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Death Threats In the Blogosphere
Several readers have written in about the death threats and threats of sexual harm that have been directed at tech blogger Kathy Sierra. She is the author of a number of books about Java and a popular speaker at conferences. She has now stopped blogging and cancelled her appearance at eTech. She names the names of four prominent bloggers who are backers of two sites on which the threats were posted. Others in the blogosphere like Robert Scoble and Tim Bray have posted publicly in support of Sierra. Scoble in particular emphasizes the streak of misogyny that is still all too evident in the tech world. The Washington Post is also grappling with the issue of vile comment posts that flirt with illegality. One commenter on Bray's post summed it up: "The Internet used to be a university. Then it became a shopping mall. But now, it's a war zone."
And I'll fucking kill anyone who disagrees with me or mods me down.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
And we all know that chicks tend to be WAY oversensitive about this sort of thing - they perceive EVERYTHING as a threat. Case in point? PJ from groklaw. She considers just about everything to be a personal threat against her.
For those in the slashdot community with any knowledge of who might be making these posts, it is incumbent upon you to bring forward that information.
/. to say either.
No, no it's not.
For those in the slashdot community with some sniffing/hacking skills (mine are rusty), have at it deducing who the asswipes are, find them, and report them.
Now that IS definitely illegal. I don't know that the supposed death threats are really illegal; they appear to me to be jokes, admittedly offensive, inappropriate and mean, but jokes nonetheless.
It's not for me to say, or anyone else on
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Well, I for one generally react negatively toward Java simply because its success is based simply on hype and corporate backing, and as a language, it has very limited merit; it has mostly been made useful by advanced tools and a huge library, neither of which are relevant to its merits as a language.
Not that I'd ever threaten anyone personally based on this, but I definitely feel pissed off when anyone claims that Java, as a language, is somehow especially great, because I know that the person claiming this can't have a particularly broad knowledge of the current state of the art of programming languages and still say something like that with a straight face. Whether the claim is based on ignorance or deceit, it's pretty reprehensible.