John Smith wrote:


Well, you whole texts are confusing. They are written around a logic
which defies translation!

Well, JS. Why don't you design and implement this system. You don't like
my logic, and I am "wrong". I say it won't work, and gave my reasons.
Prove me wrong. Along the way, you'll become the richest man in the world.

I say people have enough trouble with their computers already to have
everything they own running on one. Because it won't be running. There
is no reason to believe that this setup you propose will be any more
reliable than what is already out there, and not being reliable now.

It isn't vision, it isn't being a Luddite, it's just that it isn't
practical. My Television is already accessing the internet. It's doing
it via software that isn't Microsoft Windows based, and avoids all the
vulnerabilities that platform has. My Telephone is IP based, and the
same for that. It works, it's not Windows. The weak point of my entire
home communication system is the computer internet access. And if you
don't have any trouble, you're one of the few. My Linux machine doesn't
have any particular problems, my Mac runs bareback. My Windows PC has to
be locked down like Fort knox. It's hard to imagine giving up my
presently operating systems to migrate to the weakest link of the chain.

But by all means, have at it. Remember us little folk.


My favorite part about Windows users is when I note a problem, they say
"Gee, I've never had a problem with my machine - it works flawlessly.
THen they start to tell me about the time a virus got into their
machine, and they ended up reformatting the drive and reinstalling
Windows, and the time they got their DLL's messed up and ended up
reformatting the drive and reinstalling Windows, and the time their
machine was zombified and they ended up reformatting the drive but it
was rootkitted and they have to reformat again, and then figured out
they had a problem in the BIOS. But they've never had a problem.

Even those who have a running computer don't know exactly what's on it.

I deal with repairing this stuff every day, and I have to tell ya, there
are a lot of intelligent people that for whatever reason, can't keep
their computers running.

Anyhow, have fun, no use of you arguing with the great unwashed like myself.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -