>Now if only MTV would use the same thing to email >me song info for videos I like instead of covering >the screen in tacky text.
But they do that! Just send an SMS to the number shown on the screen during the music, with the text they tell you, and you'll receive all you never really wanted;-)
It's a waste of fossil fuel and it's rarely recycled. It fills up landfills.
That's reason enough not to use it, considering that better alternatives are readily available. Sure, a lot of other stuff is even worse than a single styrofoam cup - but how many computers get thrown away every day? Compared to the number of styrofoam cups thrown away?
This germ would never work on ammunition.... because ammunition nowadays consists of metal cartridges that are completely airtight, waterproof, even soldier-proof (which probably was the most important and most difficult to achieve).
While it is feasible that a germ could "eat" explosives (which is already being done with TNT, mostly to get rid of TNT in the soil where explosives factories have once stood), it's completely impossible to use such germs against the ammunition once it leaves the factory.
Uh... you misunderstood him. He said that the 5$ Blender in the US will work oonly once, and then break.
The 5$ Blender in Europe, however, will come with a warranty, meaning that it will HAVE to work for a specific time without breaking, otherwise you get your money back.
Well, actually you CAN keep this milk for 2 or 3 months without keeping it in the fridge - it's sterilized by heat and then sealed in Tetra-Paks.
I got a pack of orange juice here that will still be drinkable in November, unless I open the pack - in which case I'll have to drink it within 2 days AND keep it cold.
Germany sells radiated milk? That's news to me, and I live there... the milk you are refering to is not radiated, it is pasteurized - meaning that it is exposed to heat and high pressure. No radioactivity at all is involved.
What IS sold here is irradiated vegetables - mainly from southern Europe, AFAIK.
Wasn't there a story a few years ago about a weather balloon that had drifted into commercial airways? ISTR that the Air Force tried several times to shoot it down... but didn't hit.
As for the inventor: He would want to prevent others from seeing it too soon - that's what encryption is for. Self-destructing emails however are designed to delete themself AFTER a certain time, unless I missed something in the concept.
As for the man with the girlfriend, if he writes loveletters to her, then the loveletters are HER property, and she can do with them what she wants, just like with loveletters in paper form. Maybe she wants to keep them as a keepsake even after they split up... who gives the man the right to destroy them?
Morale: Don't send (e)mail to somebody you don't trust.
I don't think DRM really compares with B2-machines... B2-OSs would never sell on a mass-market, because they are a pain to work with.
DRM-protected music, for example, can always be copied by simply connecting a recorder to the line-out of the soundcard. With "self-destructing emails", people will print those mails on dead trees, or if that option is not possible, make screenshots (and OCR those if they want to save the document in a proper format).
If a honest man invents something, why should he want to automatically destroy knowledge about his invention?
If the honest man having sex with the honest woman was really honest and not cheating on somebody, why should he want to destroy the mail? Do you destroy the loveletters you sent to your girlfriends?
The trouble with PGP is: Once it becomes so widespread that the government has to fear loss of face in front of a court, other countries will do the same as the UK: Pass a law that requires you to hand over the key, or else...
Besides, with PGP you still can't control if the RECIPIENTS of the mail keep it - the point of these new systems was to delete the mail after you sent it.
People still will be able to print out messages, or make screenshots of their MUA - ESPECIALLY when they know that the mail is going to self-destruct. So these expensive systems still won't guarantee against a copy surviving (especially if it's something hot that could be used to blackmail somebody, such as the order to shred all records...).
In short: Why waste money on a system that prevents Email from getting read by Law-enforcement-officers? Why not simply do nothing illegal?;-)
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>Now if only MTV would use the same thing to email >me song info for videos I like instead of covering >the screen in tacky text.
;-)
But they do that! Just send an SMS to the number shown on the screen during the music, with the text they tell you, and you'll receive all you never really wanted
A virus fighting another virus - doesn't that ring a bell?
Yep - there was this guy who thought that the best way to fight the Bagle virus was to write another virus called Netsky.
Imagine the same happening with a biological virus...
> Steel also doesn't decompose, shall we ban it?
But it does - it rusts.
> And why is polystyrene bad?
It's a waste of fossil fuel and it's rarely recycled. It fills up landfills.
