> So you admit you are incompetent.
>
> If you were really competent you would be able to read the blinking lights
> and alter running programs via the swwitches.
>
> By the way, there is a difference between reading and writing.
> But then, you seem to actually be THAT incompetent.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [mailto:rms@1407.org]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:48 AM
> > To: Tony Abernethy
> > Cc:
misc@openbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:25:29AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote:
> > > Damien Miller wrote:
> > > > To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
> > > > Cc: J.C. Roberts;
misc@openbsd.org
> > > > Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without
> > > > the freedom
> > > > > to change a program because he has no access to the source code.
> > > >
> > > > You seem to be entirely missing the irony of making this
> > statement
> > > > in the context of an argument about software _reverse engineered
> > > > from a binary blob_.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Obviously he's never read machine code ;)
> >
> > I've written it, and swore never again to do so unless life
> > depends on it. You have to be extremely skilled and with an
> > excessive ammount of free time to make an argument based on
> > that defense.
> >
> > Whilst the first case is a compliment, the second not really
> > (but not an insult either).
> >
> > > Has the state of the art gone down that badly in the last
> > forty-odd years?
> > > Even I know better,
> > > and there's people on this list that actually know something.
> >
> > Yeah sure, like OpenBSD is 100% written in machine code *giggle*
> >
> > Rui
> >
> > --
> > Grudnuk demand sustenance!
> > Today is Pungenday, the 39th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173
> > + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
> > Whatever you
> > + do will be insignificant,
> > | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
> > + So let's do it...?
> >
