Hate speech harms society and it seeks to oppress the people or groups that it demeans.
I have no problem with you policing your own site for this kind of garbage. The problem with making laws about "hate speech," however, is who gets to decide when something falls under the hate speech category. When the government decides to crack down on "hate speech," it's amazing how many things are suddently classified as such. American universities are particularly egregious at this kind of thing.
The comment the grandparent made about you having to police all your forums if you police one is just a warning. I don't think there are any laws that say such a thing specifically, but I know I have read about cases where some sites have been found liable in civil suits because they engaged in selective enforcement. I think the guy's comment was just to alert you to the fact that you're probably better off not policing things on your site or else you open a potential can of worms. I doubt he's right, but I think the idea behind is comment is worth looking into.
What are you talking about? Microsoft is a monopoly that is illegally abusing its monopoly, and that assertion has been determined to be true in both the U.S. and in the E.U. You Microsoft apologists complain about the zealotry of Linux and OSS enthusiasts. Ignoring the fact that Microsoft abuses its monopoly is just another form of zealotry. The parent post explained exactly what about Microsoft's behavior is so offensive. How about admitting once and for all that Microsoft is not a responsible corporate citizen? It's been proven in far too many courts to ignore any longer. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are bullies, plain and simple.
It downloads and installs client software that runs 24/7 in the background
I guess it's convenient that Microsoft is one of the players in this game. Don't their current EULA's essentially force you to authorize them to download and install system "upgrades" at their will? I'm beginning to get the idea that "trusted computing" and "digital rights management" are not necessarily being implemented with the consumer's benefit in mind.
He passed around and I received several replies from Navy, NASA, USGS and Air Force computer experts who told me not to worry because such a thing just wasn't possible.
At the time, their analysis was probably valid, because email clients could not run executable code. Being able to do so is a relatively recent invention. Furthermore, Microsoft has exacerbated the problem with their ActiveX technology -- something that is not found in any other browser on any other operating system. And the example exploit shows some sort of script that writes to the filesystem, something that most, if not all, other browsers don't allow. So yes, Microsoft is a major part of the problem, and most users of alternative operating systems don't really have to worry about this kind of problem.
You want to burn in the Sun?
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No problem. Just get buried here on earth. Eventually, your wish will be granted. And since you're dead, the wait will be quite bearable.:-)
Funny, but your absolutely valid rant applies equally well to the people who insist on using their cell phones anywhere and at any time it pleases them. I suppose that's why the battle rages and will continue to do so.
But for ease of use, and pressure to have admin privs, you have this insecure situation under Windows. The same will be true of Linux if it were to go mainstream.
Wrong. The main problem with Windows is that you can't generally log in with two different user ID's at the same time. With Linux or Unix, doing that is trivial. So on my Windows 2000 machine, I normally run with Administrator privileges, while on all my Linux machines, I normally run as a non-prvileged user. If I need to install some software or do some other sysadmin chores, I merely open an xterm and log in as root. No way to do that on Windows 2000 (in general) without logging out of your normal user session. And that's the biggest problem with the Windows design, if you ask me.
Oh -- I might add that I have never been hit by a virus or a trojan on any of my Windows systems, despite running with Administrator privileges, because I don't do stupid things (like use Outlook or Outlook Express to read email), and I keep all my antivirus software completely up to date.
If you're going to pick on somebody for a spelling error, you might want to try running your own post through a spell checker before posting -- to wit: "stat" (start) and "charicter" (character). Stat might be tougher to catch, because it's a real word -- just the wrong one. I guess that's like "duel."
How about Bind? Or Sendmail? GCC?
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Has there ever been an open source program as successful as the Apache web server?
I think a case can be made that Bind is the most successful and widely used free open source program ever. And Sendmail certainly has proved remarkably successful. And all this free open source software would not be possible without the Gnu Compiler Collection (AKA GCC). However, Apache is clearly special, and the Apache Group in particular is an awesome collection of talented folks.
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zealots and the Windows users start a holy flamewar here,....
So I can conclude that supporters of Linux are zealots and supporters of Windows are users? No need for somebody else to start a flame war -- you have nicely provided both the gasoline and the match.
