On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 07:57, Stuart Jansen wrote: > Yes, it does. A person jay-walking can cause an accident without > getting hurt himself. A slanderous statement injures the person > slandered, not the speaker. There's no magical "natural-selective > pressures" to prevent such behavior. On the other hand, a person that > opens an un-expected zip file attached to a suspicious email will > eventually have their system trashed. I'd call that educational if not > "natural-selective."
That's why you need to look at the likelihood of causing harm, and the probable magnitude of the damage. Cars are large hard objects generally traveling with lots of momentum. Experience shows that they are pretty dangerous. There have never been enough serious jay-walking accidents to justify more action than has been taken to prevent them. Users of personal computers, on the other hand, while never causing much serious physical harm to another person, have proven to be very good at causing a lot of lost time and money (and being annoying to us unix users) by spreading silly viruses like these. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