That's reason enough not to use it, considering that better alternatives are readily available. Sure, a lot of other stuff is even worse than a single styrofoam cup - but how many computers get thrown away every day? Compared to the number of styrofoam cups thrown away?
Ok, maybe I'm missing something here... but IMHO:
a) Styrofoam cups should be banned anyway because they don't decompose (as opposed to cardboard cups)
and b) Styrofoam isn't made from H2O, but from polystyrene...
Why do all these webmail-users use plain HTTP, anyway? Use HTTPS and nobody can spy on you - it's that simple.
And if $Webmailer doesn't support HTTPS, switch to one that does, because Webmailers that don't use HTTPS don't give a damn about security anyway.
I didn't know that DAT backup tapes were invented in 1972... ;-)
This germ would never work on ammunition.... because ammunition nowadays consists of metal cartridges that are completely airtight, waterproof, even soldier-proof (which probably was the most important and most difficult to achieve).
While it is feasible that a germ could "eat" explosives (which is already being done with TNT, mostly to get rid of TNT in the soil where explosives factories have once stood), it's completely impossible to use such germs against the ammunition once it leaves the factory.
Uh... you misunderstood him. He said that the 5$ Blender in the US will work oonly once, and then break.
The 5$ Blender in Europe, however, will come with a warranty, meaning that it will HAVE to work for a specific time without breaking, otherwise you get your money back.
GnuPP is Open Source... so you can check its safety without having to trust any government.
;-)
Now, if only the NSA would publish the sources of Echelon...
Well, actually you CAN keep this milk for 2 or 3 months without keeping it in the fridge - it's sterilized by heat and then sealed in Tetra-Paks.
I got a pack of orange juice here that will still be drinkable in November, unless I open the pack - in which case I'll have to drink it within 2 days AND keep it cold.
That's why you keep it un-opened :-)
Of course, after 6 months, the milk carton will open the fridge door by itself and walk out...
Germany sells radiated milk? That's news to me, and I live there... the milk you are refering to is not radiated, it is pasteurized - meaning that it is exposed to heat and high pressure. No radioactivity at all is involved.
What IS sold here is irradiated vegetables - mainly from southern Europe, AFAIK.
Wasn't there a story a few years ago about a weather balloon that had drifted into commercial airways? ISTR that the Air Force tried several times to shoot it down... but didn't hit.
As for the inventor: He would want to prevent others from seeing it too soon - that's what encryption is for. Self-destructing emails however are designed to delete themself AFTER a certain time, unless I missed something in the concept.
As for the man with the girlfriend, if he writes loveletters to her, then the loveletters are HER property, and she can do with them what she wants, just like with loveletters in paper form. Maybe she wants to keep them as a keepsake even after they split up... who gives the man the right to destroy them?
Morale: Don't send (e)mail to somebody you don't trust.
I don't think DRM really compares with B2-machines... B2-OSs would never sell on a mass-market, because they are a pain to work with.
DRM-protected music, for example, can always be copied by simply connecting a recorder to the line-out of the soundcard. With "self-destructing emails", people will print those mails on dead trees, or if that option is not possible, make screenshots (and OCR those if they want to save the document in a proper format).
If a honest man invents something, why should he want to automatically destroy knowledge about his invention?
If the honest man having sex with the honest woman was really honest and not cheating on somebody, why should he want to destroy the mail? Do you destroy the loveletters you sent to your girlfriends?
No, it's not.
It's perfectly understandable that people want their privacy and therefore encrypt their mails.
It's NOT understandable if people want to destroy the mail they sent and that is in other peoples mailboxes.
The trouble with PGP is: Once it becomes so widespread that the government has to fear loss of face in front of a court, other countries will do the same as the UK: Pass a law that requires you to hand over the key, or else...
Besides, with PGP you still can't control if the RECIPIENTS of the mail keep it - the point of these new systems was to delete the mail after you sent it.
People still will be able to print out messages, or make screenshots of their MUA - ESPECIALLY when they know that the mail is going to self-destruct. So these expensive systems still won't guarantee against a copy surviving (especially if it's something hot that could be used to blackmail somebody, such as the order to shred all records...).
;-)
In short: Why waste money on a system that prevents Email from getting read by Law-enforcement-officers? Why not simply do nothing illegal?
...but you'll feel like it ;-)