Frida Kahlo’s self portrait

July 8th, 2010 | Posted by iip in Business - (Comments Off)

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

Google is marking Frida Kahlo’s 103rd birthday by mergering it in Google logo. Netters are familiar with the changing Google logo to celebrate historical, interesting events or profiles. Norma and Mary in The Expanding discourse: feminism and art history (1992) writes that Frida Kahlo’s work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form

Others consider Frida Kahlo as the most glimpses of an artist’s self-portrait.

“”I paint self portraits because I am the person I know best.” – Frida Kahlo.

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

How chinese hackers earn money

February 4th, 2010 | Posted by iip in Internet - (11 Comments)

While chinese products are flooding more and more countries, chinese hackers also flood internet with trojan horse. One of the victims was Google, whose some pages were hijacked. The attack was originated in China, resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google”. Users who open the pages will infected with the trojan horse, thus the virus spread quickly throughout the world.

This way make Google reluctant to continue its business with China? Looking at the size of potential users in China, I think Google should consider the decision again. Google should improve its security system employing new approach, thus make chinese internet user more convinient rather than leaving it.  Chinese internet-literate community also need to be addressed and facilitated in certain way without breaking the law.

Hackers activity mostly motivated by money rather than leasure. At first they interested with the challanges, then realize that they can  yearn a lot of bucks using easy activities. NYTimes publishes a portray of the daily life of a chinese hacker and reveals how the hackers earn money. Here the ways:

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