http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/applications-power-management/race-to-idle.php suggests that it's better to run faster for a short time than to run slowly.

No, because I don't want to carry a key around everywhere, and because I don't want to (and sometimes can't) install encryption software on every computer I need to use email on.

For me, the extra privacy isn't worth the extra inconvenience.

To me it sounds like the Red Cross is upset about the *depiction* of *fictional* violations in games. I don't think they're saying that gamers are literally violating real-world laws.

Nice conspiracy theory.

The Australian standard voltage is 230V +10% -6%. So 255V is outside the allowable range. If they deliberately set the supply to 255V, they'd be exposing themselves to a huge lawsuit. Any 250V-rated components or insulation that failed, causing damage or fire or injury, would all be their fault.

Also, by setting the voltage that high, the power used by other loads (some types of lights and motors, and various other things) would increase noticeably. Generating that much extra power would be more expensive than paying the tiny number of people who have solar feed-in systems.

tl;dr: if you're getting 255V, it's a technical problem rather than a conspiracy, and you should be complaining to your electricity provider rather than to random slashdot readers.

Maybe posting a new article on an issue that was also an issue a year ago is not a "dupe", but an acceptable and possibly even normal thing for a news site to do?

It's not a "pretty useless protection". It's not just checking that the certificate is valid, it's also checking that the certificate authority has a corresponding root certificate installed on the iPhone. It stops anyone who doesn't have access to the phone from eavesdropping or manipulating the data.

> Secondly, the requests and responses are travelling through the Internet and of course through the airwaves, which means someone could easily alter those replies with the aforementioned valid keys (pretty easy)

If an attacker can arbitrarily alter the contents of an SSL session, we're all a bit screwed anyway. It's certainly not "pretty easy".

If you can eavesdrop on SSL connections, you have better things to do than cloning Siri.

I disagree that the carbon tax "bones the economy on a grand scale". I also disagree that we "fucked the future of the country".

Could you provide any information (e.g studies predicting a significant decrease in GDP, standard of living or any other reasonable measure of progress) to support this claim?

I agree that the carbon tax in Australia won't make much of a difference. But of course we can look at each individual in the world and say their individual actions won't make much of a difference. It would be unreasonable to use this as a reason to take no action.

It's impossible to prove anything at all, aside from abstract mathematics and "I think therefore I am" and such. But we shouldn't let philosophy and arguments about human conventions get in the way of the fact that Occam's Razor and the acceptance of unprovable theories is actually incredibly useful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_engraving

Test comment, please ignore.