- From: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:41:21 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Mark Baker wrote: > Ah, I just read some of the responses. Dan's surprises me; > > "Asking a question is asking a question; whether it's a hard > question or > not seems orthogonal to safety." > > If I asked you "What are the prime factors of this kazillion-digit > integer", that's a question that would take a large amount of time and > money to answer. And if it costs money to answer, then that requires > your bank account be debited by that amount of money, which is a state > change. *Every* HTTP request I answer costs money! Thus, *every* web request is unsafe in precisely this sense; the difference is merely quantitative. > Food for thought ... I'm still hungry! :> Cheers, Kendall Clark
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