I don't think so. Harsh, yes, but also realistic. Look up "American Exceptionalism". It basically says they are top dog and better than everybody else. With that mind-set, you do not have friends, because friendship implies some level of equality. That some others are no better does not impact that state of affairs at all.
That "ear in the room" costs you dearly. It makes it blatantly obvious to everybody that you cannot be trusted. And that comes back to haunt you. Nobody has forgotten that the US compromised Merkel's phone and that will stay with the US for a long, long time.
You really do not understand how that works. You think you can tap an internet cable without it actually running over those bases? That cable will just find a new route. Or/and it may get link encryption. The whole threat is utterly empty and just a show for people without a clue.
Basically everybody does that. There are countless examples of the US doing that as well. It does not matter. "Trade secrets" are valid only for a few years, even if empires in the downward cycle (like the US) often try to artificially change that. Fact is that after a few years, the competition can do it as well and better. Or do you really think Huawei would sell enterprise products they do not understand and hence cannot support? Think again. Copying the designs is not actually a sign that they cannot do it themselves (even though non-engineers and bad engineers often take it for one), it is just a sign that the original design was pretty much finished and that another, independent design process would have arrived pretty much at the same end-point. So why not make it a standard ans make it the same end-product, so customers can directly replace one with the other without having to analyze the differences in detail? And at that time, it is not a trade secret, it is the state-of-the-art. Mass-produced things, like screws, connectors, etc. are standardized at that point and enter the public domain. It is the only sane thing to do.
The utterly hilarious thing is that the US, that "heaven of capitalism" suddenly becomes protectionist and opposed to a free market when they are not the ones doing it to others, but somebody does it to them. Talk about double-standards and ignoring reality.
Depends. A run-of-the mill US degree is basically not worth the paper it is printed on. An IIT bachelor is just as good as one from a major US tech institution (there are not many), maybe better. A master's or PhD is not, IIT sucks above bachelor. For China it is the politics that prevent teaching of some things and the cultural problems of collectivism. No connection to intelligence. Takes some to see that though and "patriots" are always at the bottom end of the intelligence scale, because to be one you have to ignore a lot of blatantly obvious things.
It will have no effect. Or maybe it will have a positive effect because all that moronic, incompetent focus on "data" has yet to catch a single terrorist before the act. And the main purpose of that data, spying on innocent citizens, is basically a slow road to fascism, to the less that works, the better.
Hence I think it would be hugely preferably to not have that data, even if it was completely free. Also note that a lot of the data-taps are on EU (or British) soil, would be a shame if something were to happen to them...
The US does not have friends. It takes honor and integrity for that and the US does not even understand that concept. The US has vassals. Looks like Europe finally found some backbone, because they do not actually _need_ US support for anything. They can screw up things all by themselves. (Judging from all that really stupid Internet legislation recently.) And they can buy cheaper and better Chinese equipment, because the security of that equipment is not actually a factor as it all is compromised. If we ever see a major war (I really, really do hope not...) all that shiny infrastructure will stop working.
You should not trust Chinese hardware because it likely is insecure. You can still use it as the alternatives are known to be insecure. Hence Huawei just has better quality at better prices.
Cisco had a good reputation once, but they blew it. Like pretty much any major US player. Boeing was one of the last ones to do so.
Well, except to the US domestically. But spying-wise, all telco equipment is compromised, and the US, having no honor whatsoever, is not above spying on allies. Those "allies" do remember that now and are reacting accordingly. Also, there is talk about removing the US ambassador from Germany, because some feel he is behaving inappropriately by directly threatening allies.
As a security expert, the whole thing is basically a non-issue. You always need real end-to-end encryption with no "backdoors" or any such totalitarian and moronic nonsense for a connection to be secure. But as soon as you have that, you do not care about a compromised network, as long as it still transmits your data. Other things, like location, are compromised anyways, no matter who delivers the equipment, because the network tech is not really secure against that anyways. The solution here is to know that and simply switch off your phone when you do not want to be tracked. As extra protection, have a removable battery, something I insist anyways. (No, I will not buy your crap design with planned obsolescence by not removable battery. Does not matter what shiny new feature it has or how great it looks. Go defraud somebody else.)
