I, for one, feel that the human race has far better things it could be doing with its time instead of obsessing over increasing some numerical values to the detriment of other numerical values.

like watching the bold and the beautiful

and then what? You make it sound like trading is evil.

volatility has declined since electronic trading. Electronic trading made HFT feasible, and volatility further declined.

congrats, your site has been slashdotted

I don't think that's what he meant. I think he says that anybody who manages to add complexity to something simple and straightforward (a project that would only take a week to do) by adding "beautiful" layers that provide abstractions for the sake of abstraction, should be shot. Personally, I would happily set fire to the remains after the firing squad had its turn.

Probably the best advise I've seen. I'll try it myself.

the friend can surely find 90% of his lost stuff, but it will take him a lot of time to download it again. Also, if he's like me, he can't remember half of what he had.

Then there's his wife who's screaming at him about the loss of the "home videos" (no honey, they're really gone, they're not at somebody else's computer now)

Yeah, I guess the price of an extra 20TB raid array doesn't seem so high now anymore...

7 out! Line away!

I'll bite. What joke address was it?

I second that. PFSense is rock solid and comes with a lot of features. Dual wan, vpn, you name it.

Just as lazy... also got mine from applianceshop.eu.

Seems to me Mr Hiroshima was given some time. Why not give godaddy and the fbi a call? See if they can set up a trap for the hacker?

And a statue of him right next to lady liberty.

ever had sex with your iPhone?

There's your answer

actually, it will be a great shorting opportunity

They way you put it the relation will be quickly over. From the way the question was put, both parties have something to gain if these documents are sent over, but the OP the most. He doesn't want to push his wish for security up to the point where the deal is blown off. Pick your battles carefully, that kind of stuff.

As others have pointed out, once the documents are decrypted, there's no telling what happens to them. There's nobody stopping them from sending a copy directly to the NSA for convenience. But in this case, he trusts the organization to do the right thing. Then a once-off practical security measure is simplest: encrypt the document with a password, tell the password in a separate conversation. Once he gets to the point where he has to send another document every day, something like pgp might be in order. But by that time he is talking to other people besides the secretary and it will be a lot easier.