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I've spoken to an Oracle engineer recently who echoed the opinions muttered by a few businessmen friends I know: Generally, they suspect that the real reason Google announced the alleged hacking attacks is to cover up its dismal performance in China despite years of operation. Other members here have raised similar suspicions, but what is striking to me is that few mainstream English-language news agencies have explored the angle. In that light, it's interesting to read this analysis of Web-based business in China: Searching for value: Baidu vs Tencent Quote:
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2010-02-01, 01:04 | Link #5882 |
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Russian "PAK FA" Stealth Fighter makes first flight
YESYESYES they finally built it! I'm so happy! Yeah, I really liked it as well. My class pisses me off sometimes. |
2010-02-01, 02:00 | Link #5883 | |
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2010-02-01, 02:35 | Link #5884 |
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The attack was real.... and there have been multiple others on various high tech companies in the US and elsewhere that are originating out of China (according to the security and network admin group reports). That bit seems to have gotten trampled between the media and Chinese govt PR blowing all the smoke over the censorship angle.
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2010-02-01, 15:37 | Link #5885 | |
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Aussie man convicted for Simpsons smut
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2010-02-01, 15:48 | Link #5886 | |
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anyway the current problem and in the foreseeable future is that China isn't going to allow google to get bigger. Remember last yr they had that news stuff on tv about google prompting sexual and deviant behavior. The Chinese government is not going to allow google to get big and will do whatever it takes to prompt Baidu and other domestic companies. Look at Yahoo and other Internet companies, they let foreign set everything up with the tech then strangle them with regulation until they sell out to a domestic company. Do you guys really think it is a coincidences that both Yahoo and Ebay couldn't stumble that badly in China?
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2010-02-01, 16:24 | Link #5887 |
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http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/01/...tal-foam-ever/
Oh the potential uses..... Spoiler for Leading paragraph on Professor Rabier's work:
Actually, this is the first I've heard of www.inhabitat.com. It is an amusing site to browse.
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2010-02-01, 17:34 | Link #5888 | |
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2010-02-01, 19:10 | Link #5889 | |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_444656.html
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2010-02-02, 02:16 | Link #5891 |
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Its simply a reason not to use the NYT "Bestseller" list as a meter for measuring *anything* about a book. Better off looking at the Amazon or Barnes&Noble numbers and extrapolating. There's also the "was it on sale?" or "heavily discounted" factors which can distort any useful measure.
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2010-02-02, 03:32 | Link #5892 | |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-..._b_445197.html
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2010-02-02, 14:20 | Link #5893 | ||
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_445951.html
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2010-02-02, 14:50 | Link #5894 |
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seems there's a concerted effort to drive foreign english teachers out of Korea...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...,4934857.story http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...123_59809.html |
2010-02-02, 15:01 | Link #5895 | |
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As far as the "robots teaching English" ... good luck with that but nothing quite beats having someone who actually grew up in the culture of the language you're studying.
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2010-02-02, 15:04 | Link #5896 | |
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Even if you dont like Obama no one should wish for him fail. I hated Bush but i never wished for him fail because if he did it would affect normal citizens. If the Republicans want my vote EVER they have a lot of work to do to prove that they care about citizens not lining their own and their friends pocket with more money.
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2010-02-02, 15:36 | Link #5897 |
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Its the natural result of years of extreme disinformation ... and there's going to be a long time of "ya gets what ya reap" when a party has reformulated their entire core into the loony zone. The conservatives of the Ike/Goldwater/Buckley strains are literally without a party now.
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2010-02-02, 16:40 | Link #5898 |
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Large Portion Of GOP Thinks Obama Is Racist, Socialist, Non-U.S. Citizen: Poll
A third of these people think using birth control pills constitutes abortion (strange since the effect of birth control pills happens when the unfertilized egg drops), two-thirds believe that Christianity offers the only way to heaven, and nearly eighty percent believe "public school students [should] be taught that the book of Genesis in the Bible explains how God created the world." Complete poll results
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2010-02-02, 16:41 | Link #5899 |
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go OBAMA!!!!! finally laying the smackdown and then going on to preform the most electrfying move in the GOP arena.
finally he comes out and just lays it on the table. and what a place to do it as well.
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2010-02-02, 17:21 | Link #5900 | |
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bipartisan group of nine U.S. senators push for 9/11 trials in military court
Why is Obama trying to close GITMO again? Seems like GITMO was/is the ideal place to hold these guys AND the ideal place to place them on trial in a military court
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