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China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repressionOur children should be so lucky!If our government would protect our children from porn, maybe we wouldn't have may of the problems we have in our society with our children and sex!RE: China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political...

Tags: Chinese Government, porn obsession, repression, political repression, coverup

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Amnesty International seeks to end Net repression

Amnesty International seeks to end Net repressionOh no, not repressionDo we even want Amnesty's brand of utopia?Protesting against Internet censorship? What the heck does that even mean? Why shouldn't governments be entitled to control the data traffic through their borders? How is data any different than controlling anything else that...

Tags: Vertical industries, repression, Amnesty International, censorship, government

Discussion threads 2006-05-29

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Apology solicited for death of computing founding father Turing

Point of clarification He was convicted of sodomy, not homosexuality. There is a difference.Indeed he wasHe was convicted of sodomy - but as I wrote, this was covered under an act of law (which for the life of me, cannot find a link or a name of the act of...

Tags: monarch, homosexuality

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

How long can Apple dodge the antitrust bullet?

huh?I do not believe that your equivalence chart actually puts apples to apples. Third party software does not need to be approved before it is sold. OEMs dont need to have their software approved by microsoft before they install it. Way to attempt to make an argument...

Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Operating systems, antitrust, PC, Apple Inc., single source, Microsoft Corp., dominant personal computer, WinPC, operating system, sales

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good enough to pay for? Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, HD-DVD, Jason Perlow, SOA, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-06-29

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

The thing that stinks - to Western noses - about this whole Green Dam story is the idea that China wants to go to all this trouble, to the point of having a serious showdown with the U.S. over it, over porn. I mean, porn ... if people want it,...

Tags: Google Inc., Pornography, Government, Vertical Industries, TVs, Benefits, Healthcare, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for IranIranians should demand an American invasionIf some Iranians would petition us, we should folow through with the operation Iran's freedom.This operation will be a lot cheaper and more successfull than the Iraq's freedom in 2003.But Obama is...

Tags: Leadership, Neda, Obama, Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran

Could one bullet take down the Iranian regime? When that bullet kills an innocent young woman and her last minutes are captured on cellphone and played over and over again on YouTube, it's possible. Especially if the Iranian government continues to act with...

Tags: Web, Bullet, Video, Corporate Communications, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-23

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam fray

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam frayUh?Did our embassy forget that China is a communist country underneath it all? As sad as it is, the Chinese government can do practically anything it wants. Good luck. RE: US Embassy joins in the Green Dam frayAnd this from...

Tags: Manufacturing, Green Dam, Green Dam fray, Embassy, manufacturer, fray

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam fray

The U.S. government is stepping into the outrage over Green Dam - Youth Escort - China's government-mandated spyware PC makers install on every computer sold in the country. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing released a "concerned" statement: The U.S. Government is...

Tags: China, Industry, Outrage, Computer, Government, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-21

China demands new PCs carry spyware

There comes a time when despite the allure of the market, Western industry should band together and turn its back on China. A time when the computer and Internet industry realizes that the censorship-and-repression tax the government is intent on levying is too high a price...

Tags: Software, China, PC, Spyware, Computer, Tools & Techniques, Government, Internet, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-08

On eve of Tianamen anniversary, China blocks Twitter, Flickr, Bing

This can't be any surprise. But we will not forget. According to reports, with the 20th anniversary of Tianamen Square China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Microsoft's new Bing search engine on a massive scale. And the repression goes beyond...

Tags: China, Flickr, Twitter, Huffington Post, Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-03

The "erotic services" shell game: hypocrisy online

It is memorialized as the world's oldest profession. The movie Pretty Woman glamorized it. Congressmen and Governors get in trouble over it. But what it isn't, is on craigslist anymore. A group of state attorneys general's have browbeat craigslist into closing the "erotic services" section. ...

Tags: Service, Adult Service, Hair, Internet, Web 2.0, Games, Storage, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! 1.0.12 (Mac)

Crazy title. Crazy fun. In the 1920s, young women had a chance to change society--by misbehaving. Immerse yourself in passionate, social upheaval. Flirt, taunt, play poker, and shave your legs to plow through superstition, intolerance, repression, and last century fashions. Uncover the town's depraved secret before it entraps your girls.Each...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Girl, Mousechief, Games, Gender And Diversity, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-03-18

Reporters Without Borders lists repressive regimes

The "Enemies of the Internet" â€" according to a Reporters Without Borders report are Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. These countries have all "transformed their Internet into an Intranet in order to prevent their population from accessing ‘undesirable’ online...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Borders Books & Music, Internet, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-12

China cracks down on porn

China cracks down on pornChina cracks down on pornNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!RE: China cracks down on pornI think this is great! I only wish that the U.S. could implement mandatory porn filtering.RE: China cracks down on pornChild porn is still one of the biggest problems, much of it from the Far East. As...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Network technology, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct

Internet companies have reached agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other repressive countries, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced yesterday. “I commend Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and other participants for agreeing on the principles of an internet freedom code of conduct,”...

Tags: Google Inc., Censorship, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Code Of Conduct, Internet, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Inside China's Golden Shield

"The connection was reset." That's the message Firefox gives me when I try to connect to a link posted by a Chinese commenter to this blog. A similar error message is the title of a fascinating piece by James Fallows...

Tags: China, Error Message, James Fallows, Internet, Tcp/Ip, Government, Productivity, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses

It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...

Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Moroccan sentenced for imitating prince on Facebook

Moroccan sentenced for imitating prince on FacebookDon't know the details of the case......but that sounds like a fairly serious "gag". Maybe he should have asked the prince first.RE: Moroccan sentenced for imitating prince on FacebookCybercrime should be prosecuted like any other crime. This person obviously stole the identity...

Tags: Morocco, identity theft, Moroccan, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-02-23