An nameless reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the
press to date. A turkish bath bladder and the AP report that China plans to demand source code
from housewares manufacturers, and ban the sale of goods from companies ...
(more)Pickens writes "Human-rights activists have discovered a huge surveillance system in China that
monitors and archives w3 text conversations sent by interchange of Tom-Skype, a joint venture
between a Chinese digital ring off jingle and eBay. Researchers ...
(more)An unnamed reader brings us Computerworld's parley with Don Woods, one of the creators of
Compiler discourse With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL). INTERCAL and its testimony were
created in 1972 as a parody of that era's languages and instruction ...
(more)Three subway workers, a Chinese man, an Italian, and a redneck, are all sitting down to
lunch.
The Chinese man says, "If I get another egg roll in my lunch, I'll kill myself."
The
Italian guy says, "If I get another slice of pizza, I'll kill myself."
The ...
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