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Fear and Loathing in Information Security | |
| Subject: | Hacking is excellence before the single authorship state dies. | |
| Date: | 2005-02-14 23:26:41 | |
| From: | steve_nordquist | |
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Success has a thousand fathers, they say; failure but one. Taking this literally to heart, you'll quickly disparage your human friends and have few new ideas for company! There's a middle stage where the Lord Kelvins sought out and assigned attribution for notions under their brainchildren, made throwaway experiments to form decent scientific queries, and otherwise did groundwork past any homework that had ever was before. Kelvin had a lot of help; everyone who wanted to know how something was scientific or not, without knowing a good science corpus or examining methods--or contrawise what science was before observations were examined and put to paper as (maybe) science--was impetus to stay quiet until quite prepared. As a result, most of his l33tspeak passes, even now, for refinement. IT has shorter product lifecycles. Marketing velocity just can't go fast enough, and products, slaved to human memes, have to go along or wash up in the whorls of mere linear business growth. So hackers can't always take such refuge, exhibiting market discipline before empirical learning: Minor checks that a glass flask does not itself burn, and that embedded routers recover better with some ICMP traffic, must suffice.
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