On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:06:27AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Daniel Staal <[email protected]> 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.) > > 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,
. . . 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.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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