[126954] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 9 08:43:45 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201006091127.o59BR8HQ001836@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:40:06 -0700
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 9, 2010, at 4:27 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
>> I'm all for that, but, point is that people who fail to meet that =
standard are
>> currently getting a free ride. IMHO, they should pay and they should =
have
>> the recourse of being (at least partially) reimbursed by their =
at-fault software
>> vendors for contributory negligence.
>=20
> Great idea. You know, I've got a great solution for global warming.
> Let's hold all the car owners accountable for all the greenhouse gases
> their cars belch out, and let them have the recourse of being (at =
least
> partially) reimbursed by their at-fault car manufacturers and gasoline
> distributors for contributory negligence.
>=20
1. My car emits very little greenhouse gas, so, I'm cool with that. =
Sounds
great to me. (I drive a Prius).
2. Manufacturers are held liable for contributory negligence when =
the
design of their vehicle is unsafe and causes an accident.
3. We're not talking about greenhouse gasses here... We're talking
about car-wrecks on the information superhighway caused by
a combination of irresponsible operators and poor vehicle =
design.
> See how insane that sounds?
>=20
Actually, it sounds reasonably sane to me, but, it's not a good analogy
as noted above, so, the relative merits are mostly irrelevant.
Owen
