Check out the people living in Zhengzhou, Henan, China as of March 2011. It’s easy to find report after report of places like Zhengzhou, devoid of people; a testament to government corruption in the public for everyone to see. There’s lots of satellite photos depicting public buildings, residential housing, roads, and parking lots all empty like something out of Survivor. If the reports of new urban projects - brand new cities meant to replace aging cities elsewhere - are true, and the government will relocate citizens, then what exactly is to happen to the residents of these old overcrowded metropolises that get left behind?

With the average cost of gas in the U.S. skyrocketing, now is the perfect time to be just a little bit greener in order to save a little green. Here are ten methods you can use to reduce your overall fuel consumption.

Linode is cheaper than many of the other big names in VPS and they offer plenty of storage and bandwidth too. Monitoring their status page for a few days/weeks should give you a good idea of the kind of downtime you’ll be looking at.

You only get so much grid and cpu to work with. Make the most out of your extractors, processors, storage, and links. If you want to make a decent profit working with planets in high sec, go for the T3 products. T4’s are a lot of work shuttling product between planets, and T2 and under just isn’t worth the time. When you’re ready squeeze every last drop of productivity out of your planets, try these useful tips.

If you’ve been tricked into believing the lie that software piracy is a bad thing; somehow it’s morally wrong and should be punished heavily, then this little nugget from a story about Sony’s reboot of the Karate Kid franchise should help wake you up.

How can you go wrong here?! Go grab your copy of these games today. Support indie developers with your wallet. Take that $15 that big corporate demands you to pay for map packs and mini expansions to games you’ve already paid $50 for and give it directly to developers and/or charity instead.

This practice gives select traders advance notice of changing market conditions. Flash orders are available to anyone for a fee, but can only be capitalized upon with the use of extremely high performance supercomputers. While an order is in a flash window, it is completely unavailable to the public. This practice essentially gives an elite few an unfair advantage over all other traders.

These excerpts are by an anonymous Chinese labor rights activist. When coming and going from dormitories 1, 2 or 3 or housing outside the factory, employees are forbidden from speaking, smoking or eating with workers from other facilities. Using the company phone, talking, eating snacks and doing things unrelated to work are all forbidden while on a regular shift or working overtime. Workers are not allowed to bring outsiders inside to view the factory area. When the manager arranges overtime, employees are not allowed secretly or openly to avoid overtime if they do not have permission. After 10:30 p.m., workers must go to the dorm to sleep.

Most content on the Internet - from the latest political news to up-to-the-minute sports scores and stock quotes - is free to consumers. Why? Because of effective Internet advertising. What makes it effective is the technologies that allow advertisers, analytics firms, websites, and others to make inferences about consumer tastes and provide relevant content. Network Advertising Initiative allows you to opt out of allowing ad networks to monitor your browsing habits.

BanThePhoneBook dot org has set up a petition for an opt-in program for receiving the White Pages Phone Book. Your first instinct may be to think that the WhitePages is desperately trying to hold onto their old ways, but they’re not Murdocking at all. If you take a look at the WhitePages’ own blog you’ll see news about their mobile apps and tools for online searches. It’s good to see them embracing the future.