Schneier on Security

Clive Robinson • May 17, 2013 4:46 PM

@ Bruce,

Hmm maybe somebody in the production is a fan…

So as you are also blessed with “Chuck Norris” film star looks as well as being a certified information twiddeling guru you should ask for a “bit” part 😉

Clive Robinson • May 18, 2013 10:21 AM

@ PrometheeFeu,

That copy looks quasi-new. Not to brag, but mine is basically falling apart after I re-read the thing over and over during high school

It’s also 2nd Editon… I have both the 1st&2nd both in relativly good condition in my “dead tree cave” of a library come office.

Some books I have in three or more editions, which possibly accounts for the several thousand volumes in there [1] which unfortunatly adds a hefty burden on the foundations as well as the insurance bill each year.

[1] For those of you that have never had to work it out for insurance you might get quite a nasty shock… You get about 100 technical books to 10ft of linear book shelf, and with care 10 shelves up a standard 8ft wall, or around 4-5 thousand books around three walls of a moderate sized room. The first shock is just how much they weight in around 2tonnes/thousand volumes including shelving, so yes you need structural work done. The second shock is the current average cost to replace them, it’s currently about 40GBP/vol giving an issurance risk of 200,000GBP which is about one and a half times what the insurance company thinks it will cost to rebuild the house should it burn to the ground… And befor people ask yes I’ve read all of them in part or whole otherwise I would not have bought them in the first place.