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So far it's only for people they are actively persecuting: https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...

I didn't realize we lock up hundreds of thousands without trial and "re-educate" them about their wrong thinking... And good luck going to China and posting on WeChat something critical of the Government or President Xi. Here in the US, you can protest all you want; in China if you protest the Government. They love to arrest and lock up journalists who speak out against the Government. If the same was in the US, Jim Acosta would have been in prison most of the last 24 months...

It is a well-known fact, that ethnic Chinese abroad spy for China en-masse. Some willingly, some — under coercion.

One immediate step a country could take is to treat them with increased suspicion, which in the US is both against the laws and the morals — targeting expats from a particular country is denounced (and even prosecuted) as "racial profiling" — a trait Chinese society itself does not poses.

Until we overcome this weakness against Chinese — the way we are overcoming it with the Russians, for example, our highest-tech research will remain at risk.

. . . Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
https://chinachange.org/2017/1...
https://www.sciencealert.com/c...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

China's coal consumption appears to be rising at a rapid rate in 2018, erasing several years of low growth and environmental restraint.
In the first five months of the year, China used 870 million metric tons of "thermal" coal, a 12-percent increase from a year earlier, the government's top planning agency said on June 21.
Until China quits ADDING new coal plants and refrains from using more coal, it will only go up.
The entire west, will not burn 12% less. America MIGHT burn 12% less coal (though trump is trying to reverse that), but I doubt it. We still have more coal plants to shut down first. The biggest is the navajo plant. Once that is shut down, it will drop America's coal use down some 1-2%.

Caffinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami: The gutless lying Chinese pig.
In the first five months of the year, China used 870 million metric tons of "thermal" coal, a 12-percent increase from a year earlier, the government's top planning agency said on June 21.
America continues to drop, while your nation continues to increase.

And the massive amount of solar./wind is NOTHING compared to what both Europe AND AMERICA is doing in per capita fashion. China remains at the bottom for adding that, while they are the TOP at ADDING new coal plants.

Caffinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami: The gutless lying Chinese pig.
In the first five months of the year, China used 870 million metric tons of "thermal" coal, a 12-percent increase from a year earlier, the government's top planning agency said on June 21.
America continues to drop, while your nation continues to increase.

Dateline CHINA: Interpol Chief Disappeared!

Evidently I am one of many in North America who was unaware of the status of the Interpol chief, incorrectly assuming when I heard his name that he was a Chinese-European --- and appalled to learn he was a Chinese national and member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been number man at their intelligence organization, the Ministry of Public Security!
Holy Mother of God !!!!!
And there are still fools --- and minions of the oligarchy --- who question and criticize Brexit!
The devil with those jackals!
The government of China is a vile, despicable totalitarian capitalist state full of corruption of the princelings, the spawn of the founders of the Communist Party in that country and it is obvious that the Interpol chief, Meng, was with the competitor political faction to Xi Jinping's political gang --- Xi Jinping being China's self-appointed emperor. (Jinping's daddy was the author of the original Chinese constitution which Xi amended.)
This is a most blatant and public insult from China to the EU --- suggestive of China's bellicose and warlike stance against the democracies of the world!
Let us not forget the many recent disappearances performed by China: against pro-democracy academic critics, journalists, and the wholesale disappearance of most --- if not all --- of China's human rights attorneys of several years ago!
In America, those jackals of the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute and too many other viper nests, assured us that if all the jobs, technology and investment were offshored to China they would have long since morphed into a democracy by now.
So much for the feckless self-serving assertions of jackals!
With China's program of "soft" intelligence penetration by way of their Confucius Institutes (from a decidedly anti-Confucius government) coupled with their Trojan horse of foreign property acquisition through debt warfare (their One Belt One Road (One Ruler) Initiative) --- and their militarization of artificial islands in the seas of the Pacific, especially the South China Sea, of which two-thirds of the oil shipments traverse --- their global martial strategy is evident.
Add to that their insidious implementation of an ultra-Orwellian control system: their Social Credit System, to further subvert any possibility of human rights in China and the future is obvious and cannot be disputed! Supporters of China's government spew nothing more than red dragon droppings: giant piles of crap! Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
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They just come to your house in the middle of the night and kidnap you and lie to your family why you were held in a secret prison for five years without charges. [1] [2] [3] [4] Welcome to China. This is just in the past two years. Anything you write on that WeChat, you better look behind your back.

[1] Monk held in secret prison for unknown charge for post on WeChat
[2] Man sentenced to nine months in jail for WeChat message
[3] Tsering Dondrub jailed in 2015 for posting picture on WeChat
[4] China jails muslim man for 2 year s for WeChat group

No. The only way to remember that is to read Fox.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...

And even they make pretty clear it was baseless speculation.

Szmolinsky said he suspected that his rabbits, which grow to the size of dogs and can weigh more than 22 pounds, were eaten at a birthday banquet for Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, although he emphasized that he had no evidence of this.

The North Korean Embassy in Berlin denied that the rabbits were dead. A spokesman said that they were being used for a breeding program, and had not been eaten. He added that no one at the embassy had contacted Szmolinsky.

