By taking on the filtering themselves, Google is making the statement to Chinese citizens that they support their government's censorship, whereas if they stood their ground and kept the search results uncensored, at least some Chinese citizens using out-of-country proxies would be able to use the search engine to its fullest extent.
How would the Chinese people know about the censorship if no one tells them about it? Their government controls their media and as far as the average person would be concerned, there's nothing going on.
Remember a few years ago when that Chinese jet crashed into that E-3? As far as the chinese citizens were concerned, that prop driven E-3 chased down that fighter jet and brought it down. All according to their government.
And I'm going to blab on because the/. "Lamness filter" won't let me post. So, let me take this time to say, that all of your evil corporate people are in charge of/. . That's right./. is an EVIL corporate enitity. Comder Taco, et al. fucking stepped in it. They're Millionaires on OUR backs. Us, who provide thoughtful comments, free of charge.
They just sit back an collect their millions ---doing nothing.
Doesn't the first amendment give us the right to free speech?
I REALLY wish the lawyers here on/. would step in sometime!
IANAL. From what I understand, ONLY the Governement can restrict the FIRST Amendment. What I'm getting at is that a corp can do what ever the fuck they want to.
This new format is making the news,( I guess this is the thought,) flow so fast, that we really can't think about what the fuck we're going to say. I'm finding that I'm staying away more often because I can't contribute anything worthwhile. . Yeah, yeah, I'm here now. The wife is out and I'm sipping vodka and reading/. and my grammar is going down the tubes with my spelling.
To the Mod's - I've set myself up to be "Flamed" - please don't mod people who respond to me. - THANK YOU!!!!
Dr. MD! This is a site, afer all, for geeks. There are computer geeks, physics geeks, and biology geeks here. We could use more MD, JD, and PhD geeks too!
I just wish you would have jumped in sooner. Of course, you're busy - being a MD and all - but correct us instead of slamming us.
You don't want to perpetuate the myth that Doctors are arrogant know-it-alls that know nothing, do you?
Sergi Brin and asked him about the company's decision to accept censorship in China. As you might guess, Brin defended the move.
For one, on the bottom of the Chinese results they do show that the results were filtered according to local law. So, the Chiniese citizens are in fact informed that their results are being filtered indirectly by their Governement.
For two, Google, after all, is a business. They are not a NGO, charity, or some other organization that's in existance to make this planet a better World (TM). They are here to make their shareholders (and themselves) a return on their investment.
Three, Corporate citizenship, HA hahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahhaha hhahahahha!
It went through actually explaining some of the technical details that he went through. Maybe I imagined it or confused him with someone else. Just as well, your link was very informative!
from Samba.org...Andrew Tridgell, who is both tall and Australian, had a bit of a problem. He needed to mount disk space from a Unix server on his DOS PC. Actually, this wasn't the problem at all because he had an NFS (Network File System) client for DOS and it worked just fine. Unfortunately, he also had an application that required the NetBIOS interface. Anyone who has ever tried to run multiple protocols under DOS knows that it can be...er...quirky.
So Andrew chose the obvious solution. He wrote a packet sniffer, reverse engineered the SMB protocol, and implemented it on the Unix box. Thus, he made the Unix system appear to be a PC file server, which allowed him to mount shared filesystems from the Unix server while concurrently running NetBIOS applications. Andrew published his code in early 1992. There was a quick, but short succession of bug-fix releases, and then he put the project aside. Occasionally he would get E'mail about it, but he otherwise ignored it. Then one day, almost two years later, he decided to link his wife's Windows PC with his own Linux system. Lacking any better options, he used his own server code. He was actually surprised when it worked.
Through his E'mail contacts, Andrew discovered that NetBIOS and SMB were actually (though nominally) documented. With this new information at his fingertips he set to work again, but soon ran into another problem. He was contacted by a company claiming trademark on the name that he had chosen for his server software. Rather than cause a fuss, Andrew did a quick scan against a spell-checker dictionary, looking for words containing the letters "smb". "Samba" was in the list. Curiously, that same word is not in the dictionary file that he uses today. (Perhaps they know it's been taken.)
The Samba project has grown mightily since then. Andrew now has a whole team of programmers, scattered around the world, to help with Samba development. When a new release is announced, thousands of copies are downloaded within days. Commercial systems vendors, including Silicon Graphics, bundle Samba with their products. There are even Samba T-shirts available. Perhaps one of the best measures of the success of Samba is that it was listed in the "Halloween Documents", a pair of internal Microsoft memos that were leaked to the Open Source community. These memos list Open Source products which Microsoft considers to be competitive threats. The absolutely best measure of success, though, is that Andrew can still share the printer with his wife.
BUT, the real story is REALLY interesting...and I can't find it, now! The story talked about how he experimented with all of the bits and bytes to get the software to work. A lot of stuff in the beginning was hard coded and everytime MS released a new version, he had to rush to fix shit, until he figured out how things really worked.
Shit! I wish I could find that story again. It really explained how to reverse engineer stuff!
Recent simulations of planet formation suggest that bodies with an Earth-like mass are abundant.
The headline should have been: Earth like (similar mass) Planet uncovered.
