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Postcard From Pyongyang: The Airport Now Has Wi-Fi, Sort of (apnews.com)
Eric Talmadge, writing for AP: North Korea is one of the least Wi-Fi-friendly countries in the world. Having a device that emits Wi-Fi signals can result in detention and a major fine. Worse, if you are a North Korean. Public use of the internet is a concept that just makes North Korean officials really nervous. But here's a sign that might be changing. North Korea's main internet provider appears to have put up a Wi-Fi trial balloon at the international departure area of Pyongyang's airport. It's a logical place to start. The service is only available, or even visible, to travelers who have already cleared customs, which included me last week. The reporter was unable to actually get the Wi-Fi to work, however.
... pot.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
One last chance to hack foreigners' devices on their way out of the country, when they're burned out, less attentive, anxious to connect to the outside world, and jumping right into checking email and other communications. Gee, I wonder why they'd try this.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Damn right. My grandpa died in a concentration camp.
He was drunk and fell off a watchtower, but still.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
North Korea is one of the least Wi-Fi-friendly countries in the world.
They could drop the word Wi-Fi from that sentence and it would still be true. I really cannot fathom any sane reason to travel to that country.
The United States tolerates other countries operated by dictators with ruthless policies as well.
Normally "good" countries tolerate "bad" countries when...
1. The "Bad" country has something the "Good" country wants or needs.
2. The "Bad" country isn't in direct competition, to the "Good" countries self interests.
3. The "Bad" country just isn't that important.
4. The "Bad" country is upholding a policy, borders, and or anything else that promotes the "Good" countries self interest.
5. The "Bad" country is a line of defense from a "Worse" country that the "Good" country is having problems with.
For the most part Countries respect the sovereignty that an other country has, and realizes its morals and polices will not match their own. Other countries looking at us, can probably find many things that we do, that are just as reprehensible as we accuse them for doing.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
North Korea will fall. Either by violence from outside or from within.
When the dust settles, the world will learn of the atrocities they suspect now, but are really unwilling to admit to.
At that time, the entire world will be ashamed to have let the Cancer that is North Korea live for so long.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I don't know why a non-programmer would be on Slashdot
Because it's "News for Nerds", not "Peniswaving for Programmers". I remember when ours (programming) used to be an open and welcoming community. You are what is wrong with it today.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Killing Benigno Aquino is what toppled Marcos' regime. I actually met Aquino when he was an MIT fellow. My first reaction when I heard he was going back was "Marcos will have him killed." Doing it before Aquino even got off the tarmac was a mistake; he should have met with an "accident". But then that was only the culmination of a whole train of mistakes, which started by allowing a young, charismatic politician to become the focus of opposition hopes.
So your analogy doesn't really work. The lesson for a tyrant is don't let your opponents become publicly notable. Keep people you can't trust inside the country where you can watch them and restrict them effectively. If they do manage leave the country, don't let them back in, or even adopt the pretense that they're free to return. Kill them while they are *languishing* in exile with no prospect of return. These are all lessons the DPRK has followed assiduously.
Practice makes perfect applies to tyranny as much as anything else, you just can't be half-hearted or half-assed about it.
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What does it mean to "blow out" a TCP connection
Zeroes and ones all over the fucking place; it's a hell of a mess. Clearly you're not a network engineer...