How much evidence do you have that people who pirate your magazine would buy the print or online version?
Conversely, how many who run across a pirated version might start to subscribe?

That makes a lot of sense, as long as "meat" stands for "real meat" and not "meat-like or meat-based processed foods", i.e. slaughterhouse waste made palatable.

Bravo. Also the fallacy is that supplementing the few substances we happen to know about gives you the full benefit of eating the whole product. New substances are discovered every day and nobody is even thinking about testing out combinations of many of them. OTOH, that's what evolution has done for millions of years.

I think it has to do mostly with age. Most people know that their cognitive facilities decline with age. Now if you were a genius in your younger years you may consider yourself infallible and not recognize your own limitations.

You seem to confuse price and cost. I've been lurking on the ARM-netbook mailing list for a while; this stuff is dirt cheap to make in China. There's a reason why high volume low end Linux based systems have come down to $30-$40.
USB2 and 100baseT is probably built into the SoC while USB3 or GbE needs an additional IC.

It's hardware that costs about $20-$30 to make. USB3 and GbE would add $10 or so - very significant. I'd access it mostly via wireless and for that the speed is very adequate.

However since their software runs on DD-WRT it should be possible to run it on more powerful HW too.

Yup, Pogoplug is more or less the same. It's also more expensive and has per client licensing.

It runs on DD-WRT so you can assume it's standard disk handling under the hood and that limitation can be raised by swapping out or configuring the OS.

I'm much more interested in dm-RAID and encryption.

There will also be some infrastructure needed for VPN support - at least for routing, key exchange and NAT traversal.

It's VPN, a NAS file server and desktop software integration.

I'm especially curious about their APIs and whether it'll be hackable.

Yup, that's the main point. And that you can send links that allow access to a single file.

It looks like a newer Pogoplug without the licensing and better software. That would make it worthwhile.

I'm wondering if the network traffic is encrypted and if the hard drive(s) can be encrypted (when I want to run a backup of my private files at the office.)

> Our society craves more power (of all kinds!) and capitalism flourishes when each participant is continuously consuming more and more.

The US are past peak cars and peak passenger-miles. Peak total energy won't be long. After that, terminal decline. Much of that can be compensated for by efficiency improvements but not all.

Southern California here. Brownouts occur every few months (to the point where some equipment resets; visible flicker in the light occurs every few days.)
We had a half day power failure a year or so ago and several hour long blackouts over a few weeks back in 2000 with the Enron fun.

If you have to ask...