So, they are considering requiring bloggers to register their surname, ID (national ID, work ID or passport), e-mail and phone number. Sounds like they want a quick way to contact you in case anything "dangerous" appears on your weblog.
This is getting a lot of press in China, especially online. You can join in the discussion in Chinese on the QQ BBS (QQ is the top website in China by some counts; an ICQ-era relic, but still going strong), which set up a special feature page with news, and editorial viewpoints for and against the measures under discussion:
http://tech.qq.com/zt/2006/blog/
I assume you're looking at this from an American point of view. In China, BBSs still rule, and wikis are still trying to catch on (cf blocking of Wikipedia by the government).
I read in a local Shanghai newspaper that students at some of the city's top universities (Fudan and Jiaotong) are forming teams to translate MIT's OpenCourse materials.
So, the barriers are at least a little lower than you expected.
> We forget so often that the chinese government isn't stupid, and maybe not even > evil. They have *reasons* for why they do what they do.
Reasons like money, power, women, inferiority complexes, etc.
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The scrolling requirement is not the hard part. When Opera came out with a mobile platform "Small Screen" version of their browser, Daniel Glazman responded by developing a simple Javascript bookmarklet for Netscape and Mozilla browsers called "PDAize that will turn almost any web page into a PDA-size version of itself, eliminating the need to scroll horizontally. It was simply a matter of applying a new stylesheet, and using Javascript to resize images. Check it out, it's pretty nifty.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get. --Samuel Goldwyn
A Perl Monks poster has collected the address of 5 different Perl(-related) advent calendars:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=810472
As he says, a "great tradition".
Taekwindow can solve that problem on Windows.
I assume you're looking at this from an American point of view. In China, BBSs still rule, and wikis are still trying to catch on (cf blocking of Wikipedia by the government).
Invent your own cultural rationale for that one.
I read in a local Shanghai newspaper that students at some of the city's top universities (Fudan and Jiaotong) are forming teams to translate MIT's OpenCourse materials.
So, the barriers are at least a little lower than you expected.
> We forget so often that the chinese government isn't stupid, and maybe not even
> evil. They have *reasons* for why they do what they do.
Reasons like money, power, women, inferiority complexes, etc.
The scrolling requirement is not the hard part. When Opera came out with a mobile platform "Small Screen" version of their browser, Daniel Glazman responded by developing a simple Javascript bookmarklet for Netscape and Mozilla browsers called "PDAize that will turn almost any web page into a PDA-size version of itself, eliminating the need to scroll horizontally. It was simply a matter of applying a new stylesheet, and using Javascript to resize images. Check it out, it's pretty nifty.
So the modus operandi is sinking to the level of your environment? Well that certainly explains Abu Ghraib.
Write a perl script to download your Blogspot archives, parse the pages and store the entries in whatever format you want, on your own media.
*I* did.
Good points. That's exactly the reason I installed Flash, to get rid of the annoying alert boxes.
Maybe the optimal solution is a combination of display:none in the userContent.css, and an unzap-embeds bookmarklet.
Taken from this thread in Mozillazine.
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At least most of the page is available for perusing on the Google cache:
s imson.net/photos/hacks/cubefire.html+site:simson.n et+next&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:oudSX-rG5cA:
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Microsoft Word replaces 1/2 with their own little symbol that is just one character. Perhaps this was lost in the font change to the web.