Dude111

Indeed Skip it is.....

They dont like all the truth sites THAT ARE SPREADING THE TRUTH OF THINGS THEY DONT WANT KNOWN!!!! (Once they cut off that avenue,THEY CAN FUCK AROUND @ WILL.. (Which is quite scary))

PsychonautMIA

Chinese government's have been cracking down and arresting bloggers. The same thing is happening around the world, seems like the control (more likely surveillance) of the internet is inevitable. Nations like the UK and U.S have been selling cyber-surveillance devices to aid dictators like Gaddafi. Companies like BlueCoat, and programs like EAGLE sell surveillance as forms to prevent terrorism, but just like in Libya it was used to control rather than to prevent. Maybe in the future, with the internet heavily patrolled we'll be connecting to the internet through satellite phones in order to bypass all security measures.

Skip

Here's another excellent position statement by Tim Berners-Lee, one of the creators of the WWW...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...oring-internet

This is exactly how I feel about recent developments regarding government and corporate intrusion into private lives. Open systems, freedom of choice are essential to the further development of the Internet. Trust in its ability to guarantee privacy is essential for it to thrive.

Scorpio Kenny

Hey Skip,
That's very clever.

"China's Great Firewall."
The Great Wall of China.
The Great Firewall Wall of China.

Very clever. ROFL

PsychonautMIA

Anonymous China #Op lulz

Scorpio Kenny

Solar prominence. Solar Flares. Electromagnetic pulse (EMP). Gremlins. Photoshop® Lens-Flare.

Of course China has a kill switch for the Internet. Why wouldn't they? Or Russia? Or the United States?

Your only hope is that they forgot to program it for Mac servers and Mac PCs. We'll be non-targets and doing fine. LOL

Anyhow, it's a good preview of what a real electromagnetic pulse (EMP) would be like when one really does come along.

Photoshop® Lens-Flare.

skycanvas

There is a boat know as the Chinese Junk. Isn't that ironic that they are shipping us the same quality crap: Chinese Junk. Stuff that falls apart, Dollar Stores & KMart & Sporting Goods places are loaded with it. The American CEO's are all rich bastards who could care less. Have you ever looked at the rubber that falls out of a ruptured tie-down bungie chord? I've had those things fall apart in the matter of a week. And those smelled freaking toxic, God knows what kind of solvent they used to dissolve those recycled rubber tires or whatever... People don't even want to know. Staples is substituting their terrific Avery Office Supplies for generic sub-standard junk. You can hardly even see through the 'clear' plastic. And you get short-sheeted where stuff of the stated dimension barely fits inside. I think they are doing it to our clothes, too. So you just think you've gained weight when you now require two-sizes bigger. Duh?! The less material they use, the more they keep, make, resell. So they've levered themselves into this huge manufacturing giant by making & selling junk. Doesn't anybody sense the downfall of Western Civilization here? Cheaper quality materials. Do we really want to help these oppressive dictators run the World & shut down the Internet?

midgardsun

Cool- Me wants to do some China bashing too

skycanvas

Once, while tutoring an ex-g'friend's teenage daughter on global economics & I happened to mention the country of China, to which she evidently took offense (since she was marginally Japanese...?) —She retorted, "You don't have to be a racist!" She thought that was cool & was evidently saving it for just the right moment. Well, I found that slyly amusing, since I was merely mentioning it as a country, demographic, an economic force, an international boundary & I wasn't being condescending about it in the least or calling them a bunch of Chinks ;0

However, here, under the guise & anonymity of a screen persona, I do feel free to speak openly, since I am not living in Beijing where the secret police will promptly bust my door down a la 1984.

I think when people speak politically of 'C_ _ _ A' they are referring to an oppressive government that is no longer called, 'Red China' but acts pretty much the same as always: suppressing freedom of speech. We generally side with its peoples' desire for freedom against the wishes of their Big Brother as much as we hope they sympathize in our plight with our own Uncle Sam. I believe I speak for most when I affirm we are not down on Orientals nor, Heaven forbid' —being even a twinge anti-Semitic...or even mentioning the Name of G_D...

"Oh what a tangled web we weaves,
When we be I/O Personalities!" —Me

Pardon me if I speak bluntly: The day Hipforums decides to turn politically polite, I will rejoin FarceBook & become a pretentious, lying, hypocrite & never state my true feelings (which all humans possess but rarely confess because they can trace my IP Address) & I will LIKE the Hell out of EVERYTHING both GOOD & EVIL just to, well...feel 'LIKED'...by 'FRIENDS' ...well?! LIKE ME, QUICK!!! —HELP —I need to feel VALIDATED!!!

I just thought of an 'Appropriate' Song:


"In My Secret Life" - Leonard Cohen

I saw you this morning.
You were moving so fast.
Can’t seem to loosen my grip
On the past.
And I miss you so much.
There’s no one in sight.
And we’re still making love
In My Secret Life.

I smile when I’m angry.
I cheat and I lie.
I do what I have to do
To get by.
But I know what is wrong,
And I know what is right.
And I’d die for the truth
In My Secret Life.

Hold on, hold on, my brother.
My sister, hold on tight.
I finally got my orders.
I’ll be marching through the morning,
Marching through the night,
Moving cross the borders
Of My Secret Life.

Looked through the paper.
Makes you want to cry.
Nobody cares if the people
Live or die.
And the dealer wants you thinking
That it’s either black or white.
Thank God it’s not that simple
In My Secret Life.

I bite my lip.
I buy what I’m told:
From the latest hit,
To the wisdom of old.
But I’m always alone.
And my heart is like ice.
And it’s crowded and cold
In My Secret Life.

skycanvas

[QUOTE=Skip;7223921]And while we're discussing this, read this article about Google's founder, Sergey Brin saying that the Web is in more danger than ever, and not just from the obvious villains.

...OK, I recently tried to 'Contact Google' about some incorrect shit people were getting when they send in queries about my web site...definitely misleading & incorrect & downright copyright infringement. And you know what? After following all the avenues to do so, I found out you can't really CONTACT GOOGLE EITHER! After you 'follow the bouncing ball' the response is all do-it-yourself, hire a lawyer, fill out the forms that you already filled out before that didn't have any results. They have no phone number that I could find, anyway, to talk to someone. They claim it's all robots fishing for information & they are just a Search Engine spitting out mixed results, both right & wrong but have no responsibility that any of it is accurate.

Then I read that they now want to get into the business of not just stoically answering search queries, but they now want to comment about you, I mean, to have an opinion about your site, about you. Isn't that treading on already thin ice, I ask you? Because then they CAN be sued for slander & liable & the host of inaccuracies they publish.

So what's best? Misinformation, Disinformation or No Information?