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Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by nitrogen on Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:14PM (#9468995)
When coding, I have to come up with sufficiently descriptive names for all methods, all internal variables, all classes, all modules to fit those classes in. Sometimes I feel the urge to cheat, to give less than fully descriptive names for things.

But do you name your method that erases the whole system super_fun_happy_data_protection_enforcement_method()?

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Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by vinceguidry on Friday May 01, 2015 @09:57AM (#9471258)
By this analogy it would be a protect_data_transport method written by an amateur that has a bunch of nasty race conditions and buffer overflows. You're assuming malice on the part of the politicians when there's really no reason to. Just because we know the implications of the law they passed doesn't mean they would.
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Re:The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, b... by nitrogen on Friday May 01, 2015 @09:11PM (#9475445)
Wasn't the original PATRIOT act written before Sept. 11, 2001? The frequency with which laws are named grossly inappropriately suggests something a bit more sinister than incompetence, even if it's not 100% malice.
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