"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
I thought it was intended to be darkly ironic, reflecting an awareness of the privileges that the poor in africa don't have. It was an ugly truth, but censoring her for saying it doesn't help anyone except people who would rather pretend that aids in africa isn't a problem that lines up with race and economic status. She wasn't saying that aids is a disease for black people, she was saying that too many black people don't have access to the resources to protect themselves.
Compare this to the Duck Dynasty thing where the guy really had no sense of irony, the surface meaning of his words was the intended meaning.
Fully agree. PR professionals are well aware of social status and privilege, and she assumed her followers (probably other PR professionals) would get that joke as well. Her previous posts also indicate awareness of her status, and uses the same type of dark irony as well, like what you would get from Borat or Ali G.
To me, this is more telling of the lack of intelligence and insight by the general public than anything else.
The important thing about this project is that it shows how expensive 3-D printing actually would be in a commercial grade product with reliability requirements.
This is very different from the mushy jello that consumer 3-D printing makes.
So glad Jony Ive took over form the imbecile geeks that didn't know anything about design. Pre-iOS 7 was some of the worst graphic design of any system. Just completely terrible. iOS 7 is much better and cleaner now.
It's following the trend of the clean UI, which all websites are moving towards now.
iOS 6 and below actually had gradients, which is a no-no. Adults should never use color gradients in anything.
NEVER let a computer geek design a UI. You need an actual artist to do design. A good designer know what a user wants more than the users themselves. Eventually, the geeks and their love of skeumorphic interface will get over it.
Hopefully they'll fix Mac OS X and get rid of the stupid buttons and gradients and textures. How awfully 90's. Mac OS X needs to get with the times and fix their design like they did with iOS 7.
The best thing for civil libertarians to do is to just get off the internet entirely.
Or do you guys complain every time you visit someone else's house?
This is the big problem with all these narcissistic individuals - they think they own the world because they think too highly of themselves.
When the Internet was created, everyone knew you didn't have privacy on it, since anyone could read everybody else's mail spool.
Somehow all these losers started invading the internet, decided to become comfortable within it, and they never got the memo that the Internet wasn't a private communications system.
We need to get these losers off the Internet. This is best for them.
I agree. The wage disparity is a symptom, not the cause.
The cause of all the problems is that poor people are discouraged from moving up the economic ladder because they have to worry about basic survival in the first place. Wealthy people don't have that problem to worry about - they have their parent's trust fund to live off or house to live in without worrying about rent, or they have well established network of connections to enable them to move up economically. Maybe they were able to pay for college and have a group of friends to approach for business investing, etc..
The proper solution would be a negative income tax or a guaranteed minimum income, which was also proposed in Switzerland, with government providing a level of basic services (health care, higher education, etc..) that allows poor people to afford pursuing higher economic endeavors and luxuries without worrying abut survival.
Socialism should be used for the necessities of life. Capitalism should be used for the luxuries of life.
No, Google is a less restrained than government. Google can limit your life a lot more than the NSA can.
The government has limits given to it by the constitution and laws. The NSA, by law, can't even enforce laws in the US, since it's a military organization and the Posse Comitatus act prevents the military from enforcing US laws. That's why the NSA could only tap foreign data centers, which is perfectly fine.
If foreigners didn't want to be tapped by the US, perhaps they should have done a better job of inventing the Internet.
Additionally, not only does Google have no such limit, they have access to governmental resources as well. The same authoritarian fears you have about Google exist with the government.
Really, in the side of Government vs. Corporation, the only side that represents YOU is Government. We liberal socialists know this key fact, and use that to our advantage. We treat government as part of us, and make it work for us.
Libertarians make the mistake of disassociating themselves from government, which is funny considering that government teaches you language, provides the roads you drive on, delivers your mail, and literally makes sure the air you breathe is safe.
We liberal socialists use government to limit the power of Corporations.
Without government, Corporations would, literally, have you as slaves.
Don't make the basic libertarian mistake of disassociating yourself from government. Libertarianism really is a sign of weakness, and only the poorest people are libertarians in this world.
Smart, richer, powerful people are always socialist liberals.
You libertarians only operate on the possibility of doing what you want. ("Freedom! Liberty!")
We liberal socialists actually do what we want.
Freedom and liberty are useless concepts if it doesn't actually provide you with results, such as health care.
Do not be on the side of the weak libertarians, that live in the land of theory.
Be on the side of actual, tangible results.
Basically at this point no adult should EVER be a libertarian. You might as well say you're a dumbass in public.
they would do what advertisers demand. That is Facebook's customers, after all, and where 100% of their revenue comes from.
It seems Facebook is going to learn the hard way that advertisers don't particularly want their brand name right next to a decapitation video.
Really, any advertising-based brand is going to learn the hard way that user-generated content is complete garbage. Ultimately they will ALL be removed, since no advertiser is interested in placing their brand next to a decapitation video or next to a photo of your college friend throwing up.
The real lesson is: There is no reason for any company to allow individuals to express themselves. Individual voices must be silenced in media, in favor of more advertiser friendly views.
Professional media companies know this already - the power of information filterers, editors, and gatekeepers. Professional media companies learned long ago that the average person should never be given a voice, and only the most talented should, after going through a painful vetting process. Editors at media companies spend YEARS perfecting their voice through internships and other voiceless activities.
Amateur media companies like Facebook and YouTube are just finding out how useless they are.
Eventually these amateur media companies will silence individual voices in favor of more professional ones.
The cable companies are killing themselves. I've been OTA for years, 400 channels but I might want to watch six of them and you want $80? Are you insane?
I'd probably watch more channels if there was a better GUIDE to organize & access the programs.
Right now I have a random list of 1000 channels with no sense of order. It's extremely inefficient going through channels in whatever random order they are. There's no hierarchy or structure.
In my Verizon FIOS, why are HD channels in the 500+ range and regular channels elsewhere? Why are there even non-HD channels?
The guide should be more programming based, like Netflix, instead of channel based. I'd probably watch more channels that way, but right now I can't even find what's interesting.
My guess is if Apple has anything to do with it for cable TV programming, they'd attack this Guide problem.
I guess you missed all the leaks which revealed that oversight worked?
I'm amazed at how little snooping of American citizens were going on. There was a number in the press that about 50,000 emails of US citizens were mistakenly collected.
I have 50,000 unread emails in my inbox alone.
So, the NSA's surveillance program is robust enough that, out of 300 million people, they had an oversight margin-of-error of 1 person.
That's it.
This is how a proper government surveillance programs are SUPPOSED to work - filled with both technical and legal checks and balances.
And remember, government surveillance is a good thing. We need to make sure libertarians understand that. Government surveillance enables a stronger government, which is always a good, since a big government is better than a small government.
NOBODY wants a small government. A small government results in Somalia. Everybody wants a strong, socialist government, instead.
A strong, socialist government produces much better results, resulting in a stronger, richer population.
Just look at how Reaganomics destroyed America. It is these Republican principles that caused such economic disparity in America, because they weakened government.
We need to make sure we undo all the work that the Reagan Republicans did.
They really did bring about a revolution in photography. At this point dSLRs should only be used by professionals, as image quality is far less important than image usability via social media sharing.
A dSLR camera is useless if no one sees your photos.
No artist wants to give away their work without some payback. This could be money, or even bartering for other art, the way Eddie Van Halen did Michael Jackson's guitar solo in 'Beat It' for free, because they both respect each other's creation.
Piracy just doesn't add any value to society at all... it just turns people into mindless consumerist zombies addicted to artistic consumption, without producing any art in return.
These days, we just have millions of leeches that download without returning any sort of value.
Even the early BBSs had an upload to download ratio requirement.
The worst part is that people haven't figured out that's it's perfectly fine NOT to watch a movie, listen to music, or play a game they didn't pay for. It's as if these consumers feel entitled to feed their consumerist addiction.
