三元在《自由聖火》 指控諾貝爾獎評委會和劉曉波 的啟示

1. 兩個荒謬絕倫的臆測正在網路流傳.  一個説瑞典人將要合法化公民與河馬通婚.  第二個更可怕.   它説胡錦濤和馬英九可能因為他們創造了台海和平的假象而得到諾貝爾和平獎.  不要説不可能.  ISO 不是稱我們的國家 Taiwan, a province of China, 使台灣既是國又非國嗎?   希望三元先生在《自由聖火》的努力使人類免於這個橫禍.  不要像施明德説是要反貪腐, 其實幫助中國國民黨來消滅台灣人.   
2. 三元先生一開始這麼寫:
   

   百年以來，我們在不斷地努力，努力洗刷我們民族的恥辱，但是舊辱沒去，又添新辱。劉曉波代表中國人獲取諾貝爾和平獎，就是我們中華民族新的恥辱。

   作者像是一個義和團式的中華民族  族本主義者. 他覺得中華民族受辱, 湏要努力洗刷. 那麼圖搏民族受中華民族的欺凌屠殺要不要洗刷?
   
3. 如果三元先生對劉嘵波的指控屬實. 我覺得這是一個重要的貢獻. 它將使諾貝爾獎評委會更慎重地調查受獎人. 使人類不再憂慮它會頒獎給希特勒.
4. 如果三元先生對劉嘵波的指控屬實, 我希望他把事實詳細地公諸於世. 為什麼下面他這個在網路上流傳的文章不這麼做?
   

In our Internet age, any lie and evil-doing will be uncovered and exposed. At this point, I have far more confidence in 劉曉波 than 三元.

讓我們共同努力 揭出諾獎評委會的黑幕

三元 (首發稿)

文章摘要: 中國底層人士在漫漫的黑夜中艱難行進，之所以一線希望尚存，就是因為世界上還有占絕大多數的國家是自由、民主的國家。人們希望他們關注中國人權，希望他們能對中國產生影響促進中國的民主化。諾獎評委會將和平獎送給劉曉波這樣的人，無異於對中國苦難民眾冷水澆頭，是一種助紂為虐的行為。

作者 : 三元,

發表時間： 10/9/2010

百年以來，我們在不斷地努力，努力洗刷我們民族的恥辱，但是舊辱沒去，又添新辱。劉曉波代表中國人獲取諾貝爾和平獎，就是我們中華民族新的恥辱。

劉曉波作為一個作家，曾經為傳播民主知識寫過文章，也撰文抨擊過中共侵犯人權的行為。對這些，我們一直是尊重和肯定的。但是，進步作家是一回事，獲諾獎是另一回事，不是每一個進步作家都可以拿諾貝爾獎，他的貢獻和獲諾貝爾獎相差太遠。何況，他還是一個品格和道德有著嚴重缺陷的人，中國怎麼能讓一個道德上有嚴重問題的人當舉旗人？

1989年“六.四”事件發生後，天安門廣場血跡未幹，劉曉波就匆匆忙忙為中共屠殺背書，聲稱天安門廣場沒有死人。這之後，劉又在他的文章中說：“六四”提供了一個以謊言來撈稻草、自我貼金的良好時機。“各種人，懷著不同的動機，說著各異的謊言......。政治性謊言、道德性謊言、求生性謊言、官方謊言、精英謊言、民間謊言......,‘六四’被謊言打扮得一塌糊塗，也被謊言強姦得人老珠黃。”這其中雖然也說了“官方的謊言”，但無疑重點是在說“六.四”受難者製造謊言。

一些人在讀了劉介紹“六.四”的《末日倖存者的獨白》一書後，“感到的不是心理痛苦，而是生理痛苦：胃受不了，要嘔吐。”（見鄭義《這算什麼懺悔》）

把諾獎給劉曉波，就等於承認劉說的是對的，在中國不存在所謂的“六.四”鎮壓，“六.四”受難者在集體造謊。

近些年來，中國因言論和信仰被判入獄的政治犯成千上萬，這些人中的知名人士幾乎都表示他們曾遭受過中國員警的虐待，只有劉表示在監獄受到柔性化的管理，在押人員提享受到了人性化的生活環境，感到溫暖。

把諾獎給劉曉波，那就是在承認劉說的是對的，中國的所有政治犯都在詆毀中國已經進步了的監獄管理 。

在諾獎揭曉前夕，有數百人簽名的《呼籲頒諾貝爾和平獎給劉曉波》的公開信送交諾委會，事後經人揭發，此信很多人在不知情的情況下被別人代簽，這種不公正的行為已經在網路上成了人們傳播的醜聞。

