The rest of the world and geeks

[Bruce Dawson]

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Tom Buskey wrote:

| On 1/24/06, *Fred* <puissante at lrc.puissante.com
| <mailto:puissante at lrc.puissante.com>> wrote:
|
|
|     Yes, and the big problem with that is the technical knowledge
|     currently
|     required to handle to encryption technology like, say GPG.
|     Outside of us
|     geeks, it's simply beyond the average person. Watch them eyes
|     glaze over
|     when you try to explain the difference between "public key" and
|     "private
|     key", "plain text" and "encrypted text", "passphrases" and why
|     they need to
|     be so long, "key rings", and the like.
|
|
|
| I was watching "Madagascar" the other day.  It's set in a zoo with a
| lion, zebra and 4 penguins (I'm reducing here).
|
| The Penguins are trying to escape the sheltered life of the zoo.
| They're organized w/ a leader & everyone having tasks.  They're
| digging a tunnel and the "shovels (spoons)" are broken.  One goes
| out, jumps out of the water & snatches one from a zoo visitor.
| They're resourceful.
|
| They dig into the zebra area.  The zebra wants to go into the wild
| now though he has now idea how.  He tells his lion friend.  The lion
| says "We can't do that".  "The penguins are doing it" says zebra.
| "But the penguins are psychotic!" says the lion.
|
| I'm sure we can relate more to the penguins then the lions and
| zebras of the world.  I'm sure some of us may have started as zebras.
|
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| "But the penguins are psychotic!" - Alex

This reminds me of the following 2 quotes:

~    * "If you resist change, you die. If you adapt to it, you survive.
~      And if you cause it, you lead."  ...  "Of course, if you cause
~      change, you can die, too. -- But it's a more exciting death.
~      -- Ray Noorda,
~         CEO, Novell/USL Inc.
~    * The reasonable man tries to adapt himself to the world around,
~      while the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself.
~      Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
~      --George Bernard Shaw --

Experience indicates that both are accurate.

- --Bruce
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