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 15:53:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!louie!not-for-mail Sender: - From: Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ References: <9kpo9r$415@augusta.math.psu.edu> <5drpk9.l0e.ln@10.0.0.2> <9krhd2$6po@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B7225A1.DC95C8A6@home.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.17-21mdksecure (i686)) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:34:07 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.78.202.248 X-Trace: 997397636 reader0.news.skynet.be 54315 194.78.202.248 X-Complaints-To: abuse@skynet.be Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11720 comp.lang.c:73278 comp.lang.c++:81390 Date: 2001-08-09T21:34:07+02:00 List-Id: 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 can pretend that better software is something that comes painless without extra effort, but that is just untrue. 'Good enough' is a perfectly valid argument which ALSO applies to medical instruments and flight gear. My girl-friend is a doctor and I know first hand that good enough is always applied in the medical field. The same holds for other possibly life-threatening situations. The construction of my home is good enough but there is always the change it crummbles, my reaction speed is good enough but there is always the change I didn't see a car making an inexpected turn, airport security is good enough but there will always be the change of a terrorist attack, etc.. etc.. If you really think good enough is not good enough you shouldn't be driving a car, taking a plane, visiting a doctor or staying in a building. That path leads to paranoia. cu bart -- http://www.irule.be/bvh/