At 11:15 PM 4/13/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Strike. Learn to use STANDARD TIME FORMATS, you pathetic ex-con sellout journalist. DD/MM/YYYY is an antiquated european format.
...and MM/DD/YYYY is an antiquitated American format.
Indeed. And ambiguous. I always write out the month, which confuses americans, and telling them that its ambiguous otherwise just confuses them more :-) I have settled for "I used to work with Europeans".
You won't believe how many people who should know what IT security is about still live somewhere between 1900 and 1950.
Or use master-keyed locks...
But Norton also describes the power grid's fractal network of
Someone teach this child about fractals.
Why fractals?
Because little Kevin used that big word. Isn't he cute? Too bad its inappropriate and gratuitous.
One comment I would have is that the growing intelligence of equipment should mandate fail-safe operation, refusal to perform commands that would put the node and its surrounding area to dangerous situation.
Yes, we can all afford sanity checks in our code now. I would caution that sometimes you need to override the sanity checks, e.g., to cause a flood to save the dam. Note that overriding will often require you to go through the same control system ---not some big red lever you manually pull. Can't wait until Detroit sells Joe Sixpack a drive by wire car that thinks for him when it shouldn't, to say nothing of failing digitally (ie catastrophically). Eg, it's
better to cause traffic jam by setting all lights to red (or, even better, blinking yellow, which means here that the traffic lights aren't controlled)
All-red stops everyone, forever, or until they start to think. Blinking red is what you mean. Blinking yellow isn't in the official lexicon AFAIK. All-black = blinking red but often taken as green, leading to red asphalt. ------- There is no god and Murphy is his prophet.