Feeds
Posted on December 7, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, comics, syndication | Leave a Comment
uberwald – Attention all Web Comic artists, etc:
I don’t know if you’re aware of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), or the benefits that it can offer you as a provider of content on the internet. Personally, I read about 45 comic strips online, all but one of which is a web-only comic. A handful of these [...]
Phones That Get In Your Face
Posted on December 6, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I just noticed an ad in my sidebar:
Neven Vision Inc.
SDKs and Custom Solutions for Face and Object Recognition
www.nevenvision.com
(Feel free to click on the ad instead if it is available.)
Anyway, they have an article in this month’s (Dec 2004) Wired magazine called “Phones That Get In Your Face“:
The Santa Monica, California, startup has created the only [...]
Search Engines for Handwritten Documents
Posted on December 6, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Slashdot | Search Engines for Handwritten Documents:
An anonymous reader writes ‘Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have created a tool for automatically searching handwritten historical documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George Washington’s personal papers in the Library of Congress. The most interesting part is that the papers are scanned versions of [...]
Graphviz
Posted on December 6, 2004 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Graphviz:
The Graphviz layout programs take descriptions of graphs in a simple text language, and make diagrams in several useful formats such as images and SVG for web pages, Postscript for inclusion in PDF or other documents; or display in an interactive graph browser. (Graphviz also supports GXL, an XML dialect.)
This looks very useful. Will play [...]