If you want to communicate with somebody in particular securely, consider giving them an account on your system, so they can add it to their email client (which connects to your server over ssl) and use it for correspondence with you. Then it will only touch their client and your server in unencrypted form.
but if we'd started getting serious about alternatives in the 70s when it became really obvious what we were screwing with
Uh, that was tried, and Carter lost his bid for re-election in a landslide.
(Fortunately Reagan rode in on a white horse and made everybody feel better so they didn't have to worry about the scarcity of oil, the environment, or Iran; he even figured out how to boost the economy with deficit spending! And everybody lived happily ever after.)
I have run my own mail server from home on my comcast account for over a decade (since it was @home). About 5 years ago I had to start routing outbound through Comcast (dc_smarthost='smtp.comcast.net') simply because nobody else's servers would accept them.
In principle it's distasteful having to do this, but there is really no disadvantage. The benefits all come from handling your own *incoming* mail, so you can receive email at your own domain, take your email addresses from one ISP to another, make up more addresses, etc.
What is the downside of sending outgoing mail through your ISP's server?
Can anybody with one of these say whether you find the text-to-speech to be good enough to use? It's hard to come by audio editions of many books, and reading while driving isn't a great combo.
Really, secret messages from Al Qaeda in Al Jazeera? Why not hidden messages from Al Qaeda on MTV or CNN? That would be just as plausible.
They were worried about those, too. Even now, and especially back then, there was great reluctance to rebroadcast any terrorist video for fear it would contain hidden signals, such as a "go code" or somesuch (steganography). If you were worried about that, Al Jazeera would be the biggest threat vector simply because they normally get the scoop on terrorist videos.
The absurdity of claiming $2.3B in any copyright suit aside...
It would be hilarious if we reneged on our foreign debts by using RIAA math to value the IP "stolen" from the US in the trillions, and seize foreign capital as "compensation."
This does happen in the case of tangible assets such as oil, so I guess the fact we don't do the same for intellectual property is a tacit admission of some distinction between them vs other types of property.
My experience is it works fine about 80% of the time. I still keep my hardware NTSC encoder (PVR 150) hooked up to the DVD player so I can get the analog output if I have to. The quality suffers a bit, but it's ok for copying DVD's to my ipod to watch on the treadmill, or for kids to watch.
Then again, defensive lasers could shoot down incoming enemy artillery and missiles.
Also, notice the sentence "the Navy just awarded Boeing a contract worth up to $163 million to take that technology and package it as a 100 kW weapons system."
The drive has an onboard cryptographic chip. There is practically no performance impact on the rest of the system. I suppose the drive must consume a little more power than it would without the chip, but I don't think it's much.
I don't know why all vendors haven't adopted hardware full disk encryption. This has become an absolute must in my opinion. And compared to software-based encryption, it works so well, and seamlessly - the bios asks for the passphrase at boot time, and after that it's transparent to the OS and doesn't degrade performance either. I would certainly appreciate some security researchers throwing their efforts into validating or debunking these.
Whether the Turing machine tape is "infinite" doesn't matter - only that it's "unbounded," i.e. you always have as much memory as you need for your computation, so you're not limited by it. Which is normally the case nowadays.
a computer is more like brain than a brain like a computer.
I disagree with that statement; computation is a general principle; the brain is just a particular instantiation. As are vacuum tubes, transistors, and the Babbage engine. We can call all these devices with completely different underlying mechanisms "computers," because all that matters is performance characteristics.
Oh, I agree. But my point is, ex post facto wouldn't make me feel entirely safe in visiting the US if I had reason to think some new law was really targeting I had done in the past.
Are you entirely sure? There are people who argue that the Constitution applies not to actions of the US government in general, but that it only guarantees rights to US citizens. So, for example, the US government could detain foreigners without charging them indefinitely (no right to due process) or torture them (no ban on cruel and unusual punishment).
Good point, although I would add that much of what seniors need are services, rather than goods that can be imported. This is particularly pertinent for Medicare.
Almost anything with a dual-dvi output can drive a 2560x1600 external display. I was hoping they meant it had accelerated rendering for above-1080p-video, which actually would have been cool.
Display resolutions seem to be going down. 1600x1200 laptops were common for a while. Even 1 1/2 years ago I could get a 1080p monitor for under $100, but a couple weeks ago I needed another one and all the monitors around $100 are only 1600x900 if not some weird resolution slightly less than that.
One bad (and almost certain) outcome of Iran obtaining nukes - especially homegrown - would be an increase in nationalistic pride and therefore support for the current government (which appears to have significant internal opposition, although probably not majority opposition, at the moment). People love leaders who make them feel strong and secure.
Demographic shifts are bound to cause those issues, more or less regardless of how they are managed or accounted for. Money doesn't actually store value, it's just a way of recording future entitlements (although money does NOT specify what or how much of anything you'll be entitled to when you go to redeem it).
A society with low birth rates will have a lower standard of living regardless of what numbers in bank computers say. There are less producers and more consumers. If people have lots of savings, then the wages for laborers (now relatively scarce) will increase.
