[PLUG] OT, why write viruses?

[Keith Lofstrom]

Why write viruses?  Because you are are frustrated and angry,  The
world has not made you absolute ruler, and you want to get the sick
feeling of power that comes from attacking lots of people.  Mohammed
Atta and Timothy McVeigh and Jeffery Dalmer would have been virus
writers if they were bent that way.  The fellow that cuts you off
in traffic and laughs at you is another one of this legion of assholes,
as are the folks that support bombing Iraq, not for some functional
reason, but because it "teaches those ragheads a lesson".  A large
percentage of our fellow planetary residents are looking for some
ideological excuse (An "asshole license" to act like bastards,
because somehow by tormenting others it makes their own wasted lives
marginally better.

It is better to channel that frustration into attacking problems,
not people.  Neither approach changes the world a lot, an neither
approach makes you absolute ruler.  But over time, the latter 
approach leads to less soul rot, and makes for more friends.

So, if you want to point out problems in technology, develop better
technology.  That was the point in the first place, right?

Keith

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