Category Archives: China

The Eight-honor and Eight-shame

In order to promote the great thoughts of our supreme party of the people and mother country (note that “party”, the Communist party, must be put in the front before anything) to all those gwai lous living in China, I hereby shamelessly copy-and-pasted the English version of the new thinking put forward by out party in this year, by which Chinese people are being educated, on TV, in taxis, posters on the streets, everywhere – the Eight-honor and Eight-shame (八荣八耻)!!!!!!!!

Eight-honor and Eight-shame (八荣八耻)

Honor to those who love the motherland,
and shame on those who harm the motherland.
以热爱祖国为荣、以危害祖国为耻

Honor to those who serve the people,
and shame on those who betray the people.
以服务人民为荣、以背离人民为耻

Honor to those who quest for science,
and shame on those who refuse to be educated.
以崇尚科学为荣、以愚昧无知为耻

Honor to those who are hardworking,
and shame on those who indulge in comfort and hate work.
以辛勤劳动为荣、以好逸恶劳为耻

Honor to those who help each other,
and shame on those who seek gains at the expense of others.
以团结互助为荣、以损人利己为耻

Honor to those who are trustworthy,
and shame on those who trade integrity for profits.
以诚实守信为荣、以见利忘义为耻

Honor to those who abide by law and discipline,
and shame on those who break laws and discipline.
以遵纪守法为荣、以违法乱纪为耻

Honor to those who uphold plain living and hard struggle,
and shame on those who wallow in extravagance and pleasures.
以艰苦奋斗为荣、以骄奢淫逸为耻

Reference: http://www.catti.net.cn/news/manage/news/news_show.asp?id=730

來自当当网的奇怪短信

前天突然收到一個莫名其妙的短信,內容如下:

恭喜您成为当当网VIP体验会员。VIP帐户名:xxxxxxx@yyyyyy.zzz 密码:dangdang,请查询当当网“我的帐户”

表面看這個短信好像沒甚麼特別,但是其中有兩個疑點。疑點一,我從來没有把我的個人資料給当当网,從來沒有注冊會員,更不用說曾經使用他們的服務了。疑點二,這個更可疑,短信裡面的那個VIP帳戶竟然是我留給卓越网作為通信電郵的那個電郵地址!我可以肯定那個電郵地址我只用在卓越网,因為我在不同的网站都是用不同的電郵地址的(不要問我為甚麼我有這麼多不同的電郵地址)。這個可不得了,当当网怎麼會擁有我的卓越网的個人資料?是因為這兩家網站有合作嗎?還是因為卓越网的會員資料被涉露了,或者被当当网的員工用某种方法取得卓越网的個人資料,換句話說就是被盜用了?

為了求證,我打了電話給当当网,当当网的客服說這個短信只會寄給已注冊的用戶。但問題是我從來沒有在当当网注冊過,客服人員幫我查到我的注冊時間,日期是 2006-05-22,就在十幾天前,我就莫名其妙的注冊了,而且電郵地址是我只會在卓越网用的那個,密碼也是一個簡單得過份的密碼 (dangdang),試問我又怎會用這種密碼呢。只能说,非常可疑。

RMS in Beijing

RMS in his preaching pose
RMS in “preaching” costume.

RMS gave a talk to the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group last night. The picture on the right is him in his “preaching” costume. Remember, when you’re talking with him, you have to speak logically and intelligently. This is one example. Ask him “Do you only use Free software?”, he will 100% answer “yes”, and then you can follow up with “Is your BIOS Free?” *grin*