Hi, >>Why is it that programmers always want to blame ordinary >>people and call them stupid?
> Partly because they are. Ordinary people are not trained in computer > security like they are trained in locking their home doors and cars, > and avoiding hot stoves and falling down from ladders and stuff. this is not stupidity, it's lack of education > Another reason for programmers to call users stupid is that users do > very unpredicted things that are so totally outside the programmer's > scope of imagination. this is not the users' stupidity, it's lack of imagination on the programmer's part. > "It's hard to build systems fool proof, because > idiots are so inventive." this is sheer arrogance which betrays the programmer's lack of education, lack of imagination and, yes, stupidity. -- Cheers, Bob
