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Comment Re:Google should then provide signed certs (Score 1) 299

they'd make it easier to complain about the spam sent by the user

WTF are you talking about?

You seem a bit confused, the spam button is there to report that a message is spam, the sender, e-mail contents, etc of the message are analyzed to prevent future spam. Seems quite pertinent to your statement.

Comment Re:Google should then provide signed certs (Score 1) 299

The "Spam" button is not enough?

The targets change ips, email accounts and message formats faster every couple hours if not minutes.

I'd also toss out a stupid question which addresses what this whole ssl issue is about, what is google to do if the account is under someone else's domain?

Comment Re:Is it? (Score 1) 299

The idea is to make the messages traceable to a verified source, less likely to try to spam others when it can be reliably traced to you.

Most mail servers have limits in place to prevent abuse from users (the mass mailings sent by my company have fallen victim to this quite a few times), the weak point is reputable mail severs could not always reliably trace the mail back to the source once other servers were involved because of spoofing, by forcing full authentication you are at least sure who you are dealing with.

As posted elsewhere they still accept non-ssl connections but I'm quite sure that mail goes through MUCH more stringent checks that the mail received over ssl receives.

Comment Re:Google can do what they want. (Score 1) 299

http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-ssl-certificate.html

There is a free one, also you are missing the part about different pop3 server which essentially means you run your own domain, I'm assuming by " download our email from our Gmail account" you do not fall in that category. If you are actually using the pop3 protocol to download mail from Gmail you are already using SSL (Gmail hasn't accepted non-ssl client connections for years, I know because I had to setup a stunnel sever for some legacy apps during the cutover).

The list of people this actually affects (negatively) is miniscule (it only going to be the domain operators).

Comment Re:R; apt-get install r-base (Score 1) 254

If the OP is attempting to replace a TI-84 I am going to go out on a limb here and say he maybe isn't interested in such advanced statistics (or whatever else is different) that both matlab and R are ridiculous supersets of what a TI-84 can do.

A TI-89s symbolic engine is a separate matter entirely but I'd guess either choice will be fine.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 780

I highly doubt Google is the only one doing this, funny enough his "arrogant" tone is probably there for a reason.

Such a tone is probably the only thing that will prompt the true fix (close the loopholes, more importantly close them for all of the big corporations).

The issue will be raised by George Osborne when Britain takes over the chairmanship of the G8 and will also be investigated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Last week the Chancellor said he was committed to “leading the international effort” to prevent international companies transferring profits away from major economies, including Britain, to tax havens.

“We will put more resources into ensuring multi-national companies pay their proper share of taxes,” he said. “With Germany and now France, we have asked the OECD to take this work forward and we will make it an important priority of our G8 Presidency next year.”

Who else / how else can get such a response from lawmakers, finally they are actually going to look at and attempt to fix it. If you want big corporations to appear repentant to your face and still go behind you back and screw you then you deserve everything thats coming.

Comment Re:Withdrawn without explanation (Score 1) 115

I've been curious about this as well, China's great firewall and the various outages of countries from the internet seem to indicate they already have what is being asked for (at least on the surface).

What I think they are trying to do is push that view out to the rest of the Internet, which I would like to hope the UN / ITU is smart enough to determine.

Comment Re:Death becomes acceptable, doesn't it? (Score 1) 170

I'd agree with you for the most part, but I'd say the conclusion it only applies in the current situations where there is a serious imbalance of military power.

If two opponents of similar capabilities to the current US were to meet each other on the battlefield I'd guess the first targets would be New York, Hollywood, seeing as they wouldn't be a battlefield per se.

Comment Re:Nobody is going to wear these things (Score 1) 89

VR glasses? Like these?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Virtual+Digital+Video+Glasses&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AVirtual+Digital+Video+Glasses

Play whatever you want, all these are missing is sensors to determine orientation / movement (same sensors inside almost every smart phone).

Comment Re:I'll just say this now (Score 1) 89

Why do you need to wear both? why not just clip on the AR system to your existing glasses?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18091697

Take a look at the pics in that article, not exactly a quantum leap in design to make it a clip on instead of a full set of glasses (stability is the only major concern I can think of).

Comment Re:This is Not Fiction? (Score 1) 89

"No practical working implementations"? Has done no research on the matter has you, yessss....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann - This is just the most famous of the group.

There are no "consumer ready" AR glasses for various reasons but fully working implementations have been in existence for years.

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