Now we can offer a second chance to those worthless postgraduates, train them to become professional burglars in safe and controlled environment, so they'll be able to provide food for their families! We already have great killing simulators - under army umbrella - so this base is covered, now we need a good rape simulator, and maybe even go as far as a lawyer or even a politic simulator - some argue that it may be morally wrong to train a politicians, but we must understand that when a man faces inability to provide for the basic need of his loved ones - mean always justify the cause.

The Constitution Day makes me recall
The portrait of my granny, now deceased:
The portrait is still hanging on the wall,
While Grandma is long gone and badly missed.

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Could be hundred percent bullshit - I had basic, 'made in Russia', night vision googles 10 to 15 years back in Moscow. Not a military grade, for sure. Also quick googling turned a company with classical name katod , based in Novosibirsk, here http://nsk.rbc.ru/nsk_topnews/... (on russian) they claim to produce consumer and military equipment, using only domestic and Chinese components.

On the other hand, FA claims that Russia lacks ability to produce critical component called microbolometer arrays, this claim sounds very plausible - USSR and then Russia never were good at producing things which include 'micro' in their names. Hence the old joke about modern Soviet microprocessor features - 6 contact pins and 2 heavy-duty handles. But hello, could they just get this 'microbolometer array' thingies from China?

Thank you, Steve Jobs, The Flash Killer. Humanity will be forever in your debt.

BTW i had Ipod Classic 160GB - also on RoxBox. It was amazingly durable piece of hardware, especially considering it had an actual spinning hdd - it had outlived countless phones, laptops and another gadgets, survived numerous falls and overall very rough handling, and got snatched from me only recently. In my personal gadgetry top list it's rivaled only by nokia e71, but that is another sad story. RIP, my dear friend.

Totally off topic, but is there anything comparable to old ipod, supported by roxbox, 160+ GB capacity? Or my best bet is to buy used ipod from ebay and pray it will arrive with working hdd? I remember ipods having some strange hdd interface, not allowing an easy replacement of hdd to ssd.

Only desire to show off or excessive richness might be a motive to buy iphone in china. Less than $100 on taobao or aliexpress will get you 5.5 inch ips full hd, 4 or 8 core, etc - perfect screen and more power that anybody might ever need on the phone. And, from my experience, those chinese brands on MTK platform actually working as they should, unlike an early days of android when you could expect anything but stability from any android phone. Buy cheap chinese knock off phone without fear, it's the same whatever brand you like minus marketing crap. Just ensure 3G/4G frequencies supported by phone are compatible with your operator.

Unless most apps and games will be in Javascript - easily portable. That will allow different small platforms to flourish, or, you might say, make phone OS almost irrelevant. I believe we are going this way.

And why do you emphasize playing videos on webpages, like it's some rare achievement? Adobe Flash is the past, killed, burnt and ashes scattered on the wind (BTW thank you, $deity!)

Microsoft Office, on the phone? Does it have Autocad or SolidWorks preinstalled? As I'm sure I need it, just as an office suite, on my phone, yes.

Nope, it's because they can. And what make you think anybody in China cares what happened in Tiananmen Square many years ago? As far as I can see Chinese government might be naturally supported by people. Yes they do annex whatever they can, islands in South China Sea, islands in some another sea, later, possibly, the Moon. Steadily increasing livings standards of country's huge population on the way. Building country's infrastructure at the crazy pace. Currently moving polluting production out of the country - yes, China is moving some fabrics offshore! So would you support this government if you would be Chinese? Do you honestly need to 'democratically elect' some tool, given that your communist, or whatever they call it now, leader works that good? Or you seriously think that annexing islands is 'not fair'?

That is a classified program developed by UK Ministry of Education, aimed at increasing computer literacy and promote awareness privacy enhancing tools like VPN and tor. They copied idea from Iran, where similar strategy has lead to a great success - reportedly more than 60 percent of Iranian internet surfers regularly use VPN. There are rumors that next step in this initiative will be blocking of porn sites in UK - a very strong move that will ensure that a growing generation will be unstoppable by any attempts of internet filtering. Russia recently started it's own educational program based on the same principles, increasing it's blocked sites list with a very healthy vigor and generating tons of lulz in a process.

I applaud all politicians that have a part in this cunning and powerful effort to preserve internet freedom!

Clearly not enough.

I've seen Nokia Lumia once. Still experience this nightmare from time to time - getting lost in a plain of bright colored squares, can not find my way out. Thinking about poor souls who use this thing for desktop make me shudder.

TPP - The Pirate Party? Are they going to urge US Supreme Court, too? I'm confused.

Nope. FYI Afganistan had a land border with USSR, Russian empire tried to control it since 19 century - USSR considered Afganistan something like protectorate. Distraction of people at home was sertanly not among the reasons - Brezhnev would get 'reelected' anyhow.

Another time, another country - Monica's War.

So you say changing resolvers in your router would do you no harm?

It was funny in Thailand - 2 major ADSL internet providers, with most adsl modems/routers configured with 3 default admin passwords - 3bb, tot, and, you guessed it, admin. By default they were all open from WAN - I checked once, just opened in browser a few IP's in a same subnet with mine - could login to about 5 out of about 10 IP's tested. About a year ago probably somebody exploited this, so what did providers do? Simple solution - just drop all incoming connections, anyway nobody noticed.