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Post by tokenizerrr »

0xFFC wrote: post #140
mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

I am in Iran , you cannot believe it , same here , They use deep packet inspection too, they will shut every package down. every open vpn , cisco vpn , etc connection will lose connection every 2-3 min . Connection to outside web is almost impossible. I have noticed they have multiple situation, for example when everything's quiet internet is not so bad (despite the fact bandwidth is extremely low for huge amount of…

I have a friend in Iran and I let him use one of my servers as a proxy using the ssh -D flag. This has been working well so far as I know.

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Post by kjs3 »

briandear wrote: post #369
chronial wrote: post #240

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No, that is not true. Look at the atomic bomb for example. The technology here is not just nuclear fission – the bomb itself has a lot of unique technology. There can be a lot inherently wrong with technology, and there quite often is.

Without the Atomic bomb, millions of more people would have died. Thus the Atomic bomb saved lives as well as created a disincentive for Communist expansion during the Cold War. Western Europe would have been a war zone in 1960 if it weren't for the nuclear threat. Just a caveman assessment of "atom bomb bad, flower good" is intellectually weak. The atomic bomb created a balance of power, the destruction of which wou…

Just a caveman assessment of "atom bomb bad, flower good" is intellectually weak.

A wannabe cold warrior fantasy of "without the nuke, the godless Commies would have put the boot to the civilized world" is just as intellectually weak. I thought this furious jerking off over Regan-era revisionist talking points was passé in the current century.

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Post by motoboi »

gozo wrote: post #247
chobo wrote: post #87

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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.

Funny thing is: this is the same price payed in Brazil for a 100mbps MPLS link.

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Post by pablovidal85 »

chronial wrote: post #327
hobs wrote: post #269

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What about all the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE)? The nuke is extremely destructive and extremely dangerous, but its not inherently wrong, they have been used to close gas wells by the Russians, and I am pretty sure the US had the plowshares program. There are definitely some arguments that we could have used conventional explosives for those purposes, but my point is that a nuke is just a tool, its the people wh…

We might just fundamentally disagree an the whole tool ideology. Imagine this device: It only has button, pressing it will torture every human beeing in earth for 100 years and then wipe out what's left. Trying to disassemble or analyze it will do the same. Would this still classify as "just a tool"? (peaceful uses: explaining the importance of restraint etc.) This is not supposed to be an analogy, but a serious ques…

Guns alone don't kill people (at least if they're not programmed to do so automatically), but as humans sometimes act irrationally, one could say if the population had less guns then there will be less deaths by gun shot.

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Post by A_COMPUTER »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #283
adventured wrote: post #272

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> is not a massive change In fact marriage equality, and the increasingly broad acceptance of homosexuality in America, is an extraordinary accomplishment. And it's only going to keep getting better. That contrasts sharply with the majority of the world, that is the exact opposite and opposed to marriage equality. > If you exclude the places where murder happens most, of course you appear to have a low murder rate. N…

> In fact marriage equality, and the increasingly broad acceptance of homosexuality in America, is an extraordinary accomplishment. It is an accomplishment, for sure! The Western world (not just America) has become much more tolerant of gay people. And yet, while the US has had white people getting more tolerant or even accepting of white gay people, white people have not been getting more tolerant of black people. I…

of course, everyone knows that it's a problem that white people get shot by cops too. But bringing it up frustrates the white American liberal because they can't get truly mad about police shooting unless it disproportionally affects (non-asian) minorities. I mean, they'll talk about it, but everybody wants to pretend they're on the front of a new civil rights movement and signal how progressive they are. It gets old.

The problem is that when you take away the racial angle, you might discover that America's pretty violent, and that fact might have an impact on how many police shootings there are.

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Post by bybjorn »

adventured wrote: post #261
redmaverick wrote: post #229

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You can move to Canada. I think Canada is like USA: The good parts 1. There is gun control 2. Universal Health Care 3. They don't start wars

It's worth noting that Canada is one of the highest gun ownership societies on earth. They're 11th in the world in number of guns per capita. They have nearly as high of a gun ownership rate, in terms of the percentage of the population that owns at least a single gun, as the US.

.. err, no - US has 88 guns per 100 people, and Canada has 30. See the list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by...

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Post by vchynarov »

throwawayaway wrote: post #274
adventured wrote: post #258

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Iran has been murdering people through their terrorist proxies, such as Hezbollah, for decades. Their leaders can hardly stop talking about wanting to genocide the entire nation of Israel. China invaded, annexed, and exterminated the culture of Tibet - a nation four times the size of France geographically. China is also desperate to take Taiwan - a nation that wants absolutely nothing to do with being owned by China…

Your Iran point: How many civilians have Israel taken out in the recent past? America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin? How many civilians have ISIS taken out? I guess if you are from the country, it's less likely that you would outraged by your own military's actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili... Thanks for the information regarding Chin…

What? "America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin?". America's proxy war involvement is well known, but you picked the most ridiculous conflict that has nothing to do with this. Your argument is ISIS equipment being American. What? That's because equipment given to Iraqis being captured, a very well documented problem. Your implication is the most ridiculous thing I have read in this thread so far.

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Post by andrepd »

chronial wrote: post #331
andrepd wrote: post #321

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But nukes are the reason there haven't been any direct wars between major powers since WWII. Isn't that a good thing?

That is way to utilitarian for my liking. I am also personally convinced that Hitler (sorry ) was good for the western world in the long run (I think the lesson learnt will have more impact in the long run than the damage done), but you won't ever see me defending anything like the third reich.

I think defending Hitler (millions massacred, world order turned upside down, massive economic damage) is much more utilitarian that defending MAD as a peace-keeping force.

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Post by SeeDave »

0xFFC wrote: post #213
aidanhs wrote: post #209

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A few years ago I had a friend visiting Iran who wanted unrestricted access to sites. I didn't have any personal Linux servers on the internet at the time, but I did have a Windows one with Remote Desktop licenses. It turned out that RDP actually worked pretty well. I did hesitate to post this in case it's seen by the wrong people(!), though given it's a while since it was necessary to use, it may be blocked by now a…

sadly with RDP you cannot have same experience.it is not about 1 or 2 site , for example for me , my vpn connection is always on because there is not internet without it.but with RDP loging into another machine , with all lag you see , is almost impossible at least for power user like me which most of the time have 50+ tab open in chrome in site's like youtube , android dev doc's, etc.

You can RDP into a machine and use the browser there.
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