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Comment If a en e-mail service CAN disclose keys ... (Score 1) 230

it is NOT secure!!!

Secure communication means that only you or your friend on the other end can disclose secrets, not the service in betwen.

If you run a truly secure e-mail service and Uncle Sam wants keys, the correct response is "sorry, can't help you; we do not have any keys".

Comment DO NOT USE GIT! Or you will be sorry. (Score 2) 238

Git is absolutely not a good first version control system for people who are clueless about version control. (Such as, evidently, your developers).

Git requires prior experience with at least two simpler version control systems. In git, you often run into scenarios that require you to understand its complicated repository representation so that you can choose the best steps to unravel them, based on understanding the ramifications of each approach.

The implementation of git is not hidden from the user behind a robust set of "no brainer" use cases.

The decentralized model alone will confuse the heck out of workers with no prior version control experience.

Use a system that has a centralized server from which working copies are checked out, like Subversion.

Comment Re:Chemical Weapons Suck (Score 1) 659

This Slashdot poll is about whether to bomb Syria, not whether to go after the oppressive regime somehow.

"Innocent people were gassed ... so let's bomb the fucking place too?"

I'm in favor of cleanly executed assassinations that take out all the correct bastards one at a time.

Comment Re:Can't they get even in some other way? (Score 3, Informative) 126

I wrote:

If I think that some publisher's output is poor, that is my opinion. It is not libel.

Ah, in the United States perhaps. But if I express that opinion in Canada, it might in fact be defamation. Oops!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_defamation_law

True North Strong and Free, indeed ...

Comment Can't they get even in some other way? (Score 2) 126

For instance, the publisher could start a blog in which they call the librarian "Mr. Poopy Pants".

That is essentially the equivalent of what he did to them.

If I think that some publisher's output is poor, that is my opinion. It is not libel. You can't sue people for having standards (even completely vague ones that change daily) and for claiming that some things don't measure up to those standard (in no objective way).

Libel would be if I claim that, say, the publisher cheated someone out of ten thousand dollars, when in fact that is false.

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