[CentOS] C5 : Firefox 38 bug

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Sun Jun 14 13:03:17 UTC 2015


On Sat, June 13, 2015 17:56, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

>
> As I said about these services here (KGB, CIA, MI-6, ...) there
> is no "ex" for their agents. The only way one retired from these
> organizations is dead, feet first dead.
>

A bit hyperbolic.  One could with as much justification state that
there is no such thing as an ex-marine, an ex-seal, an ex-commissioned
officer, or an ex-almost-any-sensitive-position that has to do with
the running of a modern industrial state.  Various state-secret laws
effectively see to that if nothing else.

In any case, all these organizations are based on task-completion and
need-to-know principles.  Once you are no longer tasked then you are
effectively retired, even if still employed, until re-tasked.  Once
you are more-or-less permanently 'untasked' then the only question is
which budget does your paycheck offset.

This is not to say that I disagree with the underlying point, only
that it is a bit overly selective in its formulation.

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