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Boy or Girl paradox
- pwim 16y agoThe non-ssl version loads much faster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl I'm curious as to why wikimedia is even offering all their content over ssl in the first place.
- studer 16y agoYeah, why would anyone ever want to access information over an encrypted channel?
- kqr2 16y agoThis might be useful in a country where the government censors certain topics.
- stipes 16y agoThe government would still know (if they were logging traffic) that you accessed the page. In this case, as it is publicly accessible, the encryption is fairly meaningless.
- studer 16y agoThe HTTP request is also encrypted, so figuring out what page you accessed on a site with millions of pages isn't quite as easy as you make it sound...
- kqr2 16y agoA similiar "paradox" is the infamous Monty Hall Problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_Problem
- clayrab 16y agoI actually had an argument with my statistics professor about this... The question she gave was basically this: 'The king has one sibling, what is the probability that it is a boy?' I actually took an opposing view to her initially and then came back the next day saying that it is ambiguous and depends on what we assume about the king, but she wouldn't even agree with me on that.