Agree, of course if you want complete quiet keyboard, the brown switches still produces 'click-clack' sounds. I have an OEM Viewsonic keyboard, it's good, silent, but is really badly designed. If I had a rubber dome keyboard as good as Viewsonic one, and solid as Filco, may be I would not choose mechanic keyboards.
You exactly described Logitech products, I had a Logictech before, and currently use a K400+ (for Internet TV), but for typing in a long period of time, I can stand the Logitech keyboards, especially the 'spongy' feeling. (Oh, one plus point for Logitech is, despite they look cheap, they are rather sturdy, I don't have problem about 'quality' of the Logitech's products).
Yeah, I have two Filco (ninja) keyboards, one uses Cherry Brown, and one uses Blue switches. I really love the plain simple design of Filco Ninja.
The one uses Brown switches is quiet (in my standard, it's really quiet), but I prefer the Blue switches one, when my fingers can feel the responsive of pressing buttons. But when I feel tired, the Brown keyboard is much more comfortable.
Real "spycraft" and methods don't get declassified for decades.
That is, this's the most intelligent answer for all those stupid conspiracy theories and fake news rampage on this page.
Too bad, I don't have mod points, and even I have, your posts will not survive in the age of fake news nonsense and witch hunt. But who care about logic when it's easier when to believe that God is in your side.
Real-life spy vs fiction (aka: fake news): https://en.news-front.info/201...
In a article about Syria on NY Times, despite painted (as usual) Assad as brutal murder, but could not denied that:
In March, I met a lawyer named Anas Joudeh, who took part in some of the 2011 protests. Joudeh no longer considers himself a member of the opposition. I asked him why. “No one is 100 percent with the regime, but mostly these people are unified by their resistance to the opposition,” Joudeh told me. “They know what they don’t want, not what they want.” In December, he said, “Syrians abroad who believe in the revolution would call me and say, ‘We lost Aleppo.’ And I would say, ‘What do you mean?’ It was only a Turkish card guarded by jihadis.” For these exiled Syrians, he said, the specter of Assad’s crimes looms so large that they cannot see anything else. They refuse to acknowledge the realities of a rebellion that is corrupt, brutal and compromised by foreign sponsors. This is true. Eastern Aleppo may not have been Raqqa, where ISIS advertised its rigid Islamist dystopia and its mass beheadings. But as a symbol of Syria’s future, it was almost as bad: a chaotic wasteland full of feuding militias — some of them radical Islamists — who hoarded food and weapons while the people starved.
And, deliberately revealed that:
[PHOTO of a bombed hospital]
The roof of the Aleppo Eye Hospital, which rebels used as a military headquarters.
smugfunt: It is undeniable that the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society are western funded yet operate only in jihadi held territory.
And one would wonder why there is no White Helmets in Yemen, why no Western funded "NGO" has ever operated in Yemen and/or is deliberately frequently promoted in MSM like White Helmets.
Everyone who question the role, motive, credibility of White Helmets, no mater who they are, they were/are/will be immediately labeled as problematic/propagandist/misinformed, as if only Russians run fake news: https://medium.com/@caityjohns... https://www.rt.com/news/424078... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, it's so easy to debunk the rescue videos of White Helmets: no first aid, all are dramatical runnings, the victims are either without or with very little dirt, bruises, etc.
Oh, IF what is actually is different then it is NOT communism, period. How to achieve communism, and even more simple how to predict exactly a social conflict will happen is hard. And I repeat, there is no actual communism existed yet.
Also, all your post about communism base on the Soviet system, which you insisted that it was, despite all the Marxists have been against that, all the original of Marx works are against that.
No, that's not how China became capitalist or even state capitalist
You seems to not understand what I said, China before reformed is like Soviet, is state capitalism, with state monopoly of economy, then after reformed, they are allow private economy. State capitalism is that the state owns, capitalizes the surplus income of workers, the bosses here is the state.
Marx works are on German. English sometimes is painful to express. But it's a minor point.
