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Comment Re: It's not incentives that are lacking... (Score 2) 160

And what if you are Grandma ? Are you going wipe out Grandma's savings with a fine or send her to jail because she clicked on that link?

Sure there will always be con artists, in the old days, they'd knock on your door, now they appear in your inbox. In either case, the solution is not to punish the victims.

are you expecting a base level of IT competence in everyone using IT in a society ? Perhaps yes, but when governments and companies are heading to an environment where you can only transact with them online, you're forcing everyone to use IT in some form - regardless of their ability to understand. The users are the passengers on the bus here. It's up to the industry to come up with systems, methods and techniques that involve minimal understanding from the users and certainly shouldn't be expecting users to clean up the mess the industry has created.

Comment Re:Stallman is an idiot.... (Score 1) 640

Oh that's very simple.

Work is not an appropriate place to discuss at which age victimization of women becomes moral, or whether or not "voluntary" pedophilia causes any actual harm.

I'm not unhinged, and there's a very good chance that someone like me is your boss. Roll your dice.

And if someone like DamnOregonian isn't your boss, you better hope its not me. No warnings.

I'd ask you imagine yourself talking about this in the workplace. Even if there are no women present, odds are that the men in the room will have daughters, wives, sisters, girlfriends - hell you might have as well.

Comment Re:Modern slavery (Score 1) 151

I'd imagine for some companies and the data they might be handling, anyone who could see a screenshot might have to be suitably cleared or authorised to see e.g. medical information, financial information. Certainly, the CEO of companies I've worked for were not permitted access to data being processed.

Sure, you could ensure that only a manager of that team of people could see the screenshots of members of that team, but doing that you end up with a whole hierarchy and sooner or later get to the same place where the data might be visible outside of the authorised team.

Comment Re:Historical authenticity got me (Score 2) 715

I think this is the key reason, yeah, all the stuff about catering to minorities is going to affect some people, but not most. EA have been churning out the same game for years now - is their policy going to be rotating around releasing WW1, WW2, Vietnam (60s/70s era) and modern day games that are increasingly similar and have annoying in game and DLC costs? It's a stale model that I think people are tired with it. Go and find a new game genre EA then you'll get sales again, until then stop regurgitating the same old content.

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