It's that mindset that keeps encrypted email from becoming a standard
Oh I agree with you 100%. But neither I nor 99% of other users out there are part of the tinfoil hat crowd - the so-called benefit to civilisation that would be provided by encrypting all my mail just isn't worth the inconvenience to 99% of people.
And while I have a strong interest in cryptography from a mathematical and theoretical point of view, I also have a personal belief in openness and a dislike of secrecy. Like most people I know, I leave my doors unlocked so my friends can drop by whenever they like. I trust people enough not to walk in and steal my stuff when I'm not looking, and in almost 30 years, I have never once had this trust violated.
In any case, the attitude I have toward cryptography is almost universal; it's simply not worth the effort. One could argue that the attitude of distrust that people have of each other is the mindset that keeps so may people locked up in their houses, afraid of terrorists and bad guys. And yes, in the end, the government is just a big group of people too; some good, some not so good.
Ok, I'm a software developer, I've got a bookshelf full of cryptography books and one lying at my bedside. But... until a mail client or webmail service makes encrypted email just as easy as regular email it's not worth my time.
By "easy" I mean that I should literally have to do nothing to use it. If I have to create a keypair it should be when I sign up, and I shouldn't have to ever need to think about it again. I should have a "send encrypted" button beside the "send" button or a preference. I shouldn't have to get my friends to mail me their public keys, the service/client should obtain them automatically somehow. Essentially I shouldn't have to do a single thing more difficult than today's webmail services.
I really don't have anything top secret enough to say to my friends that I would find value in encrypted mail. The huge inconvenience that is the current state of encrypted mail just isn't worth it to me... and it definitely won't be to my mum, or non-tech friends.
However, if someone can do encrypted mail without any added inconveniences, I will be the first to sign up.
Re-read what I wrote. The fact that the C# compiler exists on Darwin, Linux and FreeBSD pretty much makes it available for so-called "free" platforms. The language and compiler are NOT tied to non-free platforms. The parent posters point is invalid.
You can download the Rotor source free and compile/run it on Windows XP, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Or maybe you meant on Linux.
Theoretically you could write C# applications for those platforms just like you could write C, C++ etc. applications for them. I don't see how you would need any other Microsoft products to use their C# compiler, though obviously Microsoft currently produces the most comprehensive development environment for C#.
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That objects exist, and that they exist in discrete amounts is a foundational tenet of reality.
Heh. You're thinking like a human... which can't be helped I suppose. You should rephrase: "That objects exist, and that they exist in discrete amounts is a foundational tenet of human perception."
I would say that if you're a web developer who can't afford a $130 OS upgrade, then you've probably got bigger issues with your business than which browser you're testing with.;)
Totally offtopic now... but where did you live in southern Mexico? I was living in Merida for a year and would move back any day if I could find a decent stable development job... last time I did contract work and taught English to get my FM-3.
And listened to his interview on the CBC the other morning. And yeah, until he started talking, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but after hearing what he had to say, I'm with you 100%.
And before any of you smart-assed Euros ask me if I'm an American, I'm not. I'm Canadian.
And from one Canadian to another, please do us all a favour and move somewhere where your brand of sophisticated political analysis and your fantastic social skills will be more thoroughly appreciated. I hear there's a lot of open land in Texas just waiting to be developed.
I share your pain, man. 8 days downtime in November. They finally apologised and offered a refund for November, but I'll be switching to Shaw next month.
Here on Vancouver Island, I had 8 days downtime in November with Telus... After five unanswered emails to customer service and two calls to tech support (on hold for over an hour each time), I ended up submitting a complaint to the CRTC, which got me a response from Telus fast. They ended up apologising and refunding the month's service. I will be switching to Shaw in February.
Use google and see what you find. I'm not going to bother doing your research for you, but Apple is using a heavily modified Mach microkernel. It is *very* different from what was developed at CMU.
As a Canadian I do to. One hundred and one, one hundred and twenty seven, one thousand three hundred and four. I can also point out that having worked for a year in the US, I've never heard an American speak the way the original poster implies is "correct".
From Apples site: "We should note, however, that apart from a few architectural differences (such as our use of the Mach kernel), we try to keep Darwin as compatible as possible with FreeBSD (our BSD reference platform)."
They're referring to the BSD userland (ls, rm, cp, etc.) there. Those have nothing (or very little) to do with the kernel or microkernel -- as can be evidenced by the fact that they all can be recompiled on most versions of UNIX, and many of those have very different schedulers. But as someone with a degree in CSc and 15 years of experience, I'm sure you were aware of that and just got emotionally excited.
