It says that he is free to leave his home during certain hours. What's to prevent him from using someone else's connection or going to an Internet cafe?
They are from Taiwan or Hong Kong, where education is fairly liberal and there is very little censorship compared with the Mainland.
Note, most of the articles on Chinese Wikipedia are in traditional Chinese script (used in those places) as opposed to simplified, used on the mainland.
I took a trip to the DPRK about a year ago, and had a chance to see a "computer lab" in one of the "showcase" high schools.
They are for the most part still using Win95, etc. As mentioned in the article, they have their own national intranet, but not Internet access. Sanctions probably make it difficult to get newer things.
Interestingly, for political reasons, they do not use the (South) Korean version of Windows, but rather they are working on their indigenous solution for entering text and displaying Korean script (hangul/chosongul).
Interesting -- when were you there? I was in Pyongyang October 2005, but stayed at the other big foreigner hotel, the Koryo. They had email access then but not Internet (web, etc) access.
The DPRK contacts that I made gave me their organization's email address; when I asked, they said they had organization email-boxes, and they were "working on" getting individual email addresses.
So yes, I can corrobrate that the DPRK is not completely isolated from the net. However, the Yanggakdo hotel is only for foreigners (and maybe top government officials who are above the law anyway), so the "Internet access" doesn't really count, as far as North Koreans themselves being able to get on the Net.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, although definitely not one of Clancy's best, deals with a enviro-nut case group that wants to eradicate all human life on earth (except their own cult, of course).
As you might predict, it never gets off the ground, but if you can get past the almost comic plot, there's a lot of semi-informed commentary and discussion about "what if" and just how quickly the Earth would rebound.
There's another up and coming contender in this space: think social networking meets del.icio.us-style bookmarking.
Fanpop is a site for fans of anything and everything to find community and content around the stuff they care about by contributing and rating links and discussions.
Whether it be about their favorite TV show like Lost or Grey's Anatomy or their home city like San Francisco or New York, users can find other people who share their passion and discover all kinds of relevant content from videos, blogs, articles and more. Eg, link to the Stanford Spot ( http://www.fanpop.com/spots/stanford-university )
Currently, the International Space Station consists of pretty much every spacefaring nation on Earth, with the exception of China... due to US uncertainty over its motives. So China is planning to go its own way, build its own station, etc.
I don't know about you, but as a Chinese living in the USA, I would really like for China to join the ISS -- we don't need another Cold War style space race, and cooperation with the world will, I believe, lead to greater transparency and scrutiny of China's space program anyhow.
Indeed, it's absurd that China is currently one of only two nations with a operational manned spaceflight capability, but isn't allowed to join the ISS -- when the ISS is suffering from major logistical resupply problems due to the grounding of the shuttle.
China has, for years, been on a path from isolation back in the 1950s and 1960s, to being a part of the world community in many ways. The US needs to ditch its outdated paranoia, or else the other nations (Russia, EU, etc) need to grow some balls and admit China into the consortium for the benefit of all sides concerned.
Microsoft did not write their own JPEG code; rather they used the freely available implementation from the Independent JPEG group. The flaw is actually in the IJG code, not any Microsoft code.
Indeed, Netscape, which also uses that code for its JPEG decoding had that flaw (but it was fixed earlier, and of course, it did not make the news nearly as much as this Microsoft issue, owing to its much smaller market share.)
Also, of course, it eventually allows the Chinese companies to gain a foothold in the US market, under their own names. That's how most Japanese and later the South Korean electronics firms slowly made a name for themselves and their countries in the US market.
First, they start by selling low-end stuff, usually under another manufacturer's brand, and often justifiably branded as crap. But they're cheap, and consumers don't care about quality, just price, so they buy them in droves.
Then, slowly move up the market towards the higher end once your distribution and manufacturing experience is honed, and you have more budget for R&D.
Now, China is posed to follow after Japan and South Korea's footsteps now. Already, you're strating to see Chinese brands marketed under their own names in the US, like Konka and Haier. It shows no signs of stopping.
Funny, I remember Orrin Hatch was actually a SUPPORTER of the original P2P Napster, to the extent that he actually put some of his own amateur works on there.
Yes, the organizations should disclose the info, and for them, they have nothing to lose, since they are just a third-party security organization. But you can bet they then would be the target of lawsuits. Blame America's litigation-happy society for this paranoia.
True, but for the clients, you can pretty much use any crappy computer out there, since it's just a terminal, an input/output device doing no other processing of its own.
$2.50/hr for China? Perhaps in hotels and other places that cater to businessmen or "rich" foreigners, but even in Beijing, in college areas, you can get online for 10 yuan (about $1.25)/hour at most. At some second-tier cities, the going rate is about 2 yuan (25 cents). You get exactly the same access -- the only difference is that you might be surrounded by smoking kids playing Counterstrike around you...