You seems to refuse all the quotes I presents, which Marx's ideas when you refuse those are Marx's ideas.
You're highlighting the final step of it, which he says democracy will take foot, but only after the overthrow of the "old societies"
No, it's how societies work, as I mentioned, not just "communist", when the conflict reach the point of unreconcilable.
Which is a commentary that modern communists are revising to advertise to the others to join their cause
Modern?? this from 1930s article. Nah, all the articles I cited are from very beginning of communism establishment, which rejected USSR and co as communism. What's your point?
Marx was notorious for using 'obfuscated' words for exact translation, if not known what he was really meant and the context.
As mentioned in my previous comment, Marx did not consider the "dictatorship" and "revolution" as the tool of "minority" to "take control" powers. The armed force revolution is the result of old "weaken" societies refuse to transform to new societies, despite the will of the mass (in this case, the proletarian class is a larger group).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In 1875, Marx attacked the Gotha Program that became the program of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDP) in the same year in his Critique of the Gotha Program. Marx was not optimistic that Germany at the time was not open to a peaceful means to achieve socialism, especially after German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had enacted Anti-Socialist Laws in 1878.
"If in England, for instance, or the United States, the working class were to gain a majority in Parliament or Congress, they could, by lawful means, rid themselves of such laws and institutions as impeded their development, though they could only do insofar as society had reached a sufficiently mature development. However, the "peaceful" movement might be transformed into a "forcible" one by resistance on the part of those interested in restoring the former state of affairs; if (as in the American Civil War and French Revolution) they are put down by force, it is as rebels against "lawful" force."
for clearer, this what Marx thought about "dictatorship", not for gaining power, but for disproving the power of the minority (old societies):
While Marx viewed the state negatively as an instrument of class rule that should only exist temporarily upon the rise to power of the proletariat and then dismantled
In the manifesto (in your comment) above:
In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.
Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
In 1848, in the Communist Manifesto they wrote:
"We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy."
But note the point, Marx does not refer or say that only a minority of the working class would or need take control of political power during the period of the "transformation of the one into the other.” .....
We repeat that the dictatorship in Russia is not the “dictatorship of the Proletariat" in the Marxian sense of the term. On the contrary, it has been the dictatorship of a party, a party which in the earlier stages of their conquest of power actually deprived its own members of the power of voting.
No, your previous comment is exactly what AC mentioned. The Soviet economy is actually state capitalism (mentioned above, deformed capitalism economy), which has the properties of capitalism system.
The case of China is to abandon the monopoly of the state with the economy and (it's important, it happened when China decided to against the Soviet) the Wests were lift off embargo against the country.
If not for the investment, it's impossible for an economy no matter Soviet-style or Western-style would survived.
First of all, remind that, at this time there was no "communist party", and no "communist revolution".
In the article you cited, what I read is how Marx observed the events, and his conclusion is still true today, not just "communist revolution", how about "Arab Spring", recent clashes in Venezuela,... That is when the conflicts between the old and the new societies reach the unreconcilable level, there only one way happens, revolutionary terror.
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry Kissinger
Disagree? Then prove it: How many communist revolutions were democratically elected? And how many communist revolutions ever allowed free speech? There have been many communist revolutions around the world, so if what you say is true, then at least one should meet both criteria.
Communist revolution? Actually, one must ask there really actual communist revolutions out there!
It's not that "because Soviet was failed so they - communists try to lie that Soviet was not communism". It's ironical that who predict the fall of Soviet and was vocally against Stalinism or Leninism or Trotskyism, etc are Marxists themselves:
The wage-labour system in Russian State industries, like the system here and elsewhere, is a system of Slavery. The spread of piece-work will intensify the slavery ; it will enable the "Communist" rulers to squeeze more surplus-produce out of Russian workers, just as it has helped the Conservative and Liberal capitalists of this country. Alleged "quotations" in support of it from Marx merely brand Stalin & Co. as hypocrites and their followers as ignorant dupes. The Russian Government must make a profit in order to pay interest upon its loans if for no other reason, and this fact alone is sufficient to explode the myth that Russian State industry is run on Socialist lines.