把諾獎給劉曉波，就竺於承認這種不公正的簽名行為是值得信任的。

2005年底，良心律師高智晟律師站在人類道德高度上為法輪功群體呼籲，發起了全球接力絕食維權抗暴運動，此時，劉一夥卻不斷地干擾破壞高的這個正義行動；2006年在美國總統布希接見中國維權人士時，劉一夥卻製造了讓人感到不可思議的“余王排郭事件”；2007年中國維權英雄楊春林先生與3000多農民、上海700多上海訪民發出“不要奧運要人權”的急切呼籲，劉等急切出來打橫炮，發出了所謂“要人權‘更要’奧運”。在近幾年的中國人維權活動中，人們都可以看到劉干擾破壞的身影。

把諾獎給劉曉波，就等於宣佈高智晟、胡佳、陳光誠、高耀潔等都不具有獲得諾獎的資格，打壓中國正當的維權活動，而支援同北京和作的所謂溫和派的改良活動。

劉曉波是一個首先上倍受爭議的人物，作家鄭義說劉“從來鄙視民眾”，“有意與尼采媲美”，並且是一種“毫無理論品質的鄙俗與淺薄”的鄙視。劉還是爭名奪利之徒，鄭義形容說：“八九年春夏之交的劉曉波，每一動作甚至每一眼神都充滿了對名利權勢的渴求。”劉對高智晟等人的打壓，在很大程度上也是由於他的爭名奪利的心所驅使。

《08憲章》是何人起草？到現在也還不太清楚，但無論是誰起草，有一點是肯定的：不是由劉曉波起草。當時我看到《08憲章》的時候，感到很奇怪，因為這個憲章同劉的一慣思想主張一點也不一樣。

幾年前，劉曾寫過一篇《從俞可平、吳思、劉軍甯看普及民主》的文章，劉說：“俞文對民主的理解與目前大陸自由知識界的理解，基本上沒有區別。俞文所講的民主常識，不僅早已成為民間自由主義者的共識，也早已成為黨內開明派的共識。”

看過俞可平《民主是個好東西》這篇文章的人都知道，俞的這篇文章是講“社會主義民主”的，曾經在國內包括新華社在內的多家大型媒體上刊載。這篇文章中沒有自由、人權、三權分立等民主社會最基本的東西，可是劉卻認為“俞文對民主的理解與目前大陸自由知識界的理解，基本上沒有區別。”其實這個思想才是劉真正的思想，由此我們可以斷定《08憲章》不是由劉起草。

諾獎評委會在很多事情都沒有基本搞清的情況下草草把諾獎給了劉曉波，這其中肯定有不為外人所知的內幕。

諾獎送給劉必然會對中國民主事業造成極大的破壞，中國的民主事業必然會因此分列成眾多的派別，相互之間的爭訌在所難免。在以後的日子裏，中共所布的這個棋子可能會找一個藉口放出來，分列民主陣營的隊伍，利用其掌控的資源破壞中國的民主事業，這也可能正是諾獎評委會所要達到的目的。

在此，希望真正有志於中國民主化的仁人志士、受苦受難的中國國內民眾、海內外一切良心尚存的組織和個人，以及西方關注中國人權的中國底層人的外國朋友行動起來，揭出諾貝爾獎評委會的黑幕。

在漫長的歲月裏，中國有緣獲諾獎的人寥寥無幾，正因為如此，中國人普遍把諾獎看得很神聖，他給中國造成的影響不可低估。

中國底層人士在漫漫的黑夜中艱難行進，之所以一線希望尚存，就是因為世界上還有占絕大多數的國家是自由、民主的國家。人們希望他們關注中國人權，希望他們能對中國產生影響促進中國的民主化。諾獎評委會將和平獎送給劉曉波這樣的人，無異於對中國苦難民眾冷水澆頭，是一種助紂為虐的行為。

我相信，中國人有能力揭穿諾獎的評選黑幕，如果中國人不能做到這一點，那中國的民主化到底還有希望嗎？

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瞼書找台灣人麻煩嗎?Is Facebook giving Taiwanese trouble?

