Re: Points on your Internet driver's license

[John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>]

My inbox overflows with complaints about the analogy, and the
fact that it's the appliances that are shipped broken...   I hereby
acknowledge the faulty analogy, you can discard your edit buffer
if you're in the process of sending me such a note...  :-)

Hopefully, the appliances (e.g. MS Windows) will get better over
time, but in the meanwhile, how do we limit the damage?  The
end-user wants email and web access, and we give him raw IP
access and watch the fireworks...  

If user education is the answer, then let the user get educated
enough to figure out he's NAT'ed and proxied, and then ask to
have the raw IP service.

/John


At 11:26 AM -0700 6/13/04, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 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