The Russian Government has to borrow money to run its industries, like any other capitalist concern, because it has to pay for machinery and raw material, because its employees have to pay for the food, clothes and houses they need; because, in a phrase, all the means by which these requirements are produced are private property. It has not established an oasis of Socialism in a capitalist desert. Had it tried to do so it would have been speedily annihilated.
Karl Marx himself stated that communism must begin with the violent overthrow of democracy
Citation is needed!
In fact, Marx has never discussed anything about how to archive communism.
One of the form of communism in idea of Marx is that the government must be exterminated, how does that mean "overthrow of democracy" when there would be not rulers at all?
Don't mixed the **interpretations** of Marx's ideas of Lenin, Mao, Stalin... in as Marx's ideas!
My original post pointed out that in the summary of Slashdot article found nowhere on the original article, the title here is misleading. Report, quoting what it is, is journalism. Get it!?
All you throwing here is your assumption, that's not my interest, that does not have anything to do with my original post. Understand!?
Could you read English? Repeat after me:
You may be right or not. When ever you have a proof, show it.
Also, your information is wrong here:
Three Interfax journalists have been murdered by Putin's thugs
Sergei Grebenyuk, Interfax
1996-02-08 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Yuri Soltis, Interfax
1994-06-12 in Moscow, Russia
At least, 2 Interfax journalists were kill when Eltsin was the president of Russia. No information of the third one.
So, better to polish your bullshit before wasting my time again!
Name calling make you feel better at conversation!?
Gucifer what? I don't know who you are, you too!
What I pointed out is the way "journalism" works here in Slashdot and a comment without back up, without even matches the content of the article it tried to mention, was moderated "insightful".
Russia is really good at the misinformation game. But you already know that.
You may be right or not. When ever you have a proof, show it.
But by your logic, if Russia is not the victim of this cyber attack, clearly Russia's behind this, if it is the victim, clearly Russia stages a false-flag. But you already know that.
The post on slashdot:
The fucking Title: New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine
The fucking Summary: "Ukraine was the chief victim of a major cyber attack earlier this year, and the government had warned on Oct. 13 that another strike might be coming................. CERT-Ukraine said in a statement."
The original article:
Title: New wave of cyber attacks hits Ukraine and Russia
Cyber attacks using malware called “BadRabbit” hit Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday
Interfax, one of the largest news agencies in Russia, said some of its services were hit by an “unprecedented virus attack”.
“According to our data, most of the victims targeted by these attacks are located in Russia. We have also seen similar but fewer attacks in Ukraine, Turkey and Germany,” said Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab.
Ukraine’s cyber police chief told Reuters the country was “barely affected”.
And, more, how such a lame post like this, the OP, got mode up "4 insightful".
Also, according to Japanese source, there was no evidence that Soviet improved there subs using Toshiba machine: Japanese wikipedia
Also, according to the magazine supervised by the US Department of Defense, the quietness of the Soviet submarines improved after 1979, which is before the export of machine tools. Richard Armitage , who was then Assistant Secretary of Defense at the time, in a letter addressed to the House of Representatives military chairman of the House of Representatives, the Soviet nuclear submarine was equipped with a silent screw already three years before the incident, He said that he was opposed to sanctions against Toshiba. Furthermore, the quietness of submarines is not limited to the molding technology of screws but also to nuclear reactors and motor technology.
Also it's coincided with the incidents in 80's, 90's, Japan rose as the most potential competitor to the U.S (which was predicted to be surpassed U.S in 90's), which called "Japan Bashing":
During the 1980s, Japan Bashing reached a boiling point. Riding the late 1970s energy crisis, competition from Japanese car companies offering cheaper, fuel efficient cars became heated. Japan, however, was not interested in buying large American automobiles with steering wheels on the wrong side. The country was labeled as "protectionist", and protesters burned Japanese cars and flags, and the term "Japan Bashing" was coined.
