On 2019 Jul 04 17:38:10, you wrote to me:

 ml>> oh but there is... getting that mechanism into operation like used to
 ml>> be done is a little harder to do these days for some reason...

 MK> I'll believe it when I see it.

the mechanism is the *Cs and them letting folks know that they are running 
banned software due to the flaw(s) causing problems on the network... the 
detection of the flaw(s) comes from the FTSC... the *Cs, guided by their ZC, 
then let their nodes know and get them to downgrade to an approced version of 
the software or to upgrade to a newer one without the flaw... if there is no 
newer one and the system doesn't downgrade, the enforcement is temporary 
blocking of their node number...

 MK> Also I don't buy into the "good ol' days" when everything was
 MK> peacho-keen-neato.  I am sure some (most?) of that is selective
 MK> memory.

i don't have a clue what you're speaking of... i only know that both frontdoor 
and binkleyterm had beta versions banned at one time because of 
interoperability problems... the problems were fixed very quickly and a new 
beta released... some beta testers elected to downgrade to the previous beta... 
others didn't get that chance for one reason or another...

 MK> Anyhow I look forward to seeing the 0x8d bug die a horrible, miserable
 MK> death. Make my day.  :-)

we have to find exactly which software it is causing it... no guessing if it is 
this one or that one... several of us have done a good portion of this 
tracking... you and i included ;)

)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... My other car is a BUDD.
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