Exactly my goal as well.

This will only reduce Signal's adoption outside of the community of "privacy enthusiasts". That makes it less valuable to me and I'll probably mostly stop using it as I'll have another app that "talks to everyone" in place.

Very disappointed in this decision by Signal.

Its been less than a day and they've already got 115,000 pre-orders, for a car that wont be delivered for another year. Given that you have to put down $1000 to pre-order, those aren't idle orders either. Seems your estimate of 50,000 vehicles MAX is a bit off.

Even if that were true (and I'd argue it isn't), the attacks also wouldn't have happened without long distance communications. So lets just get rid of them as well in the name of security, up to and including postal mail.

What? You say that long distance communications have an intrinsic utility that vastly dwarfs their occasional role in illegal behavior? You don't say.

That's not really IA's fault. It's the fault of our copyright regime.

"Never" is a very long time.

I don't think it is likely that humans will go beyond Mars in my lifetime (say the next 50 years or so), but never? Claiming that is just hubris. There is no way to state this with any degree of surety.

It is not a stretch beyond credibility to assume that humanity may be around for a few thousand years yet. Given all we've done in just the last 200 years, almost anything is possible given another 2000 years.

It is when you consider that you're paying that for every member of faculty and every student. Not just those in the linguistic department. Those other departments need their own subscriptions. Before you know, you're spending tens - even hundreds - of thousands of dollars on subscriptions.

Given that the publisher doesn't pay for the articles, the peer review or the editing (for the most part), it does raise the question, what exactly is being paid for via those subscriptions.

You are forgetting about the cost of leasing/renting. Yes, if you can either pay 500 dollars now or pay 50 dollars a month for 10 months, you are better off with the latter. But that is almost never the case. It is more likely to be 50 dollars a month for a year (600 dollars total). You pay more to pay later.

Of course, in some cases, as with American cell phone contract (at least until recently,) the two options are rigged so that the monthly plan is equally cheap or even cheaper. This is usually done by conflating it with some kind of service and/or erecting hurdles to outright ownership.

I agree 16:10 is a much better aspect ratio for computer work than the "TV" 16:9 that currently dominates.

And you can still get 16:10 aspect ratio monitors. They're just all in 1920x1200 (which is better anyway).

Here is the first hit for that aspect ratio on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

There are many more.

Unfortunately, 16:10 isn't available at any higher DPIs :(