That seems to be a weird requirement. Especially since every time you have to rotate the key you will have to re-encrypt the data encrypted and at that time you also run the risk of someone snooping up the data in the process.
But since Truecrypt does the encryption in the background on at least Windows machines it should as well be able to do a re-encryption if someone cares to implement a dual key storage and a re-encryption process.
As for changing key - it makes sense for data that is transmitted over a line, not for stored data where the media hopefully is under control.
Whatever this does - it will essentially make it a PR win for the downloadable non-DRM-infected versions.
But of course - the movie industry will be VERY silent about problems caused by DRM.
It only takes one way to crack an encryption and the content is out of the box - and every player does contain means to decode the encrypted content. As soon as somebody is able to go into it a non-DRM version of a movie will appear, and it will also miss the hated copyright warnings that is pestering us to death.
Stationary PC:s will be useful for high end computing - whether it's gaming, software development or advanced design.
But for many user cases the handhelds and laptops are taking over.
Another interesting thing is that for each generation computers seems to have gotten more and more sensitive - and when they break down all you can do is to replace them with a new one - and if you are lucky you can recover the data from the old device.
I wonder what makes the US intellectual property laws superior.
The only thing that seems to drive them are money - but that doesn't make them superior. In my opinion they have passed over from promoting progress to inhibiting progress. It's something like the air/fuel mixture needed to make a car engine run well - too little or too much are both limiting the performance and the speed.
Today the innovation in the US is limited by the patent trolls and copyright panic.
In any case - many virus outbreaks are due to old/insecure client computers used to browse the web. And it may be sufficient to surf to a well-known site with commercials displayed - like many newspapers/magazines since the malware may be embedded in the commercials.
And when one machine gets the flu it spreads through the network like a wildfire.
Palm has made several mistakes, one was that they were way too late providing a smartphone.
And they did go from a subtle and slim business-style of the m515 to some style that were boring and/or bulky.
What they did have was an user interface that actually was rather practical and user-friendly with practical options - like separate control for game sound and calendar sound. (which allowed you to waste time on a game and not forget to enable the sound afterward so you didn't miss your calendar event)
So when the world migrated to M$ a lot of nice practical user-friendly features were lost in the name of Microsoft Windows standardization.
The Graffiti language wasn't perfect - but it did actually work.
It works with just about any web browser, but since the client computers are part of a government controlled health care you may figure out the rest. I have even taken care enough to verify it through the W3C validator.
Slow progress - some have recently upgraded from Windows 2000 and IE 5.5...
I know that there are problems to use the web app in Netscape 4, but who is using that browser these days?
It still explains why two-engine aircrafts are used today in transatlantic flights.
And if you enter an ash cloud - then you are into a different condition which will kill all engines anyway.
So the only safe way to handle ash clouds is to stay out of them. I didn't state anything different.
And modern engines have a lower failure rate than older engines originally used in the 747, so the probability for a total engine failure is comparable if it's caused by technical fault that isn't related to ingested foreign objects (birds, ash, bullets etc...)
Just make a difference between general situation and specific situation.
Even if the aliens are bacteria or similar it's an interesting thought. Methane can be used as a fuel and microorganisms may have it as a food source.
And if there are microorganisms there is always the possibility that there is life. However the light from the star may also be intense enough to crack up the methane molecules resulting in other types of compounds.
There may be other explanations too - the planet may have suffered some disturbing events where it lost a major part of it's atmosphere.
The difference here is that a volcano like the one on Hawaii does have frequent eruptions and the amount of water absorbed into the rock is low, but with volcanoes that seldom erupts and/or are located under glaciers you will get a lot of water involved which tends to create a fine dust cloud of the ash that spreads easily.
The real culprit here is in fact water! When pressure drops you will get a chain reaction where water goes from liquid to gas form in a moment which results in several things; A quick cooling of the rock to solid state (transiting from liquid to gas costs energy), intense expansion of the mixed mass of lava/steam causing a powerful eruption and as the rock was rapidly cooled it will be brittle and easily cracked into very small particles that easily stays in the atmosphere for a long time.
Now - this dust is essentially really fine sand particles, and when you fly through them they will sand blast the aircraft, but also they will melt in the jet engines possibly extinguishing the flame and cause deposits in the turbines. Under some conditions (depending on throttle of the engine, engine type and composition of the particles) they will not melt, but just sand blast the engines essentially acting as an engine cleaner - however since there are too many unknowns involved so you can't count on that.
