Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:52:52 GMT
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:52:52 GMT
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"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:QM6dnbXjNdRkjKDcRVn-jQ_at_comcast.com...
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> "mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message
> news:413ced7c$0$566$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
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> > Encapsulation is never absolute to everyone.
> > If you need to get under the hood, you'll
> > have to be able to break the black-box seal.
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> How many times have you ever broken into a pentium?
I don't think hardware and software are quite the same thing, though.
Although I haven't worked this way, I have friends who swear by the power of breaking encapsulation. Again, I see this as simply a symptom of the fact that we don't do it right yet.
Marshall Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 17:52:52 CEST