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Re:Fighting Cargo Cult – An Incomplete SSL/TLS Bookmark Coll... by danimo on Monday April 21, 2014 @10:50AM (#7621283)
About the Cargo Cult thing: Fair enough. I'm not a native speaker myself, but thought that it may be a well-enough-known idiom.

Anyway, SSL is still what people know it under (plus, according to Wikipedia, TLS support was only added in Java 7, and there are still many Java 6 setups around which have to put up with SSL 3). So I'll stick with SSL/TLS for the time being.

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Re:Fighting Cargo Cult – An Incomplete SSL/TLS Bookmark Coll... by puetzk on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:35PM (#7638220)
Re: "Cargo Cult" as a well-enough-known idiom:

It's basically a shibboleth for "Are you a fan of Richard Feynman". I doubt very many people have actually heard of it directly, but his "Cargo Cult Science" commencement address (http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html) is moderately famous.

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