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 More options May 26 2009, 1:55 pm
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Par <use...@hunter-gatherer.org>
Date: 26 May 2009 17:55:14 GMT
Local: Tues, May 26 2009 1:55 pm
Subject: Re: Who is this guy...?
JohnF <j...@please.see.sig.for.email.com>:

>       And that leads to the open question of how much of one's time
>  should be spent trying to do good things, versus trying to stop
>  other people from doing bad things.  (I'm not liking today's answer
>  to that question, which perhaps partly explains my initial bad
>  reaction to ocert's email.)

It is really a matter of *whose* time is spent. If no security measures
are taken someone else will -- inevitably -- have to clean up the mess
when some script kiddie had fun. No, I don't like it either, but then I
would also like to live in a world where I did not need to lock my car
either.

/Par

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Par                                               use...@hunter-gatherer.org
"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing
weirds language.  Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing
because I no verbs."               -- Peter Ellis on afp


 
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