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Ah, and I had even put a bit in the last Daily News about it: Shane, Bob, and I went off for a bit of a rehab. We're back (mostly recharged and uninjured), at least until Chris decides we're too much of a bother.
TTFN - Kent
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Forensic experts have long been able to match a series of prints to the hand that left them, or a bullet to the gun that fired it. Now, the same thing is being done with the photos taken by digital cameras, and is ushering in a new era of digital crime fighting. Sounds real accurate: "...researchers were able to match a photo with a specific person 56 per cent of the time..."
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What's really sad about this article is that they tested
the pictures from only 10 people, not a very representative
sample size. 
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The worse thing is that the method will be applied, regardless how bad it is, and ... bad luck for you once you were wrongly identified.
Remember that ten-year old boy who was suspected (based on a DNA analysis) to have been involved in an IRA attack several years before he was born? Or the "phantom" who was involved in dozens of unrelated crimes throughout Germany and Austria (who eventually was identified as a staff member of the company providing the DNA tests)?
Greetings from Kafka.
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Hmm, seems like a place where technology can be used to anonymize pictures to prevent such matching.
I feel an app coming on...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Japan and car manufacturing are pretty much synonymous with robots. Some of the most advanced and practical bots hail from the former and work in the latter.
It may, therefore, surprise you to learn Japanese carmaker, Toyota, is flipping the equation by replacing robots with humans to boost efficiency. Lineups at the local Robo Food Bank are expected to triple.
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China has been infamous for producing bad knock-offs of Western tech in recent years - from poor smartphone imitations to fake Apple stores and everything in-between.
However, Cambridge-based chip designer ARM reckons the tide is turning, with many China-based tech companies looking to differentiate from Western products by focusing on innovation and meeting the needs of the region's vast consumer base. We'll miss you China!
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The internet will have nearly 3 billion users, about 40 percent of the world's population, by the end of 2014, according to a new report from the United Nations International Telecommunications Union. Two-thirds of those users will be in developing countries. I guess people really like the Internet or something.
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That's like a world population of 7.5 billion people.
Better start crankin' out more iPhones, iPods and Androids, people!
IPv8, here we come!
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An article in The Wall Street Journal this week quoted executives from antivirus pioneer Symantec uttering words that would have been industry heresy a few years ago, declaring antivirus software “dead” and stating that the company is focusing on developing technologies that attack online threats from a different angle. Global champagne shortage as Black Hats everywhere begin "poppin' bottles".
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More companies are collecting more internal and external data than ever before, increasing the need for tech pros capable of wielding powerful analytics tools. Big Data, Big Data everywhere!
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Curious, what would you guys suggest for a new kid who loves technology but doesn't have an overwhelming programming fetish to aim for?
We have a couple interns starting in a week or two and from the interviews, they seem pretty sharp. I was thinking DBA.
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It seems to me that a big problem with big data is the high barrier to entry - there just aren't many large data sets available for learners to use to find their mojo. The low cost of entry for programming, by contrast, means there is always a large cadre of new entrants.
What open data sets exist are typically on the model of running queries to extract data then perform the analytics on your side of the wire.
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Incidentally, in he UK at the moment there is huge controversy about the use of the NHS medical data - an absolutely huge source of data on pretty much every citizen in the UK. This data could be hugely useful to companies looking for diagnostic correlation that require a data set too big for clinical trial, but there are (obviously) major concerns about personal identifiable information and how to trust third parties with that data.
If, instead, the government kept the data closed but allowed people to write and submit Map-Reduce style queries then (a) the data threat is reduced and (b) that huge Big-Data resource could be used by universities to train the next generation of IT people. I believe this is already how things are done in Wales?
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The problem with using that sort of data is that de-anonymization researchers have proved over and over again that supposedly anonymous user data from Insert Service Here is easy to match back with users real world identities. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A project's choice of a license will have significant effects on its ability to sustain itself. An elegant license for a more civilized age?
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Welcome to the real world where you have to charge for your work in order to survive.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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This analyzes an actual attack on our servers, captured entirely with sysdig. Because I like exposing my jugular to lions I don't know.
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Interesting read!
OT: Did you feed Kent to the Hamsters?
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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Kent cannot be killed, for he is a figment of Chris's imagination. I predict he will return shortly.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I'm getting the feeling SO has made a big step in the "mechanical turk for programming assignments" direction lately. It's always been something like that, but it's starting to get really bad now. Are those times a-changin'?
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The reason why most new questions are bad is because there's no need to ask a good question twice...
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I  to hold back the 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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