You gave me an idea. A group of journalists team up and share a connection via wireless.
Oh, large media companies are footing the bill, the cost of the broadband is half the cost of a dinner in the 5-star hotel they dare not tread 50 meters from.
Internet connections in reasonably developed cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Dalian, run around 600 RMB for 512kbps for a year, around 1100 for 1Mbps. Not too bad.
As for the Great Firewall, well if you want to read (in English) what the mainland Chinese netizens are doing on blogs and forums there is only one excellent resource: EastSouthWestNorth. Check it out. It has regular citizens burning down police stations, reporting on blogs with Chinese characters upside down, using 'corrupt American administration' for certain stories as an synonym for 'corrupt Chinese administration' (especially this post).
My domain (forwarded to my GMail) was spoofed in a spam-flood (not all the same mails, an interesting variation of ow to spell Viagra mostly) and I received 300,000 auto-replies or bounce-backs within 2 hours. It is a nasty business, I imagine my domain was blacklisted by a few naive sysadmins.
As soon as open relays are auto-denied, the more I am happy. Yet I fear it is not that simple.
A nice trick is to put a no-follow link in robots.txt and have a well linked but no-follow (and to humans, obscured) page that when accessed denies that IP from getting anything from the site for a certain amount of time.
Malthus was debunked by Ricardo centuries ago. I really don't understand why he is referenced, other than a simplistic message is well received by the stupid.
Being Indian, American, Russian, whatever, does not make someone a better or a worse coder, designer, architect, whatever. What makes someone better is their ability to solve a task.
Ability is all that matters, average performance, or perceived performance, based on race, is a poor proxy. Like many kdawson stories, this is Flamebait and tagged as such.
It was better than most offerings, which just don't work for me, but not as good as regular shared video sites. On Firefox/Xandros it was slow, jerky, didn't fast forward or rewind (doing any of those things made it go back to the beginning) and provided popups (if I wanted it in a seperate window I would have opened it in a seperate window).
Yet at the same time there are many high resolution flash based players that work beautifully. I appreciate the effort, but it's not all the way there yet.
I completely agree. Went to uni in the UK in 1997, missed out on tuition fees but also missed out on student grants. More importantly, missed out on high property prices (2001+) whereby students in London were commonly charged more than 100 pounds per week to rent a room in a university dorm. Damn.
Worked in local businesses to meet rent and got a first, by the way.
Privaleged generation? We have CDs but have to work and study to get them. As if studying, furthering the country, should be paid for.
I have since left the UK (2005) and don't intend to live there again (taxes paid made up for education received several times over even in that short period), especially with regard to the police centralizations of power now occurring.
Goodbye UK, long live an open market yet socially responsible society. But where?
Keep the monkey interested and the monkey will continue to buy the nut advertised to him in the advertising breaks. Challenge the monkey to think and he'll think more, sit down less, and consume less nuts, therefore why should the media companies seek out to confuse the monkey?
That TV is an opiate has never been broadly enough recognised, an opiate pushing the thought of the ruling media classes and funded political classes.
I have noticed an uptick in DNS spoofing in the past few weeks. From going a few thousand spoofed emails per month using my domain name I've shot up to 100k spam emails spoofing my domain name (noticable from the bounce-backs) per week. That is a lot, at least for me. All after responding to an email that I wouldn't sell that said domain name this all took off. May have to cancel that catch-all address.
It is an old, 10+ years domain, but with nothing in Google. If I met that spoofer.... I would at least question their morals...
Random thought, not that I agree with it but it is a possibility:
Google has changed it's search algorithms many times. Recent changes appear (last couple of years) to have favoured Wikipedia in search rankings. Higher Google rankings brings more visitors, but in doing so has Google passed a poisoned chalice to Wikipedia whereby search engine visitors are less likely to contribute (casual, less loyal users on average) yet up the bandwidth bill. Is that a chalice whose liquid induced thirst can only be quenched by Adsense/Adwords [automatic selection of keywords depending on page content] method of advertising?
