User: Xifeng

Re:I'll second the call for examples.

On: FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial

He probably mostly meets men who are geeks and get it already, but meets lots of women who aren't and don't.

But that's exactly the point. Why is it that you automatically assume that women are weaker technologically? Institutionalized sexism.

Re:It is strange what they filter...

On: China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day

It was probably either an automated filtering of any websites or (very unlikely) self-censorship, as HK's web traffic is not censored by the Chinese government.

Re:Responsibility to customers

On: Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984

No it doesn't, because the copyright holder still has a copy of his/her work. If your car's been stolen, though, you're out one car.

Re:Makes you wonder...

On: CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux

A couple of kegs of beer is what MS must've sent over.

1.3 billion kegs beer? Wow.

Oh, did you mean the other CCP?

Re:Teach Methods and Logic

On: Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution

I think it would be valuable if schools taught methods and logic.

You didn't learn this in Maths?

Re:Marketing MIA

On: Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?

You want to the install Gimp? Click here. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Re:More incompatibility than just this

On: Ubuntu's Laptop Killing Bug Fixed

Why don't you try 8.10, the newest stable release?

Re:An IT analogy

On: China Makes Arrests To Stop Internet Porn

Take off your tin foil hat. The GFW doesn't block websites with the words "China" and "Taiwan", amazingly enough, and using proxies to get to blocked websites is common practice (at least among expats, not sure about the locals).

Re:nope

On: FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus

Um, nothing is doing well right now. In case you haven't noticed, we're in a recession.

Even Google and Apple are falling.

Re:nope

On: FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus

Paying a developer to create a free piece of software is effectively a one off payment

I used to think that too. Then I realized that FOSS is also supported by companies!

Don't believe me? Go take a look at Novell, Red Hat and Sun.

Re:Picidae!

On: Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China

Great idea, except that Picidae is blocked in China too. As are most other proxies (anonymouse.org, anyone?)

Re:Other implementations from the same spec?

On: Open Firmware Released For Broadcom Wireless

Are you trying to start a GPL vs. BSD flamewar?

Re:I have

On: Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM?

First off, your kidding yourself if you think your laptops dont have DRM on them.

My laptop runs Linux, you insensitive clod!

Who else cares?

On: Australia Says No to Internet Censorship

Reader mask.of.sanity adds a link to ComputerWorld's photo-heavy coverage of the gatherings.

On the other hand, the Sydney Morning Herald reports nothing on this.