Umm, no offense, but this article is a ton of "if-then-else" type
thinking. 

"You can...no, really, you can...if..."

I love the line about "Just because it can't affect the whole system
doesn't mean it can't cause damage."

That's the *whole point* of using *nix! A user cannot kill the *system*.
That is the whole point....

Lisa, I think you sent this just to get people going....:)


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:43 +0000, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> On Friday the 13th, the end of the universe as we know it, right
> before Valentines Day attachment madness, we examine the techno-urban
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> 
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