Re: symptom?

["Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 3/14/07, Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca> wrote:
> --- Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure it makes sense to speak of machines as
> > becoming 'sick',
> > except in a highly metaphorical way which might be
> > more confusing than
> > helpful.
>
> Yes, hence the scare quotes in my original post. And I
> think for my purposes here, the use of "sick" has been
> getting the message across; I certainly wouldn't use
> it in customer documentation, though.

Cool with me :)

> That aside, thanks for a highly informative post!

Thanks for giving me the chance to dig up and share some of (one of)
my previous life(s). I'm always so envious when people here say things
like "Back when I hacked into the DARPA database as a security expert
for the CIA," and this is -my- chance to pretend I've done something
tangible :)

-- 
Susan Hogarth
http://www.colliething.com
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