It would still require action on the part of the receiver. Plus, the way that PGP works is that others sign your public key to prove your identity. What your proposing would break that system.
You've really hit the nail on the head. It requires interaction from the user themselves. Not just the sender, but the recipient. Go find a bunch of regular (non-techie) internet users and ask them what PGP is. I guarantee 90% or more will just give you a blank stare.
Other things to consider are this: Although there are some excellent free PGP plugins for Thunderbird, none exist (that I know of) for Outlook Express/Outlook. Like it or not, that's what most users use and I doubt many of them will be willing to pay for the Network Associates offering. (PGP Freeware does NOT offer a plugin for Outlook).
DomainKeys actually looks like a good solution, so long as there are free licenses (I've not researched it fully yet). One other solution that has already been implemented is TLS, but once again that requires some work on the part of the receiver for it to work properly.
1. On the floor in front of the dryer. 2. Still in the washer. 3. On your bedroom floor.
Or less likely:
1. Inside your dryer, between the drum and the outer casing 2. On a planet inhabited by strange aliens with an obsession for socks.
Now, what I want to know is where all the biros go.
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Couldn't they use the same techniques to find the other landers that have either crashed or soft landed successfully and died (Viking, one of the Russian Mars probes).
I would be interested to see if the Viking landers are still visible, or if they're now covered in martian dust? Maybe it'll be a better job for the MRO when it gets there.
To Bush: As part of your Vision for Space Exploration that you laid out earlier this year, do you intend to direct NASA in the direction of human settlement of space, or just scientific research.
In the light of the fact that your vision has basically been neutered by congress not approving funding. What do you plan to do about this? Or should we just sit around in LEO for another 30 years?
And long may it continue
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Ahhh... good old MODE 7, aka Teletext.:-)
One of the things I really miss about TV since moving to the USA is the various Teletext services. I've never understood why this system didn't catch on outside of Europe (maybe there's a technical reason, I dunno).
Long before I had internet, I could spend literally hours reading Teletext pages and playing the really basic, but still entertaining games (remember Bamboozle?). We even had a Teletext reader on the old BBC Micros at my school, about 10 years before they got the JANET linkup:)
The closest the US has is the information pages that DirecTV and some cable providers have. However, they're nowhere near as comprehensive.
Some of the most intelligent people I've met drive cabs. One of my favourites was a mortician who was taking a year off after seeing one to many dead bodies with bits missing (brains hanging out, yummy stuff like that).
Just because they drive a cab it doesn't make them stupid.
Unless there's a fundamental change in the way NASA is operated we won't even by on the Moon in 30 years , let alone Mars.
I'm pinning my hopes on pioneers such as Burt Rutan to get us back to the moon (and beyond). Until congress stops sitting on NASA's funding we simply cannot afford a manned mission to Mars (or anywhere else outside of LEO for that matter).
If you have your PC at home, you shut down at night so you can save electricity, and stop the noise from the fans.
Out of curiousity, do you keep a light on in your house at night? Most people do. The light uses far more power than your PC. PC's are built to be kept on all of the time, turning them on and off repeatedly wears down the components and reduces the lifetime of your machine.
What I found quite amusing is, I need a background humming noise to concentrate, or even fall asleep. When I'm at home, it's the air conditioner running, when I'm at work it's the PC's in my office. The last time I went to stay with my parents I tossed and turned all night, I realised it was because the humming noise wasn't there. Weird how you get used to things.
I run Windows XP at work, I've been running it since early 2002. The 12% figure seems artificially high to me. Yes, XP does fail but by my estimate it only seems to fail on me once a month or so. That would be about 3% of the time by my calculations. Windows 2000 was comparable, maybe twice a month it would freeze up enough to require a reboot.
Windows 98 (not SE) was less than this, I only rebooted my Windows 98 box every 2-3 months. About 2.5% of the time in that case. Windows 95 crashed 3 or 4 times a day:)
So, if you factor in adding patches, I maybe loose 1 hour of work per month due to faults with the OS.
