From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-06 16:36:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B6F29ED.F41E3DC3@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <9kci3p$ri$1@elf.eng.bsdi.com> <9kdeuv$dfh@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kecu6$f8i@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9TBa7.16564$ar1.61061@www.newsranger.com> <3B6B1D86.153D54F1@online.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 23:36:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 997140968 24.141.193.224 (Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:36:08 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:36:08 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11427 comp.lang.c:72583 comp.lang.c++:80480 comp.lang.functional:7371 Date: 2001-08-06T23:36:08+00:00 List-Id: Keith Thompson wrote: > Tore Lund writes: > [...] > > I bet they called it an "oversight" before that insect was found and the > > term "bug" was invented. That is the most direct and honest word for > > it. The effect of an oversight can be quite trivial, but it could also > > trigger off World War III. If we need a new word, I vote for > > "oversight". > > Quibble: the term "bug" didn't originate in the discovery of an > insect, at least not the one you're probably thinking of. The moth in > a relay of the Harvard Mark II was logged as "First actual case of bug > being found", indicating that the term already existed. > > See . Thomas Edison and his assistants also used to refer to "bugs", though this was not in a "computing context". -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg