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China Prepares To Examine MS Windows Code
Stargoat writes "CNet reports that China is looking into MS's source code for Windows. They are looking both to increase security as well as perhaps create a Chinese version of Linux. Or are they perhaps concerned with rumors of deliberate holes left in the software for the NSA to exploit?" Here's an earlier Slashdot post about the Microsoft-China agreement.
The people are beautiful and the culture is second to none in the world. It's a shame what the Communists have done to such a magnificent country.
Yeah, she's funny and has terrific personality and if it were not for the age difference (I'm 32, she's 19) and the teacher-student relationship I'd probably go for it.
What should I do?
Why do tey eaven chose Windows??? I think they are smart enough to just use Linux - realy, jsut because windows costs 666 billion dollars to view one line of code dosent mean that its good.
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that's right. re-unbaling the gnued old eyecon0meter wonce again, we're seeing a lot of bogosity in the 'stuff that matters' module.
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this storIE about examinations is meaningless. the far east is becoming penguinized. there is no further need for the whoreabully virotic pateNTdead BugWear(tm) from the felonious kingdumb of greed/fear based softwar gangsters.
the lights are coming up now, all over the wwworld. pretend if you must.
Having read the article thoroughly, this startling news shows the flaws in the brewing Open Source Zeitgeist that is gripping the software community. Have you considered that providing software for free to countries such as China is essentially tacit support for oppressive regimes?
Far-fetched? Think about it: With MySQL, the People's Army will now be able to do multiple queries on their tables of democratic activists in Olog(n) time instead of lengthy searches in card catalogs. The bureaucratic overhead previously allowed activists enough time to flee the country. How about building cheap firewalls so the people can't get the unbiased reporting that CNN provides? Or using Apache to publish lists of Falun Gong people to their police forces instantly? I doubt that never crossed your minds when you were coding away in your parents' basements. Consider putting that little thought in your mental resolv.conf file.
If that does not concern you ( which it probably doesn't, since the slashdot.org paradigm is publishing articles about how not to pay for things ), consider something else. When China eventually goes to war with Taiwan, we want to be able turn their command and control facilities into the computing equivalent of a train-wreck. One of the advantages of Windows never mentioned in the article is the ability of Microsoft to remotely deactivate Windows XP in the case of a national emergency. Thanks to GNU/Lunix, Taiwan will be on a collision course with the mainland in the near future.
Which throws into question Mr. Stallman's motives. A known proponent of socialism, the Chinese government and RMS are natural allies. Could it be a back door to Stallman's dream of an uber-Socialist United States? We may never know for sure. Next time you consider contributing to an open source project, ask yourself this question: don't you want to make sure your work isn't used for nefarious purposes? Will you risk having blood on your hands?
>> Didn't the American army killed a load of their students?
Sorry, no. (Nice grammer, too. Builds confidence in you,eh.)
Just in case you're alluding to the shootings at Kent State, it wasn't a "load" of students (4) and it wasn't the "Army" (it was the National Guard, not exactly the same thing.)
I had friends who were at the scene of the Kent shootings. It was a terrible thing, but in no way comparable to real atrocities committed elsewhere by thugs in power, and it in no way excuses people like you from equating imagined U.S. evil with real evil elsewhere and absolving yourselves of any resopnsiblity to do anything about it. You're just using your little pose of cynicism as an excuse for ethical laziness.
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Forced abortions, the relocation of Hans to Tibet to destroy that ethnic minority, the placing of nukes next to Taiwan, the egging on of North Korea, slavery and rape of women. These are China's improvements? What has changed since Mao? Nothing. The leaders still kill those who oppose them.
Deng Xiaoping was initially a revolutionary, and then a reactionary. But even that is hard to tell, since all he really wanted was more power. He was not "the greatest leader China since independence." The greatest Chinese leaders can be found on the isle of Taiwan.
But it's time we started calling them Taiwanese.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.