It's been month that I'm amazed to read/hear journalists talking about the fact that a blackberry held by the president would be a security threat. Yet NONE are highlighting the most important consequence. Hey! If it's unsecure for the president, it for sure also means that it's also unsecure for the general public? How come the Blackberry are sold on the market if that fact is widely admit? How come nobody complains about that fact? If I was a Blackberry user/owner, I'd be all but happy of my purchase...
I highly disagree on 2 points.
1- information is NOT cheaper than dirt. Crappy information is, not a valuable research and investigation from a professional journalist. That is not cheap at all, and has so much more value.
2- Google is a VERY bad example, as if you pay a lot, and have people click on your add, you can be on the "golden triangle", which means that your add will be sent as if they were "normal" result, in the first 3 answers, in order to fool the reader. IT IS interfering, and sometimes it's not even so relevant...
And here goes the Tiananmen Square google query story again...
I'm not working for the chinese gov. but...
If you type the query "Tiananmen Square" on google from China, and if you try from another place, it will all lead to the SAME EXACT RESULT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
If you didn't know, since last summer, Wikipedia is not blocked anymore in China (but who knows what is going to happen again...).
I keep reading again, and again, and again, the same crap about the google results for "Tiananmen Square" being not the same from China or from abroad. This is simply WRONG NOW, even if it might HAVE BEEN truth BEFORE. So please, do not repeat what you have read elsewhere without a bit of a check.
Also, the issue here in China is not about the google results (everybody here knows what happened, or they are really stupid), but more that it's quite difficult to build company in the Internet sector, that you need an ICP (Internet Content Provider) license only for hosting a site in China, etc. All these kind of things are, IMHO, more hurting the economy than protecting the government, and this is more the issue.
Everybody in China is well aware that there is the great firewall of China, and I can tell you that it's VERY easy for anyone that really wishes it to bypass it.
I've been living in Shanghai for more than 2 years and a half now. Since march 2006 at least (I can't tell if it was done before), the ID (passport in case of a stranger) is scanned. What's new is "only" the photo, but isn't there is a photo on passports and ID cards? What difference does it makes to take a picture more? This slashdoter "news" is a fake or what?
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It's been month that I'm amazed to read/hear journalists talking about the fact that a blackberry held by the president would be a security threat. Yet NONE are highlighting the most important consequence. Hey! If it's unsecure for the president, it for sure also means that it's also unsecure for the general public? How come the Blackberry are sold on the market if that fact is widely admit? How come nobody complains about that fact? If I was a Blackberry user/owner, I'd be all but happy of my purchase...
I highly disagree on 2 points. 1- information is NOT cheaper than dirt. Crappy information is, not a valuable research and investigation from a professional journalist. That is not cheap at all, and has so much more value. 2- Google is a VERY bad example, as if you pay a lot, and have people click on your add, you can be on the "golden triangle", which means that your add will be sent as if they were "normal" result, in the first 3 answers, in order to fool the reader. IT IS interfering, and sometimes it's not even so relevant...
gcjwebplugin is nice, but not 100% compatible with the java plugin from sun, unfortunately... Thomas
But they still don't ship a debian package for Lenny with 64 bits support, we have to get the old Java 1.4...
And here goes the Tiananmen Square google query story again... I'm not working for the chinese gov. but... If you type the query "Tiananmen Square" on google from China, and if you try from another place, it will all lead to the SAME EXACT RESULT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 If you didn't know, since last summer, Wikipedia is not blocked anymore in China (but who knows what is going to happen again...). I keep reading again, and again, and again, the same crap about the google results for "Tiananmen Square" being not the same from China or from abroad. This is simply WRONG NOW, even if it might HAVE BEEN truth BEFORE. So please, do not repeat what you have read elsewhere without a bit of a check. Also, the issue here in China is not about the google results (everybody here knows what happened, or they are really stupid), but more that it's quite difficult to build company in the Internet sector, that you need an ICP (Internet Content Provider) license only for hosting a site in China, etc. All these kind of things are, IMHO, more hurting the economy than protecting the government, and this is more the issue. Everybody in China is well aware that there is the great firewall of China, and I can tell you that it's VERY easy for anyone that really wishes it to bypass it.
I've been living in Shanghai for more than 2 years and a half now. Since march 2006 at least (I can't tell if it was done before), the ID (passport in case of a stranger) is scanned. What's new is "only" the photo, but isn't there is a photo on passports and ID cards? What difference does it makes to take a picture more? This slashdoter "news" is a fake or what?