Network stupidity Part II

[matrixmann]

If you build a computer into a car, do not complain if a 12-years-old child once finds out how to turn this thing into his slave. At the very first shut up if you do not manage to install a cheap anti-virus software at least.
A computer does not belong into a car; humans even survived driving a car at a time where no one was thinking about a computer.
They even survived riding a horse! Can you imagine how stupid a horse would look if you added the computer of a plane to it?
That would be like shooting with a RPG-rocket to get rid of some annoying birds.

Your hysteric desire for protection is a disgust in the eye of what you came from.
You want protection for situations where is none because the nature of the matter does contradict it.

A child also does not belong to a public network.
Giving him access to a computer and letting him surf the network is like leaving him alone in the greatest ghetto you know. Would you leave your kid alone running around between drug dealers, whores, robbers, pedophiles and a lot of weapons?
Surely not.

...But if it is tied to a machine, you do that without hesitation.

Your race does not even dare to think about what it is doing.
You do not even dare to think what is the nature of what you are doing and if it suits your constant needs for protection and guaranteed survival.
Although you have gotten rid of a few difficulties by settling down and living in easier circumstances, you forgot that the nature of life itself does not change by that.
Life is dangerous, life is a battle for survival, life is the possibility to die, so why don't you get that there is no absolute safety and if you want it you have to care for it by yourself?
You have forgotten a lot of things, how things work - and that is the reason why so much is running the wrong way. Why so many things walk the way of destruction.
And it doesn't seem as if you really want to remember...

Comments

[devifemme.livejournal.com]

Hi -- thought I ought to comment here, giving you a chance to misunderstand ME. Just kidding -- or apologizing for seeming unfriendly, over on my LJ.

I sort of agree that computers don't belong in cars -- except that they ARE a lot more trouble-free nowadays. I'm old enough to remember computer-less autos -- getting the goddamned "points" aligned in the distributor; spark plugs fouling; carburators ditto.

When I lived in Munich (the 80s), I had an old MG. Riiiiight, a foreign car in the US -- and a foreign car in Germany. The stupid (literally!) thing had those antique British electricals, failing just when you needed to go someplace.

Now I have a 7-year-old Mustang, which I bought new. It still functions perfectly.