But does anybody actually audit closed source software?
Like it sounds good in theory but does it work in practise[sic]. Strikes me there are a lot of existing closed source projects that would be viable candidates to prove this out.
As far as guarantee of competent audit goes - it is in neither open nor closed source software. As far as existence of insecure software goes - it is in both open and closed source software.
Do you need to "try" a jam to know its price? If not, more options help even if you don't try them. If yes, you're the one who shouldn't be allowed to make choices.
There are various interpretations on the sentence - "You can't refute the observable results of actual choice paralysis experiments by saying "nah" "
Are you unable to see the other choices of interpretations? Or you just prefer to goad the other into your straw man because you know how to deal with this straw man?
Consider yourself in this very post. There are at least 50 different types of criteria possible for someone to choose a jam, but you seem fixated on taste (or others which need a sampling). So you yourself blindly choose one of the (say) 50 criteria, ignoring the rest of the types of criteria for no clear reason.
Have you really tried thinking about the 50 types of criteria? Have the other/. posters ?
But they indeed know this one great restaurant in Toledo. They don't know the best one, and they didn't claim to know the best one, and no one expects a casual tourist to know that after traveling to a city a few times, and most tourists don't need to know that before traveling to a city, and "best" has such a different and complicated definition for everyone that knowing the best restaurant is not worth the effort.
Telling others about this one great restaurant in Toledo is not useless at all because now those others have one more data point.
"Great" doesn't need a baseline for comparison. Best/better need a baseline for comparison. Worst can easily be great. Best cannot be worse.
Sometimes you just have to accept the analogy has broken down and start talking about the real stuff. Such times have come. Here it is all about the granularity of the a la carte.
Both burrito and taco contain many common ingredients and some common tools are used to make both - so that is not a la carte either.
Wow! Paleo diet is not literally Paleolithic? I'm shocked. In other news, keto diet is not about drinking ketones, breast stroke swimming doesn't need mammarian breasts, Doberman is not a man.
Watching without acting on it is not stimulating at all. Human mental capability is not built like that. That is why plain reading doesn't cause much memory retention. Even when it does, it is due to later parts of text necessitating recall of earlier parts.
TV - especially the way I've seen it being presented , doesn't encourage that at all. The peek of next episode, the detailed recap of previous one, the program design - are all typically designed to minimize intellectual burden, and therefore stimulation. The pressure on program designers of stopping the viewer from briefing to the next channel stops then from requiring any thought from the user.
In "Amusing ourselves to death", you can find other reasons, and also evidence why TV is bad even for news dissemination in a democracy - largely due to lack of stimulation of users.
Calibres plugin I tried asked for the kindle device ID to be able to strip the DRM. Since I had only an android device and no kindle, I didn't have that information. The kindle application on the android device didn't have anything that looked like an ID.
If he were saying this privately to advertisers, you would be right. But since he is saying this in public, it is because the advertisers want the users to think that the advertisers are thinking this.
What would you tell Bruce (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_pr.html) ? Not an appeal to authority, just that I find most of these arguments valid.
Thanks for making my argument for me. That is what i was saying- that one has to do it oneself. Communicating such a simple thing, even hypothetically, to a computer brought you to expletives
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kJ in feces in any form that can be processed by bacteria
What about kJ in feces that ARE bacteria? Gut flora in general.
30% of shit is typically made of gut flora. They eat your food, multiply, come out as shit.
But does anybody actually audit closed source software?
Like it sounds good in theory but does it work in practise[sic]. Strikes me there are a lot of existing closed source projects that would be viable candidates to prove this out.
As far as guarantee of competent audit goes - it is in neither open nor closed source software. As far as existence of insecure software goes - it is in both open and closed source software.
Closed source, commercial software is written by people who are paid to do it
1. Not true - e.g. non-open-source shareware
2. Open source software is also at times written by people who are paid to do it.
So imagine " Software that people are paid to written more often includes the boring, not-fun parts like testing, documentation, and auditing"
It is a closed source software at this point, with X level of security. NOW open source it - it becomes Y level of security.