You make some excellent points. Those of us who are fortunate enough to not live in the middle east can look around a bit and safely conclude that both sides must be at fault. For evidence of Israeli complicity, look at what those wacky Jewish extremists do around the rest of the world -- suicide bombings and airplane hijackings, kidnapping and murder in the U.S. of A., the U.K, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Kashmir, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan -- you name the place, those Jewish extremists are there, killing and maiming innocent people as often as they can. And as anybody knows by listening to its clerics, Islam is a religion of peace -- and if they say so, it must be true. AFAIK, the Jews make no such claims. Hell -- look at their suicidal behavior against the Nazis during WWII. Any group that would kill 6,000,000 of their own to inflict a few casualties on their enemies must be zealots of the highest order.
That doesn't work for the situation described in the post. You have to use the card to ride the train. Once you use the card to pay for the trip, the damage is done.
Don't Oracle and Java already run as 64-bit apps on UltraSPARC? And it seems to me that Sun has been producing some fairly decent "commodity" 64-bit workstations for a while, and they're getting better. I run Debian on one of my AlphaPC's, but I will admit that the only RDBMS that I run on it is PostgreSQL. I'm not sure what's available for Tru64 Unix, but I wouldn't be surprised if both Java and Oracle run on that as 64-bit apps.
I use openoffice exclusively and have had 99.99% success rate at opening up office files sent by people. The only file I could not open up was an excel file with too many rows in it (don't ask).
Excel actually gets kudos in my book for this. However, you might be able to use gnumeric for such files. It can hold up to 65536 rows in a sheet. I have to admit that I have had occasions where the typical 32768 row limit in most spreadsheets is too little.
The submarines were undirected, unfueled, and helpless.
Tell that to the crew of the USS Indianapolis.
The kamikazes left in the "air force" were Tsurugi, a kind of wooden plane built after running out of steel. They were never known to hit a single target- they rarely had enough petrol to take off.
Tell that to the ships sunk or severely damaged in the Okinawa campaign.
The losses on Okinawa were serious, but they were from light-infantry attacks- the kind of thing that could be avoided entirely by prudently deciding against occupying enemy territory with ground troops.
Huh? Are you saying we could have defeated the Japanese on Okinawa without occupying it? You need to learn basic military strategy if that's what you think.
(Various nations from Southeast Asia would've eagerly volunteered to invade Japan within a year or two).
And how exactly would they have accomplished that? By marching their armies across the pond????
I don't care if the Japanese were reduced to fighting with schoolgirls wielding bamboo sticks at that point -- they were still formidable. You even admit as much by agreeing that U.S. casualties would have been very high in a conventional invasion of the mainland. Just look at the casualty figures the Japanese inflicted on themselves in their insane resistance on the various islands of the Pacific campaign. And to suggest that the U.S. could have simply packed up and gone home after conquering Okinawa is very naive. First, there were still numerous Japanese occupying forces in other countries and on several Pacific islands. They weren't about to capitulate until the emperor told them to, and the emperor had to be persuaded to do so. As it was, we came very close to still having to invade the Japanese mainland, because the emperor still had difficulty convincing the military to capitulate. Truman's use of the atomic bombs provided a demonstration of their terrible power and inflicted severe damage on two major production centers for the Japanese war machine. I think you need to examine your history a little more closely. There is no way that we could have stopped short of total victory in Japan. The lessons of World War I were too fresh to ignore. It would have been utterly silly for us to not defeat them totally. Which we did. And they and the rest of the world are better off as a result.
They still had operating submarines and they still had an operating air force, most notably the kamikazes. The U.S. sustained quite heavy casualties during the Okinawa campaign from these and other forces. And invading the main islands would have been hugely costly in American lives. And I think you need to go study the historical record a little more closely. Their defense of their homeland would have been formidable indeed, and without the atomic bombs, we would have paid a steep price to conquer them.
There was no way that we could end the war without elminating the Japanese military completely, and that meant invasion and occupation. Just look at what happened when the winners of WWI left a vacuum in Germany. We were not about to make that mistake again.
Besides, the Soviets were eager to join the war against Japan and had we not invaded the Japanese main islands, they would have. As it is, they took the northernmost islands (Northern Territories?) and still hold them until this day, nearly 60 years later. We turned over our control of Okinawa, the last part of Japan that we occupied, about three decades ago. With our guidance and assistance after WWII, we helped Japan transform itself into a responsible member of the world community. And the Japanese are better off because of it.
