It's all in the damn smell
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You know what smell I am talking about... There is that musty smell you get when you open that old book your mother gave you before she died, the new glue smell you get when you open a book for the first time or the flowery perfume smell you get when looking at the Victoria's Secret catalogue (I know ALL of you know this one..:)) That smell is the first thing I think of when I think about reading and it is the reason that books will never become entirely electronic.
You made a mistake in your calculations.. a bad one. You need to remember that the Alge is not the only necessary ingredient. The alge must be exposed to sunlite in order for this to work. Because of the density of alge on the surface of the pool (ever see a swamp.. alge tend to get really dense) you would have very little sunlite penetrating more then an inch or maybe 2 into the water so you are able to support far less Alge. So your 50x20x2 meter pool would only effectively be say 50x20x.02 meters and you realize you now have a lot less hydrogen coming out of that pool ( can someone else figure this out... I don't do math ).
That is a rediculous oversimplification. First, you need to realize that there are organizations that do have valid use for mass mailings -- one I can think of are universities. It is importanat that a university is able to communicate certain things to its entire student body. Another could be a corporation that needs to communicate with its employees or, in some cases, its existing clients. Mailing lists, online news services, daily horoscopes... all these things would require mass mailings over 100 people and all these things are valid services which are available on the internet today. Furthermore, it would be relatively easy to simply circumvent this method of prevention. If you had a mailing list of say 100,000 email addresses that you needed to mail to, you could simply write a script to send 1000 emails to 100 people each, with the same content. A less heavy handed and better thought through system for spam management needs to be devised.
As a point of information, from what I can tell, the encryption and decryption is done in hardware. This being said, there would be absolutely *no* CPU cycle loss due to this process. Nonetheless, I see absolutely no purpose of this. Why in the hell do they want to encrypt the video signal? Anyone have any good reasons or are you all as bewildered as me?
I really don't see how security is the *big* issue concerning this device. The truth of the matter is that this is a pocket computer. In other words, it will be in your pocket where it won't be easily used without your consent.
Unfortunately, the MPAA has recently purchased all of the footage of lectures from Stanford. They encoded it using a "special" and "proprietary" format (ASF) which you have to pay $300 US in order to buy the rights to decode it. If you try any other means of decoding, you can expect the police to bust down your door and arrest your ass... so I wouldn't try it...:)
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You know what smell I am talking about... There is that musty smell you get when you open that old book your mother gave you before she died, the new glue smell you get when you open a book for the first time or the flowery perfume smell you get when looking at the Victoria's Secret catalogue (I know ALL of you know this one.. :)) That smell is the first thing I think of when I think about reading and it is the reason that books will never become entirely electronic.
You made a mistake in your calculations.. a bad one. You need to remember that the Alge is not the only necessary ingredient. The alge must be exposed to sunlite in order for this to work. Because of the density of alge on the surface of the pool (ever see a swamp.. alge tend to get really dense) you would have very little sunlite penetrating more then an inch or maybe 2 into the water so you are able to support far less Alge. So your 50x20x2 meter pool would only effectively be say 50x20x.02 meters and you realize you now have a lot less hydrogen coming out of that pool ( can someone else figure this out... I don't do math ).
That is a rediculous oversimplification. First, you need to realize that there are organizations that do have valid use for mass mailings -- one I can think of are universities. It is importanat that a university is able to communicate certain things to its entire student body. Another could be a corporation that needs to communicate with its employees or, in some cases, its existing clients. Mailing lists, online news services, daily horoscopes... all these things would require mass mailings over 100 people and all these things are valid services which are available on the internet today.
Furthermore, it would be relatively easy to simply circumvent this method of prevention. If you had a mailing list of say 100,000 email addresses that you needed to mail to, you could simply write a script to send 1000 emails to 100 people each, with the same content. A less heavy handed and better thought through system for spam management needs to be devised.
As a point of information, from what I can tell, the encryption and decryption is done in hardware. This being said, there would be absolutely *no* CPU cycle loss due to this process. Nonetheless, I see absolutely no purpose of this. Why in the hell do they want to encrypt the video signal? Anyone have any good reasons or are you all as bewildered as me?
I really don't see how security is the *big* issue concerning this device. The truth of the matter is that this is a pocket computer. In other words, it will be in your pocket where it won't be easily used without your consent.
Unfortunately, the MPAA has recently purchased all of the footage of lectures from Stanford. They encoded it using a "special" and "proprietary" format (ASF) which you have to pay $300 US in order to buy the rights to decode it. If you try any other means of decoding, you can expect the police to bust down your door and arrest your ass... so I wouldn't try it... :)