I think the main reason my Windows boxes stay fairly stable is because I don't install a great deal of software on them. I only install Office (Microsoft), A virus scanner, Gaim, Firefox, Thunderbird and a few apps I need for my job. I also keep up to date on patches, and do housekeeping tasks like keeping my disks defragmented.
Most of the unstable Windows boxes I've seen are the ones that have been overloaded with a ridiculous number of apps, most of them the silly ones that come on cereal packets:) One notorious box I had to repair took 45 minutes to load due to the sheer number of stupid apps the user had loading up (stock quotes, desktop weather, a dancing fish, Gator, football score app, etc. etc.... what a waste).
I'm not saying Windows doesn't have its flaws (I think everyone would be happy to forget Me!), but if used sensibly it's not *that* unreliable.
As a comparison, my Linux servers have maintained a 100% uptime so far as crashes are concerned. The only thing that's knocked them out in the last 12 months has been due to Hurricanes. My Linux desktop (KDE), however, crashes about once every 2 months. So, from a desktop perspective at least, Linux is about as reliable as Windows XP.
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Depends... it only took 4 weeks for Floridians to get real sick of hurricanes.:-)
About 24 hours, actually. The first night was ok because the power had only gone out a few hours previously and it was still really windy out. As a result, the house remained cool.
By the following night, the winds where gone, the house had been without an air conditioner for 24 hours and it was really, really humid. After 7 days, there are no words to describe how thoroughly fed up I was with Hurricanes:)
Then, two weeks later, Frances knocked my power out for 8 days. Again. Argh!!!
I watched them all, and I remember a campy western set in space, a all-to-perfect soap opera buried in technobabble, a total fluke in the Trek saga in the form of DS9 when the show sucked until they dropped any semblance of it actually being like "Trek", and went much darker and was far better than the prior series. Voyager shouldn't even be commented on. It was the worst part of all the sci-fi shows on TV all mushed together in a shocking display of suck. Enterprise has been entertaining, I suppose. The acting is horrid, but its never been good in the Trek franchise.
I disagree, TOS looks dated today because you've gotten used to much, much more sophisticated shows. Bear in mind it was made in the 60s and the world was very very different back then.
DS9 will remain the best Star Trek, unless they can figure out a way to top it. I think it could have easily gone on another 7 series if they'd not decided to end it. Such a shame.
Voyager wasn't too bad, some of the episodes sucked but there where a few gems in there ("Year of Hell" is one). It was certainly comparable to TNG, which I really enjoyed.
Enterprise should just be cancelled and disowned:)
I think ST should just go on hiatus for a few years, the world will change again (like it did between TOS and TNG) and fresh ideas will surface.
Interesting, I don't believe that mandatory voting is compatible with a modern democracy. Is there any kind of movement to change this law? You are right though, the Greeks invented it (and pretty much everything else involving western politics).
I didn't vote at the last (British) election because I didn't feel any of the party's would change my life for the better. So I voted with my silence, as it were. I probably won't vote at the next one either.
This morning, twice, to fix two Cisco routers that had gone kaput (thank you Hurricane Frances). Then I'll be using the 9-pin in my home machine tonight, which is hooked into my modem, because my cable line is down (thank you once again Hurricane Frances). Yes, I suppose I could buy an internal modem but the external one I had was free:-)
Had the UPS been damaged as well, I'd have use the serial port to connect to that and run diagnostics on it.
I'll be continuing to use 9-pin serial ports for a very long time.
The shuttle storage facilities (or whatever the official name is) are designed to withstand a Category 3 hurricane. There has never been anything approaching this hit the central-east coast of Florida in recorded history. (Yes, we were all working on the "It'll never happen to us" theory).
Frances, if it does hit on the Space Coast will be a Category 4. Last night the official track had it making an almost direct hit at the KSC. Right now (11:00 EDT) the storm is going to hit about 50 miles south of the KSC, so we should be ok if it doesn't turn again.