"Inside a room on the top floor of the William McChesney Martin, Jr. building, Fed officials instructed reporters not to send information about that decision to the outside world before precisely 2 p.m. as measured by the national atomic clock in Colorado.
The doors were locked at 1:45 p.m., and Fed staffers handed out copies of the statement at 1:50 p.m., allowing reporters a few minutes to digest the complicated document before reporting on its contents. At 1:58 p.m. television reporters were escorted out of the room to a balcony where cameras had been prepositioned. The Fed's security rules dictated that television reporters were not allowed to speak before precisely 2 p.m. Print reporters were told they were allowed to open a phone line to their editors at headquarters offices a few moments in advance of the hour, but not allowed to interact with people on the other end of the line until exactly two p.m."
So many hacked communications channels are still possible from this. The print writers can signal the editors when making phone calls before 2pm, without talking to them. For example, the editor can instruct the reporter to call them on landline if it's a sell, or his mobile number if it's a buy. The TV reporter can wear a jacket if it's a sell, or remove it if it's a buy, so someone across the building can monitor the balcony for pre-release signals... etc.
Also, from the http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html: "It wasn't just gold. It was everything that traded. In fact, the 1/100th of a second after 2pm was the most active 10 milliseconds in the history of the U.S. Stock an Futures markets."
This was a major, major hack, and they waited as late as they could wait, without signaling their competitors.
Actually no. NAND Flash (the high-density type that smart phones use) is read sequentially from rows on die. It's not read randomly at all like DRAM or SRAM. You have to read a whole row of data to get the bit you want, like a disk-drive.
Apple is most likely going to introduce a system where the display is iOS like an iPad, and the rest of the system is Mac.
There are several options on how they can do this. They can have a separate machine on the display, with ARM/Memory, to keep main CPU powered off when not in use. They could have everything operate from a single x86 cpu like a laptop. They could have both ARM/x86 CPU's sharing a common memory, and so on.
Eventually they will merge, but whatever they do they will have the experience of Windows 8's failures/success to build upon.
your metadata was never private. IP headers are public. Do you know how many people get to see your IP headers as it travels across the internet?
Libertarians need to give up liberty. You never had freedom in any society where you weren't the highest power. You were victimized by the "America is free" lie that you were taught as a child. Ha ha. Smart people always knew you never had freedom.
It is disgustingly narcissistic to assume you had these rights, and libertarians are the most narcissistic members of society, always about "me, me, me!"
You don't get what you want in society, since you have minimal rights and powers. You are only allowed what the rest of society decide for you, and the rest of society couldn't care less about your metadata rights.
not to mention international law (pardoning the Bush administration for war crimes, torture, etc.)
It's bad form to attack previous administrations. The goal of every administration is to move forward, and not focus on the past. The last thing any administration wants to do is put a previous administration in the news and give them any attention. You don't even MENTION the previous administration, and erase them from history.
The fault is in the American public in electing the previous administration in the first place, and when you move forward, you fix the source of the problem by fixing the public's attention.
One solution at hand are darknets - awesome and uncensorable (but slow, though that is the price)
Will never gain traction. The public will always choose "easy-to-use" over "secure". The public doesn't care about high-grade security, since nothing they do is important enough to secure from government anyways. Do you really think people are going to spend the effort to secure their fantasy-football emails?
Also, you have people like me that fully support the NSA's collection of metadata on American citizens, since metadata isn't private, and was never supposed to be. How many dozens of organizations get to see your IP headers as it travels across the internet? That settles that question.
And as far as interceptions of actual communications of foreign nationals? Fuck 'em. They probably should have done a better job of inventing the internet and computer technology. The Internet is a US product, and in particular, the US military invented it anyways. Foreign nationals get a nice cup of Shut-The-Fuck-Up about any complaints they may have about modern computing and the Internet and the US government's dominance over it.
I seriously don't get the complaints people have about the internet. You are guests in someone else's house, so you get to play by their rules. Sucks to be you.
Invent something else that's not the Internet then, preferably something that has far less overall systematic latency.
Your best bet is to get off the computer entirely. Maybe start a fashion brand? Maybe go outside and take a walk? Graphics outside are so much better than graphics on your computer anyways.
So do you want the NSA to break Syria's encryption about their chemical weapons attacks?
Or do you prefer we not know that the Syrian government uses chemical weapons to kill civilian populations, affecting public policy?
Which social contract would you prefer government to break? the "Government shouldn't know private activities of foreign governments" or "Government shouldn't allow foreign governments to kill civilians"?
If your privacy is important, then you think that means your government shouldn't monitor foreign communications, correct? And that means you think it's ok for foreign governments to kill civilians as they please? And if you think foreign governments should be allowed to kill civilians, then I guess you don't donate to charity either? Why would you want to help other people, after all?
You can pick either charity or privacy, but you can't have both. Sorry. That's because bad guys have power, and you need more power to overcome those bad guys for the purposes of charity.
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For those who didn't RTFA, her tweet said:
"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
I thought it was intended to be darkly ironic, reflecting an awareness of the privileges that the poor in africa don't have. It was an ugly truth, but censoring her for saying it doesn't help anyone except people who would rather pretend that aids in africa isn't a problem that lines up with race and economic status. She wasn't saying that aids is a disease for black people, she was saying that too many black people don't have access to the resources to protect themselves.
Compare this to the Duck Dynasty thing where the guy really had no sense of irony, the surface meaning of his words was the intended meaning.
Fully agree. PR professionals are well aware of social status and privilege, and she assumed her followers (probably other PR professionals) would get that joke as well. Her previous posts also indicate awareness of her status, and uses the same type of dark irony as well, like what you would get from Borat or Ali G.
To me, this is more telling of the lack of intelligence and insight by the general public than anything else.
The important thing about this project is that it shows how expensive 3-D printing actually would be in a commercial grade product with reliability requirements.
This is very different from the mushy jello that consumer 3-D printing makes.
No. Most people think iOS 7 is much better looking.
And, no, nobody in the Linux world has ever designed anything usable. Kill Linux with fire already.
So glad Jony Ive took over form the imbecile geeks that didn't know anything about design. Pre-iOS 7 was some of the worst graphic design of any system. Just completely terrible. iOS 7 is much better and cleaner now.
It's following the trend of the clean UI, which all websites are moving towards now.
iOS 6 and below actually had gradients, which is a no-no. Adults should never use color gradients in anything.
NEVER let a computer geek design a UI. You need an actual artist to do design. A good designer know what a user wants more than the users themselves. Eventually, the geeks and their love of skeumorphic interface will get over it.
Hopefully they'll fix Mac OS X and get rid of the stupid buttons and gradients and textures. How awfully 90's. Mac OS X needs to get with the times and fix their design like they did with iOS 7.
The internet isn't yours.
It is theirs.
The best thing for civil libertarians to do is to just get off the internet entirely.
Or do you guys complain every time you visit someone else's house?
This is the big problem with all these narcissistic individuals - they think they own the world because they think too highly of themselves.
When the Internet was created, everyone knew you didn't have privacy on it, since anyone could read everybody else's mail spool.
Somehow all these losers started invading the internet, decided to become comfortable within it, and they never got the memo that the Internet wasn't a private communications system.
We need to get these losers off the Internet. This is best for them.
It's also best for the Internet.
I agree. The wage disparity is a symptom, not the cause.
The cause of all the problems is that poor people are discouraged from moving up the economic ladder because they have to worry about basic survival in the first place. Wealthy people don't have that problem to worry about - they have their parent's trust fund to live off or house to live in without worrying about rent, or they have well established network of connections to enable them to move up economically. Maybe they were able to pay for college and have a group of friends to approach for business investing, etc..
