How do you abuse a protocol ? Add dependencies.

[Jeff Bone]

Formerly cogent Steve has now officially become Garble.  Go, Steve, go!!!  (Geege had to translate his last epistle for me...)

:-)

jb


Steve Nordquist wrote:

> Russell Turpin wrote:
>
> > Granted, it's good to know the design limits of tools.
>
> A knife handle!  What happened to good old ultrasound with inferometry?
> In this example, you can't be permitted to abuse the pocketknife by listening for voids while changing the torque ratio of a bosun with the back of the blade.
> How hard would you have to hit it to create a void as part of the test process?  Ow!  No...no, rhetorically....
>
> Certain hands shouldn't be used to pause the stump-grinding machine too.  Come 'n think of it, what happened to the licenses that had 'absolutely not for use by USA federal agencies' in them?  l33t F3}3r4l AgNX!  In Fra Str Uctu Re...ah, this must be a US border crossing pillory, where all the packets bunched up....
>
> So how, feeding noise into the pipe aside, do you abuse a protocol?
> Excess dependencies (that should not take.)  This is the super-secret and -sexy nature of
> the universal emulator. </Burroughs>
>
> Contrawise, you could use SS7 to set up a fast packet connection when in fact
> you have no network partitioning to do, and the protocol abuses you, but in
> a well-scoped manner.  Er...that is, depending on how sick your community of
> local SS7 users gets.
>
> Historically there's "only 3 crew can visit the portmaster at a time," right?
> Using easy connections (http. ftp, telnet (SSH? Hm....) X etc, for anything
> (services) isn't quite abuse, but requiring certain features of HTTP or X
> that don't belong to that layer causes trouble!  Take whatever Real Corporation
> has in its patents as a model; what were there?  Stream modes, verbosity selections,
> alignment, dogname, antibunching fildrocarb, padding, strictness, inline
> code translation and auto-(protocol)wrapping, firewall compatibility, cache licensees,
> implicit licenses, browser selection (who calls who...)
> ...all those ended up with little segments in their
> code for connections, which wouldn't be bad if it weren't jiggling the OSs' antennae
> frantically.  Great for making DMA test cases, not great for universality.
>
> Generalizing from the Real case (and ignoring a few judgements for performance for no particular reason.)
> Self-deal by betting contrary (e.g. making money on, shorting) to your public stance on an implementation. <-RIAA would be backing that?
> (optional0) Make public offering on a regulated or otherwise underwritten exchange
> (optional) Self-deal on declaration in Arizona in front of JenniCam
> (optional2) invite Synopsis VPs to do same
>
> Sorry, no idea what to think of SOAP, but the signal was up there for a bit!
> I can't load every API out there, I painted my keyboards and discovered I don't know where the particular keys are after all.
>
> You reach down into the pit.  Your pony backs away skeptically. <more>
>
> Hey, Riffage.com went back up?  Keen.
>
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