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让社会主义新文艺佔领一切午台（1967年。。。）

注意：VeryCD是电驴，不是BT的技术。看起来很多记者觉得是一样。。。

12月9日深度报道，“没有BT叫我怎么活啊？”从上周末开始，这样的流行语在网上此起彼伏。随着广电总局整肃国内BT下载网站传闻愈演愈烈，越来越多的网民开始担心未来的影视娱乐问题，不少网民甚至已经打出了重回“盗版光盘”时代的口号。

在国外著名BT分享网站海盗湾今年8月关闭，四位创始人被瑞典法院判处入狱1年之后，国内BT分享网站也首次迎来了“生死大考”。这一事件是否会催热国内一度冷淡的盗版光盘市场，这个话题也引起许多网民的关注。

腾讯科技在过去数日的调查发现，北京街头的盗版光盘摊贩最近随处可见，似乎有升温迹象。一到傍晚时分，在不少社区门口以及天桥等人流量大的位置，均能看到一些低声叫卖的盗版摊贩们。而在大型电子卖场，盗版光盘生意依然存在。

BT下载大限或本周来临 新“淘碟狂人”呼之欲出

据部分媒体透露，从12月11日（本周末）起，广电总局将展开下一批的非法视听站点的备案取缔工作。根据广电总局的《视听服务许可证》规定，任何不具有此资格证件的个人/组织视听服务网站，将被永久性的封禁。

实际上，BT关闭热潮从上周已经开始扩散。在国内知名网站BTChina被迫关闭之后，其他BT网站人人自危，不少网站均悄然关闭，就连“天天影视”等知名字幕组也宣布转型。

截至11月，广电总局今年以来查处关闭的违规视听节目网站已达414家。这些网站或者因为“无证”经营，或者因为存在色情、低俗等有害节目和侵权盗版等问题，已经被广电总局严惩。

网民更大的担忧还在于VeryCD、迅雷等下载网站的命运。昨日有消息称，VeryCD由于无法具备广电视听资格，也将在近期关闭或者转型。不过昨晚，VeryCD两位创始人否认了关闭的说法。

“如果没有BT，那我们以后该怎么看影视？”在腾讯科技近日的新闻评论中，多位网友均发出类似呼声。不少网友甚至表示，他们未来或许会重返“盗版光盘”时代。

南都周刊最近文章《御屏一代》曾预测:过去星星点点的淘碟狂，今天随处可见的视频达人，都将成为主宰明日世界的“御屏一代”，并在技术和商业的带动下，大步奔向越发庞大的流动视频世界。

不过，随着广电总局的一声令下，互联网免费内容时代或许从此终结，未来“御屏一代”的命运或许也会因此有所不同——可以预测的是，其中一部分人或许愿意再次成为“淘碟狂人”。

截至12月8日，腾讯科技发起的共有22，208名网友参与的调查显示，有93.65%的网友（共计20798位）表示经常使用BT网络下载服务，不经常使用BT下载的网友进展不到7%。BT服务的“生死大考”显然将影响到大多数网民的生活。

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A local company under China Mobile was Sunday accused of attacking China Telecom’s network in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, after four of its employees were caught calling China Telecom network with more than 200 cellphones at the same time last Monday.

Local police confirmed that over 200 China Telecom 3G mobiles had been found in the car last Monday and that the phones had been running for at least one hour on average.

Xu Weijie, director of a local office of China Telecom in the city, said he caught the China Mobile staff making the calls when looking for a parking space at Wenzhou University.

"They were deliberately interrupting our signal. This is not the only time they have sought to interfere with our signal in densely populated areas," he told China Daily Sunday.

The China Mobile firm employees claimed they were testing the capacity of the China Telecom signal tower in the area as some customers had complained it was weak.

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为了挽救陷入困境中的中国网络过滤软件’绿坝’的声誉，中国政府受中国青年互联网协会支持近日公布了一项调查，其结果表明只有百分之五的儿童反对该软件。 然而，其结果显示只有14%表示他们支持该软件，而80%的人说他们对此漠不关心。最多的儿童没有意见是因为。。。他们只是小孩！这样的调查没有关系跟小朋友关心什么。。。可能这个狗屎的调查真的是最笨的方法试一试让人民支持绿坝·花季护航。。。

据报道，中国媒体鼓吹其调查结果是通过收集中国主要城市的2500名6至13岁学龄儿童的投票而得。 据南华早报消息，这次受访的许多儿童承认不理解’色情’这一用语的定义。为了解决误解，教育青少年有关色情和绿坝功能的辅导课相应推出。 这项调查还发现，超过50%的父母受访者说该软件有可能保护孩子不看到不良内容，但26%的家长说他们对此无动于衷。近50%的家长表示他们将不会在家用电脑上安装该软件。

绿坝的研发耗资中国政府600万美元。
 
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Samsung announced its first solar powered mobile phone, the “Crest Solar” (E1107). The new handset enables its users to charge the battery anywhere the sun is shining when electricity is unavailable.

