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In many cases, you can configure your load balancer to automatically delete and replace the defecative clusters as they drop out of service.da Doctah wrote:The problem with sandboxing is a couple of times a week you have to clean out the cat poop.
da Doctah wrote:The problem ... is ... the cat poop.
qvxb wrote:This is known as the military-industrial complex.
Monster_user wrote:Is this where the "romance" part of the comic comes in to play?
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SuicideJunkie wrote:In many cases, you can configure your load balancer to automatically delete and replace the defecative clusters as they drop out of service.da Doctah wrote:The problem with sandboxing is a couple of times a week you have to clean out the cat poop.
Soupspoon wrote:Data Security, I have always maintained, is both stopping those who should not have it from having it and making sure that those who should have it are not deprived of it.
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
Title text: All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?[/quote]DWIM [Do What I Mean] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, what result was intended when provided with bogus input. Often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program. A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing). 2. n. The INTERLISP function that attempts to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See HAIRY. - jargon.txt / MIT c. 1988Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for `Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'.
In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed `delete *$' to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending `$' to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported `*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'.' It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type `delete *$' twice.
DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about `DWIMC' (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see {RightThing} . -Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary(1991)
E_H wrote:Title text: All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?[/quote]DWIM [Do What I Mean] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, what result was intended when provided with bogus input. Often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program. A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing). 2. n. The INTERLISP function that attempts to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See HAIRY. - jargon.txt / MIT c. 1988Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for `Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'.
In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed `delete *$' to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending `$' to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported `*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'.' It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type `delete *$' twice.
DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about `DWIMC' (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see {RightThing} . -Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary(1991)
The best computer interface is a graduate student, as professors well know. But real security? There's probably an impossibility proof out there.
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