Yes. and no. It is a very japanese thing. Japan is not the US. It is very different. I've lived in Japan for many years now.
There is still a very strong opinion in Japan that you should spend your whole life in a single company. Sure, that way of thinking slowly changing, but it is still a cultural part of Japan. Change, esp. in Japan, happens slowly. Japanese compaines, which are well known for their high quality (and TQM, etc), value their employees as assets to the company. So, it is in the company's best interest not to broadcast their identities, especially in the current Japanese economic climate. The company is not holding the employess back. They have every right to go and ask different compainies for an offer. Basically, the Japanese managers value lifetime employment. Japanese employees are beginning to value it less.
True story: My (Japanese) girlfriend decided to quit her first job after getting serious sexual harrassment (also very Japanese). When she applied for her next job and had been tentatively confirmed, management changed their minds very quickly in the interview when she told them she left her last job, and they didn't care that it was sexual harrasment.
I think a story like this is almost insulting to the Japanese culture. Before you critisize, try to figure out why. The rest of the world isn't like the US. There is something outside the little box you live in.
So let me get this right... someone DDOSes him, gets away with it, is cocky and feels invincible, there nothing he can do and he's supposed to be fine with that? I don't get it.
I would be happy to see anyone who did that to me prosecutable, and I don't know why you'd not want them prosecuted
I think the difference with the war on drugs and people doing shit like this, is that drugs don't affect other people. I'd compare more to something like valdalism. You're messing with their stuff.
No he won't. RMS would *never* do that. He'll spend half the time arguing the differences beteen Free Software and Open Source, that it's GNU/Linux, not Linux, and get too caught up in details.
While RMS is a great thinker, and has done a lot for free software, if he worried less about details and more about getting the message across he could do a lot more.
What's even funnier, is that I loaded up IE just to have a look at the page, and didn't get the message, the page looked just like it did in Netscape. I disabled the proxy, and reloaded the page, and I got the message.
Funny. I think it's good how some people out there have a clue, and a sense of humour.
My girlfriend's folks have a fugu restaurant in Tokyo, and it's really not as bad as it seems. Everything is regulated pretty well, and it takes a *long* time to become qualified (>5 years full time training/practice IIRC).
As pointed out many times here, it's just the bug report that's copyrighted, not the actual bug.
But I hope you're joking, or not a sysadmin. Bugtraq is a service for sysadmins, so they know what to look out for, not for crackers to get the latest cracks. Crackers get their 1337 cracking advice and tips from other 1337 crackers.
MS usually don't patch any security holes till crackers find them, even if they are aware of them. You can't 'just trust' Microsoft. I mean, think of the DOJ.
If you want to use the Fort Knox example, think of 5 million people all running their own Fort Knox, not telling anyone about it, but leaving the door wide open... Do you think nobody will find out?
If you're still not convinced, Inoshiro at kuro5hin has some very good security tutorials that go over this in detail.
I dislike sun as much the next man, but there is a reason behind this. They've only started using a shared code base for JSDK 1.3. Previous to that, were seperate code bases for each of the releases... Solaris, as sun's flagship has to run java well, and Windows obviously as the 'industry standard' (i hate saying that) as well. So linux fell a little behind.
From 1.4, sun will have simultaneous releases, which *should* be pretty similar across all platforms
Exactly. I don't think there should be anything wrong with this. Let them control *."Zhong Guo" just as they would *.cn
But what they can't do, is control "Zhong Guo".com *or anything chinese for that matter*.com, it's just not possible. They don't own the chinese character set.
It depends what you call 'literate'. You'll need to know a lot more than 1000 kanji's to 100% understand a newspaper. (I know ~750 and I cannot read any difficult Japanese). A typical Japanese person knows 5000+.
I don't think you understand Unicode enough. 4E00 to 9FA5 is the 'CJK Unified Ideograph' section, which are the Kanji's.
The point of unicode is to allow as many characters as possible in 2 byte numbers, and these just couldn't be repeated 3 times (or more) as it takes more than half of the set as it is.
Babelfish doesn't do Japanese/Chinese at the moment, but any translator would have the same problem. What about translating from french or german? How many other languages use the same character set? That's why you choose the *input language*.
And many Japanese Companies have names in Kanji's. It's just the way it works. Things will work exactly the same way as they do with English. Choose a name (represented by charaters) and register it.
You obviously don't know enough about the language to even post a comment about it. True, it is _possible_ to display any Japanese word using hiragana, but I'm assuming that anyone can register a domain with NSI, so they won't care if it's chinese/japanese/korean.
I think my sig is very appropriate to you in this case
I can't be sure about details, but the article doesn't talk about restricting registration of the.cn domain. It looks to me as if they're restricting any.com that has a chinese character in it... Doesn't china have control of the.cn domain anyway? From the article:
the ".com" and ".net" extensions at the end of Chinese domain names... VeriSign's system leaves the tags in Roman letters.
You'll get no argument from me saying that Kanji are a bitch to learn, but the Japanese writing style seems to make sense to me. Once you know the meanings of the kanji's, you can read a lot faster than it's possible to in english. I don't read each individual word any more, but more just skim over the Kanji's, which make it a lot quicker to take in. *and*, (when writing a least) if you don't know the Kanji, you can always use hiragana. Like to see you try that in Chinese.
Yep, sure is. I'm not sure if these new domains are going to use unicode or native encoding for each of the CJK languages (although unicode makes the most sense, it would screw up the ASCII for the rest of the URL).
The easist way to do it would be to have a link on a web page. Sure, it would come up as $B$/$=(B, and you wouldn't know if you were going to the chinese eqivelent of goatse.cx (goatfu.cn?)... Or you could copy/paste as well... And if you were really desperate, you could theoretically type in the character codes manually. *ouch*
It's possible... You need an IME (input method editor) that handles it. Win2k comes with one by default, and so do a few linux distros (mandrake is the only one that I know of). Oh, and the software needs to be compatible. ie: you need a version of netscape compiled to accept Chinese/Japanese characters. But IIRC mozilla and IE do it by default
Maybe it's my misunderstanding from my limited knowledge of character encoding, but I know plenty as far as kanji goes...
There are literally tens of thousands of Kanji (you need to know 5000+ to read a newspaper), and these were taken from chinese ages ago. The characters are basically the same, but meanings can differ slightly between Chinese/Japanese.
I'm confused by your use of 'character set'. If you mean methods to represent a character in a computer, kanji is not a charater set, and Japanese also has a few.
And if you mean set of characters in a language, then chinese only has one, while Japanese has 3: hiragana and katakana(which only have ~50 characters)- and Kanji, which is shared with Chinese.
Chinese shares a lot of characters, or pictographs (known as kanji in Japanese, I wouldn't have a clue about the Chinese) with Japanese. And as far as I know, the unicode codes are the same
Apart from the obvious stupidity of banning a type of lettering, and even trying to enforce something like this, what do they think they can do? Just pretend that the Japanese don't have the same characters?
Ok, so an article about Australia has just been posted, now how long till the comments about Australian beer come?
Firstly some smart arse American will post a stupid fosters comment, then comes a flood of comments from other people saying how shit it tastes, that fosters is actually made in Canada, and that nobody in Australia actually drinks it. Followed by more comments about how coopers or *insert beer of choice here* is better...
Then shortly after some kangaroo/kaola comments are sure to follow, proving that the majority of American have no about Australia whatsoever.
It's a lack of storage space- all the atoms in the universe couldn't hold all the possible combinations of moves, and thus it's impossible to calculate all possible combinations and moves/countermoves that needed to be made
I didn't realise that moderation was *this* broken. how about -1 (bleeding obvious?)
Can you even call it a hoax when it's not meant to be taken seriously?
Seriously, the funniest thing about this mediocre satire is the fact that so many people have commented on its validty.
Comments like there is no 'all@miscosoft.com', or a number of other reasons why this can't be true... It's a joke! Bloody naive Americans
This is a non issue. The DNS entries have NOT been cracked.
First, you'll notice that it's just internic that has the problem.
Next you'll notice that 'microsoft.com' is at the START of the host name... This is 'flaw' in the internic code. The way it searches entries is by searching the start of all hosts first, then hosts those that end with the search criteria.
You could do the same and make any host appear like this.... just make a host that STARTS with microsoft.com and it's fine.
So microsoft.com.suck.because.internic.is.fucked.myho st.com *would* work
A real crack would be i.hate.microsoft.com becuase it's appening to the start of the host name.
I shouldn't even respond to this troll but I can't help myself.
