Unfortunately, unless the govt. mandates personal electronic signatures, it ain't going to happen. And no-one will want to use it under govt. mandate anyway. This stuff is geek only territory.
I respectfully disagree. Google could easily add PK security to gmail, initially as a new feature that works only with other google accounts, and this would increase pressure for other email providers to adopt the standard.
Also, considering the stink this idiot commission raised against Ezra Klein -- a rather liberal fellow who happened to publish some cartoons depicting Mohammad I think you mean Ezra Levant, publisher of the Western Standard.
I was in a comic book store a while back and a bunch of middle aged men were talking about this game.
Let me guess, by "middle aged" you mean older than 30?
It is true that either Dr. Bostrom or you has a faulty understanding of the anthropic principle. Dr. Bostrom has written a book about it: Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy. I'm not saying that makes him right necessarily, but others may want to take that into account before assuming he has committed such an elementary error.
I worked for a company Javien that implemented this solution for email last year. The product was called Bouncer and would sit in between your email client and POP3 server. When it received a message from someone that wasn't on your accept list, it would bounce it back with a contract that could optionally include a request for payment. This was hooked into Javien's micropayment system, so if the sender accepted the terms of the contract they could attach a digitally signed proof of payment with the email when they send it again.
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Unfortunately, unless the govt. mandates personal electronic signatures, it ain't going to happen. And no-one will want to use it under govt. mandate anyway. This stuff is geek only territory.
I respectfully disagree. Google could easily add PK security to gmail, initially as a new feature that works only with other google accounts, and this would increase pressure for other email providers to adopt the standard.
It is worth remembering that "up to" means "less than".
Isn't anyone skeptical on the authenticity of the article? Do you really think copyright infringers were called "pirates" in 1897?
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I was in a comic book store a while back and a bunch of middle aged men were talking about this game. Let me guess, by "middle aged" you mean older than 30?
It is true that either Dr. Bostrom or you has a faulty understanding of the anthropic principle. Dr. Bostrom has written a book about it: Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy. I'm not saying that makes him right necessarily, but others may want to take that into account before assuming he has committed such an elementary error.
I worked for a company Javien that implemented this solution for email last year. The product was called Bouncer and would sit in between your email client and POP3 server. When it received a message from someone that wasn't on your accept list, it would bounce it back with a contract that could optionally include a request for payment. This was hooked into Javien's micropayment system, so if the sender accepted the terms of the contract they could attach a digitally signed proof of payment with the email when they send it again.