Yes, "WLAN access point". But that's not the issue, is it? The issue is that the JoikuSpot software turns a 3G cell phone into a wireless internet access provider, that anyone can use. (That's my understanding; I haven't use the software.) Someone could get a 3G phone, use it to provide internet access to his entire apartment building, and charge for the access.
And... After all these years, I would have thought that Slashdot editors would have learned to be editors.
Quote from the Slashdot story: " After all, the new terms of service seems to limit applications such as SlingPlayer, Qik, Skype, and Jaikuspot, which many AT&T customers are currently using without issue."
It's JoikuSpot, very interesting software that makes your 3G cell phone into a wireless provider. JaikuSpot seems to be some kind of Twitter.
The people who made the chart apparently didn't think of server overload.
They should have posted a list of 26 links and told people to click on the link corresponding to the first letter of their name. Or something like that. Or gotten Google to host the page.
More comment, continuing from above. The abstract in ScienceDirect says, "An analysis of the
associations between indoor environmental variables in 2000 as well as other
background factors and the ASD diagnosis indicated five statistically
significant variables: (1) maternal smoking; (2) male sex; (3) economic
problems in the family; (4) condensation on windows, a proxy for low
ventilation rate in the home; (5) PVC flooring, especially in the parents'
bedroom."
What? Male sex?
Another quote from the "scientific" paper: "... parental-reported
autistic spectrum disorders..."
What is "autistic spectrum"? Can parents report autistic behavior
accurately? Maybe the child is just trying to protect himself or herself from
the abusive behavior of the parents. Is that autism?
To me the abstract indicates very weak investigation. More
importantly, Scientific American proved itself to be untrustworthy, in my
opinion.
Not an April Fools joke: "Received 11 November 2008; accepted 30
January 2009. Available online 10 February 2009."
Sensationalistic "science" news is a huge money-maker: "If you do not have a User Name and Password, click the "Register to Purchase" button below to purchase this article. Price: US $ 31.50"
Fraud? In my opinion, there is definitely some element of fraud: The headline in Scientific American: "Scientists Find 'Baffling' Link between Autism and Vinyl Flooring" Headline of the photo caption: "Is vinyl bad for baby?" Disclaimer in the body of the article: 'The scientists were surprised by their finding, calling it "far from conclusive." ' The Scientific American article emphasized one factor, when 5 were reported, including smoking by the mother. Smoking definitely puts poisons in the blood. A pregnant mother who smokes poisons her baby.
Definition of fraud: A deliberate deception used to achieve some gain.
Was whoever wrote the article or placed the article in Scientific American paid to sensationalize the story? Was someone at Slashdot paid?
To have any effect, the vinyl plastic must degrade somehow, perhaps because of
abrasion or other chemicals. If there is a connection, it could be to any
chemical associated with vinyl floors, such as the chemicals in the cement
used eventually diffusing through the vinyl.
The article says, "The researchers found four environmental factors
associated with autism: vinyl flooring, the mother's smoking, family economic
problems and condensation on windows, which indicates poor ventilation."
I assume they mean vinyl flooring throughout the house. Most people in
the U.S. have vinyl floors in the kitchen. I notice that people who have vinyl
floors throughout the house do not clean them as often as a kitchen floor is
cleaned.
All those factors occur because a family is poor, and therefore under
a lot of stress. So maybe adult stress causes autism in children. It certainly
causes numerous other problems.
Be careful about the potential for fraud. The article says, "Is
vinyl bad for baby?" If it is bad for a baby, it is bad for everyone.
Follow the money: Someone who wants to sell alternative flooring would profit.
Just that single statement in Scientific American will sell a lot of
alternative flooring. That statement is suspiciously strong considering the
facts in the article.
From the Wikipedia for Polyvinyl chloride:
"PVC is the third most widely used thermoplastic polymer after polyethylene
and polypropylene. In terms of revenue generated, it is one of the most
valuable products of the chemical industry. Around the world, over 50% of PVC
manufactured is used in construction."
I read your comment and the comments below yours. There is a misunderstanding.
In July of 2009, there will be only an estimated 5,250,275 people in Finland. The entire country has the
population of one large city. Much of what they have comes from somewhere
else.
I have gathered considerable information about why Scandinavians speak
English. This is the story, using the Finns as an example:
Since so few people want to learn Finnish, they had to choose some
other language, or not be able to communicate with the rest of the world. What
other language should they choose? Not German, since the Germans made so much
trouble for everyone in World War Two. Not French, since the French treat
people who can't speak French perfectly as social inferiors. Not Italian,
since you have to be passionate to be Italian, and besides, Italians are so
self-defeating.
