to take control over the Russian ISP's and russian internet press, I think.
Opposition in Russia don't have any chance to get into TV, and Internet is the only media space they have. So Russian authorities say, "Look, these hackers are going to steal your money !!! We have to conrol as much as we can to stop this !!!". Nothing new, as for me.
PS. AFAIK (and I am Ukrainian), professional level of Russian ( and Ukrainian) programmers/hackers/crackers isn't differ too much from world's average. Claiming than "We are the best" is so silly...
Yes, you're right, I shouldn't call them so. But given my expirience living in totalitarian - post-totalitarian societies I doubt they (Chinese authorities) are nice guys, thought. My point was that there are strong cultural differences between Europe and China and democracy doesn't matter is Asia too much. And it's possible due to that differences to build effective economics in totalitarian country in Asia as opposed to Eastern Europe, so many Chinese people can live without some freeedoms given substantial economical growth.
I think it just too hard for us to understand china people. They have totally different culture from european/american, so they care more about where to get food than of human rights or freedom.
I am from Ukraine, and in November, when it was Orange Revolution here in Ukraine, I've read various people comments on bbc.com on that topic (our revolution). While most comments were positive, I remember one comment from china's women; she was very negative and said that people should better care about other things as food, money and such.
May be for china people it's acceptable that your goverment are gangsters and thiefs as long as they give you enouth food. For me, it isn't.
I've tried Community Edition recently, and I wonder
when will they make UTF-8 locales work right. While I'm using KOI8-R locale (I am from Ukraine) it's fine, but there is a lot of troubles with Unicode locales - complete mess in logs, broken fonts in mc (BTW, why doesn't it installs by default ?) and some other apps, to name a few. I mean Unicode is good , but in its current state it useless as for me.
P.S. It seems like Mandrake CE is slightly slower than my Slackware - one more reason to stay with Slack:)
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Opposition in Russia don't have any chance to get into TV, and Internet is the only media space they have. So Russian authorities say, "Look, these hackers are going to steal your money !!! We have to conrol as much as we can to stop this !!!". Nothing new, as for me.
PS. AFAIK (and I am Ukrainian), professional level of Russian ( and Ukrainian) programmers/hackers/crackers isn't differ too much from world's average. Claiming than "We are the best" is so silly ...
Yes, you're right, I shouldn't call them so. But given my expirience living in totalitarian - post-totalitarian societies I doubt they (Chinese authorities) are nice guys, thought. My point was that there are strong cultural differences between Europe and China and democracy doesn't matter is Asia too much. And it's possible due to that differences to build effective economics in totalitarian country in Asia as opposed to Eastern Europe, so many Chinese people can live without some freeedoms given substantial economical growth.
I am from Ukraine, and in November, when it was Orange Revolution here in Ukraine, I've read various people comments on bbc.com on that topic (our revolution). While most comments were positive, I remember one comment from china's women; she was very negative and said that people should better care about other things as food, money and such.
May be for china people it's acceptable that your goverment are gangsters and thiefs as long as they give you enouth food. For me, it isn't.
PS. Sorry for my bad English.
I've tried Community Edition recently, and I wonder when will they make UTF-8 locales work right. While I'm using KOI8-R locale (I am from Ukraine) it's fine, but there is a lot of troubles with Unicode locales - complete mess in logs, broken fonts in mc (BTW, why doesn't it installs by default ?) and some other apps, to name a few. I mean Unicode is good , but in its current state it useless as for me.
P.S. It seems like Mandrake CE is slightly slower than my Slackware - one more reason to stay with Slack