He made an off the cuff remark, had no proof, and the "news" ran with his story, because, "lol North Korea."

Then, in 2010, more details emerged:

http://www.rfa.org/english/new...

She said the intended breeding program had run into difficulties once the German-bred outsize rabbits arrived in the isolated Stalinist state, where some sectors of the population still face malnutrition.

To ensure the successful expansion of the giant rabbit population, rabbit cross-breeding and species hybridization were needed, Lee said.

But many female rabbits failed to get pregnant, and of the rabbit kittens that were born, many were deformed, she added.

There's simply nothing that says the seed rabbits were simply eaten. They only sell for a couple hundred bucks each. If you wanted to eat them (they ARE for eating, you know) they could have bought them and eaten them. Creating a fake plan to buy 16 discounted ones just to eat them is nuts -- more than KJ-II nuts.

It is high time the world ignored NK. If NK tries to use their missiles in anger his country will be wiped off the face of the earth. He cannot even feed his army let alone sustain any type of land attack. http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/military-food-07132012175239.html Let lil Kim stamp his feet demanding attention because he has constructed a missile or two. The people will realize the failure that he is and turn on him.

Separating rare earths out of electronics waste is actually not that difficult: hit it with acid; do some basic purification first to get rid of Fe, Cu and a few other "usual suspects"; after that ion exchange chromatography does the deed.

Separating them from other stuff is easy, usually because these elements are very reactive. Separating them from each other is another, much harder task. Actually, using ion exchange chromatography I doubt you can get tonnes of chemically pure metal. You need a lot of fancy chemistry. Actually this is the most polluting part of the industrial process and one of the contributing factors to closing US and European refining plants.

Sounds plausible, but any evidence/references? Is Red Flag following the GPL? Is there evidence that the source doesn't correspond to the distributed binaries? Anything dodgy found in the source?

No evidence, apart from behaviour. Read the section on Nanchang Internet cafes in the wikipedia article on Red Flag Linux. Also see this article which implies it probably wasn't limited to that city and that the order came from high up. All Internet Cafes have been required to run Red Flag Linux, whether they previously had either pirated or genuine versions of Windows. Sure, you could argue that they just couldn't be sure of whether the "genuine" versions were really just very good illegal copies and were taking the easy way out. OK it could be crony communism where someone in RedFlag has good party connections, and the price required from the cafes would seem to support that. But why concentrate on Internet cafes? Precisely because that is how relatively anonymous access to the Internet can be achieved in China.

I would be extremely surprised if their security people didn't believe in a variation on defense in depth. The Great Firewall is one layer, but if I was trying to limit the communications abilities of "dissidents", at minimum I also would be monitoring all traffic on public Internet terminals. The USA also does this to a lesser extent in libraries, for instance. However if you were responsible for security on a totalitarian state, you wouldn't rely on Internet Cafe operators to provide you with monitoring information. You would use backdoor monitoring of the systems in question, but you wouldn't have it constantly reporting since that would be detectable. You would set it up so that you could get a dump of recent activity if you wanted to follow up on specific activity (or suspected that an Internet Cafe operator was acting as a cover for "illicit" activities by feeding you false info on the monitoring reports they were supposed to give you).

As usual, the Slashdot community will jump any distance to the conclusion that Microsoft sucks.

First, this 100 million number is ambiguous at best. One might assume that Gates included all sales in that figure, including volume licensing deals. This, however, seems to conflict with numbers that have already been published. For instance, as of October 2007, Microsoft said they sold 88 million copies of Vista, in *addition* to 42 million volume licensing purchases. See: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/26/88-million-copies-of-Vista-shipped_1.html

The 89 million number cited for XP must have included volume licensing sales as well, because Microsoft's press release regarding the sales of XP during the first year of availability explicitly states that XP sold 67 million copies on new PCs *and* via retail upgrades.

In other words, XP was sold on, at absolute most, about 50% of new PCs in 2002. It was actually probably a bit less than this because the 67 million licenses *included* upgrades.

So, if we assume that Gates was talking about the sales of Vista on new PCs (not upgrades), and we factor in the 20% quarterly sales growth that Vista sales have seen since it was released, we get about 105 million units sold. This represents about 41% of all new PCs shipped, world wide. This number doesn't even account for the holiday season's affect on sales.

In order for sales to be identical to XP, we only need for 14% of people who bought XP during the first year to have bought it as a upgrade. I would say that's a pretty reasonable hypothesis. If you don't find that to be reasonable, PCs with Vista only need to sell at about double the rate during the holiday season as they sell during the rest of the year in order for Vista to hit that 50% mark. Either way, if you mix each of these factors, it becomes very easy for the Vista sales numbers to pan out in Vista's favor.

Furthermore, I was unable to find the data that shows where all those new PC purchases were coming from. The fastest growing PC market is Asia, especially China. Studies have shown that the piracy rate in China is over 90%. We have no idea how this information affected Vista sales overall. (Although, honestly, probably not much.)

It's certainly possible that Vista sales aren't as good as XP's, but we don't have that data yet, and it's definitely not the blowout that this article suggests. The data we do have suggests that Vista sales are about the same as XP as a percentage of total PC sales.

