Re: Sysmask security challenge: 1 week and +300 arbitrary code assaults, still resisting

From: Dragan Cvetkovic (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 04/20/05 

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:34:45 -0400

Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM> writes:

> Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:
>
>>One would expect that established meaning of words doesn't change just
>>because some newspaper guys who are uninformed and don't know any better
>>spread the wrong semantics among the public who doesn't know any better.
>
> When the newspapers used the work it had already established it
> second meaning. Get over it. (And the hollywood movie wasn't called
> "hackers" for nothing)

Haven't seen the movie. OK, we agreed to disagree. Let's drop it now.

>>Luckily, Sun's PR try with 200Mb network speed (for a full duplex 100Mb
>>network) didn't get the widespread acceptance ...
>
> This is so irrelevant that it's almost at hominem.

No, this was just another example of changing the well established term
into somethiuung that fits PR better. I could have equally well used KB and
MB as examples of changed use (where it is suddenly not 1024 or 1048576 but
1000 and 1000000).

Dragan 

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