Personal aside. I've started working for a medical device company. This is not so far from security programming, as checking your inputs, robustness, and being able to justify time spent inspecting and testing are all common to both domains. But today I learned that a device that keeps you heart going, should it forget how, has a field that rolls over in about 40+ days. But hey, euthanisia is underappreciated. Reboot that pacer! ------ People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door, screaming, "Take me, take me!"--Cael in A.S.R. Sunder wrote:

Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport? A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000!

"The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times." That would be 49.710269618055555555555555555556 days, or (curiously enough) 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) milliseconds. Known problem with Win95 ('cept they call Win95 a "server").