On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Pedro Sam wrote: > Here's another analogy, I leave my legally owned and licensed firearm > in plain view in the fore mentioned car. Robbers then proceed to > steal my big ass gun and rob a bank ... well, you see where this is > headed.
I can see where you are trying to FORCE it. But your pathetic attempt to equate a common household appliance to a dangerous weapon is just that - pathetic. Carry this to its logical, absurd extreme: If someone broke into MY house, stole my COMPUTER, and then used it to unleash a virus onto the internet, why the hell would I be liable for that criminal MISuse of something that I owned and cared for as a simple TOOL in my home? Normal gun handling requires that even at home we lock up the gun. Do you lock up your toaster? Do you padlock your fridge or VCR? When you BUY them, are you told there are restrictions and regulations governing their use? Let's think about the VCR before we answer. There actually ARE regulations about VCR's. Things you may not copy or create. So hey, you leave your VCR on the front seat of the car, and someone steals it and uses it to make pirated videos and sells them, are YOU liable for it? Your whole reasoning process is flawed by the fact that computers are not inherently dangerous until someone commits a criminal act to make them so. The only thing you have approaching an 'argument' is that telecommunications have made the 'theft' of my computer easy to do and easy to do un-noticed. And this is at best an argument for educating people on the potential mis-use of their appliances. We all learn not to play with matches. But we don't get sued for the damage when someone steals them and uses them to commit arson. Not even if they were sitting in the front of an unlocked car. I agree that people could *really* use some education on this subject. I work helpdesk. I *do* that every day. But the idea of suing people for not having been educated? Stupid. Why don't you sue the computer manufacturers for failing to include proper *instructions* on the necessity of installing additional software? Or better still, why not sue the computer/software manufacturers for producing an unsafe product? Now THERE is an argument for culpability..... - Charles ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
