The kick doesn't work because Manish's script doesn't work anymore for some reason and there's no way I can figure out how to do it 'cause I'm not a mod.
@AviD why not, most of the security professionals here have told me to adopt a default permit strategy to life, maybe you should take the advice of your peers
@kalina interesting interpretation. FTR @TerryChia I suggested that when people said something that could be taken two ways and one of them didn't make her angry @kalina tried taking that one on board
@AviD Inspired by an experiment I found on some blog, I set up my own fake OkCupid. Found a stock picture looked like something form a shaving machine ad, and filled the profile info with some random info. The amount of women (and men) who initiated conversations with me was unbelievable!
@AviD Message after message, I kept sending the most perverted, rude, and creepy messages I can think of, and probably around 90% of the women seemed not to mind.. at all! And that came from college-educated women with good careers. Almost nobody seemed to mind, and they still agreed to meet me.
@AviD I've had more than 500 of those conversations.
@kalina So, if a scientist asks people to volunteer for a research then any conclusion drawn from the experiments are only valid for the subset of people who respond to research ads?
and if you look around OkCupid, you're going to conclude that everyone is sad, desperate, horny, and willing to put up with infinite crap just so they woooont haaaave to be ALOOOONNEE anymooooorrreeee!
@kalina So, if a scientist asks people to volunteer for a research then any conclusion drawn from the experiments are only valid for the subset of people who respond to research ads?
@Kalina @AviD So you're telling me when scientists develop medications after trials on volunteers, then those medications are only suitable for the subset of the human population who respond to research ads?!
@Adnan But by the very fact people respond to you on OKCupid, you're already limiting your subset to a group of individuals who're extroverts, willing to appear on an internet dating site, etc
@Adnan they increase their sample size to incorporate as many of the variables as possible, but yes, there are many MANY reported cases of people having an allergic reaction to medication
@Adnan Trial tests for medications are established along a defined scientific protocol, among which subject selection is a big matter. You indeed want to have a panel that is representative of the target demographics.
@AviD But the questions in the experiments aren't "Are you a Facebook user?". In that case, you're right! Because you'll get that 100% of FB users are FB users, thus 100% of humanity are Facebook users.. which is false.
Alright, I guess I was indeed not entirely correct. Being on OkCupid might correlate with being slightly more desperate than the general population, which means that you're more likely to tolerate certain behaviour. In my case, that clearly skews the result of my experiment.
Especially thanks to @Kalina. She was the only one who actually didn't assume I didn't understand what correlation means, and instead she focused on showing me where the correlation actually is.
@Adnan aaaaand it is well known that many "meet forums" use fake women (either bots, or cheap male labour) to help reach a closer to 1 apparent sex ratio. It is possible that a substantial proportions of the women with which you conversed really were some pour guy in Bangalore.
@Adnan and to repay my kindness you have another go at flipping me onto your side with a kind compliment that's obviously powered by an ulterior motive
@AviD Nope, sorry, AviD. Your argument was based on showing me that certain correlations can skew the results (which I understood), but you failed to highlight the actual correlation. Nevertheless, thanks for the good intentions of helping me understand.
@Adnan In the early 1980s France deployed home terminals known as Minitel. It turned out that people did not use it for "serious" administrative purposes, but chat services were very succesful
Among "interesting" facts gathered at that time was that men were a lot more "chatty" than women, when it came to "online meeting with strangers"
Elisa-like bots were developed at that time; some were quite good at fooling male users.
@Adnan I know this is an attempt to provoke me, but any guy approaching me in a club is literally wasting his time, I would rather lick used needles than go with a guy I met in a club
and thus my presence in said environment is strictly to dance
I consider myself being a "normal" person and I do go to clubs/music shows from times to times, does it mean that I can't meet someone else who's "normal" too?
Is it fair to say that the main difference between encryption and hashing is that one is reversible while the other isn't? (This is targeted at people without any crypto knowledge.)
@RoryAlsop Sir, it appears that you have yolo'd without the hashtag in a context where it would have been appropriate. I will let you go this time but please be careful next time.
@TerryChia Well the problem is that I've never worked with the SAM uC's, so it will mean countless hours of reading a two thousand page document about configuration registers
@TerryChia Yep. The addresses are usually different, but the compiler sometimes #define's them for an architecture so one library will work for all, say, ATMega chips.
@TerryChia Nah, I don't even need to do that. I can import the whole library into Atmel Studio (which is just Visual Studio with a face lift) and use it there.
