I say they're both intrusions on experience.

Ideally, I have nothing against ads, some people really feel like they need them to keep their little corner of the internet online, so be it (doesn't mean I'll click on it...)

But popups, popunders, poplefts and poptarts are the bane of the internet. The fact that I should even need to *consider* adding a javascript defeater/popup blocker is intrusive as far as I'm concerned, let alone what it does to a page.

Oh, and just to be argumentative; I don't really agree that you're in control of your computer, not unless you programmed the thing from scratch yourself. Otherwise you're just relying on the fact that whoever programmed your application/system/hardware is doing whatever you wanted it to do and nothing else.

I wouldn't have to put up with BSoDs because of dodgy nVidia hardware if that were true. I certainly wasn't my command to tell it to crash.

--Steven

As a contractor, I use TrueCrypt to separate information between each of my clients as each of them have made me sign an NDA with clauses regarding negligence.

In the event that I forget to lock my laptop going to lunch or something along those lines, I don't want the law coming down on my arse.

If someone accuses me of doing something illegal, they're welcome to go through those volumes, but they'll have to speak to my boss about their own NDAs first and I'll be more than willing to open up.

So yeah, I'll agree with you that I encrypt my data so I can't be accused of negligence leading to leaking of private and confidential information, but at the same time, if someone is trying to hide something that is incriminating, they'd probably be better off looking at stenography or something like that than having encrypted data.

--Steven

I'm really not sure that's a good idea either. With the possibility that Cellular Memory is more than just superstition, the stupidity might indeed be contagious. Either way, I'm not sure we should take the chance...