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yup. whatever can be exploited will be exploited; and not even extremely "not worth it" gains will stop them from doing so. In a country like China there's always some sucker who'll do whatever shit job for next to no pay.
There are many non geo blocked tax funded European radio and TV channels. Each of them likely has a percentage of their audience not paying fees. However there may be German/French/etd expats in England (or vice versa) who don't care much about the Beeb and who still have to pay the fee. It probably all levels out. The other question is, is there a potential loss of income? And if so, how much do a few expats cause?
Not just the best schools, but the best Guanxi to be made of. i.e. networks made on Harvard or Yale bring you further than networks made at similar schools in the EU, even if you study at the ETH or LSE. The number of alumni of "elite" universities running major businesses is much lower in the EU. Likewise the prestige of US universities outranks most EU ones. And prestige and connections are worth a lot to Chinese... and the American universities make good cash of them. It's a match made in heaven;)
the whole "work in Silicon Valley" reason is the most laughable. There are so many fulfilling careers in the world - in IT and outside IT (especially outside IT). The chance that your kid wants to work in IT, and then, on top, move to the Valley - how big are they?
That's almost as crazy as people who teach their 4 year olds Mandarin so they can become the big shot in China in the future (yeah sure, without Guanxi or anything, good luck!)
it's about possible future chances for their kid to riches, fame and education. Chinese really love to plan ahead. A foreign passport will make education abroad much easier and help with job prospects, even back in China. Not to mention you avoid the hassle that traveling on a Chinese passport gives you - like having to apply for a Visa for pretty much anywhere - i.e. forget ad-hoc trips.
Also the entry barriers for this 1st class Western citizenship are rather low. Just give birth. In other countries you have to have lived there for X years and hold on to legal work - now that is much more difficult for the average "I only speak Chinese and I don't want to work as cook" Chinese upper middle class person.
Get the passport where you see your kid living its future life. If possible I'd go for dual citizenship, nevermind the taxes, but not all EU countries allow this.
I'm from Western Europe and I'd totally go for Swedish citizenship though. Mostly because I believe in their idea of a free and equal society with a strong social system - offering great thins as affordable health care, strong worker protection, and affordable higher education. Sweden has one of the highest living standards in the world, beautiful landscape and its a safe country not embroiled in wars or conflict. Of all the EU it's probably one of the most family and kid friendly countries too. Also their bureaucracy is pretty foreigner friendly from what I saw - even if your kid will never speak fluent Swedish.
Unless you hate Ikea, constitutional monarchy or hotdogs it sounds like a pretty damn good choice for getting a passport from.
people register with their ID - that's already common with many services in China It's like registering with Google+ with your passport, Social security number, etc.
Did you really that registering with your real name in China means the same thing it did on Google+???
They do have a national ID in China. You probably have to give your phone number too, which is linked to a lot of other accounts, like your bank account. They will find you. And hey, it's China, where you're gonna run to? Vietnam? North Korea?
I wonder how this will work in practice. Currently packages either get delivered right to my apartment's door step or dropped off at the guard house, which seemingly every slightly better apartment block in China has. The guards will probably get ticked off if they have to leave their cubicle all the time - most of them seem to just sit in there all day and smoke. And for me as spoiled customer I'd also rather have a dude schlepp everything right to my doorstep on floor 23.
nobody uses trucks. all the delivery guys seem to have scooters. You won't see a UPS truck in China.
What happens is that the guy drives right up to your office building in downtown Shanghai, emptying a huge bag of parcels on the floor and rummage for the ones to deliver in your building - usually right in the lobby, or outside. He then either drags the sack with the remaining parcels with him or leaves it with the security guards.
There's gazillions of scooter delivery guys in Shanghai. They deliver it all. KFC, water, fruit, UPS, mail, food, stuff from tmall or JD, anything.
Businesses here in China can apply for an official VPN connection, over which you can access many, but not all, blocked websites, such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. This option only exists for businesses and not for private citizens, which actually led to a small scale protest in Chengdu maybe a year ago, where people complained that their own government allows the "evil" foreigners privileges they as citizens don't get.
Problem is that most reliable VPNs are commercial. Starting from 5 USD. You need a CC which is approved for international online payments. Most Chinese - meaning the people who do not live in 1st or 2nd tier cities - do not have a CC. Further, the bank must allow online payments on the card. Lastly, you must care about politics (many Chinese do not - their educational brainwashing did a good job!) and possibly speak some English (many do not).
