while its useful to know those can be possible exploits, i noticed that with the first "bug", if you keep the mouse over original link for 8 seconds, the same dialog window will pop-up... no need to be looking at the tabbed window...
as for the 2nd vulnerability, all my tabs are mis-behaving when i have the citi page open, so that's just a silly thing...
regardless, nice to know someone's keeping an eye out...
why not just have a built-in iPod? extra $300 to a $7.5k camera body gives extra battery for emergency, 20gb of shared storage for mp3 and those huge pics, and everything else...
99.9999999% implies that only 6 people are competent enough to secure a mail server, and I'm guessing you consider yourself to be one of them... that's a pretty scary claim.
Even though the political environment in China isn't exactly favorable, at least its perceived to be stable, compared to India... Just look at the recent election in India... In addition, China's only lagged to the level of India mostly due to the Cultural Revolution...but if you examine the wave of immigrants from PRC to the US around the late 80s and early 90s, most of them are either running their own company or at least an assistant professor at a university. (or the stinking rich ones from the china's economy boom, but that's different) In comparison, as a percentage, the Chinese have a huge lead over Indians in various high-tech sectors minus semiconductor related (ie Biotech, pharma, etc)
First, the Chinese government recognizes the problem. Doesn't mean there will be a solution soon, but its at least recognized. I think its something that can be turned around in 30-50 years time, just have to have the right person to do it. (In fact, I had a long discussion with my father about it recently, and I'm personally very interested... just need to learn more about the agricultural field)
Second, banking system went through MAJOR reforms among other things. Hundreads of billions of USD were injected into the 4 major banks to write off bad loans, and for the first time, Bankruptcy laws and personal loans are allowed and taking off like crazy so that the bad loans will be repaid as much as possible
Third, the energy crisis is overstated. 60% efficiency was the operational efficiency of most foreignlly invested plants back in the late 90s (around '99). The problem isn't lacking of energy as a whole, but rather routing power to the general public. Combined with the nuclear plant strategy (Clinton and Jiang's agreement, China stop selling Nukes to Iran and other countries, US aid China in nuclear power), China's problem isn't as big as some make it out to be
Fourth, the poor people and everyone and their cat knows how corrupted the government is, but at least the poor people have no way to organize. In all 5000 years of Chinese history and 8 major empires, none except arguably the Ming was formed by pesant revolt, and that's due to the fact that Yuan wasn't a Han government. It simply won't happen.
Fifth, China is too entrenched in WTO and other capitalistic reforms to nationalize those investments. The greatest legacy of the Jiang administration was the WTO bit, which probably came closest to a revolution because most didn't and still don't recognize the long term impact of it. Jiang's biggest achievement was to use Zhu as Preimer, who will go down in Chinese history books to be one of the greatest leaders of China (along with Zhou, Deng, and Mao...)
China is a rapidly changing place, and the speed of evolution is WAY too fast for most people to keep up. Until China's wings gets strong enough, which will be heavily dependent on Korea, HK, and Taiwan's technological advancements, we will infact get rid of the westerners...
Maybe then, the general population of the US will realize how important higher education is and actually *gasp* try to learn something!!! There's a reason why 20-40% of the student body at the top rated and general universities are Asian when they only consititute ~5% of the US population as a whole. It's the fundamental building block of the Asian society.
Once again, as I've had to explain to just about every white person, 1989 isn't about students protesting democracy, its abut an internal political struggle much like the cultural revolution, and the students were merely pawns of the game.
Thinking about this new trend a bit, it brings an interesting point...
Much of the loans and most of the bad loans (rest of the bad loans are probably due to corruption) are tied up in real-estate over-investment back in the 90s. So, with a crazy-lending policy, people can finally afford the over-developed houses, which in turn allow the bank's bad-debt to be paid back, and will be able to collect from "everyone else who received the loan" over the next couple of decades... I guess that's a good effort by the government, but considering the first set of bankruptcy laws were instated in China this year, it'll be a while before the system is fully mature. The other interesting thing to keep in mind is that that court system is totally different than here...I haven't really done my research on it, but most often, I see a tribunal, and its a tool of the government rather than a balance of power. So more reasons to wait and see...
