The reasoning is both fallacious and just plain wrong.
Allowing anonymity does NOT make criminal behaviour impossible to detect, either the act of criminality or necessarily the individual responsible.
Even if you can't detect the individual the fact that the criminality has occurred can still be detected and addressed.

If I steal a gun, shoot someone with it and run off without being identified, I've still committed a crime. Even if the police can't identify or find me they can provide redress to my victim and assure that the person from whom I stole the gun better secures it in the future. Actions to reduce crime can be taken despite the anonymity.

So no, the reasoning is very flawed and the question of whether to remove anonymity or the classification of actions as 'crime' doesn't even need to arise.

So in your view von Braun was an amoral, self-agrandizing liar who was willing to actively engage in the selection of slave labour working in death camps to build rockets that killed thousands of strangers just so he could play with cool toys? Because that's what you're describing.

I say "self-agrandizing" because everything that von Braun wanted to do would have been done without him, without the 12000 dead slave labourers, without the 9000 dead British civilians.

I've had some pretty extreme scientific and technical ambitions in my time, but have somehow been able to realize many of them without killing people, and have given up the rest because: killing people. So I'm willing to pass judgment on von Braun in this respect: if he faced a choice between following his dreams and not killing people I'd have to say the latter is the far better choice.

The little problem of the holocaust being a well documented, well evidenced and very real persecution of millions of people does seem to make you look like an idiot.

But even racist idiots should be allowed to express their views - not least so that other people can educate them about their bigotry, their stupidity and how amused we are by them.

I guess you're next going to tell us that tens of millions of people didn't die in the Gulags. Which racial group would you like to blame for that one?

That means little when looking at the state of more recent consoles like the Wii. The absolute crap shovelware released for that system is an embarrassment. Every console has stinker titles, but the Wii had a ton of them.

And when it was rumored that Chrysler was introducing another brand in the early 2010s, we "knew" that Plymouth was coming back. It didn't. RAM was split from Dodge instead.

Wow, news to me. Seriously, I am not being sarcastic. I just went to dodge.com and RAM Truck was an option: but it took me to a different site with a warning that I was leaving dodge.com. I was not aware of this until this evening.

Really? You've heard about this caliphate they are creating in what used to be Iraq before the US tore it to pieces?

If anything, I'd say 9/11 was a win/win for those involved.

The most bad-ass server I've ever had the pleasure of working with was a Digital VAX 11/750 generations ago. It was *built* to be reliable from the very first rivet.

Oh sure, my pocket phone has far more power, memory, and storage. Despite the ample square footage of my "McMansion" house, It would not have fit in my kitchen. It ate power like global warming really was a myth. But as a server, it was in its own class.

It would automatically detect memory that was failing and rebuild from memory (like ECC) but then would remap that address so it would no longer be used.

You could upgrade its CPUs one at a time without shutting it down.

It was like a hoover with data, versioning files was intrinsic to how the O/S worked.

One time, the A/C in the computer room went out. It mapped *everything* in RAM to disk as the temperature rose and the chips became unreliable. We literally pulled the plug on it because it was completely unresponsive, as all operations were working directly off HDD. When the A/C was fixed and it was powered up late that night, it spooled all of RAM out of the HDD swap, and everybody's workstation resumed exactly where they had left off that afternoon - we couldn't find any data loss at all.

I will forever bow in deference to the greatest server I have ever had the pleasure of working on. How HP managed to acquire such a legacy and turn its back... part of me cries inside.

Sad as it is, you're not far from the truth. Sharks hate and love each other in equal parts, and when they find out someone under them fooled them, they do understand he's too dangerous to be there. But firing him can be dangerous, too - if he can fool you, who knows what else he's capable of? Making him an ally (temporarily, of course, there's no such thing as friendship among predators) is the wisest course of action.

That, in a nutshell, is why the biggest assholes get promoted instead of fired - because the ones making those decisions are the exact same kind of human trash.

Crysis 1's ending was great? :/

A lot of Slashdot back end code is being rewritten, and HTML5 is supposed to be part of the deal. All the people who actually work on the site and read your comments agree that Flash video is [insert bad word here].

... because of my disabilities, but I do have a friend do it. I rarely do major hardware upgrades too these days. :(