1. Be extremely suspicious of propaganda claiming to know the existence and origin of a hack.
2. The origin of a hack is almost irrelevant. If there are vulnerabilities, someone will hack them. Whether it's a government actor or a ransomware asshole is neither here or there. Leaked information is leaked.
3. The Internet was designed to be resilient. Good luck blocking China.
4. How is the rest of the world going to place their orders to China? China makes almost everything.
5. China wasn't our enemy until the US decided to have a trade war in the vain hope of shutting the gate after the horse had bolted, kicked the farmer's head off and shit down his neck hole.
China has been stealing IP and hacking everything they can reach for decades.
Before this bullshit trade war Slashdotters almost universally bemoaned the US spreading their godawful IP laws across the planet.
What a difference one demagogue and a willing media horde can make.
According to Slashdot these days the Chinese are too useless to invent anything, all their IP was stolen for the poor little USA (who of course would never stoop to spying on other nations).
FFS, every second engineer and scientist working in America is fucking Chinese you dopey racist fucks.
Before this bullshit trade war Slashdotters almost universally bemoaned the US spreading their godawful IP laws across the planet.
That's primarily about copyright, and software patents.
What a difference one demagogue and a willing media horde can make.
We were having these same arguments under several prior administrations.
According to Slashdot these days the Chinese are too useless to invent anything,
It's not just these days, and China hasn't independently invented anything of consequence in literally millennia. They may have put the finishing touches on some things, but e.g. Huawei is well-known for industrial espionage. Once you become known for cheating, no one will ever believe again that you aren't doing it constantly.
FFS, every second engineer and scientist working in America is fucking Chinese you dopey racist fucks.
It's not about race, tiger. It's about culture and government. They're not unable to invent things independently because of their genetic background. They're hamstrung by a system that hammers down what sticks up. Their government long ago reached the "self-perpetuation by any means" stage. This is known to be harmful to creativity, a critical problem-solving skill.
If they had solved covid a long time ago they wouldn't have recently had to test an entire major city.
Their solution was anything but novel, as well. It was obvious and straightforward, but fascist-level authoritarianism. It has been reasonably effective as a stopgap, but did not actually solve the problem.
Disconnect (Score:3, Interesting)
Why don't we just start severing internet connectivity to China ? Granted there are multiple paths but some blocking might at least send a message.
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2. The origin of a hack is almost irrelevant. If there are vulnerabilities, someone will hack them. Whether it's a government actor or a ransomware asshole is neither here or there. Leaked information is leaked.
3. The Internet was designed to be resilient. Good luck blocking China.
4. How is the rest of the world going to place their orders to China? China makes almost everything.
5. China wasn't our enemy until the US decided to have a trade war in the vain hope of shutting the gate after the horse had bolted, kicked the farmer's head off and shit down his neck hole.
Re:Disconnect (Score:4, Insightful)
lol. China has been stealing IP and hacking everything they can reach for decades. We were just too dumb to recognize them for the enemy.
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China has been stealing IP and hacking everything they can reach for decades.
Before this bullshit trade war Slashdotters almost universally bemoaned the US spreading their godawful IP laws across the planet.
What a difference one demagogue and a willing media horde can make.
According to Slashdot these days the Chinese are too useless to invent anything, all their IP was stolen for the poor little USA (who of course would never stoop to spying on other nations).
FFS, every second engineer and scientist working in America is fucking Chinese you dopey racist fucks.
Re:Disconnect (Score:5, Insightful)
Before this bullshit trade war Slashdotters almost universally bemoaned the US spreading their godawful IP laws across the planet.
That's primarily about copyright, and software patents.
What a difference one demagogue and a willing media horde can make.
We were having these same arguments under several prior administrations.
According to Slashdot these days the Chinese are too useless to invent anything,
It's not just these days, and China hasn't independently invented anything of consequence in literally millennia. They may have put the finishing touches on some things, but e.g. Huawei is well-known for industrial espionage. Once you become known for cheating, no one will ever believe again that you aren't doing it constantly.
FFS, every second engineer and scientist working in America is fucking Chinese you dopey racist fucks.
It's not about race, tiger. It's about culture and government. They're not unable to invent things independently because of their genetic background. They're hamstrung by a system that hammers down what sticks up. Their government long ago reached the "self-perpetuation by any means" stage. This is known to be harmful to creativity, a critical problem-solving skill.
Re: Disconnect (Score:2)
If they had solved covid a long time ago they wouldn't have recently had to test an entire major city.
Their solution was anything but novel, as well. It was obvious and straightforward, but fascist-level authoritarianism. It has been reasonably effective as a stopgap, but did not actually solve the problem.
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China is in a cold war with the west.
Yeah, I'm so scared of having the ability to buy things at insanely cheap prices. Please China, stop! My garage can't fit anymore tools in it!
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China has been our enemy since the 1950's. People are only now realizing it again.