Same here, I used to trust in WD, but their drives becomes more expensive (after the flood in Thailand), and less reliable.
Using Toshiba is cheaper and has no problem.
My first distro was Mandrake 9, I tried several distros but end up, went back to Mandriva/Mandrake, now I'm still using Mageia today.
Here some specifications why I think Mageia is good for newbie (or everyone):
1) Mageia is currently not the most popular distro as its ancestor Mandrake, but still a popular distro, that is most softwares support Mageia.
2) Easy configuration tools, installations (if not the easiest). Some of critical parts of the configuration tools have ncurse-based/CLI versions, so, such as, you could configure the drivers in the text-mode when bad things happen.
3) Good hardwares support (I haven't had any problem with Mandrake/Mageia when installing/run live-cd).
4) Stability, once I get Mageia running, I don't have any problem at all.
Other things that I love Mageia:
Wide range of running/installation options (live media, light/full...), has good support both GNOME and KDE.
One more, this time is Russia, not invasion but "influence/interference" other country's election: Time 1996: Yanks to the rescue. The secret story of how American advisers helped Yeltsin win
In the end the Russian people chose--and chose decisively--to reject the past. Voting in the final round of the presidential election last week, they preferred Boris Yeltsin to his Communist rival Gennadi Zyuganov by a margin of 13 percentage points. He is far from the ideal democrat or reformer, and his lieutenants Victor Chernomyrdin and Alexander Lebed are already squabbling over power, but Yeltsin is arguably the best hope Russia has for moving toward pluralism and an open economy. By re-electing him, the Russians defied predictions that they might willingly resubmit themselves to communist rule.
The outcome was by no means inevitable. Last winter Yeltsin's approval ratings were in the single digits. There are many reasons for his change in fortune, but a crucial one has remained a secret. For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign. Here is the inside story of how these advisers helped Yeltsin achieve the victory that will keep reform in Russia alive.
Focus on the bold texts, how nice the good guys Time preferred to describe, compare to:
Time 2016: Russia Wants to Undermine Faith in the US Election Don't Fall for It
Since the spring, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have seen mounting evidence of an active Russian influence operation targeting the 2016 presidential election...., undermining faith in the result and in democracy itself. ......
Russia’s interference in the U.S. election is an extraordinary escalation of an already worrying trend. ......
in Trump, Putin has found an almost perfect, if unwitting, ally for his influence operation.
Meanwhile, everyone with a brain moves away from Russia (even the oligarchs!) or drinks himself to death
Oh, another interesting information!
Stratfor, IMRussia (but I think imrussia is more honest) all sing songs that Russia faces another wave of brain-drain.
Yes, they have some examples, some apps startups, some game companies, but look at the numbers they provided.
Firstly, the number from Stratfor: https://translate.google.com/t...
(honestly, I actually like some anti-Putin jokes here)
Now, dig into those numbers (forget about the pro-Russian stand of the author below, focus on the number): https://translate.google.com/t...
That is, the number of emigrants move to Western countries slightly above the 2011.
Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnický says refugees are being transported through the West Balkan corridor to Western Europe with buses paid for by the Russian government. Stropnický’s statements were published over the weekend in Czech daily Mladá fronta Dnes.
According to him, he received this information from Hungary’s Defense Minister István Simicskó.
Stropnický told the Czech daily he has no reason to disbelieve statements by Simicskó. The Czech said it is likely that Russia’s objective is to destabilize the European Union.
OK, here is the bold texts, of course, Stropniky did not have any evidence just belief.
I don't know what it is, if not fake news/propaganda.
Slashdot Mirror
In other news, Debian's Anti-Harassment Team had to remove itself over its name, which contains an 'ASS' in it.
Agree, of course if you want complete quiet keyboard, the brown switches still produces 'click-clack' sounds. I have an OEM Viewsonic keyboard, it's good, silent, but is really badly designed. If I had a rubber dome keyboard as good as Viewsonic one, and solid as Filco, may be I would not choose mechanic keyboards.
