3) Stupid user syndrome. You telling me you've never had a user forget their password? Ever? Well we do here, again all too often. So what happens then? Truecrypt is truly secure symmetric cryptography, meaning that there are no backdoors, there are no hidden override keys, etc. If the user forgets their password that's it, you are done. Unless it is a simple enough password to crack with a dictionary attack or the like (in which case the crypto is kinda useless) you are fucked. There is no recovery. Wrong. You can make a backup of the volume header with a known password and use that to "reset" the password.
I totally disagree with your conclusion if we eliminate copyright. And to the guy below me, I am neither a 12 year old, nor a hippie loon. Wouldn't you as a consumer of books, pay more for the version of the book that benefited the author? (just like how people continue to pay for music even though free copies are available) Maybe authors could charge for giving authors talks, or signing books. Maybe authors could attract patrons who would finance their book. Maybe we could introduce a statutory licensing system for books that would both pay authors and eliminate this system of giving monopolies on information.
My point is that eliminating copyright will not cause the destruction of creative goods, it will just require a modification of the business model, just like the music industry is going through.
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Wrong. The waste to be buried in Yucca mountain is going to be glassified, making it useless for reprocessing or as a fuel for breeder reactors.
what country?
I totally disagree with your conclusion if we eliminate copyright. And to the guy below me, I am neither a 12 year old, nor a hippie loon. Wouldn't you as a consumer of books, pay more for the version of the book that benefited the author? (just like how people continue to pay for music even though free copies are available) Maybe authors could charge for giving authors talks, or signing books. Maybe authors could attract patrons who would finance their book. Maybe we could introduce a statutory licensing system for books that would both pay authors and eliminate this system of giving monopolies on information. My point is that eliminating copyright will not cause the destruction of creative goods, it will just require a modification of the business model, just like the music industry is going through.
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY07/earn_rel_q4_07.mspx
Research. Do some.