Comment Re:Sign of OSS maturity (Score 1) 241
I'd say it's a big sign of a certain OSS developer's immaturity.
Shutting down a city's public spaces destroys trust, [blah blah blah]. And to what end?
Catching the people who injured 170 people and killed 3 in a terrorist attack.
Far more lives were affected by the lockdown than by the bombing itself. Who are these hypothetical "someone"s you speak of? The victims' families?
I meant affected in a non-trivial way. My life has been "affected" by reading about it, and someone who was advised to stay indoors while they caught the suspects was "affected", but to say your life has been affected by it in a way that can be counted against someone who had a leg blown off is an insult.
Civil panic would be a horrible way to "honor" the death of one of my loved ones.
Civil panic being "Please stay indoors while we finish chasing down the other person who did this to your loved ones" ? I guess in that situation you would probably have places you need to be though, and who cares if having everyone moving around while an armed chase plays out makes casualties/hostage taking/escape more likely?
If they ever get 20 guys again like 9/11 and they all just get rifles and randomly start shooting people all over the country like the Washington sniper did this countries going to become a police state if the police react like this.
Right; more people are killed by car accidents every day than by 20 snipers taking out people at random across the country. I say in that situation the police should ignore the snipers and go look for drunk drivers and speeding!
Frankly until terrorists are killing more people within the US than cancer and heart disease put together, I don't see much point going after it.
It becomes normal to do what some community colleges in my area are doing, which is to have an active shooter drill once a year in which adult college students are locked in a dark room for 30 minutes and told they can't leave. (This passive response is, BTW, not at all in line with what experts recommend in such a situation.)
Awwww.. did that 30 minute emergency drill ruin your day?
And I thought the people whos limbs were blown off and children were killed had it bad.. We need to realign our priorities!
I can't believe people are saying to the effect of "only three people died, less than the deaths caused by normal crime." Surely there is a difference between those looking to maim hundreds of innocent people and the sum of everyday crime?
How can people be so wishy-washy about this? A couple of complete assholes have just ruined hundreds of peoples' lives, and people feel conflicted about the manhunt that ended in their death and arrest?
"Anonymous coward" and proud of it...
Don't give a damn, and indifferent about it...
But I know enough to ask questions. I have had grave concerns about the validity of their design since I first read about it on slashdot some years back. It seemed to me the case had not been made that bitcoin was not vulnerable to rapid destruction of value, due to attacks on fundamental flaws in its design.
Hard-hitting analysis there.. Any cryptographers want to walk us through the technical issues raised here, maybe allay our fears?
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein
