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This blocking shit is so annoying. The Chinese shoot themself in the right knee, then in the left knee and say, look, we have the biggest balls! Yes, you may ha

by tiatia 12y ago

This blocking shit is so annoying. The Chinese shoot themself in the right knee, then in the left knee and say, look, we have the biggest balls! Yes, you may have the biggest balls, but you can't walk anymore dumbo! I experienced that feeding someone his own poison is often the best medicine. Providers world wide should block email access to all China based email for a month or two. Would be a picture for the gods having the Chinese executives and CEOs abroad cut off from their email and crying "foul!" "foul!". This being said, the Chinese are pretty good in what they are doing. What will it buy them in the long run? Even big Chinese companies in China use VPN to access the internet. The final result will be that China won't have internet but something like an intranet. Good luck with that!

c1sc0 12y ago
Well, with all the nationalism I guess they WANT an intranet. And I think they can probably pull it off. The Chinese Intranet is pretty good actually & there's a lot of pride in using home-grown services and hardware, just count the XiaoMi phones next time you're in the subway. (Brilliant brand name BTW)
- tiatia 12y ago
  You can't afford to have only an intranet. Not if you want to be a leading power. I even had problems looking up pages from small technology companies that were blocked. They don't have google. Baidu does not compare, not the slightest bit. Yes, they have bing. Try finding an address at bing (or baidu) maps in China. It does not work 50% of the time when google is right on the spot. XiaoMi? Yes, some nice hardware. But the software comes from the west.
  - mschuster91 12y ago
    > XiaoMi? Yes, some nice hardware. But the software comes from the west. Not entirely. They use (or at least have used) mediatek chipsets. Their drivers... well, do a github search for mediatek chipset-based android source code. People have placed entire dumps of Mediatek stuff on Github... and the stuff I could find in 5min is SCARY. Fucking scary. And that's just the tools for the manufacturer, their kernel drivers are a mess of ifdefs and commented out code, with the sparse comments written in some Asian language.
    - mih 12y ago
      Scary in what sense? Could you elaborate whether you are talking in terms of security, backdoors etc. or just buggy badly organized code?
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netheril96 12y ago
> Would be a picture for the gods having the Chinese executives and CEOs abroad cut off from their email and crying "foul!" "foul!" The government could care less about the difficulties of CEOs as long as their power is consolidated and ensured. I used to believe that the CPC's first and foremost goal is economy building. How naive I was! Their priority has always been power.

by tiatia 12y ago

c1sc0 12y ago

Well, with all the nationalism I guess they WANT an intranet. And I think they can probably pull it off. The Chinese Intranet is pretty good actually & there's a lot of pride in using home-grown services and hardware, just count the XiaoMi phones next time you're in the subway. (Brilliant brand name BTW)

tiatia 12y ago
You can't afford to have only an intranet. Not if you want to be a leading power. I even had problems looking up pages from small technology companies that were blocked. They don't have google. Baidu does not compare, not the slightest bit. Yes, they have bing. Try finding an address at bing (or baidu) maps in China. It does not work 50% of the time when google is right on the spot. XiaoMi? Yes, some nice hardware. But the software comes from the west.
- mschuster91 12y ago
  > XiaoMi? Yes, some nice hardware. But the software comes from the west. Not entirely. They use (or at least have used) mediatek chipsets. Their drivers... well, do a github search for mediatek chipset-based android source code. People have placed entire dumps of Mediatek stuff on Github... and the stuff I could find in 5min is SCARY. Fucking scary. And that's just the tools for the manufacturer, their kernel drivers are a mess of ifdefs and commented out code, with the sparse comments written in some Asian language.
  - mih 12y ago
    Scary in what sense? Could you elaborate whether you are talking in terms of security, backdoors etc. or just buggy badly organized code?
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netheril96 12y ago

> Would be a picture for the gods having the Chinese executives and CEOs abroad cut off from their email and crying "foul!" "foul!" The government could care less about the difficulties of CEOs as long as their power is consolidated and ensured. I used to believe that the CPC's first and foremost goal is economy building. How naive I was! Their priority has always been power.