[69744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 19 15:40:28 2004
To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:10:32 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:39:51 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:10:32 EDT, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:
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> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:12:16 -0400, Chris Brenton wrote:
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> > An uneducated
> >end user is not something you can fix with a service pack.
>
>
> A profound point, again highlighting the fact that there
> are no technical solutions to this problem. (Though
> technical measures to enhance traceability are a big help.)
Well, there *are* technical solutions, but over the last few hundred years
we've managed to essentially stop Darwinian selection against idiots, and we as
a society seem to frown on the forced sterilization of same.
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