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Also, Huawei are building a 500 acre R&D facility next to the ARM headquarters in Cambridge, UK.
Not quite next door - 15 minutes drive away.
Might take 15mins to simply drive around such a huge campus.
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Ever heard that Taiwan is doing a stellar job holding off coronavirus? No, because China presses WHO into not mentioning Taiwan. We could learn a lot from Taiwan. China doesn't just boycott Taiwan, it makes others act as if the country doesn't exist. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan
Taiwan is not a country in China's eyes. Technically Taiwan is really not a country but works like one since 1949. If you follow Winnie the Poh closely enough, he has claimed "Taiwan problem will not be passed onto next generation". My personal estimate is that Taiwan will be taken by force within 20 years.
Do you feel it'd be an amphibious invasion would be a bit of a pyrrhic victory within 20 years? I feel like the PRC would be unpopular with the citizens of Taiwan and not look good internationally.
My impression is that the PRC was sabre-rattling to rally the public.
Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
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> I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. Frankly, I despise what the American government did to Assange and Manning. However, you can't even remotely compare their fate to what is happening every day to hundreds and thousands of people in different parts of China like Tibet. You have no chance of escaping, no chance of trial not to mention any…
You can't just compare what US does to some individuals, and what China does to the entire minority populations of Uighurs (13M people) or Tibetans (7M), like harvesting their organs for example https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...
Yeah, the US just kills civilians around the world at will, invading whatever country they think they own.
Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
#64How is security taken care of when contributions are being done by Huawei (backdoors in 41k lines of sourcode?)? But I am guessing there is no real fight between open source software and state actors - perhaps someone who knows more about the security of the kernel can comment.
Normally the identity of contributors is not really checked when you want to contribute to an open source project. A valid email address and a name is sufficient to contribute to the Linux kernel. All changes to The Linux kernel are getting publicly reviewed, so the hard thing is passing this technical review if you want to introduce a backdoor. If people know you, based on previous contributions, the review could be…
Not just contributed. SELinux is primarily authored by the NSA.
Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
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Maybe not single out China, but many people think China is particularly untrustworthy: they insist Chinese law is used outside China, and lecture people how they should refer to China in public; they operate concentration camps; the Chinese language has no word for *mutuality*, China benefits from free speech and access to institutions in the West but doesn't allow the same in China for journalists or businessmen; Ch…
> they insist Chinese law is used outside China They're touchy about people recognizing what they view as separatist movements, but that's relatively minor compared to, say, the United States forcing its sanctions policy on the rest of the world. Everyone around the world is afraid of doing business with Cuba, Iran, Huawei, and other targets of US sanctions, because the US aggressively applies secondary sanctions. Th…
> They're touchy about people recognizing what they view as separatist movements
I love how you refer to mass kidnapping of protestors from Hong Kong "touchy".
Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ever heard that Taiwan is doing a stellar job holding off coronavirus? No, because China presses WHO into not mentioning Taiwan. We could learn a lot from Taiwan. China doesn't just boycott Taiwan, it makes others act as if the country doesn't exist. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan
There's a frozen civil war in China. The government is obviously touchy about other countries recognizing what it views as a breakaway province. China views such recognition as meddling in its internal affairs. In Western news coverage, though, I see precisely the opposite of what you see. Taiwan is often listed as an example to follow, while China's combating of the epidemic is largely ignored. A lot of people even…
a) It's not Western news coverage but international.
b) No one believes anything China has to say because they have a history of coverups and suppression.
c) The lack of an independent press or judiciary means we don't have mechanisms to independently assess the truth.
Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
#67Not surprising after I saw how many R&D offices Huawei has in Europe. They basically placed their offices right across their competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, Imagination, etc. to the point that in every European Tech hub you will find a Huawei office.
This is what happens when business strategy spans decades and not from one quarterly report to another.
Agreed, a Nortel for each decade is usually sufficient from a business strategy perspective.
Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
#68Not surprising after I saw how many R&D offices Huawei has in Europe. They basically placed their offices right across their competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, Imagination, etc. to the point that in every European Tech hub you will find a Huawei office.
Yea Huawei has a location right outside NVIDIA in Santa Clara that was hit with a DOJ investigation after they gave out bonuses based on stealing IP and other nonsense.
Oh that's super interesting, I remember hearing rumors from about that building being the local hub for Chinese industrial espionage but never gave it much credence.
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Honestly, people seem to forget that this happened. They lose their shit at the slightest mention of Huawei/China but don't even have an issue using software released by the NSA[0]. Unpopular opinion, but if I had to choose between China and the U.S. spying on me, I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra
> I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. Frankly, I despise what the American government did to Assange and Manning. However, you can't even remotely compare their fate to what is happening every day to hundreds and thousands of people in different parts of China like Tibet. You have no chance of escaping, no chance of trial not to mention any…
For sure, China does awful things to many of its citizens.
But for an American, China doesn't have the ability to do any of that stuff. Nor are they likely to have any reason to care about my actions. While on the other hand, the USA has direct powers over me, and is likely to care more because I'm here.
So sure, China and the CCP are evil, probably much more evil than the US government. But even at that, the danger they pose to a typical US citizen is much less than that of their own government. So it's rational prefer, say, a Chinese-made phone to a US-made one.
Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
#70Not surprising after I saw how many R&D offices Huawei has in Europe. They basically placed their offices right across their competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, Imagination, etc. to the point that in every European Tech hub you will find a Huawei office.
Money and strategy talks If only Nokia hadn't got dragged down by the Symbian fools
You mean the Windows Phone fools?
I firmly believe that Nokia could have become a major player if they'd stayed the course with Meego-Harmatton. I owned a Nokia N9, the one phone that ran it, and it was great!.
The UI was very different from iOS, but it had all of the iPhone's polish and purposeful design. I greatly preferred it for several reasons: multi-tasking, for instance, was far more seamless than what iOS could do at the time.
Nokia's timing was right, too, and unlike Microsoft, Nokia had a deep history in the mobile space. They really could have made something.