In the late 1800s, the chosen language was French. But, a little at a
time, the arrogance of the French caused people to choose a lesser evil:
English. It's not that the English were wonderful, it's just that the English
were the least annoying. Also, the English had been engaged in violent
empire-building, so anyone who knew English could go anywhere in the empire to
do business.
It helped that people in the United States spoke English. There was a
huge amount of material available in English, because it was spoken in two
populous countries. So choosing English gave more benefits than other
languages.
There are other reasons, but I have to go back to work.
Daengbo, I have great respect for your opinion. You have spent more time in
Thailand than I. You have spent more time teaching Thais English than I.
But I respectfully have a different opinion. I was always focusing
intensely on cultural differences, even differences between Thais. In my
classes, we often talked about cultural differences between Chinese-Thais and
ethnic Thais, for example.
You don't seem to have that focus. Perhaps you didn't
notice that, in my opinion, a childish sense of irresponsibility cripples the
Thai culture. That is a problem throughout the world, of course. However,
Thais, particularly Thai women, signal that sense of irresponsibility when, at
a particular time, they choose to use their short nicknames. That choice
doesn't always mean much in terms of action, but it is an indication of what
the person is feeling at the time.
If you would give the issue a little thought, you would realize it is a very useful view of the world. Avoidance of responsibility is a huge issue. When people use the diminutive, they signal that they don't want responsibility.
That's a widely held perspective. Consider George W. Bush, for example. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin, "Putie-Poot". Putin smiled for the cameras, but the BBC called that an "act". The BBC writer said the nicknames were considered "a sign that parts of Dubya - his name for himself - never really grew up." "Putie" is the diminutive of Putin, and "Poot" is a childish word for defecate.
My grandparent comment was meant not to deny that there is climate change, but to express the opinion that it has been communicated very poorly.
You said, "Of course, some places get warmer and some get cooler..." But that is something only being said recently.
Many people have lost confidence with other people who insisted for years that there was "warming", then when it became colder in some places, they modified their explanation and said, "Of course it will become colder in some places". The underlying research seems to have not sufficiently reliable, and there have been many complaints about that.
My biggest personal problem with global warming is that it is so cold all the time. In Portland, Oregon, it snowed in March, even though it usually doesn't snow at all. In another city with which I am familiar, in the southern hemisphere, there was no summer, only two warm days.
Global warming is politically difficult to sell to people when they are experiencing record cold.
Okay, rephrased: Thais who emphasize their one-syllable nicknames when they are adults are emphasizing, and intending to emphasize, their lack of responsibility.
Every language has a way of expressing that something is small or cute, or cute and small, called the diminutive. In English, the diminutive is formed by adding -y or -ie. In Thai, it is formed by using a one-syllable name, like "Nok" for the name of a girl; those who want to be considered responsible adults use multi-syllable names. In Japanese the diminutive is formed by adding -ko, as in the name of a friend of mine, a grown woman, Noriko. In Portuguese, the diminutive is formed by adding -inha or -inho.
So the Forbes.com author Ruthie Ackerman is an adult who has chosen to continue using a childhood name, a name that suggests that she is small and cute. That tends in the direction of causing me to have less confidence in her judgment.
This Slashdot story was posted by a Slashdot editor who calls himself "Souls
kill". The story was suggested to Slashdot by someone who calls himself "Head
Dunce". A dunce is "a person regarded as stupid". (Please note, I'm not
suggesting that the Slashdot editor "kills souls", he is suggesting that. I'm
not calling the person who wrote the story a dunce, he is calling himself
that.)
The Slashdot story links to an article in Forbes Magazine. Will Forbes
and other "financial" publications continue to pretend to offer useful
financial advice when they did NOTHING to stop the corruption of big U.S.
banks taking on debt 20 to 60 times their assets?
The Forbes article was written by someone named "Ruthie".
The "takeover" talk appears to be completely fraud, in my opinion:
1) Citigroup is not thinking of buying Red Hat. Yes, the Slashdot
story suggests that, but the stories to which Slashdot links don't suggest
that.
2) Citigroup has been extraordinarily destructive; it helped cause the
present job loss throughout the United States. The article implies that
Citigroup has a lot of Red Hat stock and is trying to manipulate the price.
