Re: To Steve Shear, re Rome, Architects, Shuttles, Congress

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Stewart
Back when the term hackers started to be misused by the press, as in scary teenage vandals breaking into computers, my usual comment was that teenage computer hackers were really no different from the teenage car hackers of our parents' generations. They did a lot of tinkering with machinery and

Re: To Steve Shear, re Rome, Architects, Shuttles, Congress

2003-02-20 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:27:31PM -0500, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Hackers don't work on their own brakes for a reason: evolution. I do. That way I know they were done right. Specialization is for insects. Eric

To Steve Shear, re Rome, Architects, Shuttles, Congress

2003-02-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Steve, you proposed that the deskhoes (congresshits, NASA managers) take the risks that they put others into. I mentioned this to my Dad and he reminded me that parachute packers in the military were required to jump with the chutes they packed at any time. ... Hackers don't work on their own