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China Internet Users Hit Half a Billion
angry tapir writes "China's Internet population passed the half billion mark at the end of 2011 after the country added 28 million new users during the second half of the year. At the end of December, the country had 513 million Internet users, according to a report issued Monday by the China Internet Network Information Center. The number of users accessing the Internet from their mobile phones has also grown, reaching 355 million — more than the entire population of the U.S."
I dont care if there are Half a billion of you, I DONT WANT YOUR FUCKING GOLD.
Well, that's the end of China's economy.
... And they only have about 330 million IPv4 addresses. I mean, even with the abuse of large scale NAT they must be getting in serious problems.
Half a million internet users browsing the 6 sites they're allowed to visit.
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>> according to a report issued Monday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non-profit group with ties to the government.
As the article itself notes, "Analysts, however, have said the statistics provided by the CNNIC are inflated."
Like all statistical data from China, this info is likely inflated and cannot be trusted. Chinese culture considers cheating to be fine and a smart thing to do. Multiply that by the Chinese government's desire to improve its image at any cost, and you get useless numbers which have been wildly twisted to provide the desired result. It appears that this time they tried to reach that magical psychological barrier of "Half a Billion".
Still, the potential for access and communication is there. There are always ways around the filter. More people online is almost always a better thing. Filters or not, the Internet gives people access to more information and the ability to better educate themselves. This is a good thing: not as good as it could be, but still good.
And to make money farming WoW gold, but that is a side "benefit", I guess.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
This is nothing more than 500M people watching cable. The number of people who actually take an IP address and _produce_ anything with it is small. I'm not talking Web 2.0 lusers who use Chinified Facebook - I'm talking independent nodes on the global network.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Now if they would just all ping the Great Firewall of China to death at the same time, they could make history in being the first to stage, and hopefully win, an e-revolution.
If you had eyelids you would be laughing too.
WANG COMPUTERS
is also funny. Back tot he eyelid thing.
Parent, meet Captcha.
I run www.gotonicaragua.com and about 70% of our spam comes from China; the other 30% comes from Russia.
And on this site, the spam comes from Nicaragua.
We've had to blacklist both those domains flat out in order to keep the site running.
What spam ever comes from a real domain? It is always faked, so there is no point in blacklisting a domain.
That defeats robots, not hordes of cheap labor.
In other words, you've missed the point.
I vote based on politicians' actions, unless contrary to my preconceptions. Often wrong, never uncertain. #iamthe99%
S/he didn't mean website domain, but the top-level domain. I think s/he blocked all of .cn and .ru.
I vote based on politicians' actions, unless contrary to my preconceptions. Often wrong, never uncertain. #iamthe99%
Since 75% of the malicious attacks on my networks originate in China, that's half a billion people who will continue to be blocked from my retail networks. Years ago, before I started blocking them, Chinese addresses were involved in a substantial percentage of the chargebacks I received. It will be decades before anyone I know would even consider taking them seriously as a source of legitimate customers.
It would help a lot if they could manage to shut down all the illegal (and unpatched) copies of Microsoft's leaky piece-of-shit operating systems that they're running (as botnet nodes, more often than not) and replace them with Linux (they have their own distro from what I understand). Right now, Chinese visitors are about as welcome to US merchants as 10 Somalis in a speedboat are to a cargo ship off the coast of Africa.
Nothing worthwhile ever happens before noon
... you've got an audience of 500 exactly like you in China. Guaranteed.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with all your metadata.
What difference does that make? If you can fake your domain then you can make yourself appear to come from any country in the world.
... we get inundated by all sorts of racist diatribes
And as if this is not enough, those racist diatribes got modded up "Funny" !
Is this Slashdot all about, a site for racists to spew their totally incoherent diatribes ??
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Never mind the IP addresses, I wondered if they were running out of Chinese names, and found this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1554330/Too-many-Wangs-as-China-runs-out-of-names.html
There are about 50,000 unique Chinese characters, and the Chinese names are made out of the combinations of those 50,000 unique Chinese characters
On the other hand, the "West" as it is, has too many of its own "John Brown" / "Mary Smith"
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
seriously 500mil potential customers? Items drop shipped from Chinese factories at dirt cheap prices?
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Sounds like a gold mine for developers.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
half thousand million users/half milliard, if you want.
Just so that you know that it is really, really large.
...Internet users are worthless human trash with no morals.
Are you saying that the Internet users from China re "worthless human trash with no morals"?
To the Slashdot editors, how long are you guys going to tolerate this type of racist garbage?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Makes you wonder if China really needs all those American IOUs.
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If that goes on, a time will come when the US will end up w/ all of the world's IPv4 addresses, while the rest of the world has moved to IPv6. And they'll still be arguing for NAT, even though IPv6 would have by then proven that it's not necessary.
To be fair the mod system is already doing its thing and the OP was modded down into oblivion. In fact, for example, I wouldn't have even known the comment existed were it not for your post, and my browse threshold is lower than most visitors to the site are at.
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
No, the article says they "hit half a billion" this suggests they are very violent.
In China mothers don't teach that "hitting isn't nice".
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
Can't be Wong.
Yes they can:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1554330/Too-many-Wangs-as-China-runs-out-of-names.html
Please direct all positive karma to PolygamousRanchKid, he found the link above.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.