Quoting Arnt Gulbrandsen ([email protected]): > Rick Moen writes: > >Funny that you should mention that: You might actually have seen that > >tale as related by _me_ on Risks Digest. > > The substance is similar but the wording unfamiliar. Could it > possibly be that such a thing has happened twice? Surely not.
Probably the same airline incident, described twice. > (BTW, I had to explain a two-routers-in-one-19" thing in my hand > luggage very thoroughly once. The odd appearance and solid steel > construction made them jittery. But my double-edged razor blades > went by without comment.) Heh. You can imagine the problems winners of the Hugo Award had flying home with a metal trophy shaped like a metre-tall rocket. http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/hugos-large/1993.jpg These days, the awarding convention just offers to ship them home, for winners. > Edge case is the right term, and the proverb goes "optimize for the > common case". I believe another proverb goes 'Don't blow security as a default.' ;-> But anyway, it's not like I get a vote. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
