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> > As long as the car _moves_ under its own power across the highway, its > > essentially not the car manufacturers' (or the consumers') immediate > > concern. > > That's really not true. Before car companies sell cars, they > pass (lots of) safety certification tests. Before owners drive > cars legally, they pass a safety and emissions test. Sure, the > highway folks clean up after the occasional tire blowout, but > there's been a lot of work put in to make sure that the engines > aren't going to drop out on a regular basis. > > If the Internet was a highway, it would be covered in > burned-out engines. > True, in the literal sense. 1) Software companies and hardware manufacturers have their own QA, focus groups and eval processes. Since very few people will die in the event of a burned-out engine on the Internet. Determiniation of the value of these things is up to the reader. An internal combustion engine is a much older, more widely tested thing than the "cars" we drive on the Internet and it figures that in reliability/safety numbers they win. The motherboards don't blow out, and the asphalt that makes the Internet highway works too (generally). DJ
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