3) The Slashdot story links to a Reuters story that says, "Linux
software maker Red Hat Inc (RHT.N) reported profit ahead of Street projections
on Wednesday , helped by cost cuts and a stock buyback, sending shares up 8
percent." Someone is apparently manipulating the price of Red Hat stock,
because "22 cents vs Street view 20 cents" is certainly not news that
should cause people to value Red Hat stock so highly that the shares go up 8
per cent.
4) The Reuters story only says that some un-named people on "the
Street" predicted something, and Red Hat did a tiny bit better. Remember that
"the Street" is responsible for the present job loss throughout the United
States. They are, in my opinion, vicious crooks, who stole from and are stealing from the
taxpayers because corrupt politicians believe they are "too big to fail".
If you aren't a full time stock investor with plenty of inside
information, you should not be buying stocks. Those with little experience
just lost 40% of their money!
We deserve better leaders than "Souls kill", "Head Dunce", Forbes,
Ruthie, Citigroup, "the Street", and politicians manipulated by those who
don't know any better way to make money than by paying to corrupt their own
government.
There seem to be a huge number of governments, agencies, corporations, and people who are carefully measuring how abusive they can be to the Internet. It's the old story: The powerful want to make money or get more power by restricting someone else's freedom.
Piracy is a serious issue. But the bulk of the problem with individuals doing piracy seems to be that there is often no good option to buy music and videos. Once companies bring themselves into modern thinking and modern ways of commerce, piracy will be less of a problem.
"Sun's job is to have one of the worst marketing departments known to man."
True or close to true, in my opinion. Except that Intel may be worse, but Intel doesn't need marketing, so the incredible foolishness of Intel's marketing isn't so obvious.
"The company culture between Sun and IBM are too different for a successful merger."
That seems correct to me. The managers at the receiving company don't want to lose power, or learn something new, so they kill or neglect the products they've bought.
Why does there need to be an even larger computer company? That idea sounds like Sanford Weill and Citibank. Will IBM-Sun also become too large to fail, and require money from U.S. taxpayers?
Often when these merger deals are made, huge amounts of money are put in the pockets of top executives, and that's the underlying reason for the merger.
You were lucky. We only had a CDC
6400 in the first years. (See the photo and download the manuals.)
Then we got a 6600, and later the memory was upgraded to 100,000
60-bit words. That's 100,000 octal, or 32,768 words of memory. Wow, the
equivalent of 246K of today's bytes! (That's Kilo, not Mega.) If you wanted to
run a program that used all the memory, you had to get special permission from
the head of IT.
I was working for a research lab, and I wrote a program in Fortran to
analyze data to calculate the distance of the center of the universe, based on
measurements of the intensity of millimeter wave radiation in outer space. My
present analysis of the value of that research is based on how many starving
people it fed: 0.
I also did least-squares curve fitting for something we were doing
with spectroscopy. I was impressed that the 6600 could invert one of my big
matrices in 40 milliseconds.
The computers only cost $4 million each, but we had a staff of 40
people to keep them running. And, of course, the computers had to have their
own special air-conditioned room, with a space under the floor for cables.
One of the most amazing facts of human history is how far we have come
in only 40 years.
Windows file encryption should not be used. It has extreme shortcomings. Many people have lost their data because of Windows file encryption. This information has been verified by several Microsoft technical support people.
"The OP is asking for something similar on Windows but that's much trickier on NTFS and Windows for a variety of reasons..."
Good points.
It is necessary to encrypt the entire Windows OS partition. That's because Windows scatters files everywhere. For example, on one installation of Windows XP with I seem to remember 4 users, I found that temporary files were stored in 47 locations.
That just begins to describe all the scattering. Commercial programs store files in lots of places. There's a lot of stuff stored in the Windows registry files.
Quoting from the section about making your own modifications to TrueCrypt and calling it by a different name: "Note: TrueCrypt and the TrueCrypt logos are trademarks of the TrueCrypt Foundation. The goal is not to monetize the name or the product, but to protect the reputation of TrueCrypt, and to prevent support issues and other kinds of issues that might arise from the existence of similar products with the same or similar name. Even though TrueCrypt and the TrueCrypt logos are trademarks, TrueCrypt is and will remain open-source and free software."
Basically, the license says, "You can do anything you like except 1) engage in fraud using the TrueCrypt name, and 2) make TrueCrypt code non-free."
If there is anything objectionable, I don't see it.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, "WLAN access point". But that's not the issue, is it? The issue is that the JoikuSpot software turns a 3G cell phone into a wireless internet access provider, that anyone can use. (That's my understanding; I haven't use the software.) Someone could get a 3G phone, use it to provide internet access to his entire apartment building, and charge for the access.