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綠營政治人物臉書帳號紛傳出被停用！

(巳知受害者: 陳致中、謝長廷、賴清德、游錫堃)

日前李登輝前總統也跟上年輕人的腳步，開始玩起網路社群工具Facebook(臉書)，但說來也奇怪，最近綠營政治人物的Facebook帳號卻紛 紛因為不明原因而遭到停用。目前已經傳出謝長廷、游錫堃、賴清德、陳致中等人的帳號因遭檢舉，而被停用，但向Facebook投訴後，也都沒有得到回應。

今年六月份時高雄市議員參選人陳致中因為遭到「冒牌陳致中檢舉正牌陳致中」，導致臉書帳號被無法使用，還大費周章地向網友解釋帳號遭盜用。

而在父親節當天，有網友反應無法在Facebook上搜尋到前行政院院長謝長廷的帳號，經了解之後，證實謝長廷本人的臉書帳號確實被停用，連同一帳號管理的謝長廷臉書粉絲專頁也不見了。

正當網友們懷疑是否這一切都是「阿共仔的陰謀」的時候，大台南市長參選人賴清德的臉書粉絲專頁竟也因為不明原因停用，競選總部只好在第一時間宣布，另外成立新的臉書粉絲專頁，號召網友重新加入。

不過農曆七月發生的怪事不只這一樁，今(25)日上午前行政院院長游錫堃也在噗浪上發難：「為什麼Facebook停用那麼久？已 經三天了！信也寫了！毫無回應？不知有誰能夠幫助我？」，原來臉書帳號被停用的綠營苦主又多了一位，還有網友忿忿不平地說：「現在是逼著大家用中國的微博 嗎？」

民進黨中央網路部主任林閣雍表示，去年民進黨的所設立的Facebook個人帳號Dpponline也因不明原因被幹掉。他建議可 以先寫信向臉書抗議，再成立新粉絲專頁同步處理，而新設立的新粉絲專頁，可以多設幾位管理員，以防止因個別帳號停用，造成粉絲專頁也停用的情況發生。

這些遭到停用的綠營政治人物，賴清德已經再成立新的粉絲專頁，而陳致中也在臉書成立了「陳致中後援會」，但現在只有261人加入； 游錫堃則考慮另外在 Facebook成立粉絲專頁，取代原先的個人帳號；而謝長廷目前則暫時以噗浪(Plurk)經營為主，保持和網友們的互動。

ISO insists on calling Taiwan a province of ChinaKnowing full well that it is absurd and unjustISO sets an exmple of diminishing human morality

台灣告ISO　瑞士法院不受理

（中央社記者謝佳珍台北9日電）台灣控告國際標準組織（ISO）侵害姓名權，外交部今晚表示，雖然瑞士聯邦法院以無管轄權為由不受理，但外交部仍將繼續努力，以維護台灣合法權益。

外交部發布新聞稿表示，瑞士聯邦法院於台北時間9日晚間針對台灣控告國際標準組織（ISO）的民事案件作成判決，5名承審法官再次肯定台灣有權作為訴訟當事人之一造，符合國家要件，具有國際法人地位及訴訟當事人能力。
外交部說，瑞士聯邦法院另以外交承認與否的政治考量，而作出本案無管轄權的不受理判決，認為台灣所提出的民事訴訟具有政治目的，致使台灣訴求有關民法上的姓名權保護未被受理。
外交部表示，本案因ISO對台灣的不當稱呼，經外交部及相關駐外館處一再與ISO交涉未果，才循瑞士民事司法途徑尋求救濟。
外交部指出，這次案件為民事訴訟案件，並無所謂政治意圖。雖因瑞士聯邦法院以無管轄權為由不受理，但外交部仍將繼續努力，以維護台灣的合法權益。
總部設在日內瓦的非政府組織ISO 在它所訂定的「ISO 3166」國名與地區編碼表中，將台灣稱為「中國台灣省」，廣為國際沿用。台灣於民國96年7月20日在日內瓦提起訴訟，要求正名為「中華民國（台灣）」。

Thoughts on the August 2010 Singapore WASET multi-conferences

On 2010-02-11, I submitted a paper Some questionable web construction approaches and practice to WASET August 2010 International Conference on Internet and Web Engineering.   This conference is one of some ten conferences of the WASET multi-conferences held at the River View Hotel, Singapore, from August 25 to August 27.  I could no longer find the list of the conferences for this WASET multi-conferences, but it is similar to the 2011 International Conference on Information, Communication, Electrical & Computer Engineering in Singapore that consists of eleven conferences.

I discovered WASET conferences from Google search. They looked impressive. I submitted the paper to WASET's August Singapore conference because during the summer months I will be in Taiwan, an easy four hour flight to Singapore.

Before I went to the Singapore meeting, I wrote about WASET in I will be presenting a paper Some questionable web construction approaches and practice at WASET Singapore 2010.

