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> Those packed roads with slowly moving cars have the lowest accident rate in the country.

Well, they have about the same accident rate as walking, and walking is even faster!

> In IT security, you can also reduce hacked computers by making so many security regulations that nobody can actually use the computers. It does work, but nobody really gets their job done.

On the contrary, imposing ridiculous restrictions will cause users to become very creative in bypassing them, thus negating any positive effect they might have.



Right, that was my point in the following two lines.




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