The proper solution would be a negative income tax or a guaranteed minimum income, which was also proposed in Switzerland, with government providing a level of basic services (health care, higher education, etc..) that allows poor people to afford pursuing higher economic endeavors and luxuries without worrying abut survival.
Socialism should be used for the necessities of life. Capitalism should be used for the luxuries of life.
And how do clams know about "age" in the first place?
wut?
Those with power, will do whatever it takes to maintain it.
That's how it's always been.
The best part? It's perfectly fine. I certainly don't want a world where everyone is equalized.
In life, you're SUPPOSED to struggle, which makes it all worth it.
Suck it every other country in the world.
And suck it traitors to America, like Edward Snowden and all the 12 year old libertarians nerds - your theories are terrible.
But seriously, why can't any other country pick up their pace in tech innovation? What's up with that?
Does Oracle have any successful projects?
No, Google is a less restrained than government. Google can limit your life a lot more than the NSA can.
The government has limits given to it by the constitution and laws. The NSA, by law, can't even enforce laws in the US, since it's a military organization and the Posse Comitatus act prevents the military from enforcing US laws. That's why the NSA could only tap foreign data centers, which is perfectly fine.
If foreigners didn't want to be tapped by the US, perhaps they should have done a better job of inventing the Internet.
Additionally, not only does Google have no such limit, they have access to governmental resources as well. The same authoritarian fears you have about Google exist with the government.
Really, in the side of Government vs. Corporation, the only side that represents YOU is Government. We liberal socialists know this key fact, and use that to our advantage. We treat government as part of us, and make it work for us.
Libertarians make the mistake of disassociating themselves from government, which is funny considering that government teaches you language, provides the roads you drive on, delivers your mail, and literally makes sure the air you breathe is safe.
We liberal socialists use government to limit the power of Corporations.
Without government, Corporations would, literally, have you as slaves.
Don't make the basic libertarian mistake of disassociating yourself from government. Libertarianism really is a sign of weakness, and only the poorest people are libertarians in this world.
Smart, richer, powerful people are always socialist liberals.
You libertarians only operate on the possibility of doing what you want. ("Freedom! Liberty!")
We liberal socialists actually do what we want.
Freedom and liberty are useless concepts if it doesn't actually provide you with results, such as health care.
Do not be on the side of the weak libertarians, that live in the land of theory.
Be on the side of actual, tangible results.
Basically at this point no adult should EVER be a libertarian. You might as well say you're a dumbass in public.
they would do what advertisers demand. That is Facebook's customers, after all, and where 100% of their revenue comes from.
It seems Facebook is going to learn the hard way that advertisers don't particularly want their brand name right next to a decapitation video.
Really, any advertising-based brand is going to learn the hard way that user-generated content is complete garbage. Ultimately they will ALL be removed, since no advertiser is interested in placing their brand next to a decapitation video or next to a photo of your college friend throwing up.
The real lesson is: There is no reason for any company to allow individuals to express themselves. Individual voices must be silenced in media, in favor of more advertiser friendly views.
Professional media companies know this already - the power of information filterers, editors, and gatekeepers. Professional media companies learned long ago that the average person should never be given a voice, and only the most talented should, after going through a painful vetting process. Editors at media companies spend YEARS perfecting their voice through internships and other voiceless activities.
Amateur media companies like Facebook and YouTube are just finding out how useless they are.
Eventually these amateur media companies will silence individual voices in favor of more professional ones.
The fewer people speak, the better.
The cable companies are killing themselves. I've been OTA for years, 400 channels but I might want to watch six of them and you want $80? Are you insane?
I'd probably watch more channels if there was a better GUIDE to organize & access the programs.
Right now I have a random list of 1000 channels with no sense of order. It's extremely inefficient going through channels in whatever random order they are. There's no hierarchy or structure.
In my Verizon FIOS, why are HD channels in the 500+ range and regular channels elsewhere? Why are there even non-HD channels?
