Re: VOIP over Wi-Fi subject to eavesdropping?

CyberDroog <CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:05:05 -0800, floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson)
>wrote:
>
>>If posters want to be taken seriously by anyone, today or
>>tomorrow, they need to write for an audience that includes "your
>>*grandchildren*", and that is true for people who are 15 years
>>old just as well as it is for people who a childless at 85 years
>>of age.
>
>Wouldn't that kind of ruin the stew? It's like going out on a first date
>having pre-conceived every line you will speak so that you make a good

You do not need to "pre-conceive" every line before the date
starts. But *thinking* before talking is clearly a good idea on
first dates as well as in Usenet posts.

>impression. That is perhaps useful as a means to an end, but rarely
>anything approaching the truth. Maybe our descendents would prefer a more
>realistic view of us just being ourselves.

If the "real you" spouts off without thinking, go for it! ;-)

>Sometimes I wish we had some stories of America's founding fathers getting
>soused and falling off their horses. Not that I believe that having myths
>and legends is necessarily bad. But would we value the Declaration of
>Independence any less if we were to find out that Thomas Jefferson was
>wearing a dress and six petticoats when he wrote it?

Why not? J Edgar Hoover was wearing something like that when
he made the FBI into a legend...

>I don't think so. In fact that would really kind of drive home the concept
>of the individuals right to pursue happiness.
>
>Thomas Jefferson - a hell of a guy, and my kind of woman...

Well, apparently several Presidents felt somewhat that way about
Hoover too.

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Floyd L. Davidson            <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@apaflo.com