> 3.How do we workaround the fact that most people do not and will never have an interest in the technical workings of devices and asking them to research things and make an optimal choice of their own is too much to ask, should a company or central authority make that choice for them?
And malware creators with much more technical knowledge will try to mislead them about the choices.
Maybe say the central authority gets to make the choices on a day-to-day basis, but with a two month lead time, you can decide to switch to another authority for your device, and all apps that are happy with the new authority still work.
You would have to trust that the central authority doesn't sabotage your ability to switch with your existing data and apps intact, and this would be hard to verify in advance if DRM prevented you from seeing what code was running on the device.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html advises making certain changes to titles, and says you can make up your own titles, and said "Please don't do things to make titles stand out". There was a warning that a submitted editorialising title may be edited.
I generalised that to changing any link-bait (or otherwise unsuitable) title to something that better fits the intent of this site, which I think is a good guideline.
The stuff about pressuring the Germans not to prosecute a kidnapper may be useful for any anti-kidnapping factions in the US government. I doubt the US government has a united perspective about that.
Me too. They should be able to distinguish between a negative review and the negatively-reviewed website it links to easily enough. Distinguishing the negatively-reviewed website from other links on the reviewing site could be a bit trickier.
I imagine the really cheap mp3 players would sell pretty well outside the US. I was quite surprised he couldn't find digital audio players much cheaper than an iPod. I've seen mp3 players for well under half the price of an iPod shuffle in Australia, and I imagine in China there would be an even bigger difference.
And malware creators with much more technical knowledge will try to mislead them about the choices.
Maybe say the central authority gets to make the choices on a day-to-day basis, but with a two month lead time, you can decide to switch to another authority for your device, and all apps that are happy with the new authority still work.
You would have to trust that the central authority doesn't sabotage your ability to switch with your existing data and apps intact, and this would be hard to verify in advance if DRM prevented you from seeing what code was running on the device.