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Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 1) 790

Reality is, some people are just wired wrong, and need to be purged from society, be it prison, desert island or lethal injection. Caring for them doesn't solve anything, and doesn't stop them from doing what they do. If "caring" for them makes you feel good, you should probably spend more time caring for their victims instead.

The difference between you and I is that I don't want there to be any victims to care for. I want solutions for the root cause, not reactionary "solutions" which seems to be all you can imagine.

Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 1) 790

How do you propose to "help" them? I believe there is no effective way to "help" such people beyond castration.

Why do you believe that? We used to believe that the only cure for "female" non-physical illnesses was hysterectomy.
How about we put some funding into figuring out why this happens and how we can stop it? If it saves just a few children from ever being assaulted, that would be a big plus in my book.

Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 2, Interesting) 790

In other words, you have sympathy for all people except those who go to church.

Trust me, I have plenty of sympathy for them. The greater the delusion and the greater damage it causes, the more tragic it is, and the more sympathy I have. Those who molest the minds of not just one or two, but entire generations of children are truly those I feel the most sorry for. Like child molester might believe in and justifies their actions with "child love", these sad individuals believe in "god love" and that it justifies crippling a child's mind (and often body) like they themselves were crippled.
It is tragic, and I would do anything to offer them help so this can stop.
Again, I think the best thing we can do is ask ourselves "why" - find the root cause for why people turn into monsters. What happens in people's brains, and how can we offer (not force, but offer) our assistance?

Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 2) 790

Saying a child molester needs help is far worse than saying he needs to be put out of society. You are basically saying we must manipulate and change people who do not conform to our ways against their will. You don't want kill or imprison Orwell's Winston, you want to destroy his personality so he becomes a "good" citizen of Oceania. You don't want to imprison Burgess's Alex, you want to "cure" him of his violent tendencies so he can become useful to society.

You think anyone who does not conform to your morale standard is "sick" and needs help? You're arrogant, egocentric and intrinsically extremely manipulative. You condescendingly show "sympathy", but you have absolutely no respect. You say child molesters suffer from a mental illness? Strange, isn't what some people are saying about gays?

Note that I never said anything about forcing anyone to conform. That's all in your head, not mine. What I want to see is us being able to offer the best help and rehabilitation possible, not just revenge and de-facto life sentences.

Comment Re: compared to hash database, with antivirus (Score 1) 790

And a question that needs to be answered was the picture mailed to him, or did he upload it. Did he actually send it to anyone.

True, but note that even if it was sent from his account, that does not necessarily mean that he did it.

Who else had, or could have access to his credentials? Would any of them have a motive for framing him?
A Google employee bypassing the authentication would be trivial.
And if on parole, there's also the possibility that the conditions required that he provide the user name and password to all online accounts. Which again would make it trivial for a number of people.
How about a landlord, or others with access to his computer, if passwords were saved or written down?
Not so trivial, but far from uncommon is someone getting access to the account through hacking (especially if he re-used his password from elsewhere) or through social engineering.

The key is to not jump to conclusions. Nor should we forget the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 4, Insightful) 790

Yes it's good that pedophiles get hurt

Why, exactly, is it good that pedophiles get hurt?

Pedophilia is a perverse sexual orientation, like zoophilia, coprophilia and many others, but does not imply that the afflicted has or will abuse children. There's a greater risk, but we do not wish to punish people for being a greater risk, do we? If so, it would be good if we hurt all male relatives, who by far pose the greatest risk for a child being molested.

If we want to stop child molestations, I think what we need to do is look at why some people do the heinous deeds, and figure out how to stop people from flipping over.
Somehow I get the feeling that many would be sad if that happened, because then they wouldn't have anyone to string up and exact revenge on.
But in my opinion, one child molested is one too many, and no matter how much you flog pedophiles, it won't reduce the problem.

Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 2) 790

The threshold is "beyond a reasonable doubt", which means that we have to weight the possibility of a conspiracy to fake evidence by some random employee at Google and police who found evidence at his house, versus the probability that this person was guilty of a crime - one he was convicted of previously, incidentally

If there's a Google employee or outside hacker with a wish to see this person go back to jail does not imply there has to be a conspiracy. That the person is formerly convicted would, I believe, make it more likely that the person is framed, not less. There are enough people who think anything less than life sentence is too mild, and some of those are more than willing to "do what it takes".

Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 5, Insightful) 790

True. But for saying that openly, you will be branded as a supporter of child molesters.

