begin quoting Alan as of Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:46:14AM -0700: > On Fri, March 14, 2008 2:00 am, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > > > It seems like we are trying unusually hard to excuse the ignorance of > > those who would pay for bandwidth by the byte yet leave an access point > > open. Normally the kplug crowd comes down pretty mercilessly on > > ignorance. Why the change of heart? > > Ignorance is one thing. > Taking advantage of ignorance is something else entirely.
Yup. And encouraging ignorance / penalizing education is something different still. Solutions that require someone else to extra work for your benefit are crappy solutions. -- Externalization of a cost is natural, but something is lost if we mandate it. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
