RE: guilty until proven innocent?

["Henderson, Dennis K." <Dennis.Henderson () umb com>]

Nick responded to Larry,

> He was "under attack" _at his school_ for his use of _school 
> computing resources_.  If he truly only did use Safari on the 
> schools (possibly
> Mac-only) systems, I can easily see him "honestly" saying "I 
> never use IE, only Safari" and that could be true _in that 
> computing environment_, and it's certainly much easier to say 
> and sounds better, though is not more or less contextually 
> truthful, than the possibly complete "At school I never use 
> IE, only Safarai, whereas at home I use Firefox except when 
> editing my blog".
>
> I agree it seems contradictory given what little we _really_ 
> know of all the "facts" and I really don't care one way or 
> the other.  I was just pointing out that we should not rush 
> to judgement either way on such extremely slight information...

Especially with today's kids who live in a vignetted world. You ask a
question and you only get the bare minimum of information back, not a
fully cross-examined response... 


:)

Dennis



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