Or just skip all these "inventions" and keep refining the diesel engine.
A few things come to mind.
1) AFAIK, we can't just stop making "unleaded" and start making twice as much "diesel" fuel. The refining process isn't overwhelmingly precise and controllable. If it was, we'd simply get rid of the bunker oil & tar, and make more fuel.
2) The development of fuel cells which can operate directly on gasoline looks like the only possible way for combustion to move forward in the medium-term. Already, fuel cell efficiency is about double ICEs, and well in excess of diesel engines as well (eg. 60% versus 30% for ICEs). But they do NOT operate on diesel fuel.
So yes it is high heat but it is really small so the heat doesn't go out being really hot.
A light bulb has a HUGE (relative to the filament) glass envelope to dissipate the heat, and yet that envelope still gets dangerously hot.
Secondly if a Battery like device was used for this it would be inclosed and probably nicely insulated
I'm not aware of any insulation which can handle such temperatures. You're probably looking at a ceramic casing, which needs to be very large, and then a large layer of insulation. It's dangerous if the ceramic material ever cracks, and not to mention any combustion process will need to exchange heat and oxygen, so it seems unlikely to be a sealed device, like a battery, no matter how large. It might be possible to include oxidizers, a LOT of thermal mass, and then seriously restrict the energy output, but that's quite a stretch at this point...
That's a classic American cowboy attitude on display right there.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of "Classic American Snake-Oil Salesman."
and now ~80% of his patients are reaping the benefits.
Nobody who has ever heard of a placebo puts any faith in the numbers provided. Without double-blind tests, we have no way of knowing if there is ANY positive effect, and we certainly don't know what the long-term consequences will be.
When we find these people getting WORSE, and perhaps developing cancer or other growths, the story will take a huge swing the other way: "Greedy doctor tricked desperate people into spending money on unsanctioned and untested medical treatment..."
Because somebody who doesn't know how hot 3,000K is, isn't likely to know what it would be in Celsius, and a web search for 3,000 kelvins isn't likely to find many real-world examples...
Broadband is much faster and cheaper in quite a few European countries than in the US, and while you can try to weasel your way out of it trying to paint it as unimportant or something
Actually, I find it a very important point to make. If the "100Mbps to the home for $20/month" internet service in Europe is only possible because nobody uses 0.1% of it, then the "10Mbps for $30/month" in the US could be a better deal, really.
Personally, I've long held that it's not the SPEED of internet access that matters, within reason, but HOW CHEAP THE BASIC PLAN IS. Great, 100Mbps for only $60/month... What if grandma just needs to check her e-mail? A $5/month dial-up plan is vast better for her, allowing a reasonable connection to the internet for the most people, for the least expense. And sadly, it's always the fastest plans that are trumpeted, and we don't hear if there are similarly low-priced plans available in these other countries that are "beating" us...
My UPS has battery test (checks if the batteries can still be used, if it fails, batteries need replacing) and run time calibration (discharges batteries to 25% and monitors how long it took, based on that it can estimate how long will it be able to hold the load).
Yes, but you HAVE A UPS (an APC Smart-UPS by the sound of it). Google does not. They have SLA batteries hard-wired into the PSUs of each individual server. Now, it would be possible for there to be special circuitry to do an online battery test inside the PSU, but considering Google's focus on extra cheap commodity equipment, and redundancy as the answer to all problems, I fully expect that they've forgone the extra circuitry needed for such features...
The whatever system google is using should be able to check the batteries while power is on, so that you don't end up with batteries that have 20% of their original capacity when the power goes down.
"should" is a strong word, and this could very well have been the issue.
They may have decided that swapping batteries after X years, or Y power outage events is accurate enough to forego tests, and the number of exceptions (early failures) is small enough to make this a viable strategy. Doing spot-checks in addition to this would make this an even better strategy, still.
