Cor, what is it with Slashdot at the moment? This is the second comment in as many days from someone with virulently anti-semitic views. They're only hinted at here ("Think about it. Who gains?"), but it's all in its full purulent glory at natall.com
A minor aside: has anyone else noticed that virtually the only place you see antiquated expressions like "if you will" is in missives from bigots? Do they think it makes them sound clever?
Infotech, I wanted to ask you: how many human races are there? How are they distinguished? Can it be done consistently? How does within-group variation compare to between-group variation? What are the implications of this? Do you understand that malleability of characteristics is not the same thing as heritability of characteristics? Do you understand the implications of this?
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Can't do exactly what you want, but have you looked at Ross Anderson's homepage at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/ He has lots and lots of interesting stuff on security on his site. The lottery paper was great.
Sheesh, perhaps before moderating my post down to 0 and awarding it flamebait, you might check the original post to which I was replying, which started "Are you Jewish? You write like a Jew. No offense" and deteriorated from there.
Are you sure that much current HCI work is driven by the needs of naive users? Tog works for Healthpoint, and wrote an article about developing a web-based form which is on asktog (no link, as his server is overloaded). The article talked about user tests being done with three different groups, only one of which was naive. I'm sure that most professional HCI projects take into account the needs of different users in their design. MacOS, for instance, appears to be simple, but graphics professionals, using their machines heavily every day, are keen on it as well. Simple appearance != simple != only for naive users.
On your second point, the key strength of Linux is also a potential weakness: GUIs gain power from consistency, and that's difficult to achieve with many strong-minded individuals all making their own changes.
I'm sorry, am I seeing things here? Has this post really not been moderated downwards for being puerile offensive racist trash?
As for Mr AC: your understanding of historical methodology is idiotic. "We study historical conflicts... dispassionately", do we? And "we list as objectively as possible, [sic] the grievances and rationales of the opposing sides"? Which university taught you that? I think you're entitled to your money back. But I presume too much...
Some simple facts for you. Medieval and modern eras have seen widespread persecution of many groups, not just the Jews. More than 8m women are thought to have been killed as "witches" over the centuries. Africans have been treated like shit in Europe and America for hundreds of years. Native Americans were massacred in their millions. Try fitting that into your neat little theories about the Jews having some special ability to inspire hatred. The prevalence of antisemitism in a country is and was not consistently related to the presence of Jews. Theological fervour had more to do with it up to the C19, especially Christian beliefs. Since then we've had scientific racism, eugenics and a Holocaust. And finally, there was a really good reason why European nations expelled Jews after waves of mass immigration. Can you guess it? It's quite tricky to work out, I know, but...before the wave of mass immigration, there weren't any Jews to expel! Incredible, eh!?!
Hey, listen Mr AC, we're all guys together here on Slashdot. [Let's not upset you by implying that women are allowed out of the kitchen and onto the keyboards, we know how you'll feel about that.] So if you just plumb hate "The Jews", come out and say it! We won't laugh, we promise, we promise, we promise. We won't smirk at your oh-so-sad antisemitism. We won't think you a narrow-minded bigot. Well, alright we might smirk a little bit, but only in a forbearing, kindly and patient manner.
And at least we'll think that you're a straightforward (whoops! of *course* you're straight! no chance of an upright guy like you being a homo, eh? cuz homos is evil too and should all be gassed, like the Jews weren't but you don't want to get into that now cuz you know we're not ready for the *real* truth about the "so-called" holocaust, eh?) bigot who doesn't need to hide behind a transparently faulty pseudo-intellectual argument to justify disgusting views.
Come on Mr AC, take those brave trembling steps out of the closet and reveal your true Jew-hating colours to the world...hey, being honest and open about your feelings is important, y'know! We wouldn't want you to bottle it all up and drop dead of an aneurysm one day. That would be just *awful*. No, we'd much rather know exactly where you stand, i.e., right in the middle of the steaming cowpat known as baseless hatred.
Never mind. You'll get over it one day. In the meantime, here are some great new conspiracy theories for you to play with: 1) Alphabet, aleph-bet. Hmm, sounds suspiciously like an *attempt to control people's thoughts throught their words* to me 2) A lot of law around the world comes from the British system. And the Brits got their law from Biblical sources. Including the Old Testament. And we know who still uses *that*, don't we? 3) Juvenile, Jew. Those sound pretty similar to me. OhMyGod, the Jews are trying to Take Our Youth!!!
