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Comment Re:I lost the password (Score 5, Interesting) 560

No, as the series of court rulings have gone, the Fourth Amendment does not protect you from lawful search and seizure (such as a safe or hard drive). The combination to the safe, or encryption key to the drive, is not incriminating evidence and providing it to allow for lawful search and seizure does not violate your rights. They can admit evidence produced by oneself into court (such as two sets of books in one's own handwriting for a case of fraud) and that is not a violation of the Fourth (or Fifth) - just so with information one puts on a hard drive. What they can not compel one to do is testify against oneself (which is the Fifth by the way) nor assume guilt because you do not take the stand (not that a prosecutor won't toe that line with the jury). So, if one can keep all details of a crime in one's head and manage to destroy all other evidence which could be subject to lawful search and seizure - then you've got a shot at being a criminal mastermind.

I'm not sure I entirely agree with the line of thought - but I can certainly follow the logic as well as the precedence.

What would be interesting is if one's pass-code was material evidence with respect to the case - but a possible way around that would be limited immunity or ruling it as inadmissible evidence...It would make for an interesting case study.

Comment Re:so incite immenent lawless action (Score 1) 646

You realize that the case in which "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" came up in the justice's opinion was overturned almost fifty years ago?

I don't mind you bringing up the rest of your opinion, especially as there seems to be an objective trend of chilling free speech in the US, but please try not to further your argument by invoking invalidated information.

Comment Re:In civilized countries... (Score 1) 169

The European presence can be seen as victory acquisitions which allow for a more global reach of the US military force projection.

On the other hand, the cease fire in Korea was signed without notifying the South Koreans first - UN has itself to blame for a non-decisive conclusion there. Of course the flip side would have been a commitment to victory which had the potential for cost and escalation beyond anything anyone other than the South Koreans were willing to pay (discussing the possible ways of deterring the Chinese from sending three soldiers for every gun into North Korea is what got MacArthur canned).

Comment Re:BSES (Score 1) 169

No no no! What you really need for good coffee will be the mechanic or tech from trade school. The engineer won't listen to him/her and will put the lever on the wrong side due to a misplaced concept of efficiency. The scientist will complain that the engineer isn't doing it with appropriate reverence with the theoretical underpinnings (to which the engineer has comments on what the scientist can do with the real world non-ideological coffee processing device's lever) and the artist will be secretly wondering why they listened to their school's recruiter about there "not really" being any difference between schools which offer a BA versus the schools which offer a BS in the same field - all while nodding along with the scientist trying to promulgate that myth to his/her current employer. Then one of the non-techs will be promoted into management and then the inferno-roast will break free as he/she suspects that the previously derided business major might have known how to keep spreadsheets from biting back.

Comment Re:No point encrypting if you're the only one... (Score 1) 108

Thanks for the update and comment Tobias. I'm sorry it's not as easy on the development side as I had been given to understand and I apologize for being wrong and spreading that misconception. I do still think that until encryption is adopted as an industry standard (which means Outlook) people won't be taking it home for personal mail (which means there will also need to be simple gmail/hotmail/etc... web plugins - those however seem at least slightly more accessible to the general public).

It is also my opinion that until it is free (as in beer) it also won't see mainstream adoption. Perhaps you could do a trial sale on the Office store for a nominal price (0,99 EUR) and see if you make up in volume what you lack in individual price. You could also try something similar at other software sales locations (i.e. get in on a Steam sale for 98% off or something like that - I'd bet you sell tens of thousands of copies).

Comment Re:No point encrypting if you're the only one... (Score 1) 108

Really? It's easy enough? Let's talk market share then. How many easy to use GPG FOSS plugins are there for Outlook 2013? 2010? How about the light email clients which comes with Windows 7 or 8? What about the Android basic email client? of the Android Gmail client? In the Windows environment all of the recent Outlook versions have hooks for plugins. There's even what's effectively an MS Office App store for addons. That sounds like a dead easy way for people to get a GPG plugin for the industry standard client... but where is it?

Comment Re:Windows (Score 1) 611

Sure - but the bit where it remembers what you picked last time, orders the search, and more or less minimizes the keystroke isn't available in 7. For example:[windows][s][h][a][down arrow][down arrow][enter] will get me sharepoint designer 2010 instead of sharepoint designer 2013 (no I'm not trying to start a flame war about sharepoint, it's just a program I have to use multiple versions of and the first example that came to mind). It's a way shorter search-and-launch than the way you do it in 7.

Comment Re:Windows (Score 2) 611

Actually I prefer 8 to 7. At first it was a bit tough to get used to, but now I find myself missing features anytime I have to use a Windows 7 machine. The Windows key and typing a few letters of the program I want to launch is probably the biggest new feature for me - it's as fast as a Linux terminal autocomplete and works for any installed program or searchable document (proper indexing is important). Right clicking the start button is probably the other feature I like a lot that 7 doesn't have (well 8.1 has it).

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