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> The last thing Xi wants is an emboldened Pyongyang—he has managed Kim adeptly for years.

How Xi can "manage" Kim when Pyongyang already is a telephone government? North Korea is a Chinese proxy.

When China wants to increase badness against US, JP, SK, it pushes forward its pawn, and orders Kim to do something to spook them.

The independence of NK regime when it completely existentially depends on China for everything is a myth.

The headline is completely disinformative.

It's individual Chinese companies being intimidated by American market denial who cut ties in Russia, not the other way around at all.

Chinese state companies continue to work with Russia as usual.

Change the headline.

Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:18PM (#39148541)
> The Israeli judiciary is unique in nominating itself and having given itself the power to cancel any law or demand any changes to laws/policy on any arbitrary basis;

1. Not completely. There are quite a few countries with fully independent judiciary, with judges appointing judges.

2. Courts with power to initiate, and prosecute a case by themselves also exist in other countries.

Re:Why does Gnome fingerprint unlock not unlock the keyring? on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:06AM (#38528189)
> And that's the difference. When you perform TouchID authentication, the secure enclave can decide to release a secret that can be used to decrypt your keyring. We can't easily do this under Linux because we don't have an interface to store those secrets.

> The secret material can't just be stored on disk - that would allow anyone who had access to the disk to use that material to decrypt the keyring and get access to the passwords, defeating the object.

I'll provide a broader explanation: you cannot encrypt your key with a fingerprint.

A genuine "throw away the key" lock is only possible when the decryption key is completely erased from memory during the screen lock, and you cannot use your fingerprint or face image as a key by itself.

A screen lock using stored secret is inherently incapable of providing encryption at rest. It's like a password on a sticky note.

A "throw away the key" is only possible with a password, or a smartcard.

Re:Stuxnet Source Code on Monday December 04, 2023 @08:49AM (#38517150)
France has enabled nuclear weapons programmes of many rouge states.

Maybe Israelis just went to the Elysee palace, and asked?

Lack of experience.

Most of the West has bailed out of the electronics race so long ago, that the experience gap in between practice, and what is told in universities is like 20-30 years now.

No university in the world will teach you how to make a modern stepper. Most of research in this space been going behind closed doors from the beginning of the semiconductor industry, and nearly completely closed since around 2010.

Only places like IMEC and few others are semi-public windows to what happens behind closed doors.

In principle, physics behind the operation of a stepper is nothing secret, components not secret, manufacturing techniques not secret, but the experience of how to arrange all of above in a way it is known to work is only available to, I would say, less than 100 people worldwide.

Re:Henry Kissinger Has Died on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:58PM (#38469420)
> Kissinger was directly responsible for the Paris Peace Accords (Vietnam)

Kissinger is directly responsible for feeding South Vietnam to communists, and delivering its 20 million people into slavery.

With "cloud" services being mentioned, they say hackers used cloud storage to evade detection, but what if the initial intrusion vector itself was planted by an AWS employee?

Saudis used their nationals inside Twitter quite brazenly. Imagine how many other rouge nation nationals are there being used by their governments.

> At this point, somebody will jump in with

At this point you need to jump up and point to:

1. Ordinary banks are not sued for absolutely the same thing, which probably occurs to much bigger extent in major banks which pass many times more transactions than Binance

2. Forget about Russian darknets, Russian mafia lives in London, and New York in the open to complete disregard of the same financial regulators.

3. It's practically impossible to catch people who can fake, or buy a passport to do small scale money laundering, but forget about the small fish.

BILLIONS of Russian money gets laundered through biggest US banks every day completely legally, through schemes known to all big banks, and financial regulators for decades.

Re:GPS Receiver Circuit Board Design on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:07AM (#38141122)
Betrayers of The Free World reap the benefits of living in The Free World the most, and advance ahead on the social ladder towards decision making positions, perpetuating these bad decisions.