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Actually not, just you just have to pay per rental of the newer stuff instead of getting it flat-rate.
I don't have a problem with that in principle, although $4 for the newest releases is more than I would pay except on very rare occasions.
Amazon fail? I fail to see why they're giving you free shipping in the first place.
If you want to communicate with somebody in particular securely, consider giving them an account on your system, so they can add it to their email client (which connects to your server over ssl) and use it for correspondence with you. Then it will only touch their client and your server in unencrypted form.
Uh, that was tried, and Carter lost his bid for re-election in a landslide.
(Fortunately Reagan rode in on a white horse and made everybody feel better so they didn't have to worry about the scarcity of oil, the environment, or Iran; he even figured out how to boost the economy with deficit spending! And everybody lived happily ever after.)
In principle it's distasteful having to do this, but there is really no disadvantage. The benefits all come from handling your own *incoming* mail, so you can receive email at your own domain, take your email addresses from one ISP to another, make up more addresses, etc.
What is the downside of sending outgoing mail through your ISP's server?
What makes me think I have the write to arrange some letters from the alphabet in a certain way? The audacity!
Surely the burden of proof is on those who want to restrict such rights.
Can anybody with one of these say whether you find the text-to-speech to be good enough to use? It's hard to come by audio editions of many books, and reading while driving isn't a great combo.
They were worried about those, too. Even now, and especially back then, there was great reluctance to rebroadcast any terrorist video for fear it would contain hidden signals, such as a "go code" or somesuch (steganography). If you were worried about that, Al Jazeera would be the biggest threat vector simply because they normally get the scoop on terrorist videos.
And the previous sentence, "Mr. Montgomery, 57, who is in bankruptcy and living outside Palm Springs, Calif..."
Whatever his cut of the $20 million the government paid, he evidently didn't make good use of.
It would be hilarious if we reneged on our foreign debts by using RIAA math to value the IP "stolen" from the US in the trillions, and seize foreign capital as "compensation."
This does happen in the case of tangible assets such as oil, so I guess the fact we don't do the same for intellectual property is a tacit admission of some distinction between them vs other types of property.
The whole point of this is to invade their *private* lives.
Either way, once you start weaving a web of lies, you're committed. If they find out you were lying, it would look pretty bad.
The only real solution is to get this lousy policy repealed.
My experience is it works fine about 80% of the time. I still keep my hardware NTSC encoder (PVR 150) hooked up to the DVD player so I can get the analog output if I have to. The quality suffers a bit, but it's ok for copying DVD's to my ipod to watch on the treadmill, or for kids to watch.
Also, notice the sentence "the Navy just awarded Boeing a contract worth up to $163 million to take that technology and package it as a 100 kW weapons system."
DVD ripping on linux still isn't reliable - what's the chance Blu-Ray will actually work?
The drive has an onboard cryptographic chip. There is practically no performance impact on the rest of the system. I suppose the drive must consume a little more power than it would without the chip, but I don't think it's much.
I don't know why all vendors haven't adopted hardware full disk encryption. This has become an absolute must in my opinion. And compared to software-based encryption, it works so well, and seamlessly - the bios asks for the passphrase at boot time, and after that it's transparent to the OS and doesn't degrade performance either. I would certainly appreciate some security researchers throwing their efforts into validating or debunking these.
Whether the Turing machine tape is "infinite" doesn't matter - only that it's "unbounded," i.e. you always have as much memory as you need for your computation, so you're not limited by it. Which is normally the case nowadays.
I disagree with that statement; computation is a general principle; the brain is just a particular instantiation. As are vacuum tubes, transistors, and the Babbage engine. We can call all these devices with completely different underlying mechanisms "computers," because all that matters is performance characteristics.
Oh, I agree. But my point is, ex post facto wouldn't make me feel entirely safe in visiting the US if I had reason to think some new law was really targeting I had done in the past.
Are you entirely sure? There are people who argue that the Constitution applies not to actions of the US government in general, but that it only guarantees rights to US citizens. So, for example, the US government could detain foreigners without charging them indefinitely (no right to due process) or torture them (no ban on cruel and unusual punishment).
Good point, although I would add that much of what seniors need are services, rather than goods that can be imported. This is particularly pertinent for Medicare.
Display resolutions seem to be going down. 1600x1200 laptops were common for a while. Even 1 1/2 years ago I could get a 1080p monitor for under $100, but a couple weeks ago I needed another one and all the monitors around $100 are only 1600x900 if not some weird resolution slightly less than that.
One bad (and almost certain) outcome of Iran obtaining nukes - especially homegrown - would be an increase in nationalistic pride and therefore support for the current government (which appears to have significant internal opposition, although probably not majority opposition, at the moment). People love leaders who make them feel strong and secure.
A society with low birth rates will have a lower standard of living regardless of what numbers in bank computers say. There are less producers and more consumers. If people have lots of savings, then the wages for laborers (now relatively scarce) will increase.