Claudia de Luna wrote: >... To continue with the automotive analogies, it is the >equivalent of making the highway responsible for not getting injured in >a car accident. Rather than looking to the car manufacturers to build >better, stronger, more resilient cars, its like looking at CalTrans and >asking them to provide this function. Doesn't quite fit. Not their >job.
I think you'd be surprised at how much of that task Caltrans (and other transportation agencies, for example cities and counties) considers to be their job. Why are stop signs and signals placed so frequently? Why do so many signals have protected left-turn phases? Why does Caltrans redesign an interchange to avoid mixing on- and off-ramp traffic, even at the expense of long, one-lane access roads? I agree that personal responsibility is the only approach which makes real sense. Encrypt your data. Drive carefully. Don't depend on your ISP or Caltrans to make things safe. But watch out: they may try to do so anyway, and cause you much frustration. Caltrans may close a convenient exit. Your ISP may decide that you need to be protected from spam, even if you would prefer to protect yourself. -- Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA "You ain't goin' nowhere, son." [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 714 434 7359 -- Grand Ole Opry manager to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elvis Presley, 1954
