The people were charged because it was a criminal case. Had it been a civil action, they would have gone after the company. Pretty sure it's the same in the US.
You make it sound wonderful. Yes, just like the Catholic church "converted" the natives living in the Americas. Oh, where are they today, anyway? That's right, most of them chose to die rather than be "converted". Now why would that be?
Take a look south of the US border sometime. Most of the Central and South American population is of native descent. Of the ones that died, most didn't "chose" to, but died of imported diseases no one really had control over. The only large area of the Americas where natives were completely eradicated was North America, which happens to be the only area colonized largely by non-Catholic nations...
GPG is a command line tool. If you want to put a UI on it it involves the very sucky process of constructing a command line with the arguments for the action you wish to perform, invoking gpg and parsing the results. In short it is a big pain in the butt and error prone and is seriously hampering its adoption.
Have you heard of GPGME? It's the official library for using GnuPG from other programs, and it does everything you mentioned. From the application point of view, it's just the same as if the crypto operations were in a library.
It does have some performance problems, because it must run a new gpg process for every operation, but those will be fixed in the future.
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Maybe you should have read Paragraph 2:
[...] FOR THE LICENSE OF BETA SOFTWARE YOU ARE ABOUT TO DOWNLOAD OR INSTALL (THE "SOFTWARE"). "PGP" MEANS PGP CORPORATION. [...] (emphasis mine)
So it's not the software that is collecting the information, but PGP Corporation. I guess at some point during download or installation it asks you to register.
Maybe it's not a really good privacy policy, but it's not spyware either.
First of all, my condolences to the American people. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can justify these murders, and they must be punished. Now we are all at war together.
Is not true that Israel is the only Democratic country in that god forsaken land?
As long as you are not Palestinian that is true.
However, Israel is also a country which routinely executes suspected terrorists with Apache helicopters, as far as I know, without any kind of fair trial.
A country that bombs towns in reply to crimes committed by their citizens, again without trial, who punishes the families of those involved in terrorist acts.
And americans will now say "great, that's what we must do now". Think again. Israel has been doing that for decades. And it has not worked. It is not coincidental that most kamikaze attacks of the last years happened while a strong-line prime minister was in the government.
This is not the first time an fantasy work has entered the Hugo awards. IIRC, Lord of the Rings was nominated for the "Best All-Time Novel Series" Hugo that Asimov won with Foundation (Along with Heinlein's Future History).
In A Memoir Asimov himself says he thought that Tolkien would win.
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The people were charged because it was a criminal case. Had it been a civil action, they would have gone after the company. Pretty sure it's the same in the US.
You make it sound wonderful. Yes, just like the Catholic church "converted" the natives living in the Americas. Oh, where are they today, anyway? That's right, most of them chose to die rather than be "converted". Now why would that be?
Take a look south of the US border sometime. Most of the Central and South American population is of native descent. Of the ones that died, most didn't "chose" to, but died of imported diseases no one really had control over. The only large area of the Americas where natives were completely eradicated was North America, which happens to be the only area colonized largely by non-Catholic nations...
Have you heard of GPGME? It's the official library for using GnuPG from other programs, and it does everything you mentioned. From the application point of view, it's just the same as if the crypto operations were in a library.
It does have some performance problems, because it must run a new gpg process for every operation, but those will be fixed in the future.
So it's not the software that is collecting the information, but PGP Corporation. I guess at some point during download or installation it asks you to register.
Maybe it's not a really good privacy policy, but it's not spyware either.
The worst part is, did I read this in a Larry Niven novel or watch it on Discovery channel?
It's Larry Niven. The Borderland of Sol, 1975 , winner of the 1976 Hugo Best Novelette Award.
First of all, my condolences to the American people. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can justify these murders, and they must be punished. Now we are all at war together.
Is not true that Israel is the only Democratic country in that god forsaken land?
As long as you are not Palestinian that is true.
However, Israel is also a country which routinely executes suspected terrorists with Apache helicopters, as far as I know, without any kind of fair trial.
A country that bombs towns in reply to crimes committed by their citizens, again without trial, who punishes the families of those involved in terrorist acts.
And americans will now say "great, that's what we must do now". Think again. Israel has been doing that for decades. And it has not worked. It is not coincidental that most kamikaze attacks of the last years happened while a strong-line prime minister was in the government.
In A Memoir Asimov himself says he thought that Tolkien would win.
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.