I think you are misunderstanding, or perhaps conflating, the limitations in any system designed to monitor information, and being unable to detect all deliberate actors within that system to foil monitoringâ"with "stupidity". Given how vast the data set is (basically all of social, and even to an extent, natural reality) it is nearly trivial to slip undetected through it, and the burden of detecting not only overt threats but clandestine ones is a problem of incredible complexity, since the resources of any monitoring agency cannot exceed the natural throughput of reality. There will always be more information than can be processed, since processing information is also a system generator.

To put it simply: one can be extremely intelligent and capable, and even whole groups of like people can gather together and be effective as a unit, and still be utterly awash in the vastness that is the background noise of societal information. It is actually amazing, and a testament to their diligence, that they can get anything done at all.

But oh no, go on and spout your narrow minded and simplistic essays on how things must be This or That.

Neither. 3) Partial panopticians do not work much better than minimal surveillance, and no matter how hard or diligently people work to stop destructive assholes, a few are always going to slip through. Honestly, the effectiveness of even a hypothetical full panopticon is dubious.

You do not need these hyperbolic, extreme scenarios to explain reality.

As someone who spends a good percentage of my day supporting a Mac application, you have no idea how many people have problems with DMGs. A lot of people just don't get it. They try to run the program off of the DMG, or drag it straight to the Dock and then wonder why the alias breaks a month later when they accidentally trash the DMG---some even think the DMG itself is the application and wonder why it is so limited, and why it closes whenever they try to remove it from the desktop.

From a support standpoint, something like the App Store is going to be a godsend. I'm not sure about the rest of it yet, we'll have to wait and see.

No need to apologise. The former is a highly processed tomato paste that has been seasoned and watered down until it can be easily spread onto sandwiches and whatnot. "Boston baked beans" are a reference to a common canned food in the United States. Pop open a can and eat them cold, or hot, depending on how lazy one is. Point being, beyond these two examples, most people eat highly processed or preserved food that doesn't taste much like the original. Catsup, in particular, since the tomato is so processed, seasoned, and watered down, can be made from absolute crap produce. I don't know many Americans who eat fresh produce on a regular basis, either fruit or vegetables.

Those that do tend to not eat any of the above, and have much more expensive diets to compensate. It isn't a lifestyle that everyone can afford.

Ever heard of catsup, or boston baked beans? People eat utter crap. Hardly anyone eats fresh produce in quantities enough to notice whether or not it had relatively clean air as a child.