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“The problems we found in the code were far more pervasive, and much more easily exploitable, than I had ever imagined they would be. … Our hard work notwithstanding, unearthing exploitable deficiencies was surprisingly — and disturbingly — easy.”
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“the fallacy of the linguists’ argument … lies in the idea that construction should imply definite relationships. … the idea that some neologisms are ‘more appropriate’ than others stems from the mistaken assumption that causality matters in language change.”
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August 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
nice article on invented roots…thnaks for posting it