On 2010-08-25, I checked in at the WASET registration desk in the River View Hotel, Singapore.  I was given a lunch voucher, my name tag, a receipt of registration fee, with my name and 600 [sic] handwritten,  a copy of the conference proceeding (WASET year 6 issue 69 August 2010),  and a conference CD.  I read my paper starting around 4:15 PM.  Even though my talk was well received,  it was unclear anyone was interested in the topic.  

Some thoughts on WASET's conference:

1. Paying for WASET conference registration feels more like paying for ransom than paying for a conference.  Wiring 450€ to an unknown account in Dubai, UAE to register for WASET conference is a good source of anxiety for many and will make others think twice about registering.    I was relieved to see that there was really a WASET conference in the River View Hotel, Singapore.  I advise WASET to accept credit card payment like everyone else.
2. WASET must answer authors' messages instead of ignoring them.   Read I will be presenting a paper Some questionable web construction approaches and practice at WASET Singapore 2010 to see how they ignored my messages to them.
   The following private correspondence from IIT Roorkee, India, suggests a general pattern:
   
   

   ... then I wrote this things to  alerts@waset.org. But they did not respond. Finally I send my paper as attachment to alerts@waset.org. But still they didn't respond. ...

3. I wish WASET great success in bringing conferences to such cities as Amsterdam, Paris, Venice, Rome, Tokyo, Singapore as advertised in http://www.waset.org.  This would offer scholars more conferences to choose from, a wonderful contribution.  Judging from my experience with the Singapore conferences, WASET has much work to do to make its conferences useful.  I see the following serious problems:
1. The WASET Singapore multi-conference program lists 257 papers in 11 conferences with an average of 23 papers per conference.  Out of 257, 44 are posters listed in the e-Sessions (page 11 of the PDF program).  There are two parallel sessions in Halls A and B.  The posters are supposed to be in Halls A and B during all three days, but I did not see any in Hall A.  I hope other attendees can share their experience by leaving comments.  Excluding posters, each conference has an average of 19 papers.   The audience is small, around 30,  in the afternoon of 2010-08-25 in Hall A.   That is on average less than three attendees per conference.  With this small number of attendees, the likelihood is small that one will meet people in one's field, or potential collaborators.
2. One way to get a sense whether a conference offers good value is to see how many papers are of interest.  I invite you to read the conference program to decide.  Leave a comment as a service to others.
3. There were no free Internet connection in the conference halls.  I borrowed a hotel Wi-Fi account from a WASET lady staff immediately before my talk.   It worked when I began, but soon started asking for a password.
4. Each talk is 20 minutes.  Yet in session III (see picture below) which went from 3 to 5 PM, there were fourteen talks scheduled, arithmetically could take up a total of nearly four hours. How can this impossibility be achieved?
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. The conference program lists 257 papers, the conference CD contains 245, but the hard copy conference proceeding contains only 25.  Why are 232 papers excluded from the proceeding?  What is the criterion for a paper to be included in the proceeding?
6. I had the misfortune of having a 100 % failure rate interacting with WASET's web (PHP) programs while submitting my paper and while submitting registration.  WASET must fix these web programs right away.
7. Conference programs should not be published as PDF files as they shape up.  Such practice is ineffective and does not engender professional respect.
8. WASET papers are published to the web at http://www.waset.org/journals/waset.  As of today, 2010-09-05, the most recently published papers are those from the April 2010 conferences at http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v64.php.  Only 8 such papers are visible with the rest labeled under construction.  Assuming WASET had published 2010 April conference CD,  it should be little or no work to also have these papers published to the web.  Likewise, there is no excuse not to publish August 2010 conference CD to the web site immediately.  Not publishing papers timely, WASET hurts its credibility and authors' visibility.

If WASET can improve to offer genuinely useful conferences, I will not hesitate to attend its other conferences in exciting cities such as Paris, Tokyo and Rome.  I wish it success.

Microsoft and I

I use very little Microsoft software.  For the last four years, my main machine is a MacBook Pro that only very occasionally runs Windows XP  on a VMWare virtual machine.  Before that, my main machine was a Dell notebook that ran Redhat Linux most of the time, and only very rarely did it boot into MS Windows for special needs such as when I was traveling in Mexico.  Most of my life,  I do not need Microsoft software.

