The Netherlands and China is covered in this browser bundle. They specifically block dutch and chinese exit nodes, among others.

It's "just" the tor browser bundle and firefox portable, they link to both, where sources can be had. The custom configs are (naturally) included in this release for inspection. It seems that they configure Tor to be as fast as possible while removing some possible anonymity, and they block certain countries as exits to remove censorship. Then they have a dynamic proxy to automatically route torrent sites through Tor.

From their FAQ:

Well.. I don't think you need to be a rocket surgeon to guess that number correctly. :P

Sounds like a great target for an epic rick-roll trojan.. say.. where is this movie theatre located? ;)

It will be interesting to see how they will handle this. When I visited China, computer security didn't seem to be one of the top priorities among the computer users, so the majority of the population might just not care much about updates. If it starts breaking down completely, and Windows 7 or 8 isn't as easy to pirate, perhaps we'll see a Chinese mass migration to Linux.

I wonder how difficult it would be for the Chinese government to make their own Windows patches. They could probably perform a MITM on the windows update servers and feed their own patches if a lot of unpatched Windows machines leads to an increased influx of CIA-sponsored viruses to China.

Actually also because they are noble metals, and won't randomly corrode and spoil after long storage.

The computing power in the bitcoin pool today is 8 times the computing power of the top 500 fastest super computers in the world combined.

Even if NSA, Russia and China have more powerful setups than what's on the official Top 500 list (and I'm sure they do), it would take an immense effort to create something matching.

Actually, isn't it about time to give up hogging Hawaii now? It's so far from the mainland it's just ridiculous. Problem solved. You can still go there on vacation you know.

Oh, at the same time, leave Alaska to Canada, the maps look weird enough as it is...

I suppose this "fuzziness" is why I got curious. I would have thought that the border areas would be too fuzzy to enable someone to release a set of files for it.

Assuming Wikipedia is correct, it seems to differ a little depending on where in the states you live.

Honestly, computers are so efficient these days that fans shouldn't be necessary. I guess it's some sort of evil spiral. "Oh, the computers are so fast anyway, we don't have to bother optimizing this, it's just unnecessary developer time". Then you get to a situation where people write applications in a framework running on javascript running in an operatingsystem that is running *in* a web browser which is running on some other type of virtual machine ad absurdum.

And it's slow, but who cares, do you have a slow computer? Just buy more power.

Yes, I'm old.

Most probably marketing bullshit from this company, indeed.

They have been getting some sort of a comeback recently, with Das Keyboard becoming mainstream and a lot of companies following them to grab a piece of the market. I wouldn't trade my Das Keyboard for a "normal" keyboard, although it would be interesting to try one of the newer, "silent" versions. Supposedly they have an almost identical tactile feel to them, at least when comparing the graphs.

Then there's actually computer users, clutching the real, full-size keyboad in fear while glancing on Ubuntu's and Windows' rapid and rampant move from sanity to the insane "everything is a touch screen" interface, which no computer user ever asked for but seems oh-so-trendy if you're a marketing drone who mostly use the computer for playing games on facebook or following blogs.

That's probably the longest sentence I've ever written, btw.

Not being from the USA, it would be interesting to know what a "neighborhood" means in this case. Is it a legal definition apart from the more casual meaning of the buildings close to where you live?