[CS-FSLUG] Non-partisan Computer-Political Humor

[Don Parris]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:46:09 -0600, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:
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> Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
> Subject: [OT] The worst software in the world.
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:05:14 +0000 (UTC)
> Message-ID: <cm3niq$439$1 at rumours.uwaterloo.ca>
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> The worst software in the world is the software that runs in human
> brains. Every copy is unique, idiosyncratic, comformant to no
> standards, and maintained by an incompetent. Fresh out of the box
> there is no input validity checking. The earliest validity checks
> are received, unvalidated, from the nearest other brains in the
> new brain's auditory networking space, and are always defective.
> These defective checks are applied to any updated validity checks
> received in later input, so the early-acquired defects tend to
> persist for the lifetime of the product.
> 
> This is what allows a minority of brains, with disproportionate control
> over the input of large numbers of other brains, to exploit the most
> widespread defects in input validity checking, convert millions of
> other brains into 0wn3d proxies, and use them to spam ballot-boxes.
> 
Now, if I can just get off the floor! :)


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