Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC From: REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.works Subject: ICONS Message-ID: <3437@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 20:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3437 Posted: Mon Jul 25 20:08:00 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 00:01:12 EDT Lines: 19 From: Robert Elton MaasPerhaps equipment with icons (automobiles, terminals, ...) should come equipped with an alternate set of decals to replace the standard ones. The customer could stick on the ones that were easiest to understand, although all would be moderately understandable to everyone. Or maybe for anti-theft, everyone could install totally private decals, like private "in" jokes and puns etc. For me, a picture of a sexy female would be "on" (turn on) and a picture of Marcy Tallman would be "off" (yuck!! - turn off). Left turn could be a picture of some cassette tape I left at folk dance a few years back. Right turn could be a picture of Carl Sagan because he's right about a lot of stuff. Imagine somebody jumping into my car and trying to steal it before I get back to it, with all those private jokes to distract and confuse? Ditto my detachable keyboard on some public terminal with keys all in different places from normal (Dvorak or whatever, plus qxz redefined to be control keys, and at least one random key turning the keyboard offline until a password is typed), with obscure decals only I understand, when I momentarily leave my keyboard unattended?