Send enough traffic over an IPSec tunnel in a short enough period of time, and expect it to be suddenly blocked one day, only to work again in just a few days.

This. It's totally arbitrary. Also it's a two-tier system, where many things are easily proxied around, while some sites (pornography, Falun Gong, Tian'anmen) can't be.

I think mostly the point is to inconvenience and be protectionist rather than block. Sure you can get on twitter if you really want, but your average Joe in China doesn't want to bother figuring out proxies just to get some stupid cat picture, so they turn to Weibo or some wannabe-twitter site like that instead.

I prefer Civ 3, I don't like how game companies release unfinished product, but to be fair the game is currently a whole lot better now than it was in the first month, you just need to have the expansion packs. Most people would call it the best Civ yet.

Yup, all my Commodore 64 games are stored with their cracks on handy 5.25" disks.

But of course people in the 1880s had valid concerns, and in the last 120 years a lot of laws and social pressures have developed regulating the use of cameras. Without which, people would still find the use of cameras objectionable. Many of the issues haven't been entirely worked out - a couple week ago there was a story about how Germans needed to get rid of naughty photos of their exes if asked, and many people didn't seem to like the idea.

The Apollo Program showed it was capable of getting people to the moon, but the point of NASA isn't just getting people to the moon over and over, the point is to eventually establish a permanent, expanding presence in space. Pointing a V-2 rocket up at the sky is effective but is also a dead end.

And of course the space program had problems under the Airforce.

Is this 2002? All the plans by all the companies include unlimited texts, including low-end $30/month plans. I only know one person who pays to text (after reaching a certain amount), this person has stuck with his same phone contract for more than 10 years.

But I could almost see Davis/Sacramento becoming a tech hub(unlike, say, Montana or Arizona), since it's a relatively easy interview/move for tech workers currently in the Bay Area. Certainly it would take a long time & a lot of luck to become anything somewhat comparable to Silicon Valley, but I could see it as a satellite of the Silicon Valley.

This would be an extraordinarily easy thing to data mine. The fact that no correlation has been found (even though people know other things about the children of older women, eg they are more likely to suffer from a number of conditions) leads me to believe there's no correlation.

Well it's easy to believe that "you're getting in trouble for calling the pope an idiot" wouldn't fly, so they gave him trumped-up charges. Like maybe you condemn the US President in the press, so you get prosecuted for some unrelated charge of smoking a joint. Just sayin'.

Are you saying there's no vulnerabilities in Linux? Or that nobody would ever intentionally put a vulnerability in Linux? Or just being mean?

Is that really a model for security? Heartbleed is a huge vulnerability that was inserted, by accident, more than two years ago, without getting fixed. The code was written by somebody way better at coding than me. It was reviewed by somebody way better at coding than me. Surely it was looked over by a number of people way better at coding than me.

Is it really hard to believe that an intentional backdoor by an expert could get past this review process? A review process that couldn't even stop an accidental buffer over-read?

At the very least, the CIA/KGB/Pinkerton Detective Agency must have looked at Heartbleed lasting in the wild for more than two years and thought "very interesting - we can do that, but even better."

Linux takes contributions from a basically anonymous group of international contributors. It seems to me extremely naive to believe that there are no intentional backdoors built into Linux by every single spy agency,

What the fuck? Of course RHPS was completely choreographed. The way it was filmed, people needed to hit their exact spots so the frame looks right. This was more important then than now, because 70s film stock would require more precise focus than needed today, and if there was a mistake made nobody could even tell until the next day.

If it showed more physicality, it's because it was mostly Broadway actors putting on a show they had already run through in front of a large audience, a large number of times. Not all older movies are like that, just as not all newer movies have static shots of people delivering lines in place. For instance, Star Trek had Captain Kirk wildly running about. And certainly hand-held camera that follow characters delivering lines while moving are a lot more common now than before digital cameras.

So yes, the internet is dying

What the fuck? Everybody uses the internet, all the time. That's like saying electricity is going out of fashion.

I was referring to PRC stock markets. Of course you know Hong Kong isn't PRC proper, so why make a long post about it? It will possibly be PRC in 30 years.