Re: [Hampshire] IRC +m

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 14:46 +0100, mauve wrote:
> Dear +o and/or ChanServ admins,
>
> I know that my contribution to the #hants IRC channel is limited to
> rants, interjections and generally being wankerish, but that is what IRC
> was invented for [1] and I'm not at all happy with the new policy of
> enforced silence.
>
> For example, I would like to share with you this off-topic quote I found
> on Wikipedia:
>
> "The proportion of insecure software written in PHP, out of the total
> of all common software vulnerabilities, amounted to: 12% in 2003, 20%
> in 2004, 28% in 2005, 43% in 2006, 36% in 2007, and 33.8% for the
> first quarter of 2008."
>
> I have found that I am unable to do so.
>
> Please can you unset +m or hand out some +v so that I can once again
> assail you with my unique brand of wit, vitriol and self-importance?
>
> Love and kisses,
>
> Dan
>
> [1] RFC 1459 omits this detail, but it is the conventional interpretation.
>

So the figures you quoted. I take it they are proportionate to the
amount of software thats being written. Rather than, say, theres 50
progs and they are all getting slowly hacked. Or that there is 50 new
progs being released each year, and 61 are being hacked. If you get my
drift.