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Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT)


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:39:51 -0400

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:10:32 EDT, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:12:16 -0400, Chris Brenton wrote:

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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