Attacking by oblique means and stealthy feints since 2007
Remember last month when Baidu was hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army?
Well, Domain Name Wire explains the hi-tech coding techniques used to perpertrate the crime:
Here’s how Baidu alleges the hacker got access to one of the world’s most popular web sites domain name account in under an hour: Read the rest of this entry »
If you are one of these lucky 1500 ladies mentioned in the story, TFF would love to hear from you….
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http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90872/6839840.html
Nowadays, there is a popular saying among Japanese girls that goes “What we want is Chinese food and men, not French lovers or American houses.” This means Japanese girls have lost their interest in French and American men. In Japan, men from China are becoming more popular with Japanese girls. More than 1,500 Japanese girls married with Chinese men last year, an increase of 30 percent, which is the highest in history. A representative from Japan’s China information research institute told the reporter that the quick development of China’s economy and Chinese people getting richer are the most important reasons for Japanese girls changing their appetites. Also because Japan has more women than men and Japanese men compared to Chinese men are generally less capable when it comes to being both a considerate family man and a breadwinner. Today’s Japanese men feel much more inferior compared with men from China because they found what they are lacking is not little. By People’s Daily Online
The Guardian reports on a Chinese clothing company that has angered Iranians by creating a line of jeans bearing the Islamic expression “In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful”.
A Chinese clothing manufacturer probably thought it was on to a winner by exporting jeans bearing the Islamic expression “In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful” to Iran. But an otherwise sound marketing ploy was undone by one embarrassing flaw: the phrase (Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim in Arabic), which graces each of the Qur’an’s 114 chapters, was prominently displayed on the pockets of the jeans’ backsides, something likely to be seen as disrespectful by devout Muslims.
The Guardian is quoting Asriran.com who is accusing China of “attacking Iranian Muslim sacred symbols in the most offensive manner”. Also, the importers of the Jeans have been arrested.
Wuhan made headlines a couple of months ago when the chengguan, “urban management” officers in charge of enforcing public order, simply surrounded and stared at an illegal street vendor until he was shamed into leaving. This was news because chengguan are typically expected to use more forceful methods to clear out the riffraff.
Now Wuhan’s chengguan are taking it a step further and deputizing a foreigner to put help save Wuhan from utter chaos by forcing shopkeepers to move boxes of bottled water off the sidewalk:
It appears Shanzhai culture is spreading beyond China. This Shanzhai rocket launcher was captured by the IDF in the Palestinian territories.
Let’s hope that the makers of this launcher don’t team up with this guy.
Megan Ko of Pacific Epoch on some fascinating CS-related news:
Reason to build a theme park on the site of the 5.12 earthquake: “This place used to be a plain field … no one really died on this spot.” That wisdom direct from the general manager of construction colossus Baoshan Group, the company that chose to “build” a 6.6 hectare Counter Strike-like battlefield within Sichuan’s quake zone. China Daily reported the news yesterday in an article that’s just plain weird. . .
“It was the perfect setting for a sprawling battlefield – open spaces to run around, ruins to duck behind, and guns to eliminate the enemy. Only, the war had to be fun, a game, the guns innocent, and the enemies your friends.”
Ko mentions some online opposition to the park. I can see how some people are going to be sensitive about anything of this nature being built so soon after the earthquake. But this idea seems like a no-brainer, given the popularity of CS in China. A CS theme park makes perfect sense, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see multiple parks in a few years.
The news have been full lately of China’s dispatch of three warships to fight pirates of the coast of Somalia and Black and White Cat posted yesterday about a “stirring song to commemorate the mission to defeat the pirates of Somalia”:
The Cat has even gone one step further and took the time to translate it, as follows:
Make haste to Somalia, cruise the Gulf of Aden
With lofty sentiments, the Chinese navy heads for the deep blue
Braving wind and waves, the warship’s flag flutters, The Chinese navy, a bright sword to harmonize the ocean.Chinese warriors, valiant men with iron wills,
Intrepid journey, 600 years after Zheng He.
Heroic sailors, forge bravely ahead,
Bearing heavy responsibility, the motherland will see our triumphant return.
Play it loud, dont play it low. Blow your speakers!
MUL Adds: Borrowing media relations tactics from the U.S. in Iraq, they even embedded a reporter with the ship!
Israel’s Calcalist (Hebrew only) reports on quite a little scandal at the Israeli embassy in Beijing. According to the newspaper, the consul in the newly opened Israeli consulate in Shenzhen is under heavy criticism for choosing to live in…
Beijing!
According to the article, the newly appointed consul has been living in the nation’s capital for the last three months and has been commuting to work on a weekly basis. Not only that, according to the article his weekly travel expenses amount to USD 2,000 which is approximately RMB 14,000, and which also seems to me just a little too much…
Frankly, I don’t understand why he didn’t just stay in Tel Aviv. Not only is the weather much nicer but return flights to Hong Kong only cost around USD 1,000 or so…
Fortunately I am not the only one that thinks that there is something wrong with this picture and an official complaint has been filed with the Israeli State Comptroller.
What is it with Israeli politicians and their love for air travel?
The register is reporting that China is about to take measures to clamp down on lip-synching:
China’s ministry of culture has announced a clampdown on miming professional musos, marking an end to lip-synching and fake guitar strumming…
…the new regs will not affect amateur performers such as Lin Miaoke, who famously mimed Ode to the Motherland at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
The ministry’s Sun Qiuxia said it would first “consult with the public over the next few weeks, before agreeing final details of new rules on commercial performances”.
Nator, in case you were worried, the new regulations will not apply to Air guitar, so we are definitely still on for next Friday!
As reported by Ars Technica:
Those who are using pirated versions of Windows—particularly those in China—are getting riled up over Microsoft’s latest tactic to “encourage” them to purchase legit copies. The software giant recently began issuing an update that changes users’ desktop backgrounds to a black wallpaper with a reminder to switch to a legal copy of Windows as part of the Windows Office Genuine Advantage program. Now, Chinese users in particular are getting up in arms over the tactic, saying that Microsoft is violating their rights and isn’t thinking of its users.
How dare they! Read the rest of this entry »