SO WHAT? This is absolutely the most aggravating thing about JS crypto advocates: they truly believe that bad engineering can be turned into good engineering by sheer wishfulness. It's important, they say, for people who can't install new software to have encrypted messaging; therefore, browser javascript cryptography has to work. No.

Worrying about strong crypto in browser JS is like installing a vault door to secure a room partitioned with drywall.

They would find the illusion of security useful?

It prompts you if you try to send an email to someone without using their public key. I dig it.

Edit: Also links you to xkcd if you pick a crappy password: http://i.imgur.com/TJ3QPP7.png

I thought this when I first heard of snapchat. How could you not archive away the pictures somewhere?

Oh, this is right up my street. I love the minimal UI.

From the title I expected a wishy-washy, pseudo-inspirational blog post and instead my entire concept of success was shaken up and realigned. Great post.

Thanks, that's kind of you to say. I admit, it's a bit "link-bait" but my other attempts at a title were either too cryptic or long winded.

>I wonder what would happen if you need a bigger "slot" for your block or if the "slot" is too big.

You swap out your camera for a 5-block expansion hub, attach your camera to that and enjoy your 4 new slots.

I'm not as interested in upgrades as I am in being able to replace failing components. It's just silly that a faulty graphics card can cripple a whole computer currently.

There is no such thing as a graphics card in a modern mobile device. It's all on the SoC, hence the name, 'System on a Chip'

true. I didn't want to use the "swap up to a newer battery when capacity drops" as an argument, because that's trivial on Android phones at the moment (and not too bad on iPhones either.)

Graphics card example is better, but I'm not convinced Ara is going to allow processor upgrades this way? (assuming system-on-a-chip, including graphics.)

I would suspect that the endo would have 8GB flash for Android, and the processor/RAM/GPU chip, and you can add on top of that (at least, the endos seem to come with a fixed screen size, even though two choices or size are pictured.)

It might take a few attempts from a few different companies but this is the way smartphones are going to go. We've needed modularity in these tiny computers we carry around for a long time now. The cries of "more battery" for example are just a symptom of modularity deficiency. I am fully behind this project.

  > this is the way smartphones are going to go.

Sorry but no. I doubt it will ever go further than prototype and wouldn't be surprised if it never reacher working prototype stage.

  > The cries of "more battery" for example are just
  > a symptom of modularity deficiency

How? Do you think "everything gets its own module" is really more engery efficient than SoC?

  > Sorry but no. I doubt it will ever go further 
  > than prototype and wouldn't be surprised if it 
  > never reaches working prototype stage.

People said Phonebloks would never be more than a weak concept but here we are.

  > How?

I meant that users complaining about battery life can be a considered a more general complaint about not being able to upgrade their hardware. If manufacturers start adding better batteries, users will gripe about another component. They could keep plugging leaks like that. Or they can introduce modularity and build a new dam.

Each of my upvotes probably breaks down to:

10% - A digital thumbs-up to the author.

20% - I feel like I gained something from the article and I want to repay the author by promoting his work.

30% - I want other people to see it because the world would be better if more people knew about the subject of the article.

40% - Fulfilling a narcissistic craving to express my approval of something similar to a Facebook Like or Youtube Thumbs-Up.

It gets interesting when the link is, for example, a raffle. I want to upvote because of the first, second and last reasons but I want to downvote so that less people hear about it thus increasing my own chance of winning. Individualism vs collectivism encapsulated in a single mouse click.

I'm so pleased to see people talking about elementary OS. It's a cool project. Some links for the lurkers:

http://elementaryos.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_(operating_system)