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Why South Korea Is Shackled To Windows
baron writes with a blog post explaining in detail why 99.9% of S. Korea uses Windows. This amazing tale began in 1998 when Korea decided it couldn't wait for SSL to be standardized (which it was in 1999) and commissioned an ActiveX control for secure Web transactions. At first there was a secure Netscape plugin too, but we know how that story ended. Quoting: "This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation's e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users, and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions..." Now that Microsoft has made ActiveX more secure in Vista, every Web site in S. Korea is scrambling to get things working again and the government is advising citizens not to install Vista. At the end of all this work, they will still be a monoculture in thrall to Microsoft, with millions of users sitting behind some of the fattest pipes in the world.
But I thought Starcraft worked on Mac too...
Laugh. Its funny.
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
... the NSA loves you when you do!
http://outcampaign.org/
Apparently, the dupe detection software was written in south korea and uses activex to authenticate
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/21023
too bad kdawson just upgraded to vista
Kids, diversity is bad, MMMM KAY?
Just break the glass and escape through the window.
In Soviet Russia, dots slash you!
Alternatively, from the better-than-what-they're-using-in-north-korea department
Just imagine HAVING to use Windows, oh the humanity!
What in the heck are those websites you linked to? They're all Korean to me...
Owning a Monopoly must be nice.
Owning the two dark blue properties just before GO is even nicer.
If I were N. Korea this is what I would be developing.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
So the national motto is "Have bandwidth, will waste it"?
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
After this was posted two days ago as Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now, there was a lot of confusion created.
It's good that you put up this article for us, helping to clarify that we're talking about South Korea and not North Korea.
Thank you. My comrades in North Korea will be relieved to hear this.
Windows to hosed in 3...
*** STOP 0x0000007B (0xF201B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, you are
very fortunate. However, it is highly unlikely that this will be the
last time you will see this.
This particular error means that there was a problem reading the boot
information from the hard disk drive. If you are hearing strange
clicking noises coming from your computer, you should go out and buy
a new hard drive as soon as possible. If you are lucky, there may still
be some salvageable data left on the disk.
*Humor added for effect - Does not necessarily reflect the STOP error that will occur from not using protection.
Well -- you can't come to my birthday party!
Yeah... South Korea is doomed because it has 99.9% of desktops running Windows. But Europe, the US, and Japan are safe because they have only a miniscule 95% of desktops running Windows.