I happen to be in China for work right now and the censorship here can be really annoying at times. More often than not I surf over socks proxy and ssh tunnel because there are lots and lots of non-political areas of the net that are blocked.
For example: I noticed something funny the other day. I wanted to run a quick python script and went to the python page (python.org) to download python for windows to my enterprise box. As soon as you hit the "download" link however, you get an error message (sometimes you are also redirected to google.com.hk) and the entire python.org domain is blocked for some minutes. Seems like the censors here don't want people to use python - probably just not their kind of humor I guess:P
Small clarification: The 'ram' in Wolfram sounds more like it might mean 'Rahm' (cream) - the fatty stuff that swims on top of milk, not simply 'foam'.
What I really hated about Monster was that they only accept resumes in the Microsoft Word format, seems that they dont have any jobs for people who don't like it. I even went so far to contact their customer support and got the answer almost too fast: no way.doc only, they wont even accept ASCII text. I guess they'll get what they ask for or do they simply have a contract with a certain enterprise...?
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I happen to be in China for work right now and the censorship here can be really annoying at times. More often than not I surf over socks proxy and ssh tunnel because there are lots and lots of non-political areas of the net that are blocked. For example: I noticed something funny the other day. I wanted to run a quick python script and went to the python page (python.org) to download python for windows to my enterprise box. As soon as you hit the "download" link however, you get an error message (sometimes you are also redirected to google.com.hk) and the entire python.org domain is blocked for some minutes. Seems like the censors here don't want people to use python - probably just not their kind of humor I guess :P
Small clarification: The 'ram' in Wolfram sounds more like it might mean 'Rahm' (cream) - the fatty stuff that swims on top of milk, not simply 'foam'.
What I really hated about Monster was that they only accept resumes in the Microsoft Word format, seems that they dont have any jobs for people who don't like it. I even went so far to contact their customer support and got the answer almost too fast: no way .doc only, they wont even accept ASCII text. I guess they'll get what they ask for or do they simply have a contract with a certain enterprise...?