I don't know why this is such a mystery to everyone. Exercise is unpleasant. If exercise is pleasant to you, then whatever you're doing is not exercise.
I don't see how multiple signers does anything to prevent any of the 100 or more commercial CAs from issuing a certificate for any random host on the internet --which is the problem at hand here.
Because before you were purchasing a product that became your property. Now you're simply being granted a license to use their property in a limited fashion.
You mean a VM where each process looks like it has the processor/memory to itself (AKA x86 protected mode)? We already have VM sandboxes. They're called a PROCESS. Taking this concept to an absurd level of regression (full os virtualization) and then coming up with some convoluted way to let all the parts communicate again (necessary if you want it to do anything useful) adds absolutely nothing to the security aspect other than a high degree of obfuscation.
You guys and your delusional layer cake security schemes. Things do not run on the machine like that. You can add all the boxes and layers to your diagrams all you want; but, in reality it's all flat where the only difference between all your security contexts are some integer values in memory.
Having to deal with DRM at all is THE pain in the ass of which I speak. You've simply illustrated that there are multiple flavors of PITA.
No matter which way you slice it, as soon as you want to do anything outside of the Kindle sandbox, you have a PITA on your hand.
All the issues you worry about are due to DRM issues. Not ebooks. EPUB is much better than ASCII. Hell you can read them in a web browser if you unzip them. Each section of the book is just XHTML.
The user experience is good if and only if you are only going to read your books on the Kindle platform. As soon as you want to read your books on a Linux box and/or with free software, it now becomes a pain in the ass.
None of the books I've bought (that I read on my Kindle) have come from amazon. I've gotten them all from publishers/retailers that use ePUB/Digital Editions from which I strip the DRM and convert to mobipocket format for the Kindle.
This would only hold true in a DRMed world. Without DRM, its so trivial to copy and backup books that they'd have a far higher chance of surviving than a paper bound book.
The Kindle can read DRM free mobipocket, and it's pretty easy to convert from epub to mobi. On the otherhand, it would be nice if I could just drag and drop epubs onto my kindle without the conversion step.
The only thing virtualization has done for me in my organization is give me access to more hardware that would otherwise be monopolized by a bunch of underutilized Windows file servers.
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I don't know why this is such a mystery to everyone. Exercise is unpleasant. If exercise is pleasant to you, then whatever you're doing is not exercise.
Care to elaborate on these "technical" standpoints? I mean vague hand-waving is awfully convincing, but I'd like to learn more. Really.
Cost. Even if you have the money to scale out your hardware, you can't because the licensing pushes the price through the roof.
I don't see how multiple signers does anything to prevent any of the 100 or more commercial CAs from issuing a certificate for any random host on the internet --which is the problem at hand here.
Bingo. I did all my math in college on a little Toshiba 10" laptop with just vim, Tex and graphviz.
Atheism is the positive assertion of the non-belief in god(s).
Because before you were purchasing a product that became your property. Now you're simply being granted a license to use their property in a limited fashion.
Hurray. Now you don't own your hardware anymore; you just license a right to use it at a certain specification.
Re-rent? My objection is to the idea of renting --let alone returning-- ephemeral bits at all.
an absence of evidence does not imply evidence of absence.
Nice appeal to ignorance there.
You mean a VM where each process looks like it has the processor/memory to itself (AKA x86 protected mode)? We already have VM sandboxes. They're called a PROCESS. Taking this concept to an absurd level of regression (full os virtualization) and then coming up with some convoluted way to let all the parts communicate again (necessary if you want it to do anything useful) adds absolutely nothing to the security aspect other than a high degree of obfuscation.
You guys and your delusional layer cake security schemes. Things do not run on the machine like that. You can add all the boxes and layers to your diagrams all you want; but, in reality it's all flat where the only difference between all your security contexts are some integer values in memory.
You have heard of Amazon EC2 right?
My personal favorite is "Sales Engineer".
Religion doesn't answer anything let alone "why". "God did it" is a useless non-answer.
Having to deal with DRM at all is THE pain in the ass of which I speak. You've simply illustrated that there are multiple flavors of PITA. No matter which way you slice it, as soon as you want to do anything outside of the Kindle sandbox, you have a PITA on your hand.
Google.
All the issues you worry about are due to DRM issues. Not ebooks. EPUB is much better than ASCII. Hell you can read them in a web browser if you unzip them. Each section of the book is just XHTML.
DRMed ePUBs books don't use Adobe Reader. They use Adobe Digital Editions and there is no Linux version.
The user experience is good if and only if you are only going to read your books on the Kindle platform. As soon as you want to read your books on a Linux box and/or with free software, it now becomes a pain in the ass. None of the books I've bought (that I read on my Kindle) have come from amazon. I've gotten them all from publishers/retailers that use ePUB/Digital Editions from which I strip the DRM and convert to mobipocket format for the Kindle.
This would only hold true in a DRMed world. Without DRM, its so trivial to copy and backup books that they'd have a far higher chance of surviving than a paper bound book.
The Kindle can read DRM free mobipocket, and it's pretty easy to convert from epub to mobi. On the otherhand, it would be nice if I could just drag and drop epubs onto my kindle without the conversion step.
Look everyone. He shutdown the debate about whether we should use Amazon's services by pointing out an obvious bias about a business entity.
Didn't you hear? All security problems can be solved with hash functions.
s/have idea/have no idea/
The only thing virtualization has done for me in my organization is give me access to more hardware that would otherwise be monopolized by a bunch of underutilized Windows file servers.