"WS: On a similar topic, Vsion [slashdot.org] asks: "Are there currently any efforts being undertaken by the Foundation to address the People's Republic of China's blocking of Wikipedia or to alleviate its effect?"
JW: Beijing-area Wikipedians are working to have the block lifted. Our position is that the block is in error, even given China's normal policies. Wikipedia is not propaganda, it is basic information. We expect that the block will be lifted."
does anyone see this really happening? i mean without a change like a removal of certian sections on banned material like google did. Are there really people who think the the communist chinese govenrment would allow material on Taiwan, falun gong and Dalai Lama to be freely accessable in a central neatly categorized location? Hello?
you make think that is funny, but the US government has been accused of being "responsible" in EU courts for not doing enough to warn people in south east ASIA. Thats right, the US government magically is responsible for the safety of Europeans in Asia in the wake of a natural disaster.
"In an era where we've already got government-created and funded media outlets and the Pentagon bribing Iraqi journalists to run favorable war stories, not to mention other departments paying journalists to endorse their positions, it begs the question, how much more can they possibly do?""
Sadly, it does not beg the question. It might raise a question though. Sure, you can say I am being anal about linguistics, but the meaning of words do matter. Frankly speaking, I do not see any logical fallacy in what Rumsfeld is saying and the posting makes no sense at all.
People really should know the meaning of expressions before using them. Given slashdot is a place where people who supposedly deal with logic on a daily basis hang out, this is even more inexcusable.
If you think that is bad, I heard DARPA created a special computer network for the military too. I think it was designed to survive a nuclear attack. After reading this article and the one about the computer network, I've really come to dislike DARPA. If you ask me, DARPA should not waste their time working on such projects for the military. They should stick to peaceful things like autonomous vehicles capable of traveling over the desert alone.
ipod killer huh? how many times have we heard that recently. It is interesting though that amazon is now in the hardware business. Oh wait, the article title "Plans Music Service To Rival iPod" is wrong.
Oh crap. they are getting into the hardware business.. and the article title is from the WSJ not slashdot. The summary says nothing about that though. i wonder how many people who didnt RTFA are going to post something like the paragraph above.:-p
"MAC OSX malicious graphic flaw comes out: "You cannot simply "catch" the virus. Even if someone does send you the "latestpics.tgz" file, you cannot be infected unless you unarchive the file, and then open it.""
maybe because it is not a flaw. There have always been malicious program for OSX the rm -rf / script comes to mind. But like all of them, you have to manually download, decompress, run it and then type your admin password. That is not a flaw.
this is slashdot. Of course my comment will be labeled a troll. I wonder how many of the mods clicked onthe link to ford'd site and saw the mazda logo.
For those who aren't in the know, Mazda is a division of Ford. Many of the cars use the same components and sometimes they are the same cars with different model names. People looking for a "japanese" car often buy Mazda not knowing they are buying a Ford. Go to the mazda site and compare some of the models to the ford site, the resemblance is uncanny;)
you fail to understand the issue here. It is not about the OS it is about the brand. OSX is part of the Apple brand where things just work. OSX running on a real Mac willjust work. The hardware support from apple is what makes OSX more viable than linux and windows. If OSx were running on unsupported harware, it will not "just work". If someone new to apple sees OSX crashing on a cheap dell, that will taint the Apple brand as they will assume it will crash like that on a ream Mac
sure but given the red cross has been so accommodating in the past for other groups, it is interesting why they have been so stubborn against the israelis. in fact anti semitism is the reason why the american red cross stopped p[laying dues to the ICRC
I'm not going to pretend the existence of many Islamic countries in the IRC did not enter into the calculation, but the principle that every national society could potentially choose its own symbol would have been fundamentally disruptive to the whole system, which was precisely to *avoid* any connotations of nationality.