Anyway - engine damage to aircrafts is the major reason for the "No Fly" directive - an aircraft without engines will sooner or later make an unplanned landing and those are usually messy. Secondary issue is that the windshields of the aircrafts get sandblasted too so the pilots may have a hard time see what's in front of the aircraft. Missing the runway won't be good and make a mistake when taxing is embarrassing to say the least. Decreased view while in the air isn't that much of a problem as long as you have your instruments.
Considering his age - and the cause that he will in all our minds be "The Spock" he will have a hard time to drop it completely.
He is also the most important figure that have appeared in Star Trek, which says a lot. Many other persons could have been replaced easily.
But he also need to have quality time and not be Spock all the time. And we will have to accept that even our favorite actors seems to grow old and pass away sooner or later even though some seems to hang around in the fringe for a long time after their heavy acting career has ended - like Kirk Douglas (who have more than 60 years of activities listed at IMDB).
Anyway - Nimoy will probably make guest appearances if it suits him, but maybe not as Spock.
It seems that the newer the religion is the more extreme the followers are - just the methods are different.
- Scientology sues your pants off for anything that you do that offends them.
- Muslims sends out a fatwa declaring that you are valid prey.
- Catholics - banish you and use your kids for sexual favors.
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That seems to be a weird requirement. Especially since every time you have to rotate the key you will have to re-encrypt the data encrypted and at that time you also run the risk of someone snooping up the data in the process.
But since Truecrypt does the encryption in the background on at least Windows machines it should as well be able to do a re-encryption if someone cares to implement a dual key storage and a re-encryption process.
As for changing key - it makes sense for data that is transmitted over a line, not for stored data where the media hopefully is under control.
Whatever this does - it will essentially make it a PR win for the downloadable non-DRM-infected versions.
But of course - the movie industry will be VERY silent about problems caused by DRM.
It only takes one way to crack an encryption and the content is out of the box - and every player does contain means to decode the encrypted content. As soon as somebody is able to go into it a non-DRM version of a movie will appear, and it will also miss the hated copyright warnings that is pestering us to death.
Stationary PC:s will be useful for high end computing - whether it's gaming, software development or advanced design.
But for many user cases the handhelds and laptops are taking over.
Another interesting thing is that for each generation computers seems to have gotten more and more sensitive - and when they break down all you can do is to replace them with a new one - and if you are lucky you can recover the data from the old device.
I wonder what makes the US intellectual property laws superior.
The only thing that seems to drive them are money - but that doesn't make them superior. In my opinion they have passed over from promoting progress to inhibiting progress. It's something like the air/fuel mixture needed to make a car engine run well - too little or too much are both limiting the performance and the speed.
Today the innovation in the US is limited by the patent trolls and copyright panic.
In any case - many virus outbreaks are due to old/insecure client computers used to browse the web. And it may be sufficient to surf to a well-known site with commercials displayed - like many newspapers/magazines since the malware may be embedded in the commercials.
And when one machine gets the flu it spreads through the network like a wildfire.
Many companies/governmental institutions require the consultants to provide their own hardware since they think it's cheaper.
That also means that they do run a risk of an incoherent environment, but it's their headache.
The only disk encryption I think is worth selecting is Truecrypt. It's transparent and have decent performance.
If they don't trust Truecrypt they aren't worth your time unless they pay you very well.
Palm has made several mistakes, one was that they were way too late providing a smartphone.
And they did go from a subtle and slim business-style of the m515 to some style that were boring and/or bulky.
What they did have was an user interface that actually was rather practical and user-friendly with practical options - like separate control for game sound and calendar sound. (which allowed you to waste time on a game and not forget to enable the sound afterward so you didn't miss your calendar event)
So when the world migrated to M$ a lot of nice practical user-friendly features were lost in the name of Microsoft Windows standardization.
The Graffiti language wasn't perfect - but it did actually work.
Don't forget that major ports are located at major cities, which in turn means that you can get a huge impact.
It works with just about any web browser, but since the client computers are part of a government controlled health care you may figure out the rest. I have even taken care enough to verify it through the W3C validator.
Slow progress - some have recently upgraded from Windows 2000 and IE 5.5...
I know that there are problems to use the web app in Netscape 4, but who is using that browser these days?
No - this is just the reality when you come to government controlled health care and have users that's hardly computer literate.
- "Click on the 'e'!"
- "What 'e'?"
So how would you expect them to understand that there may be other web browsers?
In any case - all those in the surveys must be very lucky to see such low numbers when it comes to IE6.