And... After all these years, I would have thought that Slashdot editors would have learned to be editors.
Quote from the Slashdot story: " After all, the new terms of service seems to limit applications such as SlingPlayer, Qik, Skype, and Jaikuspot, which many AT&T customers are currently using without issue."
It's JoikuSpot, very interesting software that makes your 3G cell phone into a wireless provider. JaikuSpot seems to be some kind of Twitter.
Not vxWorks. WxWidgets, the former WxWindows, a cross-platform GUI toolkit.
The people who made the chart apparently didn't think of server overload.
They should have posted a list of 26 links and told people to click on the link corresponding to the first letter of their name. Or something like that. Or gotten Google to host the page.
More comment, continuing from above. The abstract in ScienceDirect says, "An analysis of the associations between indoor environmental variables in 2000 as well as other background factors and the ASD diagnosis indicated five statistically significant variables: (1) maternal smoking; (2) male sex; (3) economic problems in the family; (4) condensation on windows, a proxy for low ventilation rate in the home; (5) PVC flooring, especially in the parents' bedroom."
What? Male sex?
Another quote from the "scientific" paper: "... parental-reported autistic spectrum disorders..."
What is "autistic spectrum"? Can parents report autistic behavior accurately? Maybe the child is just trying to protect himself or herself from the abusive behavior of the parents. Is that autism?
To me the abstract indicates very weak investigation. More importantly, Scientific American proved itself to be untrustworthy, in my opinion.
Not an April Fools joke: "Received 11 November 2008; accepted 30 January 2009. Available online 10 February 2009."
Sensationalistic "science" news is a huge money-maker: "If you do not have a User Name and Password, click the "Register to Purchase" button below to purchase this article. Price: US $ 31.50"
Fraud? In my opinion, there is definitely some element of fraud: The headline in Scientific American: "Scientists Find 'Baffling' Link between Autism and Vinyl Flooring" Headline of the photo caption: "Is vinyl bad for baby?" Disclaimer in the body of the article: 'The scientists were surprised by their finding, calling it "far from conclusive." ' The Scientific American article emphasized one factor, when 5 were reported, including smoking by the mother. Smoking definitely puts poisons in the blood. A pregnant mother who smokes poisons her baby.
Definition of fraud: A deliberate deception used to achieve some gain.
Was whoever wrote the article or placed the article in Scientific American paid to sensationalize the story? Was someone at Slashdot paid?
To have any effect, the vinyl plastic must degrade somehow, perhaps because of abrasion or other chemicals. If there is a connection, it could be to any chemical associated with vinyl floors, such as the chemicals in the cement used eventually diffusing through the vinyl.
The article says, "The researchers found four environmental factors associated with autism: vinyl flooring, the mother's smoking, family economic problems and condensation on windows, which indicates poor ventilation."
I assume they mean vinyl flooring throughout the house. Most people in the U.S. have vinyl floors in the kitchen. I notice that people who have vinyl floors throughout the house do not clean them as often as a kitchen floor is cleaned.
All those factors occur because a family is poor, and therefore under a lot of stress. So maybe adult stress causes autism in children. It certainly causes numerous other problems.
Be careful about the potential for fraud. The article says, "Is vinyl bad for baby?" If it is bad for a baby, it is bad for everyone. Follow the money: Someone who wants to sell alternative flooring would profit. Just that single statement in Scientific American will sell a lot of alternative flooring. That statement is suspiciously strong considering the facts in the article.
From the Wikipedia for Polyvinyl chloride: "PVC is the third most widely used thermoplastic polymer after polyethylene and polypropylene. In terms of revenue generated, it is one of the most valuable products of the chemical industry. Around the world, over 50% of PVC manufactured is used in construction."
I read your comment and the comments below yours. There is a misunderstanding. In July of 2009, there will be only an estimated 5,250,275 people in Finland. The entire country has the population of one large city. Much of what they have comes from somewhere else.
I have gathered considerable information about why Scandinavians speak English. This is the story, using the Finns as an example:
Since so few people want to learn Finnish, they had to choose some other language, or not be able to communicate with the rest of the world. What other language should they choose? Not German, since the Germans made so much trouble for everyone in World War Two. Not French, since the French treat people who can't speak French perfectly as social inferiors. Not Italian, since you have to be passionate to be Italian, and besides, Italians are so self-defeating.