Meaning - the hurdle is fairly high for the average Chinese. And the few people who can circumvent the firewall are no danger as long as they don't stir up trouble. And to do that they'd have to use Chinese social media, which are heavily monitored and censored.
It didn't get blocked initially. However the Chinese tampered with the connection. Google services became very unreliable - lost of dropped connections. Google HK claimed there's no error on their side and that it's the Chinese government. In the end Google got fully blocked for the average Chinese home user. That's at least the case here in Shanghai, using China Telecom FTTH.
Your situation in (expensive) international hotels may vary. They may have one of the expensive government approved VPNs to fool visitors that all is well in China.
The philosophy is quite different. They don't care if you a few people circumvent the GFW. They care if people start spreading the truth, or what the CCP calls "rumors". I.e. if you try to get other Chinese to act against the government's interests. As long as you shut up, you're safe.
With this in mind, the Chinese firewall was never designed to stop everyone. It just makes it difficult enough for the average Chinese to not bother circumventing it and getting "stupid" ideas. And even then, if you don't act on those ideas, no problem!
In the case of China, if China cannot control it then they will block it. China doesn't spend money on censoring. They ask e.g. Google to spend money on censoring. Each internet company in China must, according to Chinese law, employ their own censors. All the Chinese government has to do is auditing and then fining the companies as needed. Very efficient solution for them. Google didn't want to put up with this, so they left. And since China couldn't control them anymore they blocked Google.
This doesn't necessarily mean DuckDuckGo is good or safe. It just means the Chinese government doesn't see itself able to control them. Hence the block.
Sysadmins for big companies have access to VPNs. The Chinese government is okay with breaching the firewall for the sake of making money. Corporations usually have access to rather expensive and approved VPN connections (such as the place I work for). They allow you to access e.g. Facebook and the IP also shows up as China based. My personal VPN at home is illegal, much much cheaper and usually shows a US based IP.
Most Sysadmins don't speak much English though, but there are many Chinese IT books available. They're MUCH cheaper than books in the US, although some are just direct translations from the English Help file to Chinese.
They're probably the most user friendly Amigas which run most of the software around, and IDE and PCMCIA make them easily expandable. I'm not sure if they're collectibles though, other for the fact that they run the latest games.
But if you enjoy having something rare, like an oldtimer, get one of the big box Amigas. They're truly like an old car. You'll spend a lot of time hunting down those rare Zorro cards, ZIP RAMs, turbo cards and the latest revisions of the custom chips. It's a time and money sink - like an old car - but oddly satisfying when you turn it on and it all works:)
I really like playing games on my A1200 (I got an A600 somewhere too), but the most fun is just the A3000, which over the time I decked out with an 68040 warp engine accelerator, a Cybervision 64 video card, a hydra ethernet card and recently a Buddha IDE controller. I really want to replace those mechanical drives, especially the aging floppy worries me.
Nothing new, this is just the modus operandi here in China. Anything, iPad, iPhones, tickets for concerts, movies, anything that has limited availability and a chance for slightly higher than usual demand gets scalped - even if it means ordering lots of stuff from overseas or smuggling things, like iPhones, from Hong Kong.
The Occulus folks are just doing the same that Apple is doing - finding a way to ensure that the product falls into the hands of people who will actually use it. In HK it took them a couple of measures to ensure that HK residents get hands on the iPhone first, over scalpers coming for a day trip from the mainland.
I don't post often but the new design is just a big step back in usability. Yes I know, this is done to "attract a new audience" but it seems the suits behind this thinking always keep forgetting the established audience - at least they sure did at Flickr. Please Slashdot, don't become another Flickr. Give us at least a choice which format to use.
Well..Do you Americans know who Konrad Zuse was? He built the very first computer! But he didn't build it in the U.S.... he built it in Germany, and it was mechanic. It was a programmable electro-mechanic computer. Unfortunately lots of it got destroyes during WW II. He even started building computers and calculators before WW II.
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* unicode support
* more nerd news: *nix, programming, architecture, networking, star trek, star wars... the nerd stuff!
* I wouldn't mind if news would become a bit less US centric, especially those US politics news. Aren't there any other outlets for Americans to get their political news from... like late night shows or whatever?
