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So a "GAME DESIGNER" is questioning the profesionality of software engineers. Is there no one who sees the absurdity of that?
And to answer the question: no. Not all people who write software are software engineers. You should only call software engineers software engineers. The fact that Google docs go down now and then doesn't make software engineers not engineers. But using it as an argument proves you don't know what you're talking about, because apparently you know nothing about the complexity of the infrastructure that is necessary to keep something like Google Docs up and running. None of its software parts need to fail in order for the service the stop working. But hey, you're just a "GAME " DESIGNER"".
But how could this cause any damage to anyone? Surely, they have nothing to fear if they have nothing to hide, right?
It offends me when the CIA, some media or anyone else behaves as if a) this is a serious problem and b) we should give anything more than 0 shits.
Right, its neither gulag nor concentration camp. Lots of people made it out of them alive. Note that every major power in WW II had concentration camps (US used them for people of Japanese heritage) and many of them, including some in Third Reich, had better conditions than Gitmo.
Look, you made the comparison.
Scientific theories never become laws, that's just not how this works. Theories are units of knowledge that include everything we know and think about a subject and include, not become, laws.
I don't get any of this. Any school I ever was in got evacuated if there was even slightest suspicion that there is anything explosive inside and a bomb squad got called in. This school just carried on with the classes while the boy was locked in a room with his clock. So these "erring on the side of the cation" arguments must be wrong too.
You say you live in the real world.... But real world is the place where self-driving cars have: a) Been on the roads for years, their widespread deployment being limited by legislature. b) Been shown to be way safer than human drivers.
Boy sends a naked picture to a girl, gets a record. She then sends the picture to host of other people with the clear intent to hurt the boy, but that's fine. How was he distributing the picture and she wasn't? That's just... exactly how the world works. Carry on.