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...marketing purposes). It's part of a class of increasingly surreptitious software that includes adware (which serves up commercials you didn't ask for--as if pop-up ads weren't enough), stealware (which leeches sales commissions away from small websites in affiliate programs) and scumware (which alters the origin of links on a Web page so that, for example, an innocent news headline will direct you to a porn site...
...trying to protect its assets, the KMT can hardly claim to hold the moral high ground. The origin of its business empire traces to the end of World War II, when Kuomintang troops, then battling communist rebels for control of the Mainland, landed in Taiwan and grabbed hundreds of properties and buildings from the defeated Japanese. After being routed by Mao's troops in 1949, the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan and established its government in exile, setting the stage for what one local newspaper described as a "five-decade looting spree", in which the party found it difficult to distinguish...
...favored natives and left many foreign-born residents with few rights. The rebels have targeted leading proponents of this divisive concept, including Interior Minister Emile Boga Doudou, who introduced new national identity cards that include digital fingerprints and photographs - and come in different colours depending on a person's origin. Doudou was shot dead in the rebellion. Government soldiers, meantime, have rounded up foreigners and police burned neighborhoods after President Gbagbo said that they would "clean" insalubrious areas. "We are not safe. We no longer dare go beyond the fence," says Mariah, a refugee from Liberia who lives...
Eight years after the first post- apartheid elections, most of South Africa's Afrikaners - the three million whites of European, mainly Dutch, origin - have put their days of struggle for racial exclusivity and independence in the past. But not all of them. A small but determined band of Afrikaners is still threatening revolution. A dozen men, all Afrikaners, have been arrested since late July for allegedly taking part in a conspiracy for armed insurrection against the African National Congress (A.N.C.) government, and the police are searching for other suspected ringleaders. The men go on trial in February on charges...
...part of his city, where many housing projects are inhabited solely by immigrant families. There police can search people without restriction; drug addicts from elsewhere found cruising the neighborhood can be arrested and forced into detox programs. "In a city where 43% of the population is not of Dutch origin, it's especially important that the rules for noncitizens be clear and enforceable," says Opstelten. For city councilor Michiel Smit, 26, a member of Livable Rotterdam, another party Fortuyn once headed, those programs don't go far enough. Smit particularly likes the idea of deporting criminal offenders of Turkish...