Been thinkin about Email security. Why don't more people sign and or encrypt their messages? Is it to expensive? Well, most S/MIME certificates do cost but you can get free ones from Thawte. Also gpg/pgp keys are free, you can make as many as you want. The software is also usally free so I doubt that cost is the problem. Well then it must be to dificult to use. Hmm, on windows it's usually just a matter of pressing a button or two and entering your password. On Linux however, it tends to be a bit more dificult. Few mail clients have integrated support for encryption which is required for S/MIME, gpg can get by without it. I know I don't use it for two reasons, my email progy doesn't suport it and most of my messages are to short for me to care.

Has anyone heard about the new LCD displays that have just been shown? After all these years they finally solved the viewing angle problem. I found it interesting that these displays were shown at the same show as the new OLED displays. The OLED displays don't have the viewing angle problem, supposedly use less power and have better image and color quality than LCD displays. From what I can tell once the OLED displays hit the market, and some cell phones are already using them, it will be the begining of the end for LCD displays. They're even talking about replacing TVs once they get the lifetime up to about 50,000 hours.

Waht did I ever do before SlashDot.
Here's another one Slashdot | Capture MPEG From TiVo. There's also mention of an ethernet hardware hack. There's certainly been a lot of talk about this being used for piracy. At least some people have finally pointed out that the pirates won't use this, it's too much trouble. They'll just use existing MPEG 2 encoders for their PCs, it's cheaper and more reliable.

Ah here's some good news from Slashdot | Mozilla 0.9.1 Out. Looks like I'll have to get a couple of these, on efor winbloze one for Linux. Now if they would just get that PGP/GPG support into it...

Oops, looks like I was wrong about Prof. Felten not hiting that SDMI click through, still... Just saw this on Slashdot | EFF Files First Anti-DMCA Lawsuit. If anyone read my previous rant about SDMI, well the EFF has gotten involved on behalf of Prof. Felten. Maybe we'll get lucky and some of this DMCA mess will be cleaned up.
Nahhhh, probably not.