The guide should be more programming based, like Netflix, instead of channel based. I'd probably watch more channels that way, but right now I can't even find what's interesting.
My guess is if Apple has anything to do with it for cable TV programming, they'd attack this Guide problem.
I guess you missed all the leaks which revealed that oversight worked?
I'm amazed at how little snooping of American citizens were going on. There was a number in the press that about 50,000 emails of US citizens were mistakenly collected.
I have 50,000 unread emails in my inbox alone.
So, the NSA's surveillance program is robust enough that, out of 300 million people, they had an oversight margin-of-error of 1 person.
That's it.
This is how a proper government surveillance programs are SUPPOSED to work - filled with both technical and legal checks and balances.
And remember, government surveillance is a good thing. We need to make sure libertarians understand that. Government surveillance enables a stronger government, which is always a good, since a big government is better than a small government.
NOBODY wants a small government. A small government results in Somalia. Everybody wants a strong, socialist government, instead.
A strong, socialist government produces much better results, resulting in a stronger, richer population.
Just look at how Reaganomics destroyed America. It is these Republican principles that caused such economic disparity in America, because they weakened government.
We need to make sure we undo all the work that the Reagan Republicans did.
They really did bring about a revolution in photography. At this point dSLRs should only be used by professionals, as image quality is far less important than image usability via social media sharing.
A dSLR camera is useless if no one sees your photos.
I'm trying to figure out what the "space" is in the first place?
What do the axis of the graph represent?
It would be funny if "meaning" could be quantified into meaningless numbers. That would piss off anyone that believes there's a meaning to life. haha.
Piracy is the death of culture.
No artist wants to give away their work without some payback. This could be money, or even bartering for other art, the way Eddie Van Halen did Michael Jackson's guitar solo in 'Beat It' for free, because they both respect each other's creation.
Piracy just doesn't add any value to society at all... it just turns people into mindless consumerist zombies addicted to artistic consumption, without producing any art in return.
These days, we just have millions of leeches that download without returning any sort of value.
Even the early BBSs had an upload to download ratio requirement.
The worst part is that people haven't figured out that's it's perfectly fine NOT to watch a movie, listen to music, or play a game they didn't pay for. It's as if these consumers feel entitled to feed their consumerist addiction.
From: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101056168
"Inside a room on the top floor of the William McChesney Martin, Jr. building, Fed officials instructed reporters not to send information about that decision to the outside world before precisely 2 p.m. as measured by the national atomic clock in Colorado.
The doors were locked at 1:45 p.m., and Fed staffers handed out copies of the statement at 1:50 p.m., allowing reporters a few minutes to digest the complicated document before reporting on its contents. At 1:58 p.m. television reporters were escorted out of the room to a balcony where cameras had been prepositioned. The Fed's security rules dictated that television reporters were not allowed to speak before precisely 2 p.m. Print reporters were told they were allowed to open a phone line to their editors at headquarters offices a few moments in advance of the hour, but not allowed to interact with people on the other end of the line until exactly two p.m."
So many hacked communications channels are still possible from this. The print writers can signal the editors when making phone calls before 2pm, without talking to them. For example, the editor can instruct the reporter to call them on landline if it's a sell, or his mobile number if it's a buy. The TV reporter can wear a jacket if it's a sell, or remove it if it's a buy, so someone across the building can monitor the balcony for pre-release signals... etc.
Also, from the http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html:
"It wasn't just gold. It was everything that traded. In fact, the 1/100th of a second after 2pm was the most active 10 milliseconds in the history of the U.S. Stock an Futures markets."
This was a major, major hack, and they waited as late as they could wait, without signaling their competitors.
This is either the worst or best thing I've seen on this site... not sure which.
Flash IS a type of RAM
Actually no. NAND Flash (the high-density type that smart phones use) is read sequentially from rows on die. It's not read randomly at all like DRAM or SRAM. You have to read a whole row of data to get the bit you want, like a disk-drive.
http://electronicdesign.com/site-files/electronicdesign.com/files/archive/electronicdesign.com/files/29/16383/figure_01.gif
Apple is most likely going to introduce a system where the display is iOS like an iPad, and the rest of the system is Mac.