Reading things on paper from a foreign perspective is very different than living in the environment and knowing all the details of it all.
CCs don't exist, only debit cards. Personal loans are not something a Joe Shmoe can walk into the bank and get.
China is pushing for lending because its trying to artificially create economic expansion, but at the same time, the parent banks that own the tiger banks that provides these loans are already leveraged to a ridiciulous amount (85% ~= 566 in terms of leveraging...back in 1997, Korea's Samsung was at 473 in leveraging and it was bad enough to cause a huge crash). How did they manage to avoid crashing into oblivion? multiple-hundread-billion dollars of injection from the government. This in turn put the government in more debt, and there'll be a lot of other follow up problems in the long term.
I recommend you talk to some young FOBs (fresh off the boat) from preferably Shanghai, and you'll realize how much of the Chinese economy is a bubble waiting to burst, and why so many companies stayed on the sidelines after millions of dollars of initial investment in the 90s. (and why so many lost all their apples on the Chinese market)
I was raised in Beijing, and go back there often enough, fyi. It is you who do not realize the full range of problem with the Chinese market itself. I recommend that you read afew books first on the market conditions of China before touting bs.
that shows how much you understand the Chinese society...
here: $10k/mo of income = $10k/mo of expense china: $1k/mo of income = minimal expense, maximal savings... especially considering there are no such things as credit cards, personal loans (in the US sense), and various other things people here take for granted
how else do you get a savings rate of 70% and a banking system that's so corrupt but didn't faulter yet?
the market in terms of population will be comparable to that of US, but in terms of income, it's 10% if not less that of the US. A highly paid engineer in Shanghai is worth approximately US$1k/mo compared to around US$10k/mo here... so you do the math on the actual market size.
haha, you have no clue on the Chinese market... are you aware the difference between A shares and B shares? are you aware of the upwards of 70-80% of the loans the Chinese banks made were faulty? Sina didn't drop to $1/share for no reason...
"Why make something for the rest of the world work for China, when they could develop something that works for China and not care what the rest of the world does?"
Because the Chinese market is not big enough to justify the cost? 80+% of the population are tied up in agriculture, which makes the none-agriculture population comparable to the US... but given the significantly lower living standards, its not very fesible to "develop something that works for China", at least in the near future, and in the profit driven environment, it's not an attractive investment.
I've been doing a lot of research on China's economy for an investment essay recently, and the biggest question that comes to mind is how will they fund such an expensive project? with 50+% of the outstand loans being bad, substantially underfunded retirement fund (in terms of % GDP, it's 25% of social security reserve here in the US, and everyone here's crying bloody murder already), 55 yr old retirement age, and pretty much a big failure in power company investment in the late '90s, you gotta wonder, WHY?!?!?
buy a motorola data cable on ebay for $1 + shipping, find the appropriate firmware, flex, and programs in various european forums, and flash. I flashed my V600 easily, don't see why V710 would be any different.
for $100 extra, i bought a MyHD120 w/DVI daughter card, and must say that except the software interface, I've been VERY happy with it... not impressed by Fusion or ATI...
Okay, I'm a little confused... ever since elementary school, I was taught that the primary colors are Yellow, Blue, and Red. I guess since you can add Blue and Yellow to get green, you can subtract the 2 to derive yellow....but it just bothers me that my concept of primary colors are different from the new definition... is there a technical reason to use Green over Yellow?
2. The press reports that there are not enough workers in a particular industry...Both of those items imply a higher salary.
If that were true, Biotech would pay much higher than it does now. Instead, a Ph.D. and 4 years of Post-Doc experience fetches maybe the same if not less than a BSEE.
Much of it has to do with how close to the market the particular industry really is. Chem gets a lot of stocks (and good pay) to work at pharmas but much less so in Academia.
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while its useful to know those can be possible exploits, i noticed that with the first "bug", if you keep the mouse over original link for 8 seconds, the same dialog window will pop-up... no need to be looking at the tabbed window...
as for the 2nd vulnerability, all my tabs are mis-behaving when i have the citi page open, so that's just a silly thing...
regardless, nice to know someone's keeping an eye out...
why not just have a built-in iPod? extra $300 to a $7.5k camera body gives extra battery for emergency, 20gb of shared storage for mp3 and those huge pics, and everything else...
