there is no difference between people who believe in religion and fanatical fans of fiction like Star Wars fans or Trekkies. In fact, that's not fair on Star Wars fans or Trekkies because at least the latter have an imagination
just that if they believe in a God, they're silly as far as I'm concerned
might as well pray to this glass of water on my desk
it will have the same effect
@AviD you're the one that started banging on about how the lack of belief in a god is a religion, even though the accepted definition of religion is "belief in a god"
@kalina and if you believe you have proof that there is no God - which, by definition you cannot see or prove - then you are silly as well. The only difference, is how silly, and how far out of their way they are going to back up their insane beliefs.
@kalina no, I very specifically did NOT say that.
There is a difference between "lack of belief in a god" and "belief in lack of a god".
@AviD I don't think I'd agree with that. People have to have beliefs which they cannot prove as a foundation for their value system, scientists included. A scientist will believe things he cannot prove
Also, religion is quite a personal thing, I may not believe in the same deity or deities someone else might or might not, but unless they get in my face, I don't particularly care ;p
proper dictionary term would be something like: - the belief, or organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules, often used to worship a god or a group of gods - an interest, a belief, or an activity that is very important to a person or group
so Windows vs. Linux is a common religious argument (which is absolutely stupid and pointless)
I'd venture that the second definition is descriptivist, added based on usage such as with the arguments you mentioned, e.g. 1: "You sure have a lot of Ghostbusters merch" 2: "Yeah, it's my religion"
I was just commenting that I think it was probably used more as hyperbole but become a less impacting word over time; e.g. he follows the story religiously I didn't mean that I think anything followed to that degree implies it's a religion
"The Final build of Windows 10 was only released a short while ago. Waves is hard at work on a Windows 10 compatible version update for our software. We ask for your patience and understanding while our QA team works to test and qualify a stable release."
@RoryAlsop nah, their sales method is too good for me to refund over temporary lack of support
escalating discounts are something I like more than software that doesn't work this week
mmm isn't it about time for another cubase release
that's going to be another drain
maybe they could make it crash less
going back to that conversation about liability in the software industry
a piece of software written specifically for the creation of music, thus its entire user base should be professionals using the software to make money
and yet it's one of the most unstable pieces of software I've ever had the displeasure of using
Good morning. Stupid question. Should this be removed, if only because it states the methodology behind a potential vulnerability in a sorta-not-ethical approach...? (It hasn't been confirmed as a vuln yet, but...)
i question their ethical approach on this (they publicly posted the issue to OpenSSL's public github too, which would violate some ethical approaches, or possibly even responsible disclosure.)
I think that is the proper industry methodology, right? Have a vague concern about TLS, discuss it with @ThomasPornin in the DMZ, and within 90 minutes have him publish details of a severe vulnerability in the protocol.
@raz They disclose code for it on github. That suggests to me that they're not 100% ethical on this, because if it's a massive issue it should be 'inform OpenSSL first, disclose', no? so they can issue an alert about it
(several OpenSSL issues've been embargoed before the info is released, as well)
it's not a TLS vulnerability, the problem is more in the wording of "any connection terminated with a fatal alert MUST NOT be resumed". It should say "session" not "connection" (tho you'll often find interchanging used of these)
@RoryAlsop don't worry before any of these autonomous killing machines are deployed they'll get a full risk analysis and security will be their top priority, they'll use military grade encryption and won't have any known security problems
Autonomous killing machines..at very minimum there should be a human interfaceable prompt "Do you want to allow the following drone to make changes to this persons secret hideout?" >Yes >Cancel >remember my decision
I dont see how that is a plus side..in fact less string bikinis bothers me more than the moral and philosophical implications of allowing computers to kill people.
you have any idea how sharp those things are if a wave throws you over them? you won't make it, lethal injection by a starfish chasing robot would seem humane even LOL
@RoryAlsop heh I forgot about that, yeah that was a thing once, some payphones or just dial locked phones had this vulnerability that you could whistle or play the number with a walkman... or manual pulse dialing, that worked too