Apparently the people in China who aren't poor are leading a huge increase in demand for American SUV's and stretched hummers. (Details: http://www.rfa.org/english/features/lelyveld/2007/01/22/china_wealthgap/)

Ah, you've met George Rupp, then? Good to know he's still alive and well.

I read about this from a Digg post and noticed that these events weren't exactly new - but the recent exposure here in the US has brought it to our attention.

Li Datong, the author of the memo (I can't help but be reminded of Jerry Maguire), was basically fired for this.

"They are being transferred to work in the paper's news research department, which they jokingly referred to in their letter as 'the warehouse.'"

from "Radio Free Asia"

i think, in situations like this, business has an opportunity to change the world more than governments. but everyone seems to bow to the pressure.

Would the "green"/"sustainable"/"quality of life" innovations of living in this city happen to include not being beaten when taken into police custody?

Just curious...

...I've been learning the use (though not the spelling) of abacus and slide rule - true archaotech. Slide rules are likely to go the way of the dodo Real Soon Now (TM). As a math nerd, I'm also learning the theory - I can build one better than I can use one. A computerized emulator (ironic, no?) is available at: http://www.techweb.rfa.org/index.php?option=conten t&task=view&id=86&Itemid=114&limit=1&limitstart=3

I've done duty occasionally as an accountant/treasurer for various organizations, as well as property manager/stockist for several businesses. Bean counters have always been in demand.

I've done a fair trade on e-bay selling painted tabletop miniatures (toy soldiers). I'm pretty sure working full time I could have gotten on as an artisan - pottery decoration? illuminator?

Last but not least, I can carry a tune on about four or five woodwinds (sax, flute, recorder, tin whistle, little bit of clarinet). I'm not sure if I could've made it as an itinerant musician (maybe associated with a theater troupe), but it almost certainly would've appealed more than scratch farming.

All taken together, I'd bet on bean counter, though maybe travelling merchant..

LOL! http://www.freetibet.org/ http://www.rfa.org/english/news/social/2005/04/08/ asia_pope/ http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?i d=6974&eng=y http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book79m.htm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/04/11/china10447. htm http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1564 321029/002-8728960-6939207?v=glance And I suppose all of these links are propaganda and lies? and why have a picture of mao? http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/C hina/chinaonmao1981new.htm Nice troll though..

Libraries in the US are getting closer to censorship than ever. Take for example this new Alabama Bill targeting Gay Authors from an elected Republican representative in the state legislature, Gerald "book-burying " Allen. Consider other minor incidents like the New Mexico Book burning party . Can you spot a trend?

Google already succumbed to China censorship pressures. Would they resist censorship pressures from the Christian right, inside the US? Yea, right, just like Microsoft did .

Don't fool yourself, folks. US companies are no longer a reliable for such a task. If Google is allow t create another de facto monopoly in Library Search, we risk gay books, Evolution volumes or the freaking Harry Potter adventures disappearing anytime now.
Let me ask you, who's going to preserve Western Culture heritage if the US completes it's path towards fascism bushflash.com/14.html? India!? The Chinese!!? Well, apparently it's going to be the French. Good for them.

Libraries in the US are getting closer to censorship than ever. Take for example this new Alabama Bill targeting Gay Authors http://gay.com/gay http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/26/eveningn ews/main691106.shtml from an elected Republican representative in the state legislature, Gerald "book-burying " Allen http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11 710,1369643,00.html Consider some 'minor incidents' like New Mexico Book burning party http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,10 761,626418,00.html Google is a US company, who already succumbed to China censorship pressures http://www.rfa.org/english/news/technology/2004/08 /01/142626/. Would they resist censorship pressures from the Christian right? Yea, right, just like Microsoft did http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 21/162247. Don't fool yourself, folks. US companies are no longer a reliable for such a task. If Google is allow t create another de facto monopoly in Library Search, we risk gay books, Evolution volumes or the freaking Harry Potter adventures disappearing anytime now. Let me ask you, who's going to preserve Western Culture heritage if the US completes it's path towards fascism bushflash.com/14.html? India!? The Chinese!!? Well, apparently it's going to be the French. Good for them.

Unfortunately, Beijing has often jammed the signal. This new antenna technology may be a good way for the Tibetans to evade jamming. How can we build a special radio that uses a miniature antenna array?

No, WAV (in the form it is extracted from an audio compact disc) is uncompressed. Q.v. the specs. WAV is indeed lossless since it actually contains the real sample data for 16-bit, 44.1kHz pulse code modulated (PCM) wave forms. There are codecs that use the overall RIFF format to propagate compressed audio, but the RIFF/WAV from a CD itself is not. Note also the math, 44100*60*2*2 for a minute of 16-bit, or 2-byte, CD samples in stereo. The extra bytes in a minute of RIFF/WAV data are overhead demanded by the RIFF format.

If you want to help with the internet, I think setting up some type of proxy server would probably be your best bet. Tunneling, encrypted, etc, it'd be convenient. There used to be a service at CND that let you type in URLs like http://proxy.cnd.org/www.cnn.com and it'd give you cnn. Good stuff.