99.9999999% implies that only 6 people are competent enough to secure a mail server, and I'm guessing you consider yourself to be one of them... that's a pretty scary claim.
China's PPP GDP is maybe around US$6T, second to the US, but real GDP is only around US$1.2T, seventh in the world as of 2003.
Even though the political environment in China isn't exactly favorable, at least its perceived to be stable, compared to India... Just look at the recent election in India... In addition, China's only lagged to the level of India mostly due to the Cultural Revolution...but if you examine the wave of immigrants from PRC to the US around the late 80s and early 90s, most of them are either running their own company or at least an assistant professor at a university. (or the stinking rich ones from the china's economy boom, but that's different) In comparison, as a percentage, the Chinese have a huge lead over Indians in various high-tech sectors minus semiconductor related (ie Biotech, pharma, etc)
First, the Chinese government recognizes the problem. Doesn't mean there will be a solution soon, but its at least recognized. I think its something that can be turned around in 30-50 years time, just have to have the right person to do it. (In fact, I had a long discussion with my father about it recently, and I'm personally very interested... just need to learn more about the agricultural field)
Second, banking system went through MAJOR reforms among other things. Hundreads of billions of USD were injected into the 4 major banks to write off bad loans, and for the first time, Bankruptcy laws and personal loans are allowed and taking off like crazy so that the bad loans will be repaid as much as possible
Third, the energy crisis is overstated. 60% efficiency was the operational efficiency of most foreignlly invested plants back in the late 90s (around '99). The problem isn't lacking of energy as a whole, but rather routing power to the general public. Combined with the nuclear plant strategy (Clinton and Jiang's agreement, China stop selling Nukes to Iran and other countries, US aid China in nuclear power), China's problem isn't as big as some make it out to be
Fourth, the poor people and everyone and their cat knows how corrupted the government is, but at least the poor people have no way to organize. In all 5000 years of Chinese history and 8 major empires, none except arguably the Ming was formed by pesant revolt, and that's due to the fact that Yuan wasn't a Han government. It simply won't happen.
Fifth, China is too entrenched in WTO and other capitalistic reforms to nationalize those investments. The greatest legacy of the Jiang administration was the WTO bit, which probably came closest to a revolution because most didn't and still don't recognize the long term impact of it. Jiang's biggest achievement was to use Zhu as Preimer, who will go down in Chinese history books to be one of the greatest leaders of China (along with Zhou, Deng, and Mao...)
China is a rapidly changing place, and the speed of evolution is WAY too fast for most people to keep up. Until China's wings gets strong enough, which will be heavily dependent on Korea, HK, and Taiwan's technological advancements, we will infact get rid of the westerners...
Maybe then, the general population of the US will realize how important higher education is and actually *gasp* try to learn something!!! There's a reason why 20-40% of the student body at the top rated and general universities are Asian when they only consititute ~5% of the US population as a whole. It's the fundamental building block of the Asian society.
Once again, as I've had to explain to just about every white person, 1989 isn't about students protesting democracy, its abut an internal political struggle much like the cultural revolution, and the students were merely pawns of the game.
Thinking about this new trend a bit, it brings an interesting point...
Much of the loans and most of the bad loans (rest of the bad loans are probably due to corruption) are tied up in real-estate over-investment back in the 90s. So, with a crazy-lending policy, people can finally afford the over-developed houses, which in turn allow the bank's bad-debt to be paid back, and will be able to collect from "everyone else who received the loan" over the next couple of decades... I guess that's a good effort by the government, but considering the first set of bankruptcy laws were instated in China this year, it'll be a while before the system is fully mature. The other interesting thing to keep in mind is that that court system is totally different than here...I haven't really done my research on it, but most often, I see a tribunal, and its a tool of the government rather than a balance of power. So more reasons to wait and see...
Reading things on paper from a foreign perspective is very different than living in the environment and knowing all the details of it all.
CCs don't exist, only debit cards.
Personal loans are not something a Joe Shmoe can walk into the bank and get.