If anything untoward were to happen, I have virtually no recourse, as it would be nigh on impossible to actually prove where my details were obtained and (as far as I know) it's impossible to get a new NI number: I'm stuck with the one that's issued to me at 16 until the day I die.
No, it's not impossible if your identity has been stolen (but you will have to prove it, of course). It's possible but very inconvenient.
If they get irritating enough I firewall them, otherwise they're no more irritating than the mosquitoes that lie in wait for me outside my front door every day.
Same thing happening everywhere, I'm afraid. There's so much light pollution in my area now with all the new houses going up (I'm in Central Florida) that it's impossible to see more than a few bright stars at night.
When Hurricane Charley hit, we had about 3 days where the entire area was totally blacked out. The sky looked just amazing!
You've hit in on the nail right there. Most computer users were not professional taught how to type, so they use the two (or worse, one) fingered bent over the keyboard hunting for the correct key method. No wonder they get injured!
I RTFA but I don't see how this new keyboard can be comfortable, as others have posted - it looks like a game controller and they hurt after a few hours of use.
I've looked into alternatives, even tried a few. The MS Natural Keyboard left me in agony after a few hours (it was supposed to cut down on my carpal tunnel not add to it!!). Other so called ergonomic keyboards I've tried leave me in the same situation. One thing I'd like to try in the future is a stenotype, if only to learn a new skill.
The best keyboard I ever used was on an Amstrad PCW (remember those!). I used to type 50+ letters a day on the thing, for a legal firm, at over 150WPM.
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450Mhz is not slow, I run Gaim all day, every day on my 450Mhz laptop. I've never noticed any slowdown.
It would still require action on the part of the receiver. Plus, the way that PGP works is that others sign your public key to prove your identity. What your proposing would break that system.
You've really hit the nail on the head. It requires interaction from the user themselves. Not just the sender, but the recipient. Go find a bunch of regular (non-techie) internet users and ask them what PGP is. I guarantee 90% or more will just give you a blank stare.
Other things to consider are this: Although there are some excellent free PGP plugins for Thunderbird, none exist (that I know of) for Outlook Express/Outlook. Like it or not, that's what most users use and I doubt many of them will be willing to pay for the Network Associates offering. (PGP Freeware does NOT offer a plugin for Outlook).
DomainKeys actually looks like a good solution, so long as there are free licenses (I've not researched it fully yet). One other solution that has already been implemented is TLS, but once again that requires some work on the part of the receiver for it to work properly.
A satellite landing on you and killing you is infinitely less preferable than it landing on something else. Even if that happens to be your house.
It's all relative, like you said.
They're Most likely:
1. On the floor in front of the dryer.
2. Still in the washer.
3. On your bedroom floor.
Or less likely:
1. Inside your dryer, between the drum and the outer casing
2. On a planet inhabited by strange aliens with an obsession for socks.
Now, what I want to know is where all the biros go.
Couldn't they use the same techniques to find the other landers that have either crashed or soft landed successfully and died (Viking, one of the Russian Mars probes).
I would be interested to see if the Viking landers are still visible, or if they're now covered in martian dust? Maybe it'll be a better job for the MRO when it gets there.
To Bush: As part of your Vision for Space Exploration that you laid out earlier this year, do you intend to direct NASA in the direction of human settlement of space, or just scientific research.
In the light of the fact that your vision has basically been neutered by congress not approving funding. What do you plan to do about this? Or should we just sit around in LEO for another 30 years?
Ahhh... good old MODE 7, aka Teletext. :-)
:)
One of the things I really miss about TV since moving to the USA is the various Teletext services. I've never understood why this system didn't catch on outside of Europe (maybe there's a technical reason, I dunno).
Long before I had internet, I could spend literally hours reading Teletext pages and playing the really basic, but still entertaining games (remember Bamboozle?). We even had a Teletext reader on the old BBC Micros at my school, about 10 years before they got the JANET linkup
The closest the US has is the information pages that DirecTV and some cable providers have. However, they're nowhere near as comprehensive.
