On the flipside for anything remotely complex like printing you would expect it to be riddled with bugs and about 5-10 years behind everyone else. Lacking subsystems means creating 3rd party apps for it will be "fun": sounds like a return to DOS days. Which I guess is good news for me, because I never got to experience them in their heyday, so I can see firsthand what instability looks like when you dont have OS provided APIs for things.

That sounds like theyve been actively un-learning all of the lessons the computer science field has spent decades learning.

Here everyone else has been learning how abstraction can promote collaboration and keep bugs simple, and theyve found a way to justify removing abstraction as a way to reduce complexity (lol?).

China has state policies on human rights and freedom of religion, as well.

This is called a risk assessment, and its something that most people (and the media) have no patience for: its far too levelheaded, and not nearly hysterical enough.

This is the sort of logic that would block implementation of automated plane systems which could save thousands of lives per year because it might crash once or twice.

A system doesnt need to be perfect to be implemented as a replacement; it just has to be better, when you look at the big picture, than the thing it replaces.

There are a lot of things that might kill people; to reduce the number of people killed to zero isnt possible, though you could pour endless resources into trying to do so.

The question is whether there are reasonable ways to provide access to 911 that do not themselves create worse problems like swatting; 70% of calls being fradulent starts to get into an area where legitimate services are impacted. Put another way: how many people die because legitimate resources were diverted by fraudulent calls?

Comparing the NSA to the Chinese MSS can only be done by one who is completely in ignorance of them.

Excuse me, Im looking for strawmen and someone told me this thread would be a great place to find them.

Im pretty sure you cant control user-side GPOs or IE settings from a HTML header.

I think what we have is clear examples of people who read the article and those who did not.

So you want complete freedom of expression as long as others agree with your vision.

Got it.

The NSA isnt the problem.

Thats the problem. Look up who they are and who is the hand that feeds them.

Too bad I've written many examples of such a thing, purely in powershell. Too bad lots of people do things like this. Too bad theres many examples on poshcode.

Because some of the tools-- rm, mv, ls-- use a "take 2 letters from the word, thats the command" convention, while others are completely different (tar, unzip, gunzip, passwd, man). Theres no common convention whereby you could say"I want to do X" and know what the command is off-hand.

To the uninitiated, there is no particular reason to think "mv" would be the move command; you have to already know that.

Best practices be damned, you're rockstar coder. Who cares if no one else can look at that code and figure out why you created it and where its probably being used?