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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:56:05 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: openssl version - how to verify
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On 19 November 2010 22:22, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:53:11 -0600
> Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> articulated:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600
>> > Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> articulated:
>> >
>> > > While I agree with your point in this context, the statement "The
>> > > number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the other hand, is an infinite
>> > > one." is false.
>> > >
>> > http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2009/sep/microkernel_breakthrough.html
>> >
>> > It was later discovered that the software used to certify the kernel
>> > 100% bug-free was not itself bug-free thereby nullifying results.
>> >
>> Link or another "Jerry Fact"
>
> I would have thought that was obvious. Although, it does remind me of
> the old myth that the bumblebee should not be able to fly
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee>.
>
> "There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase often credited to P.
> T. Barnum, and quite often true.

No, it's not 'obvious', just like many other things.

People believed Aristotle's assurances about the rate of things
falling for nearly 2000 years until Galileo and Newton pointed out
'obvious' flaws in his method.

Again, link?

Chris



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