...fair point, but wouldn't you agree that the effect of inconveniencing millions due to the lack of ability of a comparative handful of users to use their computers properly is somewhat anti-rational?
It's like saying you have to have a representative of the marketing watchdogs come round and help you use your microwave oven because their is an increase in the number of reports of people putting tinfoil containers in them, no?..oh and I'm not American, sorry;)
Isn't it primarily the responsibility of the end user to monitor their own internet activity/security of their connection? If so, there can be no justification in infinging the rights of millions of others because of a few hundred people who have invested in technology they don't understand/can't manage.
John St. Pumping Station has obviously found some way of overcoming The Second Law of Thermodynamics as: 'the water's cold will be extracted and used to lower the temperature in downtown buildings'.
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...fair point, but wouldn't you agree that the effect of inconveniencing millions due to the lack of ability of a comparative handful of users to use their computers properly is somewhat anti-rational? It's like saying you have to have a representative of the marketing watchdogs come round and help you use your microwave oven because their is an increase in the number of reports of people putting tinfoil containers in them, no? ..oh and I'm not American, sorry ;)
Isn't it primarily the responsibility of the end user to monitor their own internet activity/security of their connection? If so, there can be no justification in infinging the rights of millions of others because of a few hundred people who have invested in technology they don't understand/can't manage.
Maybe *I'm* being harsh/simple?
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Not with the WIMP desktop though. *Everybody* knows that the Archimedes range got there first.
Apple they said they did, but they didn't.
This shows that they pre-dated Microsoft at stealing other peoples' ideas too.
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John St. Pumping Station has obviously found some way of overcoming The Second Law of Thermodynamics as:
'the water's cold will be extracted and used to lower the temperature in downtown buildings'.
Unit for Cold anyone?