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For the last 1000 years, swords have typically been constructed with a guard. It's a simple and useful safety feature, and it almost never prevents an intended
by auntienomen 11y ago
For the last 1000 years, swords have typically been constructed with a guard. It's a simple and useful safety feature, and it almost never prevents an intended use. Same for disallowing '/' as the target of rm.
- danielweber 11y agoAfter every disaster, you can come up with a process that would have stopped that specific disaster. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to implement that process everywhere.
- auntienomen 11y agoAnd yet swords have guards. If a disaster recurs repeatedly -- and if fixing it costs essentially nothing -- then it should be fixed.
- bryanrasmussen 11y agoAnd after every disaster that occurs again and again you might increase your interest in averting the next disaster.
- danso 11y agoIt's too bad you're being downvoted. It was not too long ago that people blamed the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash on how the cockpit door was designed to protect against hijackers, post 9/11: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-cockpit-door-lock.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/26/world/europe/g...
- Semyaz 11y agoIt's worth noting that since 2006 the default behavior for "rm -rf /" is to exit immediately with warnings. http://superuser.com/questions/542978/is-it-possible-to-remove-the-root-directory http://superuser.com/questions/542978/is-it-possible-to-remo...
- Impl0x 11y agoI don't want to sound fussy, but sword guards aren't designed to protect the user from the sword, they're for protecting the user from other swords. That they make using a sword safer is a side-effect. I agree with the point you're making though.