Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:00:11
Message-Id: 20100129215936.3a4140b6@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up... by Iain Buchanan
1 On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:39:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
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3 > I don't think his objections are just related to public vs private. As
4 > Neil said, there's the security problem to begin with, where one large
5 > government data centre has more data to compromise that a small one...
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7 On the other hand, centralised storage means you shouldn't get idiots
8 posting out CDs with millions of people's bank account details. There
9 again, if the admins are lax enough to allow people to do this,
10 and people are daft enough to do it, they would have real trouble
11 understanding the concept of central storage :(
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 First Law of Laboratory Work:
18 Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up... Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>