Nah, that's strictly PFY-level Bastardry. A BOFH would be running a lucrative side-business selling the Lusers "privacy dongles" -- USB Flash drives pre-loaded with remote-access malware (conviniently whitelisted) -- to protect them from such monitoring, for the low, fair price of $199.99
If you're going for pedantry, make sure you do it right.
In this context, TLA = Three-Letter Agency
I don't know. It makes me want to reach for the "Transmit self destruct code" button...
that the yahoos who have to maintain your code 5 years from
If you're maintaining code from a prototype in 5 years, I submit that your manager has you doing meaningless busy work to keep you away from the important stuff.
Back in the day, that sort of bullshit got your servers epoxied onto the DNSBL for a good long time, if not forever.
Jesus Christ, Gibson's writing hasn't changed in fifteen years.
What's the web equivalent of "chewing the scenery?"
Then it's not a paraphrase.
Except for the part where the "secret police" you're talking about doesnt lock people up without charges, or for what htey say: we still have habeas corpus, the 4th amendment, the first amendment, and the ability to vote.
Well, yeah. Unless you're a suspected "terrorist", at least. For that, we have Gitmo and extrajudical execution via drone strike.
When people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have tyranny."
Was that a typo? The second "tyranny" should be "liberty."
When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny - Thomas Jefferson
Sounds like a plus to me.
Neither, I'm just calling bullshit on your "rule of law" fappery.
You mean those things that are selectively applied based on money, connections, and political expedience? Your vaunted "rule of law" is either a delusion, or leaves much to be desired.
Its only bad if you want to live in rule of law or democracy.
What does Congress have to do with this mythical "rule of law" you guys are so fond of bringing up?
Cynicism is idealism that's had time to curdle.
Clearly you've never had your cat in your lap at the onset of a sudden summer thunderstorm...
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
