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• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• I cant spell worth a dam. I hope your going too tell me what to do?
  Don't worry about how your articles look. Remember it's the message that counts, not the way it's presented....
• ALT ALT to you too!
• Quote #296 [about the usenet as elephant horde metaphor] It was Gene Spafford.
  I have it (he posted it himself) as: In closing, I'd like to repost my 3 axioms of Usenet....
• Again, our observations of the stars make it evident, not only that the earth is circular, but also that it is a circle of no great size.
  For quite a small change of position to south or north causes a manifest alteration of the horizon....
• I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.
• The Majority already has its roads and hotels. Only a small minority enjoy art galleries, libraries, and universities.
  Yet no one would suggest making these facilities into bowling alleys, circuses, or hot dog stands just because more people would use them....
• TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early '60s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also foobar).
  It seems likely that `kluge' came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects that had been located in Cambridge (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, in which TMRC is also located) during the war....
• alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone keyboard
  ee bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....