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simple answer: we don't have alternatives. comparing with being meddling by USA or any foreign power, I'd rather pick CCP.

No matter how well intentioned you guys are/were, I'll say it in your face: I don't trust you. here is the problem: if you were pissed off by my remark, then how could you overcome the trust issue? if you were not, how stupid I'm going to be to trust you?

honestly, I think we deserve whatever we have right now, and so do you. how about we just do business and leave the urge to 'help' other people in the world in sci-fi books?

then you failed with your trip. Mao is highly controversial if not hated among all my family and friends. Censorship is laughed at on every level. where did you go?

surprised? I don't think so, after all Huawei had admitted in video: 'We lie, we cheat, we steal!', and Chinese applauded! shame on them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OifY3sqrmXQ

I'm not that old :)

why do you think checks and balances only apply to politics? power corrupts, and not necessarily only political ones. I'd say any power corrupts, e.g. in marriage, one side gains significant upper hand and he/she has a decent chance to abuse the position.

good point, and it's exactly a strong point why it should be investigated.

given what you said, it's not difficult to conclude there is no one in the world actually understand google's business, and/or engineering, including googlers. therefore, who is going to be hold accountable, which person we need to push if anything goes horribly wrong?

Google, facebook and amazon have been way too powerful financially, technologically, politically and culturally. install armies they will be superpowers. it's better to do something before it's too late.

OK. how do you escape from the rule Chinese government? simple: go to another country. how could you escape from google/fb? welcome to China!

I'm annoyed by folks keep talking about Chinese govt. bans Google and Facebook whenever they see fit.

Let's be clear: no, thanks but no! We've got 1 big brother and really not interested 2 more.

yes, it is. and it's perfectly reasonable for US gov to be stupid since Chinese had been :D

IronCurtain V2.0?

how hard will it be to work out a script, that update the namespace automatically? it would even be possible to do that in the bytecode level I think.

I think Eclipse Foundation is f*cked, not by Oracle but its bureaucracy, and inability to reinvent itself.

why it's got down voted? there are reasonable points.

it's not the full story. the full story is more like this: media operates on the hypothesis that this kind of material is on demand, it produces accordingly, generates buzz and hypothesis verified! what's next? product more!

I think market oriented media is really nothing about truth/fact/moral, its only job is to reflect what people want. here is the full list of what people want: - when we do well, tell me it's all my own hard work. - when we are in bad shape, it's someone else's fault.

no, the scariest part is this: anywhere in this world there are people are scared of different ideas and believes; there are people believe by the power of their perfect system no other opinion worthy of existence.

now you may start to explain any idea other than yours not really ideas.

Hardworking, ambitious, and honesty: you can have only two. now pick.

It is plain and simple: if you don't have total control of the technology you are using, you'll get bullied by US government.

>> The Chinese government was and is an authoritarian state that is completely and totally ruthless.

I don't see any value in your last line.

It's going to be unpopular.

I'd say it's the arrogance of American leads to the situation.

>> The Yinhe incident (Chinese: 银河号事件) was a false claim made in 1993 by the United States government that the China-based regular container ship Yinhe (银河; "Milky Way") was carrying chemical weapon materials to Iran. The US Navy forced the Yinhe to stop in the international waters of the Indian Ocean for a month. The final inspection report signed by the U.S., concluded that there was no chemical weapon materials at all. However, the U.S. government refused to apologize "because the United States had acted in good faith on intelligence", even though the Chinese were proven innocent.

What's not mentioned in the wikipedia page, is that US cut off the GPS of Yinhe container ship to force the search. It has been a wake up call for Chinese government.

win2k and osx tiger

it's not going to fly. I think the problem of this kind of ideas is that dating is actually a by product of social interactions, not suitable for engineering.

congratulations! you've got your bias confirmed.

I found his talk on youtube, remarkable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL07WEc2TRI

democracy is not about decision, but decision making. during the process consensus is born and grown. it then generates mandate and enough political capital and willingness for consequent execution.

that being said, democracy often leads to wishes that nobody could execute. after all, it's about what participants want, not what they really need.

It's paradoxical b/c paying customers are even better ad targets.

I think advertisements are OK, as long as personal data not aggregated, nor cross referenced/shared. I'm OK with google display few search related ads along the page. But it's insane to see van ads on youtube after I searched for one.

Isn't it obvious the solution is to ban cross-referencing from data collected via different products (even inside one company)? I think targeted ad, including micro-targeting, is the future as long as vast majority not willing to pay for services.

of course we then need to proper define 'product'.

Nitpick: the javascript engine of firefox is spidermonkey, not nitro.

I don't understand the motivation of the article. Does the author try to justify the Opium War? Or to remind 1+ billion Chinese that the intepretation of history always subject to rulers' agenda, which is clearly stated in Chinese textbook? To show off his not-so-sharp observation to his readers? Or, to warn USA not to abandon the free trade principle?

what I am not happy with mozilla is the 'internal review'. Firefox is opensourced, Mozilla is non-profit. Although there must be something need be keep in private, I don't think the review process falls into that category. In fact, Mozilla, why don't take the opportunity to make yourself more transparent?

i don't understand why folks are upset. opensource + nonprofit can't prevent corruption. it has nothing to do with technology, management, personality, good will or anything. it's about power. given enough power and time, what left is either marketing or corruption.

> If a worker is employed for less than six months, the compensation should be a 0.5-month salary. A one-month salary should be given to those who worked for six months to one year.

Is it too much?

I don't fully support what my country (China) do in South China Sea but there is a critical context: around 2011, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton basically announced in that US would do whatever she liked in Strait Malacca if necessary. Her announcement scared sh*t of lots of people, especially amongst leadership in China.

I understand people normally project their countries as the major source of good. Sadly it's not the case for both US and China.

your assumption that anyone/organization/party might have superior knowledge to lay out a perfect plan (70 years!), is not true. without this assumption, your argument becomes invalid.