You buy car. The car says it has brakes. The car only has brakes that work, though, when you are going less than 20mph.
Bummer for you, I guess. You should have known better. You should take responsibility for your own choice to buy that car! Why didn't you get under there and check the brakes thoroughly first? What, you want to sue? Everything they said was completely true, the car has brakes...
Admittedly, this is a silly and exaggerated example, but I personally have no doubt that a lot of advertising does this.
The problem isn't necessarily that people are stupid now. The problem is that things are more complex. It's not like most of my purchases are
And even food is hard, now, since we do such complex things to it and with it... heh.
Isn't a clean reboot primarily a software thing? If you have to turn the power on and off, you're resetting it, not rebooting it.
And anyways, even if power on/off doesn't "reset the RAM" (clear it, whatever word you want to use), presumably you'd be able to tell the controller to do that. I can't "reset" my hard drive state by turning the power off, but I can format it (either just replacing the filesystem info or by actually rewriting it)
I'm one of those wacky "intellectually challenged" Bible people you may have heard about
But I can actually agree with you here... because reason and intent is something that is awfully hard to prove without, uh, well, something that has reason and intent. As I understand it, unless you go for theistic evolution, evolution is entirely a natural process and evolution does not occur with some future reason or intent in "mind." It can't. It has no mind, reason, or intent.
So to say that something evolved to prevent something? I could see trying to argue that it was, at least, a side-effect, perhaps even a primary effect, but to give a purely natural process an intent of *prevention*
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.