http://orwellian.org/docs/Cryptography_Manifesto.txt

* The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
*
* Infested by moles and potential defectors for more than twelve of its
* first fifteen years, NSA managed the distinction of not only becoming
* the most secretive and most hidden member of America's growing
* intelligence consortium, but also the most thoroughly penetrated.
*
*
*
* The NSA began a McCarthy-type purge, and dozens of NSA employees
* suspected of homosexuality were forced to resign or were fired.
*
* Since then, any hint of homosexual behaviour resulted in either
* the person's not being hired or, if the fact is revealed later,
* being forced to resign.
*
* Any man exhibiting the slightest effeminacy became an instant suspect.
* The Office of Security was on full alert for limp wrists and telltale
* lisps.
*
* During his security clearance polygraph test, Mitchell told his
* interrogator about certain "sexual experimentation" with dogs
* and chickens he had done when he was between the ages of thirteen
* and nineteen.
*
* The Agency's Office of Security thought about it for a week, then issued
* him his security clearance to work at the National Security Agency.

I take it you were wrong to claim most cards do this automatically.

I would be glad to add the info of other cards automatically changing between low and full power to my blog. Please specify a make and model. Thanks.

I'm building my first PeeCee and chose a decent card to drive two screens: the Saphire Radeon 4830. On my site, grandscheme, I say:

When the card's Microsoft DirectX 10.1 or OpenGL API is not asked to drive 3-D graphics, the Saphire card automatically uses a low power mode. It doesn't take much to drive two regular screens. Text and icons and Pong and Photoshop are nothing. If the card is used for gen'ing video, then it'll start firing on all cylinders again.

“Clock speeds in 3D mode are the exact same as the reference Radeon 4830's clock speeds, which are 575 MHz core and 900 MHz memory. Interestingly, Saphire chose very low clock speeds in 2D mode to save power and reduce heat, with only 160 MHz for the core and 250 MHz for the memory.”

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I'm not sure what the watt savings are, but I'm not a gamer, albeit I am a renderer sometimes for clips from TV. Most of the time I'll be in low power mode: it's green.

Mr. Ulevitch,

Your response is not yet of sufficient detail to be believeable.

Before I get into that, I'll note that when I tried your DNS on by box, I did an ethernet trace and found my local 196.168.*.* IPs where being looked up on your
service. Apparently I need to run my own BIND to avoid that.

https://www.opendns.com/smb/start/device/apple-osx-leopard
# just add our DNS IPs as your resolver

I consider it a security hazard for my intranet addresses to be looked up on an outside DNS. Nowhere do you warn people of this unexpected behaviour. "Just add us." There's no mention of one's opting in to your proxies or DNS intercepts at the point of the directions to "just add us." Why don't you fix that? We have privacy protections in law with our onramp ISP, but not with your service.

" Do you like advertising with your DNS?
    OpenDNS result:"

# You tried to visit 208.67.217.132, which is not loading.
#
# OpenDNS Guide [search box]
#
# Refine Your Search
#
# Real Estate
# Apartment for Rent
# Personals
# Cheap Airfare
# Vacation Packages
# Vegas Vacation
# Cancun Hotel
# New Cars
# Hybrid Cars
# Digital Cameras

" Real classy. (not)"

I find it hard to believe your business model makes money via your search page.

Prove it: break down your company's costs and income.

What else?

http://www.opendns.com/privacy/
#
# We are affiliated with a variety of businesses and
# work closely with them in order to provide our services
# to users. We will only share personal information with
# affiliates to the extent that is necessary for such
# affiliates to provide the services. For example, when
# a website visitor searches on OpenDNS, the IP address
# and query are shared with OpenDNS's advertising partners.

Who are your advertising partners, Mr. Ulevitch?
Which domains/IPs/anything else are you intercepting to proxy?

I find the wording "We will only share personal information" is probably designed to mislead the public as to what is really happening. People have probably seen ads on pages that use their name right in the ad, and this happens because the ad was a cgi retrieval from say Yahoo! and so it gets your Yahoo! cookie, which is how it returned a personalized ad.

If you proxy to Google, are you passing the user's Google cookies through your proxy? Is there anything in your TOS limiting you from passing those cookies and the URL (with the search query) to your other "affiliates?" The cookies may not include "personal information", but the cross-pollination available is similar to what happens with "deep-packet inspection" advertising.

Which major search engines and advertisers are you "affiliated" with, meaning you _do_ log and pass data to them (IP/search URL/cookies)?

If Google an affiliate? Is Yahoo!? MSN?

Tell us who your affiliates are and what information they receive and under what circumstances.

Or have you pre-explained not answering by postulating you are just feeding the trolls?