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The Impact of Technophobes

Posted by michael on Thursday February 5, 2004 @05:34AM from the sourced-solely-from-wwwac-email-list dept.

fsharp writes "Most of us have experience with average folks requesting technical support. I have friends and family members that would be lost without my support. I opt for a sliding scale payment plan, usually dinner. At any rate, The New York Times has a nice piece on the impact of technophobes on the Internet (vis-a-vis MyDoom and other email-borne viruses) and their technologically adept friends and family."

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Re:My solution:My solution: by phiala · 2004-02-05 05:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

First off, does anyone else find it highly disturbing that a PhD is not only posting on Slashdot, but FIRST posting? I think the apocalypse is near.
Welcome to the apocalypse... by your logic a female PhD posting on Slashdot has GOT to signal the end of the world, right?

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Murphy's Law by rakerman · 2004-02-05 07:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

People don't understand what Murphy's Law really meant. What he was saying is, people will inevitably do things wrong, intentionally or accidentally. You need to DESIGN THE SYSTEM so that it makes doing something wrong very difficult (or impossible) and so that if you do manage to do something wrong, it fails gracefully.

Microsoft Windows has almost none of those design attributes.