"Americans and French" "worked up" about "the intrusion of foreign languages"?
I'm looking up and down this whole thread and I don't see any evidence of what you're saying. Or maybe you're just anti-American/French and are projecting your own opinions onto others?
Besides, language is about communication. It doesn't matter how it gets done, just that it gets done. Sure the world has hundreds of languages around, but in today's world, english is the common language that binds the world together. If that hurts some people's egos, well then tough luck. Go ahead and try speaking insisting in speaking Thai in, say Africa and see how far that gets you.
I've had first-hand experience with CCNIC that ought to put things into perspective. I registered a domain name at Godaddy, and also registered a couple of DNS servers. Use of these registered DNS servers worked flawlessly, until I had to set them for Chinese clients who had registered their domains via net.cn. They were unable to set these DNS servers because the system kept telling them the DNS servers were invalid. Upon calling net.cn's tech support, the client was told to talk to CNNIC.
So, I spoke to CNNIC on behalf of the client, and was basically told to go talk to Godaddy, and that Godaddy would contact CNNIC and know what to do. I thought this was odd, but sent a support ticket to Godaddy. They confirmed that the DNS servers in question had absolutely no problems and I was even sent a link verifying this over at ICANN, which is an internationally accepted organization for domain names.
I tried CNNIC again and told them that my DNS servers were valid and registered, even recognized by ICANN. I was rebuffed and basically told to go talk to Godaddy again. A few rounds of this with various people resulted in absoF*kinglutely no results. I think Godaddy is right in this case. There's nobody to talk to. The DNS servers are in-fact valid.
What I was told instead, was to go to net.cn and purchase another domain name from there, then pay 10RMB per DNS server for that new domain. I ended up having to do exactly that, to solve this problem.
After this ordeal, I am certain that CNNIC is in fact as evil as they come. They don't care about international standards, just what their omnipotent bosses tell to to do.
These hosting space providers are a dime a dozen. A more interesting type is something like Topcities, which offers free application hosting with lots of free templates for Joomla, wordpress, phpbb, etc.
One is a worm that's released in the wild whose sole purpose is to find and clean infected/vulnerable computers, and then throw huge warning signs at them. If the same machine is re-infected X times within a year, the worm just shuts the computer off. A Robin-Hood worm of sorts. Illegal just like Batman, but hell, if it does the internet some good, why not. If they don't do it, the vulnerable hosts don't just disappear. Instead, they just sit there waiting for real hackers to exploit them. Or, if they're already compromised, they can only do harm anyway.
The other solution is tough love. Get caught with a compromised machine, your internet connection is shut off automatically, until you can prove that you've fixed the vulnerability. But of course, the ISPs won't wanna do this voluntarily. After all, this would affect their profits...
That's the total opposite of what the average Chinese citizen has been taught to believe. To them, it's perfectly ok to give up one's rights in order to have order in society. When you ask them for their thoughts about freedom of speech, the overwhelming response is that the Chinese aren't ready for that yet, because too many people still lack the integrity/education/manners/state of mind to be able to handle such a thing.
Imagine that... telling yourself that your people are sub-par human beings not worthy of a voice.
Um I don't think so. I've been those forums. If you write anything critical and have facts to back it up, often times it'll be closed/deleted. Just because someone is able to voice their opinion for a few minutes doesn't mean it will stick.
There indeed is a lot of censorship. When was the last time you heard the media criticize the government? Like never. And what does 99% of the people see? Internet forum postings or television/newspaper?
So to say that China is "almost" as free as other democratic countries is just as ludicrous as saying a mouse is as big as an elephant.
What people have to realize is that rather than just talk, we need to start taking action in moving away from ebay, even if it's only one bit at a time.
One way is to separate out your reputation/feedback from any one shopping system. vBuddy.com/netputation is one such site. Your reputation is linked to your email address, meaning you can now use it anywhere. For instance, if you buy something from someone using an online forum, you can check the buyer's reputation by searching for their email address on vBuddy.com.
Then you can request that they put their reputation on the line by creating a feedback transaction through vbuddy. The seller gets an email requesting approval. Once they approve, the transaction feedback request is authenticated and starts. From this moment on both parties can start leaving feedback for each other. So, if they screw up, everyone will know.
