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It's kinda cool that they're doing this, if not for anything else than to raise awareness about PGP.

That being said, I'm trying my best, and coming up short, in figuring out what problem this would solve...

To me, it's not the money that's the issue.

I just learned about elementary today, and when I'm presented with the main landing page, I feel that it is being very dishonest in what it is actually selling me. I'm not arguing the value of your work, but I feel that the whole product is very conscious about not mentioning Linux, Ubuntu etc.

Give me a proper explanation about what you (the group of people) are doing that brings value. Tell me what your work is based upon. Tell me it is free (as in speech, and as in beer), and let me make a informed decision if I feel this is something I want to pay for.

They do, though...

Interesting read. Maybe I've been living under a rock, but this is the first I've heard about elementary.

Though, not directly related to their payment model, I wish they would more clearly state that they're a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. I couldn't "quickly" find any info on it anywhere on their site, so I had to find out from Wikipedia. I guess this has something to do with their target audience, and the way the sell this as an alternative to Windows or OS X.

Somewhat related to their payment model, I would very much like to see them contribute some of what they're making back to Ubuntu/Debian, if they don't already.

Facetiousness aside, both what he _actually_ said (in other words, the notes about storage temperature), and who is saying this should be noted.

With or without illustration, really enjoyed the write up.

Also fun to think about what would happen if you plot the value that is represented by the "mm^2" over time, and do an integration of the plotted graph. You somehow end up with a volume, or total fuel consumption over the period you integrate over.

Unit cancellation is cool stuff.

The illustration at the bottom of this[0] xkcd "what if?" illustrates this pretty well.

[0]: http://what-if.xkcd.com/11/

Direct link: http://hackernews.demos.monkeylearn.com/

Personally, I don't really see a reason for the chart. It would be nice to have a way to disable it.

Absolutely. I would be a huge improvement.

I'm thinking more in the lines of stopping three-letter agencies from doing MITM. I don't know if it's actually possible to prove the integrity of the root nodes.

There's a few things I believe would really help getting DANE rolled out.

As far as I know, there's really no "out of the box" validation for end users. The web browsers will have to make the validation, or failed validation, visible for people to care enough to implement it.

Although DNSSEC is becoming more and more commonplace, it still seems that in a lot of places, you'll have to throw up your own DNS-server to be able to use it. Make it simpler to implement, and you'll probably see a lot more people starting to use it.

Also, just to clarify, DANE doesn't _solve_ the CA-problem. You're now putting all your trust into it being hard to both issue a valid certificate and compromise the DNS chain.

I was really confused about what this site had to do with mosh, the mobile shell[1]. It seems the answer is nothing, if anyone else was wondering.

[1]: https://mosh.mit.edu/

"NXP 11U37 microcontroller; 128 kB flash, 10kB SRAM" [1]

Does anyone have an idea of what this is used for?

[1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown...

Though a bit off topic, the tech behind the swiss railway clock [1] might be of interest to anyone that hasn't read about it.

I escpecially enjoy this "low tech" approach to clock synchronization:

> The second hand is driven by an electrical motor independent of the master clock.

> It requires only about 58.5 seconds to circle the face, then the hand pauses briefly at the top of the clock.

> It starts a new rotation as soon as it receives the next minute impulse from the master clock

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock#Technology

I've not looked into the technical side of this type of request, and it probably makes sense, but it's of interest to not that this also produces my local IP addresses when accessing the site over an ssh-ed SOCKS-proxy.

Indeed.. I actually had to do some research to convince of me otherwise [1].

It could still be parody though, even though they actually sell this stuff... :P

[1]: http://www.thecableco.com/Manufacturer/Shakti-Innovations

How so? Genuine answer.

I fail to see what this offers that the other products in this space doesn't have. At least hardware-wise.

The Economist[1] had a story about the London Stock Exchange getting jammed GPS-signal 10 minutes every day. I believe they are using something similar.

[1]: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21582288-satelli...

After I wrote my comment, I actually came to the realization that there probably is some "ssh agent" equivalent out there.

This sounds very much like what I would want, yes!

I really wish I wouldn't have to store the private key together with a browser extension I don't trust (no offense to the author(s)).

It would be amazing if Windows, Mac and Linux all would support some sort of "safe" gpg/pgp storage. I don't remember if I'm making this up, but i believe the OS X keyring can do this. There really should be no reason why every application should roll their own storage and interaction of the private key.

Only if you have safe search turned off.

Spooky.

Seeing as the error happened on the same place each time, it might sound like you were getting errors that didn't _always_ get caught by the checksum algorithm (i.e the error "happened" to match the checksum) (maybe).

Sounds like another good reason to do separate checksumming of files after download (read: sha1/md5).

I seem to have the same issue with Chrome on Windows.

Chrome[1] seems to not do any anti-aliasing, as opposed to Firefox[2].

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/ZgoB9Nn.png

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/XWsEMXv.png

Though an interesting concept, from an engineering perspective, this sounds like a horribly bad idea.

Also, the project page doesn't seem to clearly get across how incredibly early stage it is. Their 8ft small scale robot arm is still conceptual...

Nice writeup, I think your conclusion is pretty spot on. People neglect to buy insurance, don't back up data, and ignore safety margins. Why would they start timestamping their files.

That being said, I really like how the service worked. If I understand it correctly, I would download the signed work (signed .exe with content included), which also means that I would have proof after the service got shut down.

I understand that this concept has the upside of not having to trust a central authority, but is this really any better than trusted timestamping[0], at least from a legal perspective?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

I'm really not trying to troll here, but what then of military attacks on civilian targets?

Though I would necessarily say it's that simple, the article kinda seem to end up with a similar conclusion

> So, there’s no hard and fast evidence yet that we should be eating like cavepeople. It is of course unhealthy to eat a diet which mainly consists of highly processed foods like white bread and sugary cereals, but this doesn’t mean that all dairy products and grains need to be avoided unless you have a specific problem with them.

Ah.. Help text should really be updated.

Excellent question.

From what I can see, this section, deep in the FAQ more or less describes it.

> When you download stylesheets generated with Strapfork they become yours. For ever. The development time is the time span when you can still make changes to the theme through Strapfrok's visual interface and use the CSS hotlink.

So, if I read this right, you basically buy a theme. I don't really see what they add of value.

Agreed.

Interesting to see that it doesn't work the same the other way.

> When you need to tell me about a problem in a plan, please do not start with a long apology. That is unbearably boring