] Should we blame the teenager? Sure, we can point the ] finger at him and say, 'Bad boy!' and slap him for it. Will that ] actually fix anything? No. The next geeky kid frustrated about not ] getting a date on Saturday night will come along and do the same thing ] without really understanding the consequences. So either we should make ] it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I ] was a teenager -- or the blame is really on the companies who sell and ] install the systems that are quite that fragile." Linus is in a position to say things directly that some of us cannot be trusted to say objectively. [IP] Torvalds: geeky kids need dates [risks] Risks Digest 22.92 |