From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 14 14:18:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A6614F15 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA283332; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:18:37 -0700 Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpd7gQ9ya; Tue Sep 14 14:18:34 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20489; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:18:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199909142118.OAA20489@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: God, this is scary... To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:18:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Doug@gorean.org, dburr@Powered-By.AC, beep@west.net, jdegroof@ix.netcom.com, sblug-users@syv.com, gousha@apple.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Alfred Perlstein" at Sep 11, 99 01:31:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Although the chance to "accidentally" shoot an NT box into deep > space would be quite satisfying. > > The only drawback is some alien race picking it up and coming to > conquer us based on the assumption that we are a technically inept > species and therefore conquest would be trivial. Actually, this wouldn't be much of an issue. When they first get into long distance radio range and attempt to access our computer networks from that distance, the combination of the requirement to upgrade everything before they can get the the default home page in Internet Explorer, and the need to babysit each and every module installation will jack the latency out so far that mankind will be naturally extinct by before they get to orbit and obtain a fast enough link to do any real damage. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message