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Quallcomm is now lobbying the Trump administration to allow it to supply Huawei with its SoC's, citing an eight billion dollar loss if it's denied. I'd say fat chance.

All of this won't help the Chinese if they're not able to procure the wafer machines built by ASML. That's probably why the entire project is stalling. It was a brilliant move by T…

I myself am a proponent of making Istanbul an international district, de facto ending the Islamic rule there and returning it to its Orthodox Christian roots.

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The paint especially is horrible. When it's brand new if compares unfavorably with a 30-year Toyota.

The problem I see is the non-linearity in the magnetic components. This would be troublesome in analog equipment, such as audio amplifiers. For digital, it might be useful, but its…

The gist is that it's almost impossible to detect fraudulent extensions without extensive human review. Google should only allow extensions which it has signed off on.

The coming elections will be very amusing as the Chinese and Iranian hackers will work to oust Trump from office, whilst the Russians will be hacking to keep him in office.

I agree. That's why I'm asking Zoom: "Define end-to-end encryption." Most likely, it will be backdoored form where they can intercept the call if they want to. And they'll promise …

I sure don't. I encourage people to use Jitsi.

Define "end-to-end encryption" for me, Zoom?

I don't believe the U.S. would risk a nuclear confrontation with China just to please India. Why would the U.S. care if India showers China with nukes? There would only be a shrug.…

I feel that Apple is making a deadly mistake here. Many affluent professionals use Macbooks only because they can also run Windows on it, which they need to make a living. For them…

Answer: install Firefox.

Flash Player is possibly the worst piece of software ever written, with literally HUNDREDS of vulnerabilities discovered so far. If I tried I most likely couldn't produce that many…

In short: caching, caching and caching.

But it's a commercial product, so it's not that interesting. Also, any modern web browser should be written in Rust, not C or C++.

And they will be again! I predict that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will fall within a decade, maybe sooner. Only recently the U.S. Trump Administration was contemplating rest…

OTOH I find it incomprehensible that the Tienanmen Square student leaders would risk holding an online meeting through a Chinese controlled video messaging platform. I mean, there …

Then stop posting political content. If you post political content you're gonna get political discussions.

It will be technically infeasible to do so. Or do you mean telecoms? That might be possible, but they'll risk losing customers. IIRC when the internet was young, there were many cl…

What I dislike about Zoom is that it's a Chinese binary on my computer, something I don't want.

My laptop is almost 10 years old an works fine with Jitsi and Linux Mint on Firefox.

I truly question whether Zoom is a U.S. company at all if a large number of its developers and servers are located in China. Its founder is also ethnically Chinese (although he als…

That's why I keep calling for a NEW Internet to be created based on HORNET technology. HORNET is basically the same as the Tor network, but with speeds similar to the current inter…