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URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8613673,159/
Date: 2002-10-06T18:12:47+01:00
Security in cyberspace is a different kettle of fish compared to many computer
systems. Cyberspace entertainment only has to be useful to the majority of its
users --entertaining. That means it can tolerate a small amount of vandalism
still remain useful. This is quite unlike a system required for commerce. We
still have a headache of course, but at least we only need to keep the system
around 90 percent clean, rather than 99.99 percent. Of course we’ll still
strive to stamp out corruption, but our system failure threshold is more
achievable than one might at first assume.

At 8:16 AM -0700 on 9/9/02, Gordon Mohr wrote:
<Calculations elided...>
> Of course this says very little, almost nothing, about the overall
> population behavior, gay or straight, and the relative prevalence
> of 3K+ individuals in either group. But it does strongly suggest
> that gay males with 3K+ partners exist in measurable numbers, so
> people should stop treating Eugen's anecdotal estimation as if it
> were sheer fantasy. BitBitch's own citation suggests otherwise.
That math stuff's, a, um, bitch, i'nit?
;-)
Cheers,
RAH
[Who could care less who boinks whom, or for how much, though watching the
Righteous Anger(tm) around here this morning *has* been amusing...]
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