This is a quote from the Fortune Magazine article linked in the grandparent post: "According to the business plan, as explained by Apple, developers will participate in a revenue-sharing arrangement. Apple will keep 30 percent of sales from every app sold."
To me, that indicates that there is some connection, including a contract between Apple and the VC firm.
In typical Silicon Valley hyperbole Doerr summed up the move as the beginning of a new world order. The iPhone, he said, is "bigger than the personal computer..."
The iPhone is locked to one provider. The iPhone will soon have unlocked competitors. It certainly will never be "bigger than the personal computer". The iPhone is basically only another cellular phone, and most people use their phones only to make phone calls.
Apparently the figure of $100 million being mentioned is just a maximum. The real amount invested could be minimal. The amount invested, which may be small, will get the investing company 30% of the entire income, the article says.
I read the linked.PDF document. It is a request for money. It contains almost no useful information about what is being done with the money.
Here is an example of how corrupt the U.S. government can be. It is a quote from the end of the document: "This is a work of the U.S. government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. It may be reproduced and distributed in its entirety without further permission from GAO. However, because this work may contain copyrighted images or other material, permission from the copyright holder may be necessary if you wish to reproduce this material separately."
So, you can freely copy the document, but you can't freely copy the document, because it "may contain" copyrighted material.
The overall impression I get is that whoever wrote the document doesn't want the taxpayers to know exactly how the money is being spent.
I use Sync. I've seen a lot of problems with FAT file system corruption.
My understanding is that it is better to use a TrueCrypt file rather than a TrueCrypt volume. That makes it easier to make encrypted backups; just copy the file. For some reason, using a file does not seem noticeably slower.
No, the point is that having a backup of the certificates does NOT allow you access to your data, which is tied to the SID hash of a user, on one particular computer. A domain server can back up the information, apparently, but if the domain server crashes, the data is lost. Also, the data is not independent of the domain server in any way.
I suggest that everyone check to see from whom your domain name provider buys
your domains.
eNom.com is the real
provider for NameCheap, one of many who buy from eNom.com.
eNom has been competing with its re-sellers with eNomCentral.com. Note that
eNom is doing what GoDaddy does. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to get more
money by confusing people who have little technical knowledge.
I moved all my domains away from GoDaddy for many reasons, not just those
reasons given in a Slashdot story, to NameCheap.
I don't know any domain name reseller that is inexpensive, reliable,
and honest.
At the bottom of the linked article, there is another link: Gmer -- MBR. At the end of that long technical article it says: "Rootkit removal: To remove rootkit from infected machine you can simply use "Recovery Console" command: fixmbr."
To use it, you first go into the Windows XP Recovery Console. Then run FixMBR/? for parameters. Save the MBR (Master Boot Record) first.
Here is a discussion on the Microsoft web site about tools for fixing the MBR without the Recovery Console. I've never tried them; I've always used the FixMBR utility that comes with the Recovery Console.
Is there confusion between permissions and Microsoft encryption?
I can move NTFS-formatted hard drives in removable USB enclosures to any computer, and read them there. It seems that it should be the same for any NTFS-formatted drive.
Microsoft drive encryption is not reliable, according to MS tech. support people. It should not be used.
I agree with what you said: "One is that problems fade over time. After about 2½ - 3 years it seems that most people forget the bad things and remember only a rosy picture. I'll get back to that. The other quirk is that people quickly get used to a lower level of performance and adjust their expectations and behavior accordingly."
Let's talk on the telephone. My email address: MJennings.USA@ NOT_any_of_THISgmail DOT com
Most internet cafes will not allow booting from a CD, I'm guessing. However, if you can boot from a CD, you can boot from the free Ultimate Boot CD for Windows with TrueCrypt already installed.
"This requires trusting the OS with your password,..."
All drives except those with separate keypads trust the OS with the password. Hardware keyloggers will see the password if there is no separate keypad. But that's not the problem. The problem is losing the drive. Hopefully the drive would not be lost in the same place someone is using a key logging device.
Root is required only to install TrueCrypt, not run it.
My grandparent comment was intended to be completely relevant. It seems to me that what a person
does affects that person's ability to rest and the quality of rest. Sleep is
one kind of rest.
To me, this is the whole issue: Does what you do in your life, the way you
live your life, affect your ability to sleep? It seems to me it does, and that
there is plenty of evidence that it does.
You said: "... I resent the implication that killing people leads to damaging
a person mentally."
I've studied the issue a long time, and to me it seems true that
killing other people, or helping kill them, causes thought process
degradation. One woman told me, "After the men returned [from the 2nd
world war] they were never the same." That seems to me to fit the
observable facts.