China is pushing for lending because its trying to artificially create economic expansion, but at the same time, the parent banks that own the tiger banks that provides these loans are already leveraged to a ridiciulous amount (85% ~= 566 in terms of leveraging...back in 1997, Korea's Samsung was at 473 in leveraging and it was bad enough to cause a huge crash). How did they manage to avoid crashing into oblivion? multiple-hundread-billion dollars of injection from the government. This in turn put the government in more debt, and there'll be a lot of other follow up problems in the long term.
I recommend you talk to some young FOBs (fresh off the boat) from preferably Shanghai, and you'll realize how much of the Chinese economy is a bubble waiting to burst, and why so many companies stayed on the sidelines after millions of dollars of initial investment in the 90s. (and why so many lost all their apples on the Chinese market)
I was raised in Beijing, and go back there often enough, fyi. It is you who do not realize the full range of problem with the Chinese market itself. I recommend that you read afew books first on the market conditions of China before touting bs.
that shows how much you understand the Chinese society...
here: $10k/mo of income = $10k/mo of expense
china: $1k/mo of income = minimal expense, maximal savings... especially considering there are no such things as credit cards, personal loans (in the US sense), and various other things people here take for granted
how else do you get a savings rate of 70% and a banking system that's so corrupt but didn't faulter yet?
the market in terms of population will be comparable to that of US, but in terms of income, it's 10% if not less that of the US. A highly paid engineer in Shanghai is worth approximately US$1k/mo compared to around US$10k/mo here... so you do the math on the actual market size.
haha, you have no clue on the Chinese market... are you aware the difference between A shares and B shares? are you aware of the upwards of 70-80% of the loans the Chinese banks made were faulty? Sina didn't drop to $1/share for no reason...
"Why make something for the rest of the world work for China, when they could develop something that works for China and not care what the rest of the world does?"
Because the Chinese market is not big enough to justify the cost? 80+% of the population are tied up in agriculture, which makes the none-agriculture population comparable to the US... but given the significantly lower living standards, its not very fesible to "develop something that works for China", at least in the near future, and in the profit driven environment, it's not an attractive investment.
with the government pushing for Linux, how much impact will Microsoft really have on the Chinese market? That's a more relevant question.
According to the article, they'll need to xfer 15PB of data in a year...let's see...
6.63Gbps = 0.82875GB/s * 3600s/h * 24 h/d * 365 d/yr / 1024 GB/TB / 1024 TB/PB = 24.9PB/yr
In other words, they'll have to run at ~60% capacity sustained, which is pretty insane...
use RAID01 or RAID10 with 10,000RPM IDE might help...
I've been doing a lot of research on China's economy for an investment essay recently, and the biggest question that comes to mind is how will they fund such an expensive project? with 50+% of the outstand loans being bad, substantially underfunded retirement fund (in terms of % GDP, it's 25% of social security reserve here in the US, and everyone here's crying bloody murder already), 55 yr old retirement age, and pretty much a big failure in power company investment in the late '90s, you gotta wonder, WHY?!?!?
buy a motorola data cable on ebay for $1 + shipping, find the appropriate firmware, flex, and programs in various european forums, and flash. I flashed my V600 easily, don't see why V710 would be any different.
for $100 extra, i bought a MyHD120 w/DVI daughter card, and must say that except the software interface, I've been VERY happy with it... not impressed by Fusion or ATI...
this is where Blue-Lazer p0rn rips over p2p comes into play :-D
Okay, I'm a little confused... ever since elementary school, I was taught that the primary colors are Yellow, Blue, and Red. I guess since you can add Blue and Yellow to get green, you can subtract the 2 to derive yellow....but it just bothers me that my concept of primary colors are different from the new definition... is there a technical reason to use Green over Yellow?
2. The press reports that there are not enough workers in a particular industry...Both of those items imply a higher salary.
If that were true, Biotech would pay much higher than it does now. Instead, a Ph.D. and 4 years of Post-Doc experience fetches maybe the same if not less than a BSEE.
Much of it has to do with how close to the market the particular industry really is. Chem gets a lot of stocks (and good pay) to work at pharmas but much less so in Academia.
Nice to know that us Caltech grads are making useful contributions to the world (not just when it comes to earthquakes and JPL) :-)