I'm not an expert, but i don't see why public-key encryption wouldn't work here. The browser (which supports the SSL) is still just a browser. It's just that your encrypted data gets sent via SMS rather than TCP/IP.
Unless I'm missing something...

it's probably ok on bandwidth, but dog-slow on latency

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The netflix clients are phenomenal? How does a 'phenomenal' client max out my 2.8GHz processor to display a *paused* video? That and it routinely takes over a minute for the Silverlight-based client to even load itself, let alone start loading the content.

In my experience OSX developers stick to the UI design standards more than their MS counterparts. My guess is that there's a higher premium on macs for programs that have the right 'look and feel' so it's really the users of the programs that enforce the UI standards. That is, there are more mac users that care whether their program feels like a mac program than there are windows users that care whether their program feels like a windows program.

hehe. The Great Shriving Civilization of Jupiter. They died out through excessive penance.

mod this AC up. These cameras could do exactly what ggp was asking, though there's a lot of hard-/software that would need to go into it.

Then you should probably try not doing so. As a certified nerd you ought to know that anecdotal evidence isn't enough to make a strong conclusion, and that holds double for topics underpinned by strong and persistent cultural biases.

I thought you meant 'top-level acronym', which I kind of liked

Having taught a fair number of highly motivated and intelligent people to use the command line 'from scratch', I can offer quite a bit of evidence against this claim.

wait, what?
Hydrogen in this context is pretty much just a battery right? It's not an energy 'source' (not a lot of naturally recurring hydrogen, and in that case it is not renewable).
So what's your favorite renewable source to produce the hydrogen? Why not use solar to split water?

Your comment seems to treat solar power and hydrogen as somehow exclusive, rather than as different parts of the energy production chain.

I was so happy to see this story already tagged with 'finglonger'. I guess I keep reading /. for a reason.

I agree. It was complex, sure, but somehow unsatisfying as a goldberg machine. It was unclear exactly how each step led to the next, so it felt more like some behind-the-scenes machinery was making the story go.

Thanks! and with this: ")" I can finally stop scanning.

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