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Comment Re:Market Share (Score 1) 295

I think it's the reverse.

even if China doesn't block the access of google.com.hk, individual who search (or do anything online) inside china can still be traced. I think the move to redirect search to google.com.hk will immediately reduce the usage of google, cos the general public, who knows a bit of what is being censored, may prefer not to see these materials at all.

still don't get it? imagine there's a search engine that returns NSFW materials for sure. will you use it at work? will you avoid using it?

yes, there's internet cafe. but there's highly efficient people's police, and net cafe owners who won't think twice to report to the authority.

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South Korea Drafting Ethical Code for Robotic Age 318

goldaryn writes "The BBC is reporting that the South Korean government is working on an ethical code for human/robot relations, 'to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa'. The article describes the creation of the Robot Ethics Charter, which 'will cover standards for users and manufacturers and will be released later in 2007. [...] It is being put together by a five member team of experts that includes futurists and a science fiction writer.'"

Silicon Valley Firms Having Cash Showers 123

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "'The market for high-technology start-up businesses is so intense in Silicon Valley that some companies are being showered with millions of dollars from investors -- without even asking for it,' the Wall Street Journal reports. The home-improvement website Done Right received an email from a well-known investment firm inquiring about putting cash into the company. 'Paul Ryan, Done Right's chief executive officer, says the missive wasn't sent to him or to his executives -- it landed in a general corporate email inbox,' the WSJ reports. 'Mr. Ryan wasn't put off by the impersonal plea: "We're having very good discussions with [the firm] right now," he says, declining to name the potential investor.' The Journal notes that 'pre-emptive' funding is, of course, risky, and harkens back to bubble-year investment trends."

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