On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:48:29 EST, Kevin Reiter said: > Sorry, but this was the very first post I saw after I joined this list a > little > bit ago, and I couldn't resist a few comments. Is this guy for real, or is > this a > joke? Sometimes, it's hard to tell around here, even if you're *not* a newcomer. It might be a cave troll out for a stroll. Or it might really be somebody who's just fallen out of the tree, who has just "found" something (How many times have we seen the advisory about Hotmail passwords now? ;). Often, this is followed up by several people who don't let the fact they don't actually know the right answer dissuade them from posting(*). It's often important to remember that C.M. Kornbluth wrote "The Marching Morons" in 1953, and the half-century since have proven the basic concept correct... (*) My all-time favorite "Close, but no ceee-gar" was the advice column for a Unix journal where the author *remembered* the old "3 syncs before halt" adage - but got it Very Wrong by advising "sync;sync;sync;halt". Bonus points if you can remember (a) the *original* reason for the advice *and* (b) how this version was Very Wrong (there's *multiple* answers for this one ;)
Attachment:
pgp00063.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html