[71377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Points on your Internet driver's license
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Jun 13 14:26:44 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:26:06 -0700
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> In most states, the power company cannot connect service to a home
> or business until it has been inspected by a building inspector... This
> is to keep the number of fried customers to the lower possible value.
> And yes, it is possible to do your own power box work, but expect the
> inspector to be very thorough if you aren't also a licensed electrician.
>
> So, who's checking these local LAN's to make sure they don't melt or
> burst into flame once hooked up?
very broken analogy. as opposed to the house wiring, the lan
is not the problem. it's the stove, aka ms windoze. and you
don't need to go to the home to inspect it, you know it was
broken when it was shipped from the factory. and the user
was neither sufficiently warned nor sufficiently educated on
how to avoid its worst risks.
randy