They are using ASP.net! Not that I'm anti-MS, but that is certainly a departure for a company as Linux-centric as Google, and I'm sure there will be issues that will need to be addressed if Orkut goes production" and becomes a part of Google's actual cluster.
It's interesting that the first Blu-Ray recorders are being first marketed as standalone recorders, and there's no version for a computer yet. Usually, it's the other way around (CD/DVD)...
That made me curious -- how are charges for international calls determined? For a call between country A and country B, is the price charged to the consumer the sum of country A's charges plus country B's charges?
Do international phone calls get routed via third countries -- I imagine it must be so, right, since I can't imagine every country having connections to every other country. Would those present extra charges then?
In general, how much is A and how much is B? Can corrupt country B unilaterally set prices depending on the originating country of the call?
I was a summer intern in the Office group. They do use a lot of gotos, for exiting out of loops for cleanups and such. And before anyone flames them, they should take a look at the Linux kernel which uses gotos frequently for exactly the same thing...
A good friend of mine is the product manager for Yahoo Messenger (or one of them). I remember asking him over dinner one time why Yahoo was blocking Trillian, as well as why Yahoo didn't let you create your own IMVironments.
The answer to both were the same: that Yahoo views Messenger and more specifically, the IMVironemnts contained within Messenger as basically a revenue generator and a advertising vehicle to draw traffic to their other properties, not just a text messaging service.
Since Trillian and other alternative clients don't you view the IMVironment ads, they don't want you to use them...
What's the date on that, anyone know? And will they be using OpenGL -- will iD actually restort to doing a wrapper of the OpenGL API on top of the DirectX or push buffer interface of the Xbox?
Will they blacklist known pirated IDs, or whitelist known valid IDs?
If the former, there are several keygens for Windows that can generate CD keys easily for pirates. It's also well documented how to change the CD key without reinstalling Windows.
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It says that he is free to leave his home during certain hours. What's to prevent him from using someone else's connection or going to an Internet cafe?
They are from Taiwan or Hong Kong, where education is fairly liberal and there is very little censorship compared with the Mainland.
Note, most of the articles on Chinese Wikipedia are in traditional Chinese script (used in those places) as opposed to simplified, used on the mainland.
If you can't beat them, sue them...
I took a trip to the DPRK about a year ago, and had a chance to see a "computer lab" in one of the "showcase" high schools.
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They are for the most part still using Win95, etc. As mentioned in the article, they have their own national intranet, but not Internet access. Sanctions probably make it difficult to get newer things.
Interestingly, for political reasons, they do not use the (South) Korean version of Windows, but rather they are working on their indigenous solution for entering text and displaying Korean script (hangul/chosongul).
Some pictures are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryu2/49295211/in/set
Interesting -- when were you there? I was in Pyongyang October 2005, but stayed at the other big foreigner hotel, the Koryo. They had email access then but not Internet (web, etc) access.
The DPRK contacts that I made gave me their organization's email address; when I asked, they said they had organization email-boxes, and they were "working on" getting individual email addresses.
So yes, I can corrobrate that the DPRK is not completely isolated from the net. However, the Yanggakdo hotel is only for foreigners (and maybe top government officials who are above the law anyway), so the "Internet access" doesn't really count, as far as North Koreans themselves being able to get on the Net.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, although definitely not one of Clancy's best, deals with a enviro-nut case group that wants to eradicate all human life on earth (except their own cult, of course).
As you might predict, it never gets off the ground, but if you can get past the almost comic plot, there's a lot of semi-informed commentary and discussion about "what if" and just how quickly the Earth would rebound.
There's another up and coming contender in this space: think social networking meets del.icio.us-style bookmarking.
Fanpop is a site for fans of anything and everything to find community and content around the stuff they care about by contributing and rating links and discussions.
Whether it be about their favorite TV show like Lost or Grey's Anatomy or their home city like San Francisco or New York, users can find other people who share their passion and discover all kinds of relevant content from videos, blogs, articles and more. Eg, link to the Stanford Spot ( http://www.fanpop.com/spots/stanford-university )
It's at http://www.fanpop.com/
I have no affiliation with the site except as a very satisfied user.
Amongst my friends 25 and older, almost everyone still uses Friendster, and logs in at least once a week. Almost noone uses Myspace or Facebook.
Then there's LinkedIn, but that's more for business rather than social networking.
Beneath that age, yes, things seem to reverse themselves...
Currently, the International Space Station consists of pretty much every spacefaring nation on Earth, with the exception of China... due to US uncertainty over its motives. So China is planning to go its own way, build its own station, etc.
