Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?

From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk_at_dsl.co.uk)
Date: 12/21/03 

Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:03:40 +0000 (UTC)

In article <98utrb.f7i.ln@escape.shannon.net>
           cshSPAM@SPAM.widomaker.com "Charles Shannon Hendrix" writes:

> Why is it that 400+ years from now the Federation seems to have
> forgotten basic things we do all the time with computers and securtiy,
> or for that matter, *doors*. Sheesh...
>
> You gotta laugh at a 24th century computer with 8.3 filenames, a
> complete inability to be restored to a previous status, no ability to
> cold reboot, can be taken over by random people, whose security system
> can be so trivially fooled, etc.

THAT, sadly, will be our legacy to the future if more rigour is not
expended to force Microsoft to remove such flaws, and use design
methodologies that prevent them being reintroduced. (Hmm, the best such
methodolgy might be a 10kt device on Redmond.) 

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919