I'm not too sure. I lost my father when I was young. I think that if he had made a video for me, I would find it more than a little creepy, as well as being a forceful reminder of what I had lost. It would not make me happy; it would make me cry in pain, and perhaps even feel controlled.

Unless he can make it a Haron Seldon tape, to play only during special occurrences, I think the best answer might be not to.

If you want her to be able to let go, perhaps the best thing is for you to let go.

That's two disjointed statements. Wearing a band that slides the width of the watch up and down makes skin breathing no issue at all. Not wearing an appropriate band is going to cause problems whether you sleep with the watch on or not.

What purpose would it have? Unlike a watch, which does tell the time, also in bed.

That says a lot more about your sleeping habits than mine.

No, it doesn't work that way. See, when the alarm goes off you know you cannot go back to sleep. That's kind of what the alarm is for. So when you turn it off it's always time to get up and never time to sleep in.

It's when you wake up without the alarm going off you may want to know what time it is, preferably without any fumbling that makes you more alert, nor noises waking partners, dogs, cats or walruses. All I have to do is lift one hand and open one eyelid and blissfully slip back to sleep. Thank you, Omega.

Why not?
The smart watches just need to be far more frugal and, dare I say it, smart? Passive NFC powered devices already exist, for example.

A pacemaker can run 5-10 years on a battery. A wristwatch that mechanically moves hands and dials runs for years on a single battery.
Saying it can't be done is copping out. It's like saying we could never have an electric car that could go for 300 miles on a charge.
We can, and we should.

1: I have a job.
2: I tend to wake up several times before the alarm time. If it's just 15 minutes before, I get up; if longer, I stay in bed and try for some additional sleep.
Also, sometimes I sleep other places than where I have an alarm clock.

It wasn't American law that got Osama bin Laden, though.
And it took a decade.

Primarily because you can glance at a wristwatch without having a free hand or any specific clothing.

And you can also wear a wristwatch to bed. I like being able to see whether I can sleep for an hour more without fumbling around.

Waiting for a 2+ year battery life which is what I expect of my watches.

If I'm encrypting my data with my own keys, how exactly, other than brute force, is the NSA going to get access to the data?

By classifying you as a terrorist and using torture to extract whatever information they need to decrypt the data.

I think that qualifies as brute force in the more original meaning of the phrase.

But the problem isn't that - if they have a target, they can get a court order. What they want is a carte blanche to spy on everyone, without having to target anyone. I.e. a full immunity against the fourth amendment.

In essence, yes. It means we cannot know whether anything you say is your opinion, but have to presume that it has all been vetted.

What have the chocolate rations been increased to again?

So much this. Being not American is not justification for spying on someone.
Most citizens of the world have no plans to bomb this country. Don't give them a desire to do so. The quickest way to make someone your enemy is to treat them like an enemy.

Does it matter? Do violations become more palatable depending on who started it, or whether it is condoned by your party?

If Joe is a villain, it doesn't imply that Jack is a saint.

Stop blaming. Do something. Shout loud and clear "No more".

Are you really stupid enough to think that if we had legislation mandating backdoors in the 1940s, that the Japanese and German would have incorporated them?
If not, what's your point?

This has nothing to do with surveillance of "the enemy", whoever that may be at any given time. Because they won't build in the back doors. It has everything to do with ability to read the data of those who are not the enemy, and who can't guard themselves from CIA. Ordinary people and businesses.