Each week, I speak with GBTimes in Finland. This week we talked about:
Beijing-based journalist John Artman gives his own view on the latest flare up in the Chinese hacking attacks and the threat of a cyber war between China and the United States.
http://gbtimes.com/focus/science-technology/dial-beijing/china-hacker-attacks-inconclusive-proof-biased-reporting-and Follow the links for more.
Posted by John Artman on February 26, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/john-artman-on-gbtimes-dial-beijing-china-hacker-attacks-inconclusive-proof-biased-reporting-and-worsening-us-relations/
Update: GitHub now seems to be partially unblocked.
The Golden Shield Project (aka Great Firewall of China) has decided GitHub no longer conforms with Chinese notions of harmony, as first noticed Monday by GreatFire.org and reported on The Next Web.
The block comes on the heels of the Ministry of Railways’s unsuccessful attempt to convince Chinese browser-makers to stop providing a plugin that helps users purchase train tickets off MOR’s website.
A bit of background before we go any further: GitHub acts as a platform for software developers to share, revise, and track changes to code. This means that people who make those cool apps and websites we use every day use GitHub as a means to communicate with other developers, share their work, and generally make their products (and, thus, our lives) better1.
The rest of the article can be found here:
GitHub Blocked In China Thanks To The Railway Ministry’s Crappy Ticketing Site
Posted by John Artman on January 24, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/github-blocked-in-china-thanks-to-the-railway-ministrys-crappy-ticketing-site/
On Tuesday, Zhao Xiaohua, Zhou Heyang, and I discussed:
More China Drive
Posted by John Artman on January 24, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/china-drives-round-table-jan-22-2013/
Each week, I speak with GBTimes in Finland. This week we talked about:
What precautions do Beijingers use to protect their children from the capital’s thick smog that often hangs over the city
http://gbtimes.com/focus/environment/dial-beijing/masking-your-family-beijing-smog Follow the links for more.
Posted by John Artman on January 23, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/john-artman-on-gbtimes-dial-beijing-masking-your-family-from-beijing-smog/
On Tuesday, Zhao Xiaohua, Zhou Heyang, and I discussed:
More China Drive
Posted by John Artman on January 18, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/china-drives-round-table-jan-15-2013/
On Monday, Zhao Xiaohua, Zhou Heyang, and I discussed:
More China Drive
Posted by John Artman on January 18, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/china-drives-round-table-jan-14-2013/
Surely, beatings of any kind are not a laughing matter. However, given the frequency and subsequent jadedness, highbrow silliness may be the best response:
Perhaps the yelling in the background is a cry of existential angst at a futile and heretofore meaningless life.
That every step has led to this exact moment. That even if fought and won, the tide of Fate would inevitably lead back to this very moment: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.”* Oh, would the Heavens open and strike down these untermensch enforcing their slave morality!
Read the rest:
Posted by John Artman on January 16, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/latest-for-bjc-nietzschean-gang-beating-in-chongqing-illustrates-the-futility-of-resisting-relocate-and-demolish-edicts/
This week, Liu Yan, Zhao Xiaohua, and I discuss:
Posted by John Artman on January 10, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/round-table-on-china-drive-jan-7-2013/
Each week, I speak with GBTimes in Finland. This week we talked about:
China’s civil service is held in high regard by many Chinese, offering a stable occupation to over ten million civil servants. We spoke to our Beijing-based correspondent to find out more…
http://gbtimes.com/past-present/government/dial-beijing/eternal-lure-chinas-civil-service Follow the links for more.
Posted by John Artman on January 9, 2013
https://johnartman.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/john-artman-on-gbtimes-dial-beijing-the-eternal-lure-of-chinas-civil-service/
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