The kernel/microkernel in Darwin have basically nothing in common with FreeBSD. Feel free to confirm this for yourself by reading the sources to both.
``tell application "iTunes"; play "track 01" from "Goldberg variations"; end tell''
To be fair, you can do this... well, at least on MacOS X using AppleScript. Not sure about iTunes for Windows. I suspect that the same is available through VBScript/JScript using Windows Scripting Host. Many applications (eg. Word, Excel) expose functionality like this through COM. Unfortunately Windows Scripting Host is a totally open environment, without much (any) consideration for security issues, hence all the Outlook viruses that exploit these features.
I agree, however, that most applications do very little to support this functionality, and those that do usually do a poor (or insecure) job of it. I also tend to prefer writing code for UNIX based systems, or cross-platform code.
Some highlights that show just how much the rest of the world envies the US:
89% Percentage of American respondents who agreed with the statement that "America is the best country in the world in which to live." Ten per cent disagreed.
6% Percentage of Canadian respondents who said the U.S. is a better place to live than Canada. Ninety per cent said it was not better than Canada.
4 out of 5 Proportion of overall respondents who said they would not like to live in the United States if given the chance.
2 out of 3 Proportion of Russian respondents who said America's superior military power makes the world a more dangerous place. Thirty-seven per cent of Canadian respondents agreed, while 41 per cent said the military power of the U.S. makes the world a safer place.
56% Percentage of overall respondents who said the U.S. was wrong to invade Iraq. Thirty-seven per cent said the U.S. was right to invade. Fifty-one per cent said life for the Iraqi people will be better now that Saddam Hussein is gone, while only 20 per cent said life will be worse for them. Twenty per cent said it will make no difference and nine per cent said they don't know. Only 21 per cent believed the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq would result in an independent Iraqi regime.
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My point exactly. If I have to go to those lengths, I won't... and neither will most other people.
It's that mindset that keeps encrypted email from becoming a standard
Oh I agree with you 100%. But neither I nor 99% of other users out there are part of the tinfoil hat crowd - the so-called benefit to civilisation that would be provided by encrypting all my mail just isn't worth the inconvenience to 99% of people.
And while I have a strong interest in cryptography from a mathematical and theoretical point of view, I also have a personal belief in openness and a dislike of secrecy. Like most people I know, I leave my doors unlocked so my friends can drop by whenever they like. I trust people enough not to walk in and steal my stuff when I'm not looking, and in almost 30 years, I have never once had this trust violated.
In any case, the attitude I have toward cryptography is almost universal; it's simply not worth the effort. One could argue that the attitude of distrust that people have of each other is the mindset that keeps so may people locked up in their houses, afraid of terrorists and bad guys. And yes, in the end, the government is just a big group of people too; some good, some not so good.
Ok, I'm a software developer, I've got a bookshelf full of cryptography books and one lying at my bedside. But... until a mail client or webmail service makes encrypted email just as easy as regular email it's not worth my time.
By "easy" I mean that I should literally have to do nothing to use it. If I have to create a keypair it should be when I sign up, and I shouldn't have to ever need to think about it again. I should have a "send encrypted" button beside the "send" button or a preference. I shouldn't have to get my friends to mail me their public keys, the service/client should obtain them automatically somehow. Essentially I shouldn't have to do a single thing more difficult than today's webmail services.
I really don't have anything top secret enough to say to my friends that I would find value in encrypted mail. The huge inconvenience that is the current state of encrypted mail just isn't worth it to me... and it definitely won't be to my mum, or non-tech friends.
However, if someone can do encrypted mail without any added inconveniences, I will be the first to sign up.
Re-read what I wrote. The fact that the C# compiler exists on Darwin, Linux and FreeBSD pretty much makes it available for so-called "free" platforms. The language and compiler are NOT tied to non-free platforms. The parent posters point is invalid.
You can download the Rotor source free and compile/run it on Windows XP, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Or maybe you meant on Linux.
Theoretically you could write C# applications for those platforms just like you could write C, C++ etc. applications for them. I don't see how you would need any other Microsoft products to use their C# compiler, though obviously Microsoft currently produces the most comprehensive development environment for C#.
That objects exist, and that they exist in discrete amounts is a foundational tenet of reality.
Heh. You're thinking like a human... which can't be helped I suppose. You should rephrase: "That objects exist, and that they exist in discrete amounts is a foundational tenet of human perception."
