On 9 March 2015 at 10:40, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> When someone says a compulsory password quality policy is actionable, > >> they are telling me my judgement cannot be trusted for my own device, > >> without respect to context. And yet I see other OS's, distros, mobile > >> devices, none of which have such a requirement or are yet even more > >> permissive, and that makes me distrust these proponents. A gap in > >> trust has formed, and widens as proponents don't even acknowledge such > >> concerns and push for the change violating myriad long standing > >> expectations in the relationship between user, device and OS. But I > >> must comply if I depend on the GUI installer, and this abrogation > >> constitutes a misfeasance. That makes me mad because it's unfair. > >> > >> I challenge you to find a single flaw in that sequence. > >> > > > > There are multiple ways. I could go to the extreme and say your first > > questionable judgement was that you used a distribution and allowed > others > > to decide for you what packages were in the core, which versions, which > > compiler options. Coming in at the end and saying 'woah this is takes > away > > my rights from my device.' is really closing the doors after the barn. > > However that would just make take the argument to the next Godwin level > and > > waste a lot of electrons. > > Except, you just did. You didn't actually refrain. > > You are correct. I was snide, over-the-top and rude. What I said was inexcusable and wrong. I apologize and withdraw from this conversation. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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