Battery tests could be performed by automatically instructing various PDUs to power-down 1 out of X units, or racks, preferably in a round-robin, or least-recently tested first. Knowing that each battery should power each system for, say, 15 minutes, any which aren't up and running 10 minutes later should be pulled and replaced. Additionally, on-board circuitry monitoring voltage could be used as an indicator that the battery is likely at 100% capacity (over 12.5V) 50% capacity (~11V), or nearly dead (below ~10.5V).
How often these tests take place would depend on how many servers Google is willing to put at risk at any one time, and perhaps even how much of an impact powering off/on a large number of systems at about the same time would have on their in-house circuitry, and upstream power provider...
For some perspective that is about the heat that a filament in a lightbulb is at.
That doesn't provide MUCH perspective... A lightbulb is a completely enclosed environment, and the filament won't last for a moment outside of it, so people don't really know just how how hot it is.
Now, saying 3,000K is about the temperature you get from a metal-cutting torch, actually gives some better insight. For one, it's instantly clear that it would easily melt just about all metals. For another, it's eminently clear you don't want it anywhere near you, and it will require significant insulation.
Sure, maybe if you know that lightbulb filaments are made from tungsten, tungsten has the highest melting point, and that they run close to that melting point, you could figure it out, but that's a bit of a long shot, and such a stretch certainly indicates it didn't provide the perpective claimed. At that point, it's probably be easier for someone to convert the units to celsius, and just search for that temperature to find appropriate comparable examples.
Ogg Theora has been done, it doesn't matter if Ogg would not make a good general purpose container when all you want to use is Vorbis and Theora.
As soon as you want to do anything else with it, like seeing, inserting chapters, subtitles, etc., etc., you're utterly and completely screwed.
And no, it's not "done". ie. there are only two code bases which support Ogg Theora, and one is quite lacking. If you want Theora support to be anything other than an unimportant niche, people are going to have to re implement it over and over. The complexity and craptasticness means it's going to be expensive, nobody is going to want to do so, and you can expect any implementations to have various deficiencies, making it all an incompatible mess. But I guess none of this matters in your imaginary world.
Work on Theora started in 2002, work on H.264 started as early as 1998,
In 2002, VP3.2 had already gone through the full life-cycle, it was a mature codec sold as a commercial product, and had long since become obsolete to VP4, and VP5.
264 has been in the works for a long time and the patent holders had a long time to drum up support. They wanted a piece of the pie for MPEG 2 successor, so they made sure H.264 would be it.
No, they wanted MPEG-4 ASP to be the successor of MPEG-2, and they failed miserably. H.264 was designed for low-bitrate applications, which is something MPEG-2 has always been horrible at. H.264 was also intended mainly for your cell phone, not broadcast. The fact that H.264 is catching on elsewhere is a surprise to all involved.
No H.264 encoders or decoders existed in 2002, but both VP3.2 and Theora code was freely available to everyone.
and websites around the world will laud the new win7 edition as much better, and a proof that Linux is not fit for the desktop.
The media, tech-oriented or otherwise, does not report that Windows is more user-friendly than Linux because they tried it and didn't like it... Oh no. They would happily report the exact opposite if some nice compelling, fluff-filled press release said it was so.
Marketing and advertising exists to bend people into believing the narrative you want them to believe. If you're a huge company, and you have to sell a newer, more expensive product, you'll latch onto any changed detail you can and try to mold it into a compelling reason for people to look at your product again, or even re-buy one.
Make no mistake, the company could be discontinuing the most amazing flying car, and replacing it with a Pinto, and they'd have the press gushing that their new car uses half as much gas, and is much more easier to drive (than flying) and their customers kept reporting that they missed getting stuck in traffic, and requested that "feature" once again...
Yes, but how sure are you that if you leave it in a filing cabinet for 10 years it'll still work when you come back to it?
Very sure, because I'll make 20 copies for a few dollars, and store several at off-site locations, to guarantee one survives, no matter what.
Data printed on paper can last for hundreds of years with relative ease.
