Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 15:34:13 CST 2007
Speaking of rants, it irritates the hail out of me when people incorrectly use "it's" when they intended "its". There is a very simple rule here: "it's" is a contraction of "it is", as in "it's raining cats and dogs and there are poodles all over." "Its", on the other hand, is a possessive pronoun of neutral gender, as in "Despite its intentions, China was unable to confine its populace to having merely one child per family." That said, I do find your essay on encryption and the lack thereof interesting. As it happens, I am taking a course on Techniques of Encryption now. The last time I did anything meaningful in this area was pre-DES, so I have a fair amount of catching up to do. A. On 12/10/07, Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com> wrote: > > Of course, if I found a laptop, I would return it to it's owner...