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 02:31:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!newspeer2.clara.net!news.clara.net!news.gradwell.net!murdoch.hpl.hp.com!not-for-mail From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com () 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: 6 Aug 2001 09:30:36 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK Message-ID: <9klo3s$ju8$2@murdoch.hpl.hp.com> References: <9kci3p$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> NNTP-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: murdoch.hpl.hp.com 997090236 20424 15.144.94.165 (6 Aug 2001 09:30:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@murdoch.hpl.hp.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Aug 2001 09:30:36 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11342 comp.lang.c:72384 comp.lang.c++:80239 comp.lang.functional:7329 Date: 2001-08-06T09:30:36+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B6B1D86.153D54F1@online.no>, Tore Lund writes: > Ted Dennison wrote: >> >> Its a silly arguement anyway. If everyone started saying "frobozz" whenever they >> now say "bug", "frobozz" will just eventually come to mean the same thing. You >> can't run away from the meaning people give a concept by meerly changing the >> sounds you make with your mouth. > > Where I used to work, a minor bug was called an "adjustment". If it was > more deep-seated, we called it a "hardware problem". Even worse, it was > an "occult phenomenon". In a previous existance, minor bugs were called "buggettes". (Major bugs were also called "buggettes", but but only to those that understood English understatement.) > 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". "Oversight" has too many syllables. -- Chris "'mistake is pushing the limit" Dollin C FAQs at: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.lang.c.html