In the late 1800s, the chosen language was French. But, a little at a time, the arrogance of the French caused people to choose a lesser evil: English. It's not that the English were wonderful, it's just that the English were the least annoying. Also, the English had been engaged in violent empire-building, so anyone who knew English could go anywhere in the empire to do business.
It helped that people in the United States spoke English. There was a huge amount of material available in English, because it was spoken in two populous countries. So choosing English gave more benefits than other languages.
There are other reasons, but I have to go back to work.
"MySQL works OK for one-app databases and many people think that is all that is needed. It breaks down outside that area, however."
You know something is wrong when a discussion of MySQL is dominated by comments about PostgreSQL.
Daengbo, I have great respect for your opinion. You have spent more time in Thailand than I. You have spent more time teaching Thais English than I.
But I respectfully have a different opinion. I was always focusing intensely on cultural differences, even differences between Thais. In my classes, we often talked about cultural differences between Chinese-Thais and ethnic Thais, for example.
You don't seem to have that focus. Perhaps you didn't notice that, in my opinion, a childish sense of irresponsibility cripples the Thai culture. That is a problem throughout the world, of course. However, Thais, particularly Thai women, signal that sense of irresponsibility when, at a particular time, they choose to use their short nicknames. That choice doesn't always mean much in terms of action, but it is an indication of what the person is feeling at the time.
If you would give the issue a little thought, you would realize it is a very useful view of the world. Avoidance of responsibility is a huge issue. When people use the diminutive, they signal that they don't want responsibility.
That's a widely held perspective. Consider George W. Bush, for example. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin, "Putie-Poot". Putin smiled for the cameras, but the BBC called that an "act". The BBC writer said the nicknames were considered "a sign that parts of Dubya - his name for himself - never really grew up." "Putie" is the diminutive of Putin, and "Poot" is a childish word for defecate.
My grandparent comment was meant not to deny that there is climate change, but to express the opinion that it has been communicated very poorly.
You said, "Of course, some places get warmer and some get cooler..." But that is something only being said recently.
Many people have lost confidence with other people who insisted for years that there was "warming", then when it became colder in some places, they modified their explanation and said, "Of course it will become colder in some places". The underlying research seems to have not sufficiently reliable, and there have been many complaints about that.
My biggest personal problem with global warming is that it is so cold all the time. In Portland, Oregon, it snowed in March, even though it usually doesn't snow at all. In another city with which I am familiar, in the southern hemisphere, there was no summer, only two warm days.
Global warming is politically difficult to sell to people when they are experiencing record cold.
Okay, rephrased: Thais who emphasize their one-syllable nicknames when they are adults are emphasizing, and intending to emphasize, their lack of responsibility.
Every language has a way of expressing that something is small or cute, or cute and small, called the diminutive. In English, the diminutive is formed by adding -y or -ie. In Thai, it is formed by using a one-syllable name, like "Nok" for the name of a girl; those who want to be considered responsible adults use multi-syllable names. In Japanese the diminutive is formed by adding -ko, as in the name of a friend of mine, a grown woman, Noriko. In Portuguese, the diminutive is formed by adding -inha or -inho.
So the Forbes.com author Ruthie Ackerman is an adult who has chosen to continue using a childhood name, a name that suggests that she is small and cute. That tends in the direction of causing me to have less confidence in her judgment.
This Slashdot story was posted by a Slashdot editor who calls himself "Souls kill". The story was suggested to Slashdot by someone who calls himself "Head Dunce". A dunce is "a person regarded as stupid". (Please note, I'm not suggesting that the Slashdot editor "kills souls", he is suggesting that. I'm not calling the person who wrote the story a dunce, he is calling himself that.)
The Slashdot story links to an article in Forbes Magazine. Will Forbes and other "financial" publications continue to pretend to offer useful financial advice when they did NOTHING to stop the corruption of big U.S. banks taking on debt 20 to 60 times their assets?
The Forbes article was written by someone named "Ruthie".
The "takeover" talk appears to be completely fraud, in my opinion:
1) Citigroup is not thinking of buying Red Hat. Yes, the Slashdot story suggests that, but the stories to which Slashdot links don't suggest that.
2) Citigroup has been extraordinarily destructive; it helped cause the present job loss throughout the United States. The article implies that Citigroup has a lot of Red Hat stock and is trying to manipulate the price.
