On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:32:38 -0700, The Historian
wrote:


This one doesn't impress me too much. It assumes we understand what
the presumed hacker is trying to do, and that the hacker is rational,
in addition to being fiendishly clever, and very, very patient. It's
just the other side of the coin from the spurious arguments Phil and
Rob have been making -- that we can say "well, there's no reason [of
which we're aware]

Your own writing is not 'fiendishly clever', it is juvenile

The words you quote referred to the hacker. At any rate, "juvenile"
beats "foolish" any day of the week.


that is no quote of
mine above, "well, there is no reason...

I said it was your "spurious argument". That means it was a summary
of one of your many positions. Doesn't mean I claimed it was a direct
quote. You claim to be a journalist?

What I said is that it is //behavior out of character// as I know it. You
see, I didn't say it is impossible, I qualified my own statement to say
something relative about it - and to be as honest as I could.

And I didn't say you claimed it was "impossible". And "to be as
honest as [you] could"? Phil, I have FAITH in you -- you CAN do
better, if you really, really try.

I am not interested in fixing up Paul Truong - I am interested in the
false-Sloan. You will not admit the difference in these approaches, and by
the same logic that you accuse me of shading my comment to protect Paul
Truong, you accuse yourself //by the same measure// of shading for someone
trying to implicate Truong.

This statement is intellectually dishonest even for you. What I've
been advocating, Phil, namely having a credentialed expert examine
the evidence Mottershead gathered could well CLEAR Truong. I've been
making fun of stupid, spurious arguments people, yourself included,
have made against taking this step.

And I've invited you to proceed with your own Inspector Cleaseau
investigations. I'd listen. You're right, I'd probably make fun of
you too, but only if your argument was stupid.

glug glug !

"Glug, Glug" ? You must be washing down your hat and humble pie with
the juice of some bitter lemon -- have you read Mig today, Phil?