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Re:Gruber: Today's command line isn't dangerous, just conven... by ericwaller on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @07:52PM (#606286)
The new ones aren't dangerous because you can't actually do anything with them. As soon as I can send an email (or affect the outside world in any way) from the location bar, it becomes just as dangerous as the unix command line.
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Re:Gruber: Today's command line isn't dangerous, just conven... by bazbarfoo on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @08:29PM (#606318) 

  cd /
  rm *
essentially renders your machine useless. Surely it would be easy to make it less dangerous than this.
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Re:Gruber: Today's command line isn't dangerous, just conven... by ericwaller on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @08:49PM (#606328)
Of course it would be, my point is that less dangerous necessarily means less powerful. Though I'd agree that there are cases where the trade off is desirable, like `rm -rf /`.
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