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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-09 18:23:16 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: <3B73378B.EF7E2C10@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++ Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <9kpo9r$415@augusta.math.psu.edu> <5drpk9.l0e.ln@10.0.0.2> <9krhd2$6po@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B7225A1.DC95C8A6@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:23:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 997406595 24.141.193.224 (Thu, 09 Aug 2001 18:23:15 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 18:23:15 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11733 comp.lang.c:73299 comp.lang.c++:81422 Date: 2001-08-10T01:23:15+00:00 List-Id: Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > Here is that Microsoft argument "good enough" again. Software can be > > better, but people in general, just don't seem to care *sigh*. Thankfully, > > nobody accepts this argument for medical instruments and flight gear. Hey, > > maybe I'll get lucky and some C++ program will drop a zero from my mortgage! > > Don't be silly. Nothing is perfect. Any serious decision is a > trade-off. You are obviously not showing a sense of humour about this... You are correct that there are trade-offs. I guess what annoys me is just how low the standard is for "good enough" in so many circles. Microsoft's being one of the most offensive. Let's just leave it at that ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg