I took a look too, and at first it all seemed fairly harmless. Then, I read the section on immigration. Hoo-boy.
"If current demographic trends persist, European-Americans will become a minority in America in only a few decades time. The American Third Position will not allow this to happen.... Yet, it appears now that, unless something is done to stop it, we will be a minority in our own land, in only a few decades time.....To restore, with civility, the identity and culture of our homeland, we will provide incentives for recent, legal immigrants to return to their respective lands."
As someone who is married and has children with a recent legal immigrant I take EXTREME EXCEPTION to these sentiments. You are basically saying that my wife and kids are not part of "we", not part of America. OK, maybe it's not Nazi, but it sure seems fascistic.
The section on crime seems similarly extreme.
Here's the best write-up I've seen on the absurdities of Green Dam Youth Escort.
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2009/06/12/shanzhai-nature-inside-the-green-dam-youth-escort-software/
The adoption of this software has the following absurdities:
1. It simultaneously embodies paranoid totalitarianism (surveillance and internet access controls) and extreme incompetence (this opens a huge security hole everywhere it is installed, the folks at the NSA must be grinning).
2. It embodies an ethos both puritanical (blocking porn) and piratical (taking commercial and BSD software without attribution).
Plus more I'm sure. It's my new favorite software.
I'd like to stand up for Logo a bit. I got my start programming back in 1982 or so with Logo, when I was 12, and I loved it. I don't think it would have gone as well if I was tossed into C or Fortran or something similarly serious (and difficult to start off in).
Considering the way that Ashcroft et. al. have widened the scope of any prosecutorial powers they have, it seems like "e-mail sniffing" will become more widespread as time goes on.
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I took a look too, and at first it all seemed fairly harmless. Then, I read the section on immigration. Hoo-boy. "If current demographic trends persist, European-Americans will become a minority in America in only a few decades time. The American Third Position will not allow this to happen. ... Yet, it appears now that, unless something is done to stop it, we will be a minority in our own land, in only a few decades time. ....To restore, with civility, the identity and culture of our homeland, we will provide incentives for recent, legal immigrants to return to their respective lands."
As someone who is married and has children with a recent legal immigrant I take EXTREME EXCEPTION to these sentiments. You are basically saying that my wife and kids are not part of "we", not part of America. OK, maybe it's not Nazi, but it sure seems fascistic.
The section on crime seems similarly extreme.
Perl-its can use the excellent "Image::EXIF" on CPAN. I'd love to find an equivalent library for Java. Anyone know of one?
Here's the best write-up I've seen on the absurdities of Green Dam Youth Escort. http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2009/06/12/shanzhai-nature-inside-the-green-dam-youth-escort-software/ The adoption of this software has the following absurdities: 1. It simultaneously embodies paranoid totalitarianism (surveillance and internet access controls) and extreme incompetence (this opens a huge security hole everywhere it is installed, the folks at the NSA must be grinning). 2. It embodies an ethos both puritanical (blocking porn) and piratical (taking commercial and BSD software without attribution). Plus more I'm sure. It's my new favorite software.
If you call it a war, you can get funding. That's all.
It does have just two characters... nice....
Mod parent UP. This has nothing to do with Java, and in fact Java should be immune to this class of exploits.
The original appears to be down, try http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/vid eo-matrix-goggles-worst-invention-ever-
I'd like to stand up for Logo a bit. I got my start programming back in 1982 or so with Logo, when I was 12, and I loved it. I don't think it would have gone as well if I was tossed into C or Fortran or something similarly serious (and difficult to start off in).
Right on!!!
I just wish they had not called the book "strong meat".
Borland keeps sticking its hand out this often...
Considering the way that Ashcroft et. al. have widened the scope of any prosecutorial powers they have, it seems like "e-mail sniffing" will become more widespread as time goes on.
I just read all the AC posts for this story, and I can't see any FUD. Sorry.