On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 08:25 PM, Faustine wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:52:17PM -0500, Faustine wrote: >> So maybe it's worth putting a little effort into thinking of ways to >> AOLize (for lack of a better term) digital cash: a mass market reqires >> mass appeal. > >> What a good idea! Bet nobody thought of that before! >
Something's wrong with your quoting software: Declan wrote that last line, not you. > Getting away fron digital cash for a moment, If you'd care to point me > to any > examples of crypto companies really focused and committed to developing > applications that are commercially appealing to Joe Sixpack AOLuser, > I'd be > interested to hear about them. SSL/RSA built into every financial transaction with the common browsers. Visit Amazon, Ebay, etc., and note the secure connections. User-transpaperent, of course, but then, of course, this is precisely what a "Joe Sixpack AOLuser" [SIC] application _must_ be. Next question? > Is it really such a stretch to say that most > people in the crypto community don't really give a damn about Joe wants > or > needs? How many times have you heard people here implicitly echo the > sentiment: "If they're too lazy or stupid to get it, then screw em." Well, you are the one using the expression "Joe Sixpack AOLuser." As for me, I'm a neo-Calvinist Nietzscheian. It is of little concern to me whether crypto is dumbed-down to the point where Mr. Rogers uses it. > Maybe the technology isn't far enough along to waste time worrying about > Joe at all. But the disdain so many "high priests of the code" seem to > feel > towards the uninitiated might go a long way toward explaining why > revenues > aren't all they could be. As usual, you just bullshit about things you obviously know little about. Do some serious reading, get up to speed. --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"
