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I’m afraid at some point all WF users may have to resort to rooting them in order to get stock Android and its updates. This looks to be the appropriate detructions. Perhaps Steve or someone else who is familiar with the black art of rooting could take a look and advise the best path to follow:
Microsoft recommend a PIN plus biometric as readers break down.
Almost within days of Apple bringing out its fingerprint sensor there were proof of concept slip-on fake finger prints being demonstrated. Not really the same as a ‘fake’ fingerprint as it would lack the natural oils of a real finger, but good enough to spoof camera based fingerprint sensors. The more secure versions now detect heat and 3D details to try and eliminate spoofing. My feeling is that biometrics while a useful aid and complement do not really give anywhere near the same degree of security as a conventional password based system +biometric if you will..
It was this fact that led to my negative reaction to the Quora ‘answer’.
Bob, try this link instead. I always distrust Quora as a single evidence base. Most posters seem to have a personal axe to grind and rarely support their statements. Good catch on the date on my previous post, my bad for not checking that the link was timely as I knew that fingerprint spoofing is a real issue.
I will accept that tape is impractical – try superglue instead! link
I think I first became worried about statistics being abused in court twenty odd years ago when I read about a criminal case (I forget most of the details) in which the prosecution stated that there was only a one in a million chance that the accused’s DNA could have come from someone else. This was presented and accepted by the jury as an absolute proof of guilt (the only evidence I remember that was shown in the newspaper of the time). Unfortunately it appeared that the defence lawyer was a complete prat as he did not even state that there are 5.5 million people in the West Midlands, let alone raise the problems of contamination, near relatives etc. He certainly did not get into the Bayesian stats that would have been appropriate in a challenge and probably brought the odds down to one in twenty.
Unfortunately a valid challenge would go down like a lead balloon with the average jury as they would not understand a word he said! This of course the other side of the coin in the abuse of statistics – right or wrong the expert who can make the stats ‘simple’ wins.
“One scenario in crime shows, is the transference of fingerprints from one surface to another, in order to leave false ‘evidence’ and implicate an innocent person. Garbage! –”
Unfortunately Bob, fingerprint transfer is actually possible and virtually undetectable in certain circumstances: Police Science Link
In fact it has been shown that there are problems in most forensic techniques, such that they can no longer be given the ‘absolute’ proof that many courts previously gave to such evidence. DNA evidence is particularly flawed and subject to a lot of problems. Statistical evidence is also flawed, probably because those presenting it do not really understand it.
We will be starting to see courts requiring that such sets of evidence are produced in support of other independent circumstantial evidence rather than riding on its own.
Bit of a retropost, but I thought that maybe someone would find it useful to get a <£20 solution to the OP’s original problem.
I recently swapped my PC but due to PCIe changes I could not scavenge the old 7.1 soundblaster card and the on-board sound of the new PC is two speaker only. I hunted around for a 7.1 usb sound card and came up with a CSL – USB 7.1 external sound card. It is brilliant for the money – great sound and mostly compatible with my 15 years old Creative 7.1 speaker set up. (It does not split the four side speakers out from the Creative wire loom, but quite happily allowed direct speaker connections for these, so back to full 7.1 sound for the small add-on cost of a single mono pair->stereo adapter and a mix & match speaker system.)
Well worth the money if you have similar problems and suffer from short arms/deep pockets!
To me it is much more worrying that the technology now exists to make anyone appear to have carried out dastardly acts. The porn industry has apparently banned these deep fakes link, However IMO such processing should be made illegal in ALL cases if the person depicted is still alive. I worry that the 85% of technically illiterate people in the general population will believe everything they see, and malign manipulation of public opinion becomes an everyday occurrence .The comedic voice-over depictions of Have I Got News for You could easily become a dark reality if we are not careful.
I still remember the ‘kick’ that a 303 gave you even when the darned thing was held properly. In contrast during the late 90s I went to one of the many PLA gun ranges near the Great Wall by Beijing and shot off a variety of guns from AK47s through to an Uzi mp (probably a PRC clone). None of them came even close to the old mule kick of a 303. Crazy place, for enough dollars you could even shoot off an rpg.
This laptop is Norwegian Parroted – but as a laptop it should have a recovery mode.
If that fails and it might if the disk or bios has been Trojaned then I’m afraid you are back to drive removal/replacement as an option.
Information from rubbish is of course impossible, but as this github shows it is possible to hallucinate a much clearer image based on sufficient training data (the image flips between the original and an hallucinated image). I would guess that this should easily cope with ‘regular’ images such as the clock face example, and similarly extrapolate regular features from a blurred face.
However a defence lawyers would have a field day as soon as they saw the technical phrase ‘hallucinate’ the image!
Not dead yet, just tottering on the edge. Great shame, I hope they post rooting instructions to go stock Android if they do breathe their last.
Definitely either a carp drive or more likely a bunch of real nasties on there that include all the A/V and bios diverts.
You unhold it!
sudo apt-mark unhold skypeforlinux.
The social environment at an early age is very important. One gson was a very late talker and was rated borderline on the CARS scale. Involvement in drama classes has both improved his speech, and through the play acting bit has made him far more socially aware. Apart from being rated as very high on the logic/maths scale he is now pretty much on track for speech and social involvement and has fallen off the CARS rating.
For balance, I should have perhaps added that SWMBO is addicted to it. I sometimes watch when the background intrudes but I more often turn to finding something else on my Fire Tablet.
edit – your father would probably have had apoplexy if he had met ‘Blaster’ Bates. That said I was once a gofer for him for a short while on one of his ‘*real’ blasting contracts and he was a tyrant with respect to safety and policing the area.
*real compared with the japes he would get up to with blasting caps or detonating cord on one of his speaking tours.
You expect ACCURACY on a piece of fiction like this! Even the basic story lines with pathologists acting as front-line detectives stretches the limits of incredulity. However I dislike this program most for its incessant gratuitous violence towards women, and its frequent very left-wing propaganda.
Steve, I would have said that there is no pass or fail. I don’t know if it was the same test (autism), but to me it looked more like a screening test for auditors. In that respect at least I failed as I do not have a ‘tidy’ mind!
My old company invested zillions in ensuring that all their management staff went through a battery of personality and sensitivity tests. Most of which I thought were borderline bs, but it culminated in a T-group session on top of a Swiss berg of about eight people which was a positively dangerous experience for some. I remember a Greek individual (probably borderline paranoid) who stated that he was going to go back and ‘kill’ all the staff who filled in nasty responses to the ‘anonymous’ questionnaires! He was probably one of those who were actually damaged by taking a personality test, so I’d treat the results of a simple test with a lot of caution.
I agree with Tippon. It sounds like something is interfering with the normal boot process.
I hate to say it but it has some of the traits of a ring-zero Trojan. Remove the drive if you can and do an external a/v scan. Sometimes that is easier said than done. If you can get into the bios allow it to boot from usb and do an offline scan using an a/v loaded onto a usb stick.
My father used to say that it is only blunt tools that cut. Blunt ones tend to ‘stick’ and jerk where you least expect.
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