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Post by jquery »

chimmy88 wrote: post #407
gnu8 wrote: post #224

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You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the second amendment and of cause and effect.

oh god, another "Guns don't kill people" nut. not sure why you're defending an antiquated amendment that helps the NRA sell more guns.

Guns do kill people. That's the whole point, and why I'm a 2nd amendment supporter. There is a fundamental right to self-defense. Any politician who disagrees is an incredible hypocrite, as they cavort from place to place with a cadre of armed bodyguards.

Nevermind that studies show a weak or non-existent link between banning guns and homicide reduction. But even if they didn't, the right to bear arms is more important than letting politicians decide who has the right to self-defense.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate...

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by zhte415 »

superuser2 wrote: post #500
zhte415 wrote: post #497

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No. Big foreign corporations, like in all countries, VPN back to their home country. The same all over the world. Internal policy dictates this, all over the world. Email is usually on self-hosted Exchange. Corporate firewall blocks stuff like Youtube and Facebook - also the same over the world, but some users with the business need can access whatever the business need dictates. Some large companies just bypass the…

So exemptions from the VPN detection/shutdown mechanism can simply be negotiated by those with the political clout to do so?

Absolutely.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by jgome »

0xFFC wrote: post #215
radmuzom wrote: post #189

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Leave to where? To a country where 1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians. 2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment. 3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished. 4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a…

I think you see problem in white and black manner , there is no pure white and black. west is much much developed in human rights (by far) compare than countries like iran. but that does not mean west does not have problem. It has its own huge problem , which should be solved but , it provide much better condition for its own people than iran. this is the way I am looking to problem. guess what ? If in iran I talk ag…

> west is much much developed in human rights (by far) compare than countries like iran

I bet you haven't read much about the treatment prisoners receive in the US...

> guess what ? If in iran I talk against supreme leader , the chance are they will kill me with false accusation , okay ?

The US has destroyed many lives and killed quite a lot of people for offending capitalism. True, many of those weren't/aren't US citizens. But yeah, they don't have one particular supreme leader... not as a person anyway, but in the form of ideas: greed and money.

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Post by hussong »

guard-of-terra wrote: post #490
seesomesense wrote: post #488

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"Of the ten conflicts in human history with the highest death tolls, five were civil wars in China. Chief among these was the Three Kingdoms War when up to 40 million are reckoned to have perished in military operations and from the destructive consequences of warfare. This is an enormous number, considering that the global population at that time is unlikely to have exceeded 400 million. More recently, the Taiping R…

Oppression causes civil wars. If they are using oppression to avoid disorder, they better have long term plan. Otherwise they are digging their own grave. Not many people fear of chaos in the USA and not because they have the best firewall.

Millions of doomsday preppers may disagree.

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Post by jgome »

throwawayaway wrote: post #219
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…

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.

Let me add to that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_interventions_of_the_...

If you look at history, China looks way more pacifist than the US. In fact, one has to wonder why the US govt. and media keep spreading fear about China... Perhaps the US govt./media are scared of some country doing to them the exact same things they do and have done to other countries.

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Post by PeterisP »

hurin wrote: post #231
hipaulshi wrote: post #46

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SSH dynamic port forwarding is no longer working for years. It is so easily picked up by GFW and minutes later it is gone together with the whole SSH connection. So does PPTP and L2TP VPN. GFW has been upgraded so many times for the past few years. The target audience is developers. The install is super simple via one line of `pip install`, the start code for daemon is also one line with the configuration inline or t…

Why not just wrap all your SSH packets as HTTPS?

I believe that the traffic patterns (up/down request amount and timing) will still look sufficiently different from a 'normal' https connection to be detected and cut off within an hour.

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Post by jgome »

adventured wrote: post #217
radmuzom wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Leave to where? To a country where 1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians. 2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment. 3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished. 4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a…

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…

One has to wonder how the US became what it is... I mean, for example, how do US people get cheap oil? By having their own government invade countries, right?

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Post by dang »

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.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101653 and marked it off-topic, since it was a generic tangent that led, as so often happens, to a flamewar.

It happened elsewhere in this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103364. The end state of that one was Hitler, the end state of this one was jingoism. There aren't many end states.

This subthread turned so pathetic that I wonder if we should create overflow pages for these. The bottom of a regular thread seems too good for them.

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Post by hhw »

nxb wrote: post #204
mcbridematt wrote: post #79

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Pay one of the telcos (i.e China Unicom) for an MPLS circuit out of the country. Also, international performance in general can be quite bad at peak times (i.e 30% packet loss), I suspect due to Comcast-style management of international transit. But if you buy a transit circuit from Unicom, no problem! Edit: to add to the grand parent, I've actually found ssh -D/-w0 (for a TUN device) quite reliable from China. What…

How do you setup a routing protocol to do fast failover? Is it easy?

For fast failover, you'd generally use BFD (bi-directional forwarding detection) in conjunction with a standard routing protocol like BGP, OSPF, or IS-IS. It's sufficiently complex to do on a proper networking platform, and even more difficult to do in a general purpose operating system. You can also just use aggressive timeout values with your routing protocol, but failover won't be quite as graceful.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by CrabClaw »

hussong wrote: post #504
guard-of-terra wrote: post #490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oppression causes civil wars. If they are using oppression to avoid disorder, they better have long term plan. Otherwise they are digging their own grave. Not many people fear of chaos in the USA and not because they have the best firewall.

Millions of doomsday preppers may disagree.

Well, thousands anyway.
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