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Ivs
Profile Joined January 2008
Australia139 Posts
January 16 2010 07:31 GMT
#21
On January 16 2010 15:59 iloahz wrote:
Sources proving that:
Immediately after Google announced its intention to leave China on its official blog, everyone in Google China no longer had the ability to access the code server. They only found this after going to work in the morning and trying to access the home directory, and there were people writing code at the time but could not proceed anymore. All this happened very suddenly, and no one in Google China knew this was going to happen.

original chinese texts:
谷歌要退出中国了吗?谷歌总部借用一篇博客宣告“考虑关闭谷歌中国网站以及中国办事处”,不仅令舆论哗然,也将谷歌中国的员工们抛向巨大的失落。直到昨天早上,谷歌中国方面包括刘允在内的老总们都对此毫不知情。他们在上班后惊奇地发现,谷歌中国的内网已经全部切断。知情人士透露,“员工都很失落,但也没事情干,三三两两地玩游戏。”好在目前谷歌那一直让业界称羡的食堂还将正常运营几天,估计员工们还会继续来这里“玩游戏”,而且可以带薪休假。

sources:
http://yhnews.zjol.com.cn/xwzx/kjxw/201001/t20100114_291396.htm
http://www.bjd.com.cn/sdbd/201001/t20100114_555437.htm
http://cjmp.cnhan.com/whwb/html/2010-01/14/content_2558450.htm
http://www.xyw.com.cn/News/158/23/201001/39509_2.html
http://www.haixia.com/keji/it/20100114/50255_3.html
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/www.gx.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2010-01/14/content_18770384.htm
http://u.zcom.com/space-446592-do-thread-id-130656.html
http://www.022net.com/2010/1-14/464940242219102.html
http://big5.ce.cn/cysc/tech/07hlw/guonei/201001/14/t20100114_20032845.shtml
http://www.yidawo.com/html/dianzishangwu/201001/14-34450.html
http://www.javaeye.com/wiki/topic/570048


Do those links actually indicate theft of intellectual property from google? My chinese isn't great but I can't seem to find it in the bunch of ones i clicked. This whole "cutting google china out" thing could just be a preventative measure?
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
January 16 2010 07:44 GMT
#22
On January 16 2010 16:10 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2010 15:50 haduken wrote:
Android OS (The operating system behind the Nexus, G1 phones). It's google's open sourced mobile platform Operating System and used by google and other major corporations.

The Chinese android development team, consists of 100+ people will continue to remain in China after google.cn's pullout.

The OP is claiming that the source code server is cut off from China, how is that possible when much of the development for Android IS in China?

Didn't you just answer your own question?

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On January 16 2010 15:53 fight_or_flight wrote:
Use critical thinking skills. It makes a lot of sense. Does that make it true? Of course not, but neither does a "credible source" make something true.

And making sense AND having a credible source makes it more likely that it's true.


Open sourced doesn't mean that google don't have their own IP. I find it strange that android can continue while lacking resources from google.
Rillanon.au
igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
January 16 2010 08:12 GMT
#23
Chinese government weather balloon. Google was one of 30 businesses which were targeted, it google detected it in mid-December, which is why they waited over a month to block their own branch? And it's been described as an unprecedentedly sophisticated attack, comparable more to a attempts to hack into defense information.
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
January 16 2010 08:20 GMT
#24
On January 16 2010 15:35 Daemonarch wrote:
I hate the Chinese Goverment with SUCH passion... i hate all governments as a matter of fact, but the dudes over there are really fascist communists... the only form communism has taken place on this earth. Complete denial of privacy and fascistic behavior.

lololol fascist communists!!
that's a first
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
EmeraldSparks
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1451 Posts
January 16 2010 08:23 GMT
#25
On January 16 2010 17:20 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2010 15:35 Daemonarch wrote:
I hate the Chinese Goverment with SUCH passion... i hate all governments as a matter of fact, but the dudes over there are really fascist communists... the only form communism has taken place on this earth. Complete denial of privacy and fascistic behavior.

lololol fascist communists!!
that's a first

See also: Nazbols.
But why?
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
January 16 2010 08:41 GMT
#26
On January 16 2010 15:59 iloahz wrote:
Sources proving that:
Immediately after Google announced its intention to leave China on its official blog, everyone in Google China no longer had the ability to access the code server. They only found this after going to work in the morning and trying to access the home directory, and there were people writing code at the time but could not proceed anymore. All this happened very suddenly, and no one in Google China knew this was going to happen.

original chinese texts:
谷歌要退出中国了吗?谷歌总部借用一篇博客宣告“考虑关闭谷歌中国网站以及中国办事处”,不仅令舆论哗然,也将谷歌中国的员工们抛向巨大的失落。直到昨天早上,谷歌中国方面包括刘允在内的老总们都对此毫不知情。他们在上班后惊奇地发现,谷歌中国的内网已经全部切断。知情人士透露,“员工都很失落,但也没事情干,三三两两地玩游戏。”好在目前谷歌那一直让业界称羡的食堂还将正常运营几天,估计员工们还会继续来这里“玩游戏”,而且可以带薪休假。


can you post the source for this passage?


In normal situations Google would not have to do this. But in this case, Google could not trust Google China any more, because one (or many) of Google China's employees (who would also work for the Chinese government) have been stealing code and give them to the government.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
January 16 2010 09:14 GMT
#27
Remember, when the chinese media explains the real motivation behind people, the Dalai Lama becomes a violent terrorist who seeks the destruction of China.

And obviously Google China created a sophisticated application to download spyware through an internet explorer vulnerability, then systematically emailed employees with links to the spyware, instead of installing their trojans directly onto the computer they have access to.
Usurper
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Macedonia283 Posts
January 16 2010 12:47 GMT
#28
On January 16 2010 17:20 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2010 15:35 Daemonarch wrote:
I hate the Chinese Goverment with SUCH passion... i hate all governments as a matter of fact, but the dudes over there are really fascist communists... the only form communism has taken place on this earth. Complete denial of privacy and fascistic behavior.

lololol fascist communists!!
that's a first


Both are Totalitarian regimes, throughout history. Although ideologically Communism shouldn't be. Fascism grants supreme undeniable power to cult-persona. There was a documentary recently that clearly shoved that more people suffered and died due to Communist regimes (and their decisions there of), then Fascist. Not that i like any from the two.
I love humanity. It is people that i can't stand.
ghostWriter
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3302 Posts
January 16 2010 13:09 GMT
#29
On January 16 2010 15:35 Daemonarch wrote:
I hate the Chinese Goverment with SUCH passion... i hate all governments as a matter of fact, but the dudes over there are really fascist communists... the only form communism has taken place on this earth. Complete denial of privacy and fascistic behavior.


You can't be a fascist communist. It's like having a hot block of ice. They're diametrical political ideologies.
Sullifam
Dracid
Profile Joined December 2009
United States280 Posts
January 16 2010 13:12 GMT
#30
Nifty.

Now back up your claims that contemporary China is a fascist country where there's a complete denial of privacy and people are dying and suffering in significant numbers.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
January 16 2010 13:18 GMT
#31
On January 16 2010 22:09 ghostWriter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2010 15:35 Daemonarch wrote:
I hate the Chinese Goverment with SUCH passion... i hate all governments as a matter of fact, but the dudes over there are really fascist communists... the only form communism has taken place on this earth. Complete denial of privacy and fascistic behavior.


You can't be a fascist communist. It's like having a hot block of ice. They're diametrical political ideologies.

No, they're not. Communism is economics.
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Usurper
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Macedonia283 Posts
January 16 2010 14:56 GMT
#32
@ghostWriter, i over exaggerated with the attribute giving with a reason. Go figure it out what it is. And if you think the both are quote-on-quote "diametrical" regimes, you prolly have poor knowledge in history.

@Dracid, Youtube ban & Tiananmen Square Students protests of 1989. And the later being utter open crime against intellectuals to-be (emphasize on STUDENT). Really when i indulge myself in dreams of utopia i get nerd rage when i realize that stuff like these went through-out time unpunished. And i hear you, comming at me with "How do we punish that?". The answer is, abolish the regime that made the decision.
I love humanity. It is people that i can't stand.
Dracid
Profile Joined December 2009
United States280 Posts
January 16 2010 15:23 GMT
#33
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Not as many casualties, but emphasis on STUDENTS. So we should get rid of the US government as well? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to justify what happened at Tiananmen, but you really need something a little more substantial before saying the government should be abolished.