That really doesn't matter when planes in China are routinely hours late. Next time you're at the aiport, look around you, most times you will see some angry customers arguing with the airline counter people regarding their delayed flights.
They were tossed back to the stone age by the great Mao and his ludicrous communist experiments on the people. Japan was bombed to the Jurassic. Korea was split into North and South. Taiwan had to start over after the Japanese were kicked off and the ROC started from scratch.
So basically everybody started from scratch. 30 years later you see Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea flourish, while mainland China enjoyed the great leap BACKWARD to the stone ages.
And no the West didn't leave them to rot. The capitalist ROC (the original Chinese government, which relocated to Taiwan) always had the support of the West. Prior to being defeated, the U.S. offered help to them, to fight the communists.
This is all a bunch of crap. If their goal is to make sure an artists doesn't lose his copyright while still alive, why not just have it say, "a copyright expire when the artist that created it dies"?
But of course we know that's not their goal. Their goal is to extend it out as far as they can, so royalties can go on as far as possible.
Back in 1997 or so I remember going to a computer lab and a TA warned us not to type an extra "h" in yahoo.com (yahoo.com). That site actually made the news because it offered up porn for people who mis-typed.
The guy was threatened and sued I believe. He even made the news... Anyways I think the owner succumbed and let the domain lapse.
That's when I found it and registered it for fun. I remember setting up a catch-all email address, and would get thousands of emails (back during when spam wasn't that bad yet). It was interesting reading love letters, business proposals, nude pics, etc...
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Mr. Goatse hasn't been seen on /. in YEARS...
"Americans and French" "worked up" about "the intrusion of foreign languages"?
I'm looking up and down this whole thread and I don't see any evidence of what you're saying. Or maybe you're just anti-American/French and are projecting your own opinions onto others?
Besides, language is about communication. It doesn't matter how it gets done, just that it gets done. Sure the world has hundreds of languages around, but in today's world, english is the common language that binds the world together. If that hurts some people's egos, well then tough luck. Go ahead and try speaking insisting in speaking Thai in, say Africa and see how far that gets you.
Do you want him to eat his hat now, or later?
Fuck Britain :D
I get to say it again...
Fuck Britain!
Fuck Britain
Fuck Britain...
FBI is looking through the /. logs for your IP right about now.
BFF, how cute...
I've had first-hand experience with CCNIC that ought to put things into perspective. I registered a domain name at Godaddy, and also registered a couple of DNS servers. Use of these registered DNS servers worked flawlessly, until I had to set them for Chinese clients who had registered their domains via net.cn. They were unable to set these DNS servers because the system kept telling them the DNS servers were invalid. Upon calling net.cn's tech support, the client was told to talk to CNNIC.
So, I spoke to CNNIC on behalf of the client, and was basically told to go talk to Godaddy, and that Godaddy would contact CNNIC and know what to do. I thought this was odd, but sent a support ticket to Godaddy. They confirmed that the DNS servers in question had absolutely no problems and I was even sent a link verifying this over at ICANN, which is an internationally accepted organization for domain names.
I tried CNNIC again and told them that my DNS servers were valid and registered, even recognized by ICANN. I was rebuffed and basically told to go talk to Godaddy again. A few rounds of this with various people resulted in absoF*kinglutely no results. I think Godaddy is right in this case. There's nobody to talk to. The DNS servers are in-fact valid.
What I was told instead, was to go to net.cn and purchase another domain name from there, then pay 10RMB per DNS server for that new domain. I ended up having to do exactly that, to solve this problem.
After this ordeal, I am certain that CNNIC is in fact as evil as they come. They don't care about international standards, just what their omnipotent bosses tell to to do.
Alright, here's a little secret for all of you:
Everyone dies, once.
I rather live enjoying my time on my seat and sofa than force myself to write emails standing up.
These hosting space providers are a dime a dozen. A more interesting type is something like Topcities, which offers free application hosting with lots of free templates for Joomla, wordpress, phpbb, etc.
I see two potential solutions...
