What an ignorant flamebait! This goes way farther than "Political correctness".
Just for starters, with your line of thinking, any religious cult after Oklahoma should have been deported or put in a concentration camp.
But to get really serious with what you are saying, let me tell you that not all saudi's are guilty of terrorist activities. In fact, Guess What? Most of them are not.
The "world power" as you call it, should be powerful enough to know better than to go around exterminating arabs. The "world power" should set the example, proving that it won't hold every saudi responsible for the works of, say, twenty?
And just to show you how wrong you are, let me point out one last mistake: even if you don't care in doing the right thing (i.e. giving every citizen the same rights, no matter where they come from), it wouldn't be smart to do what you propose. You see, the arabs aren't just 3 or 4 families you can keep an eye on. That's right, there are thousands right there, in your neighbourhoud. And yes, telling them to leave, or keeping their families outside the country, won't make them happy at all. In fact, you might just set them off. So watch out, cause your "solution" is quite ignorant, unethical, and impractical.
Once again, I'm not arguing the safety of Windows. I am well aware of the dangers of the OS.
But having a poorly coded OS and a badly designed GUI are two very different things. Windows is intuitive, and that's something OSS should learn from. Right now OSS has managed to present us with stable operating systems and applications. It is now time to make them intuitive. That doesn't mean making them flawed, but rather easy to use.
It shouldn't be a defense for poorly designed UI how safe an application is. Both things should be aimed for and accomplished.
No matter how shity Windows is, one thing you can't argue is it's ease of use.
Anyone from a five-year-old to a WWI veteran can sit behing a Windows PC and be browsing the Internet and checking mails in no-time. (mind you, i'm not arguing the risks of this)
That is what OSS should try to learn: simplicity. Average users like it simple and straight-forward, and IMHO that's *one* of the reasons for windows success.
--Just as important, the average user is by now used to the Windows interface, and it wouldn't be that bad of an idea to give them the power and strength of OSS with a windows-like interface which they are more comfortable with.
I think the problem isn't about the appearence of the interface, but rather the intuitivity of it.
I mean: right now most OSS has lots of skins and different possible interfaces, but most newbies don't even know how to switch them on. And that's because the software isn't intuitive.
Say you want to add a new remote printer: it's no use that the menus were designed by an artist, have several combining colors and so on, if you don't even know were to start from.
What the community needs to start paying more attention to, is the non-geek user who would rather have it simple and straight-forward than full of options he/she doesn't even know what they mean, and how to set them.
OSS is counter-intuitive, and even though it is making great progress, it still has a long way to go.
"If this is as it seems, I have to wonder at the arrogance involved in telling someone that they need to agree to let me violate their patents with impunity."
Sure Microsoft's attitude is arrogant. But that's only because they are allowed to.
I'm glad to see someone showing them how things really work (as usual, Japan). But lets not forget that the only reason they ask such benefits is because they're negotiating from a position of strength.
All I'm trying to say is, it isn't that much of a surprise that they are trying to take advantage of the benefits of having a monopoly. I wonder how many corporations would behave ethically when given such power.
In fact, the real surprise is seeing someone refusing to their terms and conditions. Way to go Japan.
You see, the more layers you have beneath, more layers your information goes unprotected.
For example, when the encryption is done in the upmost layer (Application Layer), that means that anyone sniffing your line could read your data.
That's why now-a-days most encryption is done in a hardware level.
This same line of though can be apply to wireless, wired, and mostly any kind of networking available.
It really is a big deal where the information gets encrypted.
A report had been out for a while detailing some improvements that could have prevented that vulnerability. However, the bug itself wasn't exploited until one day before the patch was released.
Of course bugs will appear in Firefox. Nobody in their right mind can expect a product to be perfect, but what makes Mozilla different is that bugs are fixed instantly. And that's because of the open source community, which is far more reliable than the competition.
People might disagree with me, but I still think these bugs (and their immediate fixes) only show how great open source really is.
Just before seeing this poster, I was feeling quite confident with my programming skills. O'Reilly just reminded me how ignorant I really am, and how many languages I haven't even heard of.
They must have some smart kid working there in the marketing dept., 'couse I'm going right now to buy a few books on some of these mysterious languages...:)
Way to go O'Reilly!
(Shame about the small font though)
The most spoken language in the world is Chinese. Of course, because of the high density of people in the PRC, but still... English is not even close!
And I think I remember reading that there's even more spanish-speaking people around there than english...
So... If the world were to unite in one single language, I can't see why it should be english.
Personally, I hope it doesn't merge at all. A universal language can only remember me of 1984's 'unpretty' language, and how there were little ways of expresion. I think the more, the richer. But that's just me.
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Just for starters, with your line of thinking, any religious cult after Oklahoma should have been deported or put in a concentration camp.
