I doubt if the NSA would care about the legal side of reverse engineering, if they wanted to do it discretely (if you suspect that the software company is working for an enemy government, you surely don't want it to warn it in advance that 'we don't trust you, give us the source code').
Probably this guy is launching a new company that will audit OSS, and tries to scare people into being his customers.
There is one area where one seldom expects backdoors, and it's called BIOS. No access to the source and no possibility of replacing vendor BIOS with your own (at least now).
It is rather interesting that the craft must maneuver like this to get a stable orbit and not get crushed.
They do it to save on fuel: the select carefully a trajectory which makes most use of the planet's gravitational field to propel the spacecraft into desired direction.
AFAIK they started public manifestation after the government cracked down on them. See http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/fa lungong.html#issues In early 1999 the Chinese government launched a renewed effort against various spiritual movements. In response the Falun Gong held asilent, non-violent, mass protest. Over 10,000 people participated. The illegal protest occured outside the Communist Party headquartersin Beijing on April 25, 1999. 21 The government was frightened both by the size of theprotest and by the lack of fore- knowledge of Chinese intelligence. The government points to the size of the protest as an indication of ahigh level of the movements. Li Hongzhi and other Falun Gong members continue to claim that the demonstrations have always beenspontaneous. They argue that the lack of heirarchy and the loose nature of member networks prevent any such organization.
In the following months, practitioners were harassed while performing their group exercises throughout China. Falun Gong members were told that their phones were being monitored and that their retirement pensions would be terminated. Police broke into practitioners' homes and confiscated Falun Gong materials. Some followers have been arrested and have disappeared. The movement claims that many of its incarcerated members have died while imprisoned. Thousands of members have continued to demonstrate peacefully in about 30 Chinese cities.
Also http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/falun.htm: For over three years now, the Falun Gong (the Practice of the Wheel of the Dharma) movement has been in the forefront of the international news. After its large scale demonstration for freedom of practice at the residential area of the Chinese Communist Party elite at Zhongnanhai (Beijing) on 25 April 1999, an increasingly severe crackdown has followed, with more severe legal measures specifically introduced to deal with this phenomenon. This crackdown includes the exertion of considerable pressure on Western media in China not to pay too much attention to the suppression of the Falun Gong and Western authorities to prevent overly visible Falun Gong protest during state visits of Chinese leaders (this would influence coverage at home, as they would have to cut references to the Falun Gong out of all reports). It also includes removing Falun Gong adherents without trial to psychiatric institutions, pressurizing them through their jobs and personal networks, unannounced searches of private homes, hotels and any places where Falun Gong followers might be staying, and so forth. People arrested are be put under severe pressure and are maltreated (to the extent that even force-feeding during hungerstrikes takes place very clumsily with obvious results), which has already frequently led to permanent physical & psychological damage, deaths and suicides. Essentially, all means are considered legitimate in dealing with the movement.
The communist regime perceives of the Falun Gong movement as an "incident" and as a subspecies of the traditional category of "crooked teachings" (xiejiao, the Chinese pejorative pendant to the Western labels "cult" - Northern American - and "sect" - Western European). As someone working on new religious groups in recent Chinese history, I see the movement as an important religious phenomenon in its own right, arising out of the specific urban circumstances of post-1949 China, but responding to social, ethical and emotional needs that are quite traditional. The way in which the communist Chinese state has misunderstood this movement, and is labelling and persecuting it bears strong resemblances to the way in which the imperial Chinese state saw similar phenomena in the past.
and http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,975
FYI Falun Gong had no political ambitions. It's the Chinese government that painted them so. Please read some history of communism. Communists always see any independent social activity (however innocent politically) as a potential threat, and whenever it start growin in size, they try to squash it.
I know that the U.S. Constitution does not apply there (wow! just like in Guantanamo Bay!).
And I'm not at all surprised that when speaking with you, they told you that Falung Gong are weirdos. Everyobody who'se in conflict with an authoritarian government is weirdo. Solzenitsyn was a weirdo, too.
A riot? In China? That's literally unheard of. I mean, not only are there cops, but soldiers patrol the streets here. Sure, China has its bad points, but if you look at the big picture, China is the optimum solution.
So much for the love of liberty, main value of America. Liberty for you, for others soldiers patrolling the streets, protecting American companies' offices from the unhealthy sight of Falun Gong members beaten up and arrested.
If they looked really close on the Central and Eastern European countries they would learn that they don't need to be afraid of free elections. In most countries in European post-communist parties did not have much trouble with coming back to power in the course of free elections (of course, under different names and with genuinely different political programmes). However, the hardliners who governed in the past were out, the next generation took over. So the true reson is that the CCP wants 100% power, not just being in power from time to time (ca 50% of the time, I'd guess), and the party 'old hawks' don't want to move over and let the new generation step in, which would have the chance of getting elected in the free elections.