You exactly described Logitech products, I had a Logictech before, and currently use a K400+ (for Internet TV), but for typing in a long period of time, I can stand the Logitech keyboards, especially the 'spongy' feeling. (Oh, one plus point for Logitech is, despite they look cheap, they are rather sturdy, I don't have problem about 'quality' of the Logitech's products).
Yeah, I have two Filco (ninja) keyboards, one uses Cherry Brown, and one uses Blue switches. I really love the plain simple design of Filco Ninja.
The one uses Brown switches is quiet (in my standard, it's really quiet), but I prefer the Blue switches one, when my fingers can feel the responsive of pressing buttons. But when I feel tired, the Brown keyboard is much more comfortable.
Real "spycraft" and methods don't get declassified for decades.
That is, this's the most intelligent answer for all those stupid conspiracy theories and fake news rampage on this page.
Too bad, I don't have mod points, and even I have, your posts will not survive in the age of fake news nonsense and witch hunt. But who care about logic when it's easier when to believe that God is in your side.
Real-life spy vs fiction (aka: fake news):
https://en.news-front.info/201...
In March, I met a lawyer named Anas Joudeh, who took part in some of the 2011 protests. Joudeh no longer considers himself a member of the opposition. I asked him why. “No one is 100 percent with the regime, but mostly these people are unified by their resistance to the opposition,” Joudeh told me. “They know what they don’t want, not what they want.” In December, he said, “Syrians abroad who believe in the revolution would call me and say, ‘We lost Aleppo.’ And I would say, ‘What do you mean?’ It was only a Turkish card guarded by jihadis.” For these exiled Syrians, he said, the specter of Assad’s crimes looms so large that they cannot see anything else. They refuse to acknowledge the realities of a rebellion that is corrupt, brutal and compromised by foreign sponsors. This is true. Eastern Aleppo may not have been Raqqa, where ISIS advertised its rigid Islamist dystopia and its mass beheadings. But as a symbol of Syria’s future, it was almost as bad: a chaotic wasteland full of feuding militias — some of them radical Islamists — who hoarded food and weapons while the people starved.
And, deliberately revealed that:
[PHOTO of a bombed hospital]
The roof of the Aleppo Eye Hospital, which rebels used as a military headquarters.
smugfunt: It is undeniable that the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society are western funded yet operate only in jihadi held territory.
And one would wonder why there is no White Helmets in Yemen, why no Western funded "NGO" has ever operated in Yemen and/or is deliberately frequently promoted in MSM like White Helmets.
Everyone who question the role, motive, credibility of White Helmets, no mater who they are, they were/are/will be immediately labeled as problematic/propagandist/misinformed, as if only Russians run fake news:
https://medium.com/@caityjohns...
https://www.rt.com/news/424078...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, it's so easy to debunk the rescue videos of White Helmets: no first aid, all are dramatical runnings, the victims are either without or with very little dirt, bruises, etc.
Also, all your post about communism base on the Soviet system, which you insisted that it was, despite all the Marxists have been against that, all the original of Marx works are against that.
No, that's not how China became capitalist or even state capitalist
You seems to not understand what I said, China before reformed is like Soviet, is state capitalism, with state monopoly of economy, then after reformed, they are allow private economy. State capitalism is that the state owns, capitalizes the surplus income of workers, the bosses here is the state.
You seems to refuse all the quotes I presents, which Marx's ideas when you refuse those are Marx's ideas.
You're highlighting the final step of it, which he says democracy will take foot, but only after the overthrow of the "old societies"
No, it's how societies work, as I mentioned, not just "communist", when the conflict reach the point of unreconcilable.
Which is a commentary that modern communists are revising to advertise to the others to join their cause
Modern?? this from 1930s article. Nah, all the articles I cited are from very beginning of communism establishment, which rejected USSR and co as communism. What's your point?
