Related link: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/11/2003174595
A nice pairing of articles in today's Taipei Times.
It seems that 40% of households(?) are
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>online in Taiwan. And this is providing scope for
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>private enterprise of various kinds and for innovative policing. Some of Taiwan's police forces (for example, Taipei's) are criticized that their regular anti-drug clampdowns sometimes just provide a cover for the gay harrassment of older days. But it is very heartening, and a sign of Taiwan's democratization, to see examples like this of police protecting the vulnerable. It made my day.
The other interesting thing about the 40% figure is that it comes hot on the heels of reports that the lack of Arabic support in the WWW infrastructure has meant that the WWW has passed Arabic-readers by. It is now more than eight years since we made sure that URIs in XML could include any characters; and at least four years since we introduced the anyURI type into XMl Schemas. Why have other standards bodies dragged their heels on this: what is there left to think about? The current IRI formulation looks good to me.
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