A system that I run still has more than 65% of the traffic from IE6, luckily the last clients have abandoned using IE 5.5.
Other figures are 21.1% for IE7, 12.7% for IE8 and 0.8% for the other browsers (Firefox, Safari.)
These days Steven Seagal is old and overweight.
I would say that it would be sufficient to ship the warhead in a container and then detonate it when it arrives at the right port.
A decent sized hydrogen bomb in a container would be able to cause some mess.
And the mistake was to miss the word "advanced" in "advanced life", just accept that comments on Slashdot sometimes do contain mistakes.
It still explains why two-engine aircrafts are used today in transatlantic flights.
And if you enter an ash cloud - then you are into a different condition which will kill all engines anyway.
So the only safe way to handle ash clouds is to stay out of them. I didn't state anything different.
And modern engines have a lower failure rate than older engines originally used in the 747, so the probability for a total engine failure is comparable if it's caused by technical fault that isn't related to ingested foreign objects (birds, ash, bullets etc...)
Just make a difference between general situation and specific situation.
Even if the aliens are bacteria or similar it's an interesting thought. Methane can be used as a fuel and microorganisms may have it as a food source.
And if there are microorganisms there is always the possibility that there is life. However the light from the star may also be intense enough to crack up the methane molecules resulting in other types of compounds.
There may be other explanations too - the planet may have suffered some disturbing events where it lost a major part of it's atmosphere.
Modern 2-engined aircrafts are designed to be able to cope with only one working engine. It's part of the tests.
The difference here is that a volcano like the one on Hawaii does have frequent eruptions and the amount of water absorbed into the rock is low, but with volcanoes that seldom erupts and/or are located under glaciers you will get a lot of water involved which tends to create a fine dust cloud of the ash that spreads easily.
The real culprit here is in fact water! When pressure drops you will get a chain reaction where water goes from liquid to gas form in a moment which results in several things; A quick cooling of the rock to solid state (transiting from liquid to gas costs energy), intense expansion of the mixed mass of lava/steam causing a powerful eruption and as the rock was rapidly cooled it will be brittle and easily cracked into very small particles that easily stays in the atmosphere for a long time.
Now - this dust is essentially really fine sand particles, and when you fly through them they will sand blast the aircraft, but also they will melt in the jet engines possibly extinguishing the flame and cause deposits in the turbines. Under some conditions (depending on throttle of the engine, engine type and composition of the particles) they will not melt, but just sand blast the engines essentially acting as an engine cleaner - however since there are too many unknowns involved so you can't count on that.
Anyway - engine damage to aircrafts is the major reason for the "No Fly" directive - an aircraft without engines will sooner or later make an unplanned landing and those are usually messy. Secondary issue is that the windshields of the aircrafts get sandblasted too so the pilots may have a hard time see what's in front of the aircraft. Missing the runway won't be good and make a mistake when taxing is embarrassing to say the least. Decreased view while in the air isn't that much of a problem as long as you have your instruments.
Considering his age - and the cause that he will in all our minds be "The Spock" he will have a hard time to drop it completely.
He is also the most important figure that have appeared in Star Trek, which says a lot. Many other persons could have been replaced easily.
But he also need to have quality time and not be Spock all the time. And we will have to accept that even our favorite actors seems to grow old and pass away sooner or later even though some seems to hang around in the fringe for a long time after their heavy acting career has ended - like Kirk Douglas (who have more than 60 years of activities listed at IMDB).
Anyway - Nimoy will probably make guest appearances if it suits him, but maybe not as Spock.
It seems that the newer the religion is the more extreme the followers are - just the methods are different.
- Scientology sues your pants off for anything that you do that offends them.
- Muslims sends out a fatwa declaring that you are valid prey.
- Catholics - banish you and use your kids for sexual favors.
It only takes one bad ad to trigger the use of adblocking technology and then the users won't stop use it.
This is yet another case of ad companies creating problems for users that decreases the usability of a site.
On the other hand - I couldn't see much value over at the Escapist site anyway, at least nothing that did attract me.
Notice that the threat is real - the Finnish air force did get engine damage on their F18:s when they were flying through the cloud. Just take a look here: Finnish F-18 engine check reveals effects of volcanic dust
And we must blame Top Gear for the eruption too.
And if you use Winamp you will be able to play OGG files, so it's a minor problem.
And there are plugins for OGG format for Windows Media Player if you really feel the urge to use it.
We are already stuffed with "leaked" Apple devices.
What's the real hype behind them anyway?