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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 2001-08-01 16:29:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!info1.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!wnoise From: wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu (Aaron Denney) 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: 1 Aug 2001 23:29:36 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-ID: References: <%CX97.14134$ar1.47393@www.newsranger.com> <9ka0on$me1@augusta.math.psu.edu> Reply-To: wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: barter.ugcs.caltech.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11008 comp.lang.c:71469 comp.lang.c++:79205 comp.lang.functional:7131 Date: 2001-08-01T23:29:36+00:00 List-Id: On 1 Aug 2001 18:44:39 -0400, Dan Cross wrote: > (you don't put in a screw with > a hammer, do you? You do? Watch out for your house falling over, > then. :-). Actually... there are some screws that are supposed to be hammered in. The tip is smooth like a nail, but the ridges gradually grow. AIUI, they are a variant of the nails with screw threads in a similar pattern. The screws can be fairly easily removed; the nails can't. -- Aaron Denney -><-