“The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.” — Janet Erskine Stuart
I’m currently watching some skiddies excitedly pass around a “0 day apache exploit” they found on pastebin. It’s a bit of shrouded script that adds a passwordless root account to the very machine that tries launching the “attack.”
I can’t decide if this is more like the religionists who go to war by blowing themselves up, or merely a Three Stooges sketch.
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing is more dogmatically ideological than branding your opponents as ‘ideologues.’ Ideology is inescapable. Everyone has an ideology … A blindness to the operation of one’s own ideology shows that one is not aware of how one acquired one’s beliefs.” -Harry Binswanger
Is “ideologue” an anti-concept, or does it have some rational use?