The SSD is actually pretty important for the eee. While the SSD lacks in storage ability it adds in speed allowing disk bottleneck to be reduced while the CPU bottleneck (the CPU can run at 900MHz but without hacking runs at 630MHz) is higher than the vast majority of laptops, giving a very similar 'feel' to most mainstream budget laptops.
I'd suppose much of the reason for restrictions on the use of electronic equipment on planes is because the airlines don't want dense hard plastic objects flying through the air when the user doesn't have a good grip and the plane is banking 30 degrees. 2kg laptops in turbulence would be even worse. Business/First class is less passenger-dense so more is allowed. The ban on radio devices is simply a convenient legacy restriction.
As another commenter said, if there really was a problem with radio waves, what would stop a bunch of maniacs hijacking a plane by threatening to turn on their cell and wifi enabled devices.
I would agree 'sure they should allow proofs' too, though I have seen many factual and selfless Wikipedia contributions bite the dust, despite being well referenced. But if Wikipedia 'editors' argue about the thing, why not start a WikiProof/WikiMath site, using the same software and the same approach, on your own much less ambiguous terms of service.
It is a niche, there is no reason a niche site should not serve it. Indeed, that's one of the main positive points behind WikiMedia and the GPL behind that. Stick a link into whatever math page on Wikipedia that states something is a proof and show a proof on your end. You'll get interested, focused traffic and Wikipedia's loss.
Does no one recognise this as potentially being an Alibaba clone type service?
Alibaba, basically, provide an easy way for a company to be included in a large B2B service. No independent website required yet registration (together with various fees and verification) needed for a meaningful service. English languages are quite expensice. Clearly China-West is a great B2B market, Alibaba cornered it 18 months ago, so I'm curious if this is just yet another blog type service or something that could be vertically integrated into an effective directory type service, ads only, dominated by Google?
How some people treat everything "Google" as if it were special. It would be news worth *if* Google was beating local searches in foreign areas.
Yes. In China Baidu is the leader, though search is a general term covering searching many things for many people. Though apparently, Google.cn are very effective in serving and marketing to the higher revenue, more educated, higher earning customer sectors.
My main purpose for commenting was to point out the article linked solely to Newsweek pages: a Newsweek story and a couple of limp stories about searching in South Korea and Russia ALSO from Newsweek. No bad rap on Newsweek though, all the better for them linking to three of their own stories in one article.
this is the most stupid idea I have ever heard out of them. They actually will compensate you, with a rocking 6-mo web-subscrption to economist.com (street value: roughly $50).
Perhaps the Economist should actually talk to their economists, and ask them what 'Incentive Compatability' means. $50 for a new revolutionary business idea surely isn't incentive compatible. If I were the Economist, I'd be terribly embarassed about this.
I couldn't agree more. They're failing at the first hurdle. Even worse, the terms upon which the idea is submitted basically means they can use the idea in any way they like and they will hold a patent on it. So it's not just getting a poor level of compensation for an idea, but giving that idea up for use by anyone except the Economist Group.
Here are 4 clauses from their terms and conditions:
1. You grant to The Economist Group and its designees a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive fully-paid up and royalty free licence to use such Submission without restrictions of any kind and without any obligation of payment or other consideration of any kind, or permission or notification, to you or any third party.
2. The licence shall include, without limitation, the irrevocable right in the name of The Economist Group or its designees throughout the universe in perpetuity in any and all media now or hereafter known (i) to reproduce, prepare derivative works, combine with other works, alter, translate, distribute copies, display, publish, perform, license the Submission, and all rights therein; (ii) to apply for and obtain a patent in respect of any inventions disclosed in the Submission; (iii) to file an application to register any designs and/or any sign capable of being registered as a trade mark; (iv) to register any name capable of being registered as a domain name.
3. In addition, you agree that you will (at the request and expense of The Economist Group) enter into such documents as may be required to perfect or secure such rights or to assign such rights to The Economist Group absolutely if so requested.
