Agreed. I don't know how big their network is, but I expect at least:
8 Us for Switch 8 Us of Patch pannels for Ethernet. 8 Us for PBX patch pannels 8 Us for the actual PBX + Accesories (Eg. ATAs, GSM -> SIP GWs, etc). 10 Us for UPS 6 Us for Audio system. 8 Us for Servers 4 Us for routers 20 Us for DIsplay/keyboard (2 Displays/kb on 2 different Racks) 10 Us for Power strips (across all racks)
And I'm missing a lot of things, probably.
That is 90 Us.
Off course, the first 10 or so Units in a Rack are rarely used, since they are not comfortable. If you add some space between equipments (It's good practice, also, many systems are not rackable, and they take up more space). That can take you to, let's say, 120 Us. Plus, some room for expansion.
You are putting physical property at the same scale as """""""intelectual property""""""" (No amount of quotes is enough for that travesty).
Your wife can be buried to rot in that dress for all I care. Now, preventing every woman from making a similar dress is STUPID. That's what copyright is.
Your book is the one you wrote. You don't want other people copying your book? Then don't fucking publish it.
First, we would need to know what kind of traffic we are seeing. TCP/UDP? Web? DNS?
On the other hand, I think you have only partial logs, that would explain many of the blanks on your data. Some blanks are too geometric to be correct, you are probably missing a shitload of data. You have to take into account that, and timezones. Timezones are the key to this. This is probably some public service that gets hit at regular intervals (root DNS server, webserver holding news/stock/climate or similar information, etc). Timezones would explain the pattern. We would need to check times for each country against a timezone table to see if they correlate. I'm also pretty sure that if someone took the time to look at the most active countries, and the less active countries, and some groups in between, we would be able to probably determine what kind of traffic this was.
Some people mentioned botnets, and it's a big chance that they have a huge influence on this graphs, again, matching timezones against this graph would help us understand.
I don't know what kind of information does the submitter have on the logs, or how he got them, but if he could post at least a small sample, that would help a lot./methinks that submitter has a lot to do with the tool he's using, and this is just another slashvertisement.
1st: How can someone be in the same room as Ballmer and control the impulse to insult, hurt and humiliate him. 2nd: How can someone destroy a laptop like that. Now it needs to burn to be purified:)
Well, off course. But if in a situation like that we are going to act just like Animals, trying to survive at any expense, then we are not human beings, we do not have human rights, and we don't deserve to get saved or helped.
If your primitive instincts will overwhelm you, that's ok. But if you will act like an animal and just try to survive at any cost, I'll act as an animal too and do the same. Leave you behind to die, like any animal would do (Animals have a very instinctive understanding of evolution, and they know damn well that they have to let the week die).
Now, if we are going to act like evolved Human Beings, then it's a whole different story. And don't come to me with terrible social stories. I live in Argentina. I've seen things. And I've seen people in shitty economic situations kill to get money for drugs, and I've seen people in even worse situations working honestly all their lives to get their families out of the hole. I've seen people that have got nothing in life and are living on the streets stop at a car accident to help people out of an expensive automobile, without taking anything, or asking for anything in return. And I've seen middle class people still to buy a new TV.
You are either an Ethical human being, or you are not, no matter where or how you are.
I always overspec PSUs. I tend to connect additional hard drives, many USB devices, etc. Also, low power generic PSUs tend to be cheaper, with cheaper components, and break more often than good quality PSUs.
I run this system almost fanless. Just the PSU Fan and a very small fan that the Atom uses (It reminds me of the fans we used back in the 386 era.
I only use it as a secondary (tertiary, actually) machine, After my Laptop and my Office Desktop. It's just a small machine for home, that gets used for browsing and other small tasks at night, or some multimedia on weekends (It has a 22'' LG LCD attached). That being said, Atom is still pretty fucking powerful. I have compiled on this machine, it's pretty sweet. I've even used VMs on this machine, with pretty good results too.
