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T-U-P · 07-06-2009

ok... did you install any add-on? because some of them are known to be causing random crashes, for example:

Firefox randomly closes down
actually a lot of people have installed this AVG safe search and are experiencing crashes.

cmb=1968 · 07-06-2009

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Originally Posted by bladerunner

I also have a problem even when Im logged in, it wont let me edit my posts properly. I can add extra comments, but it wont always let me delete phrases or words. Up pops a message which says I cant/have permission to do that and please log in, but I already am. Even after I log in again at the request, it still wont work.. Most frustrating.. It does it on IE and FF

I get that problem too.

luhai · 07-06-2009

I had the same problem until I uninstalled all add-ons and re-installed adobe flash player. you should give it a try too. Also my video can't play unless I took off hardware acceleration in adobe flash player. something must be really screwy in the later software releases. (perhaps, too many programmer got laid off..)

crobato · 07-21-2009

Foxconn Worker's Suicide in China Linked to Missing Apple iPhone - Digits - WSJ

Reports of Suicide in China Linked to Missing iPhone

"News media in China are reporting that a 25-year-old employee of Foxconn, which manufactures products for Apple there, committed suicide last week after being interrogated about a missing prototype for a new iPhone.

According to publications that include Shanghai Daily, Sun Danyong, a recent engineering graduate, jumped out of the window of his apartment last Thursday. The reports said Sun, who had been tasked with sending iPhone prototypes to Apple, had been under suspicion for stealing after one of the handsets went missing. Some publications reported that, in the days prior to his suicide, Sun had been detained and beaten by a senior official in the security department of the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant. "

Read the rest of the story on the above link.

bd popeye · 08-04-2009

This is totally jacked up....A very tragic story.

Teenager dies in Internet rehab in China - China News - SINA English

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BEIJING, Aug. 4 -- A teenager was allegedly beaten to death by counselors at an Internet addiction rehabilitation clinic in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The 15-year-old middle school graduate, surnamed Deng, was pronounced dead around 3 am Sunday at Wuxu town health center in Nanning, China's national radio website cnr.cn reported on Sunday.

The medical record showed the boy had no pulse or blood pressure when he was taken to the hospital.

Police have detained the suspects, the report quoted an anonymous official with Nanning public security bureau as saying.

On Saturday afternoon, the boy's parents took him to the camp - a branch of the Guangzhou Lizhi Training Center for Youth Growth. Teachers in the camp put Deng in confinement and beat him in the evening, the report said.

He was to stay in the camfrom Aug 1 to Sept 1 in order to "get away from bad behavior, regain confidence and establish positive life attitudes," according to an agreement Deng's parents signed with the center.

"The center can take necessary approaches including punishment to educate the teenager, as long as the approaches will not abuse the child or impair his health," the agreement said.

The center charged 7,000 yuan ($1,000) and promised to "take care of Deng, and supervise the teenager 24 hours a day in the first few days of the training".

Deng's parents wanted the camp to treat Internet addiction (IA) for their son who had no criminal record or other behavioral problems, the unnamed parents told the report.

Experts and educators yesterday denounced the camp's extreme act.

"Though there is no nationwide diagnostic standard and the IA recovery sector is still in its beginning stages, the tragedy shouldn't have happened," said Jiang Pu, Beijing bureau director of New Taste Family Education Institute.

"This kind of punishment for treating IA should be banned," he said.

Xia Lingxiang, a psychology professor with Chongqing-based Southwest University, said the government should invest more into research to find the physiological and psychological mechanism of IA and then formulate a diagnostic standard.

"Before the standard is set, all scientific approaches could be adopted to treat IA, but extreme approaches are unacceptable," he said.

As of Sunday, more than 100 juveniles were still being "guided and trained" in the camp, it reported.

Deng's parents arrived in the city from Ziyuan county of Guilin city on Sunday evening.

"We have not heard about the incident yet," a press official of Nanning, who declined to be named, told China Daily yesterday.

China Daily tried to contact the health center, but a doctor only giving her surname as Li was unclear whether the boy's body was moved and refused to comment further.

The camp's organizer also could not be reached.

China has 320 million Internet users. More than 10 million teenagers of the country's 100 million teenage Internet users are Internet addicts, according to China Youth Internet Association's survey last year.

However, the lack of a nationwide diagnostic standard on IA has caused controversy over approaches to treatment.

Last month, the Ministry of Health banned the use of electroshock therapy in the treatment of IA.

(Source: China Daily)

T-U-P · 08-05-2009

most parents in china have a habit of listening to the so-called experts when it's something regarding their children. A lot of people have used this as an opportunity to make dirty money.

crobato · 08-06-2009

Major DDoS attacks against all social networking sites last night, including Twitter and Facebook. Twitter appeared down for a few hours, but is back up. Facebook seemed to have suffered slowdowns.

bd popeye · 08-09-2009

Arrest have been made in the case of the young man that lost his life at the internet addiction camp.

Camp closed, 13 detained over death of teenage Net addict - China News - SINA English

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An illegal Internet rehabilitation camp has been shut down and 13 workers, including its president, have been detained following the death of a 15-year-old in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The action comes one week after the death of Deng Senshan, a middle school graduate from Ziyuan, also in Guangxi, who was allegedly beaten to death by counselors at the Qihang Salvation Training Camp, where he was receiving treatment for Internet addiction.

Li Jian, Deng's uncle, has said his nephew's addiction was not severe and that the teenager only surfed the Internet on weekends.

