On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:32:54 CDT, Larry Sheldon said:
On 6/9/2010 12:17, Joe Greco wrote:
So, just so we're clear here, I go to Best Buy, I buy a computer, I bring it home, plug it into my cablemodem, and am instantly Pwned by the non-updated Windows version on the drive plus the incessant cable modem scanning, resulting in a bot infection... therefore I am negligent?
Do you actually think a judge would find that negligent, or is this just your own personal definition of negligence? Because I doubt that a judge, or even an ordinary person, could possibly consider it such.
One can argue (and I will) that there is indeed some culpability because the buyer bought the cheapest version of everything and connected it to a negligent provider's system.
And the average consumer can avoid the culpability in this scenario, how, exactly? "If people place a nice chocky in their mouth, they don't want their cheeks pierced" http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/crunchy.htm