I'm guessing there will be legal repercussions for the hacker (as there should be). He will most likely get a slap on the wrist as a token acknowledgment of having committed a crime.
And then he will have a lot of job offers for computer security work. People will trust him.
Is there any chance that this sort of announcement will actually scare (I'm using the term loosely) some people away from OSS? Whatever the realities, things associated with Cuba and Venezuala are obviously not popular in certain circles in the US at least.
Well, I've been to Pakistan, and while you are right, "the culture is conservative Islamic (sic)", that is a general statement and doesn't apply to everyone in the country. There are plenty of Ismaili Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan. I personally met Sikhs, Christians, Hindus and Taliban supporters. And the Kalash of Chitral happen to be polytheists. So what? It a big country. Lots of different people.
Now this doesn't mean I believe that the Kalash are descendents of Macedonian soldiers, but their existence as non-Muslims is factual.
There is also a similar story in the Chitral Valley in northern Pakistan, where many of the local Kalash people have blue eyes and blond hair and worship a pantheon of gods. They claim descent from Alexander the Great's Macedonian soldiers. The difference with the story about Romans in China is that Greeks did actually enter today's Afghanistan and Pakistan with his army. The Bactrian Empire in Afghanistan was one of the successor states to Alexander's own empire.
There have been attempts to prove this theory through DNA testing as well.
If proven, then the theory that Marco Polo brought spaghetti to Italy will finally have some competition. Were noodles, in fact, a Roman invention introduced to the Chinese?
(Anyone having been to Xinjiang Province in western China will note the striking similarity between the wheat noodles there with Italian spaghetti).
Well the first batch of greedy scientists have already pledged themselves to attack the IPCC report: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/004133.html.
Oh damn, is "batch" a singular or plural subject?... "have" or "has"? I guess I'll have to wait until the linguists are done with their climate research.
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I'm guessing there will be legal repercussions for the hacker (as there should be). He will most likely get a slap on the wrist as a token acknowledgment of having committed a crime.
And then he will have a lot of job offers for computer security work. People will trust him.
Is there any chance that this sort of announcement will actually scare (I'm using the term loosely) some people away from OSS? Whatever the realities, things associated with Cuba and Venezuala are obviously not popular in certain circles in the US at least.
Well, I've been to Pakistan, and while you are right, "the culture is conservative Islamic (sic)", that is a general statement and doesn't apply to everyone in the country. There are plenty of Ismaili Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan. I personally met Sikhs, Christians, Hindus and Taliban supporters. And the Kalash of Chitral happen to be polytheists. So what? It a big country. Lots of different people.
Now this doesn't mean I believe that the Kalash are descendents of Macedonian soldiers, but their existence as non-Muslims is factual.
There is also a similar story in the Chitral Valley in northern Pakistan, where many of the local Kalash people have blue eyes and blond hair and worship a pantheon of gods. They claim descent from Alexander the Great's Macedonian soldiers. The difference with the story about Romans in China is that Greeks did actually enter today's Afghanistan and Pakistan with his army. The Bactrian Empire in Afghanistan was one of the successor states to Alexander's own empire. There have been attempts to prove this theory through DNA testing as well.
If proven, then the theory that Marco Polo brought spaghetti to Italy will finally have some competition. Were noodles, in fact, a Roman invention introduced to the Chinese? (Anyone having been to Xinjiang Province in western China will note the striking similarity between the wheat noodles there with Italian spaghetti).
Well the first batch of greedy scientists have already pledged themselves to attack the IPCC report: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/004133.html.
... "have" or "has"? I guess I'll have to wait until the linguists are done with their climate research.
Oh damn, is "batch" a singular or plural subject?