We used these for a client project a couple of years ago. They worked really well and I'm actually surprised more companies don't use this.
Anyone know if there is an open source equivelent?
Some of the most intelligent people I've met drive cabs. One of my favourites was a mortician who was taking a year off after seeing one to many dead bodies with bits missing (brains hanging out, yummy stuff like that).
Just because they drive a cab it doesn't make them stupid.
Unless there's a fundamental change in the way NASA is operated we won't even by on the Moon in 30 years , let alone Mars.
I'm pinning my hopes on pioneers such as Burt Rutan to get us back to the moon (and beyond). Until congress stops sitting on NASA's funding we simply cannot afford a manned mission to Mars (or anywhere else outside of LEO for that matter).
If you have your PC at home, you shut down at night so you can save electricity, and stop the noise from the fans.
Out of curiousity, do you keep a light on in your house at night? Most people do. The light uses far more power than your PC. PC's are built to be kept on all of the time, turning them on and off repeatedly wears down the components and reduces the lifetime of your machine.
What I found quite amusing is, I need a background humming noise to concentrate, or even fall asleep. When I'm at home, it's the air conditioner running, when I'm at work it's the PC's in my office. The last time I went to stay with my parents I tossed and turned all night, I realised it was because the humming noise wasn't there. Weird how you get used to things.
I run Windows XP at work, I've been running it since early 2002. The 12% figure seems artificially high to me. Yes, XP does fail but by my estimate it only seems to fail on me once a month or so. That would be about 3% of the time by my calculations. Windows 2000 was comparable, maybe twice a month it would freeze up enough to require a reboot.
:)
:) One notorious box I had to repair took 45 minutes to load due to the sheer number of stupid apps the user had loading up (stock quotes, desktop weather, a dancing fish, Gator, football score app, etc. etc.... what a waste).
Windows 98 (not SE) was less than this, I only rebooted my Windows 98 box every 2-3 months. About 2.5% of the time in that case. Windows 95 crashed 3 or 4 times a day
So, if you factor in adding patches, I maybe loose 1 hour of work per month due to faults with the OS.
I think the main reason my Windows boxes stay fairly stable is because I don't install a great deal of software on them. I only install Office (Microsoft), A virus scanner, Gaim, Firefox, Thunderbird and a few apps I need for my job. I also keep up to date on patches, and do housekeeping tasks like keeping my disks defragmented.
Most of the unstable Windows boxes I've seen are the ones that have been overloaded with a ridiculous number of apps, most of them the silly ones that come on cereal packets
I'm not saying Windows doesn't have its flaws (I think everyone would be happy to forget Me!), but if used sensibly it's not *that* unreliable.
As a comparison, my Linux servers have maintained a 100% uptime so far as crashes are concerned. The only thing that's knocked them out in the last 12 months has been due to Hurricanes. My Linux desktop (KDE), however, crashes about once every 2 months. So, from a desktop perspective at least, Linux is about as reliable as Windows XP.
Depends... it only took 4 weeks for Floridians to get real sick of hurricanes. :-)
:)
About 24 hours, actually. The first night was ok because the power had only gone out a few hours previously and it was still really windy out. As a result, the house remained cool.
By the following night, the winds where gone, the house had been without an air conditioner for 24 hours and it was really, really humid. After 7 days, there are no words to describe how thoroughly fed up I was with Hurricanes
Then, two weeks later, Frances knocked my power out for 8 days. Again. Argh!!!
I watched them all, and I remember a campy western set in space, a all-to-perfect soap opera buried in technobabble, a total fluke in the Trek saga in the form of DS9 when the show sucked until they dropped any semblance of it actually being like "Trek", and went much darker and was far better than the prior series. Voyager shouldn't even be commented on. It was the worst part of all the sci-fi shows on TV all mushed together in a shocking display of suck. Enterprise has been entertaining, I suppose. The acting is horrid, but its never been good in the Trek franchise.
