If all the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time, why would they lose their lawsuit?

Because the people demand a win in the court against the rich and powerful.

Once the verdict is out, the people are happy.

Give a few months to a year give or take, the people will forget what happen (temper goes down), the rich is out but not necessary in plain sight everyday (semi-hiding), and the body double is in the prison.

As a Chinese whom know a lot of real dark side of this country, I must say this report is just a joke. There may be 10 or 20 cases in the whole China for a decade, but exaggerating to that level is just a joke. Maybe people want to see this kind of story.

Those machines will soon be assembled or copycatted in China.

Let's say that's the case.

To what end? Selling them to the West and putting their own garment makers out of business?

Or using them domestically to put their own garment makers out of work? Do their garment makers then build robots? Does the math equal out? (I have no clue)

The labor dislocation would be extreme initially either way, and would be resisted. Take China's agriculture for example, they intentionally hold down productivity gains in agriculture to keep enough work available for the huge agriculture worker population and limit labor disruption.

It wouldn't take very long to severely reduce garment making in China and Vietnam once robotics gained a foot hold. The country with the least to lose in the robotic shift, that is highly capable of making that shift, would win very quickly.

Yes, after I registered, I did some search, and start to feel anxious because no comments found anywhere......until I saw this one:)

We're an easy-going group and we just mix about and discuss whatever the hackers and entrepreneurs there feel like talking about (just like hacker news really). If you're new, just ask anyone there for Jason or Paul (me) and we'll make sure you get introduced around.

:-) looking forward to meeting your guys later

Perl style regular expression support is a big thing! I use notepad++ a lot, but the search has always reminded me of vim.

It is not only that it is Perl-style; this version also supports multiline regular expressions.

I do not like that it requires you to know a file's line endings to use them, though:

    Mac.   : a\rb
    Windows: a\r\nb
    Unix.  : a\nb

I was able to do this in the previous version.

But is such a change worth a major version number increase?

Google Chrome Team started this kind of "bigger version" war, now Firefox/IE/Linux, they are all in it :-)

Nothing new. I remember Slackware 3.6 (?) jumping to version 8 in order to be closer to the other Distro's numbers. thought it was sorta stupid at the time.

As a weibo user, sometimes I delete message because typo, or it may hurt my friends' feeling.

When you see other people's message got deleted, you have no way to know whether it is deleted by the user himself or censored (at least not until just a few weeks ago).

I am not defending Chinese gov here. But I am curious how can those researchers figure out whom has deleted the message?

The researchers were analyzing message blocks, where there is explicit feedback from Weibo that your message isn't harmonious enough. Has Weibo has resorted to hell banning messages yet; where the user thinks the message has gone through but is silently repressed by the system from reaching many users? That should be detectable though by using multiple accounts in the experiment.

Yes, you suggest a way that may detect blocks. According to the researcher's website, he is using the search function of weibo to check which words are blocked, that is smart. It seems that weibo are using program and hiring people to do the censorship. There even are rumors saying that those censorship department are settled in WuHan city, and has a team of more than 500 people. Anyway, his research is valuable, and it helps bringing more sunshine to the weibo land.

I suppose this idea has been stated in Jared Diamond's 1997 book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies"