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From: Padraig Breathnach on 29 Jul 2006 21:11 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >The only time I've seen people parade their credentials is when they >don't actually know what they are talking about. That's a wild claim, and I don't believe it. If you have a college education, you received instruction from people whose credentials are very much in the foreground. Is it invariably the case that they don't know what they are talking about? Further, what qualification have you to judge whether or not people know what they are talking about? And further to further, what is your experience of people who don't know what they are talking about, but who have no credentials to parade? People who participate in discussions here generally do not parade their credentials, but we are pretty good about talking about things that we don't actually know. It's late here: time to lie down. -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/
From: Mxsmanic on 29 Jul 2006 21:19 Padraig Breathnach writes: > That's a wild claim, and I don't believe it. If you have a college > education, you received instruction from people whose credentials are > very much in the foreground. Is it invariably the case that they don't > know what they are talking about? Yes. People who know what they are talking about ... talk about it. They don't need to wave credentials in an attempt to prove that they can talk about something, because they can do that very easily by actually discussing the topic in question. People who don't know what they are talking about have nothing to say, and thus depend on credentials to get acceptance from others. I've met too many college-educated people who cannot read. > Further, what qualification have you to judge whether or not people > know what they are talking about? It depends on the subject. > And further to further, what is your experience of people who don't > know what they are talking about, but who have no credentials to > parade? Sometimes they talk, sometimes they don't. > People who participate in discussions here generally do not parade > their credentials, but we are pretty good about talking about things > that we don't actually know. I've seen both. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 29 Jul 2006 21:27 Mxsmanic a couch sur son cran : > Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > >> Did that happen only once ? > > It has happened on many occasions. Fine. And what about injection calculators ? or electronic cruise controls (which also manage injection ?) -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Terry Richards on 30 Jul 2006 02:04 "Stanislas de Kertanguy" <stanislas.dekertanguy(a)lesptt.net> wrote in message news:mn.f0247d67afb5cf75.57680(a)lesptt.net... > Mxsmanic a formul ce Saturday : > > Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > > > >> OK, so I infer that injection calculators don't have antivirus software > >> because it would destabilize tham ? > > > > They don't have it because they don't need it. > > You first said that they destabilise the system, but whatever... > Antivirus programs do have a tendancy to destabalise systems. But not, in general, as badly as the viruses do. In other words, just like human drugs, their benefits outweigh their side-effects. > Why don't injecion calculators need antivirus ? > For the same reason that you do not need inoculating against viruses on Mars - you have no opportunity to catch them. Injection computers do not connect to the Internet or any other external computer[1] so they have no opportunity to be infected with a virus. [1] Actually, they do connect with another computer when they are serviced but that is a dedicated stand-alone device also running trusted code and not connected to any other computer. There is a theoretical infection path here - from the Internet to the developer's computer, to the code for the service machine, to the service machine, to the injection controller, but that would have to be one smart virus! T.
From: Terry Richards on 30 Jul 2006 02:07
"JohnT" <johnhillriseDONOTSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:soidncUMdM8v-lbZRVny2w(a)eclipse.net.uk... > my > refrigerator doesn't contact the outside world so is probably safe from > attack. > How about when it is serviced? Not entirely absurd, I had a washing machine repaired under warranty and the fix was a code upload... T. |