And people who did the right decision, have to pay twice. One is the opportunity price, and another is the externality price.

Russian trade volume was 57% NATO members before the war, and close to 80 if you count Western allies.
Re:DJI announces the sub-250 gram drone mini 4 pro on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:33PM (#37653991)
> identified as a national security threat by the US DOD, essentially because there's no way to be sure that every second of GPS-tagged video shot by a DJI drone isn't going into a giant server farm owned by the Chinese intelligence service.

There are far more obvious reasons for that. These drones are of enormous military value. By buying them, US consumers are funding an obvious foreign military hardware production. US money may well be funding production of drones which may once be used to correct artillery strikes on Los Angeles.

DJI are particular seem to work in concert with "military civilian fusion," and have hardware, and software to defeat both very serious jamming, and attempts to fry its radio with pulsed microwaves. Military jammers for 2.4g band seemingly have near 0 effect.

You can easily use magnetically soft steel.
> Classifies Semiconductors as Critical to National Security

Well, in a case of direct war with China or Russia, it will not be microchips you would be worried about.

USA is amazingly self sufficient nation, probably more than any other nation in the world, but... it lost far more critical items any nation must manufacture other than iphones.

You will not die from not receiving a new iphone, but you will die from lack of antibiotics if you catch gangrene, or something as dumb as typhus (my uncle died from it in his twenties)

USA can make a superweapons, but can't seem plainly make enough ammo for them. So much bad it is, a single German company produces more shells than entire American industry. All these big tanks, ships, and bombers will become useless in just 2-3 month of intense conflict.

After a big war, you will need huge amounts of basic materials to rebuild fast, before the enemy does the same. I have just to say: China has passed 1 gigaton of steel output per year

Ironically, every SIM card is a cryptographic secure element, and it would've been ideal to do public key login.

If you plug SIM card into desktop, you can actually do signing with it, and TLS authentication.

I recall, only Nokia S60 series, and A200 had a SIM card API exposed to apps. Ios does not give you access to SIM, Android does only for system apps.

Exactly the opposite, the project was pulled from the mothballs very recently.

It's very likelly it was initiated as part of the same PR excercise, of which the war itself was part of.

Real estate is not that big of a money laundering channel. It's mostly the most unsophisticated mobs.

The absolute majority of laundry is happening in 100% legal banks, and investment funds. Any baddie who can launder few billion dollars, can buy a bank completely legally.

Re:TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP to build fab in Germany on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:04AM (#37047689)
> totally sufficient for embedded stuff.

No, TSMC 22 has no eFLASH, expensive SRAM, lacking of analog capability, lacks high temperature tolerance, and is tied to multiple patterning design flow.

TSMC 40 on the other hand is the last portable node, with MRAM, eFLASH, high temp, some mixed signal, RF, no MP, and everything else your soul desires.

1. In much of the country, people drink vodka like people drink Coke, not oligarchs in Moscow though.

2. Much of restaurants in Russia are indeed Chechen owned. Great many of Japanese, Chinese, Korean restaurants, and street food in general in Russia have Chechen owners.

That the real Russia.

To make the judge even read that contract, they need to send an attorney.

And if the SCC judge will say arbitrate, then, why not for something so trivial, and clear cut?

On the other hand, this shows GFW authors are more, and more considerate of the collateral damage, which is a surprise. It seems GFW has indeed became good enough to frustrate casual users to trigger uproar when windows update, or AWS ip ranges go belly up, or something.

VPN authors should chose the maximum collateral damage strategy to frustrate GFW authors, make China as close as possible to completely cutting off outside internet. No need to completely evade fingerprinting, instead, do the complete opposite, and try to mimic common protocols, and critical applications as much as possible.

Re:Repairing Electronics: A Circular Economy Solution on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:58PM (#36335058)
Dubai is not Saudi Arabia
No, it's a scorched earth tactic, in preparation to abandoning Crimea.