I don't know about you, but as a Chinese living in the USA, I would really like for China to join the ISS -- we don't need another Cold War style space race, and cooperation with the world will, I believe, lead to greater transparency and scrutiny of China's space program anyhow.
Indeed, it's absurd that China is currently one of only two nations with a operational manned spaceflight capability, but isn't allowed to join the ISS -- when the ISS is suffering from major logistical resupply problems due to the grounding of the shuttle.
China has, for years, been on a path from isolation back in the 1950s and 1960s, to being a part of the world community in many ways. The US needs to ditch its outdated paranoia, or else the other nations (Russia, EU, etc) need to grow some balls and admit China into the consortium for the benefit of all sides concerned.
Indeed, Netscape, which also uses that code for its JPEG decoding had that flaw (but it was fixed earlier, and of course, it did not make the news nearly as much as this Microsoft issue, owing to its much smaller market share.)
http://www.openwall.com/advisories/OW-002-netscape -jpeg/
Also, of course, it eventually allows the Chinese companies to gain a foothold in the US market, under their own names. That's how most Japanese and later the South Korean electronics firms slowly made a name for themselves and their countries in the US market.
First, they start by selling low-end stuff, usually under another manufacturer's brand, and often justifiably branded as crap. But they're cheap, and consumers don't care about quality, just price, so they buy them in droves.
Then, slowly move up the market towards the higher end once your distribution and manufacturing experience is honed, and you have more budget for R&D.
Now, China is posed to follow after Japan and South Korea's footsteps now. Already, you're strating to see Chinese brands marketed under their own names in the US, like Konka and Haier. It shows no signs of stopping.
Funny, I remember Orrin Hatch was actually a SUPPORTER of the original P2P Napster, to the extent that he actually put some of his own amateur works on there.
See, for instance here
Why the change of heart? I guess sticking to one's original convictions is too much to ask.
Yes, the organizations should disclose the info, and for them, they have nothing to lose, since they are just a third-party security organization. But you can bet they then would be the target of lawsuits. Blame America's litigation-happy society for this paranoia.
He was talking about DirectX HLSL, not C#.
They are two different things from Microsoft.
True, but for the clients, you can pretty much use any crappy computer out there, since it's just a terminal, an input/output device doing no other processing of its own.
Microsoft has TS clients for even Win 3.1.
$2.50/hr for China? Perhaps in hotels and other places that cater to businessmen or "rich" foreigners, but even in Beijing, in college areas, you can get online for 10 yuan (about $1.25)/hour at most. At some second-tier cities, the going rate is about 2 yuan (25 cents). You get exactly the same access -- the only difference is that you might be surrounded by smoking kids playing Counterstrike around you...
Telesyncs or telecines... no one bothers with cams anymore. Where is the "enforcement" there?!
They are using ASP.net! Not that I'm anti-MS, but that is certainly a departure for a company as Linux-centric as Google, and I'm sure there will be issues that will need to be addressed if Orkut goes
production" and becomes a part of Google's actual cluster.
It's interesting that the first Blu-Ray recorders are being first marketed as standalone recorders, and there's no version for a computer yet. Usually, it's the other way around (CD/DVD)...
That made me curious -- how are charges for international calls determined? For a call between country A and country B, is the price charged to the consumer the sum of country A's charges plus country B's charges?
Do international phone calls get routed via third countries -- I imagine it must be so, right, since I can't imagine every country having connections to every other country. Would those present extra charges then?
In general, how much is A and how much is B? Can corrupt country B unilaterally set prices depending on the originating country of the call?
I was a summer intern in the Office group. They do use a lot of gotos, for exiting out of loops for cleanups and such. And before anyone flames them, they should take a look at the Linux kernel which uses gotos frequently for exactly the same thing...
A good friend of mine is the product manager for Yahoo Messenger (or one of them). I remember asking him over dinner one time why Yahoo was blocking Trillian, as well as why Yahoo didn't let you create your own IMVironments.
The answer to both were the same: that Yahoo views Messenger and more specifically, the IMVironemnts contained within Messenger as basically a revenue generator and a advertising vehicle to draw traffic to their other properties, not just a text messaging service.
Since Trillian and other alternative clients don't you view the IMVironment ads, they don't want you to use them...
What's the date on that, anyone know? And will they be using OpenGL -- will iD actually restort to doing a wrapper of the OpenGL API on top of the DirectX or push buffer interface of the Xbox?
Why is the Direct3D stuff closed source? Direct3D has nothing to do with "copy protection support", now, does it?!
Will they blacklist known pirated IDs, or whitelist known valid IDs?
If the former, there are several keygens for Windows that can generate CD keys easily for pirates. It's also well documented how to change the CD key without reinstalling Windows.