Hello Dave, Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 7:49:12 AM, you wrote: DK> The Internet is becoming to be treated in the same manner as DK> automobiles. I.e. "I just want it to work and don't care how it DK> works."
*Exactly*!!!!!! and Exactly why this is a Bad Thing (tm). When I drive my car, and if I run over someone, I am personally held liable for my actions in court. If I use my computer and it becomes infected with a virus because I like to open every attachment (because somebody said they love me), which in turn sends nasty little virus laden e-mails to everyone in my address book, I'm not held accountable except by maybe one of my recipients. We as techies have the unfortunate burden of trying to educate the masses on what is good and bad, and until the day comes where a user can be held liable for their mis-actions on a machine, everyone suffers. See: http://www.msnbc.com/news/961943.asp?0dm=C14MT&cp1=1 and http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25845-2003Sep4?language=printer I've cross-posted this to TBOT so we can continue, it's definitely becoming a dead horse on TBUDL.. Thanks. -- Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 2.00 under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
