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Well, I repeated your tests and I can confirm: not only my cell does not receive any text, call, or email while in the microwave, but even for infinite time afterwards. Maybe due to the apparent design change, which occurred during the microwave exposition? You did not mention any visible changes...

Used methodology: put cell into microwave, set at least 700 W power, apply for at least 1 minute. Visible changes comes after some first 10 secs. My neighbor even reported (using the same methodology) explosion (probably caused by battery) after some 40 secs.
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Sorry for this lightweight spam, but I could not help myself.

Sorry, was not logged when replied. I authorize that the following comment is my own:

I do agree with you in (almost) all points. However I was provoked by the commenter, speaking "Hey, I have SSH so I am safe, because somebody told me so."

And for the rest - all depends on the awareness and will to care among population. Oh, what did I say? Oh no, we are so doomed...

This is of course your own managerial responsibility. However I HAVE TO say word here. I was analyst of the team, developing the really safe alternative to the RSA algorithm, which later turned out to the whole PKI alternative, much higher safety level was confirmed by independent experts and based on this was the team scattered because there is NO POLITICAL WILL to have something, governements are not able to read.

I may not say more (do not need any lawsuits), but my recommendention: unless you see real alternative and mathematically approved 100% system unbreakability (yes, there exists something offering true (as the E=mc2 approvable) 100% safety) used worldwide, allways expect your data readable by at least but not limited to government experts. Whatever nice wording their supporters use...

And be sure many backdoors in Microsoft software are NOT bugs or just company measures.

I even have outlines of the model in the drawer. Why IMHO it is not set on the gaming market is, that any such a plan must work with clean stating real costs and profit. By hiding this behind just psychologically set price of every copy (higher then just fair share of costs + reasonable profit) game industry streams to make much more many than it deserves, while not reinvesting them (at least fully) to inventing incentive high-tech games. The world piracy movement is the only working regulatory in this, as state regulators act weakly and can easily get corrupted (sorry, lobbied).

Once this forces get into equilibrium (and I do foresee this in middle time horizon with improved FOSS games establishing as the third player in the equation), such a model will briefly emerge.

Anyways count me in for any attempts to put it working just now.

This kind of comment (require human co-driver) repeats multiple times, so I can not help: There was a law in old times Great Britain that required that there must be a red flag (human) runner before any car (=cab) driven by combustion engine. Off course it was soon outdated and just a bit later outcomissioned. Don't you see strong resemblance here ?

Lets assume postal office will somehow write down (in database) used codes. So what will they do, if SMS went from the anonymous SIM card and the same code is used on two letters from two different senders (if even sender could be identified - in Czech it is not obligatory for standard mails).

1. 1)Refuse both letters ? Who will rely on such unreliable service?
2. 2) Deliver both ? Cry over income losses ?
3. 3) Refuse random of letters ? Just kidding :-)

Absolutely agreed.

Deletion of information should by my meaning be crime under any circumstances, all over the world. Blocking access is at least opened to discussion, even if I assume it is overused even in the current world and after all much less effective and unbreakable then expected in many lawyers should-work-like-this stories.

Anyways I (as multiple children parent) postulated a theorem what I would call "Psychological quantum law": You can either watch (either openly or secretly) someones information, or directly act according to (against) it. Period. There are many examples in the wilderness (and I mean real children wilderness), that shows, that any other approach has just one of the following outcomes: 1) Any further information in such area gets hidden from you. Children are more clever than humans, didn't you know? And not knowing what your children REALLY do is dangerous weakness. 2) Your action will be forcefully (any means available from the nature of situation; no sorry or collateral damage considerations) immediately countered or long term undermined. 3) The child will hate you (even if in very moderate level, but the effects are cumulative over all the children life) because of strong injustice feeling; too bad should you be the teacher, fatal should you be parent.

There however ARE many good ways how to act regarding the information you know and here is the exception of the above mentioned "Children are more clever than humans" rule: in long term deep thought strategies you should always have top over children, stress on DEEP THOUGHT.

And there is one more psychological rule (this time even postulated by real psychologist), humans (including children) tends to act in the manner you assume they are when you interact with them. So the more responsibility you can pass to the children and the more you can make them to absorb, the best.