Brand away. I do support child molestors. And murderers. And swindlers. And racists. And slavers. I do not support child molestation, murder, swindle, racism, or slavery. But that is no reason not to care about the people, and wishing that they can be rehabilitated and become productive and respected members of society for the rest of their lives.
If there is evil in a person, it's a mental illness that needs a cure, not a carte blanche to do evil to the person in return.
The Abrahamic religious nonsense about "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" needs to stop, or we'll never progress into a peaceful society.

Comment Re:Hash Collision (Score 2) 790

I am more worried about the risk of this being used for framing someone. Perhaps especially those who have served their sentence and are in public registers.

A prior conviction for which a person has served the sentence should never be enough justification on its own to warrant a search, whether it's done by a person or by software. There must be probable cause, or we've made a farce out of the 4th amendment. What's next? Are algorithms listening in through your phone and PCs microphone okay?

Comment Re:compared to hash database, with antivirus (Score 5, Insightful) 790

And? I am sure there are people out there who would send child porn to registered sex offenders in order to frame them.

When corporations have abilities beyond what the government has, and act on behalf of the law, in a way that could not be foreseen by the lawmakers of the past, I think the only way to honor the intent of the constitution would be to apply the 4th amendment protections there too. Whether a search and seizure is committed by an algorithm or a person is irrelevant - if there was not enough suspicion to justify a search warrant, the evidence should be admissible. No matter how guilty the person is.
Remember: We are all guilty of something. Today they may go after possible child porn recipients, tomorrow they may go after speeders and use tax evaders, and one day after those who may oppose status quo. The opportunities for abuse are endless.
Give the devil a finger, and he takes the whole hand.

Comment Re:Well at least they saved the children! (Score 5, Insightful) 790

Remember, some people classify "potential terrorist" as those who cite the Constitution in online article comments.

Everyone is a potential terrorist.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, CIA director John Brennan, actress Julia Roberts, you and I are all potential terrorists. And potential child molesters too.

It goes without saying that I feel no sympathy for a child molester.

It shouldn't go without saying. That's groupthink.

What distinguishes a mensch from a barbarian is the ability to have sympathy for even those you despise the most. If someone is a child molester, I would think it highly likely that they suffer from a mental illness, and need our help. I don't think there are many who decided to become a child molester.

The more heinous the crime, the more important it is that we do not let base feelings take control. If we do, we are no better than the child molesters who let their base feelings take control of what they do.

The Military

The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict 402

Taco Cowboy writes The Israel — Hamas conflict in Gaza is not only about bombs, missiles, bullets, but also about cyberwarfare, battles of the mind over social media, smart underground tunnels and cloud-based missile launching systems. The tunnels that Hamas has dug deep beneath Gaza are embedded with high tech gadgets, courtesy of Qatar, which has funded Hamas with billions to equipped their tunnels with intelligent sensors which are networked to control centers enabling the command and control staff to quickly notify operatives nearby that IDF units are advancing inside a certain tunnel, allowing for rapid deployment of attack units and the setting up of bobby traps inside the tunnel.

In addition, Hamas has automated its rocket firing system using networked, cloud-based launching software provided by Qatar which can set off a rocket from any distance, and set them to go off at a specific time, using timers. "Anyone who thinks they have dozens of people sitting next to launchers firing rockets each time there is a barrage is mistaken," said Aviad Dadon, a senior cyber-security adviser at several Israeli government ministries. While Doha is allowing Hamas to use its technology to fight Israel, it's their own cyber-security the leaders of Qatar are worried about. For the Qataris, the war between Israel and Hamas is a proving ground to see how their investments in cyber systems have paid of — Qatar is very worried that one of its Gulf rivals — specifically Saudi Arabia — will use technology to attack it, and Qatar spends a great deal of money each year on shoring up its cyber-technology.

Comment Re:Systemd? Not on my system... (Score 1) 226

You just claimed your SysV init scripts are helping your software take advantage of cgroups.

If that's what you read, you need to practice your reading skills, cause they suck.
What I pointed out is that cgroups are separate from the init process, and can and do indeed run on sysv init systems too. cgroups has nothing to do with init, and runs separate from init no matter what you use for init.

When you brought up cgroups as an argument, it appeared to be from a false belief that systemd was needed for cgroups to work - in fact, it's the other way around!
And when systemd uses cgroups, it takes them over for its own purpose, which lessens the value of cgroups compared to systems where you are free to use cgroups from scratch. Freedom to choose - that's what makes Unix great. Poetterware takes away that freedom.

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