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Re:China preparing for war with US, Air Force secretary says
on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:12PM (#37486315)
Deterrence is many magnitudes cheaper than having to fight. The US should up defense spending to 10% of GDP, it will be cheaper in the long run than fighting a war (let alone the cost of losing).
China preparing for war with US, Air Force secretary says
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Re:Apple Becomes the Biggest U.S.-China Pawn Yet
on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:07AM (#37429176)
It's been infuriating watching Silicon Valley and Wall Street pretend like they were some extraterritorial entities with no allegiance or obligations. Now comes the pain. Investors and tech companies deserve every bit of it.
Apple Becomes the Biggest U.S.-China Pawn Yet
Re:Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian...
on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:59PM (#37424757)
Definitely a case here for an eminent domain seizure of SpaceX from Musk. Particularly given how it owes its existence to defense department funding.
Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian fleet
Chinese social media campaigns successfully impersonating US voters – Microsoft
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:22AM (#37401583)
Hong Kong is China and in 2013 the process to take over administrative control by the CCP was already well under way. But looking at it from a national security standpoint China was in control. Why would I look at it from a national security standpoint? Given who he was and what he was carrying it has to be viewed that way. Let's not forget that he was carrying information on NSA espionage on China when he landed in Hong Kong.
2014 - NYTimes: "N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat" https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-c...
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:07AM (#37401526)
In 1997 during the handover ceremony for Hong Kong there was a part that involved the PLA marching into Hong Kong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4-Sr_t_kE4
To pretend that they weren't in control of the situation when he was there from a national security standpoint is a bit naive. Ultimately the decision to allow him to depart Hong Kong was made in Beijing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/asia/china-said-to-...
"The Chinese government made the final decision to allow Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, to leave Hong Kong on Sunday, a move that Beijing believed resolved a tough diplomatic problem even as it reaped a publicity windfall from Mr. Snowden’s disclosures, according to people familiar with the situation."
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:52AM (#37401457)
Let's forget about publishing. He took a top secret document on NSA spying on China to Chinese territory and then on to Russia. The fact that the Times published them and not his preferred journalist is besides the point. The damage was already done when he took them to Chinese territory and then on to Russia.
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:33AM (#37401368)
No I mean things like this which he leaked which revealed NSA spying on the Chinese government. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-c...
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:06AM (#37401244)
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/asia/china-said-to-...
" The Chinese government made the final decision to allow Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, to leave Hong Kong on Sunday, a move that Beijing believed resolved a tough diplomatic problem even as it reaped a publicity windfall from Mr. Snowden’s disclosures, according to people familiar with the situation."
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:05AM (#37401229)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-c...
How is this whistleblowing? He also participated in Putin's call in propaganda show, I don't believe for a second that he's said anything that upsets Putin or the FSB particularly if mild criticism is useful for them in maintaining the fiction that he is not under the control of the Russian security services.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
That leak about NSA breaching Chinese servers was in the same time period that Chinese security services executed accused CIA informants with a gunshot to the head in front of their coworkers.
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:58PM (#37401187)
A whistleblower doesn't abscond to a hostile country with troves of top secret data. For all we know the publication campaign could be an FSB active measure (I'm not saying that is the case just it injects doubt.) By going directly to the most hostile governments he could find it undermines the notion that this is some selfless quest to inform the public.
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:49PM (#37401137)
> "Its the behavior of someone that doesn't want to go to prison in the US."
So the solution is to take the most sensitive government secrets to a hostile country? Remember that cache of data that was so damaging to the US that it would only be released if he was harmed? He took that to China and to Russia.
Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:37PM (#37401063)
I mean he's now a citizen of Russia like the Cambridge Five before him. His behavior isn't what a whistleblower does. That is separate from whether the NSA was doing something wrong. Chelsea Manning served time and was pardoned, same with Reality Winner (great name). He took a bunch of secrets to China and then to Russia whether he published them is incidental to that.
Labor Department probes Microsoft's diversity policy (2020)
Re:Ask HN: Is Microsoft in violation of the Supreme Court with these i...
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:44PM (#37346578)
Microsoft seems to be the biggest offender in tech to the point where Biden's Justice Department has warned them over discriminatory hiring practices.
https://www.axios.com/2020/10/06/labor-department-probes-mic...
Re:Ask HN: Is Microsoft in violation of the Supreme Court with these i...
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:38PM (#37346548)
Yeah they're wide open to charges plus they were under investigation earlier last year. https://www.axios.com/2020/10/06/labor-department-probes-mic...
Re:Ask HN: Is Microsoft in violation of the Supreme Court with these i...
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:37PM (#37346539)
I think internships qualify under educational opportunities as well as employment, so would be swept up under both. Other races may not be forbidden but as a practical matter I don't think the law would be fooled by that because as a practical matter the social sanctions of joining would make it implausible. Part of the affirmative action ruling was so clear on ruling out using proxy methods that substitute. It's depressingly forbidden to use another method to accomplish the same thing.
California Community Colleges' new teaching “mandate viewpoint conformity”
Ask HN: Is Microsoft in violation of the Supreme Court with these internships?
It doesn't explicitly put a racial requirement for this education / employment opportunity but it uses a proxy that is indistinguishable. Wouldn't this contradict the the overturning of affirmative action?Technical Program Manager: Internship Opportunities for Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), RedmondTechnical Program Manager: Internship Opportunities for National Society of...