ml>> oh but there is... getting that mechanism into operation like used to ml>> be done is a little harder to do these days for some reason...
MK> I'll believe it when I see it.
the mechanism is the *Cs and them letting folks know that they are running banned software due to the flaw(s) causing problems on the network... the detection of the flaw(s) comes from the FTSC... the *Cs, guided by their ZC, then let their nodes know and get them to downgrade to an approced version of the software or to upgrade to a newer one without the flaw... if there is no newer one and the system doesn't downgrade, the enforcement is temporary blocking of their node number...
MK> Also I don't buy into the "good ol' days" when everything was MK> peacho-keen-neato. I am sure some (most?) of that is selective MK> memory.
i don't have a clue what you're speaking of... i only know that both frontdoor and binkleyterm had beta versions banned at one time because of interoperability problems... the problems were fixed very quickly and a new beta released... some beta testers elected to downgrade to the previous beta... others didn't get that chance for one reason or another...
MK> Anyhow I look forward to seeing the 0x8d bug die a horrible, miserable MK> death. Make my day. :-)
we have to find exactly which software it is causing it... no guessing if it is this one or that one... several of us have done a good portion of this tracking... you and i included ;)
)\/(ark
And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off. ... My other car is a BUDD. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)
