Boastfully ignorant reporters [Was: Zergo can do secure TTPs]

[T Bruce Tober]

In message <25983782061AD111B0800000F86310FE08A23A74@red-msg-
42.dns.microsoft.com>, Paul Leyland <pleyland@microsoft.com> writes
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>> Sorry to be off topic, but this subject seems to be of sufficient
>> interest that no one is yet complaining as far as I've seen.
>
>Entirely on topic, IMAO.

Be that as it may.

>but it doesn't go far enough.  If the issues can't be explained to the
>population, the legislators and the administrators, there will be problems.

Exactly so. That was my point.

>incompetence and ignorance.  I'm sure it's possible to explain to
>non-technical audiences without the use of this approach.  As has been

It should be, but all too often the first question out of their gobs
when I was doing consulting many years ago, was ~can you talk in
anything but technobabble~?

>pointed out on this list, Paxman can persuade experts to explain arcane
>constitutional procedures without feigning ignorance.

Yep. Politics is something very human and understandable compared to
computer stuff, more often than not. Which is not to take away from JP's
talent.
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