But it's nice to have a pipe dream....a world full of mildly informed Internet users.....ahhhhh we would all sleep better at night.
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From: Marlon Moyer
To: CF-Community
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:02 PM
Subject: RE: On stupidity & Michael Dinowitz
Back to the license thing....A driver's license doesn't require you to be
able to perform maintenance on a car. It doesn't even require that you keep
your car in tune to avoid polluting those around you. A drivers license
only requires that you know how to operate the gas pedal, steering wheel and
obey traffic signs. How does this equate to an internet license that would
require a user to know how to perform maintenance & know how to identify
infections/scams. I think you are holding the computer user to a higher
standard than most any other tool in the world. I believe you should be
holding the programmers responsible.
I'm in the process of building a house right now and when I went to rent a
bobcat, I received a lot more instructions about safety than when I went to
buy a computer. Actually, they told me nothing about firewalls, viruses
and such. Additionally, why is it that when you set up WinXP it will
automatically configure your internet connection but yet, it won't limit the
connections only to/from windowsupdate.com? Is that the user's fault?
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