hannibal5

Precisely my point. This is localized catastrophe. For us, it has less effect than car accident happening to our neighbor.

Because the people who died were poor, this accident adds net positive emotional entertainment value to the life of typical consumer.

To put things into context. 1.3 million people die and 50 million people are injured in car accidents every year.

Nature disasters are just side show in human life at this point.

Apple has more subtle canary. Yours is totally obvious.

The court will consider intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary and has no other function, the case is clear.

Your canary has clearly only one purpose: revealing the warrant while thinking you are smartass and get away with it.

The court will take into account intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary, it can be seen as violation of gag order.

1. You don't get it integrated with your applications like browser, email software, text editor or spreadsheet by default. This leads to network effect in reverse. if you are only person to use it within your circles, signing and encrypting data and messages you send to others can't be done.

2. Encryption is extra risk for your data. If you lose the keys, you lose the data. People are bad at backing up their data, why they would be better at managing their keys? Being sloppy with your keys means that somebody can impersonate you with more credibility (what if banks would accepting PGP singed orders in email)

3. Value from widely used PGP happens mostly in society level. Encrypting any particular piece of data has negative expected value in most cases.

4. Using PGP requires understanding the basic concepts and using it well is not that easy (lots of pest practices). People don't know any of this stuff. Even public and private key is far out concept for most people.

Mikko is on fire :)

Sweden has acquired much more wealth since 60's than before. Something like 600 times more.

If you look at multiple indexes that rank countries by competitiveness, low corruption and infrastructure, Sweden and other Nordic countries are usually in top 10.

If you think countries as companies, they would be like business parks. You can compete with low price or good infrastructure. Sweden is Google of countries. It provides highly educated people, good infrastructure, safety and low corruption with higher price. This will inevitability drive out low margin industries that rely on cheap labour but it will be good environment for high- and middle-tech companies.

This is solving the problem in the wrong place. The proper way for OS is to treat filenames as binary sequences like Linux does and have no problems.

The problems that arise elsewhere should be solved elsewhere.

Still not profitable. It's good idea for Nokia to get out. MS has the money to burn.

There was long main article in the Economist about housing bubble few years before the bubble bursted. I remember reading it and being somewhat worried because arguments were convincing. I then forgot it because it was not in other news.

It would be nice to find it again. The issue in question had picture of green? man/gigant weighted down with heavy weights.

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell

No shit sherlock. US has been in liquidity trap half a decade. There is need for inflation or it turns into decade.