I thought SMTP was mostly delivered directly to mail servers from the originating emailer's SMTP server. There used to be huge chains of mail relays, (and there certainly are mail relays inside organizations) but I thought that was mostly gone.
You ignore the very plausible option that Google could, at its discretion, give the Feds whatever they ask for without a court order.
Of course I haven't heard about them doing that. But other companies certainly have. If you're serious about keeping your email private, store it on your own server (not a vhost, you moron), and DELETE IT.
My free Nokia from Verizon can change profiles on a delay. It's not what you're asking for because it doesn't have a schedule, but it will let me set it silent for two hours until the movie is over, or noisy for eight hours until work in the morning.
Of course Apple chooses their own hardware and software, but that obviously isn't the only constraint. Apple would have considerable trouble marketting a complete switch from the 105 key keyboard to chordal input. Just like Windows, Mac OS has been designed around the concept of a 105 key keyboard and a mouse.
They could make a portable electronic device with a completely different interface, and that people might be willing to learn chordal input that way, but Apple doesn't have many special powers here w.r.t. chordal input on their desktop computers.
The biggest problem w/ chordal input or any non-standard input device is that it's non-standard. The operating system and applications will not be designed with that input device in mind. They won't be widely available.
Chordal input could be popularized by someone who builds both the input device and the OS & application stack. The only environments that I think could... uh... incubate such a snowball would be a console or cell phone company. Not Windows or Mac OS computers.
The US Government has way fewer scruples about spying on Soviet Canadia. With y'all they don't even have to pretend to follow the Bill of Rights.
If you care about this, use a Canadian service provider. I guess Canadia could sign a treaty with the US providing privacy for your data, but... somehow I don't think that's going to happen.
The picture you've linked does not have the wearable on the back or the wrist. It has it on the side of the wrist in such a way that you would not need to turn your arm at all for it to be used. The protruding portion of the device would point directly at your side.
I'm sure that end users are not their target market. This could be a useful form factor for industrial handheld computers. It will be too bulky and ugly for people to wear in everyday use, unless they start making this thing like a sandbenders:
"I like your computer," she said. "It looks like it was made by Indians or something."
Chia looked down at her sandbenders. Turned off the red switch. "Coral," she said. "These are turquoise. The ones that look like ivory are the inside of a kind of nut. Renewable."
"The rest is silver?"
"Aluminum," Chia said. "They melt old cans they dig up on the beach cast it in sand molds. These panels are micarta. That's linen with this resin in it."
Because we all know that if the government really wanted that information from Google, they'd have persued it via Patriot Act style secret warrants. Since I haven't heard about a bunch of Google employees going to jail, I assume they're following the law.
It is subject to government scrutiny when you type something into Google.
The reason that the Justice Department publicised this rejection from Google is because they thought it helped them. That's what baffles me about this case. Was it their public image that they thought this helped? Was it in their interest to make people think their information was safe with Google? Did they think it would cause Fox News to smear Google? (And how would that help them?) Is this information honestly going to help them get their preferred verdict? I don't see how...
Iduno. I can't tell if I'm over thinking this or under thinking it.
VB.NET has decent RAD tools and doesn't require expertise in order to begin creating useful applications. So it is good for a beginner in that they can quickly become productive. It is bad for a beginner in that they will never learn complex programming concepts that are not encapsulated in pleasant little clicky-draggy-things.
If your goal is to become a programmer, learn absolutely anything else instead. C# or Java would be better, but so would C, ASM, Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk, Objective C, C++, ML, Haskell, Python, or Ruby. Anything. Then you may still wind up using VB for certain tasks, but that's your business.
If your goal is to program something without becoming a programmer (Not a bad idea!), VB.NET is great. VisualStudio.NET 2005's RAD tools are fantastic.
You made your own opportunities, and you were lucky.
Obviously the military is not the only answer for every poor person in America. But neither is your answer available to every poor person in America either.
They're trying to better define the market. They want to put their accessories at the very top end of the market, and shake everyone down from there.
It's like getting your key blanks from the dealer rather than at the corner store. They don't want to take away the market, but they certainly do want to own the 75% margin end of it.
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, it's better than the normal front page.
What relays?
I thought SMTP was mostly delivered directly to mail servers from the originating emailer's SMTP server. There used to be huge chains of mail relays, (and there certainly are mail relays inside organizations) but I thought that was mostly gone.
You ignore the very plausible option that Google could, at its discretion, give the Feds whatever they ask for without a court order.
