I don't hear anyone making accusations about the Japanese school systems.
Do you speak Japanese?
I do, and I can tell you there is a huge debate going on about the deterioration of the quality of japanese education.
Generally it has always been more important to get in to the right UNI than what you learned there, but now compulsory education seems to be crumbling too.
I for one, would like to see a unified locale independent and on-the-spot setting of the input method. Would this be possible within this framework?
Localization efforts in all its glory, currently the Linux desktop is multi-monolingual at best.
This is a _big_ usability issue for many multilingual people. I for one switch frequently between Swedish, English and Japanese, and I know many people (translators, other multilingual professionals) have the need to use multiple character sets, input modes in the same document and / or switch often between different modes.
Using the LANG variable to set the _input_ method for an application is not the answer, that's localization down the monolingual-lane, not true i18n.
Where would be the right place for the implantation for this? freedesktop? XFree86? As gnome feature?
Has it struck any one that encryption is to information theft as a bullet proof vest (armor) is to bullet fire?
My point is, encryprion is not a weapon of attack, encryption is PROTECTION. It protects anyone,
good and bad, just as a bullet proof vest would protect an ordinary citizen as well as a terrorist.
Do we restrict bullet proof vests? Demand that they get weaker so that law enforcment could more easily
shoot through them? No. We should not treat encryption as a weapon either, because it isn't.
Now, we all know that journalists have a propensity to twist peoples words, and not always present things as they are, but, IF the article about Zimmerman is true, that he does cry every day because his technology could have been used, I'd think that's pretty arrogant, and completely misinterpreting his own importance.
There has been a lot of talk of Steganography, but I have never heard a word that they have used PGP. I'd actually guess that they'd think it's not safe enough for one reason or another (detectability of usage if nothing else). If some one gets word on PGP usage, post a link please.
(PS. about the media in this issue, the celebrating palestinians shown to the world in TV, were NOT celebrating the attack as first reported. It was a set up (a german journalist actually tracked down ppl in the video sequence to double check). There's your media).
Don't give up your civil rights. I don't live in the us, but its a pain in the *ss to try to avoid using us software.
I'm a Swede living in Japan and I have always been following the cryptography and digital copyright debate with a concerned interest.
The second thing that came to mind when I learned of the tragedy was what pro-regulative forces would take this golden oportunityto bring on all kinds of regulations to the US people, especially
in regard to encryption technology.
It is quite clear to me that 'the land of the free' is not close to as free as you'd like to think you are.
Where I come from,
1. Reverse engineering is not a crime
2. Software patents are not allowed
3. Regualtions on encryption has never been heard off.
Where I live, I've never heard of a cracker ever being prosecuted (there might have been I case or two that I have not heard of, but the point is, the government is NOT being paranoid about it).
I am not saying that lenient laws and or are always good, but they do tend to provide a greater amount of freedom.
Speaking of installing backdoors, it's pretty arrogant to think that encryption software can be made only within the us. Sure, most consumer
software (read M$, PGP) is made in the us, but the only real effect is that consumers will be exposed to backdoors and hardcore criminals will
use something else / write their own code. Especially well funded criminals that can pull of terror stunts like this one.
BTW, I read in Wired that the FBI were pushing carnevor installations to be used 'just for a few days' AFTER the attack, like, there would
be a lot of communication to listen to AFTER the attack? It looks like people are giving in on their principles already.
Anyway, I sincerely hope that America recovers fully both in body and mind, and do not allow this tragedy to be amplified by giving in to
those who might be using it to their own purposes.
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I don't hear anyone making accusations about the Japanese school systems.
Do you speak Japanese?
I do, and I can tell you there is a huge debate going on about the deterioration of the quality of japanese education.
Generally it has always been more important to get in to the right UNI than what you learned there, but now compulsory education seems to be crumbling too.
2 eurocents.
The japanese copy as well!
Is this machine-translated? If not, I'd be curious of _where_ this "translator" is local to!
Japanese do not do well with machine translation.
Take my advise don't put text on your site without having it checked.
my 2 cents
Would this projects scope include input methods?
I for one, would like to see a unified locale independent and on-the-spot setting of the input method. Would this be possible within this framework?
Localization efforts in all its glory, currently the Linux desktop is multi-monolingual at best.
This is a _big_ usability issue for many multilingual people. I for one switch frequently between Swedish, English and Japanese, and I know many people (translators, other multilingual professionals) have the need to use multiple character sets, input modes in the same document and / or switch often between different modes.
Using the LANG variable to set the _input_ method for an application is not the answer, that's localization down the monolingual-lane, not true i18n.
Where would be the right place for the implantation for this? freedesktop? XFree86? As gnome feature?
Has it struck any one that encryption is to information theft as a bullet proof vest (armor) is to bullet fire?
My point is, encryprion is not a weapon of attack, encryption is PROTECTION. It protects anyone,
good and bad, just as a bullet proof vest would protect an ordinary citizen as well as a terrorist.
Do we restrict bullet proof vests? Demand that they get weaker so that law enforcment could more easily
shoot through them? No. We should not treat encryption as a weapon either, because it isn't.
Spread the word.
Now, we all know that journalists have a propensity to twist peoples words, and not always present things as they are, but, IF the article about Zimmerman is true, that he does cry every day because his technology could have been used, I'd think that's pretty arrogant, and completely misinterpreting his own importance.
There has been a lot of talk of Steganography, but I have never heard a word that they have used PGP. I'd actually guess that they'd think it's not safe enough for one reason or another (detectability of usage if nothing else). If some one gets word on PGP usage, post a link please.
(PS. about the media in this issue, the celebrating palestinians shown to the world in TV, were NOT celebrating the attack as first reported. It was a set up (a german journalist actually tracked down ppl in the video sequence to double check). There's your media).
Don't give up your civil rights. I don't live in the us, but its a pain in the *ss to try to avoid using us software.
I'm a Swede living in Japan and I have always been following the cryptography and digital copyright debate with a concerned interest.
The second thing that came to mind when I learned of the tragedy was what pro-regulative forces would take this golden oportunityto bring on all kinds of regulations to the US people, especially
in regard to encryption technology.
It is quite clear to me that 'the land of the free' is not close to as free as you'd like to think you are.
Where I come from,
1. Reverse engineering is not a crime
2. Software patents are not allowed
3. Regualtions on encryption has never been heard off.
Where I live, I've never heard of a cracker ever being prosecuted (there might have been I case or two that I have not heard of, but the point is, the government is NOT being paranoid about it).
I am not saying that lenient laws and or are always good, but they do tend to provide a greater amount of freedom.
Speaking of installing backdoors, it's pretty arrogant to think that encryption software can be made only within the us. Sure, most consumer
software (read M$, PGP) is made in the us, but the only real effect is that consumers will be exposed to backdoors and hardcore criminals will
use something else / write their own code. Especially well funded criminals that can pull of terror stunts like this one.
BTW, I read in Wired that the FBI were pushing carnevor installations to be used 'just for a few days' AFTER the attack, like, there would
be a lot of communication to listen to AFTER the attack? It looks like people are giving in on their principles already.
Anyway, I sincerely hope that America recovers fully both in body and mind, and do not allow this tragedy to be amplified by giving in to
those who might be using it to their own purposes.
Strength to you all.