From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 14:26:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACA21065748 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10C368FC12 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27025 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jul 2011 14:26:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 2011 14:26:48 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=iBddOxXHdJilyzzqu/LLaJAU315Ybt2/LciqY+xmyTQ6rAAJfxOkIngLhp/gptDJaju+e5CY3OEC/re3YpmbswCR6noSEbnJruVpyNiIOxtWl+GarAKfHpP3otaPAmhN; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjuD9-0003Yx-Fv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:26:48 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:10:06 -0600 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:10:06 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110721141006.GB59455@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <375e5bcac1acd4b781ef97bd1718e689.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <4e281643.myUOEctQW3oiM7+S%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4e281643.myUOEctQW3oiM7+S%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:26:49 -0000 --7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:06:27AM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Daniel Staal wrote: > > > > The perfect computing device would fit in a pocket, have a screen the > > size of your wall, have a full (and full-sized) keyboard, and your > > choice of pointing devices. It would be able to play any game you > > wanted to play, hold every movie and song ever recorded along with > > your entire lifetime's collection of documents, and be able to access > > the Internet from anywhere. It would only need to be recharged as > > often as you sleep. (And would be able to recharge anywhere.) >=20 > It would also be fully encrypted and keyed to your fingerprint or > retinal scan, so that no thief would be able to extract anything from > it, =2E . . unless he took your thumb or eyeball. > > and the encrypted files would be backed up automatically whenever it > was recharged to guard against data loss in case of loss, theft, > damage, malfunction, etc. Ahhh, good call. Of course, I'd probably prefer near-realtime versioned backups via DVCS to an encrypted repository over the network. (Sorry about accidentally sending an email to you off-list first; I meant to send it to the list in the first place.) --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4oMz4ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVIGgCgwYvmbt5XrLCqTz/+sl8ociRb nSUAoMQQjz2s96kdZrk5+uXsTXbR8V8/ =L6WA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2--