It runs Ubuntu with Compiz at full glory. On top of that, A Browser and Emacs is all I ever need:)
Motherboard Intel D945GCLF2 with integrated Atom 330 (2 cores, 4 threads) = U$S 103 HD 160 SATA = U$S 53 3 GB of RAM (1 x 2 GB, 1 x 1 GB) = U$S 81 MiniITX Case with 500W PSU = U$S 75 Sub Total: u$s 312 - 10% VAT applied in Argentina already in those prices= -32
Total: u$s 280 OpenPC: u$s 512
Even if you add the price of building it, and a reasonable profit, it's still insanely expensive. And my hardware choice is actually better, because the motherboard is 100% Intel and not a cheap-ass Asrock.
By chance, I happen to be running that same hardware configuration I just posted. Here's lspci's output:
And extract from cpuinfo (There are actually 2 cores with 2 threads each, which shows up as 4 processors on GNU/Linux)
vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 28 model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1596.098 cache size : 512 K
BTW: This hardware is 100% Hackintosh friendly. I am dual booting Ubuntu and OSX on it.
* Those are prices in Argentina (Yes, electronics here are way more expensive than elsewhere), and they include a 10.5% VAT, so that price would actually be ~280U$S. And the components are better, and still 100% Free. Except off course both this system and their system contains privative hardware design, privative BIOS and firmware, etc. So, not really 100% open.
That would explain a lot of things... like the thick Austrian accent on some T800 Models (Worldwide contributors), the easily accessible processor (Open Hardware design...), the obsession with appearing naked after time travel (I can't code with my pants on), and the suspiciously hot and anatomically correct TX and Cameron models...
I just hope they are BSD licensed, In that way, I can copy Summer Glau and make my own "proprietary" version;)
I could also extend FreeDOS to run a custom Amiga OS system within, and there implement a Darwin compatibility layer, not to run OSX apps, but to actually implement GNU-Hurd on top of the Mach kernel Darwin uses, and there I could implement the Linux kernel running on top of the Hurd as a server, where I could run Wine to finally install Photoshop and have the best of ALL worlds.
Or, I could just install Ubuntu and fire up Gimp.
Trying to achieve compatibility with obsolete and badly designed systems is stupid. We should be focusing on developing better applications that run on Unix, not on building compatibility layers for the very same platform we want to avoid.
Off course anyone can spend their time in whatever way they want, but we have to differentiate hobbyists trying to run NetBSD on their toaster, or developing firewire drivers for AmigaOS, from real Free Software developers actually building apps for the real world.
I Don't care about games, but I do care about 3D. 3D was used WAY before there were any 3D games. And 3D is WAY more important than 3D games.
What I'm seeing is people defining the future of a technology as important as 3D rendering based on the most stupid application of that technology: Games.
But people is taking even more stupid decisions based on games (For example, Choosing Windorz over Unix because of game availability), so we are doomed anyway.
And even my cheap integrated Intel 945 can run it in full glory at 1920x1080.
About games... Chess doesn't require OpenGL.
The thing I'm most worried about is how in the last two years everyone has accepted DirectShit. It's micro$hit technology! it's not open, not cross-platform, and you all know it's meant to screw you up. This is IE all over again. We had a beautiful standard, called HTML. Micro$hit convinced people to use their stupid proprietary extensions, and in a few years we had destroyed the web. It took us YEARS to get back in track, destroy explorer, and get the web to be standards compliant again. Now people is doing the same all over again, displacing OpenGL because it's "Obsolete" and letting micro$hit rule hardware production with DirectShit-compatible devices.
I hate Gamers, and I hate the kind of people that talk about video cards all day. For fucks sake, If you want to play games get a Famicom or that shitty new alternative, I believe it's called playstation or something.
Do you really believe that story? The US gives money, technology and protection? Really?
First of all, where do you think that money comes from? From your exports? Oh, nevermind, you don't export anything. All the products you sell are produced elsewhere.
Basically the US holds the world hostage in two ways: First, you control the price of energy with wars and sock-puppet governments. Second, the US tricked the world into letting it manage the worlds economy. The whole economy dances around the price of Oil, Dollars and Silicon. And you surreptitiously control all three.
Second, the US is not helping out anyone. It just creates politically unstable conditions in certain countries through it's economic control, and covert CIA operations, then, it uses sock-puppet governments to put the country in huge debt. In some cases, it goes to war to control those same territories it shaped before.
It's a complex game, and the us is very good at it. But it's nothing more than a game. Do you really believe the CNN, or you are just trolling?
The US is using violence against all those that disagree with it's policies. You have troops deployed all over the world. So, let me see if I understand, when the occupied territories fight back, it's unjustified, but it's perfectly ok for you to attack them in the first place?
I understand now, fighting back is doubleplusungood.
The so called acts of "terrorism" against the USA, could be called by another name. They are the resistance. The United States is an empire. it's ok, it's not a bad thing in itself. Embrace what you are. So, there is a resistance. A small, stupid, disorganized, and full of religious fanatics resistance. The fact that the resistance isn't bigger doesn't mean there are not a lot of other people that would like to resist, they just don't think blowing up buildings is the way to resist the empire.
So, when you say "Anti-terrorism" you actually mean "Anti enemies of the empire". What the government is doing is chasing the enemies of the empire. It is doing so using the worth methodologies: fear, violence, persecution, surveillance. And what the US is accomplishing is far from stopping that resistance: It actually gets more people to join in, and causes even more hate against your country.
The UK was once a Huge Empire, and they conquered most of the known world. And nobody hated them as much as everyone hates the US. And many times, what they did was actually far worse than the actions of the US. Then, why is the US hated so much? two reasons: One, people don't like self-righteous fucks. Do what you must, but don't pretend to be the land of the free and home of the whatever anymore. You are an empire. Conquer and STFU. Stop trying to sell the "American" way to everyone. Second: Conquer, but don't destroy. The UK conquered half the world, and now those places are known as Australia, The United States, Canada... The US, OTOH, conquered Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and those places are the same shitholes they were before. They are actually worse now after you screwed them up. Want their oil? Conquer them, get their oil, and in the process establish there and build trains and schools. The Colony model works, the big country takes the resources and cheap work that they need, and the small startup country grows and learns. Eventually, it becomes independent.
But if you keep conquering, screwing the place up, and then leaving, with the sole goal of selling more weapons and controlling the price of oil, people will hate you mroe and more, and they'll continue trying to blow the fuck out of your country.
Being a self righteous fuck and saying "why does the world hate us" doesn't help. Realizing what you are, and acting in consequence does.
It was surely an inside job. Google needs employees in China to manage the operations there. Even if you keep them under control, or if you send trusted employees from overseas, it's a huge hazard. The government in China has a really tight control of the population, and everyone is afraid of the government. I'm pretty sure it was easy for an insider to leak information, and I'm also pretty sure that the government isn't just buying the "yes, we will comply with your filter" response from Google, and is not only constantly monitoring search results, but also getting inside information about how things are being handled.
If you don't make a huge profit out of China, the rest of the world complains about the censorship you agreed to apply at search results, and you are risking trade secrets and being harassed, then the Chinese market isn't so interesting anymore.
If I were in Google's situation, I would gladly let those 300 millions a year go, and just leave China.
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Agreed. I don't know how big their network is, but I expect at least:
8 Us for Switch
8 Us of Patch pannels for Ethernet.
8 Us for PBX patch pannels
8 Us for the actual PBX + Accesories (Eg. ATAs, GSM -> SIP GWs, etc).
10 Us for UPS
6 Us for Audio system.
8 Us for Servers
4 Us for routers
20 Us for DIsplay/keyboard (2 Displays/kb on 2 different Racks)
10 Us for Power strips (across all racks)
And I'm missing a lot of things, probably.
That is 90 Us.
Off course, the first 10 or so Units in a Rack are rarely used, since they are not comfortable. If you add some space between equipments (It's good practice, also, many systems are not rackable, and they take up more space). That can take you to, let's say, 120 Us. Plus, some room for expansion.
4 Racks seems like a good setup to me.
>>If SAS had been the only language you programmed in, it would probably make a lot more sense.
That means that language is BROKEN.
Since the author remains in possession of the original book after I make a copy, It's not stealing.
There's already a name for it, It's called copying.
So, If I BUY a copy of the book from the author, and make a copy of it, is that stealing?
Does reading it and memorizing the book still count as copying it? Does mentioning the book to a friend count as trademark violation?
This is stupid.
http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/pirnotheft.jpg
You are putting physical property at the same scale as """""""intelectual property""""""" (No amount of quotes is enough for that travesty).
Your wife can be buried to rot in that dress for all I care. Now, preventing every woman from making a similar dress is STUPID. That's what copyright is.
Your book is the one you wrote. You don't want other people copying your book? Then don't fucking publish it.
But the real question is ... what is she doing out of the kitchen?
Nah, from now on, this is going the be the content of all of my /etc/resolv.conf files:
nameserver 4.8.15.16
Starting Feb 2 :)
Aw crap! Really? I have shitloads of servers configured to that IP!
Motherfucker!
This is not a F1r57 p057. It's artwork.
Give me a fucking brake ...
First, we would need to know what kind of traffic we are seeing. TCP/UDP? Web? DNS?
On the other hand, I think you have only partial logs, that would explain many of the blanks on your data. Some blanks are too geometric to be correct, you are probably missing a shitload of data.
You have to take into account that, and timezones. Timezones are the key to this. This is probably some public service that gets hit at regular intervals (root DNS server, webserver holding news/stock/climate or similar information, etc). Timezones would explain the pattern. We would need to check times for each country against a timezone table to see if they correlate.
I'm also pretty sure that if someone took the time to look at the most active countries, and the less active countries, and some groups in between, we would be able to probably determine what kind of traffic this was.
Some people mentioned botnets, and it's a big chance that they have a huge influence on this graphs, again, matching timezones against this graph would help us understand.
I don't know what kind of information does the submitter have on the logs, or how he got them, but if he could post at least a small sample, that would help a lot. /methinks that submitter has a lot to do with the tool he's using, and this is just another slashvertisement.
1st: How can someone be in the same room as Ballmer and control the impulse to insult, hurt and humiliate him. :)
2nd: How can someone destroy a laptop like that. Now it needs to burn to be purified
What do you mean exactly by "sleeping"? Is that a new coding technique I haven't heard about, or a framework?
Also, what are all this out of work activities you mention? I thought they were just urban^H^H^H^H^Hworkplace legends.
Well, off course. But if in a situation like that we are going to act just like Animals, trying to survive at any expense, then we are not human beings, we do not have human rights, and we don't deserve to get saved or helped.
If your primitive instincts will overwhelm you, that's ok. But if you will act like an animal and just try to survive at any cost, I'll act as an animal too and do the same. Leave you behind to die, like any animal would do (Animals have a very instinctive understanding of evolution, and they know damn well that they have to let the week die).
Now, if we are going to act like evolved Human Beings, then it's a whole different story. And don't come to me with terrible social stories. I live in Argentina. I've seen things. And I've seen people in shitty economic situations kill to get money for drugs, and I've seen people in even worse situations working honestly all their lives to get their families out of the hole. I've seen people that have got nothing in life and are living on the streets stop at a car accident to help people out of an expensive automobile, without taking anything, or asking for anything in return. And I've seen middle class people still to buy a new TV.
You are either an Ethical human being, or you are not, no matter where or how you are.
I always overspec PSUs. I tend to connect additional hard drives, many USB devices, etc. Also, low power generic PSUs tend to be cheaper, with cheaper components, and break more often than good quality PSUs.
I run this system almost fanless. Just the PSU Fan and a very small fan that the Atom uses (It reminds me of the fans we used back in the 386 era.