If windows was there, probably 90% of the displays/exhibitors would be windows-centric. That's fine if you want to find out about the latest windows shit.
But I don't use Windows. I use Be & Linux. I have saved myself time and 90% the noise has been filtered out for me already.
I remember reading when the crusoe was launched that it would be possible to write the the code morphing software to run mac programs... This was said by transmetta. (can't find a link now)
This goes back to the whole RISC & CISC merging thing... nothing is true RISC, nor true CISC anymore.
I'm not saying it can or can't be done, but Tranmetta have said it's theoretically possible.
I'm _very_ dissapointed that netscape hasn't done something like this yet.
Gecko should be top on the priorities. Get gecko bug-free first, then add all the XUL, XML, *insert buzzword-TLA here*, etc, crap in.
They would have a good product shipping at least, to shut the critics up, while they add all the special functionallity.
Personally, I would like to see the netscape 4 feel to the gecko engine. (i like it better for some reason)
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There is still a very strong opinion in Japan that you should spend your whole life in a single company. Sure, that way of thinking slowly changing, but it is still a cultural part of Japan. Change, esp. in Japan, happens slowly. Japanese compaines, which are well known for their high quality (and TQM, etc), value their employees as assets to the company. So, it is in the company's best interest not to broadcast their identities, especially in the current Japanese economic climate. The company is not holding the employess back. They have every right to go and ask different compainies for an offer. Basically, the Japanese managers value lifetime employment. Japanese employees are beginning to value it less.
True story: My (Japanese) girlfriend decided to quit her first job after getting serious sexual harrassment (also very Japanese). When she applied for her next job and had been tentatively confirmed, management changed their minds very quickly in the interview when she told them she left her last job, and they didn't care that it was sexual harrasment.
I think a story like this is almost insulting to the Japanese culture. Before you critisize, try to figure out why. The rest of the world isn't like the US. There is something outside the little box you live in.
I would be happy to see anyone who did that to me prosecutable, and I don't know why you'd not want them prosecuted
I think the difference with the war on drugs and people doing shit like this, is that drugs don't affect other people. I'd compare more to something like valdalism. You're messing with their stuff.
While RMS is a great thinker, and has done a lot for free software, if he worried less about details and more about getting the message across he could do a lot more.
Funny. I think it's good how some people out there have a clue, and a sense of humour.
My girlfriend's folks have a fugu restaurant in Tokyo, and it's really not as bad as it seems. Everything is regulated pretty well, and it takes a *long* time to become qualified (>5 years full time training/practice IIRC).
But I hope you're joking, or not a sysadmin. Bugtraq is a service for sysadmins, so they know what to look out for, not for crackers to get the latest cracks. Crackers get their 1337 cracking advice and tips from other 1337 crackers.
MS usually don't patch any security holes till crackers find them, even if they are aware of them. You can't 'just trust' Microsoft. I mean, think of the DOJ.
If you want to use the Fort Knox example, think of 5 million people all running their own Fort Knox, not telling anyone about it, but leaving the door wide open... Do you think nobody will find out?
If you're still not convinced, Inoshiro at kuro5hin has some very good security tutorials that go over this in detail.
Swing is actually decent. Considering the whole cross-platform ideology of Java, swing does a bloody fantastic job. GTK would go against all this.
Redundancy? C'mon, it's ONLY 3 LETTERS. Adding things like that actually help understandability IMHO
No good browser JVM's: No shit. "There's a bad c++ compiler, so c++ sucks?"
I agree with the rest.
From 1.4, sun will have simultaneous releases, which *should* be pretty similar across all platforms
But what they can't do, is control "Zhong Guo".com *or anything chinese for that matter*.com, it's just not possible. They don't own the chinese character set.
It depends what you call 'literate'. You'll need to know a lot more than 1000 kanji's to 100% understand a newspaper. (I know ~750 and I cannot read any difficult Japanese). A typical Japanese person knows 5000+.
I don't think you understand Unicode enough. 4E00 to 9FA5 is the 'CJK Unified Ideograph' section, which are the Kanji's. The point of unicode is to allow as many characters as possible in 2 byte numbers, and these just couldn't be repeated 3 times (or more) as it takes more than half of the set as it is.
Babelfish doesn't do Japanese/Chinese at the moment, but any translator would have the same problem. What about translating from french or german? How many other languages use the same character set? That's why you choose the *input language*.
