Detecting hardware from outside the box

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Microsoft Hardware & Starck Design
Company Hardware Collaboration

Microsoft Hardware & Starck Design
Company Hardware Collaboration 06/22/2004 10:50 AM
You heard it first here. Microsoft informed us today that we could post a link to this teaser announcing a product collaboration between Microsoft Hardware and Starck Design Company. Starck is a high-end cosmopolitan design company which works include everything from boats to clocks..along with this upcoming mystery product which is going to be released on July 8th.

Lie detecting eyeglasses

Lie detecting eyeglasses 01/19/2004 11:43 AM
V Entertainment has been showing off a pair of eyeglasses that they claim comes with a built-in lie detector with LEDs that flash red when...

Detecting Bioterrorism

Detecting Bioterrorism 06/07/2004 07:28 AM
The systems designed to collect early-warning biodetection and surveillance data are still sorely lacking, according to two new reports.

Detecting RAS and VPN Clients

Detecting RAS and VPN Clients 05/29/2004 04:53 AM

The Latest In Lie Detecting

The Latest In Lie Detecting 11/05/2003 02:55 AM
Everybody knows that the old polygraph test is a joke that isn't particularly accurate. So, the next question is whether or not it's possible to build a system that can actually catch people telling a lie? It looks like there are a lot of different projects underway to invent the next generation of lie detector. Researchers are trying out all different methods, many of them sponsored by the Department of Defense. There are certainly a number of ethical issues with "looking into someone's mind", but the researchers appear to have come to terms with those issues (or, perhaps we should test them on their own machines to see how they feel on that issue...).

Detecting Photoshop Hacks

Detecting Photoshop Hacks 07/29/2004 06:47 PM

For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum: A group of folks out at Dartmouth College are breaking new ground in the art of detecting if images have been altered or not. You just can't believe a picture anymore. Especially not on this site.

For example, when two images are spliced together — like the picture of a shark attacking a helicopter that has circulated around the Internet in the past few years — one or both of the original pictures usually has to be shrunk, enlarged or rotated to make the pieces fit together. And those changes, no matter how artful, leave clues behind.

Take a picture that is 10 pixels by 10 pixels, for a total of 100. Stretch it to 10 by 20 pixels, and image-editing software like Adobe Photoshop will assign the picture's original pixels to every other slot in the new picture. That leaves 100 pixels "blank," or without values. Image-editing software fills in the gaps by examining what their neighbors look like, and then applying an average. To oversimplify, if pixel A is blue, and pixel C is red, the blank pixel B will become purple.

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Landmine detecting plant

Landmine detecting plant 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Aresa Biodetection, a Danish biotech company, has genetically modified the Thale Cress weed to turn red when its roots sense...

Detecting Speech Without Microphones

Detecting Speech Without Microphones 04/10/2005 12:50 PM

Auto-Detecting Driver Installers

Auto-Detecting Driver Installers 09/06/2004 11:15 PM

Here's a trend I'm seeing in driver downloads from hardware manufacturers: they're bundling drivers into one file that detects your hardware and installs the right driver. (Mind you, while I'm just noticing this trend, it's probably been around for years...I'm not all that perceptive...)

I got a new machine this week, and it came with a 128MB NVidia GeForce Ti video card (insert sounds of Tim Allen going "Argh-h-h" here...). To get the driver for it, NVidia just has you pick your product line ("GeForce," for instance) and you get a 61MB download with, I guess, every driver for that line. It's an executable that figures out what card you have, and installs it. You can then toss the installer.

The machine came with a Sound Blaster Audigy card as well. Same deal here, with a twist. The download was a little executable that detected the card, then downloaded the correct driver from Creative's site and installed it.

You're sacrificing download size for the sake of not having to figure out what hardware you have. The app saves you the trouble, but you end up downloading 10- or 20-times what you need.

I personally love it, but, then again, I have broadband.

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Forum Stories: Detecting File Changes

Forum Stories: Detecting File Changes 02/19/2004 06:10 PM

Detecting Faked Photographs Gets Easier

Detecting Faked Photographs Gets Easier 07/24/2004 01:14 PM

Love Detector Seems Better At Detecting
Excuses

Love Detector Seems Better At Detecting
Excuses 04/12/2004 03:44 AM
Well, I'd like to give Techdirt's readers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they would all be fairly skeptical of a product called "The Love Detector" that promised to tell you, just by hearing someone speak, if they were in love with the person they were speaking to. They even claim that it's accurate with 96% confidence - though when a Reuters reporter tested it out, he found it didn't seem to work at all, though a recording from the IRS seemed to indicate at least some special interest. This isn't the first time that articles like this have been written, but what's especially amusing is the excuses that the company comes up with every time they're confronted with examples of the system not working. It appears the company may have spent much more time coming up with excuses than actually making sure the device did what it's advertised to do.

