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Comment on On ‘cyber war’ not existing by Toby Simpson

Toby Simpson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:18:50 +0000

intellectual property is not really respected in most countries in asia where piracy is so rampant.’.~

Comment on Google’s SSL shift helps schools, China censor search by Graham Webster

Graham Webster — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:22:39 +0000

@SirSteven I think you’re right about this, though I thought I had checked this and gotten something on the encrypted.google.com.hk site. Now, on one proxy where DNS gets routed through the US, I get an error. On another, I get the same error from China Unicom, despite the fact that the connection goes through the US. I’m going to look back at this and correct as needed.

The punch of the post may be gone, but I stand by the analysis that making “encrypted” part of the domain rather than the protocol is a troublesome step.

Comment on Google’s SSL shift helps schools, China censor search by SirSteven

SirSteven — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:02:34 +0000

but encrypted.google.com.hk doesn’t even exist (I just tried it with my VPN on, and also with it turned off), so the page that you saw – and presumed to be an error/blocking page – was actually just one of those ISP landing pages. My ISP is China Telecom, so I got their landing page instead.

Comment on Google’s SSL shift helps schools, China censor search by Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:35:12 +0000

Lots of websites are blocked in China and the list keeps changing from day to day. To keep updated with which they are, check out http://www.greatfirewall.biz

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Comment on Things I want in an academic writing workflow by Graham Webster

Graham Webster — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:39:22 +0000

@Sebastian: Thanks for the info, and especially for telling me about LyX. This I imagined must exist but never found in my medium-effort searches.

The hard thing for me is whether to invest time and experience in Mendeley or to hold my breath for the advertised Zotero desktop client…

Comment on Things I want in an academic writing workflow by Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:33:34 +0000

Some of these are trade-offs of course: E.g. I’d say that Zotero Ooo integration is better and more stable than Mendeley’s, but Zotero doesn’t fulfil your 2nd criteria.

Anyway – for word processor you might have a look at Lyx – it’s a LaTeX based, quasi WYSIWYG editor that’s GUI based. I know Zotero better than Mendeley, so I know that Zotero directly integrates with Lyx using a plugin called LyZ, but since Mendeley has very tight BibTeX integration, I’m sure that would work well, too.
http://www.lyx.org/
unsurprisingly it’s free and open source.

Comment on Open access, public investment can drive broadband development by Liam Martin

Liam Martin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:28:43 +0000

The telephone system we are using today still uses the legacy Tip and Ring -48 Volts line which is susceptible to noise.~:’

Comment on On ‘cyber war’ not existing by Max Wood

Max Wood — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:40:10 +0000

Most countries in the third world never respects intellectual property rights. piracy is so rampant in asian countries.*;-

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