On 23 January 2016 at 21:59, Steve Litt <slitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm reminded of a person on a computer on a no-Internet-connection LAN > saying that everyone needs equal protection from firewalls. Ummm, no. > The Internet connected firewall has many, many more attempts made > against it than the guy on the island LAN. Did I say we all need equal protection? No. I said we're all entitled to the same level of protection. I'm also making the point that your Island guy might have a mobile phone that's linked to his computer that you don't know about and you're assuming that cos he's on an island he has no right to have an opinion on firewalls. > We all need protection --- this is true. But the transsexual has much > more bad verbiage aimed at "his (her) kind" than a run of the mill, > average person, whatever that may be. Fear and mistrust and a lack of understanding. The way to defeat that is education and talking, not forcing a plan of action down the throats of the people who are most likely to be inclined to be open and accepting. > When you go to computer conferences, how often does someone put their > hands all over you? I don't go to computer conferences because they're filled with people who are far too smart and therefore it tends to make me uncomfortable. Maybe there should be protection for my type (I'd describe myself only as a good jobbing coder with a better-than-average problem-solving skill) against ubergeeks so I'm not made to feel uncomfortable at conferences? Forget that the ubergeeks are the people who make the stuff work that the conference is there for, it's not fair that they make me feel left out because my brain is wired differently, now is it? > If you think the author of the preceding article is lying, google the > combination of "groped" and "Linux conference". Women are the minority > at these conferences, yet many more hands reach out and grab them. And there are laws designed to stop that sort of behaviour. It's called assault and the police will get involved, because that's their job. It's not ours. Geoff -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