3) The Slashdot story links to a Reuters story that says, "Linux software maker Red Hat Inc (RHT.N) reported profit ahead of Street projections on Wednesday , helped by cost cuts and a stock buyback, sending shares up 8 percent." Someone is apparently manipulating the price of Red Hat stock, because "22 cents vs Street view 20 cents" is certainly not news that should cause people to value Red Hat stock so highly that the shares go up 8 per cent.
4) The Reuters story only says that some un-named people on "the Street" predicted something, and Red Hat did a tiny bit better. Remember that "the Street" is responsible for the present job loss throughout the United States. They are, in my opinion, vicious crooks, who stole from and are stealing from the taxpayers because corrupt politicians believe they are "too big to fail".
If you aren't a full time stock investor with plenty of inside information, you should not be buying stocks. Those with little experience just lost 40% of their money!
We deserve better leaders than "Souls kill", "Head Dunce", Forbes, Ruthie, Citigroup, "the Street", and politicians manipulated by those who don't know any better way to make money than by paying to corrupt their own government.
There seem to be a huge number of governments, agencies, corporations, and people who are carefully measuring how abusive they can be to the Internet. It's the old story: The powerful want to make money or get more power by restricting someone else's freedom.
Piracy is a serious issue. But the bulk of the problem with individuals doing piracy seems to be that there is often no good option to buy music and videos. Once companies bring themselves into modern thinking and modern ways of commerce, piracy will be less of a problem.
"Sun's job is to have one of the worst marketing departments known to man."
True or close to true, in my opinion. Except that Intel may be worse, but Intel doesn't need marketing, so the incredible foolishness of Intel's marketing isn't so obvious.
Mod parent up.
"The company culture between Sun and IBM are too different for a successful merger."
That seems correct to me. The managers at the receiving company don't want to lose power, or learn something new, so they kill or neglect the products they've bought.
Why does there need to be an even larger computer company? That idea sounds like Sanford Weill and Citibank. Will IBM-Sun also become too large to fail, and require money from U.S. taxpayers?
Often when these merger deals are made, huge amounts of money are put in the pockets of top executives, and that's the underlying reason for the merger.
You were lucky. We only had a CDC 6400 in the first years. (See the photo and download the manuals.)
Then we got a 6600, and later the memory was upgraded to 100,000 60-bit words. That's 100,000 octal, or 32,768 words of memory. Wow, the equivalent of 246K of today's bytes! (That's Kilo, not Mega.) If you wanted to run a program that used all the memory, you had to get special permission from the head of IT.
I was working for a research lab, and I wrote a program in Fortran to analyze data to calculate the distance of the center of the universe, based on measurements of the intensity of millimeter wave radiation in outer space. My present analysis of the value of that research is based on how many starving people it fed: 0.
I also did least-squares curve fitting for something we were doing with spectroscopy. I was impressed that the 6600 could invert one of my big matrices in 40 milliseconds.
The computers only cost $4 million each, but we had a staff of 40 people to keep them running. And, of course, the computers had to have their own special air-conditioned room, with a space under the floor for cables.
One of the most amazing facts of human history is how far we have come in only 40 years.
KDE knowingly did something self-destructive. They announced a product that they knew wasn't finished.
Note that the link you provided in your sig is not working: http://www.olav.dk/articles/tables.html
"I now encrypt all my systems fully."
You didn't say what encryption software you use.
Windows file encryption should not be used. It has extreme shortcomings. Many people have lost their data because of Windows file encryption. This information has been verified by several Microsoft technical support people.
"The OP is asking for something similar on Windows but that's much trickier on NTFS and Windows for a variety of reasons..."
Good points.
It is necessary to encrypt the entire Windows OS partition. That's because Windows scatters files everywhere. For example, on one installation of Windows XP with I seem to remember 4 users, I found that temporary files were stored in 47 locations.
That just begins to describe all the scattering. Commercial programs store files in lots of places. There's a lot of stuff stored in the Windows registry files.
What is wrong with the TrueCrypt license?
Quoting from the section about making your own modifications to TrueCrypt and calling it by a different name: "Note: TrueCrypt and the TrueCrypt logos are trademarks of the TrueCrypt Foundation. The goal is not to monetize the name or the product, but to protect the reputation of TrueCrypt, and to prevent support issues and other kinds of issues that might arise from the existence of similar products with the same or similar name. Even though TrueCrypt and the TrueCrypt logos are trademarks, TrueCrypt is and will remain open-source and free software."
Basically, the license says, "You can do anything you like except 1) engage in fraud using the TrueCrypt name, and 2) make TrueCrypt code non-free."
If there is anything objectionable, I don't see it.