>
> Actually, if *YOU* had any sense at all, you'd let them get
> trashed and fried and stop doing Microsoft's QA work for
> them.
>
> Maybe when enough people are snapped by enough IE virii, then
> the software will be made more secure from the beginning - thus
> meaning that you have to send fewer mails like this, thus
> making the Internets a safer place for (l)users.
Perhaps your internet connections are so fat that you have suffered no
appreciable performance loss for a large part of this year from all the
stupidly avoidable viruses that went around. I'm not so lucky.
Sure, I'd prefer that M$ did their own goddamm security work from the
beginning. But I'm not going to not do what I know is good right now
(trying to cut down on internet insecurity in the only way currently
possible) just because I have some wide-eyed dream about how much better
it would be if I could have things another, currently impossible way.
Nietzsche said it better: "Too often we know the good without doing it,
because we also know the better without being able to do it."
E
--
Erik Curiel
sometime web-engineer/almost philosopher
"The affairs of human beings are not worthy of great seriousness,
and yet we must take them seriously."
---Plato, *The Laws*
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