Of course I haven't heard about them doing that. But other companies certainly have. If you're serious about keeping your email private, store it on your own server (not a vhost, you moron), and DELETE IT.
OMG, that is brilliant. Why haven't more people thought of that?
Oh, right. Everyone did.
The DRM on DVDs is fine with me, because it is broken. If the DRM on HD-DVD or BluRay is broken too, then I have no problem with them.
My free Nokia from Verizon can change profiles on a delay. It's not what you're asking for because it doesn't have a schedule, but it will let me set it silent for two hours until the movie is over, or noisy for eight hours until work in the morning.
And for phones with multiple #s per contact, you can just make one contact with all the bad numbers.
Mine is called "bill collectors", rather than "wrong numbers". Fuckers.
If this is as stillborn as DIVX, then we'll get to keep using DVDs and ripping them to our hearts' content.
What's the best way to put your Blu-Ray or HD-DVD movie on your iPod? Oh, yeah. Right. Eat a dick, MPAA.
In a better analogy, we would declare war on Novell.
I've been reading /. since February 1999, and this headline has gone further over my head than any other headline in the intervening seven years.
Even though I understand what CMOS is and nanotubes are.
Ok, maybe that was hyperbole.
Tell us if that feature is still there in 2007.
Of course Apple chooses their own hardware and software, but that obviously isn't the only constraint. Apple would have considerable trouble marketting a complete switch from the 105 key keyboard to chordal input. Just like Windows, Mac OS has been designed around the concept of a 105 key keyboard and a mouse.
They could make a portable electronic device with a completely different interface, and that people might be willing to learn chordal input that way, but Apple doesn't have many special powers here w.r.t. chordal input on their desktop computers.
Yes, that's exactly what I was talking about.
If that's your problem, then there's really no reason to go after the Chinese.
The biggest problem w/ chordal input or any non-standard input device is that it's non-standard. The operating system and applications will not be designed with that input device in mind. They won't be widely available.
Chordal input could be popularized by someone who builds both the input device and the OS & application stack. The only environments that I think could... uh... incubate such a snowball would be a console or cell phone company. Not Windows or Mac OS computers.
I only read it for the articles.
Penny Arcade news post on StarForce thugs
The comic will briefly be available here,
And later it will appear in its permanent location: Penny Arcade comic on StarForce thugs
(I wonder if they'll ever sort out their flakey software.)
Ooh. Thank you. I'll treasure that forever.
Thanks. Mod parent up.
The US Government has way fewer scruples about spying on Soviet Canadia. With y'all they don't even have to pretend to follow the Bill of Rights.
If you care about this, use a Canadian service provider. I guess Canadia could sign a treaty with the US providing privacy for your data, but... somehow I don't think that's going to happen.
I'm sure that end users are not their target market. This could be a useful form factor for industrial handheld computers. It will be too bulky and ugly for people to wear in everyday use, unless they start making this thing like a sandbenders:
Because we all know that if the government really wanted that information from Google, they'd have persued it via Patriot Act style secret warrants. Since I haven't heard about a bunch of Google employees going to jail, I assume they're following the law.
It is subject to government scrutiny when you type something into Google.
The reason that the Justice Department publicised this rejection from Google is because they thought it helped them. That's what baffles me about this case. Was it their public image that they thought this helped? Was it in their interest to make people think their information was safe with Google? Did they think it would cause Fox News to smear Google? (And how would that help them?) Is this information honestly going to help them get their preferred verdict? I don't see how...
Iduno. I can't tell if I'm over thinking this or under thinking it.
VB.NET has decent RAD tools and doesn't require expertise in order to begin creating useful applications. So it is good for a beginner in that they can quickly become productive. It is bad for a beginner in that they will never learn complex programming concepts that are not encapsulated in pleasant little clicky-draggy-things.
If your goal is to become a programmer, learn absolutely anything else instead. C# or Java would be better, but so would C, ASM, Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk, Objective C, C++, ML, Haskell, Python, or Ruby. Anything. Then you may still wind up using VB for certain tasks, but that's your business.
If your goal is to program something without becoming a programmer (Not a bad idea!), VB.NET is great. VisualStudio.NET 2005's RAD tools are fantastic.
Hey, asshole.
Hard work + luck.
You made your own opportunities, and you were lucky.
Obviously the military is not the only answer for every poor person in America. But neither is your answer available to every poor person in America either.
They're trying to better define the market. They want to put their accessories at the very top end of the market, and shake everyone down from there.
It's like getting your key blanks from the dealer rather than at the corner store. They don't want to take away the market, but they certainly do want to own the 75% margin end of it.