When Bankers Run The Internet: Lloyds BT
SAYS DAVID Hendon on bankers and the internet:
These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it.
Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stopped from happening.
Yeah, really. Says:
- David Hendon, Director, Business Relations 2, Business Group , Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, speaking to the registrars’ meeting of Nominet.
Says Guy Herbert:
Imagine, if the government regulated it, then the internet would run as well as the banking system and bad things would get stopped from happening. This was a speech made yesterday.
Lloyds BT - The horror! The horror!
Posted: 22nd, November 2008 | In: Money Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 22nd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
David Hendon is an electronics engineer; they can be very strange people…
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 am
I realise that the Register article was mostly on Nominet losing their way, but I’ve just found out that the unusual (though fortunately not horrifying) shape of something very close to my heart…well, about a foot and a half down from it actually…is due to being exposed in the womb to a teratogen that no-one noticed was dangerous until now. You know what I’m talking about.
I had to take it out on someone.
[Thank f*ck it didn't affect the size]
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 am
No. Just no.
If the internet is run just for the kind of tragic mooks who turn off virus checkers because they’re “too complicated” or “pop up windows when I don’t want them to” (actual quotes from people who I then wanted to knock to the ground and punch until my fist was striking a red smear on the pavement where the front of their heads used to be) - thus leaving their machines unprotected and an easy target for those who would, can and do take them over to add to vast botnets that they can then use for increasingly harmful and nefarious ends - then it will be the death of the internet as we know it…(and probably me too - he said in a little voice).
Don’t want to use your virus checker? Drive around with your eyes shut too. What’s the matter? You’ve still got your airbags and seatbelts, haven’t you? Come on. As long as you go to the same places all the time, you’ll know the route and the only people who’ll really get hurt are the ones you mow down in your travels. Eventually when your car is dinged up enough to stop working entirely, you can just buy another car. Or better yet, get someone like me to fix it for you and then shrug when I ask if you took all the precautions I advised you about. Like not fucking driving around with your eyes shut.
Bastards.
Then you can moan and twist for the government to step in and hey presto. Internet-on-rails. If you can’t go anywhere out of the ordinary, everything will be safer and easier. Don’t worry about the loss of around 90 percent of the functionality and freedom you had before - nothing bad will happen now. Unless the government doesn’t know what it is doing.
To reiterate: Bastards.