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Post by lucagold »

geff82 wrote: post #178

as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes. I think they should be erased from their position. One way to do that is to encourage everyone to leave their country. One can argue that staying in a bad country may one day help to build it up again, but on the other hand, nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain.

you have to realize that sometimes it is not that easy for people to just leave. it's not like they just quickly buy a plane ticket and fly off to some safe country and the happy ending is complete.

you'll have to to be wealthy enough to afford finding a way out. you'll have to be willing to leave your family/friends. you'll have to be willing to leave the place you might be very attached to. you'll have to be willing to put up with all the bullshit and xenophobia you'll be faced with, once you arrive in your "safe" destination.

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Post by chrisoverzero »

ColinWright wrote: post #186
loser777 wrote: post #91

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Very interesting... I was just in China recently and was sshing into a box I had in the states for an impromptu SOCKS proxy. I did notice that things would work fine for up to an hour or so before things started bogging down. I would start seeing "channel x: open failed..." errors. However, closing the session and reconnecting would fix the problem... until it started lagging out again. I thought it was just a conseq…

I'm always brought up short when someone says/writes "24/7/365" because it really doesn't make sense. "24/7" means 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "24/365" means 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. "24/7/365" means 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks a year? I know, I know, it's become an idiom, and it's like "I could care less", and you can't try to understand it except as an atom that caries a meaning, but it…

As an expression of time, its origin is a relation to business hours. 24 hours is "we don't close overnight." 7 days is "we don't close on weekends." 365 days is "we don't close on holidays." Those are the standard periods of unavailability.

If the sole holiday were a single Golden Week sometime in the year, the idiom may indeed have been "24/7/52", but holidays are simply scattershot like that.

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Post by jglauche »

halfelf wrote: post #132
jglauche wrote: post #110

So, isn't the real question how to get you into a more liberal country so you can continue your work?

That's true. But immigration for Chinese is much more harder than you think. Even in China, it is not completely free to move from one province to another.

I can imagine that this is not easy. I'd like to hear some ideas to that though, as I lack all the details on what's going on there (just been there once on a business trip - and I know they treat foreigners with money much different)

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Post by pdkl95 »

userbinator wrote: post #33
conradev wrote: post #28

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This is the result of a recent change in OS X 10.11, called System Integrity Protection. It's a big step in the wrong direction [opinion], especially because it does nothing to verify "integrity". It prevents changes to the System directory by conventional means (and injection into system processes). If malware were to figure out a way to disable SIP from userland, it could install itself in such a way that nothing s…

Does booting an alternate OS still work to get around it, or have Apple thought of that route and somehow blocked it too? (I have limited experience with OS X - only briefly played around with driver development and bootloaders in the 10.4 era with osx86 - and I did have to boot from the DVD a few times when I made the system unbootable.) This raises the question, what good is root if it's not really root anymore?

This has been the plan for several years. I remember seeing block diagrams for GlobalPlatform's Trusted Execution Environment[1] that were based on the idea of the "Rich OS" (OSX, Linux, etc) being able to run more or less normally, with something that isn't really a hypervisor providing the "secure"/"trusted" environment.

The idea is that a combination of a SecureBoot-style trusted boot sequence and technologies like Intel's SGX instructions to create an area that is protected from everything else, root included.

Ever since (heavily controlled) iOS was accepted by the tech crowd as a replacement for a proper General Purpose Computer, we've been slowly loosing more and more control. At least there seems to be workarounds for this particular OSX "feature". It is incredibly important to stop this trend now; it will be a lot harder to work around these restrictions when it gets hardware support.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/rjbzWyB.jpg

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Post by adventured »

geff82 wrote: post #226
adventured wrote: post #217

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No, to the country that is: 1) A leader in freedom of speech, press freedom, property rights protections, general freedom of movement, and is low on the corruption index. One of the few countries with extraordinarily well protected freedom of speech rights enshrined at the core of the nation. 2) Has a rapidly adaptive culture, able to implement changes at a fast pace despite its immense scale. That includes things li…

Thanks for curating that wonderful list. I'd contradict you by saying that the poor have it much better in Germany than in the USA (same great health insurance as everyone else, no masses of homeless people like in US cities) and I'd also say the educational system here is better for the average person (free universities with high standards - not in the Top50 of the world maybe, but still great). But in general I thi…

Saying the poor have it better in Germany, would not be contradicting me. I openly acknowledge that there are numerous nations in which the poor are clearly better off than in America (eg: Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Germany etc).

