Do they still do that? I know from a distant past they tried it with smaller providers too, but haven't seen them for a long time. As far as I can tell, spammers do still use malware which harvests/sniffs email-address directly from peoples computers.
So if you have a problem with the government, maybe you need to look at why you are so socially maladjusted.
If the majority of the people chooses a government, which forces people to adjust to its rules, needs and whishes, you could call it a democracy but you couldn't call a free society. I'd rather be free and maladjusted than be a sheep with no principles and opinions of its own.
PGP should come on the list first, I agree, but it is also the most difficult method for people (non-geeks) to employ. In fact, I don't know anyone who uses PGP. But PGP does not protect everything, such as the email-headers. Even with PGP, you still leak potentially private data.
With only SSL, your ISP, authorities and such can still read all your data, but it does protect mail in transit from third parties. For many people (non-geeks) this is the thing to worry about. I know plenty of people who will read their non-SSL'd mail over open WiFi-accesspoints or other public networks.
Of course, there is much more to email-security than just PGP and SSL. Many email-providers/ISP's do not use SSL-connections for SMTP between each other either. DNS isn't fool-proof, ip-addresses can get hijacked. All your mail sits in the mailbox of the ISP relatively unprotected, e.g. not all email-providers use disk-encryption (doesn't happen often, but servers do get stolen once in a while), etc.
Not sure how the law in the US is, but there are countries (in Europe at least) where email falls under the the same laws as for snail mail. Which makes sense to me, except that you cannot drop bulk-mail silently (even though there is some logic to that too).
What people need to understand is that your standard email has roughly the same privacy as sending a postcard with text on the back. There is no envelope, no seal, no nothing. The only thing that "protects" you privacy is that you need an password to log-in to your POP/IMAP/Exchange account, which is roughly the same as having a lock on your Postbox. But it is still not private, as the mailman can still read your mails as well as anyone else in the chain.
If people really want privacy for their email, they need to use a SSL-connection to their POP/IMAP/SMTP/Exchange accounts and encrypt all their email through PGP/GnuPG.
No, at least, not the part I live in (Netherlands). Yes, a lot of things, including infrastructure, were blown up in WW2, but they have been rebuild and expanded a long time ago. Europe isn't two decades behind the US economically either. Some parts in Europe do lag behind, but I'm pretty sure there is a difference in the US between various states economically. The Anti-Competitive Legislation does play a big role though, but AFAIK this is mostly in physical goods. I think one of the earlier posters nailed: "They charge what they can".
...to say nothing of potential economic consequences?
What about the economic damages if cell phones ARE found to cause cancer in the long? AFAIK, if that turns out to be the case, than the economic damages (shortened life span, medical costs) are for the users and society as a whole. I don't see why potential economic consequences which could affect a limited number of companies should outweigh the potential economic consequences for hundreds of millions of users.
Now, you won't hear me saying that cell phones cause adverse health effects (such as cancer), but seeing the huge number of studies which do show that cell phones have biological effect, I think it is fairly naive to think that none of those effects will have any adverse health effects, especially not in combination with other factors (similar like smoking and indoor radon/polonium pollution).
Why should the power company give you an unfair advantage there?
Lower costs for the power-company in terms of transmission and distribution of power (and related costs for that infrastructure). E.g. the power you produce can go right to your next door neighbor. Power from a power station usually has to travel quite a bit.
Galistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galinstan) seems the only one usable, the others have a melting point of around 70 degrees Celcius. Which won't work if they cool better than air or water (which usually keeps the temps below 50 degrees celcius).
What does a 25 year old (former) sex-offender from Texas, have to do with this 20 year old (former) college student from Rhode Island? Other than that they have the same names?
Keep an eye out on good bargains. Once in a while, CA's have really good deals to get some fresh customers. You can get certificates for as low as 10-30/year for up to 7 years. Still not cheap, but for a signed certificate that doesn't need to include fancy insurance/identification and such, 63 for a 7 year cert is a good deal.
And what about stewardesses / Flight Attendants? Are they going to take the fun out of flying too? (sorry, but there is no joy in being buckled in an aluminum tube at 40000 feet surrounded by non-hetero males wearing uniforms).
