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From: Francois Labreque
Date: 30 May 2014 10:28:11
Message: <5388957b$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2014-05-29 18:38, Stephen a écrit :
> To give my tu'pence worth.
>
>
> I remember my old Grannie (long dead now) saying:
> "Never write anything you don't want everyone to read."
> She was right. As long as human nature is human nature, someone will
> have something to hide and someone will want to know it.
> Open source is a wonderful idea for a perfect world. I commend it. But
> until we develop telepathy. Forget it. There will always be someone
> trying to screw you over.
> It distresses me the way people display their lives on "Social Media"
> what ever the feck that means.
> As John Brunner, wrote: "The Sheep Look Up"
>
> Phew! I got that off my chest. :-D
>
In the early 90s, when the internet was barely an infant, in my 
university's computer lab, there was a big sign on the wall that said 
something like:

"Don't say anything on newsgroups or IRC that you aren't willing to 
repeat in front of a judge, with your family in the audience!"


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