As mentioned in my previous comment, Marx did not consider the "dictatorship" and "revolution" as the tool of "minority" to "take control" powers. The armed force revolution is the result of old "weaken" societies refuse to transform to new societies, despite the will of the mass (in this case, the proletarian class is a larger group).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In 1875, Marx attacked the Gotha Program that became the program of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDP) in the same year in his Critique of the Gotha Program. Marx was not optimistic that Germany at the time was not open to a peaceful means to achieve socialism, especially after German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had enacted Anti-Socialist Laws in 1878.
"If in England, for instance, or the United States, the working class were to gain a majority in Parliament or Congress, they could, by lawful means, rid themselves of such laws and institutions as impeded their development, though they could only do insofar as society had reached a sufficiently mature development. However, the "peaceful" movement might be transformed into a "forcible" one by resistance on the part of those interested in restoring the former state of affairs; if (as in the American Civil War and French Revolution) they are put down by force, it is as rebels against "lawful" force."
for clearer, this what Marx thought about "dictatorship", not for gaining power, but for disproving the power of the minority (old societies):
While Marx viewed the state negatively as an instrument of class rule that should only exist temporarily upon the rise to power of the proletariat and then dismantled
In the manifesto (in your comment) above:
In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.
Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
And this,
https://www.worldsocialism.org...
In 1848, in the Communist Manifesto they wrote:
"We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy."
But note the point, Marx does not refer or say that only a minority of the working class would or need take control of political power during the period of the "transformation of the one into the other.”
.....
We repeat that the dictatorship in Russia is not the “dictatorship of the Proletariat" in the Marxian sense of the term. On the contrary, it has been the dictatorship of a party, a party which in the earlier stages of their conquest of power actually deprived its own members of the power of voting.
No, your previous comment is exactly what AC mentioned. The Soviet economy is actually state capitalism (mentioned above, deformed capitalism economy), which has the properties of capitalism system.
The case of China is to abandon the monopoly of the state with the economy and (it's important, it happened when China decided to against the Soviet) the Wests were lift off embargo against the country.
If not for the investment, it's impossible for an economy no matter Soviet-style or Western-style would survived.
First of all, remind that, at this time there was no "communist party", and no "communist revolution".
In the article you cited, what I read is how Marx observed the events, and his conclusion is still true today, not just "communist revolution", how about "Arab Spring", recent clashes in Venezuela,... That is when the conflicts between the old and the new societies reach the unreconcilable level, there only one way happens, revolutionary terror.
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry Kissinger
Disagree? Then prove it: How many communist revolutions were democratically elected? And how many communist revolutions ever allowed free speech? There have been many communist revolutions around the world, so if what you say is true, then at least one should meet both criteria.
Communist revolution? Actually, one must ask there really actual communist revolutions out there!
It's not that "because Soviet was failed so they - communists try to lie that Soviet was not communism". It's ironical that who predict the fall of Soviet and was vocally against Stalinism or Leninism or Trotskyism, etc are Marxists themselves:
This is from 1931 article of Socialist party of Great Britain: http://www.worldsocialism.org/...
The wage-labour system in Russian State industries, like the system here and elsewhere, is a system of Slavery. The spread of piece-work will intensify the slavery ; it will enable the "Communist" rulers to squeeze more surplus-produce out of Russian workers, just as it has helped the Conservative and Liberal capitalists of this country. Alleged "quotations" in support of it from Marx merely brand Stalin & Co. as hypocrites and their followers as ignorant dupes. The Russian Government must make a profit in order to pay interest upon its loans if for no other reason, and this fact alone is sufficient to explode the myth that Russian State industry is run on Socialist lines.
The Russian Government has to borrow money to run its industries, like any other capitalist concern, because it has to pay for machinery and raw material, because its employees have to pay for the food, clothes and houses they need; because, in a phrase, all the means by which these requirements are produced are private property. It has not established an oasis of Socialism in a capitalist desert. Had it tried to do so it would have been speedily annihilated.
