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Re: press trickery of the worst kind
From: silky <michaelslists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:54:06 +1000
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Drsolly<drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, silky wrote:On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Drsolly<drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:See what happens when an untrained user tries to use the English language?Well it's any language where the listener is allowed to infer that what is not said can also be true. At least programming languages aren't this way :) If I decide "System.out.println(32);" the compiler doesn't decide to add '.println(21)' and claims that I never told it not to say it :)A more accurate parallel would be that the system decides that you don't want .println(21) because you only asked for .println(32)
I don't know, it could go either way. I could say to a journalist "I like chicken" and he translates that to "silky likes breasts of hot birds". Anyway, it's just a problem when dealing journalists. The problem isn't so much that they do it, they're only playing the game, the problem is the majority that read it and take it as fact, because they have the right to vote ... :P -- silky _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: press trickery of the worst kind B.K. DeLong (Jul 16)
- Re: press trickery of the worst kind Drsolly (Jul 16)
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