And what about Playboy/Penthouse? Are they going to enforce quota's there too? Isn't there anything sacred in this world?
To add to your list: Internet Explorer (for lack of security and disregard for following standards), OOXML (design, corruption of standarisation process, non-implementation), abuse of office furniture (notably chairs), abuse of monopoly (at least according to the EU), overpricing (settled for a billion dollar),... Pretty sure this list of right reasons can go on for a while.
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802.11s != OLSRv2 . 802.11s seems to work at the MAC layer, whereas OLSRv2 works at the IP layer. They are not the same. There are quite a few mesh networking protocols out there and in development, but I haven't seen a clear winner yet.
It is just another landgrab on the net. The content-industry is just trying to get back the control and dominance they had in pre-internet times. And in doing so, they discovered that they can even go back to pre-VHS and pre-Cassette tape times and turn the internet into one large corporate controlled money-making machine (which sounds pretty good if you are a stockholder). And so far, they are doing a pretty good job.
Compared to...? Copper is a much better conductor than Aluminum. AFAIK, Copper has has many better mechanical properties as well. Aluminum is lighter and is cheaper, and it is only better for some applications if you those that into account. But there is a reason copper is preferred over aluminum in most cases.
Hotmail has been doing the same for years... And it is bad bad bad. There is a reason for those RFC's you know. I've had several complaints from people that I was loosing their mail. Checked the server logs and the mails were sent to Hotmail and it replied with a nice message received and accepted. Yet it dropped them afterwards even though it was 100% Ham. Fantastic. I get complaint about their mistakes, it takes me time and effort, and best of all, you can't contact them about it.
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Do they still do that? I know from a distant past they tried it with smaller providers too, but haven't seen them for a long time. As far as I can tell, spammers do still use malware which harvests/sniffs email-address directly from peoples computers.
So if you have a problem with the government, maybe you need to look at why you are so socially maladjusted.
If the majority of the people chooses a government, which forces people to adjust to its rules, needs and whishes, you could call it a democracy but you couldn't call a free society. I'd rather be free and maladjusted than be a sheep with no principles and opinions of its own.
PGP should come on the list first, I agree, but it is also the most difficult method for people (non-geeks) to employ. In fact, I don't know anyone who uses PGP. But PGP does not protect everything, such as the email-headers. Even with PGP, you still leak potentially private data.
With only SSL, your ISP, authorities and such can still read all your data, but it does protect mail in transit from third parties. For many people (non-geeks) this is the thing to worry about. I know plenty of people who will read their non-SSL'd mail over open WiFi-accesspoints or other public networks.
Of course, there is much more to email-security than just PGP and SSL. Many email-providers/ISP's do not use SSL-connections for SMTP between each other either. DNS isn't fool-proof, ip-addresses can get hijacked. All your mail sits in the mailbox of the ISP relatively unprotected, e.g. not all email-providers use disk-encryption (doesn't happen often, but servers do get stolen once in a while), etc.
Not sure how the law in the US is, but there are countries (in Europe at least) where email falls under the the same laws as for snail mail. Which makes sense to me, except that you cannot drop bulk-mail silently (even though there is some logic to that too).
What people need to understand is that your standard email has roughly the same privacy as sending a postcard with text on the back. There is no envelope, no seal, no nothing. The only thing that "protects" you privacy is that you need an password to log-in to your POP/IMAP/Exchange account, which is roughly the same as having a lock on your Postbox. But it is still not private, as the mailman can still read your mails as well as anyone else in the chain.
If people really want privacy for their email, they need to use a SSL-connection to their POP/IMAP/SMTP/Exchange accounts and encrypt all their email through PGP/GnuPG.
No, at least, not the part I live in (Netherlands). Yes, a lot of things, including infrastructure, were blown up in WW2, but they have been rebuild and expanded a long time ago. Europe isn't two decades behind the US economically either. Some parts in Europe do lag behind, but I'm pretty sure there is a difference in the US between various states economically. The Anti-Competitive Legislation does play a big role though, but AFAIK this is mostly in physical goods. I think one of the earlier posters nailed: "They charge what they can".
...to say nothing of potential economic consequences?
