January 16, 2013
A guy outsourced his own job to China so he could spend his day surfing Reddit

A security audit exposed that a top programmer for a security firm was outsourcing his job to a Chinese development company.

The situation came to light when the company’s telecommunications supplier was called in after a VPN was constructed to cater for staff to be able to work from home. The VPN logs showed that the corporate network was continually being accessed from China.

The investigation showed that the Chinese programmers were able to login and access the company’s main server as the employee. 

This gave the guy a lot of free time. Here’s a highlight from his daily activities:

  • 9:00 a.m. –- Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos.
  • 11:30 a.m. –- Take lunch.
  • 1:00 p.m. -– Ebay time.
  • 2:00p.m — Facebook updates, LinkedIn.
  • 4:30 p.m. -– End of day update e-mail to management.
  • 5:00 p.m. –- Go home

Apparently he got fired after they discovered this.

via securityblog.verizonbusiness.com

(Source: securityblog.verizonbusiness.com)

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Filed under: China outsource programming security funny reddit 
May 29, 2012
24th story glass bottom swimming pool at the Holiday Inn Shanghai, China I want to go to there.

24th story glass bottom swimming pool at the Holiday Inn Shanghai, China

I want to go to there.

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Filed under: amazing photo swimming pool china plane building engineering 
November 14, 2011
Weird things seen from space in China.  Here’s another. And one more. via gizmodo.com

Weird things seen from space in China. 

Here’s another. And one more.

via gizmodo.com

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Filed under: China desert 
October 20, 2011
Man orders size 14.5 slipper and gets size 1,450 after ‘mistranslation in China’ Tom Boddingham, 27, has a size 13 right foot while his left is slightly bigger measuring a size 14 and a half. When he ordered his custom slipper, the manufacturers in China misread “size 14.5” and instead built a size 1,450 measuring 7ft long. A spokesman for the factory said they thought the slipper was for a shop window display. I wonder how much he had to pay for that slipper. If it was the same price as a normal one, I want one! via telegraph.co.uk

Man orders size 14.5 slipper and gets size 1,450 after ‘mistranslation in China’

Tom Boddingham, 27, has a size 13 right foot while his left is slightly bigger measuring a size 14 and a half.

When he ordered his custom slipper, the manufacturers in China misread “size 14.5” and instead built a size 1,450 measuring 7ft long.

A spokesman for the factory said they thought the slipper was for a shop window display.

I wonder how much he had to pay for that slipper. If it was the same price as a normal one, I want one!

via telegraph.co.uk

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Filed under: funny pic slipper China lost in translation mistranslation 
December 16, 2010
Satellite imagery of Chinese “ghost” cities The hottest market in the hottest economy in the world is Chinese real estate. The big question is how vulnerable is this market to a crash. One red flag is the vast number of vacant homes spread through China, by some estimates up to 64 million vacant homes. Notice how there are almost no cars. Here’s some back story.

Satellite imagery of Chinese “ghost” cities

The hottest market in the hottest economy in the world is Chinese real estate. The big question is how vulnerable is this market to a crash.

One red flag is the vast number of vacant homes spread through China, by some estimates up to 64 million vacant homes.

Notice how there are almost no cars. Here’s some back story.

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October 18, 2010
A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by producing them in China, importing them as “small heating devices” and selling them as “heatballs.” To improve energy efficiency, the EU has banned the sale of bulbs of over 60 watts — to the annoyance of the mechanical engineer from the western city of Essen. Rotthaeuser studied EU legislation and realized that because the inefficient old bulbs produce more warmth than light — he calculated heat makes up 95 percent of their output, and light just 5 percent — they could be sold legally as heaters.

A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by producing them in China, importing them as “small heating devices” and selling them as “heatballs.”

To improve energy efficiency, the EU has banned the sale of bulbs of over 60 watts — to the annoyance of the mechanical engineer from the western city of Essen.

Rotthaeuser studied EU legislation and realized that because the inefficient old bulbs produce more warmth than light — he calculated heat makes up 95 percent of their output, and light just 5 percent — they could be sold legally as heaters.

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Filed under: heatballs German EU light bulb China 
August 4, 2010
China plans to construct an elevated bus line in Beijing that allows cars to travel below/through the bus.  A big concern on top of urban transportation planner’s mind is how to speed up the traffic: putting more buses on the road will jam the roads even worse and deteriorate the air; building more subway is costly and time consuming. Well, here is an cheaper, greener and fast alternative to lighten their mind up a bit: the straddling bus via chinahush.com

China plans to construct an elevated bus line in Beijing that allows cars to travel below/through the bus. 

A big concern on top of urban transportation planner’s mind is how to speed up the traffic: putting more buses on the road will jam the roads even worse and deteriorate the air; building more subway is costly and time consuming. Well, here is an cheaper, greener and fast alternative to lighten their mind up a bit: the straddling bus

via chinahush.com

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January 12, 2010
"These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web—have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."

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David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google - 01/12/10

A new approach to China

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Filed under: Google China hack censor 
January 2, 2010

The demolition failed due to technical reasons, the China Daily reported. Experts had intended for the building to break in to two parts - but the rest of the experiment had, clearly, gone awry. 

The building was being destroyed to make way for real estate projects.

The second half of the building has since been demolished by a crane, reports claimed.

via DailyMail

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October 30, 2009
Just a little bit freaky, no? source

Just a little bit freaky, no?

source

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Filed under: fleeceflower knotweed China 
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