But to get really serious with what you are saying, let me tell you that not all saudi's are guilty of terrorist activities. In fact, Guess What? Most of them are not.
The "world power" as you call it, should be powerful enough to know better than to go around exterminating arabs. The "world power" should set the example, proving that it won't hold every saudi responsible for the works of, say, twenty?
And just to show you how wrong you are, let me point out one last mistake: even if you don't care in doing the right thing (i.e. giving every citizen the same rights, no matter where they come from), it wouldn't be smart to do what you propose. You see, the arabs aren't just 3 or 4 families you can keep an eye on. That's right, there are thousands right there, in your neighbourhoud. And yes, telling them to leave, or keeping their families outside the country, won't make them happy at all. In fact, you might just set them off. So watch out, cause your "solution" is quite ignorant, unethical, and impractical.
Once again, I'm not arguing the safety of Windows. I am well aware of the dangers of the OS.
But having a poorly coded OS and a badly designed GUI are two very different things. Windows is intuitive, and that's something OSS should learn from. Right now OSS has managed to present us with stable operating systems and applications. It is now time to make them intuitive. That doesn't mean making them flawed, but rather easy to use.
It shouldn't be a defense for poorly designed UI how safe an application is. Both things should be aimed for and accomplished.
No matter how shity Windows is, one thing you can't argue is it's ease of use.
Anyone from a five-year-old to a WWI veteran can sit behing a Windows PC and be browsing the Internet and checking mails in no-time. (mind you, i'm not arguing the risks of this)That is what OSS should try to learn: simplicity. Average users like it simple and straight-forward, and IMHO that's *one* of the reasons for windows success.
--Just as important, the average user is by now used to the Windows interface, and it wouldn't be that bad of an idea to give them the power and strength of OSS with a windows-like interface which they are more comfortable with.
I mean: right now most OSS has lots of skins and different possible interfaces, but most newbies don't even know how to switch them on. And that's because the software isn't intuitive.
Say you want to add a new remote printer: it's no use that the menus were designed by an artist, have several combining colors and so on, if you don't even know were to start from.
What the community needs to start paying more attention to, is the non-geek user who would rather have it simple and straight-forward than full of options he/she doesn't even know what they mean, and how to set them.
OSS is counter-intuitive, and even though it is making great progress, it still has a long way to go.
I don't drive a Fiat...
"If this is as it seems, I have to wonder at the arrogance involved in telling someone that they need to agree to let me violate their patents with impunity."
Sure Microsoft's attitude is arrogant. But that's only because they are allowed to.I'm glad to see someone showing them how things really work (as usual, Japan). But lets not forget that the only reason they ask such benefits is because they're negotiating from a position of strength.
All I'm trying to say is, it isn't that much of a surprise that they are trying to take advantage of the benefits of having a monopoly. I wonder how many corporations would behave ethically when given such power.
In fact, the real surprise is seeing someone refusing to their terms and conditions. Way to go Japan.
Just my 2c.For example, when the encryption is done in the upmost layer (Application Layer), that means that anyone sniffing your line could read your data.
That's why now-a-days most encryption is done in a hardware level.
This same line of though can be apply to wireless, wired, and mostly any kind of networking available.
It really is a big deal where the information gets encrypted.
Not really.
A report had been out for a while detailing some improvements that could have prevented that vulnerability. However, the bug itself wasn't exploited until one day before the patch was released.
Well now, let's see how long it takes for their patch to come out.
Driver's licence and SSN are OK to US citizens. And I know slashdot is US centric, but the Internet is NOT.
(and I for one believe that most dot-com companies wouldn't get rid of the entire international profit that easily!)
This kind of online ID should be thought much more thorougly than you think. The World Wide Web is WORLD WIDE and should have World Wide solutions.
Just my 2c.
Of course bugs will appear in Firefox.
Nobody in their right mind can expect a product to be perfect, but what makes Mozilla different is that bugs are fixed instantly. And that's because of the open source community, which is far more reliable than the competition.
People might disagree with me, but I still think these bugs (and their immediate fixes) only show how great open source really is.
Just before seeing this poster, I was feeling quite confident with my programming skills. O'Reilly just reminded me how ignorant I really am, and how many languages I haven't even heard of. They must have some smart kid working there in the marketing dept., 'couse I'm going right now to buy a few books on some of these mysterious languages... :)
Way to go O'Reilly!
(Shame about the small font though)
The most spoken language in the world is Chinese. Of course, because of the high density of people in the PRC, but still... English is not even close!
And I think I remember reading that there's even more spanish-speaking people around there than english...
So... If the world were to unite in one single language, I can't see why it should be english.
Personally, I hope it doesn't merge at all. A universal language can only remember me of 1984's 'unpretty' language, and how there were little ways of expresion. I think the more, the richer. But that's just me.
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