If Magen David Adom had been willing to adopt a red cross as its emblem, the whole controversy would have been impossible
Sometimes i am simply amazed at how horribly misinformed people can be. Keep in mind that it was originally the Red cross then to accommodate muslims, the red crescent. The persians wanted their own symbol so the red lion and sun was added. What? never heard of the red lion and sun? well, iran stopped using it in 1980 but it is still an official symbol that people can use. The ICRC goes to great lengths to hide the lion and sun and doesnt even mention it anymore. People are never told things like that and then given the impression that Israelis are somehow making an unreasonable demand.
Of course your last bit there, you are absolutely correct. I'm sure if everyone in the middle east converted to Christianity, there wouldn't be a war going on either.
so it is a coincidence that the red CROSS red CRESCENT society just happens to refuse admission to the only jewish state for 60 years and continuing. Not only that, they are the only state refused admission.
"Wow. The folks who provide humanitarian aid and save lives around the world are "fuckers.""
Considering they still have the unofficial "no jews allowed" policy , yeah they are fuckers, its been almost 60 years and Israel still hasnt been allowed to join.
keep in mind that there is nothing here that the legislature cant control. The reason it has gone back and forth is because of the power of the legislature. They have a big enough majority that Romney cant even veto anything. Romney hats MS with a passion akin to a slashdotter. One of the first things he did was make every in house project go form win32 to protable Java. MS hates him anyway.
Considering how the GOP is pushing this, the Dems must be pretty angry. In the end though, you need to keep in m ind that MA is a one party state. Dems genreally dont need to be elected since no one runs against them and they have an overwhelming majority (super majority?) in the legislative body.
My prediction, this is a Repblican project and will be DOA.
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"WS: On a similar topic, Vsion [slashdot.org] asks: "Are there currently any efforts being undertaken by the Foundation to address the People's Republic of China's blocking of Wikipedia or to alleviate its effect?"
JW: Beijing-area Wikipedians are working to have the block lifted. Our position is that the block is in error, even given China's normal policies. Wikipedia is not propaganda, it is basic information. We expect that the block will be lifted."
does anyone see this really happening? i mean without a change like a removal of certian sections on banned material like google did. Are there really people who think the the communist chinese govenrment would allow material on Taiwan, falun gong and Dalai Lama to be freely accessable in a central neatly categorized location? Hello?
you make think that is funny, but the US government has been accused of being "responsible" in EU courts for not doing enough to warn people in south east ASIA. Thats right, the US government magically is responsible for the safety of Europeans in Asia in the wake of a natural disaster.
"In an era where we've already got government-created and funded media outlets and the Pentagon bribing Iraqi journalists to run favorable war stories, not to mention other departments paying journalists to endorse their positions, it begs the question, how much more can they possibly do?""
Sadly, it does not beg the question. It might raise a question though. Sure, you can say I am being anal about linguistics, but the meaning of words do matter. Frankly speaking, I do not see any logical fallacy in what Rumsfeld is saying and the posting makes no sense at all.
People really should know the meaning of expressions before using them. Given slashdot is a place where people who supposedly deal with logic on a daily basis hang out, this is even more inexcusable.
"they should stick to peaceful things like autonomous vehicles capable of traveling over the desert alone."
;)
should have tipped you off. I wonder where that particular tech will come in handy?
If you think that is bad, I heard DARPA created a special computer network for the military too. I think it was designed to survive a nuclear attack. After reading this article and the one about the computer network, I've really come to dislike DARPA. If you ask me, DARPA should not waste their time working on such projects for the military. They should stick to peaceful things like autonomous vehicles capable of traveling over the desert alone.
"And in fact on Linux/MacOS the user has to manually trigger a software update"
you've never used a mac have you? it is hard not to notice the SECURITY UPDATE icon BOUNCING like crazy on the dock
yea and the us throws more than every other nation in aid to other countries too. Keep in mind that is out tax money.
rock solid kernel? correct me if i am wrong, but isnt OS2 another child of the NT kernel (or vice versa) are they still binary compatible?
hahaha we have a winner! you didnt read the article did you?
ipod killer huh? how many times have we heard that recently. It is interesting though that amazon is now in the hardware business. Oh wait, the article title "Plans Music Service To Rival iPod" is wrong.
