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Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by foota on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:06PM (#14318639)
I disagree with the "whoever is in office part". I believe there are several contenders for the 2020 election that would ramp down.
Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by malandrew on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:31PM (#14318795)
It was supposed toramp down under Obama. It didn't. The man was a fraud. Who in 2020 won't be the new boss, same as the old boss?
Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by coldtea on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:47PM (#14318905)
That's what people said when Obama was first running.
Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by splintercell on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:14AM (#14324084)
If we have to rely on the next guy, then don't you think this reveals a fundamental flaw in our system?

Imagine if you're designing a system, and you notice that a hacker has exploited some issue and is causing damage, do you really tell people complaining about the exploit as "Not all our customers are going to exploit this issue, the next guy who accesses our system would definitely not use this exploit.

You don't see an architectural problem here?

Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by d0lph on Friday May 12, 2017 @11:02AM (#14324546)
America is a democratic nation, this is a choice not an exploit. It's a feature not a bug.
Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by splintercell on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:05AM (#14342116)
America is not a democratic nation (that's like saying all bugs were written by the programmer so all bugs are features). Democracy was tried in Greece and even Romans didn't use it.

The sheer fact that we have a constitution to limit the powers of the democratically elected govt means that we applied a patch on democracy from beginning itself.

If relying on the goodness of the govt were a feature, then we wouldn't need a constitution (which technically isn't even a patch but rather a unit test supplied with the system, which in itself can be modified).

Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by d0lph on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:32PM (#14344410)
A republic is basically democracy with a few extra steps added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by splintercell on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:06PM (#14344678)
Yeah you're not getting the point here. I am trying to show you problem with your thinking about the system, and you think as if I don't know enough to make an ignorant point when it doesn't even look like you read my comment fully.