I only use it as a secondary (tertiary, actually) machine, After my Laptop and my Office Desktop. It's just a small machine for home, that gets used for browsing and other small tasks at night, or some multimedia on weekends (It has a 22'' LG LCD attached).
That being said, Atom is still pretty fucking powerful. I have compiled on this machine, it's pretty sweet. I've even used VMs on this machine, with pretty good results too.
It runs Ubuntu with Compiz at full glory. On top of that, A Browser and Emacs is all I ever need :)
Motherboard Intel D945GCLF2 with integrated Atom 330 (2 cores, 4 threads) = U$S 103
HD 160 SATA = U$S 53
3 GB of RAM (1 x 2 GB, 1 x 1 GB) = U$S 81
MiniITX Case with 500W PSU = U$S 75
Sub Total: u$s 312
- 10% VAT applied in Argentina already in those prices= -32
Total: u$s 280
OpenPC: u$s 512
Even if you add the price of building it, and a reasonable profit, it's still insanely expensive.
And my hardware choice is actually better, because the motherboard is 100% Intel and not a cheap-ass Asrock.
By chance, I happen to be running that same hardware configuration I just posted. Here's lspci's output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
And extract from cpuinfo (There are actually 2 cores with 2 threads each, which shows up as 4 processors on GNU/Linux)
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1596.098
cache size : 512 K
BTW: This hardware is 100% Hackintosh friendly. I am dual booting Ubuntu and OSX on it.
* Those are prices in Argentina (Yes, electronics here are way more expensive than elsewhere), and they include a 10.5% VAT, so that price would actually be ~280U$S. And the components are better, and still 100% Free. Except off course both this system and their system contains privative hardware design, privative BIOS and firmware, etc. So, not really 100% open.
That would explain a lot of things ... like the thick Austrian accent on some T800 Models (Worldwide contributors), the easily accessible processor (Open Hardware design ...), the obsession with appearing naked after time travel (I can't code with my pants on), and the suspiciously hot and anatomically correct TX and Cameron models ...
I just hope they are BSD licensed, In that way, I can copy Summer Glau and make my own "proprietary" version ;)
Great.
I could also extend FreeDOS to run a custom Amiga OS system within, and there implement a Darwin compatibility layer, not to run OSX apps, but to actually implement GNU-Hurd on top of the Mach kernel Darwin uses, and there I could implement the Linux kernel running on top of the Hurd as a server, where I could run Wine to finally install Photoshop and have the best of ALL worlds.
Or, I could just install Ubuntu and fire up Gimp.
Trying to achieve compatibility with obsolete and badly designed systems is stupid. We should be focusing on developing better applications that run on Unix, not on building compatibility layers for the very same platform we want to avoid.
Off course anyone can spend their time in whatever way they want, but we have to differentiate hobbyists trying to run NetBSD on their toaster, or developing firewire drivers for AmigaOS, from real Free Software developers actually building apps for the real world.
I Don't care about games, but I do care about 3D. 3D was used WAY before there were any 3D games. And 3D is WAY more important than 3D games.
What I'm seeing is people defining the future of a technology as important as 3D rendering based on the most stupid application of that technology: Games.
But people is taking even more stupid decisions based on games (For example, Choosing Windorz over Unix because of game availability), so we are doomed anyway.
And even my cheap integrated Intel 945 can run it in full glory at 1920x1080.
About games ... Chess doesn't require OpenGL.
The thing I'm most worried about is how in the last two years everyone has accepted DirectShit. It's micro$hit technology! it's not open, not cross-platform, and you all know it's meant to screw you up. This is IE all over again. We had a beautiful standard, called HTML. Micro$hit convinced people to use their stupid proprietary extensions, and in a few years we had destroyed the web. It took us YEARS to get back in track, destroy explorer, and get the web to be standards compliant again. Now people is doing the same all over again, displacing OpenGL because it's "Obsolete" and letting micro$hit rule hardware production with DirectShit-compatible devices.
