China Arrests 11 Falun Gong Members for Posting Torture Photos on Internet

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Falun Gong sues China minister

Falun Gong sues China minister 01/28/2004 07:21 AM
Four members of the spiritual Falun Gong movement file a suit in Paris against visiting Chinese Minister Sun Jiazheng.

China Jails Woman for Internet
Posting-Report

China Jails Woman for Internet
Posting-Report 04/12/2004 02:19 PM
HRIC Apr 12 2004 6:46PM GMT

China Arrests an Internet Dissident

China Arrests an Internet Dissident 02/17/2004 04:11 AM
Miami Herald Feb 17 2004 7:46AM GMT

China arrests Internet essayist for
subversion

China arrests Internet essayist for
subversion 02/17/2004 04:11 AM
Deepika Global Feb 17 2004 8:49AM GMT

China Internet Users Concerned About
Recent Arrests

China Internet Users Concerned About
Recent Arrests 11/13/2003 01:46 PM
VOA Nov 13 2003 12:16PM ET

China formally arrests high-profile
Internet dissident (AFP)

China formally arrests high-profile
Internet dissident (AFP) 02/17/2004 04:36 AM
AFP - A high-profile Chinese Internet dissident, who has been in custody for nearly four months, was formally arrested on charges of subversion, state press reported.

China formally arrests high-profile
Internet dissident

China formally arrests high-profile
Internet dissident 02/17/2004 04:11 AM
AFP via Yahoo! Feb 17 2004 8:49AM GMT

China arrests church activist suspected
of using Internet to spread word of
crackdown

China arrests church activist suspected
of using Internet to spread word of
crackdown 12/16/2003 02:01 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 16 2003 1:22AM ET

More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6

More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6 05/06/2004 04:44 AM

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U.S. Arrests Two Suspected Hamas Members
(Reuters)

U.S. Arrests Two Suspected Hamas Members
(Reuters) 08/20/2004 08:54 AM
Reuters - U.S. officials have arrested two suspected members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas on charges of material support to a terrorist organization, racketeering and money laundering, the Justice Department said on Friday.

Soldiers posting Iraq photos on the net

Soldiers posting Iraq photos on the net 12/03/2003 05:16 AM
While doing some digital camera format research, I ran across Through the Lens of a Soldier, which are ostensibly (I assume that they are genuine, having no reason to disbelieve it) pictures taken by a soldier in the 101st Airborne division serving in Mosul in Northern (Kurdish) Iraq that were then posted on a photo sharing service by her sister, for all to see and comment on. The debate on whether the Iraq War is good or bad is of course raging in the comments, with many of the participants ostensibly members of the armed forces. There are many moving photos, and some funny ones -- my favorite in that category is a picture of a "no photography" sign. How does it change journalism when serving soldiers are publishing reports and photos from the front for all to see? How about when they start sending back live video? And then other serving soldiers debate the war in the comments of the publication forum? How does it change the military, and the relationship between the military and the American people? I don't know the answer to any of these questions, except to know that it will cause changes to all of the above, and to hope that more openness and more unfiltered communication between the American citizens at home and those citizens serving in the armed forces will enhance democracy....

Iraq torture photos row widens

Iraq torture photos row widens 05/02/2004 08:26 AM
More doubts are raised over the authenticity of photos apparently showing British soldiers torturing an Iraqi.

Disgust over Iraq torture photos

Disgust over Iraq torture photos 05/01/2004 04:59 AM
The UK armed forces minister says if photos of British soldiers torturing an Iraqi are genuine they are "appalling".

Doubt cast on Iraq torture photos

Doubt cast on Iraq torture photos 05/01/2004 05:29 PM
Sources close to the army say images appearing to show the torture of an Iraqi by British soldiers may not be genuine.

Authenticity of the Mirror's torture
photos in question

Authenticity of the Mirror's torture
photos in question 05/05/2004 05:40 AM

The Mirror ran a story about British soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners with photos. There is a lot of question about the legitimacy of the photos. The BBC has a organized list of the claims against their authenticity and the rebuttals.

BBC News

What the papers say

The Express says soldiers who originally tried to sell the story of mistreatment were told it would be "worth a fortune if there were corroborating pictures and weeks later they produced them".

This sort of commercial and unethical behavior by the media is really disgusting. I guess The Mirror is still standing by their claims, but it seems like they are in a pretty weak position now.

Thanks to everyone on IRC for chasing this one down.

British soldiers in Iraq torture photos

British soldiers in Iraq torture photos 05/01/2004 07:43 AM
British soldiers in new Iraq torture photos. Brutal photos and story in today's Daily Mirror.