There are exceptionally few large nations in which the poor are well off however. Nobody would want to discuss the poverty in Indonesia, Pakistan, China, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Iran etc. In the top 20 large nations, there are only four countries that aren't mired in extreme levels of poverty: France, US, Germany, Japan. When I say extreme, I mean levels so horrible, that if you attempt to compare the standards to the US, people stop wanting to talk about it and consider the comparison to be inherently unfair.

The parent comment for example was being almost comical in their standard, given China has half a billion people living on $3 / day (people with few rights, that by law can't even own the farming land under their feet). Those half a billion people have seen very little improvement in 50 years if you inflation adjust that $3 backwards, and they've seen very little improvement in rights.

Germany is an exceptional nation, without a doubt. Just to be in the same neighborhood as Germany, while having 330 million people and to be as diverse as the US is, is a compliment.

Germany however is also in trouble, with poverty becoming a serious problem. Their lack of economic growth since 2007 is probably playing a big factor.

"Poverty in Germany 'at Record High'" http://europe.newsweek.com/poverty-germany-record-high-says-...

"Poverty in Germany at its highest since reunification" http://www.dw.com/en/poverty-in-germany-at-its-highest-since...

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Post by gozo »

chobo wrote: post #87
hipaulshi wrote: post #69

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As far as Microsoft office in Beijing, I think they VPN to their Tokyo office first. Their traffic is ensured by negotiating directly with the big telecom company. Disclaimer: I do not work for them.

This is interesting, I'd love to read/hear more about it. Is the negotiation an above-board thing? What are the conditions and costs to getting this kind of exception ensured?

From what I've heard, it's something like 100 000 USD a year for a 100 Mbit connection.

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Post by throwawayaway »

sildur wrote: post #228
throwawayaway wrote: post #219

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I'll be very short, at least Iran and China didn't invade Iraq and Afghanistan on false pretenses. They aren't currently droning civilians in 5 countries. If you pay taxes in America you are financially supporting their military efforts, that's how I look at it.

China invaded Tibet on false pretenses.

What's the bodycount? Incidentally, may I ask how far back in history you are going, is it something more recent than this:

> In October 1950, the People's Liberation Army entered the Tibetan area of Chamdo, defeating sporadic resistance from the Tibetan army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tibet#1950_to_prese...

This?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Tibetan_unrest#Casualties...

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Post by misnome »

medecau wrote: post #57

https://github.com/Long-live-shadowsocks/shadowsocks The original repositories have been/are being reset. (Some branches were not removed.) Non-obvious ways to search for forks as the network graph is unavailable for larger projects. https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=shadowsocks+language%3APyt...

Can't? https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/network seems to work just fine. It even attributes the code to the original author, despite them not having a copy of it.

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Post by gozo »

eitally wrote: post #212
badpenny wrote: post #201

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> Pay one of the telcos (i.e China Unicom) for an MPLS circuit out of the country. Don't suppose you could explain to us network plebs how that would bypass the Great Firewall?

It's a private network/route with traffic containing nothing but corporate data. Most multinationals facing this situation route out through HK, with a secondary failover usually in Taiwan or Singapore. Works a treat, but is costly and latency can be subpar. It also doesn't solve the problem of mobile access to Google Apps for Chinese workers (Google Play Store & apps are not bundled by many (any?) Chinese OEM handse…

Google Apps will drain your battery when they can't access Google's servers. Roaming with a China Unicom Hong Kong sim card, like the cross border king, will give you gfw free access.
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