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Simon Phipps Looks At 'Looking Glass'

CitizenC writes "Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist for Sun Microsystems, describes his experiences using Project Looking Glass, Sun's prototype three-dimensional computer desktop, in this post on his weblog. He mentions a couple of demo videos too."

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  1. lookinf through the looking glass.. at SKIN COLOR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux Mandrake - A racist OS

    The Open Source movement such as Linux Mandrake has been a topic of
    considerable debate on the Internet's most controversial site. The
    majority of this debate has centered around the technical merits of
    the software, with the esteemed editors argueing against adopting
    Linux by employing the full depth of their considerable intellects,
    and the other side hurling death threats and similar invective. This
    has allowed many who would not otherwise receive quality information
    about Open Source software to be made aware of many of its
    ramifications, but one issue has been left alone: The overt racism
    that is deeply embedded in the movement.

    Allow me to explain.

    Alan Cox; Richard Stallman; Bruce Perens; Wichert Akkerman; Miguel
    DeIcaza.

    What do you see in this list of names? Are there any African-Americans
    on it? Absolutely not, none of those names sound like one a
    self-respecting black person would have! No Maurice, no Luther, no
    Lil' Kim. There are many other lists such as this, you can see one
    here. Flip through each page, do you see anything other than white
    faces? Of course you don't, because Open Source and its adherents are
    ardent racists and they absolutely forbid access to the sacred
    'kernel' by any person of color.

    Lets look at the list of the companies using Linux. Are there any
    black owned companies on that list? Nooooooo. How about these
    companies? They all have something to do with Open Source software,
    any of them owned by an African-American? No again.

    More racist overtones can be found by examining the language of Open
    Source. They often refer to 'white hat' hackers. These 'white hats'
    scurry about the Internet doing good, but illegal, acts for their
    fellow man. In stark contrast we find the 'black hat' hackers. They
    destroy the good works of others by breaking into systems, stealing
    data, and generally causing havoc. These two terms reflect the mindset
    of most Linux developers. White means good, black means bad. Anywhere
    there is black, there is uncontrollable destruction and lawlessness.
    Looking further we see black lists that inform other users of 'bad'
    hardware, Samba, an obvious play on the much hated Little Black Sambo
    book, Mandrake, which I won't explain except to say that the French
    are notorious racists. This type is linguistic discrimination is
    widespread throughout the Open Source culture, lampooned by many of
    its more popular sites.

    It is also a fact that all Unix 'distros' contain a plethora of racist
    commands with not so hidden symbolism.

    It can hardly be coincidence that the prime operating system of choice
    of the 'open source supremacists' - Linux, features commands which are
    poorly disguised racist acronyms. For example: 'awk' (All White Klan)
    , 'sed' (shoot nEgroes dead), 'ln' (lynch negroes), 'rpm' (raical
    purity mandatory), 'bash' (bring a slave home), 'ps' (persecute
    sambo), 'mount' (murder or unseat nubians today), 'fsck' (favored
    supreme Christian klan). I could go on and on about the latent racist
    symbolism in Linux, but I fear it would take weeks to enumerate every
    incidence.

    Is there a single unix command out there that does not have some
    hidden racist connotation ? Suffice it to say that the racism pervades
    Linux like a particularly bad smell. Can you imagine the effect of
    running such a racist operating system on the impressionable mind ? I
    don't have to remind you that transmitting subliminal messages is
    banned in the USA, and yet here we have an operating system that
    appears to be one enormous submliminal ad for the Klan!

    One of the few selling points of Open Source software is that it is
    available in many different languages. Browsing through the list I see
    that absolutely none are offered in Swahili, nor Ebonics. Obviously
    this is done to prevent black people from having access to the kernel.
    If it weren't for the fact

  2. SIMON PHIPPS SI ON TEH SPOKE!!~!1` by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HIS WIFES ASS SI ROTUND!!~1

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  4. Re:3d interface.. its fucking spineless moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    This is just another example of spineless crap moderation here on /.

    Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, SLASHDOT's editing/moderating [read: censoring] "community"(*) ALL AGREE on ONE THING:

    CENSORSHIP WORKS!

    (*)Note, the word community used often on Slashdot, this is referring to a proto communist commune.

    So, you busy little plebian proletariats, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN! Do the bidding of your fat, undisciplined masters who never subject themselves to peer review!

    Good job you little neo-commies. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of/.].

    A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
    Crack Pipe Moderators
    Crack smoke wafts though air
    Dumb shit moderator!
    Try to suck less, please

    The Humorless Moderator
    Crack smoke wafts through air
    Humorless moderator!
    Why do you hate me?

    The Proletariat
    Slashdotting Commie
    Moderator fears new idea!
    Censor him quickly

    The reason China blocked Slashdot is that when Jiang Xemin saw at how good "The Editors" at Slashdot are at suppressing the community, he knew that if more of his party members saw this degree of suppressive efficacy, he would be deposed, for the good of the people, of course, in favor of Rob Malda as the all new supreme dictator and premier of China.

    It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill (Especially when your democratic peers twist democracy into a reason commit censorship, to squash dissenting or unpopular opinions, and refer to them as trolls, flaimbait overrated or offtopic when they aren't any of the said)

    Reading Slashdot at anything above -1 is like trying to put a shit filter on your ass.

    Get busy moderating this down, you little pack of obedient prefects of the corrupt state! You are the vanguards of purity, and dissent is not allowed!

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