There are several options on how they can do this. They can have a separate machine on the display, with ARM/Memory, to keep main CPU powered off when not in use. They could have everything operate from a single x86 cpu like a laptop. They could have both ARM/x86 CPU's sharing a common memory, and so on.
Eventually they will merge, but whatever they do they will have the experience of Windows 8's failures/success to build upon.
This isn't true. I think Obama has a fundamental lack of respect for liberty (he laughs off the idea of ending the drug war),
He doesn't enforce federal drug laws in states that legalizes weed. That alone is a drug-war breakthrough.
privacy (massively expanding unwarranted surveillance)
your metadata was never private. IP headers are public. Do you know how many people get to see your IP headers as it travels across the internet?
Libertarians need to give up liberty. You never had freedom in any society where you weren't the highest power. You were victimized by the "America is free" lie that you were taught as a child. Ha ha. Smart people always knew you never had freedom.
It is disgustingly narcissistic to assume you had these rights, and libertarians are the most narcissistic members of society, always about "me, me, me!"
You don't get what you want in society, since you have minimal rights and powers. You are only allowed what the rest of society decide for you, and the rest of society couldn't care less about your metadata rights.
not to mention international law (pardoning the Bush administration for war crimes, torture, etc.)
It's bad form to attack previous administrations. The goal of every administration is to move forward, and not focus on the past. The last thing any administration wants to do is put a previous administration in the news and give them any attention. You don't even MENTION the previous administration, and erase them from history.
The fault is in the American public in electing the previous administration in the first place, and when you move forward, you fix the source of the problem by fixing the public's attention.
One solution at hand are darknets - awesome and uncensorable (but slow, though that is the price)
Will never gain traction. The public will always choose "easy-to-use" over "secure". The public doesn't care about high-grade security, since nothing they do is important enough to secure from government anyways. Do you really think people are going to spend the effort to secure their fantasy-football emails?
Also, you have people like me that fully support the NSA's collection of metadata on American citizens, since metadata isn't private, and was never supposed to be. How many dozens of organizations get to see your IP headers as it travels across the internet? That settles that question.
And as far as interceptions of actual communications of foreign nationals? Fuck 'em. They probably should have done a better job of inventing the internet and computer technology. The Internet is a US product, and in particular, the US military invented it anyways. Foreign nationals get a nice cup of Shut-The-Fuck-Up about any complaints they may have about modern computing and the Internet and the US government's dominance over it.
I seriously don't get the complaints people have about the internet. You are guests in someone else's house, so you get to play by their rules. Sucks to be you.
Invent something else that's not the Internet then, preferably something that has far less overall systematic latency.
Your best bet is to get off the computer entirely. Maybe start a fashion brand? Maybe go outside and take a walk? Graphics outside are so much better than graphics on your computer anyways.
People love their computers too much.
So do you want the NSA to break Syria's encryption about their chemical weapons attacks?
Or do you prefer we not know that the Syrian government uses chemical weapons to kill civilian populations, affecting public policy?
Which social contract would you prefer government to break? the "Government shouldn't know private activities of foreign governments" or "Government shouldn't allow foreign governments to kill civilians"?
If your privacy is important, then you think that means your government shouldn't monitor foreign communications, correct? And that means you think it's ok for foreign governments to kill civilians as they please? And if you think foreign governments should be allowed to kill civilians, then I guess you don't donate to charity either? Why would you want to help other people, after all?
You can pick either charity or privacy, but you can't have both. Sorry. That's because bad guys have power, and you need more power to overcome those bad guys for the purposes of charity.
So charity or privacy? What's it going to be?
Too bad nothing from Samsung (including this disgusting watch) will get anyone laid, except from low-rent Warcraft moms.
Did they not get the memo that watches are actually supposed to be fine jewelry?