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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 13:22:22 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!nyc.uu.net!ash.uu.net!news.research.att.com!nntp From: Garry Hodgson Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of X-Nntp-Posting-Host: kestrel.sage.att.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3B84103F.30409430@sage.att.com> Sender: nntp@research.att.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: AT&T Labs X-Accept-Language: en References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> <9m0193$grs$1@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B83F9D6.73CB3E02@west.rayt Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:04:15 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12287 comp.lang.c:76222 comp.lang.c++:84935 comp.lang.functional:7632 Date: 2001-08-22T20:04:15+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > The manager in charge of that was > just about the worst kind you can have: the idiot who thinks he is a genius. An > idiot manager who knows he's an idiot and sticks to leading and listening can > actually be quite good, but this other kind just destroys everything he touches. i once had a conversation with a friend, and commented that i liked the fact that my boss had a good knowledge of software. he replied that he had the next best thing: his boss didn't know software, but knew that he didn't know software. -- Garry Hodgson sometimes we ride on your horses Senior Hacker sometimes we walk alone Software Innovation Services sometimes the songs that we hear AT&T Labs are just songs of our own garry@sage.att.com