Ummm ... no one works for the IETF.
The IETF is a volunteer-based group of folks employed by technology firms, universities, etc.
This is literally the worst kind of bullshit as you're telling people they need to understand things before commenting, while your basis is provably false on its face.

Source: University professor, initial designer of two ratified protocol RFCs, lead engineer at one of the most "Internet" involved companies.

A TPM costs about $1.50 and the device you describe is a couple hundred or more.
The TPM is also hardware tamper-resistant and tamper-evident, so it makes it harder to physically extract data (keys, passwords, etc) and it's very clear if someone attempts to do so. A separate server doesn't have those qualities normally and if it did the cost would increase exponentially.
So ... why not the TPM? This is literally what it was designed for.

> Can we ever just... have personal computers again?

You CAN. But that is NOT where the industry and the world is going.
I'll suggest Neal Stephenson's new book - Fall, or Dodge in Hell. There is a great exploration of this trend in that book and the world it may lead us to.

Look at me guys. I don't use social media. Let me tell everyone about that, because clearly I'm superior to you.

It's dead .. in that it's now the NUMBER TWO MOST POPULAR LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD? Wow. Perhaps my understanding of the meaning of "dead" is misinformed. The commentary here seems to center around Java as a language for desktop applications or similar. It's not. It hasn't been for decades. Java is used mostly to make enterprise-class server-side software. It's used extensively in the financial services sector. Most of the code for any FI's web applications you interact with is Java. And so is all of the backend code. And it's not going anywhere in that space.

Definitions of words change over time.

You can accept this, or you can keep holding on to an older definition that the vast majority will never know the history of and not accept.

Didn't anyone pay attention to that documentary?

Jurassic Park?

Really?

By gum, it put them on the map!

I was a WWIV man myself. Ran some RBBS-PC for a while too, but WWIV was where it was at.
I do remember Wildcat! That was a good one, but the sysop role was much more difficult on that platform.

The delay came first. Star Trek Discovery was delayed until May 2017 way back in September 2016.Here's the link.

Fuller reduced his duties just this week (late October 2016).

You can control the heating/cooling temperature, on either pattern or exception. So, the system can learn that you're usually home around 5.30p and have your house at exactly the temp you like when you arrive. Or, you can tell it you're on the way home at 12n today and it will have the house ready for you early. Same thing with lights/etc. Even if you like to do those things yourself, computers are more efficient. In the temp example, say you told your home you need to stay out until 9.30p one night - the temp would hover at whatever is cheapest (no heating/cooling) until it needed to turn on in order to be ready for your later arrival time and then turn on - this has potential to be much more efficient and save you money.

Ray never responded to the Slashdot interview that was begun in December. https://features.slashdot.org/...

Not only is SQL Server coming to Linux, but it's already being integrated into systemd!

With your focus on longevity and aggressive supplementation, you have often included a caveat that you keep track of developments in this space and adjust your regiments all of the time. With that in mind, what have you changed recently? What supplements, food choices, etc, have you favored previously but no longer due, based on new information? Conversely, what new supplements, food choices, etc, have you begun taking/eating/drinking/etc based on new research and information?

So...the news here is that there is no news for Linux folks?