Study Yields Biomarkers for Detecting
Cancer

Study Yields Biomarkers for Detecting
Cancer 08/17/2004 09:05 PM
Researchers find three new biomarkers for ovarian cancer that may greatly improve diagnosis at an early stage, reducing the mortality rate.

Buying or Detecting Geo Based Domains
and Web Hosting

Buying or Detecting Geo Based Domains
and Web Hosting 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
Now that local search and country based searching is a reality, it is more important than ever to make sure your site is hosted in the same country as the host country for the TLD.

Germans develop bad breath-detecting
mobe

Germans develop bad breath-detecting
mobe 09/22/2004 06:12 AM
Mouth like a camel's armpit? Siemens can help

Detecting Required Applications with
Windows Installer (I)

Detecting Required Applications with
Windows Installer (I) 05/23/2004 12:05 PM

A Search Engine for Detecting Sites
Using Your Content

A Search Engine for Detecting Sites
Using Your Content 07/07/2004 07:54 AM
There used to be a site that allowed you to enter a chunk of text and find other sites on the 'Net using that same text-chunk. I think that site's...

Where'd we put 'em? US to buy Stealth
bomber detecting radar

Where'd we put 'em? US to buy Stealth
bomber detecting radar 05/20/2004 08:45 AM
Stymies sale to China

Detecting lies by watching blood flow

Detecting lies by watching blood flow 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
David Pescovitz: New Scientists reports on the development of a lie detector that works by tracking blood flow through the blood vessels in your face. The system is being developed by (natch) the Us Department of Defense.

As I relax into the chair, the questioning begins. An automated voice instructs me to answer a series of questions with a simple yes or no. "Is your name Susan?" Yes. "Do you understand that I will not ask any trick questions on this test?" Yes. "Did you stab that woman downstairs this afternoon?" No.

My voice remains calm and even, and I feel no sense of flushing as I continue answering questions and read through a list of potential murder weapons, including the one I guiltily remember using earlier, a screwdriver. But as Ryan's colleagues look through the data afterwards, they pull out two images and set them side by side. The first image looks normal. On the second, large highlighted rings of blood encircle my eyes.

If I were a real criminal, that picture could be big trouble for me.

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Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks

Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks 02/16/2004 01:14 PM
BoingBoing reader Roland Piquepaille says:

So-called social networking is very popular these days, as show the proliferation of services like Friendster, Orkut and dozens of others. But do the companies behind these services have any idea of what is hidden inside their complicated networks? When these networks reach a size of millions of users, it's not an easy task. A researcher at the University of Michigan is trying to help, with a new method for uncovering patterns in complicated networks, from football conferences to food webs. This overview contains more details and references about this non-traditional method. It also includes a spectacular representation of the Internet and another image showing a food web at Little Rock Lake.

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Detecting Worms and Abnormal Activities
with NetFlow

Detecting Worms and Abnormal Activities
with NetFlow 08/17/2004 11:25 AM

Detecting proximity over the Internet
and other dumb DRM notions

Detecting proximity over the Internet
and other dumb DRM notions 12/27/2004 10:39 AM
Cory Doctorow: One of the recurring themes in the DRM negotiations I sit in on is figuring out how far away two different computers are from one another, so that an entertainment company can enforce crazy, paranoid "business models" like, "Buy a movie for viewing on as many PCs as you'd like provided that they're all within 10 feet of one another."

My cow-orker, EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen, has posted a little blog entry about the inherent failings in all the DRM vendors' systems for determining "proximity" of two devices over the Internet.

...DRM vendors are falling back on other tricks. One you hear a lot about is "IP TTL" (a part of the Internet Protocol specification where routers are supposed to subtract 1 from a header field, to prevent a misaddressed packet from floating around the Internet forever). That doesn't provide evidence either, though, because (1) IP headers like TTL are under the minute control of end-users wielding firewall software, and (2) "bridging" software doesn't subtract 1 from TTL in the first place because conceptually it is not acting as a router.