Your last comment is not up to the standards of the rest of your commentary. I don't think you appreciate fully just how much hatred the Japanese military sowed around the western Pacific. They were a bunch of racist thugs who needed to be beaten to a pulp. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it was.
FWIW, I have lived for two different years on a U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, about 30 miles south of Hiroshima. The Japanese I met were wonderful people and I enjoyed my time there immensely. I'm glad that the history we're discussing is exactly that -- history. I admire the modern Japanese very much and I hope to travel there again. I was a jet pilot, so I have already traveled fairly extensively throughout (and above) the country. It has many wondrous sites.
I'm not sure what you mean by your comments, but Kyoto was then and is still a very beautiful city. Many of Truman's war planners wanted to "poke a hot cinder into the eyes of" the Japanese by targeting Hiroshima, but he decided it was just too dishonorable, even for an opponent as despicable as the WWII Japanese. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they were largely untouched to that point and they had significant manufacturing and logistical facilities. They weren't just filled with helpless civilians. If you think that we dropped those bombs merely to impress the Soviets, you're quite mistaken. The Japanese were still a formidable threat, and it was essential that we defeat them utterly. To allow them to regroup and rebuild without eliminating the elements that led them into the war would have been utter folly.
Keep in mind that the Japanese of today bear little in common with those who ran the military of WWII. To understand why we dropped the bombs on them the way we did, you have to go back and study what the WWII military did to the countries around them in the '30's and '40's. I assure you that there were very few tears shed by the peoples they butchered when those bombs exploded.
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The comment the grandparent made about you having to police all your forums if you police one is just a warning. I don't think there are any laws that say such a thing specifically, but I know I have read about cases where some sites have been found liable in civil suits because they engaged in selective enforcement. I think the guy's comment was just to alert you to the fact that you're probably better off not policing things on your site or else you open a potential can of worms. I doubt he's right, but I think the idea behind is comment is worth looking into.
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What are you talking about? Microsoft is a monopoly that is illegally abusing its monopoly, and that assertion has been determined to be true in both the U.S. and in the E.U. You Microsoft apologists complain about the zealotry of Linux and OSS enthusiasts. Ignoring the fact that Microsoft abuses its monopoly is just another form of zealotry. The parent post explained exactly what about Microsoft's behavior is so offensive. How about admitting once and for all that Microsoft is not a responsible corporate citizen? It's been proven in far too many courts to ignore any longer. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are bullies, plain and simple.
Or is that irony? I can never remember.
Don't these guys watch Penn and Teller?
No problem. Just get buried here on earth. Eventually, your wish will be granted. And since you're dead, the wait will be quite bearable. :-)
Funny, but your absolutely valid rant applies equally well to the people who insist on using their cell phones anywhere and at any time it pleases them. I suppose that's why the battle rages and will continue to do so.
Oh -- I might add that I have never been hit by a virus or a trojan on any of my Windows systems, despite running with Administrator privileges, because I don't do stupid things (like use Outlook or Outlook Express to read email), and I keep all my antivirus software completely up to date.
Some jerk writes a virus and all of a sudden the whole "Linux community" is to be blamed? By what logic?
If you're going to pick on somebody for a spelling error, you might want to try running your own post through a spell checker before posting -- to wit: "stat" (start) and "charicter" (character). Stat might be tougher to catch, because it's a real word -- just the wrong one. I guess that's like "duel."
You make some excellent points. Those of us who are fortunate enough to not live in the middle east can look around a bit and safely conclude that both sides must be at fault. For evidence of Israeli complicity, look at what those wacky Jewish extremists do around the rest of the world -- suicide bombings and airplane hijackings, kidnapping and murder in the U.S. of A., the U.K, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Kashmir, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan -- you name the place, those Jewish extremists are there, killing and maiming innocent people as often as they can. And as anybody knows by listening to its clerics, Islam is a religion of peace -- and if they say so, it must be true. AFAIK, the Jews make no such claims. Hell -- look at their suicidal behavior against the Nazis during WWII. Any group that would kill 6,000,000 of their own to inflict a few casualties on their enemies must be zealots of the highest order.
were both protected by patents that have now expired. I think both are still in widespread use today.