I say put them all in the same cell for a few years. That would fit the crime. They may get along splendidly though, because they are cut from the same cloth.
So, if you leave a sum of money on a park-bank, the blame is purely on the person that took it? Yeah, that makes sense. Running insecure critical infrastructure is an invitation to any potential attacker and no better than what the attacker does.
If you add the same penalty for the city officials that operate insecure critical infrastructure and thereby endanger lives, I may even be willing to get on board with that. (Well, not really. I am not a cave-man. But significant prison times for all that fucked up here, that I could agree on.) There is more than one fuckup in this story. For things to get wrong this bad, there usually is.
At the moment I don't mind some cruft being in there as long as it does not get in the way. I would like to get rid of udev, it creates more problems than it solves. But I can live with it.
For desktop I use fvwm, still the best WM in for me.
Redundancy is not about making failure impossible. It is about making failure less likely than other risks you cannot fix. At least when done rationally. You should also be aware that this here is not a course in engineering reliability, although I could teach one. Please refer to the standard literature if you want to know the details.
Wow - a "global team of researchers [from] Stanford" found that US students did better on a US test, and it didn't cross their mind that maybe the test was biased towards the US curriculum...
Naa, that does not happen. For example, the IQ tests that were given to black people in Africa and were written in English and required US cultural knowledge really proved these people are complete morons! The test is always right! After all, it results in solid numbers that cannot be misinterpreted! Higher is always superior!
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Funny. You did notice you are posting as an AC, did you? Are you aware what that means and what that makes you?
I don't think so. Harsh, yes, but also realistic. Look up "American Exceptionalism". It basically says they are top dog and better than everybody else. With that mind-set, you do not have friends, because friendship implies some level of equality. That some others are no better does not impact that state of affairs at all.
Nvidia has always been full of it. To see them exposed as the frauds they are _this_ quickly is very nice.
That "ear in the room" costs you dearly. It makes it blatantly obvious to everybody that you cannot be trusted. And that comes back to haunt you. Nobody has forgotten that the US compromised Merkel's phone and that will stay with the US for a long, long time.
I use them. But do they have a good reputation? Hell, no.
You really do not understand how that works. You think you can tap an internet cable without it actually running over those bases? That cable will just find a new route. Or/and it may get link encryption. The whole threat is utterly empty and just a show for people without a clue.
Propaganda is propaganda. You know, "lies" and misdirection. But how would you understand that...
You seem to be a propaganda shill. Despicable.
Basically everybody does that. There are countless examples of the US doing that as well. It does not matter. "Trade secrets" are valid only for a few years, even if empires in the downward cycle (like the US) often try to artificially change that. Fact is that after a few years, the competition can do it as well and better. Or do you really think Huawei would sell enterprise products they do not understand and hence cannot support? Think again. Copying the designs is not actually a sign that they cannot do it themselves (even though non-engineers and bad engineers often take it for one), it is just a sign that the original design was pretty much finished and that another, independent design process would have arrived pretty much at the same end-point. So why not make it a standard ans make it the same end-product, so customers can directly replace one with the other without having to analyze the differences in detail? And at that time, it is not a trade secret, it is the state-of-the-art. Mass-produced things, like screws, connectors, etc. are standardized at that point and enter the public domain. It is the only sane thing to do.
The utterly hilarious thing is that the US, that "heaven of capitalism" suddenly becomes protectionist and opposed to a free market when they are not the ones doing it to others, but somebody does it to them. Talk about double-standards and ignoring reality.
Depends. A run-of-the mill US degree is basically not worth the paper it is printed on. An IIT bachelor is just as good as one from a major US tech institution (there are not many), maybe better. A master's or PhD is not, IIT sucks above bachelor. For China it is the politics that prevent teaching of some things and the cultural problems of collectivism. No connection to intelligence. Takes some to see that though and "patriots" are always at the bottom end of the intelligence scale, because to be one you have to ignore a lot of blatantly obvious things.