No it can't. WORDS written on paper can last for a very long time, because it's very low density, and very predictable, so it can be recovered even after substantial degradation. Once you start going for higher densities, you're worse off using paper than you would be encoding it on a digital medium like a CD/DVD.
Even if paper has a longer shelf-life, it has NO durability against handling, or any other form of abuse. Additionally, the benefit of digital has always been the trivial ease of transferring multiple copies to different devices, and to newer media (once every 20 years)...
And finally, yes, Flash is quite durable:
Typical Data Retention for Freescale Semiconductor NVM Technologies
Using the above definition, the following NVM technologies from Freescale Semiconductor are capable of achieving greater than 100 years of intrinsic data retention.
Well you could certainly choose some out-of-band method, such as shipping them a duplicate hard drive, to handle the initial sync. Again, it depends how often the data is going to change. If there are not substantial changes, day to day, then the benefits of automatic off-site backups might make it still worth the hassle.
The 8 months figure doesn't match up with my quick calculations... I'd buy 8 months if it was full, but half that for half full, as stated, and it's entirely possible that data compression could reduce that by another half... YMMV. But I digress...
The fact that you have an inordinately large amount of storage, and particularly limited bandwidth, only makes you an atypical case. And I say that knowing full well that I have much more data than you, and even less bandwidth...
A barcode can be trivially read on any PC with a webcam or connection to a digital camera with the trivial installation of additional software. Yes, it's less secure, but it's a hell of a lot more convenient.
A file on a USB thumb drive can be trivially read on any PC with a USB port. No digital camera, no webcam, no extra software needed. It's more secure than paper, and much, much more convenient.
It makes sense to fix or eliminate a corrupt system. Patent law is broken and often does more harm than good
The problems that are relevant to the topic at hand are simply NOT specific to patents (or copyright) and apply to the justice system at-large. If you're going to use these issues as the basis of your claim, the answer is the justice system, not some individual symptom.
If you're going to ignore the issue at hand, and therefore go completely off the topic, fine, but then that just means you haven't provided ANY evidence to support your desire to eliminate patents and copyright.
The justice system O.T.O.H. is still somewhat useful and would be easier to fix than being unreasonable and eliminating it.
The patent system is also somewhat useful, and would also be easier to fix than being unreasonable and eliminating it.
A cable tester costs $15 and you neglected testing.
A $15 cable tester will tell you 1/10th as much as you could find by looking at the crimped ends of the cable. You'll get the wonderful green light on the cheapo tester no matter how much attenuation, crosstalk, etc, you're getting with a junk cable.
To really know you've got a halfway decent cable, you need a cable tester that runs around $1,000USD. Do a search for "certification tester" and try to find a $15 unit. And they're just getting more expensive as network speeds increase. Fluke is by far the most popular brand in this space, but competitors exist.
The only promising development in this space is "TDR" options built-in to routers and high-end managed switches. After a few years, I could see a surplus managed switch being cheaper than a cable meter, though a bit slower and more cumbersome to use on a large scale.
On that note, I would kill to find some bit of software that could use a commodity NIC to do something close to a certification test on any given cable, but I've never even found anyone else so much as mentioning the idea... Understandable that it might not be possible, but that the idea hasn't even been proffered seems extremely strange... Perhaps there are too few people who know $15 cable testers aren't even worth the effort.
They probably figured that it would cost more time and money fighting these patent claims by MS than it would licensing bogus patents. If that's true, then it is clear that our patent system ought to be done away with entirely.
That might be true if it was only patents. But with the RIAA going crazy with copyright infringement, and the DMCA allowing anyone to remove anything from the web, it would seems it is, instead, our legal system that must be done-away with...
It sounds much more well thought-out and rational when you say it that way, doesn't it?
What magic does Symantec have?
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I'm glad that Norton blocks the malware attacks, since even though I always have all the latest security patches installed for Internet Explorer, it's always possible that an attacker could be using an exploit that hasn't been patched yet.