Karl Marx himself stated that communism must begin with the violent overthrow of democracy
Citation is needed!
In fact, Marx has never discussed anything about how to archive communism.
One of the form of communism in idea of Marx is that the government must be exterminated, how does that mean "overthrow of democracy" when there would be not rulers at all?
Don't mixed the **interpretations** of Marx's ideas of Lenin, Mao, Stalin... in as Marx's ideas!
How come there are ***never*** any leaks from these autocratic countries?
Never??? You can go to Wikileak and use the function 'search'. In case of it takes you too much time, here is a story published on Slashdot:
Wikileaks Releases Documents It Claims Detail Russia Mass Surveillance Apparatus
Keep in mind that Wikileaks is a tool to publish anonymous documents, you can't ask Wikileaks to publish what they don't have.
By the way, when you are SO angry that Assange 'seems to support repressive regimes', and DEMAND Wikileaks 'to do somethings' with these governments, I don't know where you were at those topic:
YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident
Apple Pulls Anti-Censorship Apps from China's App Store
Bonus, don't blame Wikileaks and Assange for his 'so-called-anti-USA':
Cisco Leak: 'Great Firewall' of China Was a Chance to Sell More Routers
You don't want to discuss, but try to provoke others. In the end, you could not defend your points. All you could do is insulting me, that is.
asking you how Putin's dick tastes.
Better asking your mother.
Interfax is just one of the victim!
More than half the victims were in Russia, followed by Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey and Japan, according to ESET.
All you throwing here is your assumption, that's not my interest, that does not have anything to do with my original post. Understand!?
Could you read English? Repeat after me:
You may be right or not. When ever you have a proof, show it.
Also, your information is wrong here:
Three Interfax journalists have been murdered by Putin's thugs
https://cpj.org/killed/europe/...
Sergei Grebenyuk, Interfax
1996-02-08 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Yuri Soltis, Interfax
1994-06-12 in Moscow, Russia
At least, 2 Interfax journalists were kill when Eltsin was the president of Russia. No information of the third one.
So, better to polish your bullshit before wasting my time again!
Gucifer what? I don't know who you are, you too!
What I pointed out is the way "journalism" works here in Slashdot and a comment without back up, without even matches the content of the article it tried to mention, was moderated "insightful".
Russia is really good at the misinformation game. But you already know that.
You may be right or not. When ever you have a proof, show it.
But by your logic, if Russia is not the victim of this cyber attack, clearly Russia's behind this, if it is the victim, clearly Russia stages a false-flag. But you already know that.
The fucking Summary: "Ukraine was the chief victim of a major cyber attack earlier this year, and the government had warned on Oct. 13 that another strike might be coming................. CERT-Ukraine said in a statement."
The original article: Title: New wave of cyber attacks hits Ukraine and Russia
Cyber attacks using malware called “BadRabbit” hit Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday
Interfax, one of the largest news agencies in Russia, said some of its services were hit by an “unprecedented virus attack”.
“According to our data, most of the victims targeted by these attacks are located in Russia. We have also seen similar but fewer attacks in Ukraine, Turkey and Germany,” said Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab.
Ukraine’s cyber police chief told Reuters the country was “barely affected”.
And, more, how such a lame post like this, the OP, got mode up "4 insightful".
Japanese wikipedia
Also, according to the magazine supervised by the US Department of Defense, the quietness of the Soviet submarines improved after 1979, which is before the export of machine tools. Richard Armitage , who was then Assistant Secretary of Defense at the time, in a letter addressed to the House of Representatives military chairman of the House of Representatives, the Soviet nuclear submarine was equipped with a silent screw already three years before the incident, He said that he was opposed to sanctions against Toshiba. Furthermore, the quietness of submarines is not limited to the molding technology of screws but also to nuclear reactors and motor technology.