You're talking some propaganda. Communists are communists, once they get to power they don't give a shit about people. What did Mao bring on his country in times of 'Cultural revolution'? Terror and famine. What does the current party do to improve the living condition of ordinary people? Don't sell the bullshit that people who are not elected, face no criticism from the press , will suddenly feel responsible 'before heaven'. They put people to death for stealing oil.
Besides, you seem to have strange notions of the position of the ruler in Europe. There were rulers and rulers. Some didn't give a shit about the people, some did.
When considering outsourcing jobs to America, you must take into account that Americans are much more prone to obesity as they settle down into office jobs...
Sure it's better to keep all investment out of Africa. This way, you'll keep jobs not only in the IT, but also in the government and the military, both required for various relief and/or stabilisation missions.
How is it that Americans willingly shelve out billions of dollars for 'War on terror' when it is done with bombs and rockets, and just can't get it that direct investment in 3rd world countries helps bring them out of poverty and lowers the supply of young angry men with nothing better to do than smash themselves agains a US NAVY cruiser or a NY scyscraper?
Genital mutilation as practised by most Muslims and Jews means penis circumcision, a practice which many doctors often recommend for hygienic reasons. Female circumcision, to the contrary, is rightly considered as something horrible, but AFAIR Jews don't have anything to do with it and only part of Muslims practise it. Spreading false information about a nation/race which makes it appear barbaric is not a good thing, either.
Not quite true. Also governments are interested in looking at MS source, and their people will be looking for security holes (and for NSA backdoors). If they see a bug, they will request that it is fixed.
This is what I'v never understood: why do some people consider all distributions based on RPM package system as inferior to those employing a different package system? It's just a package system, man! Are.ZIP archived Windows programs systematically better to those packed with RAR?
The same mechanism works in prostitution business -- the alphons takes what a prostitue earns, subtracts her 'debt', his profit, and gives the remainder to the prostitute.
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Isn't it usual in such situations to contact the press and behind journalist's back? At least in Europe we do it this way.
This 'fluff' is boring, when the game is boring. Remember Fallout? The action was only part of the fun, I still remember the dialogues with NPCs...
I doubt if the NSA would care about the legal side of reverse engineering, if they wanted to do it discretely (if you suspect that the software company is working for an enemy government, you surely don't want it to warn it in advance that 'we don't trust you, give us the source code').
Probably this guy is launching a new company that will audit OSS, and tries to scare people into being his customers.
There is one area where one seldom expects backdoors, and it's called BIOS. No access to the source and no possibility of replacing vendor BIOS with your own (at least now).
It is rather interesting that the craft must maneuver like this to get a stable orbit and not get crushed.
They do it to save on fuel: the select carefully a trajectory which makes most use of the planet's gravitational field to propel the spacecraft into desired direction.
In that case spacecraft has no room temperature since there is not 'environment temperature' to be measured around.
That's not true. I did a search with MSN Search on 'Linux' a minute ago and first results were traditional pro-Linux sites.
It's there all the time, only not from Microsoft. X11 servers for Windows exist.
But they did not declare themselves as such. Who are you, anyway? A Chinese government official?
FWIW, Cobalt-60 is probably even more dangerous than Pu-238, as are any number of non-nuclear chemicals.
To scare the general public even further, we do not know about the toxicity of about 90% of chemical compounds known to science.
AFAIK they started public manifestation after the government cracked down on them. See http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/fa lungong.html#issues
In early 1999 the Chinese government launched a renewed effort against various spiritual movements. In response the Falun Gong held asilent, non-violent, mass protest. Over 10,000 people participated. The illegal protest occured outside the Communist Party headquartersin Beijing on April 25, 1999. 21 The government was frightened both by the size of theprotest and by the lack of fore- knowledge of Chinese intelligence. The government points to the size of the protest as an indication of ahigh level of the movements. Li Hongzhi and other Falun Gong members continue to claim that the demonstrations have always beenspontaneous. They argue that the lack of heirarchy and the loose nature of member networks prevent any such organization.
In the following months, practitioners were harassed while performing their group exercises throughout China. Falun Gong members were told that their phones were being monitored and that their retirement pensions would be terminated. Police broke into practitioners' homes and confiscated Falun Gong materials. Some followers have been arrested and have disappeared. The movement claims that many of its incarcerated members have died while imprisoned. Thousands of members have continued to demonstrate peacefully in about 30 Chinese cities.
