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Re: Absolute addresses, relative addresses

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From: Ed Beroset
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:20
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Beth wrote:
> Eric Minso wrote:
> 
>>Ed Beroset wrote:
>> 
> People who
> 
>>>write viruses are idiots who don't have any idea how to
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> competently
> 
>>>program.  Unforunately, just like the idiots on the highway who
> 
> kill
> 
>>>other people due to their own stupidity, virus writers could
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> ultimately
> 
>>>do the same thing:  http://continuitycentral.com/news0500.htm
>>
>>Why are they stupid enough to connect a nuclear power plant to the
> 
> internet ?
> 
>>Think about what could do a terrorist.
>>And I guess their computers are running on Microsoft Windows...
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> 
> Indeed; The stupidity of the human race seems to know absolutely no
> bounds...
[...]
> It shouldn't be connected to anything...

Yes, that's obvious.

As is the fact that the virus writing idiots had no idea that this might 
have been one consequence.  Virus writers are irresponsible and 
incompetent exactly *because* they either think of these consequences 
and do it anyway or never think of them in the first place.

That's the point, which seems to have been missed.

Ed
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Subject: Re: Absolute addresses, relative addresses
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