[D-community-offtopic] wacky question

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sat Jun 22 06:05:51 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 17:23 -0400, Greg wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 20:40 +0200, Slavko wrote:
> > Dňa 20.06.2013 17:12 Greg  wrote / napísal(a):
> > 
> > > I'm just wondering what debian does to check and protect its users, so
> > > fuck me, right?
> > 
> > Your protection is your responsibility. The Debian (and other OS) can
> > only help you with this. Of course, some can do it better and another
> > no. An some can criminalize you, when you want to see what is inside (by
> > license violation), but these last are then taking responsibility, but
> > do you really want to loose your own responsibility?
> > 
> > IMO, if you want to transmit your responsibility, you must select
> > another model of OS, than Debian is.
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> 
> So I have no right to ask to to even think about how software is built
> or made available by debian? To protect myself I have but to debug every
> line of code I use and build it all myself, on CPU's I forged in my
> backyard smithy? Perhaps I could launch my own satellites to ensure safe
> global access to a self-made internet. Iran has gone down that path,
> perhaps we should all do likewise, or just go live in a cave or use
> openbsd machines with the network cards pulled out? What if they get to
> Theo? Then I'm done for!

An electromagnetic isolated cave is a good idea.

Btw. what if somebody knows how to do prime factrisaton?
http://www.mathsisfun.com/prime-factorization.html


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such kinds of discussions.




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