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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 02:25:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.kpnqwest.at!newsfeed.wu-wien.ac.at!not-for-mail From: Markus Mottl 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. Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: <9kb6a6$mg1$3@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> References: <9ka1jc$mgd@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: miss.wu-wien.ac.at X-Trace: bird.wu-wien.ac.at 996744326 23041 137.208.107.17 (2 Aug 2001 09:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-admin@wu-wien.ac.at NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:25:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981225 ("Volcane") (UNIX) (OSF1/V4.0 (alpha)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11059 comp.lang.c:71590 comp.lang.c++:79297 comp.lang.functional:7168 Date: 2001-08-02T09:25:26+00:00 List-Id: In comp.lang.functional Richard Bos wrote: > Immediately after the seat belt was introduced, the number of fatalities > in accidents plummeted. > The years after, the number slowly rose again, because drivers adapted > to the new safety level seat belts provided and were willing to take > risks they wouldn't have taken without them. The number rose, because many more people (= more accidents, more traffic = even more accidents) could afford ever faster cars and because the percentage of professional (= skilled) drivers fell. That says something about programming, too... Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl