And one week later a massive explosion in West, Texas killed a lot more people. Yet somehow we only talk about the Boston bombers.
It is a theater, but the NSA got way too far. And even the motto of "100% security" by Obama is complete nonsense. Because it didn't stop the massive explosion in West, Texas, nor the Boston bombings.
If you're trying to equate the psychological impact of things like 9/11 to the equivalent number of coal deaths or traffic accidents then I'm not sure the lack of logical thinking is limited to them.
Treating humans like they should be Vulcans is one of the most illogical things of all. People are not Vulcans, and any systematic policy that fails to take that into account is doomed to failure.
> If you're trying to equate the psychological impact of things like 9/11 to the equivalent number of coal deaths or traffic accidents then I'm not sure the lack of logical thinking is limited to them.
The executive branch of US gov, also didn't do one bit to relax the minds of "us". Instead they waved the red (and the US-) flag quite a lot and they put oil on the flame of fear. That by itself is criminal enough. But they went further and further... We know the history.
Yes, I remember that. Good point. And of course the drip-drip of car accidents and alcohol use &c.
Wasn't it Shneier who said that it wasn't the things you read about in the paper (by definition rare and exotic) that you had to watch out for but the banal ordinary things?
The potential for Rust to innovate in a space completely dominated by C and C++ in the past decade has piked the interest of people who had never considered any other language for development.
Go, in contrast, is fairly unremarkable language. That doesn't make it bad in any way (tried and true combined with a primary emphasis in maintainable software is a winning combo), it's just that it's attacking a space which many other languages have dealt with before.
> I bet that if I showed you a random 100 lines from the "LibreSSL" code and a random 100 lines from the "OpenSSL" code, stripping out all identifiers, that you wouldn't be able to tell which library is which by judging quality alone.
That's quite easy. In 100 lines of OpenSSL you have 6 nested #ifdefs and the code is unreadable formatted.
Of course we don't live in Plan-9's 9P world, and I don't think we will ever live in that world, but if you think about it, it makes a lot more sense. In every aspect. 9P could make lots of troubled / tied (think XML standard such as WebDAV) / historical standards (FTP, NFS) obsolete. It is sane, simple, fast and secure because it is just a stream of bytes, displayed as a filesystem. There is no need for tons of librarycode. And http/0.2 could be backwards compatible. With http/0.2 you could also have session id. Besides that, with mounting httpfs there is no absolute need for a browser. You could use the standard commandline tools, altough the browser is gonna be used in almost any case.
All I wanna say is that I agree with your ideas. HTTP/2 is probably gonna have a long breath, so thinking it over, and start from scratch would be a good idea IMO. With 9P it could be a real dealmaker.
It is a theater, but the NSA got way too far. And even the motto of "100% security" by Obama is complete nonsense. Because it didn't stop the massive explosion in West, Texas, nor the Boston bombings.
Their problem is a lack of logical thinking.