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Derelealization:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20712501

Efficacy of VR exposure therapy in anxiety disorders , in cluding PTSD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_therapy#Efficac...

Exposure therapy probably works via habituation or conditioning.

http://www.nelsonbinggeli.net/NB/CBT-Exposure.html

The knowledge on how military training works is found on dave grossmans's book : "on killing".

Thanks, thats the one. It seems very similar to what mozilla talks about :dynamically running mobile sites.

Edit: it appears that everything.me is invested by mozilla, and probably is the dynamic apps feature.

The dynamic app search , which lets you runs apps on the cloud without needing to install them is an interesting feature.

I heard about something similar for android which runs apps in the cloud , anybody knows how it's called?

One of the documented side effects of virtual reality is a mental disease called derealization , which makes people feel like real life isn't real, and causes a lot of anxiety.

Also there's the fact that military training conditions people to kill automatically without thinking and the fact that virtual reality has a proven ability to decondition people with PTSD or fear of spiders(with real results in real life), which is basically the same psychological process of military conditioning.

All this raises interesting questions about "the line" between real and virtual , that at least be tested before wide scale deployment of VR.

you present a false choice between security and ease of use. They could easily add a security layer that uses a short authentication code, that let's people in physical connection(say spouses) verify their texts are secured. Just a simple optional feature.

But how much security can you guarrantee with closed source anyway?

Two new models for TV apps I see are:

1. Games that are specifically fitted to replace TV. They'll probably be non competitive, fit for nearly passive consumption, with great story and visuals. Machinarium is one example, and i heard good thing about the walking dead story wise.

But there would be a need to finding all those games and marketing them to TV viewers.

2. Israeli TV production houses seem on some disruptive path. For example hatufim, the TV series homeland was based on, cost $50k per episode, vs $2.5 million per homeland episode. Those financial limits make israeli producers focus on good stories, which is the reason Hollywood does lots of deals with israeli companies.

On the other hand, such cost structure makes it much easier to try new things: releasing all episodes at once(really helps to be absorbed with content), new finance models,new ads tech,new ways to access global audiences, new kinds of stories.

And TV as apps could make it easier to build such models.

Just tell the user he can't sign things without a profile, and make keys with each profile.

There's splashtop 2 , which lets you remote desktop your pc to an android tablet , and will work for games if your pc is strong enough. As far as i can tell(from some google research) it's the best one for games in the market.

If your TV can run android apps, you might be set. If not, there are plenty of set top boxes or hdmi plugs that run android. But choose one that would be fast enough.

Regarding doing it alone: as far as i can tell, efficenly compressing the video on a pc with low latency and decoding it on the other side is a hard problem, not a side project.

And if you try,i think it would be wise to use something stronger than raspberry pi ,as least for starters.

If you look at the history of anonymity networks, you'll notice that tor totally replaced mixing networks. Considering the fact that mixing nets are more secure against government, with regards to email, it is interesting that the u.s only invests in and promotes tor.

But in a world where individuals have access to extremely powerfull tech, something has to be done.

I think the solution for privacy might look like something different. Maybe the government could read everything, but there would be some good transparency tools, ensuring proper usage.

Yes. It was priced at 10 million per hour. For movies 20 million per hour is considered a good price.

And I think house of cards is relatively expensive. Even game of thrones cost 6 million per hour. How is this possible? I have no idea.

First install optional encryption software. Something like textsecure and redphone. This way you use your phone in the same way, but if there's an option for encryption, you can use it.

Then maybe just use with your spouse . since those conversations are very private, maybe you could Convince him/her. And it does buy you protection from law and inadvertent snooping by friends(if I understand otr correctly).

Now talk about this with your friends. They might want to use the same strategy.

And now some of you're friends have the software, it's just a matter of setting keys. Seems possible.

The reason people use Google is not exactly love. I see it more as a lack of energy or will power.

Every time you choose not to use Google search, you know you're gonna have to work harder to get good results, and use some amount of will power. Since most people search the Web a lot, the totality of it is quite a large effort and will power. Our society is filled with such choices, be it food, consumerism, cigarettes, etc. Since will power is finite, people will always lose on some of this choices.

Also if you really want to stop being tracked, you need some technical understanding and some cooperation from other people and you need will lose some important capabilities in society.

This makes the choice even harder.

C# is nicer than c, and writing bindings for c libraries in other languages is not fun.

How did german people,and specifically people who lived in soviet east germany or those close to them, treated online privacy and google/facebook etc, before the NSA scandal ?

I just did a non-scientific test and it took me a similar time to write on an android smartphone(with a good keyboard) and on paper.

This might work.

But there are some tools for handwritten OCR:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/ocr/file-ocr/ocr-tool-for-hand-wr...

And if we aim for people to write clearly ,unlike doctors, handwritten OCR doesn't seem like a hard problem relative to machine vision in general.

Handwriting won't work against backdoors.Backdoors can send screen captures. And since handwriting is slower than typing , most of the times, people won't use it - so it will be a good signal that one is trying to hide something.

I think a viral marketing effort by the people will be good enough to create a mass of people using something like textSecure:easy to use secure(OTR) IM, backwards compatible with the android messaging app.

Still that doesn't solve the the backdoor issue. This one is much harder to solve.

Android is a huge,complex codebase. doesn't this mean it's hard to verify it's security ?

Use a USB key with everything installed on it in a portable fashion. The Tor Browser Bundle is something like this.

Two issues with this method are that TOR is 80% funded by the us government, using a computer opens you to backdoors.

But at least that's a good start.

Productized in weeks ? even firmware ? that seems really hard.

How would you do it? Please share(if it's OK).

I've tried to download seeks, but it's linux only. This makes it much harder to build a large user community and to develop a decent business model.

Which of those is the best for the average joe?

He did an interview with sarah lacy on the pandodaily and talked a bit about palantir and transparency. maybe you'll find his view there.

The NSA tried to force twitter the list of all the people who subscribed to wikileaks. Twitter refused, but similar requests to gmail etc were being done and probably were'nt refused.

Regarding using true name for credentials: For now use pseudonym , if at later point in time you need to prove yourself, you could expose your name to a limited group of people which you think are appropriate.

Or even a bit of paint, done nicely.

And what if if stand a few meters from a google glass user and don't see the led?

After the current NSA scandal, is there any chance for wide adoption of a wearable mass spying device ?

My guess would be because now it's personal.

There are secure services for IM/VOIP and maybe email(npt sure how secure) and of course TOR. Some are very easy to use like Redphone/textSecure which integrate transparently with android calls/meessaging.

As far i can understand, they didn't grab much popularity. So i'm not sure ease of alone is enough.

I'm not really a marketing person too, just interested in it, so i don't think i could help much.

Anyway, best of luck with the project.