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You can't blame people for shooting other people, that's what guns are for! Shooting people are guns intended purpose. It's the clothing manufactures fault for
by johngalt 15y ago
You can't blame people for shooting other people, that's what guns are for! Shooting people are guns intended purpose. It's the clothing manufactures fault for not making all shirts out of Kevlar. They should make it safer to be shot.
- kbutler 15y agoFeeding the troll... Guns have uses besides shooting people. USB sticks have no use besides being plugged into a USB port, and USB ports have no use besides having things plugged in to them, hence it should be safe to plug things into them.
- jbri 15y agoIncidentally, I could make a very effective denial-of-service attack by putting a high-voltage battery inside what appears to be a USB stick. And no software is going to protect you from the results of massively overvolting sensitive electronics.
- johngalt 15y agoWe are surrounded by devices that will break or do us harm if used unsafely. Articles like this one seem to point out the obvious "why not just make it impossible to be unsafe?" Yet this is not the case (or even a stated goal) in any other type of system. Why is it that once computers are involved people expect to abdicate responsibility? Since you didn't like my analogy there are plenty of others. Would you put any random tire on your car and expect it to transport you safely? If I put diesel instead of gas in my car is it the station's fault because the connectors are the same?