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Feb 13, 2006 18:28

I never got around to that nap, and now it's too late to take one. DOH! I have NOT been productive today (apart from the gym, class, food shopping, and wrapping ebay items) so i feel a little guilty now. I'm so tiiiiiiired, though.

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faileas_grey February 16 2006, 08:11:50 UTC

two little things, from a techie
1) google is making a rat's breakfast of the filter, its case sensitive, easily bypassed by spelling mistakes and so on. Its kinda TOO sloppy to be serious

2)The US navy helped fund a programme called "tor". some hackers (the good guys) even made a version of firefox with it built in (torpark) and a whole anonymous OS (can't remember what its called). Any savvy privacy loving chinese citizen would and should use these.

personally, i think google is giving the chinese government lip service; i mean they're the ONLY search engine that refused to give the american government logs of searchs. Yahoo TURNED IN a pair of chinese journalists to the chinese government... as things are, google are still reasonably nice guys from a technophile's point of view at least.

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teacupdiaries February 16 2006, 09:44:51 UTC

Thank you for commenting. :) That's certainly enlightening. It looks like maybe things aren't as bad as I think they are.

faileas_grey February 16 2006, 10:20:15 UTC

they arn't, politics as usual, and people makeign noise rather than making a difference ;)

teacupdiaries February 16 2006, 10:48:43 UTC

Well, to be fair, the people who sent me the email are an organisation working on emancipating Tibet, so they're making noise AND making a difference (or trying to; it's not like China is easy to deal with ;p).

faileas_grey February 17 2006, 01:22:57 UTC

just a wee update ( ... )

teacupdiaries February 19 2006, 17:13:46 UTC

at the moment, their still good guys, even if its a little fashionable to bash themI'd be careful making claims like "it's fashionable to bash them". I think more to the point the main media sources haven't supplied enough information on this topic, and what they DID supply looked really bad to someone not familiar with China's policies (or the yahoo scandal). After all, I did do a fairly thorough search and most of what I found wasn't very detailed, and on the face of it made Google look money hungry ( ... )

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