If you can read my posts made way back, I did "praise" China for being more capitalistic and affirming the rights of owning a personal property. I accuse Chinese of being blind and stupid, I bashed the government for censorship. Public forums, such as Slashdot, allows people to show facts that may have been "missed" by the major news outlets.
Private bitching's effectiveness is rather limited. For example, if you hate the Iraqi war, you easily create a web site for the millions to see, even if it's against the views of the Whitehouse.
As for the Gnome and KDE looking smiliar, it's called "Bluecurve" designed by Red Hat to make the desktops look similar for the end users. I remember Red Hat taking a lot of heat for doing this.
As for the speed, I found Slackware to be much faster that FC1, but FC1 makes up for it by being that much friendier to install and use. I didn't have any stability issue and the X seemed to be faster after I installed the native driver for my nVidia card.
As far as I know, you can always get Bin Laden's speeches from non-U.S. sources. The blame goes to the news agencies who agreed to the request of the government. If the government forced the agencies to not to air the tapes, you can bet that there will be a legal battle over it.
Perhapes this is why China wants to come up with their own standards for wireless encryption. To install a backdoor to monitor the wireless communications of its citizens.
For example, most people on slashdot will tell you that patents are bad, except when Apple files for one because Apple never does anything bad.
Another example is that Kerry favors cutting corporate taxes as well but you don't see many slashdotters flaming him for looking after corporate interests.
And you think that iPod is a totally original idea? And the concept of "food" is not patented (at least to my knowledge) but that doesn't prevent people from straving to death, does it?
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Yes, Darl even considered allowing IBM to buy SCO for the "good" of the company. All that changed when IBM didn't take their bait.
Is it "Steve Ballmer's Fat" as in Steve Baller is fat or fat of Steve Ballmer?
And I thought that most of Slashdotters used non-IE browsers like Mozilla and Opera that blocked pop-ups...
Oops, that should've been "I didn't accuse Chineses of being blind and stupid".
If you can read my posts made way back, I did "praise" China for being more capitalistic and affirming the rights of owning a personal property. I accuse Chinese of being blind and stupid, I bashed the government for censorship. Public forums, such as Slashdot, allows people to show facts that may have been "missed" by the major news outlets.
Private bitching's effectiveness is rather limited. For example, if you hate the Iraqi war, you easily create a web site for the millions to see, even if it's against the views of the Whitehouse.
Slashdot believes in recycling articles because it's good for the envirnment.
As for the Gnome and KDE looking smiliar, it's called "Bluecurve" designed by Red Hat to make the desktops look similar for the end users. I remember Red Hat taking a lot of heat for doing this.
As for the speed, I found Slackware to be much faster that FC1, but FC1 makes up for it by being that much friendier to install and use. I didn't have any stability issue and the X seemed to be faster after I installed the native driver for my nVidia card.
How can they see and experience the westen hypocrisy when it's censored? Do you honestly believe that a site like Slashdot is allowed in China?
I'll start bitching when Bush censores anti-Bush jokes.
As far as I know, you can always get Bin Laden's speeches from non-U.S. sources. The blame goes to the news agencies who agreed to the request of the government. If the government forced the agencies to not to air the tapes, you can bet that there will be a legal battle over it.
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What I found funny is that your original post was modded insiteful instead of funny...
Perhapes this is why China wants to come up with their own standards for wireless encryption. To install a backdoor to monitor the wireless communications of its citizens.
"Are the moderators on crack?"
That would explain a lot of things going on at Slashdot.
I guess you've forgotten Bosnia?
But how are you going to fit one on the sharks head?
It's all about double standards.
For example, most people on slashdot will tell you that patents are bad, except when Apple files for one because Apple never does anything bad.
Another example is that Kerry favors cutting corporate taxes as well but you don't see many slashdotters flaming him for looking after corporate interests.
I believe they (Japan/S. Korea) are ahead of U.S. in broadband usage because their population density is higher and thus reachable with less cabling.
Have you heard of mass transit?
But the potato battery just doesn't have the coolness factor.
But wouldn't that cause a rift in space and cause aliens to warp in and trash your lab?
That's why day trading and using credit cards are popular.
And you think that iPod is a totally original idea? And the concept of "food" is not patented (at least to my knowledge) but that doesn't prevent people from straving to death, does it?
It sure would because they'd be bankrupt.
I think that it's a little bit more than just a boring corporate contract case as they are more than willing to go after the end-users as well.
What did you expect? May people here are outraged that "for-profit" corporations acutally exist for profit!