Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 84 posts

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#71

Post by paradoxparalax »

idrios wrote: post #63
paradoxparalax wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Virtually anyone in China, even the Chinese people, just use a VPN or SSH, or both, and your internet is ok.

But with the crackdowns happening on VPN there still needs to be legitimate options. In my case I was an English teacher, and often we'd need to find resources from the internet for supplementary teaching materials. Can't have VPN on the school computers

Well, then you already want too much, right? VPN will give access to the Kids in the school to Porn and who knows what. So....

China is still a dictatorship, right, It is not the Disneyland. But Even in England you cannot install a VPN at a school's computer......

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#72

Post by paradoxparalax »

baybal2 wrote: post #67
paradoxparalax wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"lowest level of birth since 1961" This is a good thing that shows(if not proves)that they are getting out of poverty. And is something they pursued for decades, so this is pointless info for the point you make: "China gov in Panick mode" Now, The current President, was already born with the lack of confidence, it means, the first day he assumed China's Gov, He was already in Panick mode. He needed to break a lot of…

I'll enlighten you. Totalitarian regimes tend to croak not when repressions are maxed out, unlike what the popular opinion suggests, but when they run out of steam to sustain them. It is especially true when they run out of steam right midway during a major purge. Venisuela now is a textbook example of that.

What you say is a complete Bullshit. Your writing is so bad that your logic is completely mumbo-jumbo. Will not waste my time with brain-less people.

Don't tell me you are a programmer, please.

A few years ago, Hacker News decided to change It's Spirit, and become more like reddit, because normal people like me feel shy or embarrassed to show ignorance in front of the Highly Intellectual High Level people who used to comment here....

By that time, I thought that decision made by HN rulers was a Wise decision, not to become the manure field Named Reddit, but become a little bit more fun and relaxed and have more human communication...

I am starting to think i was wrong....

I miss the TempleOS[1] guy, really...

OH MY GOD!!!

I just went to wikipedia and saw that last year Terry A. Davis has passed away.

R.I.P Terry TT :( :( :(

This should be in a headline in Hackernews.

TempleOS will never be forgotten

I am crying. Tears for Terry, will never forget you, Man...

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#73

Post by paradoxparalax »

alecco wrote: post #66
paradoxparalax wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Virtually anyone in China, even the Chinese people, just use a VPN or SSH, or both, and your internet is ok.

How many social points do they strike when they find you use a VPN?

I really like your comment, I think is the best comment I have ever read in Hackernews, I mean, I say for the sake of Fun, not for work or science or knowledge,...

...But for Entertainment, for the pure Fun itself, This was the best comment I ever read, And this proves that Hackernews is still not going the way of the Dodo[1] (in this case, the way of Slashdot)...

And proves that, sofar, alecco is the smartest (or at least the funniest in a smart way ) guy in Hackernews.

There is a reason Professor Moriarty's bits always converge, and the reason was the Pure Fun, off course.

I almost forgot to answer the question:

The Chinese Cops use VPN's to watch Japanese Porn together with their wives and girlfriends, if they are not married yet, , because the Cops are not machines, so...

I think they will let this one pass unpunished...

Unless you are using a VPN to scorch the chinese President in public like I do: Xi Jin Pin is a Incompetent War Monger !!! I Want HuJinDao Back !!!!!!!

So, in this case, if they catch me using my VPN to do what I am doing here, so I will loose a lot of social points, my friend, and I will... BEI HEXIE LE ( Get Harmonized ).

Probably 1 full year in Jail, if they catch me saying what I am saying using a VPN.

So I am a Brave guy , Right?

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#74

Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

x220 wrote: post #51
s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Noone said that. If anything we accept we have no control over China's policies.

You have control over your own choice to oppress people or not oppress people.

I'm not oppressing anyone. The Chinese government is. I'm not a lawmaker nor Chinese.

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#75

Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

jadeddrag wrote: post #39
s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Noone said that. If anything we accept we have no control over China's policies.

Boycotting is one small lever of control.

I'm not on Windows, nor do I use Bing, but no it's not really when the company is a certain size.

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#76

Post by paradoxparalax »

cltsang wrote: post #68
paradoxparalax wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Virtually anyone in China, even the Chinese people, just use a VPN or SSH, or both, and your internet is ok.

This is mostly true. However, there are also signs of change as they are starting to enforce the digital border. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn...

Good datapoint. I opened it and I see that is probably some Hong Kong newspaper. I like Hongkonese people very much, one of my favorite people in the world, really.

They are unique and so nice, if you know how to be friendly, of course. So...

I started reading with attention, and her picture was actually pretty, ( for my taste, no cure for yellow fever)...

...But when She starts to call "Beijing" (!!!!!)...(sigh)...

The little cop of some whoever place in GuangDong, I just stop reading right there, Not to waste my brain with the unlogic logic that was possibly coming...

But, is an important datapoint. The Long winter is Coming, this summer has already lasted 8 years or so. But just 1 in a billion, but one by one you make a billion.

But i read more and things like this, quote from her:

"Many companies complained that their paid-for VPN services were not functioning for up to a week."

Sounds weird. Is easy to make a point to any theory in China, because there is a lot of people there, you can get a lot of datapoints and anecdotes to make any point, right.

If I want to make a pretty headline about the humanity hugest police crackdown on ICE(that drug the vietnamese girls like, and I have to say it is nice, maybe is Meth, I don't know , probably Australia is called Ice, In China is Called LIUBIN, and is the Drug Number 1 in China, The Drug of The People, so ........

I can write a book about that crackdown, right.......

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#77

Post by paradoxparalax »

blattimwind wrote: post #38
pgc wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

The popular counterpant to "Everyone I don't like is Hitler": "Everyone I don't like is a communist". The 50s have called and want their witchhunt back.

I will order a T-Shirt with these 2 sentences.the times we live.

by blattimwind. I will give the credit(in smaller fonts, sure)

maybe change/replace the "I don't like" by "stupid" or "dumb" or "brainwashed"

Is fun.

But when you make fun of Nazism, and you equate the negation of humanity, you make more harm then fun. Actually you make big harm for the world.

But Who cares 'bout freaking world, I will make my t-shirt.

humor was ruled by some supreme court as free to scorch anyone in any manner, if, and only if, made in form of charge. So I may need some drawing on it.

Yeah but is true, some people are afraid of communism as like it was Aliens from Evil planet, others are afraid of Political Incorrectness as if was the Hydra of Lerna[1], so...each to their own.I upvote this blattimwind comment above, and I never vote, is against my principles, up or down, left or right. But this was a good one and is exception.

1-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#78

Post by tryonqc »

lnyng wrote: post #49
tryonqc wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I showed a google map to a police officer (border control on the highway) to show where I was going, no problem. Had setup a few VPN on my iphone before going to have options in case one or two got flagged. My uni VPN worked during my entire stay.

https://maps.google.cn is actually working in mainland China, which I found surprisingly last month.

good to know! Now I understand better why they had all the transit info for beijing loaded into google map ;)

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#79

Post by dboon »

paradoxparalax wrote: post #73
alecco wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many social points do they strike when they find you use a VPN?

I really like your comment, I think is the best comment I have ever read in Hackernews, I mean, I say for the sake of Fun, not for work or science or knowledge,... ...But for Entertainment, for the pure Fun itself, This was the best comment I ever read, And this proves that Hackernews is still not going the way of the Dodo[1] (in this case, the way of Slashdot)... And proves that, sofar, alecco is the smartest (or at…

very strange comment

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

#80

Post by x220 »

s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #74
x220 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have control over your own choice to oppress people or not oppress people.

I'm not oppressing anyone. The Chinese government is. I'm not a lawmaker nor Chinese.

If you work with the Chinese government to carry out or abide by censorship practices, you are oppressing people. You have the choice to not comply.
Post reply on HN