Without this dam, Crimea will be without water for at least next 3 to 5 years after Ukraine recaptures it.

It can't afford to. It will be instantly recognized as an admission of weakness in the snake lair.

For as long as Putin's regime stands, klepto elites around him will be sure that, at least within Russian borders, they are still kings, and they can live the rest of their lives surrounded by long legged mistresses, and drowning in luxury.

If Putin is seen as weak, any small time gang will think that moneys, and power of Russia's top oligarchs are for grabs. It will be then, when a preemptive coup attempt can happen.

Because they took upon a very hard task, and kept punching it year, after years, through, low margins, highly cyclical market, extremely low returns on capital, tricky clients, and a marathon like RnD expenditures.

They are the leader because everybody else dropped out, and went to make money on something easier, like making Wordpress websites.

> The collaboration will focus on mobile SoC designs first, but allow for potential design expansion into automotive, Internet of Things (IoT), data center, aerospace and government applications.

Take a note on the wording. They are definitely making a mobile SoC for somebody, with Qualcomm being the likeliest client.

But then they instantly dilute it with other buzzwords, and try to break the line of thinking how it will compete with Intel's own products.

Non-touchscreen smartphone boom been going for years prior.

The problem was that embedded OS-es like Symbian, A200, PalmOS were running circles around Windows Mobile. Most of them used Samsung SoCs which were few times slower than StrongARM.

StrongARM was seen exclusively in the context of it being used to "lift" extremely bloated WinMo smartphones, and was otherwise thought as an overkill for other uses.

> because a community with a lot of individuals who've been taught how to obscure their misbehavior and/or expertly push it right up to the line is still a shitty community.

Talking of a community which not only totally normalised that, but is taking pride of this kind of bullshit.

You only get banned on HN for a crude antisemitic joke.

But a screens-long magnum opus on holocaust denial, or "communists were not discriminating against jews" jabs are totally fine for as long it's "substantive" enough, smooth, and civil. Not only will you get all your opponents erupting in rage banned, but you will be called a sophisticated man.

The bane of today's political culture, and especially inside the silicon valley bubble, is that antisemitism of a low class person gets stomped on sight, but antisemitism of high class sophisticadeds is ignored, given special treatment, or even encouraged.

The society has seemingly regressed back a whole century in just 10 years.

Re:Leaving China on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:23PM (#35223166)
I've been working in, and out of South China since 2009, and have called it quit 2019, when it became clear the industry was done for, and CoVID mess only reinforced my decision.

I never held any fraternal feelings with the country, even though I am ethnic Chinese, nor I had any delusions about making long term plans there.

In my years there, I kept seeing rose coloured glasses wearing American expats. I met Tim Cook during his first travels to China as CEO at some random event in Shenzhen, only to see him regurgitate the official drivel.

Since around 2016, I kept seeing more and more Western high flyers coming to official events there, seemingly trying to network with locals, and only to see them freak out at that.

My regular conversation with them:

- it's a damn communist regime, do your business and get out

- no, it's different! there is no more communisms in China! no, it's state capitalism! no, things will change! no, I have a special plan from EY China expert!

Most of them lived there for 2-3 years, and got out just as I told when the truth hit them. In the end, I outlived all of them there.

China is a communist regime, though a very well doing for some years.

Toyota wasn't first.

But it was them learning a lot from working on looms, and other stuff at textile mills taught them how to max productivity.

Textiles making was already a very competitive industry in late 19th century, and the only way to push forward in productivity after looms were optimized to the max was to cut slack in between machines — management techniques.

There the manufacturers were stealing each other's ideas "within months" as Japan had no enforceable Western style patent system yet.

The electric andon was for example copied from Suzuki looms, where it prevented looms from dethreading when the machine runs out of thread, and requiring hours to manually rethread it again.

Stopping the entire mill for a few minutes to recharge a loom begins to make much more sense when you understand that the alternative is to stop it for hours.

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