On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:03:23AM -0400, Joshua Juran wrote: > On Jul 7, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
> >Hmm... > >My new language has several additional instruction: > > > > break_out_of_sandbox > > be_a_zombie > > rm_minusrf > > melt_cpu > > > >:-) > > I would expect these to be privileged instructions. For example, only > root should be entitled to melt the CPU. Yes. Quite. For example, they seem to have added a "halt and catch fire" instruction to the engine management firmware on London's bendy buses, and what do you expect? End users decide to use it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4343555.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3557309.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3287167.stm Nicholas Clark
