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six9
join:2001-12-03
Atlanta, GA
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| Re: Why change it? How about a better crime analogy:
You take a buddy to work and he leaves a bag of weed under the seat.
You go home and get caught speeding or run through a stop sign.
You get arrested for the weed. Case in point, Michael Irvin recently. It doesn't matter that it's not yours, it is in your possession.
I think the same thing can go for viruses, zombies, anything else. You ride with questionable individuals (unpatched PC on a high speed connection) and you get the consequences. | |
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TamaraB
Question The Current Paradigm
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join:2000-11-08
Brooklyn NYC
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Why change it? said by six9  :How about a better crime analogy:
There is much blame for the spam, phish, compromised-PC, identity-theft, credit-card theft pandemic to go around. Much of it has to do with reckless disregard by the user. But a lot of it has to do with the manufacturer. The manufacturer's disregard for safety, and the manufacturer's deceptive marketing and advertising practices.
If a car manufacturer produced a car which was easily broken into, whose locks were defective, which required almost daily "fixes" to keep intruders and car thieves out, and then advertised it as the most secure, and easily-driven, and maintained car on the market, then he should shoulder some of the blame, and a lot of the responsibility and cost. It is hard to blame every user for this pandemic, when the product itself is so defective, and requires almost daily fixes to maintain, even for the most conscientious owner.
What I find so amazing, is the total lack of responsibility ascribed to the manufacturer, even from those who have been injured by the defects due to no fault of their own. Where is the public outcry?
Why do you suppose that is? If this were a car, things would be very different; fines would be levied, the manufacturer would have to pay at least a portion of the damage.
Bob
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| | six9
join:2001-12-03
Atlanta, GA
·Comcast
| Re: Why change it? said by user=TamaraB :
The manufacturer's disregard for safety, and the manufacturer's deceptive marketing and advertising practices.
Alas... There you go. I hear ya man! But you can't possibly be talking about Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.
From how I read that, blame M$ for only allowing either admin or user for XP Home. (Yes, i know you can do it but it is a PITA to set up accounts that are more than user and less than admin) Face it, Joe Blow buying a Dell isn't going to drop an extra $119 on XP Pro so he can run limited users. That's what we do. And even if we pass on Pro at ordering, we use VLK copies so we don't deal with activation.
I cringed at what one of my users told me today. She said "a friend of mine downloaded Office XP for me off Limewire" and all I could think of was "what kind of viruses and spyware you must have."
I still feel ISPs have a hand in this. When they run the CD on machines, set up a proxy that blocks CWS, gator, etc. WE know how to get rid of it but grandma doesn't need to. Back in the days of @Home their CD set up proxies. That rocked if your IP was banned from a site. Back then IPs were static too. Gawd, for the old days. LOL! | |
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TamaraB
Question The Current Paradigm
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join:2000-11-08
Brooklyn NYC
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Why change it?said by six9 : Back then IPs were static too. Gawd, for the old days. LOL!
Yeah! I still use my Lynx, elm, and my NN as much as I can. It's getting more difficult. But NOTHING beats a good text-based client for speed and cleanliness! Them days are all but gone though 
Bob
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Motor Vessel - Tamara B.
43' Long-Range Trawler
Cape Elizebeth ME.
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