Just closed an account with VAserv last week for no particular reason. I hardly ever do things for "no particular reason" so it must have been my spider sense.
Will this be a case of good bye reputation, or no publicity is bad publicity?
This is just more bullshit "orders from the top" that won't affect anything.
I bought a laptop from a large, reputable chain and after handing over the cash they still whipped out the white-label CDR with sharpie written "Windows XP Chinese edition". Had to decline because it would have been a serious waste of 45 min.
DVD has copy and region protection. The only reason I have a large DVD collection today, is because the copy protection was utterly destroyed early on, ensuring my fair use indefinitely, of the discs I own. More modern protection schemes haven't been shredded to my satisfaction, so I won't be buying into them any time soon.
Legally grey means nothing to me. If there is decoder library that works in linux, and region hacks for the physical drives, I'm in.
When this becomes a standard human input device...I don't want it. How will you explain when your browser suddenly navigates to your favourite porn site.
People pour masses of crap down it, but occasionally you need to reach in and search for a valuable item, and you come out covered in shit. What were we talking about again?
The Logitech wave keyboard has a little "moat" around Capslock and Numlock keys, making them far less easy to accidentally press. You can also disable those keys in software, which I did straight away.
Ignorance was the wrong word there. It implied stupidity, and an information vacuum which I didn't actually intend.
Their values and culture are weighted towards totalitarianism, hence why it hasn't broken apart at the seams already. The state censorship probably stems partly, from self-preservation activities of the corrupted powerful.
This is by far the most useful post, and needs to appear above the other rubbish about secret police, and government conspiracies.
Chinese culture dictates that personal freedoms are completely sacrificed, for the sake of social stability. Authoritarian government is the natural result, and the meta-stable bizarro world we see now is a result of sustained government meddling.
Also, before the cultural relativists come out to disagree, you already lost.
The universal nature of human rights and freedoms is beyond question
Absolute rubbish. But actually it's even more scary.
Joe public in China don't live in a state of fear, because of mass surveillance; they live in a state of ignorance because of the governments cultural sandbox. The government is widely seen as doing a good job of solving those "unique Chinese problems", imaginary or otherwise.
I already wasted many hours of my life building nlited XP CDs. It's the only way to stop all the "non-uninstallable" crap from getting on there in the first place.
When I choose to help, it's efficient. When forced to help, there is an inefficiency; and usually someone making a parasitic living off of doing the forcing.
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Just closed an account with VAserv last week for no particular reason.
I hardly ever do things for "no particular reason" so it must have been my spider sense.
Will this be a case of good bye reputation, or no publicity is bad publicity?
This is just more bullshit "orders from the top" that won't affect anything.
I bought a laptop from a large, reputable chain and after handing over the cash they still whipped out the white-label CDR with sharpie written "Windows XP Chinese edition".
Had to decline because it would have been a serious waste of 45 min.
The source code would have to be open before I would trust it.
Crypto behind e-voting has some similarities with e-cash. Its a really interesting topic.
DVD has copy and region protection. The only reason I have a large DVD collection today, is because the copy protection was utterly destroyed early on, ensuring my fair use indefinitely, of the discs I own.
More modern protection schemes haven't been shredded to my satisfaction, so I won't be buying into them any time soon.
Legally grey means nothing to me. If there is decoder library that works in linux, and region hacks for the physical drives, I'm in.
I wish my ISP would filter out all the car analogies for me.
It's just like moving rack mounted servers offshore. Just box them, ship them, and install in the new offices.
Simple. Just have a 1TB cache.
I speculate that Windows downloaded some critical patches and then rebooted.
I hope they find the blackbox, with the event logs so we can be sure.
I'll leave the blue screen joke for someone else.
When this becomes a standard human input device...I don't want it. How will you explain when your browser suddenly navigates to your favourite porn site.
The internet is more like a plumbing trap.
People pour masses of crap down it, but occasionally you need to reach in and search for a valuable item, and you come out covered in shit.
What were we talking about again?
The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention; Now that is "irony!"
There is only one place left to send them now.
Azeroth.
The Logitech wave keyboard has a little "moat" around Capslock and Numlock keys, making them far less easy to accidentally press.
You can also disable those keys in software, which I did straight away.
Best keyboard I've ever owned.
There should be an HTTP status code especially for this:
HTTP/1.1 418 - Piss off, and come back when you have a proper browser.
Make no mistake: WE are the ones making huge progress in the Global Obliteration of Psychiatry. Wikipedia is acting at Big Psychiatry's beck and call.
This guy needs to see a psychiatrist ASAP.
Bonzi buddy.
How did people live before they had a malware purple ape on their desktop?
Ignorance was the wrong word there. It implied stupidity, and an information vacuum which I didn't actually intend.
Their values and culture are weighted towards totalitarianism, hence why it hasn't broken apart at the seams already.
The state censorship probably stems partly, from self-preservation activities of the corrupted powerful.
This is by far the most useful post, and needs to appear above the other rubbish about secret police, and government conspiracies.
Chinese culture dictates that personal freedoms are completely sacrificed, for the sake of social stability. Authoritarian government is the natural result, and the meta-stable bizarro world we see now is a result of sustained government meddling.
Also, before the cultural relativists come out to disagree, you already lost.
The universal nature of human rights and freedoms is beyond question
Absolute rubbish. But actually it's even more scary.
Joe public in China don't live in a state of fear, because of mass surveillance; they live in a state of ignorance because of the governments cultural sandbox.
The government is widely seen as doing a good job of solving those "unique Chinese problems", imaginary or otherwise.
I already wasted many hours of my life building nlited XP CDs.
It's the only way to stop all the "non-uninstallable" crap from getting on there in the first place.
It's not only that.
When I choose to help, it's efficient.
When forced to help, there is an inefficiency; and usually someone making a parasitic living off of doing the forcing.
Keeping back dumb censorship plans, in otherwise democratic countries, is an eternal struggle.
Yes they will.
In a billion years, there will be a galactic war between the Church of the Holy Goatse, and Two Gods one Cup.
Thanks for linking to wikipedia
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