Although, for some perspective, from Wikipedia for Glioblastoma multiforme (brain tumor):

Sure, it's *way* more rare, but treatment options suck. My wife Sue died of this in early 2006, just 7 weeks after diagnosis - her only complaint was a persistent headache and mild disorientation. Remember Sue...

No it doesn't not for everything or even most things. You're over-thinking things and conflating the important with the unimportant, the big things with the little. Stop sweating the little things.

I used to get more worked up about things, like you apparently are, but then in late 2005, after 20 years together, my wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died, literally in my arms, just 7 weeks later. I heard her last breath, felt her last heartbeat and learned what the word "forever" means.

So, having my NYT or /. connection encrypted isn't really that important - my banking connection, yes, but I try to keep everything in perspective. The scenarios you've described lack some of that.

I'm not "intellectually lazy" I just know what is and is not important - for me anyway.

Also, entities like Google are not encrypting their connection to protect your privacy, it's to protect their revenue stream, so third-parties cannot skim ad/search information w/o paying Google for it.

The movie and recording industries use those for accounting purposes.

I disagree that Everywhere is a great idea. Seriously, does it really matter if an NYT article or /. is delivered securely, or 99.9% of search queries?

According to Google Drops Plus Sign from Search Operators

Thanks Chris Hardwick - FTW was fun. :-)

Everything will work fine until something, like an explosion, happens. Then the system will suffer from post-pneumatic stress syndrome.

And when your fitness tracker and car decide you haven't exercised enough, the car refuses to start and tells you, "walk to the store fat, lazy bum" ...

Perhaps Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus that makes an animated skull and cross-bones appear on the pilot's view screen - "ar, ar, ar" - 'cause he did it in Independence Day - to an *alien* space ship. Why would human airships be any less secure? It's possible, just not very probable...

Probably true and, by that, I imagine you mean that people will die for their religion. I have no problem with that, but with people dying because of someone else's religion or (possibly warped) religious beliefs.

Sounds more like a variant of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish ...

I looked at the photo on TFA and that thing is HUGE. Seriously, it's got to be a foot square. :-)

... they'll be hugely disappointed when they discover there are no holographic projectors (Bones) or infinitely zooming/de-fuzzing cameras (any CSI) etc. And, sad but true, the movie The Net got it wrong in that running "whois" doesn't bring up a photo of someone's driver's license and that pressing "ESC" doesn't roll back database changes across the Internet.

TV shows and movies are the worst place to get inspired about tech - especially with regard to a life/career choice.

Regardless, velociraptors still hate goto statements ...

I'm not even sure it's a "double standard". The US is (supposedly) built on the premise of equality and fairness for *all* its citizens. The same cannot be said for (all) other countries or cultures. I'm not supporting the bias of those other countries/cultures, just saying that Indiana and Arkansas are not China and Saudi Arabia. I'm pretty sure Carly knows this, but is being, as you said, a "concern troll" - which makes her the hypocrite.