BBC NEWS | UK | Doubt cast on Iraq
torture photos

BBC NEWS | UK | Doubt cast on Iraq
torture photos 05/02/2004 10:01 AM
ill-treatment of prisoners by British soldiers .. Doubt cast on Iraq torture photos .. "may not be genuine

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Guardian Unlimited | Gallery | Mirror:
alleged torture photos

Guardian Unlimited | Gallery | Mirror:
alleged torture photos 05/04/2004 06:28 AM
Mirror: alleged torture photos .. torturing an Iraqi prisoner .. pics and the analysis here .. raising questions .. yourself

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"Gallery of Washington Post's new Iraq
torture photos. Absolut..."

"Gallery of Washington Post's new Iraq
torture photos. Absolut..." 05/08/2004 02:52 PM

Gallery of Washington Post's new Iraq
torture photos. Absolutely appalling

Gallery of Washington Post's new Iraq
torture photos. Absolutely appalling 05/06/2004 01:08 PM
particularly ugly lately .. Nihilism 'r' us .. photos

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Abuse Photos Repel Members of Congress
(Los Angeles Times)

Abuse Photos Repel Members of Congress
(Los Angeles Times) 05/13/2004 04:59 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress expressed disgust and shock Wednesday after they privately viewed hundreds of additional photographs showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war by U.S. military personnel.

China arrests factory worker who posted
political essays online

China arrests factory worker who posted
political essays online 12/20/2003 03:48 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 20 2003 2:03PM ET

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily
comment | I have been in torture photos,
too

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily
comment | I have been in torture photos,
too 06/06/2004 06:18 AM
News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great surprise in republican Ireland. We have seen and heard it all before. Some of us have even survived that type of treatment. Suggestions that the brutality in Iraq was meted out by a few misc

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Man arrested for subversive Internet
posting

Man arrested for subversive Internet
posting 02/18/2004 03:47 AM
CHINAdaily Feb 18 2004 7:42AM GMT

Man arrested for posting subversive
messages on Internet

Man arrested for posting subversive
messages on Internet 02/17/2004 01:25 AM
Xinhuanet Feb 17 2004 5:32AM GMT

Onlines Grades - Internet Grade Posting

Onlines Grades - Internet Grade Posting 12/30/2004 07:37 PM
Online Grades Coming Soon!

How long is the average Internet
discussion forum posting?

How long is the average Internet
discussion forum posting? 03/17/2005 03:23 AM

A friend of mine who works at a database management system company asked for thoughts on how long a string a database table needs to be able to store, as a practical matter, to serve most Internet programming needs.  This prompted me to do some queries into the photo.net discussion forum.  Here's my message to him, which I thought would be interesting to nerd readers....

Three basic issues for Web development relating to varchar/clob:

1) Strings are uploaded from a browser-rendered TEXTAREA are of a length that is impossible for the programmer to predict. In a sense, then, every text slot in the database must be prepared to accept a string of arbitrary length. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/textarea.html#brow serlimits reveals that some browsers have limits of 32K or 64K but that as Microsoft and Mozilla get more sophisticated these seem to be disappearing.

2) Software developers of Internet applications are often first-time SQL programmers and sometimes first-time programmers altogether. Unless a DBMS can make CLOBs work with every SQL function and command these novice programmers must learn a whole new computer language, essentially, to deal with CLOBs.

3) Internet applications are often developed using feeble ad hoc tools, such as PHP (my students in 6.171, MIT's Software Engineering for Internet Applications, mostly picked PHP to do their semester project even though I would have discouraged this, being a mistruster of thrown-together unnecessary new languages). Many of these tools don't have facilities for dealing with anything beyond the basic SQL data types so they couldn't use CLOBs if they wanted to.

I think for Web development it is reasonable to expect the average string length from the user to be 300 chars, despite wanting to be prepared for a maximum of 32K or even larger. Oops. Typing that prompted me to do the query (see below). Averaging 2 million messages on photo.net, the correct number is 425. The histogram query reveals that out of 2 million messages over a 10-year period a 32K limit would have resulted in 6 messages being rejected and a 16K limit something like 30 rejections.

If you wanted to implement something like Salon.com as a single RDBMS table for both articles and comments on articles I think a 64K limit might be required. If someone authors a 5000-word magazine article in Microsoft Word and then saves as HTML that will be 25-30k of content plus at least a factor of 2 in HTML tags and other Microsoft-added filler. http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=002oFh is an example of one of the big postings on photo.net. It is 37962 chars long, the HTML is very clean (i.e., much less filler than if saved by Word), and yet the page doesn't seem excessively long.

