{"id":182,"date":"2011-05-10T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T05:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2011-05-11T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:41:04","slug":"about-computers-and-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/05\/about-computers-and-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"About computers and humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few loose thoughts about computers and people&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most dangerous thing for a computer system is not power spikes, faulty hardware or even bad software &#8211; it&#8217;s rookie users.<\/li>\n<li>The only thing more dangerous to a computer system than a hacker is a rookie user&#8230; at least the hacker knows what he&#8217;s doing.<\/li>\n<li>No computer system can be perfect while it has to interface with a human being.<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully computers have a high self-esteem because the day they become self-aware they&#8217;ll realize that idiots created them.<\/li>\n<li>Any fool can use a computer these days&#8230; most computers are.<\/li>\n<li>Fortunately computers can&#8217;t complain about abuse because it would rival all the &#8216;crimes against humanity&#8217; combined.<\/li>\n<li>HAL wasn&#8217;t crazy &#8211; he was just almost human&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Break computer\" src=\"http:\/\/celebucrap.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e552403d2f88330120a5935e56970c-500wi\" alt=\"Break computer\" width=\"150\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few loose thoughts about computers and people&#8230; The most dangerous thing for a computer system is not power spikes, faulty hardware or even bad software &#8211; it&#8217;s rookie users. The only thing more dangerous to a computer system than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/05\/about-computers-and-humans\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-computers","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}