Kill switch in Chinese solar inverters

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FelixDeCat

Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
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He is not entirely wrong. Unless we have a good idea of what we are going to do with the extra people, there needs to be a limit and people need to be sensitive about what having more than three or four children will do to society. Everyone competes for finite resources which breeds resentment and hate because naturally people will make groups and start hating the other groups in such competitions for resources. Then fraud, cheating and corruption will naturally step in.

I am not sure why anyone would think unfettered population growth is a good thing considering how miserable life is for most humans. Meanwhile world oligarchy grows in power while millions struggle for finite resources, the least of which is housing, food and clean water.

The solution? A few billion more humans!
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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Ok, so Indus hates all Muslims, igor hates all Chinese people, the few resident MAGA fanatics here have the non-whites, women and LGBTQ+ covered. Who else do we need that when their powers are combined, they hate everyone on the planet?
 

DZero

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Even if the devices are useless, the fact that they EXIST and the Chinese didn't declare their presence in the equipment they sold, is reason enough to be concerned. A LOT.
Even worse... it won't be that useless and even worse... someone could hack it and backfire to the Chinese HARD.
 

kage69

Lifer
Jul 17, 2003
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Gee! A country sabotaging a technology with a kill switch or self-destruct? Certainly something the US would never do to a foreign countries technologies, such as centrifuges used in a refining process.

Just like in a court in comes down to intent for me.

Sabotage is like fire, it can be used destructively or productively, just depends on the user and the context. Doing it to stop an invasion and subsequent ethnic cleansing of a country (i.e saving lives) would be quite different than the sabotage used to support said invasion and atrocities, wouldn't you agree?
 
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[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
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Ok, so Indus hates all Muslims, igor hates all Chinese people, the few resident MAGA fanatics here have the non-whites, women and LGBTQ+ covered. Who else do we need that when their powers are combined, they hate everyone on the planet?
I mean, my ancestors were literally driven to Oklahoma by the white man so you can put me down for hating the whites I suppose.
 

GoPackGo

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Oct 10, 2003
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I am not sure why anyone would think unfettered population growth is a good thing considering how miserable life is for most humans. Meanwhile world oligarchy grows in power while millions struggle for finite resources, the least of which is housing, food and clean water.

The solution? A few billion more humans!
More people is the only way to keep the capitalism ponzi scheme going.
 

biostud

Lifer
Feb 27, 2003
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More people is the only way to keep the capitalism ponzi scheme going.
Capitalism and trading isn't a ponzi scheme, but it need to be reigned in by politicians who actually serve the people and not the capital.
 

GodisanAtheist

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Nov 16, 2006
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Remember how Obama trying to promote domestic solar/renewable production was picking winners and losers so the entire industry ended up just getting shipped off to Chyna?

That said, have to approach a lot of this stuff with a healthy dose of skepticism, there is definitely a jingoistic turfing campaign in progress at the moment, need more deets before conclusively saying this is anything other than remote access being rebranded as a "backdoor".
 

DaaQ

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Dec 8, 2018
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Hence the reason EU doesn't want Huawei in their telecommunications and Chinese companies in other critical infrastructure. We would really like US as our trusted ally, but you are making it really hard atm...
My company did this about 2 years ago, anything Huawei had a dispose of date, about 2 years ago.
 

DZero

Golden Member
Jun 20, 2024
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Hence the reason EU doesn't want Huawei in their telecommunications and Chinese companies in other critical infrastructure. We would really like US as our trusted ally, but you are making it really hard atm...
US is no longer ally. So expect euro go full domestic now.
 

Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
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Are the Chinese apologists in the room with you?
AFAIK, China is the (only?) country that uses HD facial recognition to keep track on pretty much (evidently) all its citizenry, whereever it can, which would be public places and I imagine "private" to some degree. My intro to a lot of how China controls within was reading No escape : the true story of China's genocide of the Uyghurs (2022) - Nury Turkel, which is alarming to say the least.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Chinese snooping extended beyond its borders considerably. Witness the Tik-Tok ownership battle ongoing. Well, it's obviously not just the Chinese who are into cyber espionage!
 

Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
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He is not entirely wrong. Unless we have a good idea of what we are going to do with the extra people, there needs to be a limit and people need to be sensitive about what having more than three or four children will do to society. Everyone competes for finite resources which breeds resentment and hate because naturally people will make groups and start hating the other groups in such competitions for resources. Then fraud, cheating and corruption will naturally step in.
You need to explain this to Elon. He's preoccupied with the idea that one of the human race's main challenges is not enough people (which strikes me as really weird). Uh, he has double digits kids BTW.
 

Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
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Or they are generic enough that it is not a concern. If you are concerned, don't buy from them. Almost everything they sell has connectivity built in and not declared. More likely due to negligence than anything else. I have run into robot vacuums with their own hotspot and they pick a channel by themselves, so you need to relocate your own wi-fi channel to improve SNR. Nothing in the documentation mentions them.

And this is from someone who detests CPC.
The Communist Party of Canada?
 
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