As a law student interested in intellectual property law, I think I can safely counsel against this.
Casebooks are written for law students, even if they don't assume much background knowledge. They are edited down judicial decisions and are kind of dense for the uninitiated.
I'd recommend the books written by Lessig, such as "Code" and "The Future of Ideas." They're written for a more general audience, but are chock full of legal goodness.
It's one of those strange men/women differences. For instance, I believe that men strongly preferred the Speedpass system over women because women didn't want to take their keys out of the car when they paid for gas.
I just think that it is interesting how this wouldn't have been possible until recently. The expense involved in chip making plants is making chip manufacturers different companies than designers. The designers then outsource the manufacturing to the plants.
Why can't an individual outsource too? The beauty of all this is that an individual can. Even though the plant may have large sunk costs involved, the cost of making an individual chip may get to the point where people really can design their own advanced chips.
Hey, perhaps we'll have Open Source chip designs that'll be traded online. Then we'll have an entire machine based on completely open standards.
I think that while the end user doesn't care, businesses will.
I think that Open Source/Free Software is the proper thing to solve the problem of insecure e-mail. Once a free and open standard emerges, businesses will be more inclined to get behind it. The idea that other companies can read their e-mails will scare companies enough to get behind it.
I'm optimistic about the future of crypto in the long term.
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Better link:
http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pc110idx.htm
Remember this bad boy?
The IBM ThinkPad PC110!
http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/history.htm
Is there a way to link multiple Gmail accounts together a la a RAID server?
Or put another way-- has anyone figured that out yet?
As a law student interested in intellectual property law, I think I can safely counsel against this.
Casebooks are written for law students, even if they don't assume much background knowledge. They are edited down judicial decisions and are kind of dense for the uninitiated.
I'd recommend the books written by Lessig, such as "Code" and "The Future of Ideas." They're written for a more general audience, but are chock full of legal goodness.
It appears to be based on this from Shuttle. They changed the color scheme though. :-)
You can find my paper on Open Source Economics at here
I guess you could check out their "official site." It's slow as all hell though.
It's one of those strange men/women differences. For instance, I believe that men strongly preferred the Speedpass system over women because women didn't want to take their keys out of the car when they paid for gas.
But then again, what do I know?
I just think that it is interesting how this wouldn't have been possible until recently. The expense involved in chip making plants is making chip manufacturers different companies than designers. The designers then outsource the manufacturing to the plants.
Why can't an individual outsource too? The beauty of all this is that an individual can. Even though the plant may have large sunk costs involved, the cost of making an individual chip may get to the point where people really can design their own advanced chips.
Hey, perhaps we'll have Open Source chip designs that'll be traded online. Then we'll have an entire machine based on completely open standards.
That'll be hot.
I think that while the end user doesn't care, businesses will.
I think that Open Source/Free Software is the proper thing to solve the problem of insecure e-mail. Once a free and open standard emerges, businesses will be more inclined to get behind it. The idea that other companies can read their e-mails will scare companies enough to get behind it.
I'm optimistic about the future of crypto in the long term.
A true Vernam cypher is not unbreakable...
Just extremely, extremely difficult
And further more this isn't anything like that.
This is a scam. Plain and simple.
True... I've seen these, and I don't know anyone who has ever enjoyed using them.
I think part of that comes from that they were moved around a desk, like a mouse, rather than just shifted like a joystick.