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"that much"

It's just one intro CS201 course. There might be another Scheme elective, though.


Languages are not countries. A pet peeve I have is websites that toggle languages with a flag.

In this case, I would be curious to know if the PRC would have an issue with a traditional character option.


Since traditional is used in Hong-Kong which is in PRC, I doubt they would have an issue with it.

We're not talking about languages here however, but countries. A "traditional character option" wouldn't be enough to indicate Taiwan (since languages are not countries, just like you said).


The firewall isn't about being impenetrable.

It's about modifying the aggregate opinion of a population - not a specific individual. Politics is about statistics in the sense that you only need x percent of something to accomplish y goal. In other words, only x percentage of people need to think in a certain way to accomplish y goal. This is why, for example, VPNs aren't strictly enforced. Those who need them, get them. But it's such a pain in the ass for a regular person to subscribe to and deploy, that it doesn't matter on the aggregate level for 5% of people to break through.


Right. Also, banning all VPNs would make commerce very difficult. And the Party loves commerce.

I'm sure they'd love to stifle all non-party-endorsed political discussion, but they're in a difficult position which is getting more and more difficult with every year. It will be interesting to see how the situation evolves.


guilty. manual html tags, no css, a couple center and table tags here and there. the page loads fast.

my powerpoints have (d)evolved to become just as bare now, too.


I like your name. I imagine, you would have signed up as legitquestion, but legitquestion was too long, correct?

-justquest :)


Yes :) I signed up just to ask this one question!


This a good explanation, but I have to point out that for this particular example (being able to buy Frappucinos in China because they're cheaper), the opposite is true.

Fun fact: Starbucks is significantly more expensive in China than in America, even if you use the currencies at their current exchange rates.

Not fun fact: I live in China, and I like Starbucks.


Are there any local coffee shops that sever 'western' style coffee? And if so are they also more expensive than Starbucks in the US. Also what is the local equivalent of a cappuccino and what does that cost. PPP generally deals with equivalent goods and not identical goods, especially when the goods have to imported at great expense to one country.

I mean even here in Sweden Starbucks is a good 50% more expensive than your random local coffee shop, so Starbucks probably isn't the best comparison to make.


Yes, and they are, also, ridiculously expensive. A (awful) capuccino can easily cost 30 kuai, where a very nice plate of rice with bacon and garnish from a low-end shop will cost you 10.

The entire drinking coffee outside game is just shockingly expensive in China. At least I haven't found the cheap ones.

1 us ~= 6.15 kuai


Beijing?


I actually haven't been to a Beijing Starbucks, but in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo, Starbucks products are markedly more expensive. I imagine that for Beijing the same would be true. I suppose I shouldn't speak for China as a whole, as I haven't been to Starbucks all over the country.


They are probably the same price. I was just wondering if you were in Beijing. They have Starbucks almost everywhere now, even my wife's hometown in southern hunan.


Comcast is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CMCSA & CMCSK), which makes it liable to a host of external pressures, legal and otherwise, that SpaceX as a currently privately-owned company is not.


None of which have anything to do with why they suck.


This is pretty standard wireshark stuff; showing data that was on an unencrypted network.

What I've been wondering about for a while now is, can wireshark show data on an encrypted network, assuming it has the key? Can wireshark take a known WEP/WPA2 key and use it to decrypt the packets on an encrypted network on the fly? I haven't found any CLI's or GUI's that have been able to do this out of the box. But surely someone has made this somewhere.

Wireshark is straightforward for revealing data on unencrypted wireless, but I haven't discovered how it could be used to monitor network users when someone has deciphered the key unbeknownst to the users who assume they are operating on an encrypted network such as WEP/WPA2.

Does the nature of the encrypted handshake make this impossible?


You can decrypt keys in wireshark once you have the key, you can also provide a key to wireshark to decrypt streams on the fly using said key.

http://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11


Thanks, I'd been wondering this in the back of my head for a while, last time I searched for some reason I couldn't find much.

edit: Now that I see the wiki, I remember correctly that the version of Linux I was using didn't work with this feature in the GUI. Maybe I'll look for the CLI version again soon.


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