So the last resort of people trying to use TCP/IP and get evidence about locality or proximity has been to measure latency -- how long it takes for one device to communicate with another. Latency is harder to tamper with because there are physical limitations like the speed of light. For example, you can never get any message from New York to Paris in under 19.5 milliseconds because that is how long it takes light to go from one to the other. If you're using a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, there is a magic number around 250 milliseconds (depending on your latitude) because geosynchronous orbits can only occur at one particular altitude and it takes light about 250 milliseconds to cross that entire path. (Geosynchronous orbit is far away!) So some systems have been adopting rules about not sending some programming to devices that take more than a certain number of milliseconds to answer you when you say hello and ask them for acknowledgment, on the theory that devices that answer really quickly plausibly are on the same local network, whereas device that answer more slowly probably are not.

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Detecting Worms and Abnormal Activities
with NetFlow, Part 1

Detecting Worms and Abnormal Activities
with NetFlow, Part 1 08/16/2004 10:27 PM

Apple aims to patent fall-detecting iPod

Apple aims to patent fall-detecting iPod 12/24/2004 12:40 PM
ZDNet Dec 23 2004 7:13PM GMT

Detecting Worms and Abnormal Activities
with NetFlow, Part 2

Detecting Worms and Abnormal Activities
with NetFlow, Part 2 09/23/2004 12:42 PM

Researchers Develop New Machine for
Detecting Signs of Life on Mars

Researchers Develop New Machine for
Detecting Signs of Life on Mars 02/01/2005 09:58 PM

Apple files patent application for
[iPod] fall-detecting technology

Apple files patent application for
[iPod] fall-detecting technology 12/24/2004 01:07 PM
osOpinion Dec 24 2004 4:45PM GMT

New hardware

New hardware 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
For the first time in five years, I've decided to buy a new computer. The decision was prompted by a recent "plug-and-pray" problem: if my USB scanner is connected to my PC, the BIOS won't boot.For a long time now...

Why I should not be let near hardware

Why I should not be let near hardware 06/05/2005 11:10 PM
I have this morning failed to install a new motherboard (an Asus P4P800-E) on my machine. The little internal LED is on indicating that power is getting to it somewhere somehow, but nothing else comes on. Yes, I've checked that the internal power connectors are connected. Tomorrow I will bring it to the friendly local computer store where they they have the decency not to laugh at me until I've left....

Hardware

Hardware 12/19/2003 01:05 PM

I like my iBook. Its name is Snowy. Here’s what it’s missing:

• A way to easily disable the caps lock key, for those of us whose large clumsy hands keep hitting it by mistake.
• Better yet, no caps lock at all: for such a rarely-used key it takes up inordinate space on the keyboard. You could lock and unlock caps by hitting Shift twice, no?
• A low-wattage FM transmitter, so audio can be played through a home stereo without mucking with jacks and cables.
• Somewhere else for the CPU. Even with ample circulation the heat buildup under the heel of my left hand is annoying.
• Better access to the function keys. I’m roughly four times more interested in using f-keys than I am in Exposé or adjusting volume or screen brightness, yet I have to use a combination of keys to get to them.
• A full stop/period/dot/whatever that doesn’t require the shift key (particular to AZERTY keyboards but a pain nonetheless).
• The ability to close the screen without it going to sleep, so it can operate as an unobtrusive stereo component, server, downloader, whatever.
• It should sense whenever I enter the room and immediately begin playing Back in Black by AC/DC.

Just wanted to get that out.

Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free

Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free 06/01/2004 02:02 PM

Hardware Hacking

Hardware Hacking 04/23/2004 01:31 PM

On Hardware Failures

On Hardware Failures 01/01/2004 02:15 AM
One of the computer industry's dirty little secrets is hardware failure. The few of us who work in, near, or otherwise around large computer installations take this for granted. Companies like Yahoo have people on staff that spend a lot of their time dealing with failing memory, buggy motherboards, smoked power supplies, bad disks, and overheating CPUs. Google, from what I read, doesn't even bother anymore. But the larger world probably doesn't see this very often. Many are likely just...

Hardware Hacking In The WSJ

Hardware Hacking In The WSJ 09/08/2004 10:35 AM

Apple's Other Hardware Hit

Apple's Other Hardware Hit 02/18/2004 10:45 PM
As with the iPod, the hot Airport line of wireless-networking gear shows that ease of use and an eye for coming trends bring outsize gains. By Alex Salkever (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu)

PC Hardware In A Nutshell

PC Hardware In A Nutshell 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

New military hardware

New military hardware 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Pink Tank

Hardware lister A.01.07

Hardware lister A.01.07 05/11/2004 10:27 PM
A small Linux tool to provide detailed hardware configuration information.

Raytracing por hardware

Raytracing por hardware 03/17/2005 03:40 AM

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Detecting hardware from outside the box

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