Claim is that Y >= X.
By brother
You need Afrin so badly it shows in your typed text!!
Do you need to "try" a jam to know its price? If not, more options help even if you don't try them. If yes, you're the one who shouldn't be allowed to make choices.
There are various interpretations on the sentence - "You can't refute the observable results of actual choice paralysis experiments by saying "nah" "
Are you unable to see the other choices of interpretations? Or you just prefer to goad the other into your straw man because you know how to deal with this straw man?
Consider yourself in this very post. There are at least 50 different types of criteria possible for someone to choose a jam, but you seem fixated on taste (or others which need a sampling). So you yourself blindly choose one of the (say) 50 criteria, ignoring the rest of the types of criteria for no clear reason.
Have you really tried thinking about the 50 types of criteria? Have the other /. posters ?
But they indeed know this one great restaurant in Toledo. They don't know the best one, and they didn't claim to know the best one, and no one expects a casual tourist to know that after traveling to a city a few times, and most tourists don't need to know that before traveling to a city, and "best" has such a different and complicated definition for everyone that knowing the best restaurant is not worth the effort.
Telling others about this one great restaurant in Toledo is not useless at all because now those others have one more data point.
"Great" doesn't need a baseline for comparison. Best/better need a baseline for comparison. Worst can easily be great. Best cannot be worse.
Sometimes you just have to accept the analogy has broken down and start talking about the real stuff. Such times have come. Here it is all about the granularity of the a la carte.
Both burrito and taco contain many common ingredients and some common tools are used to make both - so that is not a la carte either.
Not an answer to the question here :
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Do you remember making the statement
"but that doesn't mean you don't need the sleep"
?
Do you remember making and stand by your statement
"but that doesn't mean you don't need the sleep"
?
Though I do admit that "not stimulating at all" was an exaggeration I was guilty of.
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey heavily stimulated by the experience.
Monkey see, monkey doesn't do, monkey forgets it and is stimulated to a far lower extent by the experience. See the evidence I presented.
So I accept your retraction of your statement :
"but that doesn't mean you don't need the sleep"
Though it is far more obvious that a dog does well on a ketogenic diet than that a human does well on it.
Wow! Paleo diet is not literally Paleolithic? I'm shocked. In other news, keto diet is not about drinking ketones, breast stroke swimming doesn't need mammarian breasts, Doberman is not a man.
"It is harder to sleep on the ketogenic diet, but that doesn't mean you don't need the sleep"
This doesn't come across as working "fine". It directly implies an unsatisfied need, which is not fine by any standards
Watching without acting on it is not stimulating at all. Human mental capability is not built like that. That is why plain reading doesn't cause much memory retention. Even when it does, it is due to later parts of text necessitating recall of earlier parts.
TV - especially the way I've seen it being presented , doesn't encourage that at all. The peek of next episode, the detailed recap of previous one, the program design - are all typically designed to minimize intellectual burden, and therefore stimulation. The pressure on program designers of stopping the viewer from briefing to the next channel stops then from requiring any thought from the user.
In "Amusing ourselves to death", you can find other reasons, and also evidence why TV is bad even for news dissemination in a democracy - largely due to lack of stimulation of users.
You can't be sure until you do a double blind placebo controlled randomized study with a large well selected sample on yourself. /s.
Calibres plugin I tried asked for the kindle device ID to be able to strip the DRM. Since I had only an android device and no kindle, I didn't have that information. The kindle application on the android device didn't have anything that looked like an ID.
Do you have a solution for that?
"benign, wholesome advertising sites"
You'll spot a dodo in the wild before that.
Have you read it?
If he were saying this privately to advertisers, you would be right. But since he is saying this in public, it is because the advertisers want the users to think that the advertisers are thinking this.
What would you tell Bruce (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_pr.html) ? Not an appeal to authority, just that I find most of these arguments valid.
Thanks for making my argument for me. That is what i was saying- that one has to do it oneself. Communicating such a simple thing, even hypothetically, to a computer brought you to expletives