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Comment Re:Eyestrain (Score 1) 476

Who will hold it at 12 inches? It's so close and focusing at there for more than a minute makes my eyes painful.
I am using my smartphone at 18-20 inches range.

I bet those holding at 12 are those without 20/20 eyesights, and neglect to wear a matching glasses.

Comment Self destruct (Score 1) 383

I have thought of this for a very long time....but never have time to get my hand dirty to implement. It goes like this:
1. Pair with a few bluetooth devices. (hand free, or laptop, or another cell phone...)
2. A software that monitor the signal of the devices, or Wifi
3. If all or predefined set of the devices go offline longer than the predefined timeout, nuke the device.
(Say it would never trigger if it see your home/office wifi, then when you are outside it has to be paired with the bluetooth hand free to prevent being triggered)

Depends if the officer take the battery out quick enough...or how it will be treated in the lab. But at least this is more effective against thief.
Instead of nuking the device, it could be programmed to do something like SOUND loudly so you could recover it before the thief runs away, or it could turn the phone into recording mode, taking pictures, audio, geolocation, phone home...

Comment Re:Some obvious observations (Score 2, Interesting) 255

But this is exactly what makes it hard to abuse. With oddly-moralized hackers up in arms, you can bet they'll seize on any abuses of the filter and plaster them embarresingly over the internet. So the government has a strong incentive to stick within their declared uses of the filter.

So the worst objection to the filter is simply that it could mostly be a waste of time... that said, it will evolve and change and may prove useful.

You don't want to wait that happen. Eventually the government will become having a face so thick that they just outright lying to the citizens. China has already set the example, and I surely you don't follow the shit.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E8%BA%B2%E8%B2%93%E8%B2%93_(%E7%B6%B2%E8%B7%AF%E7%94%A8%E8%AA%9E)
In 2009, a 24yo Man died while being detained. In the press release, official stated that the suspect died from head trauma by hitting the wall when playing hide-and-seek.

http://news.mylegist.com/1604/2010-03-01/21338.html
Two months ago, another man died while being detained. This time the reason given were he drank too much water - despite that there was a hole in the head, nipple and gential showed signs of abuse.

I am picking the two most obvious and well-known cases, there are many more unbelievable cases like that happening frequently. Although for both cases, the department in a higher hierarchy later came up and clarify the truth. But nevertheless, IMHO they crossed the line. Yet the Chinese couldn't really do anything besides chatting about it on the net. There is no way to replace the official, the government or the party without bleeding.

Going back to Australia and the other countries, you don't want to let your country to step out the first step - please defense your rights.
The "think of the children" is pointless, the child molester will find their way to get the actionable material no matter what, you think a filter or two will stop them? They are driven by the sexual desire and nothing can stop that - human is just another animal. Nor the filter could cure them either. Just like lock can only keep honest people honest - Internet filter in the national sense could only make your Internet experience more trouble, not those child molesters.

Once the government wins this, they will take a even more aggressive step and when you finally find out it's outright unacceptable - it will be too late - and welcome to join the Chinese.

Exercise your right while you still have it, and please protect it, treasure it.

Disclaimer: I'm a Hongkonger, but living in Shanghai.

Comment Re:+5 Funny (Score 1) 446

Oh, he knows its an environmental negative. But he is bound by law to do the most he can to improve sales and shareholder value, regardless of the environmental cost, social need or greater economic benefit.

And this is why capitalism* has failed.

* as practiced today through the legal construct of a corporation

Maybe he should relief from his position...

Comment Re:They don't care about the problems today. (Score 1) 430

Talking with Games, I think Blizzard's Warcraft III are on the par. It was released in 2002, and they still made patch a month ago, the online Battle.Net server still works and active. And I am still playing DotA there!

Luckily that they removed the CD Check since one of the patch. I bet my CD isn't working but now I don't have cares, I have an ISO copy of that.

Comment I actually think it's a good environment! (Score 1) 481

At least it's clean, everyone got uniform, even a cap. Mechanical transportation belt. I think it might even be air conditioned.

0.65 (wage/hr) * 16 (hrs) * 26 (days) translates to CNY 2000 a month.

As a matter of fact - the average undergraduate student earns only CNY 4000 in Shanghai. (Granted - ones from top tier college could earn more)

And if you stay in the village, maybe you just earn CNY 2000 a YEAR! Still you need to work 16 hours a day. (Unlike US where China does not have agricultural subsidiary I guess)

I would say, electronics assembling is quite a decent job - compare to farming!

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