Foreigners Forbidden (Guess the country)

[Boba Fett]

Foreigners Forbidden

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 | By: Kendall Tyson

We have all seen a few weird bits of Chinese signage in our time, but we think this is one of the best. Bowler hats, pipes, Native American head-dress, turbans and a fair bit of questionable Chinese—what the heck is going on with this photograph? This hilarious, and yes, probably, racist photo has been floating around online since at least 2011 and popped up on Twitter earlier today.

Aside from the terrible stereotypes, the Chinese at the bottom of the sign is just a little wacky: “bu dui” and “ xiao qu,” are standard Mandarin on the Chinese mainland, however the characters are in traditional not simplified Chinese which is no longer used on the mainland. While “waiguojiren” sounds like something straight out of Google Translate. Hmm.

 

[imperialarms]

Is it Taiwan?

 

[Boba Fett]

Is it Taiwan?

Land of Uncouth

Kings of counterfeits

Land of cheats

 

[Boba Fett]

Illegal medical practices curbed: health authority

Xinhua, January 23, 2014

China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said on Wednesday that illegal medical practices have been contained after a three-month crack-down.

The NHFPC said on its website that awareness of laws applied to medical practitioners and institutions has been strengthened, while people's consciousness of boycotting illegal practices has increased.

In October, China launched a special campaign to crack down on this issue. Illegal clinics and family planning services, as well as doctors without medical qualifications, were major targets.

The campaign also focused on the illegality of embryo sex appraisal unless medically necessary, and of sex-selective termination of pregnancy. Hospital scalpers were also punished.

Chen Xiaohong, the NHFPC's vice minister, said the supervision responsibility of the health authority has increased a lot as various policies were put into effect to promote health services and encourage social organizations to operate hospitals.

He urged health departments at all levels to make further contributions.

 

[Boba Fett]

Hackers blamed for online crash affecting millions

Shanghai Daily, January 23, 2014

China yesterday blamed hackers for a massive Internet access glitch that affected users of websites ending with ".com" on Tuesday afternoon.

The problems have been fixed and services are being restored, officials said.

The crash of servers in China, which also affected popular domestic sites such as baidu.com and QQ Mail, was caused by hacker attacks, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's emergency response team CNCERT said.

The Internet was almost fully restored by 4:50pm on Tuesday, 90 minutes after the crash, CNCERT said.

Qihoo 360, a Beijing-based online security firm, said the crash affected millions of Internet users, the entire dot-com industry and even the country's economy, with tourism, airline, e-commerce, IT services and social networking sites unavailable.

"I couldn't use any Internet services except for instant message service QQ. It drove me crazy," said Zhang Xue, an executive with an overseas trading firm based in Shanghai.

More than two-thirds of domestic DNS (domain name system) servers were out of action on Tuesday afternoon. Though most Internet traffic has been restored, a full restore would need 48 hours after the crash, which began at 3:10pm on Tuesday, Qihoo 360 said.

DNS servers play important roles in transferring Internet addresses to a serial number address computers can recognize.

Chinese users were redirected to inaccessible addresses in North Carolina. That was the reason why users could only see "cannot connect to server" messages on their screens.

The top 13 DNS servers are in the United States, Japan, Holland and Sweden. China needs to build its own top-level DNS server for national security, Qihoo 360 said.

There was speculation in the online community that the crash was an attempt by US hackers to test China's online national security ability and response speed.

CNCERT said it was still trying to identify the source of the attack. Previously, Western media reports had blamed Chinese hackers for attacks on US government bureaus, something China denied.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

That's a very good sign but here's a problem that i have mentioned. Ppl always get more offended if a chinese did it compared to say if it was a sign in indian.

 

[Leongsam]

The Chinks and the Ah Nehs are the most racist scum on earth.

They also complain more about being the victims of racism than anyone else.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

The Chinks and the Ah Nehs are the most racist scum on earth.

They also complain more about being the victims of racism than anyone else.

wrong kelings are more racist and complain the most.

 

[DollarsNoSense]

PRC - this is a residential area for military personnel and their families

 

[laksaboy]

Why do all the foreigners wear fancy hats?

 

[WildestDreams]

Chinese censors’ blunder caused massive internet blackout: US experts

After Chinese government claims it was a cyberattack, more analysts come out to say huge glitch was caused by China's own internet police

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 23 January, 2014, 2:41pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 23 January, 2014, 4:00pm

Staff Reporter

Photo: Reuters

An effort by China’s internet police to block “subversive” sites misfired and caused the massive internet blackout this week, which saw Chinese web traffic diverted to US servers owned by a company that has been critical of the Chinese government, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Experts have estimated that some 200 to 600 million internet users could not access any .com or .net websites for a period of three to eight hours. This made impossible any online activity, from money transfers to e-business transactions, to posting on social networks.

The users were instead diverted to a blank website, maintained on servers run by US-based Dynamic Internet Technology, a firm founded by anti-censorship activist Bill Xia, the newspaper said.

The censors – part of what is called the “Great Firewall of China” – usually block access to certain sites by redirecting traffic to fake or invalid IP addresses. But in Tuesday’s glitch, they sent the traffic to a Dynamic-linked IP address, the report said.

“The rule was supposed to be, ‘Block everything going to this IP address.’ Instead, they screwed up and probably wrote the rule as ‘Block everything by referring to this IP address’,” International Computer Science Institute researcher Nicholas Weaver was quoted as saying.

Another researcher, from Washington, noted seeing a similar glitches in Iran.

“This is what happens when you try to break the internet for censorship because things are going to go wrong and in catastrophic ways that bring down the internet or make it unusable. This is censorship backfiring,” the Washington Post quoted Collin Anderson, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, as saying.

The Chinese government, however, has insisted the glitch was a cyberattack, and that it was investigating who was behind it.

Some state reports also cast suspicion on the Falun Gong-linked Dynamic Internet Technology, claiming Xia’s company was responsible for the massive outage.

But both Dynamic and numerous experts on the mainland’s internet have laid the blame squarely on the Great Firewall.

“It all points to the Great Firewall. How that happened or why that happened, we’re not sure,” Xiao Qiang, an expert on the mainland’s internet controls based at the University of California, Berkeley, was quoted by Reuters as saying.

With additional reporting from Stephen Chen