* bring back the CowboyNeal option in the polls
* don't touch anything else! If anything, a move back in time would do Slashdot as good as a move forward... at least when turning the wheel of time back, I know how Slashdot felt back then, and that's the way I liked it. Now get off my lawn...
yup. whatever can be exploited will be exploited; and not even extremely "not worth it" gains will stop them from doing so. In a country like China there's always some sucker who'll do whatever shit job for next to no pay.
you could start your own metal band for exactly the same reason. good luck becoming a world wide rock star!
There are many non geo blocked tax funded European radio and TV channels. Each of them likely has a percentage of their audience not paying fees. However there may be German/French/etd expats in England (or vice versa) who don't care much about the Beeb and who still have to pay the fee. It probably all levels out.
The other question is, is there a potential loss of income? And if so, how much do a few expats cause?
Not just the best schools, but the best Guanxi to be made of. i.e. networks made on Harvard or Yale bring you further than networks made at similar schools in the EU, even if you study at the ETH or LSE. The number of alumni of "elite" universities running major businesses is much lower in the EU. Likewise the prestige of US universities outranks most EU ones. And prestige and connections are worth a lot to Chinese... and the American universities make good cash of them. It's a match made in heaven ;)
the whole "work in Silicon Valley" reason is the most laughable. There are so many fulfilling careers in the world - in IT and outside IT (especially outside IT). The chance that your kid wants to work in IT, and then, on top, move to the Valley - how big are they?
That's almost as crazy as people who teach their 4 year olds Mandarin so they can become the big shot in China in the future (yeah sure, without Guanxi or anything, good luck!)
it's about possible future chances for their kid to riches, fame and education. Chinese really love to plan ahead. A foreign passport will make education abroad much easier and help with job prospects, even back in China. Not to mention you avoid the hassle that traveling on a Chinese passport gives you - like having to apply for a Visa for pretty much anywhere - i.e. forget ad-hoc trips.
Also the entry barriers for this 1st class Western citizenship are rather low. Just give birth. In other countries you have to have lived there for X years and hold on to legal work - now that is much more difficult for the average "I only speak Chinese and I don't want to work as cook" Chinese upper middle class person.
Get the passport where you see your kid living its future life.
If possible I'd go for dual citizenship, nevermind the taxes, but not all EU countries allow this.
I'm from Western Europe and I'd totally go for Swedish citizenship though. Mostly because I believe in their idea of a free and equal society with a strong social system - offering great thins as affordable health care, strong worker protection, and affordable higher education. Sweden has one of the highest living standards in the world, beautiful landscape and its a safe country not embroiled in wars or conflict. Of all the EU it's probably one of the most family and kid friendly countries too. Also their bureaucracy is pretty foreigner friendly from what I saw - even if your kid will never speak fluent Swedish.
Unless you hate Ikea, constitutional monarchy or hotdogs it sounds like a pretty damn good choice for getting a passport from.
people register with their ID - that's already common with many services in China
It's like registering with Google+ with your passport, Social security number, etc.
Did you really that registering with your real name in China means the same thing it did on Google+???
- greetings from Shanghai
They do have a national ID in China. You probably have to give your phone number too, which is linked to a lot of other accounts, like your bank account. They will find you. And hey, it's China, where you're gonna run to? Vietnam? North Korea?
Except that Google doesn't send it's goons to visit you at night to "check the gas meter" if you criticize the the US government and its policies.
I wonder how this will work in practice. Currently packages either get delivered right to my apartment's door step or dropped off at the guard house, which seemingly every slightly better apartment block in China has. The guards will probably get ticked off if they have to leave their cubicle all the time - most of them seem to just sit in there all day and smoke. And for me as spoiled customer I'd also rather have a dude schlepp everything right to my doorstep on floor 23.
nobody uses trucks. all the delivery guys seem to have scooters. You won't see a UPS truck in China.
What happens is that the guy drives right up to your office building in downtown Shanghai, emptying a huge bag of parcels on the floor and rummage for the ones to deliver in your building - usually right in the lobby, or outside. He then either drags the sack with the remaining parcels with him or leaves it with the security guards.
There's gazillions of scooter delivery guys in Shanghai. They deliver it all. KFC, water, fruit, UPS, mail, food, stuff from tmall or JD, anything.
Violence and Mayham. That's probably the reason why a letter of a 9 year old asking Mr Xi to lose some weight got censored.
Businesses here in China can apply for an official VPN connection, over which you can access many, but not all, blocked websites, such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. This option only exists for businesses and not for private citizens, which actually led to a small scale protest in Chengdu maybe a year ago, where people complained that their own government allows the "evil" foreigners privileges they as citizens don't get.
