but hitler made some nice painting and poems, he must be clever. And he survived WW1 (not that you have to be clever for that, but in the job he had to do it is pretty skilled)
and most clever people have fucked up thoughts, thats because their brain can't handle all the knowledge or they are driving themself insane by working to long on the same project.
Historically, back doors have often lurked in systems longer than anyone expected or planned, and a few have become widely known. Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture to the ACM admitted the existence of a back door in early Unix versions that may have qualified as the most fiendishly clever security hack of all time. In this scheme, the C compiler contained code that would recognize when the `login' command was being recompiled and insert some code recognizing a password chosen by Thompson, giving him entry to the system whether or not an account had been created for him.
Normally such a back door could be removed by removing it from the source code for the compiler and recompiling the compiler. But to recompile the compiler, you have to *use* the compiler -- so Thompson also arranged that the compiler would *recognize when it was compiling a version of itself*, and insert into the recompiled compiler the code to insert into the recompiled `login' the code to allow Thompson entry -- and, of course, the code to recognize itself and do the whole thing again the next time around! And having done this once, he was then able to recompile the compiler from the original sources; the hack perpetuated itself invisibly, leaving the back door in place and active but with no trace in the sources.
it all depends on how you define genius though...i know a lot about philosophers like kant and nietzsche, but i'm not entirely sure if they're geniuses or not - same for freud
first part, i must agree...but for freud: he was genious imo. i read lots of his stuff and was fascinated bout what he did. but i wouldnt be upset if someone would disagree (i hat e my english, never can say what i have in my (german) mind :P)
Hitler <- he was actualy a smart motherfucker, only thing was he had also some strange thoughts about the "uber mensch"
people who can't write speeches aren't all dumbasses
Hitler > GWB
and most clever people have fucked up thoughts, thats because their brain can't handle all the knowledge or they are driving themself insane by working to long on the same project.
Nice chocie on B Russell!
"i iz invented free electwicity but they burnded down maj laboratoriiiiii"
Kamal
Historically, back doors have often lurked in systems longer than anyone expected or planned, and a few have become widely known. Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture to the ACM admitted the existence of a back door in early Unix versions that may have qualified as the most fiendishly clever security hack of all time. In this scheme, the C compiler contained code that would recognize when the `login' command was being recompiled and insert some code recognizing a password chosen by Thompson, giving him entry to the system whether or not an account had been created for him.
Normally such a back door could be removed by removing it from the source code for the compiler and recompiling the compiler. But to recompile the compiler, you have to *use* the compiler -- so Thompson also arranged that the compiler would *recognize when it was compiling a version of itself*, and insert into the recompiled compiler the code to insert into the recompiled `login' the code to allow Thompson entry -- and, of course, the code to recognize itself and do the whole thing again the next time around! And having done this once, he was then able to recompile the compiler from the original sources; the hack perpetuated itself invisibly, leaving the back door in place and active but with no trace in the sources.
-- The Jargon File