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"