What we need is some sort of descriptor like, oh I don't know, let's say 'M' class for Earth like - in the sense that we can live on it as we do here on Earth.
I'll thin I'll trade mark:M Class". None of you have heard of that before - have you?
Because, I can't make head nor tail of all this marketing speak. That's what I got out of reading TFA.
If you have to rely on buzz words and jargon when communicating to the popular press, then you are saying nothing, or you don't understand what the fuck you're talking about.
an open, industrial-strength, scalable and extensible platform for creating, integrating and deploying unstructured information management solutions from combinations of semantic analysis and search components.
FTFA: UIMA is about text analytics, which encompasses functions like search and pattern analysis. "It's able to create sophisticated solutions that extract insight from a large amount of unstructured data stored in computers," says Dr. Nelson Mattos, IBM VP of Information and Interaction. "The goal is to create an open standard for analytics."
In other words, it's now an opensource way of picking out themes in text. So, I guess you can (or the company you work for) have a version of Carnivore
Slashdot Mirror
How would the Chinese people know about the censorship if no one tells them about it? Their government controls their media and as far as the average person would be concerned, there's nothing going on.
Remember a few years ago when that Chinese jet crashed into that E-3? As far as the chinese citizens were concerned, that prop driven E-3 chased down that fighter jet and brought it down. All according to their government.
From what I've seen, Evil triumphs.
And I'm going to blab on because the /. "Lamness filter" won't let me post. So, let me take this time to say, that all of your evil corporate people are in charge of /. . That's right. /. is an EVIL corporate enitity. Comder Taco, et al. fucking stepped in it. They're Millionaires on OUR backs. Us, who provide thoughtful comments, free of charge.
They just sit back an collect their millions ---doing nothing.
spelling is code from the suftwyer.
Dude, define Cellulosic ethanol, please.
I don't know what the fuck that is. Because, it really sound like corn to me.
Next article please!
The editors are modding us down -2 at a time. Just watch!sigphon to the tank!
I REALLY wish the lawyers here on /. would step in sometime!
IANAL. From what I understand, ONLY the Governement can restrict the FIRST Amendment. What I'm getting at is that a corp can do what ever the fuck they want to.
EVEN though IT IS on TOPIC!!!
Don't like my puncuation? Well, talk to the /. owners.
Please, GOD!, let the world work that way!!! Please!!!!
See further down on this thread.
This new format is making the news,( I guess this is the thought,) flow so fast, that we really can't think about what the fuck we're going to say. I'm finding that I'm staying away more often because I can't contribute anything worthwhile. . Yeah, yeah, I'm here now. The wife is out and I'm sipping vodka and reading /. and my grammar is going down the tubes with my spelling.
To the Mod's - I've set myself up to be "Flamed" - please don't mod people who respond to me. - THANK YOU!!!!
Whaaa? n.m.? Nano Meee....whaaa??
Oopps! Sorry!
I just wish you would have jumped in sooner. Of course, you're busy - being a MD and all - but correct us instead of slamming us.
You don't want to perpetuate the myth that Doctors are arrogant know-it-alls that know nothing, do you?
'nuff said.
For one, on the bottom of the Chinese results they do show that the results were filtered according to local law. So, the Chiniese citizens are in fact informed that their results are being filtered indirectly by their Governement.
For two, Google, after all, is a business. They are not a NGO, charity, or some other organization that's in existance to make this planet a better World (TM). They are here to make their shareholders (and themselves) a return on their investment.
Three, Corporate citizenship, HA hahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahhaha hhahahahha!
Four, there is no Easter Bunny or Santa Clause!
Five, you get my point.
How many not made in India?
Thank you!
BUT, the real story is REALLY interesting...and I can't find it, now! The story talked about how he experimented with all of the bits and bytes to get the software to work. A lot of stuff in the beginning was hard coded and everytime MS released a new version, he had to rush to fix shit, until he figured out how things really worked.
Shit! I wish I could find that story again. It really explained how to reverse engineer stuff!
Yeah, of course the mod's don't look at the time-stamp. I couln't have NOT dup'ped ("Redundant") your comment even if I tried.
Recent simulations of planet formation suggest that bodies with an Earth-like mass are abundant.
The headline should have been: Earth like (similar mass) Planet uncovered.
What we need is some sort of descriptor like, oh I don't know, let's say 'M' class for Earth like - in the sense that we can live on it as we do here on Earth.
I'll thin I'll trade mark :M Class". None of you have heard of that before - have you?
is the voice of Stewie. So, I take it that he's doing the show?
If you have to rely on buzz words and jargon when communicating to the popular press, then you are saying nothing, or you don't understand what the fuck you're talking about.
FTFA: UIMA is about text analytics, which encompasses functions like search and pattern analysis. "It's able to create sophisticated solutions that extract insight from a large amount of unstructured data stored in computers," says Dr. Nelson Mattos, IBM VP of Information and Interaction. "The goal is to create an open standard for analytics."
In other words, it's now an opensource way of picking out themes in text. So, I guess you can (or the company you work for) have a version of Carnivore
I have that exact same thought when hearing politicians speak.
that some CEOs get for getting fired that really pisses me off!
MPAA FUCKER,
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