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Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China 249

Posted by timothy on Friday March 26, 2010 @05:11AM from the billion-here-a-billion-there dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Most people have already heard western media reactions to Google leaving China proper and redirecting search traffic to its Hong Kong branch, but ChinaSMACK has translated comments from average Chinese internet users so that non-Chinese can understand how the Chinese public feels. While many of them are supportive of the government on some level, they were able to obtain many comments by those critical of the government before they could be 'harmonized' (deleted) and translated those as well. The deleted comments often complain about the wumao (50 cent party), government employees who are paid 50 cents RMB per post supporting the government, and worry that the Chinese Internet will become a Chinese LAN."

Comment Tweak.tk wins the shortening war! (Score 1) 242

by MoobY on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @09:59AM (#30443388) Attached to: Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service

Nothing beats http://tweak.tk/ which provides new domain names as shortened URLs!

Comment Re:I'm dizzy. (Score 1) 356

by MoobY on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:49AM (#29794205) Attached to: VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days

You're confusing going one-way and the whole trip. Go to Mars = 39 days, stay at mars = 10 days, come back to earth = 39 days, total = about 3 months.

Comment Electric scooters (Score 1) 282

by MoobY on Friday September 04, 2009 @03:52PM (#29316121) Attached to: New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative

How about getting an electric scooter? It's a proven concept. And it doesn't look as awkward.

Comment Computers have stopped. Biology has not. (Score 4, Interesting) 712

by MoobY on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @08:31AM (#29283775) Attached to: Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed?

Answering this question from the viewpoint of IT, CS or electronics in general, yes, I have the same feeling.

However, if you look at other sciences, like biology, there's an amazing evolution of technologies, methodologies and revolutionizing new insights that are going to change the world around is, possibly in more disruptive ways than computers have. If the 20th century is the century of computers, we're still strongly believing that the 21st century will see (and is seeing) a lot of revolutions in biology.

So if you feel, like me, that CS is dead and still want to go on a technological quest, try something else.

Submission + - Belgium activates its Great Firewall

Submitted by

MoobY

on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @02:44PM

MoobY writes: "The Belgian justice department has taken harsh action in a dispute over the legality of stopkinderporno.com, a site that reports the whereabouts of child abusers. Belgian visitors trying to visit the site are now redirected to a so-called stop page (in Dutch) stating that '[They] have been redirected to this stop page because the website [they] are trying to visit offers content that is considered illegal according to Belgian legislation.' The disputed regulation is being put into place to stop illegal child porn, phishing or gambling sites, but, ironically, this case of suppression is aimed at an anti child porn site."

Submission + - Can Bacteria be Trained to Deliver Drugs?

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Thursday October 02, 2008 @05:20PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "While it may seem unlikely that single-celled organisms could be trained to salivate like Pavlov's dog at the sound of a bell, researchers say that bacteria can "learn" to associate one stimulus with another by employing molecular circuits and raises the possibility that bioengineers could teach bacteria to act as sentinels for the human body, ready to spot and respond to signs of danger. As with Pavlov's dog, the bacteria in the model learn to build stronger associations between the two stimuli the more they occur together. Now called Hebbian learning, it's often expressed as a situation in which "neurons that fire together wire together." Bacteria, of course, don't have synapses or nerve cells but Eva Jablonka, who just published a paper on conditioning in single-celled organisms (PDF), says it seems "quite possible at the theoretical level, and I don't see great obvious hurdles for the construction of the suggested vectors." The trick will be to train bacteria to recognize chemical processes in the body that are associated with danger like an adverse and dangerous reaction to a drug, or to the presence of tumor cells."

Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold 141

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 29, 2008 @03:15PM from the try-to-do-as-little-dying-as-possible dept.

mknewman writes to tell us that NASA is no longer receiving data from the Hubble Space Telescope, which could possibly delay the shuttle launch planned just two weeks from now. There is a backup system installed which may be used instead of training the astronauts on the installation of the new component, but that would itself leave no fallback option. "NASA is reviewing whether the mission should be delayed a couple of months so that plans can be made to send up a replacement part for the failed component, said NASA spokesman Michael Curie. It would take time to test and qualify the old replacement part and train the astronauts to install it in the telescope, Curie said. NASA also would have to work out new mission details for the astronauts who have trained for two years to carry out five Hubble repair spacewalks."

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