Also it's coincided with the incidents in 80's, 90's, Japan rose as the most potential competitor to the U.S (which was predicted to be surpassed U.S in 90's), which called "Japan Bashing":
During the 1980s, Japan Bashing reached a boiling point. Riding the late 1970s energy crisis, competition from Japanese car companies offering cheaper, fuel efficient cars became heated. Japan, however, was not interested in buying large American automobiles with steering wheels on the wrong side. The country was labeled as "protectionist", and protesters burned Japanese cars and flags, and the term "Japan Bashing" was coined.
Same here, I used to trust in WD, but their drives becomes more expensive (after the flood in Thailand), and less reliable.
Using Toshiba is cheaper and has no problem.
My first distro was Mandrake 9, I tried several distros but end up, went back to Mandriva/Mandrake, now I'm still using Mageia today.
Here some specifications why I think Mageia is good for newbie (or everyone):
1) Mageia is currently not the most popular distro as its ancestor Mandrake, but still a popular distro, that is most softwares support Mageia.
2) Easy configuration tools, installations (if not the easiest). Some of critical parts of the configuration tools have ncurse-based/CLI versions, so, such as, you could configure the drivers in the text-mode when bad things happen.
3) Good hardwares support (I haven't had any problem with Mandrake/Mageia when installing/run live-cd).
4) Stability, once I get Mageia running, I don't have any problem at all.
Other things that I love Mageia:
Wide range of running/installation options (live media, light/full...), has good support both GNOME and KDE.
Time 1996: Yanks to the rescue. The secret story of how American advisers helped Yeltsin win
In the end the Russian people chose--and chose decisively--to reject the past. Voting in the final round of the presidential election last week, they preferred Boris Yeltsin to his Communist rival Gennadi Zyuganov by a margin of 13 percentage points. He is far from the ideal democrat or reformer, and his lieutenants Victor Chernomyrdin and Alexander Lebed are already squabbling over power, but Yeltsin is arguably the best hope Russia has for moving toward pluralism and an open economy. By re-electing him, the Russians defied predictions that they might willingly resubmit themselves to communist rule.
The outcome was by no means inevitable. Last winter Yeltsin's approval ratings were in the single digits. There are many reasons for his change in fortune, but a crucial one has remained a secret. For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign. Here is the inside story of how these advisers helped Yeltsin achieve the victory that will keep reform in Russia alive.
Focus on the bold texts, how nice the good guys Time preferred to describe, compare to:
Time 2016: Russia Wants to Undermine Faith in the US Election Don't Fall for It
Since the spring, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have seen mounting evidence of an active Russian influence operation targeting the 2016 presidential election...., undermining faith in the result and in democracy itself.
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Russia’s interference in the U.S. election is an extraordinary escalation of an already worrying trend.
in Trump, Putin has found an almost perfect, if unwitting, ally for his influence operation.
Meanwhile, everyone with a brain moves away from Russia (even the oligarchs!) or drinks himself to death
Oh, another interesting information!
Stratfor, IMRussia (but I think imrussia is more honest) all sing songs that Russia faces another wave of brain-drain.
Yes, they have some examples, some apps startups, some game companies, but look at the numbers they provided.
Firstly, the number from Stratfor:
https://translate.google.com/t...
(honestly, I actually like some anti-Putin jokes here)
Now, dig into those numbers (forget about the pro-Russian stand of the author below, focus on the number):
https://translate.google.com/t...
That is, the number of emigrants move to Western countries slightly above the 2011.
The Czech government doesn't publish fake news or propaganda
Refugee crisis: Czechs blame Russia, Hungary blames Soros
Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnický says refugees are being transported through the West Balkan corridor to Western Europe with buses paid for by the Russian government. Stropnický’s statements were published over the weekend in Czech daily Mladá fronta Dnes.
According to him, he received this information from Hungary’s Defense Minister István Simicskó.
Stropnický told the Czech daily he has no reason to disbelieve statements by Simicskó. The Czech said it is likely that Russia’s objective is to destabilize the European Union.
OK, here is the bold texts, of course, Stropniky did not have any evidence just belief.
I don't know what it is, if not fake news/propaganda.