I've met some nontechnical (not at all CS, use Windows, though use computers for a living) 20- and 30-somethings in China -- they all know how to get around the Great Firewall, or at least know somebody who knows how to get around it. It's not something they worry much about, as long as they aren't generating politically sensitive content themselves. I haven't met any of the latter people.
A lot of the smog in Beijing proper is from neighboring provinces. It's going to take longer to clean all those up. Beijing has done a great job, considering the immensity of the task and the rather large potential for corruption to hinder it.
Actually, old statues and posters of Mao sell quite well in China nowadays as kitchy half-ironic antiques, so I imagine a "Mao says buy bus passes" ad campaign could succeed.
I recall that the folks who are optimizing Linux for the Asus Eee and other "netbooks" have gotten a version of init working that does exactly what the above comments said BeOS did: defer most initialization until after the OS finishes launching.
I'm curious why the questions express so much aggression towards China (e.g., suggesting blowing up the Three Gorges Dam as part of a military strike). Are we being groomed to consider China an enemy rather than just an economic competitor?
The only explicit war of aggression that Chinese have carried out was the Sino-Vietnamese War:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
which all the Chinese people I've met acknowledge as an utter disaster, even more so than the U.S.'s war with Vietnam. Unlike the U.S., the PRC learned from only one example how difficult it can be to invade and occupy a foreign country.
Are fear, ignorance, and jealousy sufficient reasons to justify engendering an arms race between us and a people who really aren't interested in fighting us?
As I understood it, a fair bit of compiler optimization is already categorized as AI. The summary should probably point out that the AI implemented here is learning AI, which is far more meaningful.
*nods* I'd characterize this as "autotuning" rather than AI. You can tell because they cite autotuning libraries projects, e.g., the ATLAS project (see the last citation in the paper). They do some statistical machine learning, but it would be a stretch to call that "AI."
You're totally right. They aren't communist. What they are is fascist. We Godwin here a bit fast, don't we?;-)
Seriously, the Chinese federal government has done way more good in terms of disaster relief than the U.S. gov't has EVER done in most of our lifetimes. Corruption and abuse always happen at middle levels of government in any country (remember the FEMA trailers?), and we Americans tend to send our soldiers to faraway places to kill foreign people, rather than keeping them home to deal with disasters.
Despite all the fearmongering ("zomg chinese hackers!!!1!!one!"), legitimate or otherwise, about China as a source of threats, the U.S. and China have a lot of cybersecurity concerns in common. They both worry about cyberterrorism (from a common subset of sources), and increasingly rely on electronic infrastructure in their government operations. The U.S. has a direct interest in helping China's military secure their systems, so as to avoid rogue crackers making off with nukes or other dangerous equipment, and also to avoid confusing a rogue botnet attack with a government-sanctioned attack. Furthermore, especially in mid-level and local operations, the Chinese tend to use less secure operating systems (such as unpatched old versions of Windows), which puts them at a greater risk of compromise.
Does the U.S. military have an interest in joint training or other kinds of joint operations with the Chinese military? What are ways in which the two countries' armed forces can cooperate in the cyber arena, without either side giving up its treasured secrets?
I think BananaPeel was the first to notice that the entertainment sites are actually up, but they have a subdued black-and-white background due to the declared three days of national mourning. Maybe you should find a Chinese-reading friend to check on such things before you post hate-mongering rumors.
The Chinese news agencies have been quite open and forthright about the tremendous destruction and loss of life due to the quake. CCTV and Xinhua are full of news and there was even cell phone camera footage on CCTV.
Hey, don't diss him! I can personally attest to his superior social skills and sense of humor. And if that makes me an Ueber-Geek too (you could at least spell Ueber right;) , so be it.
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I've met some nontechnical (not at all CS, use Windows, though use computers for a living) 20- and 30-somethings in China -- they all know how to get around the Great Firewall, or at least know somebody who knows how to get around it. It's not something they worry much about, as long as they aren't generating politically sensitive content themselves. I haven't met any of the latter people.
A lot of the smog in Beijing proper is from neighboring provinces. It's going to take longer to clean all those up. Beijing has done a great job, considering the immensity of the task and the rather large potential for corruption to hinder it.
Actually, old statues and posters of Mao sell quite well in China nowadays as kitchy half-ironic antiques, so I imagine a "Mao says buy bus passes" ad campaign could succeed.
I recall that the folks who are optimizing Linux for the Asus Eee and other "netbooks" have gotten a version of init working that does exactly what the above comments said BeOS did: defer most initialization until after the OS finishes launching.
I'm curious why the questions express so much aggression towards China (e.g., suggesting blowing up the Three Gorges Dam as part of a military strike). Are we being groomed to consider China an enemy rather than just an economic competitor? The only explicit war of aggression that Chinese have carried out was the Sino-Vietnamese War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War which all the Chinese people I've met acknowledge as an utter disaster, even more so than the U.S.'s war with Vietnam. Unlike the U.S., the PRC learned from only one example how difficult it can be to invade and occupy a foreign country. Are fear, ignorance, and jealousy sufficient reasons to justify engendering an arms race between us and a people who really aren't interested in fighting us?
As I understood it, a fair bit of compiler optimization is already categorized as AI. The summary should probably point out that the AI implemented here is learning AI, which is far more meaningful.
*nods* I'd characterize this as "autotuning" rather than AI. You can tell because they cite autotuning libraries projects, e.g., the ATLAS project (see the last citation in the paper). They do some statistical machine learning, but it would be a stretch to call that "AI."
"Fox News appears bad to anybody who isn't blind..." s/appears(.*)blind/sounds\1deaf/
Despite all the fearmongering ("zomg chinese hackers!!!1!!one!"), legitimate or otherwise, about China as a source of threats, the U.S. and China have a lot of cybersecurity concerns in common. They both worry about cyberterrorism (from a common subset of sources), and increasingly rely on electronic infrastructure in their government operations. The U.S. has a direct interest in helping China's military secure their systems, so as to avoid rogue crackers making off with nukes or other dangerous equipment, and also to avoid confusing a rogue botnet attack with a government-sanctioned attack. Furthermore, especially in mid-level and local operations, the Chinese tend to use less secure operating systems (such as unpatched old versions of Windows), which puts them at a greater risk of compromise. Does the U.S. military have an interest in joint training or other kinds of joint operations with the Chinese military? What are ways in which the two countries' armed forces can cooperate in the cyber arena, without either side giving up its treasured secrets?
I think BananaPeel was the first to notice that the entertainment sites are actually up, but they have a subdued black-and-white background due to the declared three days of national mourning. Maybe you should find a Chinese-reading friend to check on such things before you post hate-mongering rumors. The Chinese news agencies have been quite open and forthright about the tremendous destruction and loss of life due to the quake. CCTV and Xinhua are full of news and there was even cell phone camera footage on CCTV.
Fear not, the Umlaut works -- now I have to figure out how to do it...
Hey, don't diss him! I can personally attest to his superior social skills and sense of humor. And if that makes me an Ueber-Geek too (you could at least spell Ueber right ;) , so be it.