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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by CapacitorSet on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:51PM (#16141622)
>What is interesting that employee probably meant no harm, but compare this to that SWAT murder a month earlier.

Swatting is intentional, triggering the alert wasn't (at least, so it seems). It's not like the operator pressed the button knowing that it would trigger an alert and expected it not to be taken seriously; he didn't mean to trigger the alert at all.

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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by dzhiurgis on Saturday January 13, 2018 @06:44PM (#16142030)
What I am pointing at is the paradox of intention.

Ongoing car slams into you and kills your whole family while you were driving drunk; you go to jail for manslaughter and get sued by other driver for all you've got.

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