“The Crest Solar represents our effort and commitment to strengthen our leadership in the solar panel mobile market,” said Executive Vice President JK Shin, head of the Mobile Communication Division at Samsung Electronics.

The Crest Solar will be available in numerous markets including India, Europe, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and Latin America from June 2009.

With an extended solar powered battery, the Samsung Crest Solar solves the problem of unavailable or unstable electrical outlets, particularly in rural areas. The phone has the capacity to provide around 5~10 minutes of talk time with one hour of solar charging.* Moreover, the solar panel charging allows its users to save money and energy consumption on traditional electrical charging.

* Measured when the phone is turned-off under the sun light of 80,000 Lux.
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GPS is great when you’re doing outdoor activities, but coming back to your computer, it’s sometimes a little bit tricky to use the output data, in my case, namely the KML / KMZ file.

Indeed, the GPS terminal records coordinates, altitude & other info each X seconds. It means that if you record your track for a time with a high rate recording frequency, your KML file is going to include thousands of points…

Everything is fine with Google Earth when you import your KML file, but some issues appear when you wanna import it in Google Maps (for instance, the tracks will split in several parts).
Indeed, if your KML polygons have too many points, the file will be too big for Google Maps.
Only one solution: reduce the number of points (and coordinates).

Here comes GPSBabel.

GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers and mapping programs. It also has powerful manipulation tools for such data.
For instance, in order to reduce the number of coordinates, you just have to apply one of the filters:

It’s free and it works under Windows, MacOS and Linux!
 
 
Source:
http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html
 
 
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Huawei will enter into the smartphone market in the first half of 2009, and plans on producing devices running on the Symbian OS and Google’s Android platform.

The Chinese equipment maker did not disclose details on the models it plans to produce or even how many phones it will be launching, but confirmed it would be working with Symbian and Android.

"Windows Mobile is already well supported by a number of software developers, but with Android and Symbian we can demonstrate our own customisable software and services," James Chen, director of marketing at Huawei Terminals Business, said at a briefing in Shenzhen this week.

Huawei has said it plans on launching in North America in the next five years.

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China has relaxed access for foreign investors to its booming telecommunications industry by cutting minimum required investments, but retained a ban on foreign majority ownership of ventures.

The Cabinet decision Friday could help to attract new investment into an industry that is undergoing a sweeping government-mandated restructuring aimed at boosting competition.

The minimum capital required for a foreign-financed company to offer national-level or local basic services was cut by 50 percent, according to a notice on its Web site. But the Cabinet retained a restriction limiting foreign investors to owning no more than 49 percent of a company offering basic services and 50 percent for value-added services.

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Fresh in the wake of China’s massive wireless restructuring, execs are already on the offensive with fightin’ words that suggest true, standards-based 4G could be coming sooner rather than later. Though he says EV-DO Rev. A is still in the cards for the short term, China Telecom’s CEO says that GSM and CDMA networks alike will all converge to LTE in the country, thus signalling the abandonment of the CDMA-favored UMB migration path by yet another of the world’s wireless juggernauts. All told, it’s looking promising that the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries will be on the same cellular technology page within the next decade or so — but who would’ve thought the creator of TD-SCDMA would commit to being one of the first to flip the switch?
 
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China Mobile is reported to be planning a tender for the second phase of its TD-SCDMA network rollout, but not until following this August’s Olympic Games.

Sources told that China Mobile is - as widely expected - to be forced to stick with the Chinese developed 3G technology while its rivals China Unicom and China Telecom will be allowed to use CDMA or WCDMA as they prefer.

"China Mobile will not expand the network to other cities before the Olympics," said Fok Tung-ling, chairman of Comba Telecom Systems Holdings, one of the equipment suppliers to China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA networks. However, he then confirmed that the mobile operator is expected to tender for a contract to expand the network after the Olympics. "The next phase of the TD-SCDMA network expansion will not be limited to the existing 10 cities, and is likely to be aggressively rolled out on the mainland," Mr Fok added.

China’s CCID Consulting issued a report earlier this year which predicted that the country would have 51 million TD-SCDMA subscribers by 2011. CCID Consulting forecast that after an introduction period of deployment in 2008, TD-SCDMA will enter a peak period of deployment between 2009 and 2011.

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I’m often speaking about censorship in China mainland, but don’t forget that it also happens in the most beautiful self-proclaimed "democracy", namely, the U.S.
Frightening…

The transparency group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire. The main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a restraining order relating to a series of articles and documents released by WikiLeaks about off-shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The WikiLeaks whistle blower, allegedly former vice president of the Cayman Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, states in the WikiLeaks documents that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from around the world. WikiLeaks alternate names remained available until Saturday, when there seems to have been a heavy DDoS attack and a fire at the ISP. The documents in question are still available on other WikiLeaks sites, such as wikileaks.be, and are also mirrored on Cryptome. Details of the court documents have also been made available.

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