Bingo! This is exactly what I am talking about. It is not rational to justify light rail (or anything else) just by pointing out that we spend money on other things that are EVEN STUPIDER.

There is that, but if that were trustworthy you wouldn't need encryption. I assume, I think rightly, that any forensic app installed by Apple or a letter agency will have no trouble bypassing the sandbox. I've yet to see any sandbox model, on any OS, that didn't leak like a sieve. See Java and Flash for well-known examples of that approach.

The phrase "liberal capitalism" means "liberal" in the European sense of the word, which is pretty much the opposite of what "liberal" means in America, at least in terms of economic policy. It means support for free trade and lightly regulated laissez faire markets.

Absolutely 100% they could. You can afford a 1960s-quality car and a tiny house as was normal then with 1960s-quality plumbing and electricity, 1960s-quality appliances

Now you're just trolling.

All you have to do is look at the change in percentage of income that a family pays for housing to see what's changed.

And you still haven't addressed the biggest elements, education and health care. You know where I can get a 1960's quality University of Chicago education and not end up in debt?

You must know that median income has been dropping,

http://www.shadowstats.com/img...

The bifurcation you see in 1996 is when the CPI stopped tracking education, energy and health care.

I care about other people who will use it and have all of their keystrokes collected. I care about everyone who is being used and abused by vendor bullshit and the damage caused by breathtaking technology failures.

I have no idea how stable it is and none of us know the degree to which future changes would invalidate current software testing results.

People making "useless" assertions have no data they are just hand waving. Quoting standard alpha/subject to change disclaimers is not a useful data point... it is just wild speculation.

Seems like one to me.

As it stands if you want to try Windows 10 preview you can't even "opt-out" of keylogging forget about misleading "opt-in" BS..

Only idiots care about everything they type being uploaded to Microsoft.

That's when suddenly industry stopped fighting the child labour laws

I'm pretty sure you know that the Koch Brothers are fighting to repeal child labor laws in 18 states, right?

Now school is still one of the ways to get people out of the market.

And now they have huge student loans from those schools. You think there's any chance we're going to see government pay for college any time soon in the US?

new labourers

Oh, I see why you have such an optimistic view. You don't live in the US.

By 2025 I predict very little will have changed because every time someone predicts the accumulation of dead labor will put the living out of work they end up being wrong.

More importantly I don't believe AI is going anywhere in the next 10 years... despite all advancements and R&D the technology has for decades been stuck in a search and pattern recognition jail.

I think you may have missed GP's point. The key protects the data. When the user enters the passphrase, the data is decrypted and apps can access all the data. Therefore, you don't NEED the key if you can put an app on the phone, then the user uses their phone. The encryption is useful only on a stolen or seized phone.

I wish this were true.

Cell phones barely have capability to select voice commands from a list if even that everything else is being pushed out "to the cloud" ... there are no usable on-device voice recognition apps available at any price even though technology exists and devices are powerful enough all players either got bought out or can't compete with free.

You assume there is a limit to the goods and services people want.

How many 60" TVs can you fit into your house? How many cars in your garage?

How many people do you need to cut your lawn or cut your hair or shine your shoes? We're already seeing the service employment numbers starting to plateau. How many telephone solicitors do you think we need?

I mean, we could have government make-work jobs, but the only reason we'd do that is because of our Calvinist heritage where there is some religious belief in the morality of hard work.

Then we do the same thing we did the last time this problem became acute. We reduced the working week from 48 hours to 40 early in the last century

Except all indications are that we're moving in the opposite direction. People are putting in longer hours and working more. Because it works out better for our economic overlords.

Product quality and fraud regulation: good. Monopoly granting and price controls: bad.

Except that's not what the billionaires want, so dream on.

Clones in five years.

I would like to pre-order 2 Olivia Wildes, a young Angelina Jolie and maybe a Beyonce Knowles. Is there a Kickstarter, you think?

You'd be amazed how much some people struggle with technology.

There it is. The tech bro in full. He thinks society is always going to need him because he knows the difference between a HDMI cable and an eSATA cable.

I'm telling you, there are going to be a lot of little John Galt wannabes pissing in their pants when the day comes when buggy whips go out of style.

You can have a much higher standard of living today with one person working than you could in the 60s!

You are absolutely wrong. Real incomes are way down from 1960's standards. In 1960, my parents could own their own single-family home, send two kids to private school and college (no student debt!), set themselves up for a comfortable retirement, and take a couple of vacations every year. Buy a brand new Chevrolet Impala every 4 years. And then leave the paid-off house to their kids, along with a nice bit of change. And my father was a machinist who did not finish high school.

Tell me, do you really believe that a family of four could live like that today on one salary? Let's have a show of hands: How many of you reading this believe a family of four could have this type of a lifestyle on one salary? I'll be most of you won't get this lifestyle with two. And your kids will start life with six figures of college debt.

I could certainly make enough helping people install their home theater systems to have them help me with interior decorating, and so on.

So, you see us going to an all-barter economy? When? And what are you going to use to buy food? You going to trade home stereo installations for a loaf of bread?