Re: WMF patch

[Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

Indeed. It's the security equivalent of "the market can stay irrational
longer than you can stay solvent" - perhaps we could reformulate that as
"the users can remain clueless longer than your business can survive the
DDOS"

On 1/5/06, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:58:16PM -0500,
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote
> a message of 46 lines which said:
>
> > How many times do you propose we FTDT before we get fed up and ask
> > upper management to authorize a migration to some other software
> > with a better record? And how many more FTDT's do we need to
> > tolerate while we wait for upper management to authorize a
> > migration?
>
> There is no limit to what human beings can stand before becoming
> reasonable. That is human nature and the engineers' rationality is no
> match for it.
>
> Think about religion, for instance. A lot of people still believe in a
> supernatural being despite a very bad track record (much worse than
> MS-Windows').