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This is just another example of ignorant westerners demonize China. 1km wrong? are you fucking serious? I use GPS everyday and didn't find any problem. You're j

This is just another example of ignorant westerners demonize China. 1km wrong? are you fucking serious? I use GPS everyday and didn't find any problem. You're just kind of idiots who think anything related to China must be evil, without any reason, and think the Chinese government has nothing better to do but vandalizing anything.

peteretep 14y ago
This would make rather more sense if you replied to the comment you were commenting on...
- jtl09 14y ago
  you've read it . did you?
seanmcdirmid 14y ago
Wumao dang (50 cent party) invading hackernews?
- jtl09 14y ago
  Traitors visited here too. lol
  - seanmcdirmid 14y ago
    Calm down. This is actually a fair site, but the standards are high.
  - vivaforever 14y ago
    This guy actually has done something really cool, if he is the guy: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/ http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/. I've been learning Scala all the time, I remember I have read a lot of stuff written by this guy. I think he is now probably very twisted and having a hard time in China, he had to fake a smile while working with Chinese, but posting all kinds of negative news against China to express how he hates this country.
kalleboo 14y ago
It's true, and at least it was still in effect last time I was in Beijing. Google Maps even disable their map+satellite view overlay above a certain zoom level to mask this (only in China - cross the border to free Hong Kong and it works), but you can still see it if you turn on Traffic view. Domestic GPS devices have a reverse transform to mask the effect, but the result is you can never be sure exactly where you are. Seems like Baidu maps have fixed their map+satellite overlay now, but when I visited, they had the same problem. http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_china_are_transformed.htm http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_c...
- jtl09 14y ago
  why are you interested the sensitive region of other country? why area 51 is blocked from GPS? why can't countries outside U.S check how many Massacre weapons in this country? why this domestic country arise the most the wars in last 60 years?
  - kalleboo 14y ago
    The thing is China has a pretty funny idea of what constitutes "sensitive". Such as free speech and human rights.
    - jtl09 14y ago
      is this related GPS? But ask yourself first, does it make sense ? do you know the entire story but just Plagiarized from you media?
      - kalleboo 14y ago
        When the Chinese government is frivolous with blocking access to websites and services, it's not a huge leap to worry they may be frivolous in denying access to other services they provide. Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre? Maybe we'll bump down the resolution in that area to make protests more difficult. Not saying they're going to do it, but just the smallest uncertainty means you'd rather trust one of the 3 other competitors in the area. edit: I wonder if putting keywords on this page will get them denied access to these comments 六四事件天安門廣場抗議天安門事件

peteretep 14y ago

This would make rather more sense if you replied to the comment you were commenting on...

jtl09 14y ago
you've read it . did you?

seanmcdirmid 14y ago

Wumao dang (50 cent party) invading hackernews?

jtl09 14y ago
Traitors visited here too. lol
- seanmcdirmid 14y ago
  Calm down. This is actually a fair site, but the standards are high.
- vivaforever 14y ago
  This guy actually has done something really cool, if he is the guy: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/ http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/. I've been learning Scala all the time, I remember I have read a lot of stuff written by this guy. I think he is now probably very twisted and having a hard time in China, he had to fake a smile while working with Chinese, but posting all kinds of negative news against China to express how he hates this country.

kalleboo 14y ago

It's true, and at least it was still in effect last time I was in Beijing. Google Maps even disable their map+satellite view overlay above a certain zoom level to mask this (only in China - cross the border to free Hong Kong and it works), but you can still see it if you turn on Traffic view. Domestic GPS devices have a reverse transform to mask the effect, but the result is you can never be sure exactly where you are. Seems like Baidu maps have fixed their map+satellite overlay now, but when I visited, they had the same problem. http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_china_are_transformed.htm http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_c...

jtl09 14y ago
why are you interested the sensitive region of other country? why area 51 is blocked from GPS? why can't countries outside U.S check how many Massacre weapons in this country? why this domestic country arise the most the wars in last 60 years?
- kalleboo 14y ago
  The thing is China has a pretty funny idea of what constitutes "sensitive". Such as free speech and human rights.
  - jtl09 14y ago
    is this related GPS? But ask yourself first, does it make sense ? do you know the entire story but just Plagiarized from you media?
    - kalleboo 14y ago
      When the Chinese government is frivolous with blocking access to websites and services, it's not a huge leap to worry they may be frivolous in denying access to other services they provide. Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre? Maybe we'll bump down the resolution in that area to make protests more difficult. Not saying they're going to do it, but just the smallest uncertainty means you'd rather trust one of the 3 other competitors in the area. edit: I wonder if putting keywords on this page will get them denied access to these comments 六四事件天安門廣場抗議天安門事件