RoundCube still doesn't have collapsable folders in the stable builds. And it occasionally mangles MIME delimiters in a way that makes the message unreadable. I love the interface, but it's not done yet.
Not the SquirrelMail is the only alternative, but RoundCube is not exactly a drop-in replacement.
Checking voicemail from email or replying to email from your phone are *not* features that you need Exchange to get. They aren't even things Exchange did first or particularly well. It's just a popular solution that other vendors (like PBX providers) advertise compatibility with, nothing more, nothing less.
And Exchange is a nasty solution if you're not using an MS OS -- the IMAP client on your phone won't work unless someone enables it. Even if they enable IMAP doesn't work terribly well when mixed with MAPI clients or OWA. And OWA from Exchange 2007 hides about half the features (like rules and filters) if you're not browsing from MSIE. For an environment like a University, where a good 50+% of the users are likely *not* provided with a copy of Outlook (or an OS that can run it), let alone phones that support ActiveSync, it's probably not a great plan.
I believe that lying has socially and ethically acceptable uses and that you're being both selfish and "part of the crowd" by trying to proclaim that it's not.
But by asking why someone has a "need to be connected...at all times" shows that you're missing the point entirely. You could ask the same thing about email, or even plain old landline phones -- Facebook has perfectly valid, practical uses, just like other communications systems. People also use all three three for frivolous things like gossiping with their friends and self-promotion, and all three systems have the ability to interrupt other parts of your life.
So ask yourself why you have a phone and an email account. Why do you need to be connected to everyone and everything at all times? Couldn't you just go see other people in person, or send them a letter. Sure, you'd like emergency services, but a police box on the corner is almost as good, a whole lot cheaper, and very unlikely to interfere with your normal life.
I'll bet a big part of why you have phone and email services is because everyone else does, and it serves as a practical way to quickly exchange information with other people. Just like the people you're insulting for using Facebook
Absorption refrigerators are common in mobile installations like RVs -- they can be powered by propane or other combustion systems.
Trane sells the Horizon series of absorption chillers for installations that want to capture energy from waste steam or that have unreliable electricity. They used to sell direct-drive gas-powered centrifugal chillers too, but they've gone to coupling a generator with a chiller to avoid vibration and other issues they had with the direct-drive system.
ABS reduces stopping distances on high-traction surfaces like the highway. Even skilled drivers using threshold braking are unlikely to improve over ABS braking. And I don't even know where you got this "Locking the brakes up might stop you" idea, because that's just absurd.
Not to mention, ABS provides increased steering response during breaking, which would allow you to go *around* the obstacle rather than into it once you determine that you can't stop in time. Try steering around something with your tries locked and tell me how that goes.
Also, I don't know about you, but my brakes have wear indicators to let me know when they've reached the end of their effective life. So even if the traction control system contributed significantly to brake wear I would have warning of the impending failure and could have my brake pads replaced.
ABS *does* reduce reduce average stopping distances on common road surfaces. Even for skilled drivers using threshold it would be difficult to obtain better stopping distances without ABS, let alone the average driver.
Now there are cases where that isn't true. On surfaces covered by a low-traction but movable coating, such as loose gravel or deep snow over a higher-traction surface, ABS can increase stopping distances by preventing tries from digging through to the hard surface below.
But even in those cases ABS can provide significant lateral stabilization and increased steering response during braking, which are valuable in and of themselves, perhaps even at the cost of some stopping distance.
Also note that modern traction control systems can use the ABS system to limit wheel spin -- rather than simply cutting axle power you can apply braking to the spinning wheel to limit its speed, allowing the other wheel to take advantage of the existing axle power.
Yes. Obviously the post was suggesting that only his life was important. He couldn't possibly have meant that it may be safer for everyone to have a 10 MPH impact between to mobile objects than a 70 MPH impact with an immovable object.
But hey, don't stop your reductio ad absurdum trolling on my behalf.
Because 50 GB optical media costs less than a dollar to press or burn, and 50 GB of flash memory costs about $100. And hard drives cost a minimum of $30 regardless of their size. Am *I* missing something here?
Apparently you missed the part about "or any of a dozen other ways", or the grandparent's comment "use the block number as a salt"?
Also, it's not impossible to use CBC in random-access mode, it's just inefficient -- but if you read the preceding block you have all the necessary data. You'd have a lot of re-writing to do when you made changes, but it could certainly be done without any algorithm tweak or special treatment.
He's just intentionally mis-using the term "fixed-line phones" to troll. Pay no attention.
Or note that it's now possible to have a phone connection using both my telco line and my cable line, providing protection against things like backhoe fade. And that the only reason VoIP doesn't work well with 911 is that the telecom industry designed 911 services without any thought to future competitors, VoIP or otherwise.
He isn't making claims. He's disputing claims that other have made.
By your reasoning we're "due" to spontaneously lose our left index fingers in the next generation because it's technically possible there's no evidence to suggest that we're not.
In general 2400 baud *is* the same as 2400 bps on old modems -- the applicational-level transfer protocol you use might introduce error correction and/or compression, but the actual symbol rate (baud) is generally the same as the gross bit rate on old-school modems.
I agree that having physical access to the disk allows anyone to read it, and that sensitive data should be encrypted. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth making things complicated. Set good passwords. Use BIOS/OpenFirmware/other pre-boot environment passwords to prevent non-standard booting. Lock/screw the case closed.
Now instead of having instant, one-click access they need a password for the OS, a password for the pre-boot environment, or to physically open the case (bypassing any locks the case may include). Can they still get at the data on your hard drive -- yes. Can they still do it in under 2 minutes -- no. It may not be an important difference for a stolen laptop, but for an unattended visitor at the receptionist's desk, adding 90 seconds to the compromise time can be a big security gain.
It's "We the People of the United States". I know that there's no one alive that remembers the pre-progressive federal government, but it really was a much different thing back then, and mis-quoting bits of documents from another era is not going to help you prove your point.
Unless you lived outside of CA or NY. In which case you'd be lucky to hear the candidate's name before the election, because your vote would be meaningless given the concentration of population in a few states.
In addition to giving the states power to choose their electors by whatever means they deem fit, it also prevents the consolidation of power in the populous states, just like the senate.
But Mr. Lincoln decided you can't secede, and he had the industrial capacity to back it up.
Frankly I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone *fought* over some states choosing to leave the union. I mean, Virginia is nice, but I don't think I'd whip out a gun if I was told I couldn't travel there without a passport.
Which, while I understand it's illegal, doesn't seem like a terrible plan to me. If you can't read you shouldn't vote, serve on a jury or in elected office, join the military, or execute civil contracts.
Of course that idea assumes we actually provide free, effective literacy training for the entire population, which we clearly don't. But I can still dream.
If by "interesting" you mean "sad" then I agree wholeheartedly.
Frankly I don't think you should be allowed to vote if you can't explain the general process of the election and the duties of the office with 90% accuracy. Instead of jury duty, let's require people to take (or test out of) civics courses.
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RoundCube still doesn't have collapsable folders in the stable builds. And it occasionally mangles MIME delimiters in a way that makes the message unreadable. I love the interface, but it's not done yet.
Not the SquirrelMail is the only alternative, but RoundCube is not exactly a drop-in replacement.
Checking voicemail from email or replying to email from your phone are *not* features that you need Exchange to get. They aren't even things Exchange did first or particularly well. It's just a popular solution that other vendors (like PBX providers) advertise compatibility with, nothing more, nothing less.
And Exchange is a nasty solution if you're not using an MS OS -- the IMAP client on your phone won't work unless someone enables it. Even if they enable IMAP doesn't work terribly well when mixed with MAPI clients or OWA. And OWA from Exchange 2007 hides about half the features (like rules and filters) if you're not browsing from MSIE. For an environment like a University, where a good 50+% of the users are likely *not* provided with a copy of Outlook (or an OS that can run it), let alone phones that support ActiveSync, it's probably not a great plan.
Or distinguish between "authenticated" and "encrypted"?
Or finally admit that maybe there are more shades of grey than "secure" and "insecure" when it comes to send and fetching data over the Internet?
I believe that lying has socially and ethically acceptable uses and that you're being both selfish and "part of the crowd" by trying to proclaim that it's not.
But by asking why someone has a "need to be connected...at all times" shows that you're missing the point entirely. You could ask the same thing about email, or even plain old landline phones -- Facebook has perfectly valid, practical uses, just like other communications systems. People also use all three three for frivolous things like gossiping with their friends and self-promotion, and all three systems have the ability to interrupt other parts of your life.
So ask yourself why you have a phone and an email account. Why do you need to be connected to everyone and everything at all times? Couldn't you just go see other people in person, or send them a letter. Sure, you'd like emergency services, but a police box on the corner is almost as good, a whole lot cheaper, and very unlikely to interfere with your normal life.
I'll bet a big part of why you have phone and email services is because everyone else does, and it serves as a practical way to quickly exchange information with other people. Just like the people you're insulting for using Facebook
There are non-electric versions of A/C, but they probably aren't a better deal for you unless you get free waste steam from some industrial process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator
Absorption refrigerators are common in mobile installations like RVs -- they can be powered by propane or other combustion systems.
Trane sells the Horizon series of absorption chillers for installations that want to capture energy from waste steam or that have unreliable electricity. They used to sell direct-drive gas-powered centrifugal chillers too, but they've gone to coupling a generator with a chiller to avoid vibration and other issues they had with the direct-drive system.
ABS reduces stopping distances on high-traction surfaces like the highway. Even skilled drivers using threshold braking are unlikely to improve over ABS braking. And I don't even know where you got this "Locking the brakes up might stop you" idea, because that's just absurd.
Not to mention, ABS provides increased steering response during breaking, which would allow you to go *around* the obstacle rather than into it once you determine that you can't stop in time. Try steering around something with your tries locked and tell me how that goes.
Also, I don't know about you, but my brakes have wear indicators to let me know when they've reached the end of their effective life. So even if the traction control system contributed significantly to brake wear I would have warning of the impending failure and could have my brake pads replaced.
ABS *does* reduce reduce average stopping distances on common road surfaces. Even for skilled drivers using threshold it would be difficult to obtain better stopping distances without ABS, let alone the average driver.
Now there are cases where that isn't true. On surfaces covered by a low-traction but movable coating, such as loose gravel or deep snow over a higher-traction surface, ABS can increase stopping distances by preventing tries from digging through to the hard surface below.
But even in those cases ABS can provide significant lateral stabilization and increased steering response during braking, which are valuable in and of themselves, perhaps even at the cost of some stopping distance.
Also note that modern traction control systems can use the ABS system to limit wheel spin -- rather than simply cutting axle power you can apply braking to the spinning wheel to limit its speed, allowing the other wheel to take advantage of the existing axle power.
Yes. Obviously the post was suggesting that only his life was important. He couldn't possibly have meant that it may be safer for everyone to have a 10 MPH impact between to mobile objects than a 70 MPH impact with an immovable object.
But hey, don't stop your reductio ad absurdum trolling on my behalf.
Because 50 GB optical media costs less than a dollar to press or burn, and 50 GB of flash memory costs about $100. And hard drives cost a minimum of $30 regardless of their size. Am *I* missing something here?
Once again, the very article you link to describes how it does:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory#CBC-based_approaches
Apparently you missed the part about "or any of a dozen other ways", or the grandparent's comment "use the block number as a salt"?
Also, it's not impossible to use CBC in random-access mode, it's just inefficient -- but if you read the preceding block you have all the necessary data. You'd have a lot of re-writing to do when you made changes, but it could certainly be done without any algorithm tweak or special treatment.
And if *you* bothered to read the page you linked to, you'd see that people actually *do* use CBC methods:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory#CBC-based_approaches
Or CBC mode? Or any of a dozen other ways to prevent this well-known attack on ECB mode encryption? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation
Yes. And apparently TurboCrypt now supports such things too, hence the press release.
He's just intentionally mis-using the term "fixed-line phones" to troll. Pay no attention.
Or note that it's now possible to have a phone connection using both my telco line and my cable line, providing protection against things like backhoe fade. And that the only reason VoIP doesn't work well with 911 is that the telecom industry designed 911 services without any thought to future competitors, VoIP or otherwise.
He isn't making claims. He's disputing claims that other have made.
By your reasoning we're "due" to spontaneously lose our left index fingers in the next generation because it's technically possible there's no evidence to suggest that we're not.
In general 2400 baud *is* the same as 2400 bps on old modems -- the applicational-level transfer protocol you use might introduce error correction and/or compression, but the actual symbol rate (baud) is generally the same as the gross bit rate on old-school modems.
I agree that having physical access to the disk allows anyone to read it, and that sensitive data should be encrypted. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth making things complicated. Set good passwords. Use BIOS/OpenFirmware/other pre-boot environment passwords to prevent non-standard booting. Lock/screw the case closed.
Now instead of having instant, one-click access they need a password for the OS, a password for the pre-boot environment, or to physically open the case (bypassing any locks the case may include). Can they still get at the data on your hard drive -- yes. Can they still do it in under 2 minutes -- no. It may not be an important difference for a stolen laptop, but for an unattended visitor at the receptionist's desk, adding 90 seconds to the compromise time can be a big security gain.
What do the Libertarians have to do with anything? Ron Paul is a Republican.
It's "We the People of the United States". I know that there's no one alive that remembers the pre-progressive federal government, but it really was a much different thing back then, and mis-quoting bits of documents from another era is not going to help you prove your point.
Unless you lived outside of CA or NY. In which case you'd be lucky to hear the candidate's name before the election, because your vote would be meaningless given the concentration of population in a few states.
But everyone likes income tax, abolition, and the direct election of senators. How dare you question the "progress" those amendments codified?
In addition to giving the states power to choose their electors by whatever means they deem fit, it also prevents the consolidation of power in the populous states, just like the senate.
You could make the same argument about the senate. Are you seriously suggesting that we just like NY and CA control the entire country?
But Mr. Lincoln decided you can't secede, and he had the industrial capacity to back it up.
Frankly I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone *fought* over some states choosing to leave the union. I mean, Virginia is nice, but I don't think I'd whip out a gun if I was told I couldn't travel there without a passport.
Which, while I understand it's illegal, doesn't seem like a terrible plan to me. If you can't read you shouldn't vote, serve on a jury or in elected office, join the military, or execute civil contracts.
Of course that idea assumes we actually provide free, effective literacy training for the entire population, which we clearly don't. But I can still dream.
If by "interesting" you mean "sad" then I agree wholeheartedly.
Frankly I don't think you should be allowed to vote if you can't explain the general process of the election and the duties of the office with 90% accuracy. Instead of jury duty, let's require people to take (or test out of) civics courses.