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Really, though, it would be useful to remind lots of anti-privacy Feds that encryption is important for lots of things, including protecting civil liberties and keeping them from getting into trouble with their spouses and potentially losing their jobs.

Yes, I know you were trolling, but in your mythical 7-bit-clean English, even if you're not using English letters like ð or , or ligatures like æ , or distinguishing between short and long S's (you know, the s you used to think were f's), how do you put diaeresis marks over words like cooperate, or distinguish between m-dash and n-dash and hyphen, or get the left- and right-side quotation marks without using some Microsoft or Apple ``smart quote'' breakage, much less deal with accent marks in words of foreign origin that are now part of English because we stole them fair and square and they're ours now, or handle degree marks, or words with superscript letters like the abbreviations for the and that and George and Your, or ...

And turning them all into leet-speak, like earlier Ye Olde Hwaetever's, just doesn't count.

I'm pretty sure my mom's manual typewriter when I was a kid didn't have 1, less sure about whether it had 0. But it did have the proper French and Spanish accent marks (left, right, circumflex, N~, cedilla, most of which my PC keyboard doesn't have), and you composed them with letters by using the backspace.

And yes, she could do two-column left-and-right-justified newsletters on it - she'd type a draft, count the letters, type the final. But she happily switched to using a Macintosh to type them, and let it handle that stuff.

I was once at a conference in Germany, most of which was given in English because it was an international crowd. One of the German speakers started off by saying that he used to start by apologizing for his bad English, but the host (who was Turkish) told him not to worry; Bad English is the most widely spoken language in the world. (Which is fine; English is flexible enough about most things that if you don't need to be subtle, Bad English will usually do.)

German's the only non-English language that I'm even vaguely functional in, and even then it was much more useful for me in Czechoslovakia, where people had learned German in school to deal with tourists, and I mainly wanted to talk to them about the same sets of things, like train schedules and getting food and hotels and which bridge went to the castle. Northern Germans speak a relatively comprehensible dialect, though too fast for me to do much in real time; understanding Austrians is more like being a New Yorker in deep Alabama. (I play music at a local German jam session, and some of the tunes have the lyrics translated from Bavarian or Swiss into German...)

And apparently Korean's even weirder. (I'm going by my childhood memories of my mom describing her job translating Korean during the early 50s. Unfortunately, I don't think she still has her books on basic Chinese characters these days, though I could just as easily find them in a bookstore around here.)

Some parts of Silicon Valley have a lot of Korean restaurants. I don't think I've seen any Chinese characters on their signs or menus, just alphabetic Korean.

Even using vector fonts doesn't fix the problem that Unicode wasn't a great solution for managing the diversity of characters in many Asian languages.

Yeah, too much seaweed might be bad for you. Too much bacon is also bad for you, between the fats and the salt and the nitrates or other curing chemicals and the other dead pig parts that you eat to make up for getting the bacon. You probably shouldn't overdo either one.

Of course, frying the seaweed in cooking fat probably brings it more into balance with bacon's nutrition-to-bad-stuff ratios. And even then, it's probably better for you than those fake bacon bits you get in a shaker bottle.

I'm a vegetarian, and while I thought bacon was ok back when I ate meat, it wasn't all that exciting; it's not like it was a good steak or even a good breakfast sausage or country ham. Sorry if FARK and the pork marketers tell you differently :-) But yeah, dulse is good, and a more bacony dulse would be fun to try.

And most veggie burgers need all the help they can get. (Some are good - I got a vegan burger at a concert the other week, and either it was the best imitation cooked beef I've ever had, or the person behind me was really disappointed to get my vegan burger instead of their meat burger.)

Doesn't matter whether they use security-by-obscurity or real hardware-driven or OS-driven encryption. The malware's running on top of the OS, which already has access to all the data on the drive (unless you're doing something fancy with multiple user logins, each of whom has differently-encrypted home directories, but even then, the malware can attack whoever's logged in right now.)

Drive encryption mainly helps you against stolen hardware, and not usually very much, because that would require an inconvenient user interface.

It has an SSD daughter card on the motherboard. (As I ranted above, three different generations of them had three different interface formats, but to be fair, the market was changing rapidly.) There's no room for a 2.5" drive. There are probably other ultra-thin notebooks with that limitation as well.

My wife's Lenovo laptop power connection fried recently, and we got to discover the joys of different SSD formats. The first generation X1 Carbon had a Sandisk 20+6 format, and I think the second was M.2 and the third some mSATA format, but I may have the latter two backwards. After looking around online for a while, I found a $25 adapter board from China that lets you plug in the 20+6 drive so you can read it on a "standard" SATA connector, so we were able to back up the data before sending it in for (Yay! Just under the deadline!) warranty repair.

(We even got lucky, either they didn't need to replace the motherboard after all, or they did replace it with the same kind and the old SSD worked, or they replaced both and really transferred everything; in any case there's still an operating system and her data. I really wish Apple would lease their magnetic-connector power cord patent cheaply enough that everybody would use it, since it prevents all kinds of damage.)

"My Documents"/prog/nethack on my laptop is about 7MB, including a bunch of bones files and a saved game or two...

But yes, bigger hard drives can be useful. My last laptop refresh at work went from a 300GB rotating hard disk to a 256GB SSD, and I had to move my music and Linux ISOs to an external drive. (Eventually I added a 128GB SDXC card, but the news keeps saying that the latest iTunes has serious bugs, so I haven't reinstalled it yet.)

The hidden costs are in the "lease them like any other vehicle" part. It's the difference between "it costs you $X/month" and "Ok, $X/month, and $ZZZZ upfront, and Y cents/mile if you drive too far any month, and here's what you pay us at the end of your lease" and also "$WWWWW out the door, the vehicle's actually yours now."