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DailyTech - China Blocks iTunes After Olympic Athletes Download Tibet-themed Album

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On Monday China’s many internet users began to notice that they were unable to download songs from the popular Apple service iTunes.

Then someone noticed that was the day after Art of Peace Foundation announced the release of “Songs for Tibet,” with music by Sting, Alanis Morissette, Garbage and others along with a 15-minute talk by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader.  Now Michael Wohl, executive director of the New York City-based group, claims he has inside information on why iTunes has mysteriously malfunctioned on Chinese networks.

Mr. Wohl states in a phone interview, “We issued a release saying that over 40 (Olympic) athletes downloaded the album in an act of solidarity, and that’s what triggered it. Then everything got blocked.”

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PS3 News - Alison Carroll devient Croft, Lara Croft

New Lara Croft, she’s fucking hot. Click the source above for the video

(Warning: retarded dialect spoken in the video)

Here’s a list of a few very interesting articles by both DannyChoo.com and Japanmanship. They are great resources if you plan on getting a job in Japan.

DannyChoo talks a bit about the process of getting a job in Japan, and other options like making your own business or how to succeed making money out of your blog. Here are his articles:

Blog Related:
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/837/Blog+Monetization.html
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/954/Featured+Feeds+EX.html
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/958/Japanese+Media.html
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1014/Japanese+Magazines.html

Jobs related:
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/815/Japan+Proprietorship.html
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/615/Work+in+Japan.html
http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1506/Japan+Work+Benefits.html

Japanmanship is about a guy working in Japan, in a japanese videogames company, as a graphics artist (I think). He’s married to a Japanese and posts very often in his blog about his job and misc stuff about Japan and videogames. In the following articles, he tells us about how to prepare your CV and interviews and the steps to get ready to do the move:

http://japanmanship.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20giant%20leap
http://japanmanship.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20cast

http://www.ohmibod.com/indexJump.html

CatTrack - Track your cat via GPS and see what he’s looking at

http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/index.htm

DailyTech - Microsoft Tricks Diehard XP Users Into Liking Vista with “Mojave” Ruse

Inspired by an employee email from Microsoft’s David Webster, the Vista team gathered over 120 XP users in San Francisco who were critical of Windows Vista.  After being questioned on video about their Vista impressions, Microsoft told them it was giving them a stunning opportunity — the chance to view their secret operating system they had been cooking up, codenamed “Mojave”.  The excited users showed great enthusiasm for the new operating system, with over 90 percent giving positive feedback of the 10 minute demo of the system.

The comic twist is that there is no “Mojave” and it wasn’t a pre-release version of Windows 7.  “Mojave” was simply a fictitious title applied to a standard Windows Vista install.  Interestingly, the XP users seemed utterly unable to recognize Vista or its features, despite criticizing it.  Remarked one user on the new features, “Oh wow!”

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DailyTech - Report: Chinese Hotels Ordered to Spy on Olympic Guests’ Internet

Entire article by Dailytech

Journalists, fans, and support staff betrayed by false “open internet” pledge

A secret order to foreign-owned Chinese hotels compels them to spy on guests during the Olympic Games, according to a memo revealed Tuesday by U.S. Senator Sam Brownback.Brownback, a republican representing Kansas, said he received a document issued by the Chinese Public Security bureau, which orders hotels to install spying equipment on their internet connections and threatens owners with “severe retaliation” – including the possibility of losing their operating licenses – should they fail to comply.

“These hotels are justifiably outraged by this order,” said Brownback at a news conference Tuesday, noting that it forces them into the “awkward position” of having to “craft pop-up messages” informing guests of their loss of privacy.

Brownback said he received a copy of the original document, translated from Chinese, from attorneys representing two different “foreign-owned” hotel chains. The companies want to remain anonymous so that they don’t face further reprisal. Several other international hotel chains confirmed the order.

An AP report said the Chinese embassy was unavailable for comment.

According to the memo, hotels were told that “all hotel rooms and offices” are considered subject to “on-site or remote technical monitoring at all times.”

With little more than a week remaining before the 2008 Summer Olympics begin in Beijing, Chinese hotel owners appear to have little choice. Despite their outrage, hotel companies are more concerned about the long-term repercussions of non-compliance – failure to obey could place an entire company’s operations in jeopardy, potentially locking them out of a lucrative, growing Chinese market.

Meanwhile, athletes and participants staying at the Olympic Village have a unique set of woes for their internet access: an IT contractor recently leaked a list of rates for DSL service charged by BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games), with the cheapest option being a 512/512 kilobit line available for 11,700 RMB ($1716.05 USD).

“I just can’t believe that not only do I have to deal with the Great Firewall of China, but also pay through the nose to use it!” wrote the anonymous contractor.

According to Australian newspaper The Age, the International Olympic Committee issued a formal apology Wednesday for “misleading” the world’s press about the China’s “open internet” pledge. Senior IOC member Kevan Gosper, who originally delivered the promise of “unfettered freedom to report in China,” said he was unaware of the apparently backroom negotiations with Chinese censors, which will keep a number of “sensitive sites” blocked from access.

Age reporters said they were unable to access a number of sites involving human rights discussions, Tibet, and the Falun Gong, with merely intermittent access to a larger portfolio of websites including the New York Times, BBC China, al-Jazeera, Radio Free Asia, and Taiwanese newspapers.

BOCOG spokesman Sun Weide said that China promised journalists that they would “be able to use the internet for their work during the Olympic Games. So we have given them sufficient access to do that.”

NEW YORK (AP) — This doesn’t sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet’s addresses recently lost track of its own.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.

The attack was quickly noticed, and ICANN’s domain names were restored within 20 minutes. However, because many Internet directories retain information for a day or two, visitors could have been redirected to an unauthorized site for longer.

ICANN said Thursday that new, unspecified security measures should prevent such attacks in the future. The organization also said it was reviewing other security procedures.

The domain names hijacked were ICANN.com and IANA.com — for the ICANN subdivision known as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Visitors to those addresses are normally redirected automatically to the organization’s main sites at ICANN.org and IANA.org, neither of which was affected by the attack.

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