Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!clarke From: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: problems with Star Wars #2 (part 2: the crux) Message-ID: <1236@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 09:58:51 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1236 Posted: Wed Jul 10 09:58:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jul-85 10:21:49 EDT References: <1197@utcsri.UUCP> <5772@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 22 Summary: In article <5772@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >.... >I have discussed elsewhere the interesting reasoning: "because some >types of SDI systems would be very dangerous, any SDI system would be". But your article, from which this last comment is extracted, is using the mirror image reasoning: "Because we do not have (or may not have) grounds to fear Star Wars in general, we should therefore not fear the current actual Star Wars proposal." Just think of it as a giant Berklix in the sky, Henry. The first time you hit funny code, bam! we're all dead. Or maybe the second time. Or the third. Plus, while you're installing it, the people from Xenix (can't hardly equate the Roossians to Bell Labs, can we?) are getting nervous, and if you can't get BSD up inside 30 minutes, they're going to replace your PDP-11 with a PC XT. -- Jim (How's that for adaptive analogizing? "Survival of the fittest analogy", I always say.)