Actually, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain. It took a court order to shake it loose, though.

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-new-sherlock-holmes-copyright-20131230,0,5610784.story

Tempest and S-Boxes? I'm wondering about se-linux, myself..

With all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about.

I live in a town of 5000 people on the prairies. We have one post office, located on Main Street. Everyone in town has a mailbox at the post office, and when you want to pick up your mail you walk or drive to the post office with your key, open your mailbox, and collect your mail. If you have a parcel to pick up, something you have to sign for, or whatever, you get a card in your mailbox which you take to the service counter and they hand you your package.

Folks around here who live on farms also have a mailbox at the post office and have to come to town to pick up their mail. Nobody around here has rural delivery.

We actually had to pay a yearly rental fee for our mailbox at the post office at one time, and if you didn't or couldn't pay you didn't get a mailbox and all of your mail would be given to you over-the-counter upon request by the clerk as "General Delivery". They discontinued charging the rental fee for mailboxes here about 20 years ago. Now you get a card in your mailbox once per year stating that you must renew your mailbox. To do that, you take the card to the counter and sign a form stating that you still live in town.

I have never lived anywhere that mail was delivered to the door. I have always had to walk to the post office to pick it up. Walking to the post office on weekdays is part of my morning routine, and always has been.

I think Eatons houses were usually delivered by rail, not by post. My grandfather bought one and I'm pretty sure he picked it up at the rail station (with his wagon).

The C128 had a GREAT keyboard! Much better than the keyboard on the C64 and any of the IBM clones that I used around then.

No idea if it was as good as or better than a "real" IBM keyboard, though, since I never had the opportunity to use one of those.

After reading the article I still don't quite get how this technique works.

From the article: âoewhen the color is the same, the mirror edge disappears."

Come again? One of the accompanying photos shows Mr. Jenison with a mirror near his eye and a paintbrush in his hand.

But I still don't understand what's happening here.

It's being "made available" but it "may not be reproduced."

How does that work, again?

There's nothing wrong with C++. However, I do my programing in C (without the ++), and would love have something like this available that I could link to my C programs.

GTK+ works fine in its way, but it moves way too fast for my taste. Function x is deprecated, use function y instead. Function y is deprecated, use function z along with function z(1) now. Ok, it's great that you're improving that thing, but not so great for a guy like me who wants to write an application today and use it for the next ten or twenty years without having to re-invent the wheel over and over again.

Since I have no particular desire to learn C++, I now do most of my programming using ncurses to handle the screen, keyboard and (occasionally) mouse. Ncurses is a Text-UI rather than a GUI, but just like the C language itself, it works very well,it hasn't changed in many years, and it suits me fine.

A slow-moving GUI like wxwidgets would be a wonderful thing to add to my toolbox, if it was a C library. *sigh*

Yep, a whole $44,400 fine. That's got to sting a multi-billion dollar company. Bet they won't dare try that again.

I wonder if Google's April Fool joke will count as prior art for invalidating the inevitable patents that MS will try to surround this technology with.

Not to mention the gesture interface operated by Tom Cruise in the Minority Report movie...

There's no point in pussy-footing around this. It's obvious that RSA was either forced or "rewarded" into using an insecure method. And that they knew it at the time (because they are cryptographers and because they don't live in the bottom of a well.)

Therefore, RSA has proven themselves untrustworthy at best, corrupt at worst, and quite likely both.

The question is what to do next? Rip out everything RSA in all infrastructure and replace it with something that works appears to be the best approach, but how should that be done and what should it be replaced with? And, most importantly, how can we verify that replacement?

TFA sez "The official IP allocation records maintained by the American Registry for Internet Numbers show the two Magneto-related IP addresses were part of a ghost block of eight addresses that have no organization listed. Those addresses trace no further than the Verizon Business data center in Ashburn, Virginia, 20 miles northwest of the Capital Beltway."
 
So it's not clear if those addresses belong to the FBI, the CIA, NSA, or anyone else.
 
Is this even "legal" on the Internet? Perhaps those IP addresses should be reclaimed and reassigned by ARIN since "nobody" is using them and IPV4 addresses are now in short (nonexistent) supply.

large areas currently under cultivation in the United States cease to arable, or at least cheaply arable. At the same time, Canada gains large amounts of arable land much farther north.
 
There are factors other than mere temperature that go into whether land can be used for growing crops. Much of the soil north of where Canadian farmers currently grow their crops is either very poor or next-to-nonexistent. The Canadian Shield consists largely of volcanic rock. You can't grow a crop in that even if the temperature appears to allow it.

If this guy's minimum price is ten million dollars, won't he be on the hook for several hundred thousand in fees to ebay if it doesn't sell?