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Ask the W3C's RAND Point Man
Danny Weitzner is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society activities, which means he's in charge of handling reactions to a W3C proposal that would allow "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" (hence "RAND") license fees to be charged for use of W3C-endorsed standards that are covered by patents or other trade restrictions. Many prominent Free Software and Open Source people are firmly against RAND; RMS has even emailed me personally several times, asking me to post a link to this anti-RAND story (in which he is quoted). Slashdot has mentioned this controversy before, because we, too, feel it's important.. But Danny is the person at W3C who is dealing directly with all of this, so he's the person we should question. So ask away, one question per post as usual, and we'll post Danny's answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions as soon as he gets them back to us.
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Koran
"....Kill those who join other gods with Allah wherever you find them; besiege them, seize them, lay in wait for them with every kind of ambush...." (Sura 9:5)
"When you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them...." (Sura 47:4)
"....Make war upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as believe not in Allah, or in the Last Day, and who forbid not what Allah and His Apostle have forbidden....until they pay tribute..." (Sura 9:29)
"Say to the infidels: If they desist, what is now past shall be forgiven them; but if they return, they have already before them the doom of the ancients! Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it Allah's." (Sura 8:39)
"Proclaim a grievious penalty to those who reject faith." (Sura 9:3).
"I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them." (Sura 8.12)
"Let not the unbelievers think they will ever get away... strike terror into the enemy of God and your enemy... rouse the faithful to arms!" (Sura 8:59)
Oprah Winfrey was right. It's a beautiful non-violent religion.
Tom.
Oh arse
No dessert for you infidel!
nt
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
Corporate supplied crack are you all smoking?
No, buddy, shame on you for being one of the panicked people who would rather that we live in a nation obsessed with terrorism.
Every generation of Americans has its tragedy, and this is ours; Instead of wallowing in self-pity, we need to suck it up and get back to our lives, rather than becoming obsessed with Osama bin Loser.
Get over it. This is Slashdot. If you don't want to hear about W3 standards, go back to Stileproject.
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Deuteronomy13
God commands the murder of innocent infants.
I Samuel 15:3
Murder your own son...if he's rebellious.
Deuteronomy 21:18
God commands excecution of man for gathering wood during the Sabbath.
Numbers 15:32
God commands murder for working on the Sabbath.
Exodus 35:2
God commands death if you curse at your parents.
Exodus 21:17 and Leviticus 20:9
God commands death for cursing the lord.
Leviticus 24:16
God commands death for a stranger entering a temple.
Numbers 1:51, 3:10, 18:10
Burn to death any daughter of a priest who sells her body.
Leviticus 21:9
God commands murder for speaking to the dead.
Leviticus 20:27
Murder is the sentence for practicing any other religion.
Deuteronomy 13 and Numbers 25
God kills Lot's wife for being curious.
Genesis 19:24
At God's command, men, women, and children are mercilessly slaughtered.
Deuteronomy 2:34
Death Sentence for being rude to strangers.
Matthew 10:14-15 and Luke 10:7
God commands murder for those who lied about church donations.
Acts 5:1-11
God threatens to 'rip pregnant women open and dash little ones to pieces' for disobedience.
Hosea 13:16
Remember all those women who were accused of witchcraft and burned alive? You'll find God's command for it right here.
Exodus 22:18
A Virgin who has intercourse before marriage? Stone her to death!
Deuteronomy 20 and 22:13-21
Soldiers are allowed to marry and engage in forced intercourse with female captives (maybe you shouldn't send the Bible w/ your son when he goes off to war).
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Lot offers his daughters to be gang-raped by a mob.
Genesis 19
There was no punishment for Lot's abhorrent act. In fact, God sent two angels to save Lot from the upcoming destruction of his city right after the above incident.
Genesis 19:15
Sadistic ritual a wife is supposed to endure if her husband is 'jealous' or suspects adultery. The ritual is performed by a priest and is supposed to induce an abortion.
Numbers 5:11-29
If a husband questions the virginity of his wife, she is to be examined before the elders of the city.
Deueteronomy 22:13-
It's okay to beat your slave to death...just as long as the slave dies after a day or two. Now if death is instantaneous, the owner is punished (absurd isn't it).
Exodus 21:20
Man who rapes a slave must sacrifice an animal in a temple to be forgiven.
Leviticus 19:20
Codes on a father selling his daughter into slavery.
Exodus 21:7
God recommends acquiring slaves from the nations around you.
Leviticus 25:45
God suggests that you keep any foreign slaves as property for your sons to inherit.
Leviticus 25:46
More slave codes.
Deut. 15:12
Slaves are forced into sexual intercourse.
Genesis 30
Slaves are instructed to obey their masters.
Colossians 3:22
God commands you to take women and children as property from the nations you are at war with.
Deut. 20:10
Slaves submit to your masters and don't talk back!
Titus 2:9
Obey your masters and don't forget to be enthusiastic slaves!
Ephesians 6:5
When you are having homo buttsex, do you like ot be on top or on bottom?
Instead of wallowing in self-pity
Like the "Greatest Generation" (of whiners).
Are they EVER going to shut up and stop patting themselves on the back?
this your asshole?
C'mon people, mod this up! We'll never find the true identity of the goatsex man if we don't start asking. He probably has the most-viewed rectum on the internet (after Hemos, that is). He's famous! Wouldn't you like to meet him and shake his hand (after he washes them, of course)?
You can tell because it's barbed prick is wedged firmly in Danny Weitzner ass.
As has been uncovered elsewhere, IBM wants everybody to pay for WSDL.
IBM has a rich legacy of fucking over humanity. Hell, they provided the calculus for Nazi genocide.
I'm gonna gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you!
