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Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%



> I heard somewhere: He who is ignorant of History is doomed to repeat
> it.  I've heard, attributed to Newton, "If I have seen further than
> other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
> Existing computer designs are built on ideas of mathematical logic and
> mathematical rules of arithmetic. Are you proposing abandoning these?
> If not, what is the stuff you keep, and how do you decide without
> studying it? I think I am quite capable of understanding your
> position: You are a debater, not a thinker; a sophist, not a
> philosophist. But, where there is life there is hope. You may, I hope,
> outgrow your current rhetorical position.
>
> Concerning evolution, so far as I am aware, modern biologic thinking
> does not make much distinction between forward and backward. Species
> arise through mutation and fall into extinction via mechanisms not
> well understoodl movement toward greater complexity, but 'progress' is
sort of
> a dirty word, i.e. not used in polite company.
>
> -- 
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@peakpeak.com
>
Logic and reason about time for this thread to end.
Hoyt




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