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Holy shit snacks, does that mean that one day I might be able to use Korean government or online banking website with Firefox???

Probably not, the country's extremely monocultural when it comes to computing tech. ("Not Invented Here" was one of the problems in the first place.) For example, nearly all the PCs there are Windows/Intel/nVidia combos... you really need to jump though hoops and/or be really specific when ordering computers to get anything else. And, only people at Daum and KAIST seem to even have any idea about Linux. Anything outside the Windows (IE6+)/Intel/nVidia mindset is not going to work.

Seriously, because of this. Flippantly, because the DPRK would never have dealings with capitalist pig Microsoft. (In truth they've been migrating toward Linux.)

• LablGTK. GTK on Windows. Yuck.
• LablTk. Tk is a toy GUI kit.
• OCaml-Win32. If you have to ask what's wrong with the win32 API, you've never had to use it in a language other than C.
• Some alpha or out of date binding of wxWidgets or Qt for OCaml.

OCaml programs aren't shorter than scripting languages, and they're limited to a curses interface at best. Together with its speed, OCaml gives off the impression of being a language you'd reach for when you write high performance, low interaction programs---like automated financial trading agents. Not many of us do that. And so not many of us use OCaml.

http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/~otfried/Mule/

Hope that helps.

>Infact, less than 10% of people with an IQ above 120 have any faith/religous belief.

It's not that I don't believe you or anything, but do you have any sources for that statement? :)

There are studies going back to the 1920's that show this correlation:

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Intelligence%20&%2 0religion.htm

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-thinkingchristians .htm

Or just google "Negative Correlation IQ Religosity"

the reason is not-invented-here syndrome or a strawman argument against Unicode's ideograph system.

Asians complain about having to share codepoints for characters (see Han Unification). A lot of people think the whining is mostly racist in nature; however, there are a few legitimate complaints in there, for instance many characters that Han Unification forced to share codepoints actually have different glyphs depending on which language it's written in, even if they all shared a similar source. Unicode's official stance is that the application should identify the language being used and select the correct glyph for that particular character from a font designed for that language (which basically makes it impossible to create a single definitive Unicode font). Explanation of both the glyph problem and the not-invented-here issues here. More on glyphs.

As for the "major encodings" currently in use, Shift-JIS was basically forced onto them by Microsoft who took their existing JIS encoding (based on ISO-2022) and broke it. There's about 1000 websites of people telling the world just what they thought of that, yet not-invented-here or not, the Shift-JIS system sucks. Consider the fact that it uses two separate non-contiguous sets of codepoints (compare graphs of the non-unicode encodings here.

It's easy to say "not-invented-here", it's harder to admit that the foreigners had no clue what they were doing and broke it :P

it could just be a vocal minority

Of course it's a vocal minority, the majority just want their computers to work.

• Eavesdropping on any data
• Cloning any device with only their public key
• Avoiding any blacklist on devices
• Creating new device keyvectors

And all you need to do that are 40 devices. You can extract their keys and quickly calculate the master key, which can then be used to circumvent the DRM.

From the paper:

An attacker can reverse engineer 40 different HDCP video software utilities, he can break open 40 devices and extract the keys via reverse engineering, or he can simply license the keys from the trusted center. According to the HDCP License Agreement, device manufacturers can buy 10000 key pairs for $16000. Given these 40 spanning keys, the master secret can be recovered in seconds. So in essence, the trusted authority sells a large portion of its master secret to every HDCP licensee. With the master secret in hand, one can eavesdrop on all device communications, spoof any device, and clone any device, all in real time. One can produce a device that, by parroting back the KSVs of its peers, cannot be disabled by any blacklist. With a reasonable amount of computation, an attacker can also produce new device keys not on any key revocation list.

http://www.artfiles.org/mozilla.org/firefox/releas es/1.0/(Germany)
ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1 .0/
http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/mozilla/firefox/release s/1.0/
ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/mozilla/firefox/releases /1.0/
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/firefox/releas es/1.0/
http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/firefox/relea ses/1.0/
http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ releases/1.0/
ftp://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/r eleases/1.0/
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mozilla/firef ox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/1.0/ (US)
ftp://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firef ox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fir efox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fire fox/releases/1.0/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firefox/releases /1.0/ (US)
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firefox/releases/ 1.0/ (US)

http://www.artfiles.org/mozilla.org/firefox/releas es/1.0/(Germany)
ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1 .0/
http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/mozilla/firefox/release s/1.0/
ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/mozilla/firefox/releases /1.0/
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/firefox/releas es/1.0/
http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/firefox/relea ses/1.0/
http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ releases/1.0/
ftp://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/r eleases/1.0/
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mozilla/firef ox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/1.0/ (US)
ftp://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firef ox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fir efox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fire fox/releases/1.0/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firefox/releases /1.0/ (US)
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firefox/releases/ 1.0/ (US)

The following is a full list of the primary and secondary mirrors that have Firefox 0.8 builds. This list will also be maintained and updated.

Apologies for not listing one per line, but slashdot rejects posts with "too few characters per line".

North America: mozilla.isc.org (http) mozilla.isc.org (ftp) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (http) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (ftp) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (http) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (ftp) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (http) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (ftp) mozilla.gnusoft.net (http)

Europe: sunsite.rediris.es (http) sunsite.rediris.es (ftp) sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (ftp) ftp.cvut.cz (ftp) www.artfiles.org (http) ftp.rediris.es (ftp) ftp.rediris.es (http) ftp.task.gda.pl (ftp) ftp.task.gda.pl (http) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (ftp) (Windows only) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (http) (Windows only) ftp.mirror.ac.uk (ftp)

Asia/Australia: ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp (ftp) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (http) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (ftp) ftp.nctu.edu.tw (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (http)

The following is a full list of the primary and secondary mirrors that have Firefox 0.8 builds. This list will also be maintained and updated.

Apologies for not listing one per line, but slashdot rejects posts with "too few characters per line".

North America: mozilla.isc.org (http) mozilla.isc.org (ftp) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (http) trillian.cc.gatech.edu (ftp) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (http) mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu (ftp) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (http) mozilla.oregonstate.edu (ftp) mozilla.gnusoft.net (http)

Europe: sunsite.rediris.es (http) sunsite.rediris.es (ftp) sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (ftp) ftp.cvut.cz (ftp) www.artfiles.org (http) ftp.rediris.es (ftp) ftp.rediris.es (http) ftp.task.gda.pl (ftp) ftp.task.gda.pl (http) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (ftp) (Windows only) sunsite.icm.edu.pl (http) (Windows only) ftp.mirror.ac.uk (ftp)

Asia/Australia: ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp (ftp) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (http) ftp.kaist.ac.kr (ftp) ftp.nctu.edu.tw (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (ftp) mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au (http)

Wasn't Al Stevens (of Dr. Dobbs fame) working on just this? I don't remember right now, but I seem to remember it fitting the bill. Here's a reference link I found in google:

http://ai.kaist.ac.kr/~ymkim/Program/c++.html

Search for "d-flat Al.Stevens" and you'll find a bunch of stuff.

Future versions hope to employ new techniques to improve the resolution and base from 8-bit to 16-bit. This may come through using 3d-graphics cards, faster
computers or different modelling techniques. Ideally the engine would be able to run at a number of different processing levels. So even pre-PPC and low-end PC
users could use the engine whilst high end users would experience substantial resolution advantages.