I hate Gamers, and I hate the kind of people that talk about video cards all day. For fucks sake, If you want to play games get a Famicom or that shitty new alternative, I believe it's called playstation or something.
We are doing a great job with cleverbot too. Go and ask him about battletoads.
Do you really believe that story? The US gives money, technology and protection? Really?
First of all, where do you think that money comes from? From your exports? Oh, nevermind, you don't export anything. All the products you sell are produced elsewhere.
Basically the US holds the world hostage in two ways: First, you control the price of energy with wars and sock-puppet governments. Second, the US tricked the world into letting it manage the worlds economy. The whole economy dances around the price of Oil, Dollars and Silicon. And you surreptitiously control all three.
Second, the US is not helping out anyone. It just creates politically unstable conditions in certain countries through it's economic control, and covert CIA operations, then, it uses sock-puppet governments to put the country in huge debt. In some cases, it goes to war to control those same territories it shaped before.
It's a complex game, and the us is very good at it. But it's nothing more than a game. Do you really believe the CNN, or you are just trolling?
The US is using violence against all those that disagree with it's policies. You have troops deployed all over the world. So, let me see if I understand, when the occupied territories fight back, it's unjustified, but it's perfectly ok for you to attack them in the first place?
I understand now, fighting back is doubleplusungood.
The so called acts of "terrorism" against the USA, could be called by another name. They are the resistance. The United States is an empire. it's ok, it's not a bad thing in itself. Embrace what you are. So, there is a resistance. A small, stupid, disorganized, and full of religious fanatics resistance. The fact that the resistance isn't bigger doesn't mean there are not a lot of other people that would like to resist, they just don't think blowing up buildings is the way to resist the empire.
So, when you say "Anti-terrorism" you actually mean "Anti enemies of the empire". What the government is doing is chasing the enemies of the empire. It is doing so using the worth methodologies: fear, violence, persecution, surveillance. And what the US is accomplishing is far from stopping that resistance: It actually gets more people to join in, and causes even more hate against your country.
The UK was once a Huge Empire, and they conquered most of the known world. And nobody hated them as much as everyone hates the US. And many times, what they did was actually far worse than the actions of the US. Then, why is the US hated so much? two reasons: One, people don't like self-righteous fucks. Do what you must, but don't pretend to be the land of the free and home of the whatever anymore. You are an empire. Conquer and STFU. Stop trying to sell the "American" way to everyone. Second: Conquer, but don't destroy. The UK conquered half the world, and now those places are known as Australia, The United States, Canada ... The US, OTOH, conquered Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and those places are the same shitholes they were before. They are actually worse now after you screwed them up. Want their oil? Conquer them, get their oil, and in the process establish there and build trains and schools. The Colony model works, the big country takes the resources and cheap work that they need, and the small startup country grows and learns. Eventually, it becomes independent.
But if you keep conquering, screwing the place up, and then leaving, with the sole goal of selling more weapons and controlling the price of oil, people will hate you mroe and more, and they'll continue trying to blow the fuck out of your country.
Being a self righteous fuck and saying "why does the world hate us" doesn't help. Realizing what you are, and acting in consequence does.
It was surely an inside job. Google needs employees in China to manage the operations there. Even if you keep them under control, or if you send trusted employees from overseas, it's a huge hazard. The government in China has a really tight control of the population, and everyone is afraid of the government. I'm pretty sure it was easy for an insider to leak information, and I'm also pretty sure that the government isn't just buying the "yes, we will comply with your filter" response from Google, and is not only constantly monitoring search results, but also getting inside information about how things are being handled.
If you don't make a huge profit out of China, the rest of the world complains about the censorship you agreed to apply at search results, and you are risking trade secrets and being harassed, then the Chinese market isn't so interesting anymore.
If I were in Google's situation, I would gladly let those 300 millions a year go, and just leave China.
Faith != Confidence.
Abrazo amigo, y mucha suerte.