So... my conclusion from looking at the queries below is that 32K would do the job for a pure discussion forum system and that it would be marginal for storing articles unless a publisher decided that everything should be broken up into "part 1", "part 2", and "part 3". Looking at the .html files on photo.net, the vast majority are in fact under 32K and most are under 64K.

However, if you look at http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/ the largest chapters are 88.7k.

If you want to facilitate novice programmers building full-scale content management systems where all the content is uploaded from browsers it might be necessary to make the varchar datatype bloat up to 100k-ish. But 32K would be adequate to build something like eBay, amazon (user-uploaded content and much of the publisher content as well), or photo.net discussion forums.

----------- some stats from photo.net

select avg(dbms_lob.getlength(MESSAGE)),count(*) from bboard;

AVG(DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(MESSAGE)) COUNT(*)
-------------------------------- ----------
  424.672669  2052290

select round(dbms_lob.getlength(MESSAGE),-3), count(*)
from bboard
group by round(dbms_lob.getlength(MESSAGE),-3);

ROUND(DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(MESSAGE),-3) COUNT(*)
-------- ----------------------------- ----------
  0  1452035
1000 510236
2000  58330
3000  11972
4000 3399
5000 1303
6000  481
7000  264
8000  138
9000 93
10000 66
11000 38
12000 22
13000 21
14000 17
15000  6
16000 12
17000  9
18000 14
19000  4
20000  4
21000  1
22000  2
23000  1
24000  4
25000  3
26000  2
27000  1
30000  2
32000  1
33000  2
34000  1
37000  1
38000  1

Note:  Oracle did a much better job formatting these in SQL*Plus; for some reason the tabs didn't carry through after cutting and pasting.

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Epilogue (not from my email to the friend):

Look how much fun it is to program SQL.  Three lines of code and you get an interesting answer (and those three lines would have been much cleaner and simpler if we hadn't been forced to use the CLOB datatype, which has its own strange accessor functions).  Compare to Java and C where typing until your fingers fall off usually doesn't result in much of anything.  SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Islamic Internet posting claims British
hostage has been killed

Islamic Internet posting claims British
hostage has been killed 09/26/2004 01:47 AM
eTaiwanNews.com Sep 26 2004 6:34AM GMT

Chinese worker detained for posting
articles, poems on the Internet

Chinese worker detained for posting
articles, poems on the Internet 12/20/2003 08:42 AM
AFP via Yahoo! Dec 20 2003 7:30AM ET

Internet porn arrests reach 46

Internet porn arrests reach 46 07/15/2004 05:28 AM
BBC Jul 15 2004 9:40AM GMT

Internet crime sting nets over 100
arrests

Internet crime sting nets over 100
arrests 08/27/2004 01:35 PM
Sun-sentinel.com - Fri Aug 27, 07:38 am GMT

U.S. arrests 65 in Internet child porn
crackdown

U.S. arrests 65 in Internet child porn
crackdown 05/14/2004 06:04 PM
eircom net May 14 2004 9:46PM GMT

UK Makes One of First Internet
'Phishing' Arrests (Reuters)

UK Makes One of First Internet
'Phishing' Arrests (Reuters) 04/29/2004 04:53 AM
Reuters - British police have made one of the first arrests in a relatively new Internet scam known as "phishing" in which crafty programers create bogus e-mails and Web sites to dupe Internet customers out of their bank details.

Surrogate mother and husband charged in
child trafficking after posting baby on
Internet

Surrogate mother and husband charged in
child trafficking after posting baby on
Internet 02/01/2005 09:51 PM
China Post Feb 2 2005 1:48AM GMT

Girl accused of threatening to kill nine
students, posting list of targets on
Internet

Girl accused of threatening to kill nine
students, posting list of targets on
Internet 03/26/2005 07:20 AM
Financial Post Mar 26 2005 11:57AM GMT

Internet child porn probe leads to 65
arrests

Internet child porn probe leads to 65
arrests 05/14/2004 06:04 PM
Miami Herald May 14 2004 9:44PM GMT

U.S. Arrests 65 in Crackdown on Internet
Child Porn (Reuters)

U.S. Arrests 65 in Crackdown on Internet
Child Porn (Reuters) 05/17/2004 07:22 PM
Reuters - The U.S. government has arrested 65 people and launched more than 1,000 investigations as part of a crackdown on child pornography distribution through Internet file-trading networks, officials said on Friday.

Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal

Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal 06/12/2004 04:45 AM
Seymour Hersh Talks of Child Torture, Looks Frightened .. The scariest part .. getting E-mail .. How low? .. Click

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"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"

"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted" 06/08/2004 08:23 PM

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