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Cor, what is it with Slashdot at the moment? This is the second comment in as many days from someone with virulently anti-semitic views. They're only hinted at here ("Think about it. Who gains?"), but it's all in its full purulent glory at natall.com
A minor aside: has anyone else noticed that virtually the only place you see antiquated expressions like "if you will" is in missives from bigots? Do they think it makes them sound clever?
Infotech, I wanted to ask you: how many human races are there? How are they distinguished? Can it be done consistently? How does within-group variation compare to between-group variation? What are the implications of this? Do you understand that malleability of characteristics is not the same thing as heritability of characteristics? Do you understand the implications of this?
Can't do exactly what you want, but have you looked at Ross Anderson's homepage at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/
He has lots and lots of interesting stuff on security on his site. The lottery paper was great.
Sheesh, perhaps before moderating my post down to 0 and awarding it flamebait, you might check the original post to which I was replying, which started "Are you Jewish? You write like a Jew. No offense" and deteriorated from there.
Are you sure that much current HCI work is driven by the needs of naive users? Tog works for Healthpoint, and wrote an article about developing a web-based form which is on asktog (no link, as his server is overloaded). The article talked about user tests being done with three different groups, only one of which was naive. I'm sure that most professional HCI projects take into account the needs of different users in their design. MacOS, for instance, appears to be simple, but graphics professionals, using their machines heavily every day, are keen on it as well. Simple appearance != simple != only for naive users.
On your second point, the key strength of Linux is also a potential weakness: GUIs gain power from consistency, and that's difficult to achieve with many strong-minded individuals all making their own changes.
I'm sorry, am I seeing things here? Has this post really not been moderated downwards for being puerile offensive racist trash?
... dispassionately", do we? And "we list as objectively as possible, [sic] the grievances and rationales of the opposing sides"? Which university taught you that? I think you're entitled to your money back. But I presume too much...
As for Mr AC: your understanding of historical methodology is idiotic. "We study historical conflicts
Some simple facts for you.
Medieval and modern eras have seen widespread persecution of many groups, not just the Jews. More than 8m women are thought to have been killed as "witches" over the centuries. Africans have been treated like shit in Europe and America for hundreds of years. Native Americans were massacred in their millions. Try fitting that into your neat little theories about the Jews having some special ability to inspire hatred.
The prevalence of antisemitism in a country is and was not consistently related to the presence of Jews. Theological fervour had more to do with it up to the C19, especially Christian beliefs. Since then we've had scientific racism, eugenics and a Holocaust. And finally, there was a really good reason why European nations expelled Jews after waves of mass immigration. Can you guess it? It's quite tricky to work out, I know, but...before the wave of mass immigration, there weren't any Jews to expel! Incredible, eh!?!
Hey, listen Mr AC, we're all guys together here on Slashdot. [Let's not upset you by implying that women are allowed out of the kitchen and onto the keyboards, we know how you'll feel about that.] So if you just plumb hate "The Jews", come out and say it! We won't laugh, we promise, we promise, we promise. We won't smirk at your oh-so-sad antisemitism. We won't think you a narrow-minded bigot. Well, alright we might smirk a little bit, but only in a forbearing, kindly and patient manner.
And at least we'll think that you're a straightforward (whoops! of *course* you're straight! no chance of an upright guy like you being a homo, eh? cuz homos is evil too and should all be gassed, like the Jews weren't but you don't want to get into that now cuz you know we're not ready for the *real* truth about the "so-called" holocaust, eh?) bigot who doesn't need to hide behind a transparently faulty pseudo-intellectual argument to justify disgusting views.
Come on Mr AC, take those brave trembling steps out of the closet and reveal your true Jew-hating colours to the world...hey, being honest and open about your feelings is important, y'know! We wouldn't want you to bottle it all up and drop dead of an aneurysm one day. That would be just *awful*. No, we'd much rather know exactly where you stand, i.e., right in the middle of the steaming cowpat known as baseless hatred.
Never mind. You'll get over it one day. In the meantime, here are some great new conspiracy theories for you to play with:
1) Alphabet, aleph-bet. Hmm, sounds suspiciously like an *attempt to control people's thoughts throught their words* to me
2) A lot of law around the world comes from the British system. And the Brits got their law from Biblical sources. Including the Old Testament. And we know who still uses *that*, don't we?
3) Juvenile, Jew. Those sound pretty similar to me. OhMyGod, the Jews are trying to Take Our Youth!!!
Hope this helps.