Some of these events are used as morality teachings today; others (the really offensive ones) are dismissed as 'documented historical events of that era.' - Or these events are encouraged to be figuratively interpreted because they are too outrageously immoral and off-center to advocate.
Following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was questioned on ABC television's This Week program about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in the expected conflicts to come.
In practiced Pentagonese, Rumsfeld deftly avoided answering the question of whether the use of tactical nuclear weapons could be ruled out.
Though large "theater" thermonuclear devices -- doomsday bombs -- don't fit the Bush administration's war on terrorism, smaller tactical nukes do not seem out of the question in the current mindset of the Defense Department.
The most likely candidate is a tactical micro-nuke called the B61-11, an earth-penetrating nuclear device known as the "bunker buster." The B61-11 was designed to destroy underground military facilities such as command bunkers, ballistic missile silos and facilities for producing and storing weapons. However, it could be used against the warren of tunnels and caves carved under the Afghan mountains that are often cited as a potential refuge for the U.S. government's prime suspect, Osama bin Laden. The B61-11's unique earth-penetrating characteristics and wide range of yields allow it to threaten deeply situated and otherwise indestructible underground targets from the air.
The 1,200-pound B61-11 replaces the 8,900-pound, nine-megaton B53 device, a bomb initially designated as an earth-penetrating weapon. The B53 is deliverable only by enormous and vulnerable B-52 bombers. By contrast, the relatively diminutive B61-11 can be delivered by the stealthier B-2 bomber, or even by conventional fighters such as the F-16.
The B61-11 is designed to burrow through layers of concrete by way of a "shock-coupling effect." The design directs the force of the B61-11's explosive energy downward, destroying everything buried beneath it to a depth of several hundred meters, according to a story in the March 2, 1997 issue of Defense News.
The B53, on the other hand, with a force equal to 9 million tons of TNT, penetrates the earth simply by creating a massive crater, rather than the more precise downward blow of the B61-11.
The B61-11 is the most recent nuclear device added to the U.S. nuclear arsenal since 1989. It was developed and deployed secretly, according to a story from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The U.S. military sneaked it past test and development treaties, as well as public and congressional debate, by defining the B61-11 as an adaptation of a pre-treaty technology rather than a new development. Depending on the yield of the bomb, the B61-11 can produce explosions ranging from 300 tons of TNT to more than 300,000 tons. This is significantly less than the B53, but still far larger than even the greatest conventional non-nuclear device in U.S. stockpiles. And it is several times more powerful than the atomic weapons dropped on Japan in 1945.
Studies by the Natural Resource Defense Council estimate that more than 150 B61-11s are currently in the U.S. arsenals, scattered among NATO aircraft carriers and planes on bases in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece. Many B61-11s were withdrawn from Europe during the '90s and are now stored at Kirtland and Nellis Air Force bases in the United States.
According to a desk release from the U.S. Air Force's Public Affairs office, tests of the earth-penetrating capabilities of the B61-11 were completed on March 17, 1998, in frozen tundra at the Stuart Creek Impact Area, 35 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Two unarmed B61-11s were dropped to test their ground-penetration capability. The tests were designed to measure the nuclear bomb casing's penetration into frozen soil and the survivability of the weapon's internal components.
A team excavated the two unexploded dummy bombs and took careful measurements of their angles and depth of penetration into the soil, which were 6 and 10 feet, according to the Air Force. The shells were sent back to Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico for full analysis of how the simulated internal components fared in the impact. The B6-11's casing didn't rupture in any of the tests, including drops through concrete from 40,000 feet. All bomb casings were recovered 100 percent intact, according to the release.
Any debate inside the corridors of power about using tactical nukes will be heightened by the intelligence buzz surrounding bin Laden's possible ownership of Russian nuclear "suitcase" bombs purchased from Chechen mafia. Those weapons are said to be hidden in deep caves and fortified tunnels in remote regions of Afghanistan. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, the discussion of ways to eradicate this potential nuclear threat -- while simultaneously destroying bin Laden and his teams --- may have led to talk about tactical weapons that can destroy even heavily fortified underground shelters.
how are you planning to Weizel your way out of this one?
Will you submit to the communist demands of the infamous, avowed anti-capitalist, bearded hippy, RMS? Have the hordes of RMS cronies who hang on his every utterance sent you enough flames to convince you to ignore every last one of them?
Has ESR pulled himself up to his full height and pointed his guns at your waist?
Did you find it amusing that IBM are amongst the foremost proponents of being RANDy? No sex please, we're Linux users.
Finally, was the short time allowed for comments an attempt at stifling expected criticism or was it merely a result of no-one visting the W3C site and so not releasing what was happening until almost to late?
STFU moron
Hmmm, next you'll be responding sincerely to the *BSD is dying troll, I bet... have you noticed that this is on every story these days?
I wanted to share this with you: You are the biggest idiot on Slashdot. You can't construct an argument, your pseudo-liberal babblings annoy everyone who has been educated by something or someone other than the television set, and you are needlessly, personally offensive. Now fuck off.
"No, Danny, no!"
sulli
RTFJ.
Albeit naive, but my understanding of a 'reasonable patent' is one that protects a process, rather than protecting an interface. However wrong this view, or however abused patents are, my naive understanding also leads me to the fact that public standards should have (atleast the possibility of) multiple implementations not covered by any related patents.
So, my question:
Is the W3C prepared (even intending?) to take on a role as the Internet Patent Office, choosing which patents are 'okay' (protect an implementation) and which are not?
johnsaulmontoya@excite.com or
johnsaulmontoya@yahoo.com ?
I think it's probably johnsaulmontoya@yahoo.com, i'm going to send you a penis bird.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.