On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:34:50AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:28:35PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > PS We don't give guns to children, do we? > > What the hell does this have to do with running services on a freaking > computer connected to the Internet? You are beginning to sound like a > troll.
You don't give a gun to a child because it is likely they will hurt themselves or others because they don't know what it does. Similarly, running a service without knowing what it does can hurt the operator, and leave their box open to attacks being launched from their box, thereby hurting others. I think it is quite fitting. > > HINT: It's difficult to kill someone with a computer without regard to > whether the computer operator is a child. Obfuscating the issue with > inane comparisons to loaded political issues generally means you can't > argue your original position effectively. > Well, it's kind of hard to argue a point, when pople start steering the discussion in bizzare directions. I thought maybe I had to put it in simpler terms. Aparently that was not a good idea, as now that has born yet another pointless post. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
