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  1. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    If you are told that your door is unlocked, but you still don't lock it, and some robber comes and steals your stuff, the homeowner should be thrown in jail.

    what's the point? losing your stuff should be motivation to lock your doors

  2. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    What makes a system insecure?

    the fact that it's been broken into

    Who judges a system as secure/insecure?

    maybe it could be the people whose credit card info has been stolen

    How about unknown zero-days?

    Why not make it really simple? If your system gets broken into, it's your fault. This same logic is very successful in many other such situations. The threat of punishment is enough all by itself to keep bad actors in line. You don't need to construct more government apparatus to oversee them.

  3. Re:No "morally acceptable" sites? on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    While I believe that there might be some people who had no "morally" dubious intents, I fail to see why anyone with a traditional moral compass would sign up for this website

    Exactly, this is like calling on terrorists to clean out the vermin in your attic and then wondering why the authorities are so upset with you.

  4. Re:When you define anything as "cheating"... on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ANY extramarital intimacy? Really? It's cheating when my wife talks to her brother about their childhood experiences?

  5. Re:When you define anything as "cheating"... on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    When you define any extramarital intimacy as "cheating"

    It is cheating no matter what.

    So when I talk to my relatives about my childhood experiences (that's pretty intimate) and I don't mention them in the same detail to my wife, this is cheating?

  6. Re:When you define anything as "cheating"... on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 0

    When you define any extramarital intimacy as "cheating", you've already cut off the debate paths that the victims from the summary illustrate.

    Wow, who actually says this? NOBODY.

    And, yeah, I guess I'm a bit of a coward.

    ya think? arguing with straw men kind of gives it away

  7. Re:Why are we fighting the government? on Judge Rules That Inglewood, California Cannot Copyright Public Videos · · Score: 1

    No, I'm remarking on the fact that the city even tried to copyright the videos in the first place. Why do they even think it's their place to do that?

    humans act like humans and you're surprised?

  8. The U.S. was not defeated in Vietnam.

    I'm confused, what do you call it when you pick up all your stuff and run away to not fight again? Most people would call that "defeated"

  9. Re:How did these idiots catch anyone? on FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria · · Score: 1

    I want to believe education solves the problem but I have met plenty of "well educated" people who are susceptible to the propaganda.

    So you are surprised when people educated in physics and chemistry are not experts on human nature! My goodness I expect my car mechanic to be fully versed in all areas of philosophy.

  10. And the US Civil War? Like you really have to ask on this one... They pretty much invented "total war" during this one.

    yes exactly right, the white supremacists gave up completely and faded away

  11. Re:One term. on Judge Rules That Inglewood, California Cannot Copyright Public Videos · · Score: 2

    No term limits. Just forbid incumbents.

    What a boon for the wealthy! Every four years you get a fresh new politician with no influence, and no power. It makes racketeering and extortion so much easier.

  12. If you go back in history, just about all wars were won when then victors pretty much stomped out the losers, across the board, to such an extent that they capitulated or were dead.

    Really? US civil war? WW I? Korea? Iraq? Afghanistan?

  13. Re:yay, government on FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria · · Score: 1

    let's give the power to google and microsoft and donald trump instead and see how that goes

  14. Re:Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia on FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria · · Score: 1

    produce paralysis through mass hysteria is spewed on cable news channels

    only senile people in nursing homes are watching cable news any more

    http://www.businessinsider.com/cable-tv-subscribers-plunging-2015-8

  15. I have no other subversive desires.

    And yes, I chose to post anonymously to avoid trollings.

    posting anonymously is subversive

  16. There is only one way to win war. That is to wipe out the opposition

    and yet somehow the nazi skinhead white supremacist movement continues unabated

  17. Re:This is standard for mission-critical S/W on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    slashdot has truly degenerated into a cesspool when you consider that this drivel is one of the more insightful posts

  18. Re:Real-time on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 0

    before the job's soft real-time deadline has expired.

    what does this have to do with anything?

  19. Re:Not exactly new or news... on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if their proof requires the disk to actually write the data in the same order as the filesystem sends write commands to the disk. This is not necessarily true for disks that support command queuing, and certainly not true for SSDs.

    RTFA:

    "You literally have to consider every instruction or every disk operation"

  20. Re:Not exactly new or news... on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    But what about disk failure?

    this is like expecting your seat belt to keep you safe during the apocalypse

  21. Re:Yeah rigth on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 0

    That's why we have checksums.

    checksums will only detect a single bit error, you've got to do better than that

  22. Re:Tough environments on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    the stars will implode and the universe will come to an end, how would any filesystem survive that?

  23. Re:But is it useful? on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    what does this phrase even mean? why does speed or slowness matter? you can play the video of a disk disaster at any speed you want

  24. Re:Journaled File System? on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    i thought Journaled file systems already possessed this feature.

    just like air bags and seat belts have eliminated all deaths on the road

  25. Re:But is it useful? on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    If we can accept 'slow', it's not that difficult to build an always consistent filesystem.

    citation required