The relevant question is: could you trust the devices firmware in the first place? The las tfew year put a solid upper bound to my trust in this respect?

i did not say that this is a new idea.

The way out would be that i would have to license and register private keys for encryption. This is dificult to enforce since there is no way to judge if you use unregistered private keys without entering your home and looking at your harddrive.

The result would be that criminals would continue to use it, and that normal people would be criminalized.

on 4 weather ballon, you can place ~ 8 km of nylon fishing line.

So you can randomly traverse a 100x100x100m volume 80 times.

Not unlikely that you crash the papparazis expensive drone with this approach.

The average tone on the kernel mailing list is not an incentive to participate to an unbiased observer.

If you care about results, dont drive people away. And yes that applies for the whole OS community. Whenever I consider to take part in an OS project, because i find it interesting, i look at the development process/communication and find the tone, way of discussion, and egocentric behaviour inacceptable.

Do you really think i contribute to a project which barely builds in exactly your environment with hundred of obscure dependencies, and when i try to fix it, getting barfed at over the inacceptable choice of standard tool X (yeah, i know, build processes which work out of the box on all linux distributions are *evil*), which seems to be directly from hell?

Do you really think i participate in a discusssion where three dickheads call my approach "SHIT" because they dont like it, without a proper argument, and often referring to episodes which happened 20 years ago as justification?

Do you really think i invest time into projects where the goals are defined by the means, and not vice versa (see the systemd debate)?

I really think i have better things to do with my life.

Wrong confessions are a big problem for courts.

so solving the comple problem will be reduced to the not less complex problem of weedign out the spam created by idiots?

Put 4 big helium ballons and place nylon wires between them. Operates 24h a day and is cheap.

Yes. if they told me that t oconnect the fridge you build a new network, i would have declared them mad.

OTOH: I worked in a related topic and we figured that the biggest part of the potential savings could be implemented by a timed switch, and a little thought. It's not like the the time of the peak consumption in a country changes day by day, usually you should think about decades.

(The 80-20 rule also applied here: do the simple measures first, and get the biggest part of the saving)

I hope not.

Honestly, when i bought my 6310i i changed the default ringtone in two days. Not because i disliked it, but because i reached for my phone every 5 minutes in the city.....

http://forum.xda-developers.co...

People who are scientifically to uneducated to understand things in math which humankind understood 4000years ago and to lazy to even learn in school how long a stone takes to fall down to the ground (which we knew 300 years ago), and who can no predict what the expectation value for winning/losing in roulette is, want to suddenly get in the scientific discussion of the most complicated, dynamical, and coupled systems science ever examined.

Usually this happens as soon as they find the final outcome of the scientific process negative for their income expectation or their views (climate change, evolution, racism etc), even if they have been fine with radar, smarphones, TVs, nuclear bombs/power plants etc. before.

Side remark #1: When i say climate science i dont mean the IPCC (which is political in nature). As a scientist i find it pretty disturbing that they write a report in which the claims of interest groups are packed in without peer review, and declare this to be a result of science.

Side remark #2: There is absolutely no doubt that CO2 in the atmosphere will increase the absorbtion coefficient, and thus has the potential and, assuming that no unpredicted effects compensatign for that appear, likeliness, increase the global solar energy input significatnly. Hoping for such unpredicted effects as excuse for screwing around with this global parameter further is like playing russian roulette with 5 chambers filled and 1 empty.

Side remark #3: Our actions should be long-term (25y-50y) in nature, and they should be based on medium-term observations, per head consumption of ressources/energy and/or emmision of CO2 (compensated for industry production). They should be based on opening additional revenue sources and business fields for companies who delevop good products.
 

Reminds me when i wanted to text "Sweta" (Short calling name for "Swetlana") on my phone to a colleague of mine and my phone corrected it to "Sweetie".....

And assume that these two things are related, and knowing that Russia has an extreme amount of accidents, i assume that can only mean that the Russians have an extreme amount of sex disorders.

I mean, I would have guessed other things-like alkoholism, bad roads, cars in bad technical state, and cultural deficits in estimating risks, but, ok , i the russian government says that all these accidents are related to sexual disorders, i guess i have to take the extreme perversion troughout russian society for granted......