"Solar power is not 24x7 and people still need electricity at night and when the weather's bad. Which means utilities have to build THE SAME NUMBER of power plants to cope with these periods of near-zero solar."
Not necessarily. I personally know of three households that are entirely off the grid, and they all use batteries that are charged during the day and used to carry them through the night. Admittedly, two of these households use propane generators to supplement the system should the batteries not last, but none of them are wired to the grid at all.
Re: What if the butter company did start making fishing gear?
They would not be able to use the Land O Lakes trademark without licensing it, as it is already being used by a different company in that market segment.
As H.L Mencken said, "No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
You're talking about two different things. The author is talking about sending encrypted emails. Encrypted emails are perfectly visible -- they're just text like any other email -- they just look like a random stream of characters.
You're talking about encrypting your filesystem, not the data you're sending out. Windows isn't showing data there because it can't recognize the data it's seeing (because it's encrypted). It can't even tell where files start or stop, etc. and figures it's just malformed data storage.
"And I wonder if the press would have been interested in the story if the boy had had pale skin and blue eyes."
In the exceedingly unlikely event that this would have occurred with a WASPier boy, I would expect that the press coverage would not only have been more extensive, but also filled with more outrage.
Cisco is a defense contractor, as well as a major supplier to the rest of the government. That's pretty much all the leverage against them that's needed.
IIUC, "deliberative" communications don't have to be recorded or disclosed. Those are routine communications where no policy decisions are being made. But I could be wrong.
"It never occurred to me that the feds might demand Lavabit’s SSL key. It simply wasn’t part of my threat model."
Wow, that's a huge admission of failure. Kudos to Levinson for having the fortitude to give a mea culpa. Boos to Levinson for being so blind to one of the first threats he should have been considering (loss of keys to attackers).
That doesn't sound right. I'd think that the first time the forged paper were used for any purpose that matters, the original authors sue them for fraud. Or at least make a big stink about it.
Things aren't really as different as you may think. They're faster, smaller, and cheaper, but fundamentally no different than pretty much ever (with certain specialist exceptions).
One of the true joys of being a greybeard engineer working amongst the younger set is that the younger set tends to think that everything is fundamentally new. It makes it easy to look like a damned wizard just by pulling out something that used to be common knowledge 30 years ago.
Well said. It's hard for many people to recognize just how bad our criminal and legal system has become because it's much more comfortable to just close your eyes and believe that everything is OK.
"Personally I've been accused in legal documents of horrible things, and there are people who assume I must be guilty of the claims."
Oh, hell, I've been named in a couple of lawsuits -- never as the target (or complainant), but just because I had relevant knowledge.
Although the most recent one was 10 years ago, I still occasionally get the suspicious eye because of them. It's insane.
They'd have to be defying some sort of court order in order to be so charged, and they wouldn't be. As near as I can tell, the court has not ordered a single engineer to lift a finger.
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Re: If they will riot about getting cheaper phone service,
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Hallmark the greeting card company and Haulmark the trailer manufacturing company?
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Re: Propaganda, not fact.
Not necessarily. I personally know of three households that are entirely off the grid, and they all use batteries that are charged during the day and used to carry them through the night. Admittedly, two of these households use propane generators to supplement the system should the batteries not last, but none of them are wired to the grid at all.
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Re: What if the butter company did start making fishing gear?
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Every time I listen to what he says
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Re: Frankly, the studios are right.
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Chilling
Those words send chills up my spine.
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Re: Question
You're talking about encrypting your filesystem, not the data you're sending out. Windows isn't showing data there because it can't recognize the data it's seeing (because it's encrypted). It can't even tell where files start or stop, etc. and figures it's just malformed data storage.
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Re: Lines on a screen...
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Re: Hmm
In the exceedingly unlikely event that this would have occurred with a WASPier boy, I would expect that the press coverage would not only have been more extensive, but also filled with more outrage.
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Re: Cisco's denial
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That's simply not true. The DMCA makes circumvention illegal even if the activity you're trying to engage in is otherwise 100% legal.
The real reason the DMCA doesn't apply is because it's the government.
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Re: Communications
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Give it to them.
Wow, that's a huge admission of failure. Kudos to Levinson for having the fortitude to give a mea culpa. Boos to Levinson for being so blind to one of the first threats he should have been considering (loss of keys to attackers).
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One of the true joys of being a greybeard engineer working amongst the younger set is that the younger set tends to think that everything is fundamentally new. It makes it easy to look like a damned wizard just by pulling out something that used to be common knowledge 30 years ago.
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"Personally I've been accused in legal documents of horrible things, and there are people who assume I must be guilty of the claims."
Oh, hell, I've been named in a couple of lawsuits -- never as the target (or complainant), but just because I had relevant knowledge.
Although the most recent one was 10 years ago, I still occasionally get the suspicious eye because of them. It's insane.
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Re: Competence and evidence, Dr. Barbara Sampson etc.
Which is another serious problem. The "light of truth" is rarely so binary, and to pretend it is pretty much ensures that there will be injustice.
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