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Re: Dan Kaminsky

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Thu Jul 30 19:17:58 2009

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:16:40 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <7C332C86-7E7C-4C4E-8ADD-61310CA0758C@kyx.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:48:18PM -0700, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
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> On 29-Jul-09, at 9:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
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> >Ettore Bugatti, maker of the finest cars of his day, was once asked =20
> >why
> >his cars had less than perfect brakes.  He replied something like, =20
> >"Any
> >fool can make a car stop.  It takes a genius to make a car go."
> >
> >so i am not particularly impressed by news of children making a car
> >stop.
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> at the risk of adding to the metadiscussion. what does any of this =20
> have to do with nanog?
> (sorry I'm kinda irritable about character slander being spammed out =20
> unnecessarily to unrelated public lists lately ;-P )

At the risk of adding to the metadiscussion, I've never seen anyone die
=66rom having a car that accelerated too slowly. Unfortunately I think
encouraging Randy to drive cars with bad brakes would be against the
NANOG charter. :)

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