Does this make sense to anyone who's really thought this through?
What magic does Symantec use that blocks unknown exploits? Or are you saying you update Norton AV hourly, and Internet Explorer only bi-annually?
I don't really care about blocking the "scareware" ads, because I'm not going to fall for an ad that claims to be scanning my PC for viruses, but most Norton customers probably appreciate blocking those ads as well.
Per the above, I expect, instead, that Norton is protecting it's marks from OTHER scareware, much as a worm that uninstalls other worms, to ensure it has sole and exclusive access to the resources of the host... I mean, hey, if you get fooled into buying some other program that removed non-existent infections, you don't have as much money now, and might opt to make up the difference by not paying for Norton in the future. After all, the new scareware found one more nonexistent virus than the old Norton scareware could...
Either way I fail to see how the difficulty of initially implementing Ogg Theora is related to continuous use of the existing implementation.
Willful ignorance is always the worst kind...
Old codecs are old, obsolete. Theora is having difficulty competing for mindshare with H.264/AVC, while when the project was started, H.264/AVC didn't yet exist... And that's just one of many issues against it...
This makes absolutely no sense. Smart cards have been around for many years now. There, you NEVER give ANYONE or anything access to your private key. Challenge-response, one-time-passwords, tokens, etc, etc. Putting it on paper is LESS SECURE than sticking it on a thunb drive. Then at least it can't be stolen by taking a picture...
not for my 1.5 terabyte HDD which is about half full.
Doesn't matter how big the volume is. It only matters how much data changes every day. Even if it takes days to sync up the first time, as long as only a few GBs changes, subsequent backups will go plenty fast.
Are we to believe that they have no clue about container formats?
YES! From the same link: Ogg was designed to stream audio, specifically Vorbis. Ogg was not designed to handle video, or any other type of audio.
Ogg is so tightly coupled to Vorbis, and has only the minimal features required for streaming. It's shortcomings become clear when you try to do ANYTHING ELSE. Even just playing a local file, you find seeking horrible, no way to do a accurate progress-bar, etc, etc.
And when you try to stick anything else in an Ogg, forget it... Even Theora. It's a mess. Wonder why it took so many years after VP3 went open source before Theora-1.0 was released? A big chunk of time was spent squeezing it into an Ogg. Meanwhile, every other container had no problem holding VP3 video.
The 2nd amendment says you have the right to own a gun, and yet not everybody does... THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY! EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A GUN!
And your right to remain silent? When was the last time you saw cops duct-tape someone's mouth shut because they wouldn't shut-up about their crimes? THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY!
Okay, welcome back to sanity... Like all other rights, you can opt to release them. Nobody with any sense has ever claimed he doesn't have the right to a speedy trial. In this case, he chose not to exercise that right, and he surely had good reasons for doing so (like having enough time to gather witnesses, and the like).
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A few things come to mind.
1) AFAIK, we can't just stop making "unleaded" and start making twice as much "diesel" fuel. The refining process isn't overwhelmingly precise and controllable. If it was, we'd simply get rid of the bunker oil & tar, and make more fuel.
2) The development of fuel cells which can operate directly on gasoline looks like the only possible way for combustion to move forward in the medium-term. Already, fuel cell efficiency is about double ICEs, and well in excess of diesel engines as well (eg. 60% versus 30% for ICEs). But they do NOT operate on diesel fuel.
Windows 95b OSR2 (USB support) seems a notable omission.
Windows NT 3.51 as well.
Windows 2000 came out before Windows ME...
So yes it is high heat but it is really small so the heat doesn't go out being really hot.
A light bulb has a HUGE (relative to the filament) glass envelope to dissipate the heat, and yet that envelope still gets dangerously hot.