4. In exchange, if we use your Submission then we will give you credit by acknowledging you as a contributor on our website at ProjectRedStripe.com and if we launch a product or service thanks to Submission, we will also offer you a free six-month subscription to Economist.com. Where The Economist Group applies for a patent in respect of an invention of which you are the inventor The Economist Group will name you as the (or if appropriate an) inventor in such patent application.
Shutting down a system would be bad. It would cause suspicion and speculation (on the unquoted markets, which would impact the quoted ones). "Why is the system being shut down?" "Sell [on the unquoted markets], it's a crash of all comprehension!" And the markets crash because of suspicion. Self fulfilled.
Slashdot Mirror
Speaking Chinese has messed with my pronunciation. I pronounced it as ts-you-ill which was hard.
You gave me an idea. A group of journalists team up and share a connection via wireless.
Oh, large media companies are footing the bill, the cost of the broadband is half the cost of a dinner in the 5-star hotel they dare not tread 50 meters from.
Internet connections in reasonably developed cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Dalian, run around 600 RMB for 512kbps for a year, around 1100 for 1Mbps. Not too bad.
As for the Great Firewall, well if you want to read (in English) what the mainland Chinese netizens are doing on blogs and forums there is only one excellent resource: EastSouthWestNorth. Check it out. It has regular citizens burning down police stations, reporting on blogs with Chinese characters upside down, using 'corrupt American administration' for certain stories as an synonym for 'corrupt Chinese administration' (especially this post).
Latency averaging around 350ms for me. I am in China, packets crossing the Pacific. This is normal.
Sharp Zaurus
My domain (forwarded to my GMail) was spoofed in a spam-flood (not all the same mails, an interesting variation of ow to spell Viagra mostly) and I received 300,000 auto-replies or bounce-backs within 2 hours. It is a nasty business, I imagine my domain was blacklisted by a few naive sysadmins.
As soon as open relays are auto-denied, the more I am happy. Yet I fear it is not that simple.
A nice trick is to put a no-follow link in robots.txt and have a well linked but no-follow (and to humans, obscured) page that when accessed denies that IP from getting anything from the site for a certain amount of time.
Malthus was debunked by Ricardo centuries ago. I really don't understand why he is referenced, other than a simplistic message is well received by the stupid.
Being Indian, American, Russian, whatever, does not make someone a better or a worse coder, designer, architect, whatever. What makes someone better is their ability to solve a task.
Ability is all that matters, average performance, or perceived performance, based on race, is a poor proxy. Like many kdawson stories, this is Flamebait and tagged as such.
Because a 0day exploit is potentially worth a lot more than $10,000?
Those that could really crack the system have a lot more in rewards than a sticker.
It was better than most offerings, which just don't work for me, but not as good as regular shared video sites. On Firefox/Xandros it was slow, jerky, didn't fast forward or rewind (doing any of those things made it go back to the beginning) and provided popups (if I wanted it in a seperate window I would have opened it in a seperate window).
Yet at the same time there are many high resolution flash based players that work beautifully. I appreciate the effort, but it's not all the way there yet.
You're forgetting the other Dengxiaoping style army of capitalists that will be there to collect and refine it!
I completely agree. Went to uni in the UK in 1997, missed out on tuition fees but also missed out on student grants. More importantly, missed out on high property prices (2001+) whereby students in London were commonly charged more than 100 pounds per week to rent a room in a university dorm. Damn. Worked in local businesses to meet rent and got a first, by the way. Privaleged generation? We have CDs but have to work and study to get them. As if studying, furthering the country, should be paid for. I have since left the UK (2005) and don't intend to live there again (taxes paid made up for education received several times over even in that short period), especially with regard to the police centralizations of power now occurring. Goodbye UK, long live an open market yet socially responsible society. But where?
Consume. Exactly.
Keep the monkey interested and the monkey will continue to buy the nut advertised to him in the advertising breaks. Challenge the monkey to think and he'll think more, sit down less, and consume less nuts, therefore why should the media companies seek out to confuse the monkey?
That TV is an opiate has never been broadly enough recognised, an opiate pushing the thought of the ruling media classes and funded political classes.
