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Thanks for the email. Best of luck correcting the mistakes on the Internet. It’s a big job, but we have faith in you!
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Anonymous Hacks Hundreds of Chinese Government Sites
Via International Business Times:
The Anonymous hacking collective has landed in China, home of some of the most tightly controlled internet access in the world, and defaced hundreds of government websites in what appears to be a massive online operation against Beijing…
…The defaced homepages carry a statement against the Chinese government along with the traditional Anonymous banner and the generational anthem Baba O’Riley by The Who played in background.
“All these years, the Chinese communist government has subjected its people to unfair laws and unhealthy processes,” reads the statement. “Dear Chinese government, you are not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile regime that will fall.”
It contains also a message directed at the Chinese people: “Each of you suffers from the tyranny of that regime which knows nothing about you,” reads the message. “We are with you. […]The silence of all other countries highlights the lack of democracy and justice in China. It’s unbearable.”
The defacements also provide a link with tips on how to bypass state censorship.
On Pastebin, Anonymous lists the sites they’ve claimed to have hacked. And yes, Baba O’Riley does play if/when you go to them.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ytp96Y1n1qedj2ho1_500.jpg)
Anonymous Hacks Hundreds of Chinese Government Sites
Via International Business Times:
The Anonymous hacking collective has landed in China, home of some of the most tightly controlled internet access in the world, and defaced hundreds of government websites in what appears to be a massive online operation against Beijing…
…The defaced homepages carry a statement against the Chinese government along with the traditional Anonymous banner and the generational anthem Baba O’Riley by The Who played in background.
“All these years, the Chinese communist government has subjected its people to unfair laws and unhealthy processes,” reads the statement. “Dear Chinese government, you are not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile regime that will fall.”
It contains also a message directed at the Chinese people: “Each of you suffers from the tyranny of that regime which knows nothing about you,” reads the message. “We are with you. […]The silence of all other countries highlights the lack of democracy and justice in China. It’s unbearable.”
The defacements also provide a link with tips on how to bypass state censorship.
On Pastebin, Anonymous lists the sites they’ve claimed to have hacked. And yes, Baba O’Riley does play if/when you go to them.
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Notes"How did Bill Gates become the richest man in America? His wealth has nothing to do with the production costs of what Microsoft is selling: i.e. it is not the result of his producing good software at lower prices than his competitors, or of ‘exploiting’ his workers more successfully (Microsoft pays its intellectual workers a relatively high salary). If that had been the case, Microsoft would have gone bankrupt long ago: people would have chosen free systems like Linux which are as good as or better than Microsoft products. Millions of people are still buying Microsoft software because Microsoft has imposed itself as an almost universal standard, practically monopolising the field, as one embodiment of what Marx called the ‘general intellect’, meaning collective knowledge in all its forms, from science to practical knowhow. Gates effectively privatised part of the general intellect and became rich by appropriating the rent that followed from that. The possibility of the privatisation of the general intellect was something Marx never envisaged in his writings about capitalism (largely because he overlooked its social dimension). Yet this is at the core of today’s struggles over intellectual property: as the role of the general intellect – based on collective knowledge and social co-operation – has increased in post-industrial capitalism, so wealth accumulates out of all proportion to the labour expended in its production. The result is not, as Marx seems to have expected, the self-dissolution of capitalism, but the gradual transformation of the profit generated by the exploitation of labour into rent appropriated through the privatisation of knowledge." -
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“Effective February 8th, 2007, SuperMom’s and SuperAmerica will no longer offer decorated cakes and party trays. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
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Notes This just in: Mentally infirm now cleared for graphic design work…Just got a phone message:
Hi, my name is [whatever] and I’m doing a poster for [some thing] at Aqua Books. Can you send me a digital copy of your logo? My phone number is [blah, blah]. Thanks.
Um, sure I can do that. Let me just plug my USB into the phone. Or hey, how about giving me your email address?
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Notes An Old Lady Just Called……and asked if there was a restaurant nearby our store.
We have one right on site, I answered, EAT! bistro.
Oh, what do you serve?
If you have access to the Internet, you can look up our menu at EATbistro.ca.
Look it up? I’m just an old lady in a suite. That’s all. I can’t look anything up.
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Finally, an honest man…
An email I got today from a good Irish boy on the Subcontinent:
“Hello and Good Day!
I am Francis, Marketing Manager with a reputed online marketing company based in New Delhi, India.”
While most spammers claim to work for a reputable company, Francis cheerfully admits that his employer is only a reputed company. Now here’s an honest man. A Good Day to you too Francis, and the Luck of the Irish to ya!”
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I love Facebook. It’s awesome.
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This Year in History - 2000
In honour of our 2000th Tumblr follower, I give you the year 2000. In 2000, the world did not end.
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NotesInnovation & Limitation - A Lecture by Malcolm Gladwell on Social Media
This is the lecture Gladwell gave in Vancouver the other day at the F5 Expo. Runs about 50mins but I think it is definitely worth your time.
Really thought provoking. I can kind of see why some people at this conference didn’t enjoy it because these type of conferences are made to hype up what you’re already interested in and encourage you. But taken the right way I think it can improve how people use tools like facebook and twitter.
Anyway, I’d be really interested in what other tumblrs thought of Gladwell’s lecture. Maybe you don’t take twitter/tumblr/facebook as seriously as he is talking here, maybe you just use it to goof off or maybe do some personal branding for your work (where weak-ties would be useful). But surely we’ve all read articles on Obama using twitter to help build a following and saw the whole green avatar for Iran effort, and I think Gladwell really pulls the rug out from the idea that something like twitter is truly useful for that.
*update* So I obviously don’t use twitter for any kind of self-marketing but I do however use it as a place to attain info on a range of topics. That being said I went through my following list and managed to delete half the people I was following. I unfollowed people whose lives I didn’t feel very invested in* or people that didn’t consistently provide information (videos/articles/music/other such things that perk my interest) I was personally intrigued by.
*Honestly, there are people on twitter I don’t know whatsoever who talk about their lives constantly and for whatever reason I want to see what happens with their jobs/girlfriends/softball teams/etc… Kind of like The Hills.
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The space ship Enterprise NCC-1701D of Star Trek was fabricated in one-billionth scale by 30 kV Ga+ focused-ion- beam CVD using phenanthrene gas
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Crawling out of the Uncanny Valley: The Man Who Made a Copy of Himself.
[Hiroshi] Ishiguro controls this robot remotely, through his computer, using a microphone to capture his voice and a camera to track his face and head movements. When Ishiguro speaks, the android reproduces his intonations; when Ishiguro tilts his head, the android follows suit. The mechanical Ishiguro also blinks, twitches, and appears to be breathing, although some human behaviors are deliberately suppressed. In particular, when Ishiguro lights up a cigarette, the android abstains.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0kohf9gbR1qz5urdo1_500.jpg)
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Crawling out of the Uncanny Valley: The Man Who Made a Copy of Himself.
[Hiroshi] Ishiguro controls this robot remotely, through his computer, using a microphone to capture his voice and a camera to track his face and head movements. When Ishiguro speaks, the android reproduces his intonations; when Ishiguro tilts his head, the android follows suit. The mechanical Ishiguro also blinks, twitches, and appears to be breathing, although some human behaviors are deliberately suppressed. In particular, when Ishiguro lights up a cigarette, the android abstains.