"If we could choose again, we would not have sent him to the camp even if his addiction to the Internet had become worse, as long as he would be alive," Li told China Daily.

"We hope the government will find the reason behind my nephew's death and severely punish the ones who are guilty."

In photographs shown to China Daily, Deng's body is pictured with bruises and his face is covered in blood.
Those photos are in shocking contrast to ones taken just 48 hours before, showing Deng smiling with his father and sister on the beach.

The 13 suspects, including camp president Xia Zheng and counselors, are under investigation for allegedly inflicting intentional injuries and for illegal operation of a camp, said Zhang Shuhui, vice-chief of the Jiangnan district of Nanning.
"Authorities will try their best to solve the case and punish the criminals," Zhang said.

The government closed the camp last Friday and its 122 participants were sent home. Zhang said the camp had not been registered with the proper departments.

"Local police will continue hunting for other suspects involved in the boy's death," Zhang said, without indicating how many suspects authorities were pursuing.

Li said Deng was sent to the camp because his parents wanted him to overcome his Internet fixation.

"He could have been alive, if only the camp paid more attention to him," Li said.

"Senshan had good scores at school before his parents bought him a computer, and then he spent a lot of time online. His parents and school teachers tried to persuade him to stop but he didn't listen," Li said.

According to an agreement the parents signed with the camp, the boy was to stay in the camp from Aug 1 to Sept 1 to "get away from bad behavior, regain confidence and establish positive life attitudes".

The agreement allowed the camp to punish the teenager, as long as this did not involve abuse or injury.
Li alleged that the boy was placed in solitary confinement within hours of his arrival and was beaten to death for running too slowly.

Deng was pronounced dead at Wuxu town health center about 3 am on Aug 2.

Li said that police notified the boy's father, Deng Fei, of his son's death.

Camp president Xia told Shanghai Morning Post last Friday: "In the camp, several counselors ordered Deng Senshan to run about 5,000 m, but the boy didn't finish it and became rebellious. So, he had some conflicts with counselors."
Police immediately detained four suspects, who were in charge of training at the camp.

Xia was quoted as saying that one suspect was a retired special forces officer, two were graduates from a sports school and one was experienced in outdoor training.
Deng had a high fever at 2:30 am, and was sent to hospital.

Zhang said authorities were urging that Deng's parents be compensated.

crobato · 08-14-2009

Worth a mention.

Chinese government backs down on the Green Dam software requirement.

China explodes Green Dam | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com

By Richard Koman

In a rare retreat, it now looks like the Chinese government has given up on Green Dam-Youth Escort.

The New York Times reports that the information technology and industry minister, Li Yizhong, said the idea that the program would be required to be installed on all computers sold in the country was a “misunderstanding” created by poor drafting.

The Thursday statement by Mr. Li appeared to make that suspension permanent. Mr. Li said the government would neither require the program to come pre-installed on new computers or force computer makers to include the program on a CD with optional software.

Even so, the software is still mandatory in Internet cafes and schools. Writing for the Atlantic, Daniel Indiviglio writes:

That must have been quite a misunderstanding. U.S. computer companies were pretty sure the regulation required the software on all computers they would sell in China. So sure that their complaints led to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk sending a joint letter to China demanding that the regulation be altered, or else they would formally lodge their grievance to the World Trade Organization.

kliu0 · 08-17-2009

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Originally Posted by T-U-P

most parents in china have a habit of listening to the so-called experts when it's something regarding their children. A lot of people have used this as an opportunity to make dirty money.

It's unfortunate such a thing happened. Perhaps it'll let other parents think twice about sending their kids to "internet rehab". You'll never know what can happen there.

I'm just curious why China has a internet problem, while other countries which grew economically around the same time with China doesn't.

crobato · 08-19-2009

Its an internet addiction problem. Potentially the brain might be hardwired to respond to certain stimuli. In a sense, internet search, blogging, microblogging, forums, social networking, and social gaming such as MMOs can be very addicting, and all are pretty big in China.

crobato · 08-21-2009

Chinese court jails software pirates.

China jails Windows software pirates by AFP: Yahoo! Tech

Excerpt:

"BEIJING (AFP) -

A court in eastern China has sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in prison for selling bootleg versions of Microsoft's Windows XP software, court officials said Friday.

State media described the case against Hong Lei, who created the "Tomato Garden" version of Windows XP -- and three others as the country's biggest ever on software copyright infringement."

bd popeye · 12-11-2009

Wow! I did not realize this thread has been dead for nearly 4 months!!

Question gents..Which browser is best compatible with SDF and other Vbulletin forums.? I've had trouble with Firefox lately..It's slow with this site and all the photos sometimes don't load. IE8 is better but when scrolling there is a wave effect. There are other things I don't like about IE8..

So should I switch to still yet another browser? Any clues??

SteelBird · 12-11-2009

There are 3 browsers I've tried so far; IE is reliable but slow, it takes you a cup of coffee before everything is loaded. Google's browser (Oop, I forget its name) always crashes. Firefox is still the best for me. But recently, the picture threads always display half pictures (as you mentioned in another thread). I wonder if this is the fault of the browser or the site. By the way, do you have the latest version of Firefox? Mine is 3.5.5

kliu0 · 12-11-2009

I am a full time Chrome user, unless theres something that is unviewable I jump back to IE. IE is still very reliable, but a resource hog nonetheless.

Yes, Chrome does crash, but not as often as before.

Why can't anyone make a perfect browser?

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