Russ Allbery writes:
> Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Sorry, Russ, this *is* a Microsoft problem. When many people make the
> > same mistake, it is a failure of technology, not a failure of people.
>
> !!
>
> That's a vicious condemnation of the entire software industry. No
> exceptions.
Nahhhh. I call it the Full Employment Principle for Computer
Programmers. :) It just *happens* in this case to condemn Microsoft's
macro viruses. It can be used to condemn many other mistakes. For
example, I should be able to say (as root) ``rm -rf /'', and then say
"oops. undo." (as long as there was sufficient free space prior to
that to avoid ongoing filesystem activity from writing over any
just-removed files -- and even if there wasn't, the first files
overwritten were the least-recently accessed files). And yeah, this
can all be done in user space.
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