I advise people to stay away from Microsoft.    Here is why:

• Microsoft Windows purposely leave out or play down the most powerful and most important software, viz a terminal program that lets you control your machine and other servers.     The terminal program that Microsoft operating systems offer used to be called MS-DOS, and is now called cmd.    The MS terminal program does not include a most important suite of programs that allow your PC to communicate with other machines.  I am talking about programs such as ssh, scp and sftp.   To illustrate, a straightforward way to transfer files between a PC and an iPhone would be to use scp.  True, one can install cygwin to turn a Windows PC into a Unix machine.  Or, one can install a ssh client such as PuTTY.  But this begs the question as to why Microsoft chooses not to give users the most fundamentally powerful terminal program, out of box.
• My guess is that Microsoft believes most users do not need a powerful terminal program.   Instead,  they need a word processor such as Word, a spreadsheet program such as Excel, a personal data manager such as Access, and a presentation tool such as PowerPoint.   I agree these programs can be useful.   But I find no use for Word except when a paper I publish needs to conform to the style set in a Word template.   PowerPoint has been faulted to divert people's attention from essence to trivial and flashy presentation tidbits.  See US military: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint.    I do not ever use PowerPoint even though I give many talks.  My slides are always themselves web pages such as those generated by a Google Docs presentation (Here is an example).  I do not use Access unless a client makes me.  For relational DBMS, my favorite is Postgresql.   I use Excel for very simple jobs. 
• Microsoft software has caused a lot of grief for the world.  This bullet addresses the problem caused by its client-side computing model.  This means, Microsoft's programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access save user data to the user's PC, instead of a server machine such as in the case of a Google doc.  Many years ago, my teaching assistants would keep the students work record in an Excel spreadsheet.  When I ask for it, they would email me the spreadsheet file.  I would be helpless if my TA was not responding to my requests for the Excel file, or worse if my TA had taken off vacationing in the Himalayas, thinking she had sent me the file which never arrived.  Clearly, client-side based computing makes information sharing and collaboration difficult and problematic.  Nowadays,  my TAs and I share class grades using Google spreadsheets.  I collaborate with coauthors using Google docs.    Microsoft offers similar service in its software SharePoint.  Since I do not use Microsoft software,  I have not found any use of it.   Finally, I like to mention Evernote, which as a note taking software saves user data to both the user's PC and Evernote's servers, all transparently. 
• Consider the afore-mentioned problems of Microsoft software,  you might think people will have second thoughts about Microsoft.  Here is the frightening fact that boggles the mind: Microsoft owns Taiwan   

ISO is absurd and immoralwhen it calls Taiwan a province of China

 
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) calls Taiwan a province of China in ISO 3166.  See English country names and code elements.

I consider this alone a crime against humanity, as bad as Hitler or worse (most certainly from Taiwanese point of view):

• What gives ISO the right to claim Taiwan a part of China against all historical facts and political realities?
• If Taiwan were a province of China, then it is not a country.   Why then does ISO list it as a country?
• If Taiwan were a province of Taiwan, why do people obtain visa from Taiwan, NOT China,  to go to Taiwan?  When in Taiwan, why do they use Taiwan dollars and NOT RMB?

All I ask from ISO folks is FAIRNESS!  Whatever country you are from, do you appreciate this:

Yo, Swiss, you are from a province of china. 

We Taiwanese resent ISO for its extreme insensitivity towards 23,000,000 Taiwanese.

Many of the 23,000,000 Taiwanese are devastated by this ISO 3166 madness that calls Taiwan a province of China, but they don't understand how extremely damaging ISO 3166 is.

A consequence of ISO 3166 is that tons of software have been written based on this standard.  As a result, ISO helps spreading the Chinese lie Taiwan is a province of China like wildfire.

With ISO 3166, ISO has made many angry Taiwanese write to companies asking them to stop calling Taiwan a province of China.  Most of these Taiwanese do not understand that the real culprit is ISO.   Otherwise they would have condemned ISO, instead of writing to companies that are simply using software based on ISO 3166. 

To clarify, I hereby show a response of a letter I wrote Moodle protesting its web site listing Taiwan as a province of China:

Thank you for contacting us regarding this matter.

Moodle uses the International Organization for Standardization list on moodle.org and in the software (see http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm). We do not decide what countries are included or the naming conventions. The administrator of a Moodle site can modify this list. For more information, see this thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117990

Regards,
Michael Blake
Operations Manager
Moodle.com

ISO folks, what inspiration caused you to hurt 23,000,000 Taiwanese calling Taiwan a province of China? Why don't you say:

Switzland, a province of China

 or

China, a province of Taiwan

To the latter, Taiwanese will surely protest. Because Taiwanese have no territorial ambition towards China.