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Mojo joanne

Future Firefox Features, What I'm Looking Forward To - 0 views

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bump traffic debut ZDNet after future firefox features looking forward

shared by Mojo joanne on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Firefox users who have went along with the update process from Firefox 4 to now Firefox 6 stable were in for a big disappointment as the new versions were not really offering any new features or visible speed improvements
  • Firefox Beta, Aurora and Nightly users have already had the chance to experience some of those new features and improvements.
  • Reset Firefox (Release Target: Firefox 9)Many Firefox users reinstall the web browser when they experience issues like crashes that they cannot fix.
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  • The Reset Firefox feature would automatically create a new Firefox user profile and migrate the user’s data, including bookmarks, history and passwords.
  • Mozilla tackled half the problem in Firefox 8 by blocking automatic third party add-on installations in the web browser. Users now have the option to accept or deny installation of the add-on. The feature is integrated in Firefox 8.
Ronald Trinh

Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil | Hsiao-Hung Pai | Commen... - 0 views

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shared by Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
  • Schools for children of migrant workers in China are being closed down.
  • "We live under the same sky, why are we not entitled to the same rights?"
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  • migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,
  • Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools
  • rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population
  • day-to-day inju
  • stices
  • hukou (household registration), set up in 1958
  • control rural-to-urban migration
  • Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.
  • as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I am a peasant],"
  • Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.
  • Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",
  • half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.
  • As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.
  • They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.
  • the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.
  • The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.
  • Without hukou,
  • healthcare, education and housing.
  • urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
  • "These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."
  • hundreds such private schools were set up.
  • government-funded National Development and Reform Commission
  • admits it is an "institutional barrier"
  • government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.
  • voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities
  • Little happens as a result.
  • Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.
  • protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.
  • Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrant workers should have tell the police earlier so they won't be treated so violent. 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why does the chinese people have to segregated themself, they're from the same country! 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why do they have to treat people like that? They're all from the same country!
  • Beijing "a city of violence"
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      it reflects the conflict of the urban dwellers and the migrant workers.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      I think maybe the urban dwellers pay the government to be on their side and act ruthlessly to the migrant workers.
  • Beijing's migrant worker slums
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      which means that the migrant workers cannot move to other city or quit their job, they have to work there and got treat badly, ruthlessly.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "I've had migrant workers tell me about their class origin, as if it were a stamp on your body for life. It was impossible for peasants to move their hukou to the cities."   http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/20/china-migrant-workers
  • are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      the government is not fair!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      why dont the government get involve earlier if they already knew what's going on?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      they have to speak their own language?  not Mandarin? 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Once the rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion??? that's so not fair and segregated.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants children are called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Urban childrens have free primary education while migrants children aren't be able to go to school because their parents cannot afford it. It costs 2/3 of their parents wages.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      IT'S NOT FAIR
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants workers continue to be burdened with the hukou system. So they won't be able to access any services in the cities like: helthcare, education or housing. While urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Even the government-funded National Development and Reform Commission admits it is an "institutional barrier" and believes it should be scrapped. However, these institutions aren't in the position to change things. "Protection of migrant workers' rights" is a rhetorical statement of state organisations, but the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands."
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      What? the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers demands? Why? They think they're rich so they don't care about other people? These governments should be in jail!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration. "   What??? There's no reason why they hate the migrants workers and childrens! They're all from the same root! They don't have a right to do this?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "In recent years, migrants have raised their demands through protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes. Although these have not always proved effective, workers have become more aware of their collective strength. In the past year they have won some improvements in wages and working conditions. Many migrant workers, now better informed, are far less willing to accept the status quo. As they grow in confidence, the regime will find it increasingly difficult to ignore their demands. China's rulers should realise now that it is in their long-term interests to listen." YES, they really should do this to show the government that they have a right to complain about what's right or wrong! If you're rich still doesn't mean that you have all the rights to do anything you want.
  • Chozen Takei on 22 Sep 11
     
    In China, poor migrants who earn a living by working low calss jobs in Beijing is treated unfairly. The chinese public schools, especialy nursery schools, would not let the migrant's children be enrolled. Yet, migrants are treated differently than Beijing citizens, and they can't have a normal life. 
  • Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
     
    Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil
Mojo joanne

Mozilla (Carefully) Slams Apple | ConceivablyTech - 0 views

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  • Mozilla (Carefully) Slams Apple
  • Mozilla is having issues especially with Apple
  • heading into a direct confrontation with the mighty Jobs.
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  • Mozilla is carefully circumventing the phrase of “waging war” against the creation of closed or “siloed” environments on the web.
  • competing, but not so by going directly against a rival, but by being “different”
  • That name would be Apple, which Mozilla’s chairman and chief lizard wrangler Mitchell Baker directly addressed in a series of sequential blog posts that outline Mozilla’s future direction. The attacks aren’t as crude and as we typically see between Mozilla and Microsoft. They are much more carefully worded, perhaps in an effort to remain polite and not to raise any unnecessary attention
  • “There’s no reason why “apps” can’t incorporate the characteristics that are important about the web. They don’t today because Apple didn’t build them that way. There’s no reason Apple should; Apple has a different view of the world. But we can. In fact, Mozilla is one of the very few organizations that can do this.”
  • Mozilla has yet to show what it plans to do and leaves us with its vision for now. Mozilla believes that its opportunity is a user’s desire to run anything he wants on any device he owns. Mozilla believes that a user wants to be in charge of his web experience, not Apple, Google or a device. Mozilla believes that a user would want to be in control of her/his identity and the information that is made available. Of course, Mozilla’s model is also based on Firefox and a web browser, which Apple could care less about at this time.
  • Mojo joanne on 17 Aug 11
     
    firefox slams apple 
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