:-p
Oh crap. they are getting into the hardware business.. and the article title is from the WSJ not slashdot. The summary says nothing about that though. i wonder how many people who didnt RTFA are going to post something like the paragraph above.
"MAC OSX malicious graphic flaw comes out: "You cannot simply "catch" the virus. Even if someone does send you the "latestpics.tgz" file, you cannot be infected unless you unarchive the file, and then open it.""
maybe because it is not a flaw. There have always been malicious program for OSX the rm -rf / script comes to mind. But like all of them, you have to manually download, decompress, run it and then type your admin password. That is not a flaw.
this is slashdot. Of course my comment will be labeled a troll. I wonder how many of the mods clicked onthe link to ford'd site and saw the mazda logo.
For those who aren't in the know, Mazda is a division of Ford. Many of the cars use the same components and sometimes they are the same cars with different model names. People looking for a "japanese" car often buy Mazda not knowing they are buying a Ford. Go to the mazda site and compare some of the models to the ford site, the resemblance is uncanny ;)
you fail to understand the issue here. It is not about the OS it is about the brand. OSX is part of the Apple brand where things just work. OSX running on a real Mac willjust work. The hardware support from apple is what makes OSX more viable than linux and windows. If OSx were running on unsupported harware, it will not "just work". If someone new to apple sees OSX crashing on a cheap dell, that will taint the Apple brand as they will assume it will crash like that on a ream Mac
hey if apple can be sued for their monopoly on ipods, i am sure something can be worked out.
how long before someone sues apple for false advertising.
to summarize your post:
blah blah blah blah...
Iran blah blah blah blah... Zionism blah blah blah blah...
blah blah blah blah...
stupid
thank you for raising the level of discussion on slashdot.
sure but given the red cross has been so accommodating in the past for other groups, it is interesting why they have been so stubborn against the israelis. in fact anti semitism is the reason why the american red cross stopped p[laying dues to the ICRC
" must be injected into the bicep"
I think most slashdotters will have a problem there.
I'm not going to pretend the existence of many Islamic countries in the IRC did not enter into the calculation, but the principle that every national society could potentially choose its own symbol would have been fundamentally disruptive to the whole system, which was precisely to *avoid* any connotations of nationality.
If Magen David Adom had been willing to adopt a red cross as its emblem, the whole controversy would have been impossible
Sometimes i am simply amazed at how horribly misinformed people can be. Keep in mind that it was originally the Red cross then to accommodate muslims, the red crescent. The persians wanted their own symbol so the red lion and sun was added. What? never heard of the red lion and sun? well, iran stopped using it in 1980 but it is still an official symbol that people can use. The ICRC goes to great lengths to hide the lion and sun and doesnt even mention it anymore. People are never told things like that and then given the impression that Israelis are somehow making an unreasonable demand.
Of course your last bit there, you are absolutely correct. I'm sure if everyone in the middle east converted to Christianity, there wouldn't be a war going on either.
so it is a coincidence that the red CROSS red CRESCENT society just happens to refuse admission to the only jewish state for 60 years and continuing. Not only that, they are the only state refused admission.
"Wow. The folks who provide humanitarian aid and save lives around the world are "fuckers.""
Considering they still have the unofficial "no jews allowed" policy , yeah they are fuckers, its been almost 60 years and Israel still hasnt been allowed to join.
"Nothing is too elaborate to protect us from Janet's Terror-Boobs!"
you have no idea how accurate that statement is. Shudder.
keep in mind that there is nothing here that the legislature cant control. The reason it has gone back and forth is because of the power of the legislature. They have a big enough majority that Romney cant even veto anything. Romney hats MS with a passion akin to a slashdotter. One of the first things he did was make every in house project go form win32 to protable Java. MS hates him anyway.
Considering how the GOP is pushing this, the Dems must be pretty angry. In the end though, you need to keep in m ind that MA is a one party state. Dems genreally dont need to be elected since no one runs against them and they have an overwhelming majority (super majority?) in the legislative body.
My prediction, this is a Repblican project and will be DOA.