Damn,
I have noticed an uptick in DNS spoofing in the past few weeks. From going a few thousand spoofed emails per month using my domain name I've shot up to 100k spam emails spoofing my domain name (noticable from the bounce-backs) per week. That is a lot, at least for me. All after responding to an email that I wouldn't sell that said domain name this all took off. May have to cancel that catch-all address.
It is an old, 10+ years domain, but with nothing in Google. If I met that spoofer.... I would at least question their morals...
Random thought, not that I agree with it but it is a possibility:
Google has changed it's search algorithms many times. Recent changes appear (last couple of years) to have favoured Wikipedia in search rankings. Higher Google rankings brings more visitors, but in doing so has Google passed a poisoned chalice to Wikipedia whereby search engine visitors are less likely to contribute (casual, less loyal users on average) yet up the bandwidth bill. Is that a chalice whose liquid induced thirst can only be quenched by Adsense/Adwords [automatic selection of keywords depending on page content] method of advertising?
Victorian era, mixing of phrases and words, similar to flutterby becoming butterfly. See J K Rowling, Victorian Mixtures, 1968, p127.
The SSD is actually pretty important for the eee. While the SSD lacks in storage ability it adds in speed allowing disk bottleneck to be reduced while the CPU bottleneck (the CPU can run at 900MHz but without hacking runs at 630MHz) is higher than the vast majority of laptops, giving a very similar 'feel' to most mainstream budget laptops.
I'd suppose much of the reason for restrictions on the use of electronic equipment on planes is because the airlines don't want dense hard plastic objects flying through the air when the user doesn't have a good grip and the plane is banking 30 degrees. 2kg laptops in turbulence would be even worse. Business/First class is less passenger-dense so more is allowed. The ban on radio devices is simply a convenient legacy restriction. As another commenter said, if there really was a problem with radio waves, what would stop a bunch of maniacs hijacking a plane by threatening to turn on their cell and wifi enabled devices.
I would agree 'sure they should allow proofs' too, though I have seen many factual and selfless Wikipedia contributions bite the dust, despite being well referenced. But if Wikipedia 'editors' argue about the thing, why not start a WikiProof/WikiMath site, using the same software and the same approach, on your own much less ambiguous terms of service. It is a niche, there is no reason a niche site should not serve it. Indeed, that's one of the main positive points behind WikiMedia and the GPL behind that. Stick a link into whatever math page on Wikipedia that states something is a proof and show a proof on your end. You'll get interested, focused traffic and Wikipedia's loss.
Does no one recognise this as potentially being an Alibaba clone type service? Alibaba, basically, provide an easy way for a company to be included in a large B2B service. No independent website required yet registration (together with various fees and verification) needed for a meaningful service. English languages are quite expensice. Clearly China-West is a great B2B market, Alibaba cornered it 18 months ago, so I'm curious if this is just yet another blog type service or something that could be vertically integrated into an effective directory type service, ads only, dominated by Google?
My main purpose for commenting was to point out the article linked solely to Newsweek pages: a Newsweek story and a couple of limp stories about searching in South Korea and Russia ALSO from Newsweek. No bad rap on Newsweek though, all the better for them linking to three of their own stories in one article.
Perhaps the Economist should actually talk to their economists, and ask them what 'Incentive Compatability' means. $50 for a new revolutionary business idea surely isn't incentive compatible. If I were the Economist, I'd be terribly embarassed about this.
I couldn't agree more. They're failing at the first hurdle. Even worse, the terms upon which the idea is submitted basically means they can use the idea in any way they like and they will hold a patent on it. So it's not just getting a poor level of compensation for an idea, but giving that idea up for use by anyone except the Economist Group. Here are 4 clauses from their terms and conditions:
Shutting down a system would be bad. It would cause suspicion and speculation (on the unquoted markets, which would impact the quoted ones). "Why is the system being shut down?" "Sell [on the unquoted markets], it's a crash of all comprehension!" And the markets crash because of suspicion. Self fulfilled.
What Drupal template do you use? I like Drupal. I like your template. Curious.