That doesn't work for the situation described in the post. You have to use the card to ride the train. Once you use the card to pay for the trip, the damage is done.
Don't Oracle and Java already run as 64-bit apps on UltraSPARC? And it seems to me that Sun has been producing some fairly decent "commodity" 64-bit workstations for a while, and they're getting better. I run Debian on one of my AlphaPC's, but I will admit that the only RDBMS that I run on it is PostgreSQL. I'm not sure what's available for Tru64 Unix, but I wouldn't be surprised if both Java and Oracle run on that as 64-bit apps.
I don't care if the Japanese were reduced to fighting with schoolgirls wielding bamboo sticks at that point -- they were still formidable. You even admit as much by agreeing that U.S. casualties would have been very high in a conventional invasion of the mainland. Just look at the casualty figures the Japanese inflicted on themselves in their insane resistance on the various islands of the Pacific campaign. And to suggest that the U.S. could have simply packed up and gone home after conquering Okinawa is very naive. First, there were still numerous Japanese occupying forces in other countries and on several Pacific islands. They weren't about to capitulate until the emperor told them to, and the emperor had to be persuaded to do so. As it was, we came very close to still having to invade the Japanese mainland, because the emperor still had difficulty convincing the military to capitulate. Truman's use of the atomic bombs provided a demonstration of their terrible power and inflicted severe damage on two major production centers for the Japanese war machine. I think you need to examine your history a little more closely. There is no way that we could have stopped short of total victory in Japan. The lessons of World War I were too fresh to ignore. It would have been utterly silly for us to not defeat them totally. Which we did. And they and the rest of the world are better off as a result.
They still had operating submarines and they still had an operating air force, most notably the kamikazes. The U.S. sustained quite heavy casualties during the Okinawa campaign from these and other forces. And invading the main islands would have been hugely costly in American lives. And I think you need to go study the historical record a little more closely. Their defense of their homeland would have been formidable indeed, and without the atomic bombs, we would have paid a steep price to conquer them.
There was no way that we could end the war without elminating the Japanese military completely, and that meant invasion and occupation. Just look at what happened when the winners of WWI left a vacuum in Germany. We were not about to make that mistake again.
Besides, the Soviets were eager to join the war against Japan and had we not invaded the Japanese main islands, they would have. As it is, they took the northernmost islands (Northern Territories?) and still hold them until this day, nearly 60 years later. We turned over our control of Okinawa, the last part of Japan that we occupied, about three decades ago. With our guidance and assistance after WWII, we helped Japan transform itself into a responsible member of the world community. And the Japanese are better off because of it.
Your last comment is not up to the standards of the rest of your commentary. I don't think you appreciate fully just how much hatred the Japanese military sowed around the western Pacific. They were a bunch of racist thugs who needed to be beaten to a pulp. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it was.
FWIW, I have lived for two different years on a U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, about 30 miles south of Hiroshima. The Japanese I met were wonderful people and I enjoyed my time there immensely. I'm glad that the history we're discussing is exactly that -- history. I admire the modern Japanese very much and I hope to travel there again. I was a jet pilot, so I have already traveled fairly extensively throughout (and above) the country. It has many wondrous sites.
I'm not sure what you mean by your comments, but Kyoto was then and is still a very beautiful city. Many of Truman's war planners wanted to "poke a hot cinder into the eyes of" the Japanese by targeting Hiroshima, but he decided it was just too dishonorable, even for an opponent as despicable as the WWII Japanese. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they were largely untouched to that point and they had significant manufacturing and logistical facilities. They weren't just filled with helpless civilians. If you think that we dropped those bombs merely to impress the Soviets, you're quite mistaken. The Japanese were still a formidable threat, and it was essential that we defeat them utterly. To allow them to regroup and rebuild without eliminating the elements that led them into the war would have been utter folly.
Keep in mind that the Japanese of today bear little in common with those who ran the military of WWII. To understand why we dropped the bombs on them the way we did, you have to go back and study what the WWII military did to the countries around them in the '30's and '40's. I assure you that there were very few tears shed by the peoples they butchered when those bombs exploded.
Actually, I think the F-16 is a pretty decent looking aircraft. However, we're much more interested in making aircraft that can kick butt.