One is a worm that's released in the wild whose sole purpose is to find and clean infected/vulnerable computers, and then throw huge warning signs at them. If the same machine is re-infected X times within a year, the worm just shuts the computer off. A Robin-Hood worm of sorts. Illegal just like Batman, but hell, if it does the internet some good, why not. If they don't do it, the vulnerable hosts don't just disappear. Instead, they just sit there waiting for real hackers to exploit them. Or, if they're already compromised, they can only do harm anyway.
The other solution is tough love. Get caught with a compromised machine, your internet connection is shut off automatically, until you can prove that you've fixed the vulnerability. But of course, the ISPs won't wanna do this voluntarily. After all, this would affect their profits...
That's the total opposite of what the average Chinese citizen has been taught to believe. To them, it's perfectly ok to give up one's rights in order to have order in society. When you ask them for their thoughts about freedom of speech, the overwhelming response is that the Chinese aren't ready for that yet, because too many people still lack the integrity/education/manners/state of mind to be able to handle such a thing.
Imagine that... telling yourself that your people are sub-par human beings not worthy of a voice.
Um I don't think so. I've been those forums. If you write anything critical and have facts to back it up, often times it'll be closed/deleted. Just because someone is able to voice their opinion for a few minutes doesn't mean it will stick.
There indeed is a lot of censorship. When was the last time you heard the media criticize the government? Like never. And what does 99% of the people see? Internet forum postings or television/newspaper?
So to say that China is "almost" as free as other democratic countries is just as ludicrous as saying a mouse is as big as an elephant.
What people have to realize is that rather than just talk, we need to start taking action in moving away from ebay, even if it's only one bit at a time.
One way is to separate out your reputation/feedback from any one shopping system. vBuddy.com/netputation is one such site. Your reputation is linked to your email address, meaning you can now use it anywhere. For instance, if you buy something from someone using an online forum, you can check the buyer's reputation by searching for their email address on vBuddy.com.
Then you can request that they put their reputation on the line by creating a feedback transaction through vbuddy. The seller gets an email requesting approval. Once they approve, the transaction feedback request is authenticated and starts. From this moment on both parties can start leaving feedback for each other. So, if they screw up, everyone will know.
It's time to take back control.
That only happens when we talk about China.
The real question on everybody's mind is...
When will we see 3D porn in theaters?
The youtube incident and the subsequent outrage... you're suggesting it was a propaganda piece by the U.S. government?
Not everything is goverment-planned.
That really doesn't matter when planes in China are routinely hours late. Next time you're at the aiport, look around you, most times you will see some angry customers arguing with the airline counter people regarding their delayed flights.
Oh I know, sue the creators of the internet?
They were tossed back to the stone age by the great Mao and his ludicrous communist experiments on the people. Japan was bombed to the Jurassic. Korea was split into North and South. Taiwan had to start over after the Japanese were kicked off and the ROC started from scratch.
So basically everybody started from scratch. 30 years later you see Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea flourish, while mainland China enjoyed the great leap BACKWARD to the stone ages.
And no the West didn't leave them to rot. The capitalist ROC (the original Chinese government, which relocated to Taiwan) always had the support of the West. Prior to being defeated, the U.S. offered help to them, to fight the communists.
Your arguments are stupid.
This is all a bunch of crap. If their goal is to make sure an artists doesn't lose his copyright while still alive, why not just have it say, "a copyright expire when the artist that created it dies"?
But of course we know that's not their goal. Their goal is to extend it out as far as they can, so royalties can go on as far as possible.
I think you have mainland China and Taiwan mixed up.
Back in 1997 or so I remember going to a computer lab and a TA warned us not to type an extra "h" in yahoo.com (yahoo.com). That site actually made the news because it offered up porn for people who mis-typed.
The guy was threatened and sued I believe. He even made the news... Anyways I think the owner succumbed and let the domain lapse.
That's when I found it and registered it for fun. I remember setting up a catch-all email address, and would get thousands of emails (back during when spam wasn't that bad yet). It was interesting reading love letters, business proposals, nude pics, etc...
But then it got old, so I let it lapse too.