So as the conclusion I always tend to offer children more liberty than usual, however based on two pillars: 1) They prove in advance psychical and technical ability to cope with the situation under my supervision, eventually in prepared model situations. 2) They never betray the trust I put in them. Should they fail, the rights they poses are revoked appropriately. This is the best tool to deal with behavior like defiance, vandalism and even more subtle, like not willingness to help to old or incapable. Children like their freedom so much, that you can find just little more (if any) motivating things. So far fully verified by my own results, however looking forward to check them in the stress testing of the puberty. Off course, application of this approach requires strong nerves and hypertrophic self- and in-children-confidence. And maybe plenty of undeserved luck as my wife use to say.

Exactly. And this is why I would especially in the countries with Zimbabwe-like historical background vote for complete trade cut-off. Even humanitarian, call me unethical should you want. These days North Africa events shows, that nothing will move, when civilized (?) countries step back before intimidation and basically feed population of otherwise incapable totalitarian despots. Once this "humanitarian help" falls below sufficient level, the things moves and (even with some ((un)necessary ?) casualties) turns to the better future. So conclusion, so-called humanists are collaborators (or at least unwilling supporters) of non-democratic rulers (not all and not under any circumstances, off course !).

Other such a county is North Korea, where people should either die of starving (solving the problem anyways - call me a cynical one) or (and more probably by me) move and through the rulers away, should there not be a massive food supplies sent every year (if I remember well, it is more than 50% of yearly consumption after all).

Please may I have your XXX (please fill-in yourself, I am not sure which of the three most important you serve) agent ID nr? I wonder, if you are just a PR department or "real" hardcore operative and I can check this from the ID, this is the reason I ask.

No other conscious human would say such an unargumented blackmailing to innocent man, would he?

Strange, that (if my browser search is not corrupted already) noone mentioned SkyNet or Terminator(s) here so far. Even if SkyNet booting is somehow overdue now, still:
1) such a things happens regullarly in technics
2) that may be the latest Terminator's timing correction after Connor reached Cheyene mountain in the third sequel...

Joking, of course... hey, do I ?

Hey, quote it properly: did this not say that evolution strategy setting dinosaur some 64 mil. years ago ?

YES, THERE IS (who to vote)! In EU there is (even if still much overseen) pirate parties movement on it's (long term) ascent. Seek for your countires Pirate party and read carefully their pages...

I forsee big future of this movement, maybee even bigger than the green movement's one in 20th century - once the oppression will come high enough to raise silent citizens (we are near this level allready).

Ahoy! Sails up ;-)

Oh yes ! They do ! Even if not in minds of end users, the community reputation is fair enough motivation not to make stupid bugs (well, at least not to do them often, ehm).

Finally, after this last reply, I can agree with your in many points.

Just remove the following point

as this does not differentiate FOSS and non-FOSS product. If you read carefully in EULAs, you can see that this situation is exactly same for most of commercial products. Nobody is responsible for collateral or consequent damages, as maximum you can get price of the product back (which is immanent in the case of FOSS ;-) ).

Regarding the rest the key is your wording

except that I would say "exists", not just "can exist".

Further I agree with

but my good praxis includes the following points in the software choice:

1. Allways search for suitable FOSS project first, allways check whether it fullfills all your needs (but see 3. bellow), if in doubts, with no prejudice compare with commercial products, based on your preferences weights list.
2. Account some +20% point value for OSS concept, another +10% for even FOSS (if not covered by points for price as separate item)
3. Compensate properly for slower development curve of FOSS project with the higher features standard in future on mind.
4. Do not stress about rapid versioning in FOSS projects. You can allways follow "if it works, do not touch (=upgrade)" approach in the production environment (as I do).

So far I got negative client reaction for my recommendation (even after longer usage experience) just once, and it was of the "it is not Microsoft" nature.

I simply disagree: it does ! At least in longer horizon.

1) No vendor jail, no discontinuity due sudden increase of selling price on specific version.
2) FOSS projects (bigger than some limit of course) tends to never stop it's development. While progress in commercial projects tends to (brutally simplified off course) fast-but-flattening (features=sqrt(version_number)) learning curve, FOSS tends to slower but linear one (features=0.1*version_number)

Coefficient 0.1 is just an ideal example number, I want to show that from the begining the feature development can be even by order higher in commercial than FOSS one, but in the long horizon the crossing point of FOSS over comercial is inevitable. This is (managerialy said) due to novelty premium every comercial subject is eager to gain. Once the project lives longer time, money are redirected to other, more novelty projects. In opposite, FOSS development is real user needs driven, so no need for such redirections, trade mark changes, sudden "buy newer product line from scratch" proposals etc.

This I feel value for itself, however I agree, that FOSS is not automatically better for short horizon targeting companies. However, I would not like to work for (or even be employed in) short horizon targeting company ;-).