[Cialug] [OT] Security and the browser

[David Champion]

Ralph Kessel wrote:
> Linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf  made an observation during the 1930's 
> that was collectively tagged the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis while working 
> in an environment with drums filled with gasoline were not "flammable" 
> but empty drums were. This to the view that linguistic/semantic 
> factors determine how we view the world, eg the Eskimos/Inuit have 
> over 20 words for snow. George Orwell, Adolph Hitler, and others  
> picked up this concept with "Newspeak".  Of course, our news media 
> continuously pack new words and phrases into our language.  
> "Multi-tasking" had a very specific and precise meaning in computer 
> science and now it is interpreted as doing anything at the same time. 
> (Something impossible except under quantum mechanics).
Depends on whether you're talking about preemptive multi-tasking or 
cooperative multi-tasking.

-dc

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