Credit card + VPN
Problem is that most reliable VPNs are commercial. Starting from 5 USD. You need a CC which is approved for international online payments. Most Chinese - meaning the people who do not live in 1st or 2nd tier cities - do not have a CC. Further, the bank must allow online payments on the card. Lastly, you must care about politics (many Chinese do not - their educational brainwashing did a good job!) and possibly speak some English (many do not).
Meaning - the hurdle is fairly high for the average Chinese. And the few people who can circumvent the firewall are no danger as long as they don't stir up trouble. And to do that they'd have to use Chinese social media, which are heavily monitored and censored.
You are right. Google left first.
It didn't get blocked initially. However the Chinese tampered with the connection. Google services became very unreliable - lost of dropped connections. Google HK claimed there's no error on their side and that it's the Chinese government.
In the end Google got fully blocked for the average Chinese home user. That's at least the case here in Shanghai, using China Telecom FTTH.
Your situation in (expensive) international hotels may vary. They may have one of the expensive government approved VPNs to fool visitors that all is well in China.
The philosophy is quite different.
They don't care if you a few people circumvent the GFW. They care if people start spreading the truth, or what the CCP calls "rumors". I.e. if you try to get other Chinese to act against the government's interests. As long as you shut up, you're safe.
With this in mind, the Chinese firewall was never designed to stop everyone. It just makes it difficult enough for the average Chinese to not bother circumventing it and getting "stupid" ideas. And even then, if you don't act on those ideas, no problem!
In the case of China, if China cannot control it then they will block it. China doesn't spend money on censoring. They ask e.g. Google to spend money on censoring. Each internet company in China must, according to Chinese law, employ their own censors. All the Chinese government has to do is auditing and then fining the companies as needed. Very efficient solution for them. Google didn't want to put up with this, so they left. And since China couldn't control them anymore they blocked Google.
This doesn't necessarily mean DuckDuckGo is good or safe. It just means the Chinese government doesn't see itself able to control them. Hence the block.
Sysadmins for big companies have access to VPNs. The Chinese government is okay with breaching the firewall for the sake of making money. Corporations usually have access to rather expensive and approved VPN connections (such as the place I work for). They allow you to access e.g. Facebook and the IP also shows up as China based. My personal VPN at home is illegal, much much cheaper and usually shows a US based IP.
Most Sysadmins don't speak much English though, but there are many Chinese IT books available. They're MUCH cheaper than books in the US, although some are just direct translations from the English Help file to Chinese.
They're probably the most user friendly Amigas which run most of the software around, and IDE and PCMCIA make them easily expandable. I'm not sure if they're collectibles though, other for the fact that they run the latest games.
But if you enjoy having something rare, like an oldtimer, get one of the big box Amigas. They're truly like an old car. You'll spend a lot of time hunting down those rare Zorro cards, ZIP RAMs, turbo cards and the latest revisions of the custom chips. It's a time and money sink - like an old car - but oddly satisfying when you turn it on and it all works :)
I really like playing games on my A1200 (I got an A600 somewhere too), but the most fun is just the A3000, which over the time I decked out with an 68040 warp engine accelerator, a Cybervision 64 video card, a hydra ethernet card and recently a Buddha IDE controller. I really want to replace those mechanical drives, especially the aging floppy worries me.
Nothing new, this is just the modus operandi here in China. Anything, iPad, iPhones, tickets for concerts, movies, anything that has limited availability and a chance for slightly higher than usual demand gets scalped - even if it means ordering lots of stuff from overseas or smuggling things, like iPhones, from Hong Kong.
The Occulus folks are just doing the same that Apple is doing - finding a way to ensure that the product falls into the hands of people who will actually use it. In HK it took them a couple of measures to ensure that HK residents get hands on the iPhone first, over scalpers coming for a day trip from the mainland.
I don't post often but the new design is just a big step back in usability.
Yes I know, this is done to "attract a new audience" but it seems the suits behind this thinking always keep forgetting the established audience - at least they sure did at Flickr. Please Slashdot, don't become another Flickr. Give us at least a choice which format to use.
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Well..Do you Americans know who Konrad Zuse was? He built the very first computer! ... he built it in Germany, and it was mechanic.
But he didn't build it in the U.S.
It was a programmable electro-mechanic computer. Unfortunately lots of it got destroyes during WW II. He even started building computers and calculators before WW II.
I think he started it all,
ENIAC was after him..