I think you just found the missing link!

1. 1. Send legal documents to wrong people
2. 2. Sue them for opening said documents
3. 3. Profit!

Cheers

You can also use + after the name E.g. john.smith+amazon@gmail.com goes to john.smith's account. I use this (among other things like personal domain name, throwaway emails, etc) for reducing spam and telling where someone got my address from. If I get a spam to john.smith+amazon, I know it is Amazon who leaked my details. Cheers

The problem is that people will doubtless charge way more than is needed for this library. I can get a city library card for $12 / year, which lets me check out unlimited books, movies, CDs, magazines, use WiFi, etc. There are very few (if any) books that are not in the city library system. $12 gets you the ability to talk to a knowledgeable librarian (who is being paid a salary, remember), go to a number of nice buildings across the city, etc.

Given that the operating costs of a digital library are going to be far less than the cost of maintaining 17 branches across the city (building maintenance, salaries, book / media purchases, etc), you should be able to subscribe to an ebook library for a fraction of that. (Even if they wanted to charge the whole $12 / year and make a killing, even that would be fine). Fat chance of that happening, though... all these subscription services are far more than that.

Oh well, I guess I will just stay with my current B&M library for $12 / year (which, BTW, also has a huge number of ebooks available, plus even lends ebook readers out IIRC).

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I think you are thinking of Steve Harper, not Steve Jobs...

Don't worry, give it another couple of years.

I use it (on OSX). I don't like the default Mail.app as it does some weird things with IMAP server read flags (at least the last version I used did this, it was some time ago so it may have been fixed). Plus, the cross platform Thunderbird lets me use it on Linux / Windows boxes (OK, no Windows for a couple years now, but when I used it at work, I had Thunderbird on it). Add Enigmail for GPG, and you have a nice little mail client. I have it download my GMail via IMAP, so if I need to check mail on someone else's computer, I can do that too via the web interface.

Sure, let's use one to power your wrist watch!

I would hope that there is a difference between employees working at a nuclear reactor (with strong procedures and training) vs. tellers at a bank (which is where at least one of these 'proof of concept penetration tests' that I have seen was done). As important as money is, nuclear power plants should have orders of magnitude better policies / training.

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For the first issue, why not call it 2011.06.01, 2011.09.16, etc?

The second issue is valid, if you expect revolutionary changes; however that does not seem to be in the cards for any time soon.

As for the last issue, what's wrong with counting to 2011?

For me, this is the huge appeal of embedded computing (for me, the AVR platform, although PIC etc are also good). Comparable complexity to early computers, direct access to registers and memory, no OS (you write programs on the bare hardware). I started one project on Arduino to get my feet wet, and then have done a number of things with plain AVRs. If you want to get close to the iron, embedded is the way to go these days! Cheers

128 bit addresses make for amazingly large address space -- it has been said that "This address space is probably sufficient to uniquely address every molecule in the solar system! " (http://www.garykessler.net/library/ipv6_exp.html, among others). It will last for at least a couple more years...

Not in America...