RidingPegasus

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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Perhaps for the UK, but what about allies like France and Switzerland? It's a strange moral relativism blindly defending backdoored products [0] from the US/Five Eyes who have been caught committing corporate espionage against th
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Donations ok, but research grants? It does seem to be getting hysterical. The unease around Huawei is justified, but does anyone think the 5 eyes or at least the US aren't all up in Cisco (et al) hardware and have been for decades? Eve
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
At the same moment the President is sitting down with Xi discussing trade government agents are making moves to arrest an incredibly high profile Chinese figure and everyone seems to think it's a coincidence? China has an extensive his
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
I stand corrected, according to the article she was somehow involved with Skycom and they sold computers to Iran during UN sanctions. > Skycom tried to sell 1.3 million euros ($1.7 million) worth of Hewlett-Packard Co. computer gear in l
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
That's not how it works, Canada has refused numerous extradition requests from the US.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
The sealed indictment for her arrest was 4 months ago on Aug 22, she has traveled through numerous countries including Canada in that time. The arrest came only hours after US/China trade talks finished, it's also unusual in that
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
> The crime is not trading with Iran, the crime is defrauding the US financial system Is that not exactly what I said in response to a comment claiming she was selling US tech to Iran?
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
UN sanctions were lifted on 16 January 2016. The US unilaterally decided in May this year they want to pull out of that agreement. The EU is still pushing ahead to have their largest companies trading with Iran despite American protestation
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
> Crown counsel told a Friday bail hearing in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Friday that Meng is "charged with conspiracy to defraud multiple international institutions" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada&#x2F
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
The US has a long history of refusing extradition requests by allies despite overwhelming evidence. It's become a one way street. The UK has blocked extradition to the US before even though the guilt is assured[0], the alleged crimes
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Outline for us Indochina types: https://outline.com/qUJvaJ Quite surprised Canada has gotten itself into this considering the potential for escalation which is now playing out. A "NGO worker", possibly of natsec v
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Court suppression orders are pointless in the internet age. Not only that but the premise of this article is ridiculous. The author was specifically searching for this persons name and got a trends alert about it. Should google censor all w
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Is the world running out of petrol? Chinese fuel prices are fairly cheap on a global scale. It has far more to do with public discontent over air quality than petro-politics.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Shame we had to kill them all. Not to judge though, modern day humans seem to have upped the ante.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Not opinion, it's a writeup of a German study. https://outline.com/YdvJu4
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Do you actually have any firsthand experience with Chinese internet culture? There's plenty of discontent and protestation about government policy, it's everywhere.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
China only has 1/3rd of the worlds extractable deposits. Rare earth minerals is the typical "China Bad" scare story. They reduced the amount they sold because they wanted it themselves to value-add making electronics/ren
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Why does the data need to be stored on a centralised database acessibile by 100,000 people and not on individual medicare cards? Is there some dire pressing need where people are literally dying because doctors can't access prior medic
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Was also slightly bemused. Especially the comments saying a physical switch is too expensive? An inlaid switch would cost a few cents and apart from physical tampering will always work. With Apple's design skills I doubt many would eve
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
What a strange sentiment. I've never once heard anyone call Reitz controversial. I think the widespread usage of his libraries speaks for itself as to whether they are "good", especially considering they have standard library
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
> requires setting up a very specific environment, installing specific versions of libraries, using some niche software and converting data from one byzantine format to another Containerisation is fairly mature and simple to use. Many in
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
> much more money available to speculate than available surface area Doubtful, some of the biggest cities on earth have tiny geographic areas. Build more and let them keep buying, a clear government policy that targets rezoning to keep p
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Given that it's cash payments "each month", how can that be short term? If all recipients simultaneously wanted to spend the money on burritos, by month 2 there's going to be a lot more restaurants selling burritos. A be
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
> I think that’s standard procedure already. Simply transferring everything off a 2TB HDD at 100MB/s will take over 5 hours, and that's ignoring any hashing.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
The entire Arma series has a huge modding community, along with good documentation on the internals, it's one of the main selling points of the game. Their last competition spawned hundreds of entries and awarded €500,000 in prizes to