A thought after virus cleaning...
Oct. 4th, 2003 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
toscas_kissPossibly, say maybe in two hundred years time or so, people will look back on our era and raise their eyebrows at our severe reaction to computer virus writers - somewhat like our general response to the hanging of petty thieves a couple of centuries ago.
Admittedly this (nowadays at any rate) revolves around a failure to understand the consequences back then of what would appear to be a minor crime to contemporary eyes. But we will have become the 'uncivilised past' to our descendants, a somewhat unsettling thought.
One which, however, in no way mitigates myintense desire to burn every single one of the little fuckers at the stake annoyance at aforementioned virus-writing miscreants.
Admittedly this (nowadays at any rate) revolves around a failure to understand the consequences back then of what would appear to be a minor crime to contemporary eyes. But we will have become the 'uncivilised past' to our descendants, a somewhat unsettling thought.
One which, however, in no way mitigates my
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