@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
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In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
"Interesting thought ... If you installed Win7 as a dual boot on a machine that previously only had Linux, and it wrecked your Linux installation,...
This is an excellent summary of Ubuntu and Mint and the interface differences between them. Most such articles take a very partisan position for...
@ewallace. Not so clear. Anyone can obtain the text, for example from here http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/2379.
I support ACTA so long as it and...
Talkback
To whom it may concern,
Identix's [IDNX-Nasdaq listed] patented moisture discrimination technology that has recently been made available on their scanning technology eliminates the "clean hands" problem. It also addresses the greasy, sweaty or wet hands problem. I thought you would like to know that before you lumped Identix into the group that can't handle "clean hands".
Regards,
Darrell E. Smith
Biometric Homeland Security Specialist
ZDnet,
Additional comment on subject of "clean hands". The "IT" biometrics market that you are addressing is still in a nascent stage. When the Federal Government releases its new Biometric Standards for "IT applications" then you will see the "IT" biometric market accelerate. These new standards are planned to be developed to make it possible for secure transactions and communications between the Federal Government and its suppliers / vendors. We are at least 1 year away from these Federal "IT" biometric standards. The real vibrant and explosive market for biometrics currently is the Govenment Forensic ID Market for passports, and visas, etc. It is in this area that Identix has the patented moisture discrimination technology. You can expect this moisture discrimination technology along with "liveness" technology to migrate to the computer "IT" and physical access biometric markets when they have interoperable standards in place. President Bush has recently penned the letter that will mandate these standards. You can find his "electronic and information security" mandate on the Whitehouse.gov website.
"It's a cause of frustration in healthcare because staff wash their hands so often the biometric reader cannot scan them,"
you know here in the UK we have MRSA because our nurses and doctors do not wash their hands!
Ant Allen ought to do his homework before making gross generalizations about "biometrics". As with all emerging technologies, there are both god and bad products, good and bad implementations. To say that all biometrics - finger is one of many - or even that all finger scan biometrics - they come in various flavors: optical, silicon, ultrasound, etc wth offerings from a range of vendors - do not work demonstrates a lack of understanding of the current state of the industry. I am an independent biometric industry analyst and have confidence that given well defined requirements for a specific environment, biometrics may or may not be an appropriate component of an IT security solution. but ought not to be dismissed outright.
(a) Learn to spell people’s names correctly; it’s only courteous.
(b) Learn to distinguish between “sweeping generalizations” and comments that are limited to “some cases”.
(c) Understand that journalists filter what the people they interview actually say, sometimes conflating different ideas, and sometimes just getting things plain wrong! (Sorry, Dan.)
Max, anytime you want to tell how successful and problem-free biometric technologies really are… well, you’ll find contact details on the gartner.com website.
Ant Allan