That's simply not true. Deployed military folks can call home however they want. There may be military base-specific restrictions on communications (for operational security reasons, i.e. Geraldo Rivera not allowed to use a satellite phone to give out his position), but otherwise soldiers and Geraldo are free to send carrier pigeons, letters, etc.
There is an intersting set of articles on Salon.com right now about LOTR's status in the Western canon. The articles also touch on a possible interpretation of LOTR -- as an application (to use Tolkien's preferred word) of the industrial revolution's effects on Tolkien's hometown.
The argument has merit. Take a look at the shire after Frodo's return--industrialized, regulated, pretty much a nightmare compared to the state of harmonious anarchy that Frodo left it in.
Intel didn't listen to its customers, it listened to its public relations staff.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that all the bad press from the id numbers fracas affected their sales at precisely the time when AMD was really beginning to make a run on Intel's market share.
"Hmmmm, should I buy a slower processor from intel that can also help Big Brother track my every move on the Internet, or should I buy the faster, no-serial-number-having AMD Athlon?"
Easy answer, and I'll bet Intel realized the same thing.
From an exhaustive research effort that included actually reading the first two paragraphs of the Certicom web page, I will quote
The first of its kind, the ECC Challenge has been developed to increase the industry's understanding and appreciation for the difficulty of the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, and to encourage and stimulate further research in the security analysis of elliptic curve cryptosystems. We believe that the knowledge and experience gained from this Challenge will help confirm comparisons of the security levels of systems such as ECC, RSA and DSA that have been based primarily on theoretical considerations. We also hope it will provide additional information to users of elliptic curve public-key cryptosystems in terms of selecting suitable key lengths for a desired level of security.
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Anonymous coward is just spreading FUD.
The argument has merit. Take a look at the shire after Frodo's return--industrialized, regulated, pretty much a nightmare compared to the state of harmonious anarchy that Frodo left it in.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that all the bad press from the id numbers fracas affected their sales at precisely the time when AMD was really beginning to make a run on Intel's market share.
"Hmmmm, should I buy a slower processor from intel that can also help Big Brother track my every move on the Internet, or should I buy the faster, no-serial-number-having AMD Athlon?"
Easy answer, and I'll bet Intel realized the same thing.
Oh I love the new economy!! I'll only charge you $125, but I want stock options too.