I'm not saying anything that should cause resentment. I'm stating an
opinion, an opinion that seems to fit the facts. For me it is an issue of
logic only. I am certainly not against you; I believe I am on the side of
anyone who wants to be healthy. I am not suggesting anything that would
promote violence or even anger. The sole issue for me is whether what I say
fits the facts, or not.
You said: "... choose to serve our country..."
When Saudis attack, invade Iraq? The war was started by people whose
families, friends, and business associates are oil and weapons investors.
Their purpose was to have a way to act out their anger, apparently, and to
make more profit. The weapons investors, and their particular kind of oil
investor, did not like the lessening budget for war after the breakup of the
Soviet Union. They wanted a long-term war. The way the invasion was conducted
made sure that Iraqis who were against being invaded had plenty of explosives
and weapons.
If the deaths caused by destabilization are counted, the U.S.
government has been responsible for the deaths of an estimated 9 to 12 million
people since the end of the second world war. The U.S. government has bombed
or invaded 25 countries since then. See the Wikipedia entry: List of United States military history events.
You said: "... neither I nor any of my coworkers kill anyone. We are intelligence
analysts, providing strategic guidance to GEN Petraeus."
If you are participating in the Iraq war, you are helping kill. You are helping destabilize the entire region around Iraq. You are damaging the reputation of the U.S. government. You are helping Arabs and
Muslims who say that the U.S. government is violent, corrupt, and should be
attacked. Violence breeds violence. The 2nd war with Iraq has now killed more
U.S. citizens than the World Trade Center bombers, and, according to respected
statistical studies, more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein. If you didn't have the excuse of war, you would be an accessory to murder.
The general violence and support for violence seems to be a contributing factor
to the people in the U.S. not being able to sleep. That theory may or not be correct,
but it is not a radical theory; people often make statements that show they
think that.
The alternative is to say that actions have no consequences, that what you do
has no effect on your mental health. I don't think anyone truly thinks that alternative
fits the facts.
If you need more support for what I said about the Iraq war, see, for example,
Coups Arranged or Backed by the USA. Most or all of that corruption
happened for profit, such as kickbacks of U.S. government foreign aid. When
the governments of Israel or Pakistan buy weapons from U.S. manufacturers
using money from "foreign aid", that is embezzlement of taxpayer money.
"I also have to wonder about brain damage as another side effect."
Killing other people definitely damages a person mentally, and is
definitely likely to cause the person to have trouble sleeping.
I've never known anyone who slept only 7 hours a day who seemed as
alert and calm as people who sleep 9 hours a day. I think the problem is worse
than they say.
Why did Slashdot editor Zonk link to that story about the CDC? I found
this in about a minute: National Sleep Awareness Week, March 3--9, 2008. Quote from the CDC:
"The National Sleep Foundation recommends that healthy adults sleep 7--9
hours daily."
Do Slashdot editors lose any sleep over poorly written, edited, and
considered stories?
The story linked by Slashdot is from an automatic news release
publisher in Australia. At the bottom of every page it says "powered
by computer". Why not link to the source? Why link to a company that says,
"Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now When you
subscribe get a 12 months license for LiveProject Valued at $99 USD"?
Do people in the U.S. lose sleep over the fact that they are forced to
pay to kill Iraqis? Will people in the U.S. lose sleep when they realize that
the huge rise in prices, which has already started, is mostly timed for the
end of Dick Cheney's and George W. Bush's terms in office? Whether or not they
lose sleep, killing Iraqis definitely lowers the quality of life in the
United States.
"Instead they became a monopoly by using dirty and underhanded marketing practices such as product tying where a company buying a PC would get a free copy of Word so that the company would then have no reason to buy the rival WordPerfect."
Excellent point.
Another way Microsoft killed WordPerfect was not stopping piracy. I don't know about now, but there was a time when it seemed that every PC was offered with Microsoft Word for $50 extra.
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This is a quote from the Fortune Magazine article linked in the grandparent post: "According to the business plan, as explained by Apple, developers will participate in a revenue-sharing arrangement. Apple will keep 30 percent of sales from every app sold."
To me, that indicates that there is some connection, including a contract between Apple and the VC firm.
The Fortune Magazine article, The iPhone gets a $100 million iFund, says:
In typical Silicon Valley hyperbole Doerr summed up the move as the beginning of a new world order. The iPhone, he said, is "bigger than the personal computer..."
The iPhone is locked to one provider. The iPhone will soon have unlocked competitors. It certainly will never be "bigger than the personal computer". The iPhone is basically only another cellular phone, and most people use their phones only to make phone calls.
