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> 30 foot razor wire fences, and mile wide minefields.

LOL OMFG!

MILE WIDE !!! MINEFIELDS !!!

May be the confusion is with USA-Mexico border? o_O

Proof, please? Soviet-designed doesn't mean Russian. Soviet designs are in manufacturing all over the world, including countries much closer to Iraq.

Yeah... about as easy as to meet a wild drunken bear with a balalaika on a Moscow street.

May be Vatican.

Let me think... it would be... the same?

Any reasons to believe otherwise?

The only thing I hold against him is his failure, as promised, to hang Georgian president by his balls. Eating necktie is a weak substitute.

So Russians feel sympathetic and supporting lending a help to a mere human who just tried to help his country and now his country hunts him down like a wild animal.

But that is somehow bad, eh? o_O

P.S. Hey, Alex, why stop at Osama?! You forgot to mention Hitler! That would be more dramatic, and equally cheap brainwashing tactic.

Snowden will halt the revelations abruptly. He would be a fool to break the agreement with Putin.

Putin is a man of his word, and expects the same from Snowden.

Information may continue to leak, but not from Snowden. His part of the show is finished (and luckily for him, he's not even bruised!).

Working for a year almost full time and get "new car" revenue is not a financial success. Sorry.

It may all look like bits to you, but here's something to think about: I have recently bought an electronic product from a company in a different country. The payment processor though added Canadian HST tax on top of the purchase. Processor did two things: it figured out I'm in Canada so the HST tax may apply, and it knew that the product was actually sold via a reseller, which also registered in Canada, which made HST mandatory.

You see? The online purchases are not as unregulated as they may seem. There are laws about them, and the online companies do follow those laws.

Trying to sell banned service to US customer is not much easier than trying to sell banned food. One may try but the interested troll only need to send a cease-and-desist to yet another payment processor one uses to sell to US, and the service is on square one, again.

In other words, is being small & poor a good defense against trolls? Yes, it is.

Try to get bigger though or get a investment round, and troll will come after you.

It is not a coincidence that the company in the article's got trolls about the same time it's got an investment.

So we has just established that not only hardware companies are at risk. Good.

Now, step two: US trolls will not sue a company doing business outside of US; too much trouble. But any company doing business in US is a subject to local laws, and most SaaS companies want to work on US market simply because it is the biggest one.

"Doing business in US" means, among other things, having US customers and using US payment processors.

The traffic is not interesting. Business transactions are; incidentally, the transactions are trivially blocked.

Right. The troll was just bluffing when he was saying: "You’ll stay in business and license from us, or you’ll go out of business".

He's just joking, right? Surely he has neither tools nor intentions to put someone out of business?

> Anybody who wants to sue you must post a $25k USD bond to the Nevis government before even proceeding.

Why would they do that? o_O

They will file at their local US court. You're free to sell to Nevis all that you want -- but do not come with your product into US until the US litigation is won.

Wikileaks blockade is a good example of the power that can be used when parties fail to come to an agreement.

Most companies though prefer to settle out of court because the court is quite a gambling, that's why we do not hear it more often.

SaaS are not immune too.

Example:

http://www.ca.com/ca/en/news/Press-Releases/na/2013/CA-Techn...

"... seeking ... an injunction against AppDynamics prohibiting the infringement of CA Technologies patents"

In case CA wins, the court will prohibit AppDynamics to sell any product that violate CA's patents.

Yes, one may host the company in Canada. How to sell to US customers though? VISA, MC and AMEX all have US presence and will comply with the court order (CA's lawyers will undoubtfully provide a copy). Paypal and other various Stripes are just facades to the very same VISA et all.

Without ability to charge for the product, where the business is going to be?

Court order will prohibit the sales. The decision will be delivered to whatever representatives the company has on US soil, as well as to customs, payment processors and whatnot.

> “one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government.”

Common, don't be shy! Don't pretend there are some "non-democratic" governments somewhere that do even more surveillance!

Largest ever launched by any government, by far.

I dunno how it is in US, but in other places all kinds of shady businesses are protected by organized crime. Try to harass their businesses and jokes may end pretty quick.

Samsung was in South Korea. Apple blocked Samsung's sales in US based on patent issues.

It doesn't matter where you're located. What matters where you want to do business.

You can move the company. But as long as you make sales in US, you can be blocked from doing business.

What if his daughter really got killed or raped?

> how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to

They would make sure you're behind bars in no time.

A lawyer that may help costs $300+/hr. Lawyers, even when simply reply to your email, charge you for 15 minutes.

Is there a good counter-measure against DDoS? I believe there is none. Commercial services help but only up to certain traffic level.

Tomorrow Bitbucket can get under the same attack.

... not even mentioning STLport.

http://www.stlport.org/news.html

Apache project looks like "me too" one.

The Russia Today was created with the goal of breaking the American media omerta.

He is brave because he's not home, eh.

New Netflix-only "House of Cards" is too very good. Set in US Congress as a bonus.