As for unpunished? Take a look at western imperialism, take a look at what the US did to Latin America, take a look at any number of other travesties commited by nations around the globe. If you think communist or fascist governments are the only ones who have done wrong to the world, you have a lot of history to learn.

As for youtube ban being a denial of privacy... I... I don't even know what to say. That's censorship from western influences, it has nothing to do with the privacy of Chinese citizens. It's funny because you actually don't have much of a right to privacy from the government in China, and yet you cite youtube censorship as why the government is tyrannical?
Usurper
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Macedonia283 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-16 16:24:55
January 16 2010 16:10 GMT
#34
@Dracid

Seriously four dead students? 67 rounds being fired for 13 seconds? For a cause? Yep, there wasn't no way around a group of 500( In T.Square 10,000!!) students (read: geeks) with firm ideology. Dude on Tiananmen Square, fucking tanks rolled. Rolled against the same values you and me enjoy for granted. You unprecedentedly mentioned US over Latin countries. We are debating regimes that are denying rights/torturing their own people. We have to look way ahead in a future, where one nation is giving everything to help some other nation, not for some UN publicity crap. That's a whole new topic what so ever.

And you see you even dare to think of banning youtube as some sort of censorship, instead of seeing it for what it is - prevention of information. Simple as that. Censorship deals with materials not suitable for some group of mass (Sexual Content - Kids, etc).

I cited youtube cause it was the first thing that popped on my mind and it is something most of us can relate.
I love humanity. It is people that i can't stand.
Dracid
Profile Joined December 2009
United States280 Posts
January 16 2010 16:37 GMT
#35
My point with the Kent State Shootings is that students being killed from protests isn't something exclusive to China. The scale is considerably different, but it's still a case of a government using lethal force in response to student protests.

As for regimes torturing their own people: slavery, genocides, etc. Plenty of countries have done terrible things to their own people as well. History is filled with examples of countries that have done terrible things to other countries as well as their own, and many of those governments are still going strong today. There's no reason to single out China as a country that has gone unpunished for its actions.

Prevention of information is censorship, check any dictionary. In this case, the government has decided that it's information that's not suitable for a group of people, the populace. It's debatable whether or not that's a good decision, but you've yet to explain how blocking access to youtube is a good reason to overthrow the government.

You say you HATE the Chinese government, yet you seem to know very, very little about it. The media points at them, tells you they're the bad guys, and you seem to just accept that. You talk as though the Chinese government makes life miserable for the population, when most Chinese would argue that the opposite is true. I guarantee you, life in China isn't nearly as bad as you think.
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-16 16:53:58
January 16 2010 16:53 GMT
#36
2 wrongs don't make a right.

I think people (Especially Chinese) should stop defending the Chinese government.

I feel alot of you are just arguing for the sake of arguing for China and not at the issue on hand.
Rillanon.au
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-19 02:01:09
January 19 2010 01:54 GMT
#37
hypocrisy is rampant in this world : ) -

"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-19 02:29:23
January 19 2010 02:11 GMT
#38
On January 16 2010 14:28 iloahz wrote:
Google could not trust Google China any more, because one (or many) of Google China's employees (who would also work for the Chinese government) have been stealing code and give them to the government.


If this was the reason, why not do the same thing to google USA? You think there are no agents in the US HQ? lol...
Chinese industrial espionage has always played with no-limit betting and they are good at it..
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
iloahz
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States964 Posts
January 19 2010 02:26 GMT
#39
Sorry I'm not going to disclose my chinese sources, but here are the English ones:

Google investigates employees on China cyber-attack
http://www.cnbc.com/id/34927194

Google employee role in Chinese cyberattack draws attention
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/01/google-employee-role-in-chinese-cyberattack-draws-attention/1
iloahz
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States964 Posts
January 19 2010 06:27 GMT
#40
Also, there have been rumors that Google is not going to pull out after all, supposedly after "talks" with the Chinese government. It is obvious that China does not want Google out. So they made a deal it would seem.
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