What about the economic damages if cell phones ARE found to cause cancer in the long? AFAIK, if that turns out to be the case, than the economic damages (shortened life span, medical costs) are for the users and society as a whole. I don't see why potential economic consequences which could affect a limited number of companies should outweigh the potential economic consequences for hundreds of millions of users.
Now, you won't hear me saying that cell phones cause adverse health effects (such as cancer), but seeing the huge number of studies which do show that cell phones have biological effect, I think it is fairly naive to think that none of those effects will have any adverse health effects, especially not in combination with other factors (similar like smoking and indoor radon/polonium pollution).
By that same logic, doesn't that void patenting genes as well, as Genes are natures version of software?
There already are competitors: http://en.citizendium.org/ and http://uncyclopedia.org/. The latter may be a bit less useful as Wikipedia, but it is a lot more fun.
Why should the power company give you an unfair advantage there?
Lower costs for the power-company in terms of transmission and distribution of power (and related costs for that infrastructure). E.g. the power you produce can go right to your next door neighbor. Power from a power station usually has to travel quite a bit.
Galistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galinstan) seems the only one usable, the others have a melting point of around 70 degrees Celcius. Which won't work if they cool better than air or water (which usually keeps the temps below 50 degrees celcius).
If a driver is speeding, a pink box frames an approaching speed limit sign to draw the driver's attention
I'd be much more interested if it could point out speed traps to me...
What does a 25 year old (former) sex-offender from Texas, have to do with this 20 year old (former) college student from Rhode Island? Other than that they have the same names?
Keep an eye out on good bargains. Once in a while, CA's have really good deals to get some fresh customers. You can get certificates for as low as 10-30/year for up to 7 years. Still not cheap, but for a signed certificate that doesn't need to include fancy insurance/identification and such, 63 for a 7 year cert is a good deal.
What about Industrial Design Rights ?
And what about stewardesses / Flight Attendants? Are they going to take the fun out of flying too? (sorry, but there is no joy in being buckled in an aluminum tube at 40000 feet surrounded by non-hetero males wearing uniforms). And what about Playboy/Penthouse? Are they going to enforce quota's there too? Isn't there anything sacred in this world?
Some of us actually miss Clippy.
To add to your list: Internet Explorer (for lack of security and disregard for following standards), OOXML (design, corruption of standarisation process, non-implementation), abuse of office furniture (notably chairs), abuse of monopoly (at least according to the EU), overpricing (settled for a billion dollar), ... Pretty sure this list of right reasons can go on for a while.
Why is that hard? Still works with IP-addresses. The only thing you need to do is to supply the Host-field as per HTTP/1.1.
FreeBSD has a nice port for this: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/devcpu/
4. -O3 for OEMs, for OEMs, MS should compile software -O3 so it is faster
A compiler flag during buildtime doesn't sound much like a feature. Build a proper compiled binary can make quite a difference vs. a generic build.
DD-WRT runs on a huge number of devices. See http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices . Ever since LinkSys started plucking the WRT54G, other hardware has become much more interesting.
802.11s != OLSRv2 . 802.11s seems to work at the MAC layer, whereas OLSRv2 works at the IP layer. They are not the same. There are quite a few mesh networking protocols out there and in development, but I haven't seen a clear winner yet.
It is just another landgrab on the net. The content-industry is just trying to get back the control and dominance they had in pre-internet times. And in doing so, they discovered that they can even go back to pre-VHS and pre-Cassette tape times and turn the internet into one large corporate controlled money-making machine (which sounds pretty good if you are a stockholder). And so far, they are doing a pretty good job.
Alluminum is a great conductor
Compared to ...? Copper is a much better conductor than Aluminum. AFAIK, Copper has has many better mechanical properties as well. Aluminum is lighter and is cheaper, and it is only better for some applications if you those that into account. But there is a reason copper is preferred over aluminum in most cases.
Natalie Portman spam ... you lucky bastard.
Hotmail has been doing the same for years... And it is bad bad bad. There is a reason for those RFC's you know. I've had several complaints from people that I was loosing their mail. Checked the server logs and the mails were sent to Hotmail and it replied with a nice message received and accepted. Yet it dropped them afterwards even though it was 100% Ham. Fantastic. I get complaint about their mistakes, it takes me time and effort, and best of all, you can't contact them about it.