Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles

parking_god writes "MIT prof Stuart Madnick, testifying on MS's behalf, was caught out twice when a government attorney asked him to name an OS (other than one made by Microsoft) where the browser couldn't be removed. Madnick also faltered on several other questions." Basically he doesn't understand what GNOME and KDE are, and since we're all holier-than-thou know-it-alls around here, we might as well laugh at Microsoft's expense ;)

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Re:The only Answer

[autocracy]

I metamoderate... and I mark every offtopic UNFAIR, Offtopic is a horribly misused Moderation.

Right - you're an ass. Just because it's misused doesn't mean it's wrong every time. The guy who starts talking about monkeys in a story about encryption is most likely off-topic. If you're going to metamod, take the responsibility to do it right rather than promote some quasi-political agenda of yours against a certain class of moderation reason.

Re:shells

[John Harrison]

we can see how busy YOU are right now, can't we?

Re:shells

[swillden]

About as busy as YOU are.

Re:shells

[John Harrison]

same to you! And to me!

Re:Know-It-Alls

[tempest303]

How exactly is it that socialism == murders?

Re:Know-It-Alls

[bnenning]

How exactly is it that socialism == murders?

20th century democide. Note the plethora of socialist countries and lack of capitalist countries among the top murderers.

Re:Know-It-Alls

[tempest303]

What about the thousands of murders on the part of capitalist nations overseas?

Afghani civilians meeting US bombs, anyone?

Or how about the children being killed by cancer that they pick up from this shit that capitalist organisations dump in the air and water?

Capitalism kills too, just more subtly.

Re:Know-It-Alls

[tempest303]

Do you mean to tell me that you think that handfull of civilians comes close to what the Taliban did?

Uh... a handful? First, it looks like we're SURPASSING the terrorists in total # of murders!

From this article:

• World Trade Center death toll about 2,800; Pentagon 125
  
• At least 3,600 civilian deaths in Afghanistan
  

More info (though a little older) can be found here.

Re:Know-It-Alls

[Skip666Kent]

What about the thousands of murders on the part of capitalist nations overseas?

Deplorable, but still nothing compared to what non-democratic nation states do to their own people.

Afghani civilians meeting US bombs, anyone?

It's a matter of degree. The amount of Afghani civilians that meet US bombs or bullets will never approach even a fraction of what they have suffered at the hands of the Russians in the past or their own governments. The comparison would be LAUGHABLE if it weren't so sad.

...children being killed by cancer...capitalist...dump...

You're free to broadcast these mis-doings and even initiate movements and legislation without fear of being drawn out of your home in the wee hours of the night and gunned down or bludgeoned to death in front of your family.

You owe this to the freedom that comes with living in an ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACY. A free-market, warts and all, is part and parcel of an established democracy. Governments that control their economies generally control their populace as well. Where power and control is centralized to that degree, slaghters in the thousands if not millions are inevitable.

Democracy and free-market Capitalism are not perfect. People still get hurt and sometimes killed.

But to what degree?

There's no comparison.

Freedom. Like a fish in water, it's all around you to such a degree that you take it as a given, and in many cases are doubtful as to the fact that it actually exists.