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From: JohnT on 29 Jul 2006 13:46 "Martin" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:pvtmc2pcgogdvt6q1q2uav7iprlq15sja4(a)4ax.com... > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:50:41 +0100, "JohnT" > <johnhillriseDONOTSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>news:scbmc2tl4ciecgt3atgfc1ojh9i2h776vt(a)4ax.com... >>> Jim Ley writes: >>> >>>> Of course it is, designing the system so it cannot run untrusted code >>>> is absolutely virus protection, it was part of the design constraints. >>> >>> Running trusted code and actively protecting against viruses are two >>> different things. Virus attacks are unlikely in a wristwatch. >> >>I should think that it is certainly possible for the uplink from >>Braunsweig >>to be deliberately corrupted. You have chosen a very bad example. OTOH my >>refrigerator doesn't contact the outside world so is probably safe from >>attack. > > Who do you think turns the light back on after you have shut the door? > -- I never thought of that. Perhaps one of the extra-terrestrials whom Mixi has been trying to contact? JohnT
From: JohnT on 29 Jul 2006 13:54 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:6s1nc2djs7pgnetsluga6lg1ah79h9jecl(a)4ax.com... > barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk writes: > >> By your own account, your only employment is as an English teacher and >> tour guide. > > So a doctor without a job is no longer a doctor? > I was in the computer industry from 1964 until the 199s. I am now retired. So I am not now in the computer industry. Martin was in the computer industry for many years. He is now retired. He is not now in the computer industry. You were transferred to France when employed in the computer industry. You lost your job, for whatever reason and you are now a teacher of American English and a tour guide. You are definitely, certainly, unequivocally, NOT in the computer industry. And yes, I am still a Doctor even though I am retired but it would be extremely ill-mannered to parade any academic or professional qualifications which are not now being used. JohnT
From: JohnT on 29 Jul 2006 13:55 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:h22nc2lu5ggqgjmtdr8mbtp69aefa91b59(a)4ax.com... > JohnT writes: > >> I should think that it is certainly possible for the uplink from >> Braunsweig >> to be deliberately corrupted. > > So? I was merely trying to correct your erroneous statement about watches. JohnT
From: barney2 on 29 Jul 2006 14:01 In article <sn6nc2t62dqp6f8r1sdmatf5ftq6htckb1(a)4ax.com>, mxsmanic(a)gmail.com (Mxsmanic) wrote: > *From:* Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> > *Date:* Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:29:43 +0200 > > barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk writes: > > > He is still a doctor, but he is no longer involved in providing > > healthcare. Along the same lines, you may be a qualified or > > experienced computer programmer or engineer of some kind, but you are > > (judging by what you say here) no longer in the computer industry. > > OK. So what? I was answering the question, below, that you posed to Martin. Martin: > You aren't in the computer industry. Mxsmanic: Why not?
From: Mxsmanic on 29 Jul 2006 15:46
JohnT writes: > And yes, I am still a Doctor > even though I am retired but it would be extremely ill-mannered to parade > any academic or professional qualifications which are not now being used. It's ill-mannered to parade credentials no matter what the circumstances, but I don't see how that applies here. How does not actively having a job in an industry disqualify a veteran of that industry from commenting on that industry? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |