Hong Kong is crazy expensive, as are Beijing, Shanghai, etc. But China has much more to offer. In 2nd-tier cities it's still possible to get a decent >60m2 apartment for less than RMB 1000. That's with airco, furnished and often less than an hour by train from HK/SH/BJ if you really feel you want to go there.
I've been doing this in China for the last 7 years. The good thing here is that live is very scalable. If income is low you relocate to the countryside where you get by quite decently on $100/month and 4M Internet. If income rises you move towards bigger cities where you can spend over $10.000/month and have FTTH if you must.
And by scalability I don't just mean the living expenses. Also moving from place to place is dead easy. I arrive in a place and spend a day if not just a few hours on finding and renting a flat. I'll move in that same night or the next day and have my stuff arrive by truck a few days later.
If you're a remotely political person or care mildly about human rights, China may not be for you. For the average person however who just wants to work the least amount possible and yet have her/his dinner cooked, house cleaned and pussy licked/dick sucked as if she/he were queen/king, it's an awesome place.
1-3? Living in China for 7+ years now I can tell you that probably more than 90% of them support the government. Sure they'll bitch and moan about their leades, but if you ask them which system they would prefer (China, US or something European) they're sticking to the Chinese system.
IMHO, this is no different from most western countries. We complain about our governments but very few of us would opt for the system of another country, even if that system is fairly similar to ours.
There's one important difference though: western media participates in these games because it makes them money, gets them contracts, etc. These Chinese celebrities are more likely to be strong-armed into cooperating than rewarded with a handsome sum of money.
There's government and then there's government. The same thing happens in the US and elsewhere.
It's very possible that lower level government officials are pulling this off. Whether that's for their own misguided ideas or as a favor to a business friend doesn't really matter.
Don't forget the CCP has over 80 million members. That's a lot of people pulling strings and effecting actions that aren't necessarily following guidelines of whatever you would see as the central government.
Why do you need more than one? Can't you just install this before you split the signal? I doubt people actually have multiple cables entering their home.
The only reason I was able to switch from Linux to OS/X on my desktop is exactly because it has a decent command-line.
From a customer support perspective I can tell you it's significantly easier to support an OS/X user than a Windows user as well. Why? Because I can send someone a string of commands and the can copy&paste the result back to. On Windows you have to enter each command one, often can't find a suitable command and, probably the worst, it's non-trivial for a regular use to copy&paste the output.
Anything other than a government controlled VPN would be a dumb move. One step back though, why do you need a VPN? I assume the Navy can get his hands on a decent US IP range and have it routed properly? Even with non-US IP's you can probably get access. Most entertainment companies have good relations with the military - they could provide access as a courtesy.
Increasing abuse is probably the quickest route to having reform. Everyone "laying low" and having the current system in place allows for targeted attacks is much more harming in the long run. Please let them all go crazy and block each other until politicians wake up.
Freedom of speech allows you to say whatever you want about the government. It does not allow you to say whatever you want about others and certainly does not in any way apply to piracy.
Their trains failing was more a political than a technical error though. The guy responsible for rolling out the high speeds trains did this very well. So well, that others thought he may be headed for disaster by pursuing ever increasing top speeds. So what did they do? They replaced the guy. What did his replacement do? He started mixing up different train classes on the same track. This meant that slower tracks had to be tacking off track at specific locations to let faster trains pass. THIS was a recipe for disaster.
And you do, provided you choose the right phone. Several vendors now officially allow you to root your phone. This may not be suitable for all users but neither is re-installing your PC with the newest OS. Anyway, there's no point to bitch about this any longer. Vote with your cash and buy phones that support rooting.
Of course it's Sony's fault. Nobody forced Sony to use this specific WiFi chipset, nor did anyone force Sony to use or update to Android 4. Not to mention that Sony can be expected to have the engineering capabilities to fix some WiFi drivers. Finally, if this is such a well-known issue, Sony should have warned it's users before upgrading.
Thanks for the background information, which is useful, but it in no way excuses so for crippling people's devices.
As others have already suggested, this is not about the porn. It's simply to introduce more laws.
How would outlawing TOR stop these CP criminals? TOR will still be legal in many other countries, where these people can VPN to before they start TOR. Not to mention that most criminals don't give much about laws to begin with. Are we going to arrest everyone with a suspicious packet stream on the their Internet connection?
There was child porn and sexual exploitation of children way before the Internet came around. I'll be happy to see it removed from the Internet, just so my kids don't run into it, but not for a second do I believe that it does anything significant to reduce demand or actual harm to children. Unfortunately people with these needs will simply turn elsewhere. Directly to children if they must.
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Serial number. "Call home" only on new install to check the serial.
Hong Kong is crazy expensive, as are Beijing, Shanghai, etc. But China has much more to offer. In 2nd-tier cities it's still possible to get a decent >60m2 apartment for less than RMB 1000. That's with airco, furnished and often less than an hour by train from HK/SH/BJ if you really feel you want to go there.
A plane ticket and the guts to work without a work permit.
Want the legal route? Not going to happen, unless you become an expat for a US company.
I've been doing this in China for the last 7 years. The good thing here is that live is very scalable. If income is low you relocate to the countryside where you get by quite decently on $100/month and 4M Internet. If income rises you move towards bigger cities where you can spend over $10.000/month and have FTTH if you must.
And by scalability I don't just mean the living expenses. Also moving from place to place is dead easy. I arrive in a place and spend a day if not just a few hours on finding and renting a flat. I'll move in that same night or the next day and have my stuff arrive by truck a few days later.
If you're a remotely political person or care mildly about human rights, China may not be for you. For the average person however who just wants to work the least amount possible and yet have her/his dinner cooked, house cleaned and pussy licked/dick sucked as if she/he were queen/king, it's an awesome place.
1-3? Living in China for 7+ years now I can tell you that probably more than 90% of them support the government. Sure they'll bitch and moan about their leades, but if you ask them which system they would prefer (China, US or something European) they're sticking to the Chinese system.
IMHO, this is no different from most western countries. We complain about our governments but very few of us would opt for the system of another country, even if that system is fairly similar to ours.
There's one important difference though: western media participates in these games because it makes them money, gets them contracts, etc. These Chinese celebrities are more likely to be strong-armed into cooperating than rewarded with a handsome sum of money.
If you go that far back in history, most Americans just came from Europe. From that point of view there's really no difference.
There's government and then there's government. The same thing happens in the US and elsewhere.
It's very possible that lower level government officials are pulling this off. Whether that's for their own misguided ideas or as a favor to a business friend doesn't really matter.
Don't forget the CCP has over 80 million members. That's a lot of people pulling strings and effecting actions that aren't necessarily following guidelines of whatever you would see as the central government.
Which one?
Why do you need more than one? Can't you just install this before you split the signal? I doubt people actually have multiple cables entering their home.
The only reason I was able to switch from Linux to OS/X on my desktop is exactly because it has a decent command-line.
From a customer support perspective I can tell you it's significantly easier to support an OS/X user than a Windows user as well. Why? Because I can send someone a string of commands and the can copy&paste the result back to. On Windows you have to enter each command one, often can't find a suitable command and, probably the worst, it's non-trivial for a regular use to copy&paste the output.
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Anything other than a government controlled VPN would be a dumb move. One step back though, why do you need a VPN? I assume the Navy can get his hands on a decent US IP range and have it routed properly? Even with non-US IP's you can probably get access. Most entertainment companies have good relations with the military - they could provide access as a courtesy.
Increasing abuse is probably the quickest route to having reform. Everyone "laying low" and having the current system in place allows for targeted attacks is much more harming in the long run. Please let them all go crazy and block each other until politicians wake up.
Freedom of speech allows you to say whatever you want about the government. It does not allow you to say whatever you want about others and certainly does not in any way apply to piracy.
Yeah, because slasdot.org would never use a info@ e-mail address if slashdot.org was already using it.
Their trains failing was more a political than a technical error though. The guy responsible for rolling out the high speeds trains did this very well. So well, that others thought he may be headed for disaster by pursuing ever increasing top speeds. So what did they do? They replaced the guy. What did his replacement do? He started mixing up different train classes on the same track. This meant that slower tracks had to be tacking off track at specific locations to let faster trains pass. THIS was a recipe for disaster.
And you do, provided you choose the right phone. Several vendors now officially allow you to root your phone. This may not be suitable for all users but neither is re-installing your PC with the newest OS. Anyway, there's no point to bitch about this any longer. Vote with your cash and buy phones that support rooting.
Of course it's Sony's fault. Nobody forced Sony to use this specific WiFi chipset, nor did anyone force Sony to use or update to Android 4. Not to mention that Sony can be expected to have the engineering capabilities to fix some WiFi drivers. Finally, if this is such a well-known issue, Sony should have warned it's users before upgrading.
Thanks for the background information, which is useful, but it in no way excuses so for crippling people's devices.
Come on, we all know you want someone to yell "OMG, they're going after US citizens!". Don't be shy now.
Screw those telco's. It's time us slashdotter get of our lazy ass and create that peer-to-peer wifi/radio system.
As others have already suggested, this is not about the porn. It's simply to introduce more laws.
How would outlawing TOR stop these CP criminals? TOR will still be legal in many other countries, where these people can VPN to before they start TOR. Not to mention that most criminals don't give much about laws to begin with. Are we going to arrest everyone with a suspicious packet stream on the their Internet connection?
I've never understood legislating against something that can be used by criminals. It's not like criminals obey the law.
There was child porn and sexual exploitation of children way before the Internet came around. I'll be happy to see it removed from the Internet, just so my kids don't run into it, but not for a second do I believe that it does anything significant to reduce demand or actual harm to children. Unfortunately people with these needs will simply turn elsewhere. Directly to children if they must.
Sorry, I didn't catch it. Too busy playing with my iPhone.