I'm not aware of any insulation which can handle such temperatures. You're probably looking at a ceramic casing, which needs to be very large, and then a large layer of insulation. It's dangerous if the ceramic material ever cracks, and not to mention any combustion process will need to exchange heat and oxygen, so it seems unlikely to be a sealed device, like a battery, no matter how large. It might be possible to include oxidizers, a LOT of thermal mass, and then seriously restrict the energy output, but that's quite a stretch at this point...
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of "Classic American Snake-Oil Salesman."
Nobody who has ever heard of a placebo puts any faith in the numbers provided. Without double-blind tests, we have no way of knowing if there is ANY positive effect, and we certainly don't know what the long-term consequences will be.
When we find these people getting WORSE, and perhaps developing cancer or other growths, the story will take a huge swing the other way: "Greedy doctor tricked desperate people into spending money on unsanctioned and untested medical treatment..."
A roaming magical tax-credit fairy would be more fair, and more believable than an unseen workable carbon tax...
BTW, since when is carbon the only (or even main) reason not to burn coal?
In the US, you've never even SEEN a real liberal. Even the avowed communists are fairly moderate in the US...
I remain utterly unimpressed by LEDs for home lighting. CFLs have been vastly superior in efficiency, lifetime, and COST forever.
LEDs are nice where durability matters... I might opt for LEDs in my refrigerator, car, flashlight, etc., but for your house, who cares?
And don't bother bitching about the millisecond start-up time, that you can see the 200Hz flicker, etc. You just make a fool out of yourself.
Because somebody who doesn't know how hot 3,000K is, isn't likely to know what it would be in Celsius, and a web search for 3,000 kelvins isn't likely to find many real-world examples...
Actually, I find it a very important point to make. If the "100Mbps to the home for $20/month" internet service in Europe is only possible because nobody uses 0.1% of it, then the "10Mbps for $30/month" in the US could be a better deal, really.
Personally, I've long held that it's not the SPEED of internet access that matters, within reason, but HOW CHEAP THE BASIC PLAN IS. Great, 100Mbps for only $60/month... What if grandma just needs to check her e-mail? A $5/month dial-up plan is vast better for her, allowing a reasonable connection to the internet for the most people, for the least expense. And sadly, it's always the fastest plans that are trumpeted, and we don't hear if there are similarly low-priced plans available in these other countries that are "beating" us...
Yes, but you HAVE A UPS (an APC Smart-UPS by the sound of it). Google does not. They have SLA batteries hard-wired into the PSUs of each individual server. Now, it would be possible for there to be special circuitry to do an online battery test inside the PSU, but considering Google's focus on extra cheap commodity equipment, and redundancy as the answer to all problems, I fully expect that they've forgone the extra circuitry needed for such features...
"should" is a strong word, and this could very well have been the issue.
They may have decided that swapping batteries after X years, or Y power outage events is accurate enough to forego tests, and the number of exceptions (early failures) is small enough to make this a viable strategy. Doing spot-checks in addition to this would make this an even better strategy, still.
Battery tests could be performed by automatically instructing various PDUs to power-down 1 out of X units, or racks, preferably in a round-robin, or least-recently tested first. Knowing that each battery should power each system for, say, 15 minutes, any which aren't up and running 10 minutes later should be pulled and replaced. Additionally, on-board circuitry monitoring voltage could be used as an indicator that the battery is likely at 100% capacity (over 12.5V) 50% capacity (~11V), or nearly dead (below ~10.5V).
How often these tests take place would depend on how many servers Google is willing to put at risk at any one time, and perhaps even how much of an impact powering off/on a large number of systems at about the same time would have on their in-house circuitry, and upstream power provider...
That doesn't provide MUCH perspective... A lightbulb is a completely enclosed environment, and the filament won't last for a moment outside of it, so people don't really know just how how hot it is.
Now, saying 3,000K is about the temperature you get from a metal-cutting torch, actually gives some better insight. For one, it's instantly clear that it would easily melt just about all metals. For another, it's eminently clear you don't want it anywhere near you, and it will require significant insulation.
