Are people mindless?

Any degree of privacy-requirement is enough for me to start using encryption.

I have a Sony-Ericsson k550i and it has irda...

You have such good arguments... Not. The fact that we know the NSA's name does not make it activities public.

It does not mean spamcop will not blacklist the IP in itself.

They should not only redesign software for CPU architecture. Most software is created for a single cpu and a single memory space. In real life we have multiple processors, multiple kinds of memory (cache, ram, disk/ssd, raid, san, distributed file systems), network interfaces between server and client (what do you consider 'an application' on the internet?).

And while we are at it: We have issues with software reuse, bugs (in general) and testability, security. Software development is in the pre-industrial age, afaiac.

GNOME 1.x was really great. It was fairly configurable while still being relatively easy to use and did what I (as a developer) needed. Current day GNOME looks like it borrows from the worst of Windows (the stuff even the Windows folks don't even like), and only recently adopted a few things that the Mac does (possibly because Windows copied some of it) but in some weird way that lost all of the intent behind the actions. So we end up with something that's simple but still not understandable because it's confusing and weird, and consequently useless to just about everyone. I managed to get by fortunately because they had an alternate window manager that was a bit more traditional.

Don't get me wrong, I still think the Linux community is amazing and love the fact that it all exists. But for GUI, not only have they lost sight of the Unix Philosophy, they also don't really have a good view of who their /actual/ users are.

This is also why the GNOME's insistence on designing for (what I call) "the mythical grandmother" was always flawed.

Or just have it IEEE802.11 interface wirelessly with http://www.dack.com/web/bullsh... or http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/cg...

Why don't you put this comment on your own website. We will all find it, promise ;-). You prove your own issue: You need a public forum, some call it marketing, to market your opinion.

Before designing a system you want to know which problems are solved ('why?') and they must be tangible. Here are some aspects that would be nice to solve: code reuse is nice to save time, reducing bugs, testability, security, stability, high availability, maintainability... Not all problems are solved well in humans.

They somehow managed to give black people voting rights in US history. So maybe now it is time to stop the political duopoly and allow other parties to effectively have a saying. The current situation is a political non-compete-scheme.

Did I open a can of worms here?

-2 seconds, jeesh that is fast (it must be very heavy to warp time like that, f-ing wormhole).

They seem complementary: There are technical and functional checks you can do to avoid misuse or abuse. And then there is reputation to check if you have previously conducted in a bad manner. All good predictors of things you don't want.