[ale] China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS

[Charles Shapiro]

Getting back on-topic, Bruce Schneier says that China ain't the only
one trying this route (
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/indian_os.html ).
Hurray. If this trend continues, it'll be a Big Win for
standards-based protocols.

-- CHS


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Or maybe geeks just can’t get laid.  :-)
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Kinney
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> Subject: Re: [ale] China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS
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> my bias in my statement was geared ONLY for "in the US".
>
> In more agricultural environments, higher child count is the norm. This is
> related to the higher child mortality rates.
>
> In the US, the more a parent team knows, the less likely they are to have an
> abundance of children. They know what is involved and are wisely reluctant
> to shoulder that burden.
>
> Whereas the lower end of the education scale has people who have trailer
> parks full of kids because they don't know any better.
>
> It's really more of a cultural thing than an IQ thing. People tend to clump
> into similar social groups. It's a rare thing to see intelligentsia arise
> from a trailer park (but it _does_ happen - I've seen it). But the combined
> drive for high intellectual achievement coupled with the drive for high
> birth rate is far less common.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>
> Perhaps, but correlation is not causation.  My SO lived in a
> third-world country for a decade, where the level of education was
> generally low and families tended to be be larger than we're used to
> here.  But she says she didn't know a single family that hadn't lost
> at least one child. In this case it seems obvious (which doesn't ==
> "is true") that larger families are simply a response to higher
> mortality, rather than anything to do with parental education. (Of
> course the overall level of education in that society probably has
> something to do with higher child mortality, but that's a distinct
> issue.)
>
> -- JK
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> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not quite. Intelligence is selected for but stupid breeds faster and more
>> often.
>>
>> Higher educated families have a strong tendency towards fewer children.
>> Larger families are associated with lower education.
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>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Charles Shapiro
>> <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Therefor, intelligence is selected against.  Hmm.
>>>
>>> -- CHS
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > For the eventual outcome of that just watch Idiocracy.
>>> >
>>> > --Brian
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Birth is the problem.   Far more stupid people procreate than
>>> >> intelligent ones.
>>> >>
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