Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Warning - Serious 'sudo' Flaw Compromises Security Date: 15 Oct 2025 05:27:10 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <10cdluk$pc59$2@dont-email.me> <1NucnW53DZrMOHH1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cihiq$23kb8$6@dont-email.me> <10cios3$25sim$2@dont-email.me> <10cj667$29n96$5@dont-email.me> <10cjf5m$2cnh5$2@dont-email.me> <10cl5qu$2q6c4$12@dont-email.me> <10cmkps$39hde$2@dont-email.me> <10cmt5g$3bg6j$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uORL1uWvDKca9Bd0FK3CrwuurM/G9whf8da/ElyDnPweap+ybS Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qo36q5AH5K6BqEUHx1VsEI/o1F8= sha256:EddfkwiOc7bfyaSwHGT774PddiPiOfttLfQnEsWXyn0= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76167 On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:25:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:31:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> On 2025-10-14, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> Anybody who buys a book with “philosophy” in the title ... probably >>> shouldn’t be allowed to manage a software project. >> >> Ironically, an elective course on logic that I took in university was >> labeled "Philosophy 302". >> That's where I learned about things like De Morgan's theorem, which >> comes in quite handy for programming. > > I didn’t think philosphers believed in logic ... ;) > > I found an explanation of De Morgan’s Theorem in a book on computing > hardware, I think it was. Hard to believe you can find people who write > software, who don’t understand it. I remember on the Python group some > years ago getting into an argument with someone who didn’t seem to > appreciate that the opposite of > > a = b ∨ a = c > > was not > > a ≠ b ∨ a ≠ c > > but > > a ≠ b ∧ a ≠ c As I said, I always sucked at formal logic. For me logic is verbal, not mathematical and I can never remember what all the weird little symbols mean.