And many Japanese Companies have names in Kanji's. It's just the way it works. Things will work exactly the same way as they do with English. Choose a name (represented by charaters) and register it.
You obviously don't know enough about the language to even post a comment about it. True, it is _possible_ to display any Japanese word using hiragana, but I'm assuming that anyone can register a domain with NSI, so they won't care if it's chinese/japanese/korean.
I think my sig is very appropriate to you in this case
the ".com" and ".net" extensions at the end of Chinese domain names ... VeriSign's system leaves the tags in Roman letters.
You'll get no argument from me saying that Kanji are a bitch to learn, but the Japanese writing style seems to make sense to me. Once you know the meanings of the kanji's, you can read a lot faster than it's possible to in english. I don't read each individual word any more, but more just skim over the Kanji's, which make it a lot quicker to take in. *and*, (when writing a least) if you don't know the Kanji, you can always use hiragana. Like to see you try that in Chinese.
The easist way to do it would be to have a link on a web page. Sure, it would come up as $B$/$=(B, and you wouldn't know if you were going to the chinese eqivelent of goatse.cx (goatfu.cn?)... Or you could copy/paste as well... And if you were really desperate, you could theoretically type in the character codes manually. *ouch*
Yes, we get a lot of rules contantly dictated to us, ridiculus trade embargoes set, and generally get pushed around.
It's not nice to be on the receiving end, is is?
For more information, read Installing Japanese support in Linux or if you're using windows download the IME from windows update.
There are literally tens of thousands of Kanji (you need to know 5000+ to read a newspaper), and these were taken from chinese ages ago. The characters are basically the same, but meanings can differ slightly between Chinese/Japanese.
I'm confused by your use of 'character set'. If you mean methods to represent a character in a computer, kanji is not a charater set, and Japanese also has a few.
And if you mean set of characters in a language, then chinese only has one, while Japanese has 3: hiragana and katakana(which only have ~50 characters)- and Kanji, which is shared with Chinese.
Apart from the obvious stupidity of banning a type of lettering, and even trying to enforce something like this, what do they think they can do? Just pretend that the Japanese don't have the same characters?
Firstly some smart arse American will post a stupid fosters comment, then comes a flood of comments from other people saying how shit it tastes, that fosters is actually made in Canada, and that nobody in Australia actually drinks it. Followed by more comments about how coopers or *insert beer of choice here* is better...
Then shortly after some kangaroo/kaola comments are sure to follow, proving that the majority of American have no about Australia whatsoever.
It's a lack of storage space- all the atoms in the universe couldn't hold all the possible combinations of moves, and thus it's impossible to calculate all possible combinations and moves/countermoves that needed to be made
Can you even call it a hoax when it's not meant to be taken seriously?
Seriously, the funniest thing about this mediocre satire is the fact that so many people have commented on its validty.
Comments like there is no 'all@miscosoft.com', or a number of other reasons why this can't be true... It's a joke! Bloody naive Americans
First, you'll notice that it's just internic that has the problem.
Next you'll notice that 'microsoft.com' is at the START of the host name... This is 'flaw' in the internic code. The way it searches entries is by searching the start of all hosts first, then hosts those that end with the search criteria.
You could do the same and make any host appear like this.... just make a host that STARTS with microsoft.com and it's fine.
So microsoft.com.suck.because.internic.is.fucked.myho st.com *would* work
A real crack would be i.hate.microsoft.com becuase it's appening to the start of the host name.
If windows was there, probably 90% of the displays/exhibitors would be windows-centric. That's fine if you want to find out about the latest windows shit. But I don't use Windows. I use Be & Linux. I have saved myself time and 90% the noise has been filtered out for me already.
This goes back to the whole RISC & CISC merging thing... nothing is true RISC, nor true CISC anymore.
I'm not saying it can or can't be done, but Tranmetta have said it's theoretically possible.
I like the way you put this... get rid of the product that holds ~80% of the market share and everything will fall into place. :-)
Gecko should be top on the priorities. Get gecko bug-free first, then add all the XUL, XML, *insert buzzword-TLA here*, etc, crap in.
They would have a good product shipping at least, to shut the critics up, while they add all the special functionallity.
Personally, I would like to see the netscape 4 feel to the gecko engine. (i like it better for some reason)