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Re:and why not ?
"Also TFA is complete bullshit, China cannot corner the Neodymium market:"
While that statement is true, you are distracting from the real issue. China is indeed striving to corner strategic mineral markets, and it's not "news".
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/3124.html 2008 article which points out China's growing presence in the African mineral trade market.
http://www.chinamining.org/Companies/2009-03-26/1238054106d22981.html March 2009 article about China's growing presence in the common metals market, with passing reference to strategic metals.
http://www.domain-b.com/industry/Mining/20090327_australia_rejects.html March 2009 story about China making a bid to take over Australian mining.
http://english.cri.cn/7146/2009/01/08/1481s441134.htm January 2009 More to the point of this thread on slashdot, China is regulating the mining and export of strategic metals.
And, of course, this all goes back to their 10-year plans, and their bid to dominate the world, economically, politically, and militarily - the "Assassin's Mace". People with the slightest clue are worried about neodymium - but they are still missing the "big picture". That damned Assassin's Mace is a working plan, that is moving ahead, while the rest of the world sleeps.
The world economy won't improve, so long as China is waging an economic war, and we don't even realize it.
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Re:Right is not Right
>Google says they're going to label redacted data as such.
(Note: I stole the following example)
Look at this;
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&q=tiananme n%20square
now look at this;
http://images.google.ca/images?q=tiananmen%20squar e
Now would you know that "due to local laws some search results were excluded" that this was the difference?
>I simply can't fathom why you'd think the Chinese people are so gullible.
They are not stupid; the people are not getting the information they need. You can't ask for something you don't know exists.
For an example;
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1722.html -
Re:I would guess...
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Re:Dear Slashdot,
Dear Slashdot,
Dear Oppressive Government:
I work for an oppressive government's ISP monitoring administration. Do you have any suggestions for proxy websites we should block? Any particular ports we should be examining, or traffic patterns?
My phone is digital spread-spectrum. The way it hops around the allocated spectrum, eavesdropping it is a royal bitch. In a neighborhood of these phones, singling out just my phone traffic makes your job worse. Luckily, you'll just need a wiretap.
I use GAIM and GAIM-ENCRYPTION, because sometimes coworkers and I use it for business reasons (password changes, discussing contract prices or bid status, for work-related meetings or planning). We also talk about other stuff we don't want the boss to eavesdrop on. And we use gaim a *lot* for mundane chit-chat, without bothering to turn off encryption. That's a lot of irrelevant traffic that you'll need to sort thru, once you can decrypt my communication.
I use a digital cellphone sometimes. Mine's GSM... I think. Other times, I borrow one from someone for a few minutes. Minutes have gotten cheap enough, even strangers don't mind loaning you a phone for a minute or two. If minutes are expensive in your country, I bet folks do like we used to, where you just give someone a buck or two after borrowing their phone. If it helps, I can try to get you a list of my friends' numbers. I doubt it will. And I have no idea how you'll track down my calls from strangers' phones. They're like roaming phone booths.
Friends and I like to exchange movies via bittorrent. Sometimes, I wait days for a gig-size download, only to find that I don't have the right codec, or the picture quality sucks. Last time I checked Azureus, I was at 65 gigs of data transferred. Have at the analysis of that stuff, with my blessings, considering the near-random packet storm resultant from using bittorrent. If you get usable data out of 'em, can you drop me a note and tell me where I download the more obscure codecs?
A friend uses Skype to talk to his family in Venezuela. Lots. I'm sure that, given the price of international calls to tinpot dictatorships like yours, everyone in your country has heard of Skype or knows someone with relatives abroad that uses it. This friend of mine also had a girlfriend that he'd talk an hour a night with (using Skype), and they even sometimes set up videochats via some other mechanism. I wonder how much difficulty you'll have dsigning efficient ways of tracking stuff like pictures or pages held up for a few moments within a videochat. Even harder would be detecting hand signals or other codes. I hear India is taking in a lot of outsourcing... maybe they can get you roomsful of trained experts to eavesdrop all this crap.
You'll also want to watch for those nifty new camera cellphones and TXT'ing and blackberrys, iPods and handheld games and beaming and wifi and bluetooth. Then there's DVD-R's and cheap SD cards that can be passed along via old-fashioned means. Never underestimate the postal service, covert drops, or good-ol' brush-pass techniques.
I'm sure there's more. Please let me know when you have surveilance techniques worked out for this stuff, and I'll think of a few more.
Throughout this, knowing that I'm a dissident will be your only (thin) hope. Heaven help you if underground cells or other means are used to spread a counter-message anonymously.
(tongue-in-cheek aside, Elwood, the situation is (luckily) getting unsurveilable faster than governments can control it. In 15 years, we've gotten so far beyond the heavy use of faxes during China's Tiananmen Incident as an unmonitorable mechanism for spreading news or messages to organize dissent: search AAR's report for 'Faxes Save Lives' for a pithy paragraph on the state of surveilance there.) -
China crash will be fun...
.. when they end up having to deindex the RMB in order to clean up their banking structure..
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2263.html
Remember how the last Asian Crisis (tm) came about from lots of nonperforming loans of cheap money for phallic skyscrapers (among other things). Guess where the biggest concrete and steel dicks are these days? Shanghai, Chicom Hong Kong, and the coveted Taiwan ROC... I'm thinking Soros is chomping at the bit for the opportuninty to fuck China _and_ the US over in a spectacular fashion once the dike starts to crack...
Given that and recent reporting of labor shortages in Guangdong..
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/international/as ia/03china.html
The next few years should be interesting indeed.
At any rate, there's enough dollars in China to support an interesting shopping spree. I'm thinking they'll buy GM after they declare bankrupcy, and use those brands plus Chinese labor (and, hopefully, American labor after the UAW is destroyed by bankrupcy renegotiation) to enter the US auto market. -
Re:Hello, TESTING???
actually, there is evidence of exactly that.
First off, though, North Korea has been generating enriched Plutonium (and Uranium, I think) for several years in defiance of US threats of sanctions. They are known to have enough Plutonium to create several nuclear weapons.
Second, a Pakistani scientist sold secrets to building nuclear weapons to North Korea. Pakistan has nuclear capability and have demonstrated it. There are also rumors in the other direction - that Pakistan willingly allowed North Korea to test a plutonium device on its soil in 1998 when they still lacked enough plutonium to do it themselves. This makes some sense when you also realize that North Korea doesn't have the desert to perform its own nuclear testing, so if they did explode a nuke either above or underground, they'd likely pollute their water supply. Still, they may have done just that on the Korean-China border (see the Ryanggang explosion from late last year.
A quick google search dug up some references about the 1998 testing.