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Submission + - China pledges to step up Internet administration (idg.com.au)

angry tapir writes: "China says it will step up administration of the Internet this year while continuing to build out the country's fiber-optic backbone and expand broadband access for consumers. Internet administration was mentioned in a keynote report on the work of the government to China's parliamentary session. It underlined the importance of culture and noted the need the "strengthen the development of civic morality" and "speed up the establishment of moral and behavioral norms that carry forward traditional Chinese virtues." The pledge comes amid revelations that DDoS attacks against WordPress last week allegedly originated from China."
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Submission + - Can You Beat A Computer At Rock Paper Scissors? (tekgoblin.com) 1

tekgoblin writes: " It looks like the New York Times has created a game that uses artificial intelligence to outsmart you. It uses a simple game called Rock, Paper, Scissors which is pretty much known by everyone on the planet by now. The computer tries to mimic human reasoning by building on simple rules and statistical averages. So based on the rules of the game and your previous moves, the computer tries to make predictions on your next move. The game has 2 modes, the first being Novice where the computer learns the game from scratch, and veteran where the computer has experience of over 200,000 rounds of previous experience."

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 123

Who's to say it wasn't someone else? Iran does a lot of business with China, and the Middle Kingdom would more than enjoy helping by providing more hardware. I would find it hard to accept that the events in Iran were only limited to governments. There are far more inciteful and vicious businesses out there that could only profit by the events in the Farsi State.

Just a thought, but considering these events, should underwear be Internet Enabled?

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