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Who is the worst offender here (excluding "reasonable/expected" things like employers monitoring employees, parents monitoring their own kids, K-12 schools monitoring their own networks, etc.)?
* The United States government (NSA, etc.)
* The United States corporations (ISPs etc)
* China's government
* China's corporations (we'll pretend these aren't the government)
* Russia's government
* Russia's corporations (ditto)
* North Korea's government (it's all government there!)
* CowboyNeal, er, I mean Unknown Lamer**

**Notice: if you click here, well, you've been warned :)

So what?

So they can, maybe, possibly "mitigate" the issue for a very short time but every computer/router/device (hop) your data travels through on the internet can be, and probably is, monitored by the operator. Do you know who is operating the 5th hop or what they're doing with your data? Can you do anything about it even if you do? I'm not afraid of governments and foreigners and hackers, I'm afraid of private entities. The government and law enforcement can take care of most of your list but there is no law stopping Google, or linkdin or your ISP or any other private entity from stealing your ideas and data, in fact it is the law that if you use a business any information you give them belongs to them and is no longer considered private. I had to sign a waiver preventing my kids day care from using his image in their TV commercials for gawds sakes. No, the government(s) and hackers are not the problem and there is nothing that can be done about it. The problem is business big and small.

And encryption is the solution to your entire problem here, which is the reason strong and open encryption standards and reliable software is as important as any net neutrality bill will ever be.

Who is the worst offender here (excluding "reasonable/expected" things like employers monitoring employees, parents monitoring their own kids, K-12 schools monitoring their own networks, etc.)?
* The United States government (NSA, etc.)
* The United States corporations (ISPs etc)
* China's government
* China's corporations (we'll pretend these aren't the government)
* Russia's government
* Russia's corporations (ditto)
* North Korea's government (it's all government there!)
* CowboyNeal, er, I mean Unknown Lamer**

**Notice: if you click here, well, you've been warned :)

So what?

So they can, maybe, possibly "mitigate" the issue for a very short time but every computer/router/device (hop) your data travels through on the internet can be, and probably is, monitored by the operator. Do you know who is operating the 5th hop or what they're doing with your data? Can you do anything about it even if you do? I'm not afraid of governments and foreigners and hackers, I'm afraid of private entities. The government and law enforcement can take care of most of your list but there is no law stopping Google, or linkdin or your ISP or any other private entity from stealing your ideas and data, in fact it is the law that if you use a business any information you give them belongs to them and is no longer considered private. I had to sign a waiver preventing my kids day care from using his image in their TV commercials for gawds sakes. No, the government(s) and hackers are not the problem and there is nothing that can be done about it. The problem is business big and small.

Who is the worst offender here (excluding "reasonable/expected" things like employers monitoring employees, parents monitoring their own kids, K-12 schools monitoring their own networks, etc.)?
* The United States government (NSA, etc.)
* The United States corporations (ISPs etc)
* China's government
* China's corporations (we'll pretend these aren't the government)
* Russia's government
* Russia's corporations (ditto)
* North Korea's government (it's all government there!)
* CowboyNeal, er, I mean Unknown Lamer**

**Notice: if you click here, well, you've been warned :)

I noticed you seemed to be doing a lot of pretending with corporations. Seems you've overlooked one.

Perhaps once you view it that way, things will become a bit more obvious.

Who is the worst offender here (excluding "reasonable/expected" things like employers monitoring employees, parents monitoring their own kids, K-12 schools monitoring their own networks, etc.)?
* The United States government (NSA, etc.)
* The United States corporations (ISPs etc)
* China's government
* China's corporations (we'll pretend these aren't the government)
* Russia's government
* Russia's corporations (ditto)
* North Korea's government (it's all government there!)
* CowboyNeal, er, I mean Unknown Lamer**

**Notice: if you click here, well, you've been warned :)

Second class status? Works fine for me with an ancient xmms skin. About as well as xmms ever did at least.

Because there unfortunately are valid reasons that the links below the title in your parent post could possibly not be helpful enough here are two direct links, first to his homepage:
http://unknownlamer.org/muse/index.html
and second to his blog:
http://journal.unknownlamer.org/

This Anonymous Coward is just doing what Stephen Fry would have done :) (except without the steaming man sex lol).

Because there unfortunately are valid reasons that the links below the title in your parent post could possibly not be helpful enough here are two direct links, first to his homepage:
http://unknownlamer.org/muse/index.html
and second to his blog:
http://journal.unknownlamer.org/

This Anonymous Coward is just doing what Stephen Fry would have done :) (except without the steaming man sex lol).

I think "Bob" is winning the debate.

Since Window Maker has had pretty bad multi-display support, when I got a new laptop a summer or two ago I looked for replacements and discovered ... Sawfish is alive too. I'm using it now with xfce-panel and gnome-session (2.x since 3.x hates me) and it's pretty tolerable (supports all of the new window hints and session management stuff ... giving me something that's almost as reliable as what I had with Window Maker a decade ago). I really, really miss the dockapps though... the network and cpu monitors available nowadays blow and I've never really gotten over now having a dock app to control my music player ("media keys" get the job done but you get used to doing things a certain way when you've done them that way for a decade and all).

I can program, yes. I have a bit of code in the scripting layer of GLAME, some code in Guile (I rewrote format to be reentrant and submitted a fix or two for the slib module), and I maintain Bobot++.

I am not especially amazing at programming but I can do what I have to to get around. Perhaps you should read the Philosophy of the Free Software Foundation in order to understand why I say the ability to use a hardware gadget is convinience and not freedom.