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: 18 Oct 2025 05:40:58 GMT Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <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> <-ZCcnbpqnNEEkHL1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <10ctpvt$17cip$1@dont-email.me> <2smdnb0rA9AEnG71nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Dwkk39NfFwGBAg/+xIyNKAE5hDCd1c7PnEbGZ+iYXuCk0r4wlX Cancel-Lock: sha1:9kerh2EetdXN46BPELdo/2j3jqU= sha256:w+1uOfhoEbheuX8pick/wn41qB7XfHv3/j5vdcuGxRQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76297 On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:55:20 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 10/17/25 12:13, Rich wrote: >> c186282 wrote: >>> On 10/14/25 21:25, 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 >>> >>> Never even heard of DeMorgan >> >> The basics underlying boolean logic: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws > > Never heard of him until now. Figured out the relevant boolean/logic > rules on the fly while writing my programs. I stumbled onto 'Principia Mathematica' at an early age which probably warped me for life. I don't really care for mathematics, I think that also led me to some of Dodgson's work. He is better know in other fields. youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0