9th May 2004, 9:43 PM
SOME of us don't download illegal ROM images.
And no, half of our generation is not making viruses. A much smaller part is.
Your examples of "warnings" from e-mails and pop-ups really aren't warnings. They are spam, leading generally to spyware and horrible software that eats up resources. If you get a pop-up saying "WARNING! Your computer is infected with about a billion bad things, including DEMONS!", you can trust me in this, NONE of them, not a single one, and I DO know this as a fact so don't say "you never know", are actually searching your machine and finding them, nor CAN they for that matter. The e-mails, BEING spam, come from liars. I never once got a bulk mailing about something I actually WANT. Never have I recieved an ad for eTrust Innoculate, or the latest Nintendo game, in some unsolicited bulk mailing, or "spam". The average person knows better than to listen to them, and those that DO suddenly find their computers completely turned to karp, and then they call me... I really need to start charging...
Anyway, that aside, yes there are OTHER reasons they would know about it, but that doesn't matter. You differentiate fault and blame, but they mean the exact SAME thing. I just looked it up, they are synonyms for each other under one common definition (the others are for totally different things, like "the fault in the engine's design" and such), with not a single difference between the definitions. You may have made up your own difference, but there's not. There really isn't a word that means "responsible but not, ya know, actually responsible, for something... ya know? Man, are you guys hungry? I'm hungry man. Let's go get something to eat.". Now, I really don't mean to hound on your views or anything, but honestly, what the world is like and what we EXPECT are two different things. Ever heard the standard criminal expression "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time"? For example, if you live in the slums, the obvious protection is to LEAVE, but honestly, how many do? Does that mean they are in any way at fault when someone shoots them through the walls in an accidental drive by? Does that mean they are at fault if, say, they forgot to MOVE A DRESSER IN FRONT OF THE DOOR (kinda needed) one night? The victim being open and vulnerable is NOT cause to put any sort of fault on them. It's like in anime when some samurai just after slaying an entire village says "you have no one to blame but yourself for being so weak".
And no, half of our generation is not making viruses. A much smaller part is.
Your examples of "warnings" from e-mails and pop-ups really aren't warnings. They are spam, leading generally to spyware and horrible software that eats up resources. If you get a pop-up saying "WARNING! Your computer is infected with about a billion bad things, including DEMONS!", you can trust me in this, NONE of them, not a single one, and I DO know this as a fact so don't say "you never know", are actually searching your machine and finding them, nor CAN they for that matter. The e-mails, BEING spam, come from liars. I never once got a bulk mailing about something I actually WANT. Never have I recieved an ad for eTrust Innoculate, or the latest Nintendo game, in some unsolicited bulk mailing, or "spam". The average person knows better than to listen to them, and those that DO suddenly find their computers completely turned to karp, and then they call me... I really need to start charging...
Anyway, that aside, yes there are OTHER reasons they would know about it, but that doesn't matter. You differentiate fault and blame, but they mean the exact SAME thing. I just looked it up, they are synonyms for each other under one common definition (the others are for totally different things, like "the fault in the engine's design" and such), with not a single difference between the definitions. You may have made up your own difference, but there's not. There really isn't a word that means "responsible but not, ya know, actually responsible, for something... ya know? Man, are you guys hungry? I'm hungry man. Let's go get something to eat.". Now, I really don't mean to hound on your views or anything, but honestly, what the world is like and what we EXPECT are two different things. Ever heard the standard criminal expression "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time"? For example, if you live in the slums, the obvious protection is to LEAVE, but honestly, how many do? Does that mean they are in any way at fault when someone shoots them through the walls in an accidental drive by? Does that mean they are at fault if, say, they forgot to MOVE A DRESSER IN FRONT OF THE DOOR (kinda needed) one night? The victim being open and vulnerable is NOT cause to put any sort of fault on them. It's like in anime when some samurai just after slaying an entire village says "you have no one to blame but yourself for being so weak".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)