Also http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/falun.htm:
For over three years now, the Falun Gong (the Practice of the Wheel of the Dharma) movement has been in the forefront of the international news. After its large scale demonstration for freedom of practice at the residential area of the Chinese Communist Party elite at Zhongnanhai (Beijing) on 25 April 1999, an increasingly severe crackdown has followed, with more severe legal measures specifically introduced to deal with this phenomenon. This crackdown includes the exertion of considerable pressure on Western media in China not to pay too much attention to the suppression of the Falun Gong and Western authorities to prevent overly visible Falun Gong protest during state visits of Chinese leaders (this would influence coverage at home, as they would have to cut references to the Falun Gong out of all reports). It also includes removing Falun Gong adherents without trial to psychiatric institutions, pressurizing them through their jobs and personal networks, unannounced searches of private homes, hotels and any places where Falun Gong followers might be staying, and so forth. People arrested are be put under severe pressure and are maltreated (to the extent that even force-feeding during hungerstrikes takes place very clumsily with obvious results), which has already frequently led to permanent physical & psychological damage, deaths and suicides. Essentially, all means are considered legitimate in dealing with the movement.
The communist regime perceives of the Falun Gong movement as an "incident" and as a subspecies of the traditional category of "crooked teachings" (xiejiao, the Chinese pejorative pendant to the Western labels "cult" - Northern American - and "sect" - Western European). As someone working on new religious groups in recent Chinese history, I see the movement as an important religious phenomenon in its own right, arising out of the specific urban circumstances of post-1949 China, but responding to social, ethical and emotional needs that are quite traditional. The way in which the communist Chinese state has misunderstood this movement, and is labelling and persecuting it bears strong resemblances to the way in which the imperial Chinese state saw similar phenomena in the past.
and http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,975
FYI Falun Gong had no political ambitions. It's the Chinese government that painted them so. Please read some history of communism. Communists always see any independent social activity (however innocent politically) as a potential threat, and whenever it start growin in size, they try to squash it.
Well, that's just what I wrote.
I know that the U.S. Constitution does not apply there (wow! just like in Guantanamo Bay!).
And I'm not at all surprised that when speaking with you, they told you that Falung Gong are weirdos. Everyobody who'se in conflict with an authoritarian government is weirdo. Solzenitsyn was a weirdo, too.
I was just pointing out that it pays for America to invest in 3rd world countries. You think that those companies that do it do it for 'charity'?????
A riot? In China? That's literally unheard of. I mean, not only are there cops, but soldiers patrol the streets here. Sure, China has its bad points, but if you look at the big picture, China is the optimum solution.
So much for the love of liberty, main value of America. Liberty for you, for others soldiers patrolling the streets, protecting American companies' offices from the unhealthy sight of Falun Gong members beaten up and arrested.
If they looked really close on the Central and Eastern European countries they would learn that they don't need to be afraid of free elections. In most countries in European post-communist parties did not have much trouble with coming back to power in the course of free elections (of course, under different names and with genuinely different political programmes). However, the hardliners who governed in the past were out, the next generation took over. So the true reson is that the CCP wants 100% power, not just being in power from time to time (ca 50% of the time, I'd guess), and the party 'old hawks' don't want to move over and let the new generation step in, which would have the chance of getting elected in the free elections.
You're talking some propaganda. Communists are communists, once they get to power they don't give a shit about people. What did Mao bring on his country in times of 'Cultural revolution'? Terror and famine. What does the current party do to improve the living condition of ordinary people? Don't sell the bullshit that people who are not elected, face no criticism from the press , will suddenly feel responsible 'before heaven'. They put people to death for stealing oil.
Besides, you seem to have strange notions of the position of the ruler in Europe. There were rulers and rulers. Some didn't give a shit about the people, some did.
When considering outsourcing jobs to America, you must take into account that Americans are much more prone to obesity as they settle down into office jobs...
Outsourcing means often creating a local company which gets a contract from the big one. What's wrong with that?
Sure it's better to keep all investment out of Africa. This way, you'll keep jobs not only in the IT, but also in the government and the military, both required for various relief and/or stabilisation missions.
How is it that Americans willingly shelve out billions of dollars for 'War on terror' when it is done with bombs and rockets, and just can't get it that direct investment in 3rd world countries helps bring them out of poverty and lowers the supply of young angry men with nothing better to do than smash themselves agains a US NAVY cruiser or a NY scyscraper?
Genital mutilation as practised by most Muslims and Jews means penis circumcision, a practice which many doctors often recommend for hygienic reasons. Female circumcision, to the contrary, is rightly considered as something horrible, but AFAIR Jews don't have anything to do with it and only part of Muslims practise it. Spreading false information about a nation/race which makes it appear barbaric is not a good thing, either.
Not quite true. Also governments are interested in looking at MS source, and their people will be looking for security holes (and for NSA backdoors). If they see a bug, they will request that it is fixed.
This is what I'v never understood: why do some people consider all distributions based on RPM package system as inferior to those employing a different package system? It's just a package system, man! Are .ZIP archived Windows programs systematically better to those packed with RAR?
The same mechanism works in prostitution business -- the alphons takes what a prostitue earns, subtracts her 'debt', his profit, and gives the remainder to the prostitute.