Well, they could also spend some resources to try to extract energy from lightning.
Along with wind power plants is also a nice method to extraxct energy from the athooshere, which seems not to be a bad idea.
Well, if you use cyphers just to shuffle the TCP ports... plain SSH with public key authentication would work with the same level of security.
In both cases you need to keep a crypto key secret otherwise you'll end with secuity hole. A shuffled one, but still a hole.
movies that will only play for a limited amount of time
Which should mean proprietary file format and player? A good bait for hackers to circumvent it.
As stated previous postings, DRM is an illusion, renting digital files doubly so.
How is it possible in the 21st century in the USA that one uses electronic voting machines with one hand while publishing important documents as scanned images with the other one?
In the USA you are allowed very often to turn right with the red light.
In Europe you'd get a fine for this. Much more costly than the supposed savings.
When the Police or a Judge needs to wiretap phone conversations, they ask the telecom companies to provide them with a "plug" with unscrambled and unencrypted traffic. Every communication company is to comply with this law, at least in United Europe. This happens for landline, GSM and sat phone calls. And should also happen for Skype-like calls. If the Police is trying to do it the hard way, well, I fear they are trying to do something illegal! Or maybe they are trying to make people sure that Skype is unbreakable, while it is not.
You can bet that somewhere in the Skype system the conversations are clear text. That's the right place you can push your plug to wiretap!
Unless you also preserve the email server logs (and they have to be really detailed in order to make some sense of preservation), preserving all the emails is an illusion. Not to talk about the amount of storage needed, tapes for long term preservation etc etc.
Forget about the emails: it's more or less the same as the work of mounth: blowing in the wind.
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Things like ACPI, internal modems, infrared ports and card readers should work just like we see in the operating system with the four-colour-flag.
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Well, they could also spend some resources to try to extract energy from lightning.
Along with wind power plants is also a nice method to extraxct energy from the athooshere, which seems not to be a bad idea.
You can also enable long term space travels with such a finding!
How could you ever forget about AtomChip's Nanomicronics?
Whit the whole world using containers that wouldn't be a nice choice.
Will they also eliminate the famous rootkits from the media?
Well, if you use cyphers just to shuffle the TCP ports ... plain SSH with public key authentication would work with the same level of security.
In both cases you need to keep a crypto key secret otherwise you'll end with secuity hole. A shuffled one, but still a hole.
A good bait for hackers to circumvent it.
As stated previous postings, DRM is an illusion, renting digital files doubly so.
They have also borked the Shashdot head titles!
How is it possible in the 21st century in the USA that one uses electronic voting machines with one hand while publishing important documents as scanned images with the other one?
They can already fit one into a submarine!
WiFi+WiMax+Bluetooth+3G.
This is the real need.
In the USA you are allowed very often to turn right with the red light.
In Europe you'd get a fine for this.
Much more costly than the supposed savings.
And what'd be the power trasmission medium? Copper cables?
Ah ah ah ah!
In Europe, well in Italy at least, they already have this as mandatory!
This is why all that -48VDC thing in telco.
There should be also a marble and bronze monument to either DNA or to the Answer.
We'd need to do this in every civilised city of the Universe.
When the Police or a Judge needs to wiretap phone conversations, they ask the telecom companies to provide them with a "plug" with unscrambled and unencrypted traffic. Every communication company is to comply with this law, at least in United Europe.
This happens for landline, GSM and sat phone calls. And should also happen for Skype-like calls.
If the Police is trying to do it the hard way, well, I fear they are trying to do something illegal!
Or maybe they are trying to make people sure that Skype is unbreakable, while it is not.
You can bet that somewhere in the Skype system the conversations are clear text. That's the right place you can push your plug to wiretap!
Maybe someday we'll get ruled by bees or ants.
Unless you also preserve the email server logs (and they have to be really detailed in order to make some sense of preservation), preserving all the emails is an illusion. Not to talk about the amount of storage needed, tapes for long term preservation etc etc.
Forget about the emails: it's more or less the same as the work of mounth: blowing in the wind.
Don't worry, windowers! ... Windows 7
All these problems will loose any meaning with
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Things like ACPI, internal modems, infrared ports and card readers should work just like we see in the operating system with the four-colour-flag.
And as there is no engineer that can develop hardware without security bugs, the only solution is to stay with insecurity!
Humans have not been intelligently designed for IT security!
Read the Bible!
If there were, then there should be also in Linux and Windows users, as well as in Slashdotters and the rest of the universes.