Sure, maybe if you know that lightbulb filaments are made from tungsten, tungsten has the highest melting point, and that they run close to that melting point, you could figure it out, but that's a bit of a long shot, and such a stretch certainly indicates it didn't provide the perpective claimed. At that point, it's probably be easier for someone to convert the units to celsius, and just search for that temperature to find appropriate comparable examples.
As soon as you want to do anything else with it, like seeing, inserting chapters, subtitles, etc., etc., you're utterly and completely screwed.
And no, it's not "done". ie. there are only two code bases which support Ogg Theora, and one is quite lacking. If you want Theora support to be anything other than an unimportant niche, people are going to have to re implement it over and over. The complexity and craptasticness means it's going to be expensive, nobody is going to want to do so, and you can expect any implementations to have various deficiencies, making it all an incompatible mess. But I guess none of this matters in your imaginary world.
In 2002, VP3.2 had already gone through the full life-cycle, it was a mature codec sold as a commercial product, and had long since become obsolete to VP4, and VP5.
No, they wanted MPEG-4 ASP to be the successor of MPEG-2, and they failed miserably. H.264 was designed for low-bitrate applications, which is something MPEG-2 has always been horrible at. H.264 was also intended mainly for your cell phone, not broadcast. The fact that H.264 is catching on elsewhere is a surprise to all involved.
No H.264 encoders or decoders existed in 2002, but both VP3.2 and Theora code was freely available to everyone.
The media, tech-oriented or otherwise, does not report that Windows is more user-friendly than Linux because they tried it and didn't like it... Oh no. They would happily report the exact opposite if some nice compelling, fluff-filled press release said it was so.
Marketing and advertising exists to bend people into believing the narrative you want them to believe. If you're a huge company, and you have to sell a newer, more expensive product, you'll latch onto any changed detail you can and try to mold it into a compelling reason for people to look at your product again, or even re-buy one.
Make no mistake, the company could be discontinuing the most amazing flying car, and replacing it with a Pinto, and they'd have the press gushing that their new car uses half as much gas, and is much more easier to drive (than flying) and their customers kept reporting that they missed getting stuck in traffic, and requested that "feature" once again...
Very sure, because I'll make 20 copies for a few dollars, and store several at off-site locations, to guarantee one survives, no matter what.
No it can't. WORDS written on paper can last for a very long time, because it's very low density, and very predictable, so it can be recovered even after substantial degradation. Once you start going for higher densities, you're worse off using paper than you would be encoding it on a digital medium like a CD/DVD.
Even if paper has a longer shelf-life, it has NO durability against handling, or any other form of abuse. Additionally, the benefit of digital has always been the trivial ease of transferring multiple copies to different devices, and to newer media (once every 20 years)...
And finally, yes, Flash is quite durable:
Well you could certainly choose some out-of-band method, such as shipping them a duplicate hard drive, to handle the initial sync. Again, it depends how often the data is going to change. If there are not substantial changes, day to day, then the benefits of automatic off-site backups might make it still worth the hassle.
The 8 months figure doesn't match up with my quick calculations... I'd buy 8 months if it was full, but half that for half full, as stated, and it's entirely possible that data compression could reduce that by another half... YMMV. But I digress...
The fact that you have an inordinately large amount of storage, and particularly limited bandwidth, only makes you an atypical case. And I say that knowing full well that I have much more data than you, and even less bandwidth...
A file on a USB thumb drive can be trivially read on any PC with a USB port. No digital camera, no webcam, no extra software needed. It's more secure than paper, and much, much more convenient.
The problems that are relevant to the topic at hand are simply NOT specific to patents (or copyright) and apply to the justice system at-large. If you're going to use these issues as the basis of your claim, the answer is the justice system, not some individual symptom.
If you're going to ignore the issue at hand, and therefore go completely off the topic, fine, but then that just means you haven't provided ANY evidence to support your desire to eliminate patents and copyright.
