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On March 31st new rules take effect in China banning VPNs and cross-border leased lines. Bloomberg writes:
Censors have already eliminated hundreds of VPNs, which route user requests for sites through virtual networks located on the providers' servers, disguising their users' true locations or destinations. A few operators have been jailed, and over the summer Apple Inc. began removing VPN software from the Chinese version of its App Store. VyprVPN, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and a shrinking number of others are still working to outpace the government, renting extra cloud servers from Amazon Web Services Inc. and the like to buoy their networks. They're also working on software that can make user activity look like permitted internet traffic, sometimes by renting internet protocol addresses that have also been used by government-approved services.
Source : China's Internet Underground Fights for Its Life
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 04 2018, @01:03AM (6 children)
What exactly needs to be modeled? We know for example that the Sun is lower in the sky (azimuth angle) and stays above the horizon for less time in the winter than it does in the summer in the northern hemisphere. Thus, it heats less as expected (sunlight at an angle to the ground is going to result in less heating energy per unit area of ground even before the reduced length of a winter day). At night the stars circle around Polaris, the north star which I've seen at lower and higher azimuth angles corresponding to how far north I am.
Such as the day cooling in the late afternoon as the Sun sinks to the horizon? And of course sunrise and sunset have different colors due to sunlight passing through more atmosphere and dust. That box is checked.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @01:30AM (5 children)
There is nothing wrong with the movements. The problem is how the Sun can behave differently at different times of the year when compared at identical angles above the horizon. Angles of sunlight, time above horizon, and resultant heating is distraction. The heat and light at a given point in the sky in winter vs summer is the purpose here.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 04 2018, @01:32AM (4 children)
Nobody has claimed that the Sun behaves differently.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @01:52AM (3 children)
Photographers claim it. Painters claim it.(Winter sunlight) I claim it. Watch it for the next 12 months. You will see it.
Until then.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @05:41AM (2 children)
Yeah Khallow! Can't you see he's right?
He just posted three (count 'em! one, two, three) videos from the intertubes.
That makes a total of *four* videos he posted. That makes it just about unanimous! Khallow is wrong and AC is right!
Who cares what 500 (well, more, but we'll start with that) years of physics and astronomy says? Every scientist and schoolteacher has been co-opted into the conspiracy to keep us from understanding the true nature of the universe. They all lie because they've been bought and paid for to brainwash all the little children!
Four videos! Four! Wake the hell up, Khallow!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @03:56PM (1 child)
Five videos.
The one who deceives here is God. Mock accordingly.
Energeian Planēs
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 05 2018, @08:33AM
Last I checked, Satan was supposed to be the one who deceives. Who do you worship?
One of the nastier bits of Christian theology. The idea that God deliberately makes bad decisions worse. This, of course, leaves wide open the idea that the decisions wouldn't have been bad, if it weren't for God's interference.