Apparently the figure of $100 million being mentioned is just a maximum. The real amount invested could be minimal. The amount invested, which may be small, will get the investing company 30% of the entire income, the article says.
I read the linked .PDF document. It is a request for money. It contains almost no useful information about what is being done with the money.
Here is an example of how corrupt the U.S. government can be. It is a quote from the end of the document: "This is a work of the U.S. government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. It may be reproduced and distributed in its entirety without further permission from GAO. However, because this work may contain copyrighted images or other material, permission from the copyright holder may be necessary if you wish to reproduce this material separately."
So, you can freely copy the document, but you can't freely copy the document, because it "may contain" copyrighted material.
The overall impression I get is that whoever wrote the document doesn't want the taxpayers to know exactly how the money is being spent.
Is it certain that Gandi.net is not an eNom.com reseller, at least when they sell U.S. domain names?
I use Sync. I've seen a lot of problems with FAT file system corruption.
My understanding is that it is better to use a TrueCrypt file rather than a TrueCrypt volume. That makes it easier to make encrypted backups; just copy the file. For some reason, using a file does not seem noticeably slower.
Yes, you're right. Boot CD: Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
No, the point is that having a backup of the certificates does NOT allow you access to your data, which is tied to the SID hash of a user, on one particular computer. A domain server can back up the information, apparently, but if the domain server crashes, the data is lost. Also, the data is not independent of the domain server in any way.
Slashdot stories about Godaddy:
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover?
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy?
One Slashdot reader's experience: What needs to change. Quote: "... the catch was that it'd cost $80, as opposed to the $10 it normally costs."
I suggest that everyone check to see from whom your domain name provider buys your domains. eNom.com is the real provider for NameCheap, one of many who buy from eNom.com.
eNom has been competing with its re-sellers with eNomCentral.com. Note that eNom is doing what GoDaddy does. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to get more money by confusing people who have little technical knowledge.
I moved all my domains away from GoDaddy for many reasons, not just those reasons given in a Slashdot story, to NameCheap.
I don't know any domain name reseller that is inexpensive, reliable, and honest.
So what domain name provider do we use now? eNom is the provider used by my current reseller, NameCheap.com.
At the bottom of the linked article, there is another link: Gmer -- MBR. At the end of that long technical article it says: "Rootkit removal: To remove rootkit from infected machine you can simply use "Recovery Console" command: fixmbr."
/? for parameters. Save the MBR (Master Boot Record) first.
To use it, you first go into the Windows XP Recovery Console. Then run FixMBR
Here is a discussion on the Microsoft web site about tools for fixing the MBR without the Recovery Console. I've never tried them; I've always used the FixMBR utility that comes with the Recovery Console.
Yes, the problem with Microsoft's NTFS encryption is that it is tied to the operating system User Name and password. Crazy!
That means if the user account is damaged, the data is lost forever, unless the user info can be restored from a domain server.
There are complaints on MS user groups from people who have lost months of hard wok that way.
Is there confusion between permissions and Microsoft encryption?
I can move NTFS-formatted hard drives in removable USB enclosures to any computer, and read them there. It seems that it should be the same for any NTFS-formatted drive.
Microsoft drive encryption is not reliable, according to MS tech. support people. It should not be used.
Let's collaborate in doing technology stock evaluations. My email address is above.
My understanding is that TrueCrypt keeps a lot in memory, and minimizes actual access to the drive.
I don't know whether NTFS would have a higher access overhead. I hope someone who reads this can tell us.
I agree with what you said: "One is that problems fade over time. After about 2½ - 3 years it seems that most people forget the bad things and remember only a rosy picture. I'll get back to that. The other quirk is that people quickly get used to a lower level of performance and adjust their expectations and behavior accordingly."
Let's talk on the telephone. My email address: MJennings.USA@ NOT_any_of_THISgmail DOT com
Most internet cafes will not allow booting from a CD, I'm guessing. However, if you can boot from a CD, you can boot from the free Ultimate Boot CD for Windows with TrueCrypt already installed.
More secure: Boot internet cafe computers from the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, which is free. That way you are not dependent on the cafe OS.
Interesting: Format a Flash drive as NTFS.
I wonder if that would make the flash drive more reliable, since NTFS is more reliable than FAT?
Don't use Windows OS encryption. According to Microsoft technical support, it is not reliable.
"This requires trusting the OS with your password, ..."
All drives except those with separate keypads trust the OS with the password. Hardware keyloggers will see the password if there is no separate keypad. But that's not the problem. The problem is losing the drive. Hopefully the drive would not be lost in the same place someone is using a key logging device.
Root is required only to install TrueCrypt, not run it.
For the love of convenience, sanity, and saving money, just use any flash memory drive and TrueCrypt.
"Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux"
My grandparent comment was intended to be completely relevant. It seems to me that what a person does affects that person's ability to rest and the quality of rest. Sleep is one kind of rest.
To me, this is the whole issue: Does what you do in your life, the way you live your life, affect your ability to sleep? It seems to me it does, and that there is plenty of evidence that it does.
You said: "... I resent the implication that killing people leads to damaging a person mentally."
I've studied the issue a long time, and to me it seems true that killing other people, or helping kill them, causes thought process degradation. One woman told me, "After the men returned [from the 2nd world war] they were never the same." That seems to me to fit the observable facts.
I'm not saying anything that should cause resentment. I'm stating an opinion, an opinion that seems to fit the facts. For me it is an issue of logic only. I am certainly not against you; I believe I am on the side of anyone who wants to be healthy. I am not suggesting anything that would promote violence or even anger. The sole issue for me is whether what I say fits the facts, or not.
You said: "... choose to serve our country..."
When Saudis attack, invade Iraq? The war was started by people whose families, friends, and business associates are oil and weapons investors. Their purpose was to have a way to act out their anger, apparently, and to make more profit. The weapons investors, and their particular kind of oil investor, did not like the lessening budget for war after the breakup of the Soviet Union. They wanted a long-term war. The way the invasion was conducted made sure that Iraqis who were against being invaded had plenty of explosives and weapons.
If the deaths caused by destabilization are counted, the U.S. government has been responsible for the deaths of an estimated 9 to 12 million people since the end of the second world war. The U.S. government has bombed or invaded 25 countries since then. See the Wikipedia entry: List of United States military history events.
You said: "... neither I nor any of my coworkers kill anyone. We are intelligence analysts, providing strategic guidance to GEN Petraeus."
If you are participating in the Iraq war, you are helping kill. You are helping destabilize the entire region around Iraq. You are damaging the reputation of the U.S. government. You are helping Arabs and Muslims who say that the U.S. government is violent, corrupt, and should be attacked. Violence breeds violence. The 2nd war with Iraq has now killed more U.S. citizens than the World Trade Center bombers, and, according to respected statistical studies, more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein. If you didn't have the excuse of war, you would be an accessory to murder.
The general violence and support for violence seems to be a contributing factor to the people in the U.S. not being able to sleep. That theory may or not be correct, but it is not a radical theory; people often make statements that show they think that.
The alternative is to say that actions have no consequences, that what you do has no effect on your mental health. I don't think anyone truly thinks that alternative fits the facts.
If you need more support for what I said about the Iraq war, see, for example, Coups Arranged or Backed by the USA. Most or all of that corruption happened for profit, such as kickbacks of U.S. government foreign aid. When the governments of Israel or Pakistan buy weapons from U.S. manufacturers using money from "foreign aid", that is embezzlement of taxpayer money.
For one example of profiting from violence, read How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power or
"I also have to wonder about brain damage as another side effect."
Killing other people definitely damages a person mentally, and is definitely likely to cause the person to have trouble sleeping.
I've never known anyone who slept only 7 hours a day who seemed as alert and calm as people who sleep 9 hours a day. I think the problem is worse than they say.
Why did Slashdot editor Zonk link to that story about the CDC? I found this in about a minute: National Sleep Awareness Week, March 3--9, 2008. Quote from the CDC: "The National Sleep Foundation recommends that healthy adults sleep 7--9 hours daily."
Do Slashdot editors lose any sleep over poorly written, edited, and considered stories?
The story linked by Slashdot is from an automatic news release publisher in Australia. At the bottom of every page it says "powered by computer". Why not link to the source? Why link to a company that says, "Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now When you subscribe get a 12 months license for LiveProject Valued at $99 USD"?
See the links to the left and right of this story: Sleep and Sleep Disorders: A Public Health Challenge.
Do people in the U.S. lose sleep over the fact that they are forced to pay to kill Iraqis? Will people in the U.S. lose sleep when they realize that the huge rise in prices, which has already started, is mostly timed for the end of Dick Cheney's and George W. Bush's terms in office? Whether or not they lose sleep, killing Iraqis definitely lowers the quality of life in the United States.
"Instead they became a monopoly by using dirty and underhanded marketing practices such as product tying where a company buying a PC would get a free copy of Word so that the company would then have no reason to buy the rival WordPerfect."
Excellent point.
Another way Microsoft killed WordPerfect was not stopping piracy. I don't know about now, but there was a time when it seemed that every PC was offered with Microsoft Word for $50 extra.
Wow.
What I noticed is that the article to which you linked is so much better written than anything I've seen from Microsoft.
(I'm mostly ignorant about the issues being discussed.)