:)
I disagree, TOS looks dated today because you've gotten used to much, much more sophisticated shows. Bear in mind it was made in the 60s and the world was very very different back then.
DS9 will remain the best Star Trek, unless they can figure out a way to top it. I think it could have easily gone on another 7 series if they'd not decided to end it. Such a shame.
Voyager wasn't too bad, some of the episodes sucked but there where a few gems in there ("Year of Hell" is one). It was certainly comparable to TNG, which I really enjoyed.
Enterprise should just be cancelled and disowned
I think ST should just go on hiatus for a few years, the world will change again (like it did between TOS and TNG) and fresh ideas will surface.
Interesting, I don't believe that mandatory voting is compatible with a modern democracy. Is there any kind of movement to change this law? You are right though, the Greeks invented it (and pretty much everything else involving western politics).
I didn't vote at the last (British) election because I didn't feel any of the party's would change my life for the better. So I voted with my silence, as it were. I probably won't vote at the next one either.
This morning, twice, to fix two Cisco routers that had gone kaput (thank you Hurricane Frances). Then I'll be using the 9-pin in my home machine tonight, which is hooked into my modem, because my cable line is down (thank you once again Hurricane Frances). Yes, I suppose I could buy an internal modem but the external one I had was free :-)
Had the UPS been damaged as well, I'd have use the serial port to connect to that and run diagnostics on it.
I'll be continuing to use 9-pin serial ports for a very long time.
The shuttle storage facilities (or whatever the official name is) are designed to withstand a Category 3 hurricane. There has never been anything approaching this hit the central-east coast of Florida in recorded history. (Yes, we were all working on the "It'll never happen to us" theory).
Frances, if it does hit on the Space Coast will be a Category 4. Last night the official track had it making an almost direct hit at the KSC. Right now (11:00 EDT) the storm is going to hit about 50 miles south of the KSC, so we should be ok if it doesn't turn again.
If anything untoward were to happen, I have virtually no recourse, as it would be nigh on impossible to actually prove where my details were obtained and (as far as I know) it's impossible to get a new NI number: I'm stuck with the one that's issued to me at 16 until the day I die.
No, it's not impossible if your identity has been stolen (but you will have to prove it, of course). It's possible but very inconvenient.
Every day for the last, I dunno, 3 years?
If they get irritating enough I firewall them, otherwise they're no more irritating than the mosquitoes that lie in wait for me outside my front door every day.
Same thing happening everywhere, I'm afraid. There's so much light pollution in my area now with all the new houses going up (I'm in Central Florida) that it's impossible to see more than a few bright stars at night.
When Hurricane Charley hit, we had about 3 days where the entire area was totally blacked out. The sky looked just amazing!
The reason they had planned to visit the heat shield was to see if its impact had turned up any interesting underground material for study.
The plan had been to visit it after studying Endurance crater but they've not mentioned anything about it on the web site for some time now.
Sure, go to the local dollar store and buy a thermometer.
You've hit in on the nail right there. Most computer users were not professional taught how to type, so they use the two (or worse, one) fingered bent over the keyboard hunting for the correct key method. No wonder they get injured!
I RTFA but I don't see how this new keyboard can be comfortable, as others have posted - it looks like a game controller and they hurt after a few hours of use.
I've looked into alternatives, even tried a few. The MS Natural Keyboard left me in agony after a few hours (it was supposed to cut down on my carpal tunnel not add to it!!). Other so called ergonomic keyboards I've tried leave me in the same situation. One thing I'd like to try in the future is a stenotype, if only to learn a new skill.
The best keyboard I ever used was on an Amstrad PCW (remember those!). I used to type 50+ letters a day on the thing, for a legal firm, at over 150WPM.
This bug has been around since the 0.76 and I've reported it already. The workaround is SocksCap or runsocks (depending on your OS).
I'm sure they'll get around to fixing it, that's a fairly low priorty issue. I'd rather see full protocol support added first.