At the start of my accounting class, we had to pass around a bootable floppy disk that had the software on it. The teacher would talk to us about the day, while we passed the disk, student to student.
"Ribbit."
Then, one day, the computers all started to make frog noises. Turns out, someone put a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program on the disk, and we had all just run it on our computers.
"Ribbit ribbit!"
The frequency of the noises kept increasing, both as more computers came online, and as the program increased the rate.
"Ribbit ribbit ribbit!"
Today, would the kid who did it be thrown in jail?
I think we need a lot more "Kids will be kids" and a lot less "Tough on crime" with this stuff.
At the start of my accounting class, we had to pass around a bootable floppy disk that had the software on it. The teacher would talk to us about the day, while we passed the disk, student to student.
"Ribbit."
Then, one day, the computers all started to make frog noises. Turns out, someone put a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program on the disk, and we had all just run it on our computers.
"Ribbit ribbit!"
The frequency of the noises kept increasing, both as more computers came online, and as the program increased the rate.
"Ribbit ribbit ribbit!"
Today, would the kid who did it be thrown in jail?
I think we need a lot more "Kids will be kids" and a lot less "Tough on crime" with this stuff.
"Ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit!"