The patent system is also somewhat useful, and would also be easier to fix than being unreasonable and eliminating it.
A $15 cable tester will tell you 1/10th as much as you could find by looking at the crimped ends of the cable. You'll get the wonderful green light on the cheapo tester no matter how much attenuation, crosstalk, etc, you're getting with a junk cable.
To really know you've got a halfway decent cable, you need a cable tester that runs around $1,000USD. Do a search for "certification tester" and try to find a $15 unit. And they're just getting more expensive as network speeds increase. Fluke is by far the most popular brand in this space, but competitors exist.
The only promising development in this space is "TDR" options built-in to routers and high-end managed switches. After a few years, I could see a surplus managed switch being cheaper than a cable meter, though a bit slower and more cumbersome to use on a large scale.
On that note, I would kill to find some bit of software that could use a commodity NIC to do something close to a certification test on any given cable, but I've never even found anyone else so much as mentioning the idea... Understandable that it might not be possible, but that the idea hasn't even been proffered seems extremely strange... Perhaps there are too few people who know $15 cable testers aren't even worth the effort.
That might be true if it was only patents. But with the RIAA going crazy with copyright infringement, and the DMCA allowing anyone to remove anything from the web, it would seems it is, instead, our legal system that must be done-away with...
It sounds much more well thought-out and rational when you say it that way, doesn't it?
Does this make sense to anyone who's really thought this through?
What magic does Symantec use that blocks unknown exploits? Or are you saying you update Norton AV hourly, and Internet Explorer only bi-annually?
Per the above, I expect, instead, that Norton is protecting it's marks from OTHER scareware, much as a worm that uninstalls other worms, to ensure it has sole and exclusive access to the resources of the host... I mean, hey, if you get fooled into buying some other program that removed non-existent infections, you don't have as much money now, and might opt to make up the difference by not paying for Norton in the future. After all, the new scareware found one more nonexistent virus than the old Norton scareware could...
Willful ignorance is always the worst kind...
Old codecs are old, obsolete. Theora is having difficulty competing for mindshare with H.264/AVC, while when the project was started, H.264/AVC didn't yet exist... And that's just one of many issues against it...
Just a couple quick refs:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/20452/focus=20505
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/45082/focus=45126
This makes absolutely no sense. Smart cards have been around for many years now. There, you NEVER give ANYONE or anything access to your private key. Challenge-response, one-time-passwords, tokens, etc, etc. Putting it on paper is LESS SECURE than sticking it on a thunb drive. Then at least it can't be stolen by taking a picture...
Doesn't matter how big the volume is. It only matters how much data changes every day. Even if it takes days to sync up the first time, as long as only a few GBs changes, subsequent backups will go plenty fast.
YES! From the same link:
Ogg was designed to stream audio, specifically Vorbis. Ogg was not designed to handle video, or any other type of audio.
Ogg is so tightly coupled to Vorbis, and has only the minimal features required for streaming. It's shortcomings become clear when you try to do ANYTHING ELSE. Even just playing a local file, you find seeking horrible, no way to do a accurate progress-bar, etc, etc.
And when you try to stick anything else in an Ogg, forget it... Even Theora. It's a mess. Wonder why it took so many years after VP3 went open source before Theora-1.0 was released? A big chunk of time was spent squeezing it into an Ogg. Meanwhile, every other container had no problem holding VP3 video.
The 2nd amendment says you have the right to own a gun, and yet not everybody does... THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY! EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A GUN!
And your right to remain silent? When was the last time you saw cops duct-tape someone's mouth shut because they wouldn't shut-up about their crimes? THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY!
Okay, welcome back to sanity... Like all other rights, you can opt to release them. Nobody with any sense has ever claimed he doesn't have the right to a speedy trial. In this case, he chose not to exercise that right, and he surely had good reasons for doing so (like having enough time to gather witnesses, and the like).