I would say that if you're a web developer who can't afford a $130 OS upgrade, then you've probably got bigger issues with your business than which browser you're testing with. ;)
Totally offtopic now... but where did you live in southern Mexico? I was living in Merida for a year and would move back any day if I could find a decent stable development job... last time I did contract work and taught English to get my FM-3.
They are responsible for what I am sure must have been the longest line-up in history!
And listened to his interview on the CBC the other morning. And yeah, until he started talking, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but after hearing what he had to say, I'm with you 100%.
And before any of you smart-assed Euros ask me if I'm an American, I'm not. I'm Canadian.
And from one Canadian to another, please do us all a favour and move somewhere where your brand of sophisticated political analysis and your fantastic social skills will be more thoroughly appreciated. I hear there's a lot of open land in Texas just waiting to be developed.
And speaking of things you can mount. Here's yet another highlight.
I share your pain, man. 8 days downtime in November. They finally apologised and offered a refund for November, but I'll be switching to Shaw next month.
Here on Vancouver Island, I had 8 days downtime in November with Telus... After five unanswered emails to customer service and two calls to tech support (on hold for over an hour each time), I ended up submitting a complaint to the CRTC, which got me a response from Telus fast. They ended up apologising and refunding the month's service. I will be switching to Shaw in February.
Use google and see what you find. I'm not going to bother doing your research for you, but Apple is using a heavily modified Mach microkernel. It is *very* different from what was developed at CMU.
Forgive me while I still consider your post flamebait.
Some good Slashdot labels: flamebait, troll.
Anyone on /. is experiencing the same thing. Is it going to get better or worse in 2004, and how much time are we all wasting?
Call me a cynic, but I think anyone on Slashdot is experiencing a lot more than 11h 20m of wasted time per month...
Either way, it tastes good... :)
Mine doesn't... but it does carbonate.
As a Canadian I do to. One hundred and one, one hundred and twenty seven, one thousand three hundred and four. I can also point out that having worked for a year in the US, I've never heard an American speak the way the original poster implies is "correct".
You must live in LA.
Hrm... what aboot us Canucks? No fluoride in our water... oh wait... how many fillings have I had? Never mind.
From Apples site: "We should note, however, that apart from a few architectural differences (such as our use of the Mach kernel), we try to keep Darwin as compatible as possible with FreeBSD (our BSD reference platform)."
They're referring to the BSD userland (ls, rm, cp, etc.) there. Those have nothing (or very little) to do with the kernel or microkernel -- as can be evidenced by the fact that they all can be recompiled on most versions of UNIX, and many of those have very different schedulers. But as someone with a degree in CSc and 15 years of experience, I'm sure you were aware of that and just got emotionally excited.
The kernel/microkernel in Darwin have basically nothing in common with FreeBSD. Feel free to confirm this for yourself by reading the sources to both.
``tell application "iTunes"; play "track 01" from "Goldberg variations"; end tell''
To be fair, you can do this... well, at least on MacOS X using AppleScript. Not sure about iTunes for Windows. I suspect that the same is available through VBScript/JScript using Windows Scripting Host. Many applications (eg. Word, Excel) expose functionality like this through COM. Unfortunately Windows Scripting Host is a totally open environment, without much (any) consideration for security issues, hence all the Outlook viruses that exploit these features.
I agree, however, that most applications do very little to support this functionality, and those that do usually do a poor (or insecure) job of it. I also tend to prefer writing code for UNIX based systems, or cross-platform code.
Here's a reference for iTunes scripting:
http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/
Yeah... that's right amigo, we all envy you. To wit:
What the world thinks of America was a joint report carried out by ten world news agencies in their respective countries.
Some highlights that show just how much the rest of the world envies the US:
89%
Percentage of American respondents who agreed with the statement that "America is the best country in the world in which to live." Ten per cent disagreed.
6%
Percentage of Canadian respondents who said the U.S. is a better place to live than Canada. Ninety per cent said it was not better than Canada.
4 out of 5
Proportion of overall respondents who said they would not like to live in the United States if given the chance.
2 out of 3
Proportion of Russian respondents who said America's superior military power makes the world a more dangerous place. Thirty-seven per cent of Canadian respondents agreed, while 41 per cent said the military power of the U.S. makes the world a safer place.
56%
Percentage of overall respondents who said the U.S. was wrong to invade Iraq. Thirty-seven per cent said the U.S. was right to invade. Fifty-one per cent said life for the Iraqi people will be better now that Saddam Hussein is gone, while only 20 per cent said life will be worse for them. Twenty per cent said it will make no difference and nine per cent said they don't know. Only 21 per cent believed the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq would result in an independent Iraqi regime.