On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:37:59 -0800 John Oram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adding on to what Sam said [......] <snip> > So the folks who get burned by a virus are the same sorta folks who keep > on driving when the warning lights on their car's dash panel turn red. > Which keep a lot of technicians employed fixing those sorts of stupid > oversights. Well said, John. Excellent analogy. > I think Sam would go along with the statement that if you got a virus > you probably weren't paying attention to what are the basic operator > lessons of Internet operation. This is a statement that I agree with; however, I would like to comment that Micro$oft fails to explain adequately to their customers the defectiveness of the design of their software and the safeguards one can resort to in order to protect himself. Manufacturer's of other products which can cause great damage if used improperly usually take great care to print warnings in big red boldface type advising the user never to rely on the safety mechanism, even if the feature has no known design defect. My chain saw manual is so thorough in its coverage of safety considerations that it leaves none of the fine points uncovered. It even warns users about the problems that can result from felling trees across hiways without first checking to see if any cars are coming. We should always keep a good lookout, but never a bad OutLook. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