It will have no effect. Or maybe it will have a positive effect because all that moronic, incompetent focus on "data" has yet to catch a single terrorist before the act. And the main purpose of that data, spying on innocent citizens, is basically a slow road to fascism, to the less that works, the better.
Hence I think it would be hugely preferably to not have that data, even if it was completely free. Also note that a lot of the data-taps are on EU (or British) soil, would be a shame if something were to happen to them...
The US does not have friends. It takes honor and integrity for that and the US does not even understand that concept. The US has vassals. Looks like Europe finally found some backbone, because they do not actually _need_ US support for anything. They can screw up things all by themselves. (Judging from all that really stupid Internet legislation recently.) And they can buy cheaper and better Chinese equipment, because the security of that equipment is not actually a factor as it all is compromised. If we ever see a major war (I really, really do hope not...) all that shiny infrastructure will stop working.
You should not trust Chinese hardware because it likely is insecure. You can still use it as the alternatives are known to be insecure. Hence Huawei just has better quality at better prices.
Cisco had a good reputation once, but they blew it. Like pretty much any major US player. Boeing was one of the last ones to do so.
Well, except to the US domestically. But spying-wise, all telco equipment is compromised, and the US, having no honor whatsoever, is not above spying on allies. Those "allies" do remember that now and are reacting accordingly. Also, there is talk about removing the US ambassador from Germany, because some feel he is behaving inappropriately by directly threatening allies.
As a security expert, the whole thing is basically a non-issue. You always need real end-to-end encryption with no "backdoors" or any such totalitarian and moronic nonsense for a connection to be secure. But as soon as you have that, you do not care about a compromised network, as long as it still transmits your data. Other things, like location, are compromised anyways, no matter who delivers the equipment, because the network tech is not really secure against that anyways. The solution here is to know that and simply switch off your phone when you do not want to be tracked. As extra protection, have a removable battery, something I insist anyways. (No, I will not buy your crap design with planned obsolescence by not removable battery. Does not matter what shiny new feature it has or how great it looks. Go defraud somebody else.)
I say put them all in the same cell for a few years. That would fit the crime. They may get along splendidly though, because they are cut from the same cloth.
So, if you leave a sum of money on a park-bank, the blame is purely on the person that took it? Yeah, that makes sense. Running insecure critical infrastructure is an invitation to any potential attacker and no better than what the attacker does.
Governments are not formed by people that can contribute something good to society. They are formed by those that want power over others.
If you add the same penalty for the city officials that operate insecure critical infrastructure and thereby endanger lives, I may even be willing to get on board with that. (Well, not really. I am not a cave-man. But significant prison times for all that fucked up here, that I could agree on.) There is more than one fuckup in this story. For things to get wrong this bad, there usually is.
At the moment I don't mind some cruft being in there as long as it does not get in the way. I would like to get rid of udev, it creates more problems than it solves. But I can live with it.
For desktop I use fvwm, still the best WM in for me.
Is wrong about crypto currencies. They are here and they are growing and if you aren't in on them now you will be extremely sorry soon enough.
I am already sorry. Or rather I feel sorry for the utterly dumb fucks that just do not get it. Like you.
Actually I defend those. Those reactors in design and engineering predate all modern concepts of safety.
Sorry, but the safety predictions were put out when these reactors were designed. Your argument is invalid.
Redundancy is not about making failure impossible. It is about making failure less likely than other risks you cannot fix. At least when done rationally. You should also be aware that this here is not a course in engineering reliability, although I could teach one. Please refer to the standard literature if you want to know the details.
Wow - a "global team of researchers [from] Stanford" found that US students did better on a US test, and it didn't cross their mind that maybe the test was biased towards the US curriculum...
Naa, that does not happen. For example, the IQ tests that were given to black people in Africa and were written in English and required US cultural knowledge really proved these people are complete morons! The test is always right! After all, it results in solid numbers that cannot be misinterpreted! Higher is always superior!
Well, I don't think the US can really claim top spot in lying to itself. It is in one of the leading positions though.
Everybody does their own propaganda lies. I am sure, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc. are all the world leaders in this field too.